hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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I have to say, this comment and the one posted above it literally made me snort laugh.

How do they account for a poll being early AF?

The richer the rich get, the less the rest of us look like the middle and lower classes and the more we look like peasants. Serfs.

The more wealth inequality widens that gap, the more modern capitalism starts to look like techno-feudalism.

And that's really what they want without saying it, isn't it? They don't want us to own anything of our own...work their fields and factories, pay them to live in housing they own, and convert all other possessions into subscription services, all in an effort to create a system where the rest of us only exist as a source of labor and wealth for them, where even what they pay their serfs comes right back to them.

While it's true that I was speaking from an American perspective on a time period that definitely saw different situations in the US vs Europe, I would also say that the experience you've shared shows a similar effect, just in a different environment.

Your father (to his credit) was able to work his way through night school while supporting a family and (presumably) not incurring a mountain of debt.

The notion of working one's way through college is something that was certainly difficult, but also certainly doable in the time when the boomers were in their 20s and 30s. Many of them still think that it's possible to work a part time job while you study to pay your way through college and graduate with little to no debt (and use that perspective to pass judgement on anyone who doesn't do that as lazy).

These days, a part time income may not even be enough to cover books, let alone room and board... forget about tuition. Honestly, it's so impractical that it's probably better for a student to not work and focus on study and health rather than try to mitigate debt through a side job.

And affordable education.

And wage growth.

And job availability..

Yeah the entire Senate should just start to only ever refer to him as Rafael.

But intentionally mispronounce it "ruh-FAIL".

And when he inevitably gets bent out of shape over it, tell him to sit down and let the grown ups talk.

Yeah I've been to a restaurant (a few weeks ago) where the bill included a line item that said something like "18% hospitality fee - to ensure our workers are fairly compensated, this is not a tip"

Like WTF.

If it was disclosed anywhere on the menu, I didn't see it.

If a restaurant owner can't

That's a funny way of spelling won't.

(It was a joke about the Dutch East India Company.)

Anytime anyone says "Nobody wants to work anymore!" I always want to say, "Anymore? Nobody's ever wanted to work. If people could just get paychecks and not work, the vast majority would definitely choose that over working. Congratulations on figuring out what everyone else has known since the invention of economics."

Little Santas, sure.

Mall Santas, based on the smell.

Step one: Colonize the fuck out of Asia with your chartered megacorp.

Yeah it's come full circle.

Cable exists. You pay for content but still get ads because greed.

Piracy gains traction. Technically illegal but usually unenforced. All content, no ads, kinda a pain, but clearly worth it to many.

Streaming gains traction. Cheaper alternative to cable. On demand. No ads. Many pirates diminish or quit pirating content. Clearly most people are willing to pay a reasonable amount for quality on demand content and no ads.

Streaming really picks up steam as the mainstream starts cutting cable for ad free on demand content for less. Again, people are happy paying for what they see as good value.

Greed creeps back in, content is fractured among many streaming services, making the cost basically a wash vs cable but still has advantages of on demand and no ads and the ability to share and juggle subscriptions.

Greed continues, ads creep back in, "premium" streaming offered for higher fees to eliminate introduced ads. Content continues to diminish. People start turning back to piracy for the same reasons as they did 15-20 years ago. Services also start cracking down on sub sharing.

Assuming greed continues, I predict we'll see these services attempt to squeeze even more money from the loyal subscribers they have left as they restructure their subscription models to contracts. No longer will there be any paying month to month. But rather you'll have to enter onto a 1 or 2 year contract to stream. I also predict that they'll very carefully curate their selections so that new seasons are available to current subscribers, then once the season is complete, they go away for a year before coming back, just to get people to maintain subscriptions instead of juggling contracts by year.

You from Holland?

Good job GOB

FTFY

That crazy old bat had thoughts?!

https://images.app.goo.gl/qg9Wbi7TWtF8SumS6

I was about the same age when my mom got my finger in the car door. We were getting ice cream and my dad sent be from the window of the shop to go deliver moms to her. The door closed on it, but thankfully didn't lock. I just had to knock on the door with my other hand (she was inside) to get her to open it.

Very painful but no permanent injury.

Ever since, when I've been in a similar situation, I either pass through the open window or I actually step into the swing path of the door.

CAD made me...not lazy, but certainly changed my approach with stairs and railings.

In my architectural design classes, when doing a stair layout, the most important factor, and really the only thing that mattered from a situational perspective, was the overall height. That, combined with values that didn't change, drove the rest.

Basically we had a defined max height for risers (7 3/4" off the top of my head) so you just divided that whole vertical distance in inches by 7.75 and add 1 to the answer (unless it came out perfectly even) and that's your number of steps. Now take that overall height again and divide by number of steps, and you get the height of each riser. Set tread length as needed (usually 10-12") and now you can lay out the basics of the staircase with each step surface and riser face marked out.

From there, it's trivial to strike a line across the front corner of each step and offset it down for the back end of the stringer and up for a railing.

No geometry, no Pythagoras, just some simple arithmetic and drafting skills. I would have thought this would be fairly common knowledge in my field but on one occasion, just Knowing how to do this, in an interview, got me a job offer.

They did the Monster (Manual) Math!