They do make some sense if you consider the US's puritanical roots where, in essence, suffering is considered good and moral, or at least leisure and enjoyment are considered hedonistic and immortal.
Also, that for whatever reason everything is short term thinking: is this quarter better than last quarter? If not, your business is failing. Is this quarter enough better than last quarter? Business is failing.
From a business perspective, it makes no sense, but businesses don't make decisions. People do. And those people frequently do not stick around to see the fallout from those decisions, they just pump up the business' bottom line long enough for the stocks to rise, sell out, then bail out taking a generous severance before the company crashes and burns.
And nobody is really stopping it because it's so lucrative at the individual level that the individuals that might be able to change it are profiting from it.
And lack of regulation is what permits it to continue.
This is why Ubuntu was such a big deal when it came out, it was one of the few where things more or less "just worked" without having to chase proprietary or reverse engineered drivers down
I actually do have separate sick leave, but plenty of times at other jobs have had combined PTO, which basically means I'm burning my potential vacation by being sick.
Other times, I've not even had sick leave at all, got fired once for taking one day off with explosive diarrhea because I couldn't afford to see a doctor to get a note on minimum wage.
Some companies are better. Some states have actually somewhat decent protections. Lots of others are complete garbage.
So yeah... A lot of us are jealous of what Europeans have, but not enough so to organize and demand better of our employers and our government
What the hell are you talking about? Where did I contradict that argument, and hell, where did I even make it in the first place?
I said that it will take far more resources to terraform and colonize another planet than to fix this one. I didn't even touch on the pollution and use of finite resources (which is also an issue, mainly because of how much we're doing it)
I'm all for space exploration, we have so many breakthroughs that are usable here on Earth through it that not doing it at all would be foolish. But you're kidding yourself if you think we're going to succeed in leaving.
This planet will be our grave, sadly. We might, if we're very lucky and can actually change what we're doing finally, make that be a very distant thing.
But settling another planet, as much as I would absolutely love to see it, is likely never going to happen just from the sheer logistics of it, not to mention the fact that we still haven't managed to build a self sustaining and isolated ecosystem that can support humans indefinitely on this planet, where we can truck everything to the site rather than have to shoot it into space a tiny amount at a time and then have it spend 9 months to 2 years to reach the nearest planet
And unless we want to save a tiny population living under domes, we'd have to extend that to an entire planet that's far, FAR further from our target than this one which already sustains life, and which doesn't have a magnetosphere in the first place so even if we managed to give it a thick enough atmosphere with the right blend for us, it'll simply bleed away into space anyway.
And unless you're thinking of going to the hellhole that is Venus, the next nearest potential candidate is probably going to be one of the moons of Jupiter, which have plenty of their own issues.
Most people over school age in the US do not get a summer vacation. Most are lucky if they have enough vacation hours to rub together to cover a random illness so they don't have to work while barely able to function for being too sick.
And I'm not even close to joking or exaggerating.
It's fucking bad here. We're horribly jealous.
I'm extremely fortunate for having 5 weeks of vacation per year, and half of that is only because of working extra on the weekends to bank extra time. And good luck getting approval to take more than about a week of it at a time.
For a planet that's completely incapable of sustaining life?
Do you realize that it'll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?
We're not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we won't need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isn't a viable solution.
And if you don't believe me, go talk to some biologists.
And I still use it at work, and will continue to until I take the time to test out the things I need to make sure I can get them to work correctly.
I don't remember exactly what the tipping point was, but I just got so sick of every little issue, and the copilot crap certainly contributed. Basically got tired of my computer that I paid for being treated like they own it instead of me.
I came very close to switching back around 2009/2010, but Windows 7 and PowerShell got me to stick around and they really seemed to be turning things around for a while. Other than the start screen, I even really liked Windows 8, and 8.1 fixed the worst parts of the start screen.
I've used Linux for servers and just messing around since about 2005.
A few months ago, I rebuilt my PC desktop and got two nvme drives so I could put Linux on one and Windows on another (I know I can put them on the same drive but I knew if I did that deciding how to slice it up would lock me up and risk me never being willing to actually take the plunge)
Installed Linux on the first one. The second one is still unformatted and I'm now planning on using it for additional space for my games. I have no desire to go back. Only just yesterday figured out my graphics driver was not working right/was operating at a very basic level and even with that everything just felt so smooth overall (and got even better after fixing that)
Unless I'm missing something, Plasma is the KDE desktop, there isn't a separate desktop environment just called KDE... In fact, it's full name is KDE Plasma, it's just frequently shortened to either KDE or Plasma
No, because they're not apt packages. You can, however, flatpak update them, and you don't even need sudo since they're installed in the user context rather than system.
I've started putting mine into my Bitwarden vault as well as Google auth, mainly because I'm a bit paranoid I'll wind up locked out of something by trusting a second factor too much
Sure, but does that also cover accusing someone of inserting their politics into things when they suggest a change? Especially one that has nothing to do with politics at all?
Yes, this is actually where I was going with it