elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world

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Stop patronizing restaurants where they don’t pay their staff a livable wage.

In most parts of the US, that's all of them. This position is de facto "never eat out or order takeout". I'm not sure that's entirely realistic.

Weird that such an ancient rule, purported to be efficient and sufficient, should seize one's conscience and dash them from the sovereign heights of their ideas, making them forfeit any claims to proper spelling.

I await your reply at your leisure.

Except...

What facility?

No, order of magnitude is 10x off. You can't massage the numbers enough to get there with any reasonable assumptions.

Obviously the average household size is not 10 people, but let's be generous and say that it's 5 people, so you're looking at 2 million houses. Rooftop solar installation costs between $10k and $30k per building. Frankly, in this context, $15k is generously low as a cost estimate.

Also, go back and re-read my original comment in this thread. The context was the idea of spending $30 billion on installing solar panels everywhere instead of building the nuclear plant. Flippant, sure, but -- actually, the numbers aren't far off even with these sandpaper-rough estimates.

More than one person lives in a building generally.

Gee, really? I never would have guessed /s

More seriously: It's very quick to search "population of GA", so that's what I did. If you have a different figure you'd prefer to use, feel free to post it.

It’s more like $15,000 to install 1kW of solar

Uh, what? $15,000 = $15k which is what I wrote. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

10 million people. $15k per solar installation. Eh, not too far off.

IDK, it seems more like SHOP SHOP SHOP in the U.S. than anything religious.

Rather foolish reply, don't you think? Muslims aren't known for celebrating Christmas.

My wife used to work in a call center for a major corporation (started in mid-late 2020). During recruiting, they claimed that WFH was a possibility within certain parameters.

... After she started, it turned out that the most important parameter was "based on seniority". Between that and their low turnover rate among longer-term employees, I don't think she ever would have been allowed WFH.

She's a lot happier in a different job now.

I couldn’t name the group of people that it discrimates (sic) against though.

My best guess is people with disabilities, but I couldn't really speculate on specifics.

Thank you for writing 57°F instead of 57.20°F :)

Out of cheese error?!

Reach inside your computer to discover the shocking truth...

Fleet Command! I've played it. Fun little tactical naval game. I think it was originally released as Jane's Fleet Command.

I don't remember anything about VB scripting, though.

All of them?

ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver

This is exactly the problem. If I'm driving, I need to be alert to the driving tasks and what's happening on the road.

If I'm not driving because I'm using autopilot, ... I still need to be alert to the driving tasks and what's happening on the road. It's all of the work with none of the fun of driving.

Fuck that. What I want is a robot chauffer, not a robot version of everyone's granddad who really shouldn't be driving anymore.

Throwing a tantrum is one way to express a preference, I suppose, but most people grow out of that in early childhood.

What if I told you that you could copy and paste text instead of taking a photo?

Why haven’t they banned all cars

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater!