eek2121 @ eek2121 @lemmy.world

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These clowns better be happy i am not a billionaire. I’d be sending a check to every damn household with kids in the state.

This is part of the issue. My local grocery store pays $15/hour and mostly hires part time to avoid benefits.

1 bedroom apartments start at $1,200/mo. Most places require rent to be no more than about 33% of income. Don’t even get me started on gas/car, insurance, utilities, etc.

There is a huge disconnect.

The economy is NOT in good shape. It is according to metrics they choose to measure, but jobs that pay a living wage are very hard to come by.

Pro tip: any company that requires you to prove that you are “sick” in order to get a day off is a shitty company. Find another job.

$20/hour is only part of employee compensation. It does not include benefits or taxes. Your employer pays a lot of taxes on your behalf.

Don’t even get me started on the money and time taken to recruit, hire, and train new employees.

Don’t misunderstand me. I support a higher minimum wage. I am a firm believer that minimum wage should be $25/hour and increases should be tied to inflation.

What card is that?

They will likely make a deal with a delivery company, as they should. It is inefficient for every restaurant to have delivery drivers.

That was one of the reasons they killed the api: to support ad growth. Unfortunately they failed to realize the combination of ad-blocking browsers and users just quitting the site from losing client access means they were never going to hit pre-IPO revenue targets.

Had they instead focused on affordable API pricing and driving subscriber revenues up, they would have exceeded revenue targets.

source: I was in a somewhat similar position (not quite the same, no third party client), but chose different and found myself making more subscription revenue than ad revenue thanks to a viewer base more than happy to pay more.

Software Engineers are highly paid. Many women want a guy that can provide.

I strongly believe we will enter a recession at some point next year.

Every indicator is red at this point. This one included.

Holiday spending will probably still increase, but not as much. Due to that, there will be more layoffs. More layoffs means even lower consumer spending, which means even more layoffs…

If you took a middle school economics class and did a basic Google search you would change your mind.

All the stuff I said is independently verifiable.

Just a quick mote: That is great and all, but the US has more people than a large part of Europe…combined The whole of the US has a population of around 337 million, the entirety of the EU is 461 million.

If you aren’t just trying to drop this as a random fact and are instead pushing for universal healthcare in the US, might I suggest looking at something more meaningful, such as cost per covered person.

Numbers also don’t scale linearly with covered persons due to inefficiencies, so that is something to think about as well. Quality of care is also a consideration. If i need an optional surgery here in the US I can typically get in within 2-6 weeks for the surgery. In some countries it can take months.

sigh the healthcare debate is so much more complex than people realize. I am pro universal healthcare, btw.

If we adopted universal healthcare tomorrow without consideration of the issues, the worldwide economy would take a massive hit. Insurers and private healthcare companies invest dollars worldwide in many different industries.

Thanks! That is good to know. I will check it out. I was thinking of creating one that allows you to BYOC. I need something that is free, cross platform, auto saves, and can keep offline copies. All for just basic note taking.

No way in hell I am going to pay a ton of money to store a bunch of text. I don’t even need any of the advanced functionality, not even images, just a dumping ground for text notes I take on my phone.

I have not owned a phone with a headphone jack in a long time.

GREEN.

Not office, but one time I was at the grocery store getting ready to buy my lunch and happened to look in a car next to me. There was a completely naked college age chick in the passenger seat casually smoking a cigarette. She saw me glance at her and rolled her eyes. Is being completely naked in a car in a public place normal or something? I made every effort not to stare, and she was gone when I gone when I got back.

The family that works puts out together, stays together.

FTFY

It can completely replace your phone when running. I leave everything at home when I run and use my watch for music, phone calls, and messaging. (I have the ultra w/ cellular)

That’s great. It is all about Stacy’s mom, though. I hear she has it going on! 🎵

Using the activity for anything more than entertainment is folly.

Only 60% of companies I work for use GitHub. Some of us create new users that are only for our employers.

Yet companies still use it for hiring purposes.

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Also, open source software such as shotwell, digikam, Piwigo, etc.

Onedrive for cloud storage.