TemporaryBoyfriend @ TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

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Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can't leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they've restored against my will.

If you ever had to wonder how much money corporations have lying around in their bank accounts, they can easily afford to produce precisely NOTHING for 4+ months, continue to pay management, keep up their mortgage/taxes/debt servicing payments, and still have the resolve to nickle and dime unions.

Maybe they shouldn't sell tickets to seats on planes that don't exist or aren't in service.

That aside, many companies are now trying out the latest management craze... 'Run to fail'... That is, running equipment until it fails (and fucks everything up) is cheaper than doing regular maintenance. They don't care about the pressure and stress it puts on employees or customers, they just care that it saves a couple bucks.

It frustrates me when politicians get involved in labour disputes. If companies aren't willing to give up a fraction of their profits to keep workers happy, then they don't deserve to be in business. "Free market" and "competition", etc. If they won't do it, then close the company and let someone else do it.

The fact that there are profits at all are because of workers. Governments should be representing working taxpayers, and willing to cancel permits and contracts to ensure that the work gets done if a business can't get their shit together.

This is why I prefer cloud services outside US jurisdiction, and refuse to use anything based in the USA - like iCloud. National Security Letters are a thing, and even massive companies like Apple can't fight them.

And FYI, the info about Signal was confirmed as they received a subpoena a couple years back, and their response was part of the public court records.

Yeah, I remember it... For my grandmother, it was three things...

1. Every time she went shopping, she'd get two pounds of butter. She had 20+ pounds of butter in her freezer when I visited once. She said "they were on sale"... but the best before dates spanned over a year.
2. She said the phone was broken, because she couldn't call any of her friends. She lost the ability to copy the numbers from her address book to the phone properly.
3. She was also hoarding cash. There was almost $3k in cash on the kitchen table in an envelope. So much money in small bills that the envelope was stuffed full. I took all but $250 to the bank to deposit it.