If you had a Great Pyrenees (Dog pictured) - you absolutely would not be wondering. They are livestock guardian dogs and some of the most stubborn dogs you will even interact with.
TIL: Everyone who has been alive less than 1 Billion Seconds and has over 1 Billion Dollars needs to have their wealth forcibly redistributed because you can’t even pretend they “worked for it”.
The leggy newcomer arrived into the world to new mum Orla, with the joyous scene captured by the zoo’s CCTV cameras, at 11:30pm on Tuesday 12 March....
Service staff already work 1-4 days a week for starters -Thur, Friday, Sat, Sun are the best paying days. And secondly because nobody hires full-time anymore.
If a Monkey tried to collect two hundred and thirty billion bananas - he would’ve been ripped in half by the other monkeys with his head on a banana pike as a warning. This is not ‘business as usual’…
The cables themselves do not use power. It is the brick.
Your radio being off would not push any power through a cable. Also your cigarette lighter being off would not push any power. Which is why plugging it in won’t do anything.
To continue the metaphor - your water is turned off. You can’t use up water that isn’t there.
The reason the brick uses power is because it is available 24/7 for you to plug something in - and when you do - it can ask that device how much power it wants - does it have fast charging? Etcetera.
Gen Z has no choice but to ‘Rise up’. They are facing a lifetime of 2 full time jobs plus a ‘Gig’ if they want to come close to what was a hard opportunity to Gen X. They’re already accepted that what the Boomer had will never come to pass again. It’s downright despicable.
Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors....
He found a new friend! ( lemmy.world )
All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Surprise, surprise!
The baby giraffe that was just born at Chester Zoo ( lemmy.world )
The leggy newcomer arrived into the world to new mum Orla, with the joyous scene captured by the zoo’s CCTV cameras, at 11:30pm on Tuesday 12 March....
UK firms make four-day workweek permanent after world’s biggest trial ( www.euronews.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12307563...
"Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer ( sh.itjust.works )
Source: Oxfam
Does a (phone|laptop) charger plugged in the socket but not connected to the device still consume electricity?
And if so, how much? Less, same or more than if it was actually charging something?...
Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago ( www.businessinsider.com )
AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas ( www.theguardian.com )
Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors....