just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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Can I be full on nudist then?

fwiw I think pink hair should be perfectly fine but there are some rules with dress that are a good idea. I don't care if you wear a dress, slacks or have rainbow hair but generally I prefer people I do business with to wear stuff.

Then there's food safety. Things like hair nets and prohibiting certain jewelry and outfits in food processing plants is another example of when sometimes it's ok to limit personal expression for the sake of others'. A server though? No such reason. Maybe a hair net if they brought food to your table or were also a chef.

Links that talk about reparations and redistribution of resources as the solution are not good things to reference imo (your last link)

It's just a convenience thing. Disposable vapes can't be charged and the battery lives the life of the vape. I have not personally seen a non-disposable vape battery that has a user servicable battery compartment for 510 threaded vape cartridges either fwiw.

Lithium ion batteries are basically never recycled on average. Regardless of where batteries are used though you usually find that something like 5% or less of them are actually recycled. Considering lithium ion batteries last less than 10 years and every piece of consumer electronics that isn't bound to a cable nowadays has them i'm guessing we waste a lot more battery volume in the rest of our day to day devices. Cars, laptops, cell phones, ebikes, escooters, vapes, nintendo switches and all kinds of kids toys, solar generator batteries etc etc etc all contribute to the problem and they are ubiquitous.

I'm 100% for a lithium ion battery recycling deposit fee. I think it should be fairly expensive too, maybe 50% of the battery replacement cost or more of a quality battery replacement and based on gram weight of sold battery in a product. The toxic chemicals that get into the environment from these things catching fire when improperly disposed after long enough timeframe is no joke and we shouldn't treat it like one.

The ad supported bullshit: isn't this the majority of new subs for netflix and those companies who have ad supported tiers?

Sounds like you want less of a game and more of an animated choose your own adventure story book.

I play games as active entertainment (e.g. my own effort contributes to the game) rather than just a pick an option and see the outcome kind of thing (e.g. passive entertainment, I don't put effort in beyond select an option.) I see appeal to both since I grew up reading choose your own adventure books.

I find that active entertainment satisfies a different need and grows a skill, whereas passive entertainment is just like heroin - a good drip probably feels good but chasing that next high gets harder and harder and harder to reach the first height.

e.g. Sometimes you want to play sports, sometimes you just want to get high.

The latest deal between Foxconn and Wisconsin reduces the planned subsidies for the project, which ultimately could have cost taxpayers over $4 billion. Foxconn is now eligible for $80 million in tax credits, down from $2.85 billion. Governor Tony Evers said those credits are in line with those for which any company is eligible. They're performance-based and will depend on whether Foxconn hits capital investment and employment targets.

Emphasis above is all mine. This is non-news. They talked about what could have been but the subsidy was based on actual invements being made and people being hired.

Foxconn created ~1500 jobs (e.g. ~11% of what they targeted) and only got ~2.8% of the subsidy. Didn't Michigan win?

How much do you think the taxpayers are on the hook for from the deal? Just curious what you think.

This is an intelligent guy. He isn't firing from the hip. He's saying what the party wants to hear to try and get more attention on him. I wonder if he's trying to be Trump's VP candidate.

I'm not saying I agree with any of his shit, just saying this is calculated on his part. I also don't really agree with Pence with much of anything, but certifying the election results and being against the Jan 6th insurrection is something I appreciate.

if there are to many taxis everyone can’t make a living wage

Why aren't there similar restrictions to the amount of workers in various sectors? Doesn't having too many people doing IT support dilute IT support worker wages? Apply this logic to ANY individual contributor role.

The actual end result of limited taxi licenses is that the licenses get monopolized by bigger businesses who do not provide "living" wages to their employees rather than protecting individual taxi drivers. The owner makes a TON of money and the taxi drivers just do ok.

Try and find some salary data for say NYC medallion taxi drivers and compare that to the surrounding area cost of living. Taxi drivers who work 40 hours usually make below what i'd consider living wage for the area.

Does anyone not think Microsoft is going to use all their cloud data for training language models?

"We promise not to" doesn't seem realistic to me. Proving they used it is impossible.

You don't just vote for a president. It's not presidential election day, it's voting day. The presidential vote is worthless but the rest isn't.

The primaries are where most of the magic happens too.

Most people ignore state and local positions but those greatly influence real world consequences. Federal law changes at a glacial pace due to all the bullshit. State stuff happens and takes effect usually within a couple of years here without a flip flop every 8 years. So yes, i'll be voting.

Red America is blatantly bigoted to LGBTQ+ to the point of passing laws allowing government control over their bodies when the bigots deem appropriate. The goalposts are not all the same from one part of red america to the rest.

Red America hates immigrants openly unless they have the right skin color.

Blue America hates immigrants behind closed doors and develops programs that covertly support the upper middle class while handing out some scraps to others.

Example: Did you know your parents can be billionaires and you can get a 2bedroom luxury apartment in downtown Boston for ~250k so long as you have less than 75k in assets and less than ~80k in income? For poor people saving that much up is tough... for children of the rich though? Trivial! Get an easy cushy job that pays just below the limit and buy the 2BR apartment in downtown Boston for cheap then once the house closes have mommy and daddy get you a big paying job at one of their friends' businesses and start buying more and more housing to rent out, living in el-cheapo 250k-worth-1.5-million-apartment. You can't sell it for ~80 years, but there's nothing saying your girlfriend or mistress can't move in before then. You don't owe more than the original 250k even if you suddenly start making millions or billions of dollars. That's what I call a first time home ownership opportunity.

I'd never vote for Trump, but i'm not really thrilled to vote for Biden either. I think both options suck.

Since there is no other option we'll end up with Biden again probably, just depends how much power hate and fear has nowadays.

I'm in Massachusetts so voting blue doesn't mean anything in the presidential race. With the divide between conservative and liberal getting worse and worse I wonder how the battleground states will swing this time around.

Attrition goes up and companies had a harder time filling the newly vacated roles compared to companies that didn’t force a back to the office.

Work from home as an option is a HUGE boon to the employee so of course offering it weighs heavily upon an employee's decision to take an offer. I'd give up 10-20% of my salary for 100% wfh, i'd expect more salary for 0% wfh or some other huge benefit like the office being very close to home.

I already turn down jobs because they are located inconveniently in relation to where I live.

Wow, what a clickbait headline which misconstrues what the sales pitch document actually says totally and completely.

80% of executives say they would have approached their company’s return-to-office strategy differently if they had access to workplace data to inform their decision-making.

Sure, this means some executives may have chosen different strategies - but this does not mean they regret their decisions. They probably would have opted for 5 days in office or just told select groups to come back to the office or something else. Very different than "we wish we didn't have in person staff!" or "We regret asking people to return to the office!"

I was expected to post 3 tweets, 2 Instagram posts, and 2 TikToks minimum per day.

I was also expected to plan, film, edit, and post 2 Floatplane exclusives per week.

Instagram/Twitter: image/text posts are not hard since the quality expectation is very low. Looking at their instagram their newest post is just a photo of Linus' head in an oven and the comment "just tryna bake some of dat cake." The exact same image and text is posted on twitter. It's just garbage bullshit.

The two TikToks are per week based on their tiktok page not per day. I clicked few a few, one was a 12 second video of someone taking a battery bank and an xbox outside and playing it briefly with the text headline mentioning touching grass sometimes.

2 Floatplane seems weird to me because 100% of what is on floatlabs is 1:1 with youtube (same thumbnails even) with different titles, at least from what I can see without signing up or paying anything.

I get that making bullshit content all week can be stressful and I don't doubt it would be impossible in a hostile work environment. It's a damn shame that the sexual assault allegation doesn't seem to have any details or any naming and shaming involved because that would seem like a metoo opportunity to get rid of a literal sexual assaulter.

Hopefully they get a good job without any of the problems they faced at LTT.

Georgia has a county for everyone's asshole too.

I forget people have trouble following comments that are longer than a couple of sentences :(

The platform that IT Engineers created for netflix is being sold by the companies they work for as a revenue stream.

See what I did there? Your argument is that they are more important but in reality they are replaceable like everyone is. Most of the writers out there aren't in high paying GRRMartin level roles, they're writing episodes of sitcoms and reality TV. The quality is all over the place.