All the new houses going up around me look like that. Except for the ones that take up almost the entire lot so they can cram a 4,000sq ft house on a quarter acre.
Everything today is starting to suck because they're all min/maxing. Cars are all egg shaped SUVs or boxy trucks. Movies are all reboots, sequels, prequels, or live-action remakes. TV shows are epic fantasies or raunchy animated comedies or dark supernatural dramas. Because that's what all the metrics say will provide the best ROI.
I wish this Gilded Age were half as original as the last one.
My great-great-grandpappy was at Pardee Field at Gettysburg and whooped a whole bunch of slavers flying that flag. So if I start using it for target practice it's not hate, it's heritage.
Isn’t this against the US constitution? Razor wire along the state border and checkpoints on roads that cross the state border are kind of nuts. I read a comment joking that the wire and road checkpoints were to keep Texan women from escaping to New Mexico, which got a bitter laugh out of me.
The notion of the Texas law man roving around dispensing justice isn't anti-authoritarian, it means they want to be the only authority. Real anti-authoritarians would eliminate hierarchies and restrictions.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses...
The United Auto Workers expanded its strike against major automakers Friday, walking out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution centers in 20 states....
Now take that to the extreme and make it a worker-owned company, where everyone has a vested interest in the company succeeding and control over company decisions.
Second: Workers aren’t grasping the managerial challenges of leading a remote workforce.
I can grasp it pretty well: Shitty managers can't tell if someone's working without watching them, so they're panicking. Managers who can measure their teams output more accurately than asses-in-chairs aren't having a problem.
As the experts have maintained for years, a flexible hybrid schedule is almost always the proper approach.
The proper approach to have people sitting in an office on a Zoom call, maybe. I've never seen hybrid be as effective as either fully remote or fully on premises.
Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize....
The discourse of the Trump era has been dominated by a conceit that the two major parties have swapped economic identities. The Democrats have supposedly abandoned their historical role as spokespeople for the working class to represent the neoliberal global elite, while the Republicans have been transmuted into scruffy...
At my org we have some legacy software that uses the google analytics api. As you may be aware, that api has been discontinued for some reason. This application is going to nearly impossible to port to the new api....
About 10 years ago I had just started at a company that had previously made Flash widgets (weather/sports/stocks) to put on your site. They had pivoted to JavaScript tools about three years before I joined the company, and had discontinued their Flash support a year earlier.
The very first conference call I had with a potential customer was actually someone who claimed to be losing billions of dollars because our Flash widgets didn't work anymore. They were livid that we'd stopped supporting them, and threatened to sue us if we didn't turn it back on.
The poor sales rep and I didn't know what to say, because she had started about a week before me and didn't even know we made them. I'm guessing they didn't sue because we never heard about it again.
AS INVADING MEXICO becomes a mainstream Republican Party position, a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced a measure on Thursday that would bar a U.S. president from unilaterally taking military action against the country....
You know what would really decimate the cartels? Decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction like the public health issue it is.
When someone who's addicted can go to a clinic and get clean needles and drugs of known quality they won't be buying it from street dealers, who in turn won't be buying from the cartels.
And let's not forget the American pharmaceutical companies who pushed opiates for decades in our own internal version of the British dumping opium in China. Can't blame those guys, though, because their drug cartels are all nice and legal.
Comcast and other ISPs objected to a requirement that ISPs “list all recurring monthly fees” including “all charges that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government.” They complained that the rule will force them “to display the pass-through of fees imposed by federal, state, or...
A lot of companies with large campuses have gotten concessions from local government, since the workers will increase economic activity in the area. So part of it is also that city governments are putting pressure on companies to get people in, and they might lose millions in tax breaks they got for building in their city.
I really wish they'd give a real reason for it. Just say "When we built our offices we negotiated with the city to have lower taxes and if you don't come back we'll lose that." Or "We don't want the value of our commercial real estate holdings to go down."
At the very least the workers could be mad at the right thing. Instead Amazon is going to lose its best folks to fully remote jobs first, then backfill with people who aren't able to get a WFH job or have to pay people a huge premium to attract remote workers back to the office.
That will hurt them worse than the taxes or real estate devaluation, but that will happen over years instead of by next quarter, so they don't care.
Exactly. Increasing pay would be really, really nice. But we can do that and have more control over our workplaces. Worker owned companies would prevent huge disparities in pay from reoccurring, regardless of what the government does.
Like a wise and angry man once said: "Fuck the G rides, I want the machines that are making them."
The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle is in the books. Without the frontrunner on stage, each candidate had the opportunity to grab the spotlight, though some had more of an impact.
Republicans are doing the same thing in this primary that they did in 2016 which led to Trump's nomination: There's a huge field of candidates, all splitting the vote, so the winner will have a plurality and not a majority. Trump doesn't need to convince half+1 of the Republicans to vote for him, he just needs about 20%, which will be more than all the rest of the candidates.
Economic analyst Steven Rattner on Monday shared a pie chart showing that all but 1% of the $3 billion in investments in former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners came from foreign sources after he “spent much of his White House tenure cozying up” to Saudi Arabia and...
They're not very creative, so they can't think up other nefarious schemes so they just accuse their enemies of what they're doing. Grooming kids? Check. Corrupt sons of presidents involved with "overseas investors?" Check. Stealing an election? Check.
The indictment is here. I’m going to keep updating this page as I go, so refresh for the latest version. There’s a number of different people getting charged for various sub-schemes within the overall attempt by Trump and his coconspirators to corruptly overturn the Georgia election for President in 2020, so I’ll take them...
I honestly don’t care at all about any of these trials until he’s thrown in prison. We all know he did it and I’m sick of getting blue-balled by our glacial judicial system.
Unless Trump is being frogmarched into gen pop none of this matters.
I still have hope in my little Posadist heart that the drastic addition of CO2 to our atmosphere, detectable at interstellar distances, will lead us to first contact with an advanced socialist species.
And my little conspiracy theorist heart believes that's why they've kept UAPs hidden for decades.
I have a PC I have installed Portainer on, with various docker services (home assistant, jellyfin, etc..) with an ISP supplied router fixing various device IP addresses and reaching out to dyndns....
I don't use DynDNS but I do have two HAProxy servers, one locally and the other on a VPS. The VPS has a cron job that renews the certs every three weeks, and my local server rsyncs them to the right place every so often.
Then, on my pihole I send requests for my services to the local IP but on the same domain. Because the certs are looking at the domain name and not the IP the cert is valid both on my LAN and from the Internet.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Kentucky can continue to enforce a gender-affirming care ban that also requires trans youth already receiving this care to detransition....
I would also like it if political campaigns lasted less than two years. A lot of countries have strict laws against campaigning outside of a specified election season.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs were abolished Tuesday from Walt Disney World’s governing district, now controlled by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an echo of the Florida governor’s agenda which has championed curtailing such programs in higher education and elsewhere....
Disney should get their Imagineers working on a way to just move Disney World somewhere that won’t be under water in a couple decades. Just pick the whole thing up and plop it somewhere better
Unfortunately the very fact of him being a black man caused a very large minority of people to lose their minds. And Trump was able to speak to those people.
Despite being from the other side of the pond your perception of American politics is very accurate. I would include that AM radio and cable news "primed the pump" for this, as millions of people outside of the cities were subjected to constant propaganda.
You know why the profile picture for most conservative men is them sitting in their truck? Because they spend a lot of time there, either commuting or driving professionally. Because they're in the middle of nowhere they don't get FM radio, so they listen to AM radio which is almost entirely conservative talk radio.
So these Guys in Trucks have heard Rush Limbaugh (rest in piss) and his ilk every day for years, making them powderkegs.
[Reddit spokesman Tim] Rathschmidt added that Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct "isn't just about what mods can and cannot do; it's also about protecting our users' right to assemble and discuss topics they're passionate about."
