NightAuthor

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NightAuthor , to xkcd in xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

When driving:
Don’t be nice, be predictable.

NightAuthor , to Sysadmin in r/sysadmin and the size of this community

Did you know that: apart is actually the opposite of a part.

NightAuthor , to Politics in More people should be reading Merriam-Webster

I’m an etymonline person

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.

But if the political environment is oppressive, do we want to give it another tool and just be like “now be sure to use it for good”.

I agree that no technology is inherently evil, not even something like the atomic bomb. But you have to consider the actual and likely future environment that the technology will be in. And this state of regulatory capture, let the largest pocket book have the most speech, ever consolidating wealth and power situation is not one in which I believe we should be contributing new potentially oppressive technologies. We should be hindering them as we simultaneously work to reform our government and economic structure.

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in Why The Government Has Infinite Money

It’s hard to have true empathy for something you have no real concept of.

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in Why The Government Has Infinite Money

Well, the books just going off of Sr Thomas Calcula, so really you should blame him.

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad)

I assume not a conservative state, and in an area with affluent people?

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad)

Except that we have education requirements for teachers, and retail will hire just about anyone.

The reason teachers aren’t paid well is because we have a culture of funding public services like absolute shit. So despite low supply and high demand for teachers, we just keep adding more and more kids to each teacher, and giving them less and less supplies to work with. While letting wages stagnate.

People need to stop applying free-market thinking to our public services.

NightAuthor , to Work Reform in Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike

I think you can have sense and still find him a little entertaining. He’s definitely a bit full of himself, but I enjoy hearing someone talk shit a little shit about the left.

Guess I did get a little tired of him, haven’t watched his show in like a year. But I wouldn’t say I hate him.

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