mkhopper @ mkhopper @lemmy.world

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This is a bit misleading.
Workers that are laid off do get unemployment pay. They're not just thrown into the wind.
But this was definitely a calculated move by the union with the targeted strikes, forcing the auto companies to dip into their unemployment funds to pay those workers who were laid off rather than let the union foot the whole bill with a wholesale strike.

You? You're all right.
This one? Real fuckin' ugly.

Can this shitshow please be over? I mean, just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, another day comes around.

I wish she would secede from the planet.

This looks like an IRL Far Side comic.

Having your own router/access point can't be stressed enough.

And, you don't even need their modem. Sure it's an additional outlay of cash, but buying your own modem gets you a nice upgrade and no worries about someone connecting to the Xfinity access point that's bundled in their equipment.

No, and I don't miss it at all.
I've used BT headphones even when my last two devices had jacks and wouldn't want to go back.
Prior to that, I can't count the number of times I would snag the wires on something or get them tangled in some way.

Now I use my BT bone conduction headphones everywhere.

500Gb maybe.

It could be in large red flashing neon and people will still ignore instructions like this.
Even if the trash dumpster is a mere 50 feet away.

People just don't care. Once it's out of their hands, no matter where it ends up, it's someone else's problem.

One complex where I used to live, our trash dumpster was a full on compactor, very nicely concealed behind a small hill. Signs leading up would say, "No cardboard!" Signs plastered all over the machine, "No cardboard!" Yet, at least once, if not twice a week, the thing would be clogged because people would toss in boxes by the truckload. Not even broken down.
Meanwhile, just around the corner, a specific dumpster meant for cardboard only that would take all of 10 more seconds to get to.

nun?

Because news cycles play to the lowest common denominator.
Sex, scandals, arrests. Those topics get eyeballs.

And in the case of Faux News, they take that to the extreme by blatantly ignoring anything good that Biden may be doing in favor of spewing the latest far-right lies.

Biden could announce tomorrow that he has a proven plan that will end world hunger forever and the majority of people will still just tune in to whatever crap is currently on TLC.

Ugh, I once made the mistake of not checking what I was ordering at a bar.
Sour pumpkin beer. I know that many people like sours, and I like some pumpkins, but together, I'm out.

I'll use Google maps to check for traffic on my route before leaving, but that's all.

If I'm going somewhere I've been more than two or three times, I don't use GPS.

And the collective IQ of this country just dropped another few thousand points.

I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.

Now I think back and shudder.

I just finished this book the other day.
I found it about 400 pages too long, but the aspect of the humans being at least on par with the jellies was refreshing.

Next year is going to be epic.
I see it as episode 10 of what will be the eventual mini-series.

I asked my 79 y/o mother if she knew. She didn't even blink. "Because they're not blue."

Impossible to argue with that logic.

Mugshot released yet? Seems the county jail website is down. (Understandably)

I cannot wait to see the memes over the next few days.