essteeyou @ essteeyou @lemmy.world

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Oh dear, I don't know any of the Eve6 controversy... Nothing on Wikipedia for the band, and a quick Google search just gives results about them boycotting Spotify. What should I be looking for?

There is a difference in interests at work between employees and employers. Even if someone doesn't own the business, if they have real hiring and firing power over other workers then they count as an employer to us.

I have two direct reports at work, so it seems like they consider me an employer, and I'm not eligible to join.

Ok, how do I, as an individual, do that?

Preface: I'm not a chauvinist.

I'd inspect her gadgets!

Addendum: Sorry!

I can't remember the last time I had that specific use-case though. So maybe it is great for that, and for you, but editing photos on the go is not worth another $1000 on top of the $1000 I spend on a non-folding phone.

Manufacturers are being forced to make their phones last longer with sensible things like replaceable batteries, so they're coming up with fresh designed obsolescence by adding things that will wear and tear to keep everyone spending $1-2k every couple of years.

His autobiography is fascinating. If you listen to the audiobook version you'll have the pleasure of the man himself reading it to you. :-)

"Unless you're a Boeing shareholder" :-(

I bought a few shares of Boeing just before their 737 MAX debacle, and then COVID hit straight after. I thought things might turn around, so I'm apparently just holding the bag until they screw up so badly that I can buy the entire company.

Edit: I'm glad this is happening how it is. I'd rather my Boeing shares went to zero than have NASA be held responsible and everyone pay more tax to bail out Boeing.

They can win a pretty weird qualifying session. Let's see about the race tomorrow. I'm sadly expecting Verstappen ahead by lap 2, and for the rest of the race (ignoring pitting).

It happens.

Damn, somewhat of a legend. Sorry for his wife who is pregnant with their first child.

I'd rather not see their smiles and not get whatever illness they may have. There's a reason food prep people wear hair nets, gloves, blue band-aids, and all that other stuff. We're just getting done with a global pandemic, can we let people wear masks if they want to for a while please?

I've been laid off twice in the last 5 years, so I get it. I make less money now than I did in 2018, but my job is a lot more enjoyable now.

Good luck getting to the point of buying a house! I hope it's not as tough as you think.

I never said I was close to the norm, I said I'm quite well off now. I started with very little and got to this point in around 20 years of work.

Yeah, I'm doing ok, but when I first started working I was earning about $20k per year. It's amazing how much things can change.

I live near San Francisco.

As a person who started out poor and has reached the point of being pretty well-off I can say that $10k would have been life-changing in my early 20s, useful in my early 30s, and not even 2 months of mortgage payments in my late thirties.

I'm not saying that'll be true for everyone, but it can happen. My internal scale of what is expensive versus cheap has changed dramatically over the years.

I wouldn't spend $10k on a hotel room or a bottle of wine, but it wouldn't change my life any more.

It's a fucking shame that the system is rigged against normal people.

I like the title reference and the screenshot, but are you doing all of these things at the same time? I couldn't focus.

Buuuuut tough shit. Too late.

Let me clarify, I am pro-EU, but also a UK expat.