You do not have a right to assemble on a privately owned platform, regardless of what the mods do.
People have known it since at least 1999 when Office Space was released. If you're not slacking off at work, especially if you're salaried, you're being exploited even more than usual.
Is he serious 😂 ( reddthat.com )
[News] Senator Calls For Return of Old Mississippi Flag: ‘Our People Died Under That Flag’ ( www.mississippifreepress.org )
Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.
Gov. Abbott is now putting barriers along Texas border with New Mexico ( news.yahoo.com )
Isn’t this against the US constitution? Razor wire along the state border and checkpoints on roads that cross the state border are kind of nuts. I read a comment joking that the wire and road checkpoints were to keep Texan women from escaping to New Mexico, which got a bitter laugh out of me.
Do you agree? ( lemmy.ml )
[News] Election denier and 'MyPillow Guy' Mike Lindell confirms he's out of money, can't pay legal bills ( apnews.com )
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses...
Strikes against automakers spread to 38 locations in 20 states, Stellantis and GM are targeted ( apnews.com )
The United Auto Workers expanded its strike against major automakers Friday, walking out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis parts distribution centers in 20 states....
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Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen ( www.theguardian.com )
Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem ( fortune.com )
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule ( www.latimes.com )
Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize....
Froggy ( lemmy.world )
Trump’s Economic Plan: Raise Taxes on the Middle Class, Cut Them on the Rich ( nymag.com )
The discourse of the Trump era has been dominated by a conceit that the two major parties have swapped economic identities. The Democrats have supposedly abandoned their historical role as spokespeople for the working class to represent the neoliberal global elite, while the Republicans have been transmuted into scruffy...
I can't believe how patient he is during these photo shoots ( lemmy.world )
Google sucks (rant)
At my org we have some legacy software that uses the google analytics api. As you may be aware, that api has been discontinued for some reason. This application is going to nearly impossible to port to the new api....
As Republicans Thirst for War With Mexico, Democrats Push for Vote on It | Ghostarchive | The Intercept ( ghostarchive.org )
AS INVADING MEXICO becomes a mainstream Republican Party position, a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced a measure on Thursday that would bar a U.S. president from unilaterally taking military action against the country....
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard ( arstechnica.com )
Comcast and other ISPs objected to a requirement that ISPs “list all recurring monthly fees” including “all charges that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government.” They complained that the rule will force them “to display the pass-through of fees imposed by federal, state, or...
Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You' ( gizmodo.com )
CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds ( www.theguardian.com )
These companies paid their employees a median wage of $31,672 in 2022, while their CEOs took home an average $15.3m
5 takeaways from the first Republican primary debate ( www.npr.org )
The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle is in the books. Without the frontrunner on stage, each candidate had the opportunity to grab the spotlight, though some had more of an impact.
Dark Brandon haunts the Fox News website on GOP debate day ( www.theverge.com )
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"I've never seen anything like it": Economic analyst stunned at sources of Jared Kushner's funds ( www.salon.com )
Economic analyst Steven Rattner on Monday shared a pie chart showing that all but 1% of the $3 billion in investments in former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm Affinity Partners came from foreign sources after he “spent much of his White House tenure cozying up” to Saudi Arabia and...
Trump Announces Plans to Finally Go Ahead and Prove Election Was Rigged ( www.rollingstone.com )
Lindsey Graham: Don’t Indict Trump, or Impeach Him, or Vote Against Him ( nymag.com )
FTA:...
The Georgia Indictment ( www.pwnallthethings.com )
The indictment is here. I’m going to keep updating this page as I go, so refresh for the latest version. There’s a number of different people getting charged for various sub-schemes within the overall attempt by Trump and his coconspirators to corruptly overturn the Georgia election for President in 2020, so I’ll take them...
a healthy society is our starship ( hexbear.net )
How are people doing HTTPS? ( kbin.social )
I have a PC I have installed Portainer on, with various docker services (home assistant, jellyfin, etc..) with an ISP supplied router fixing various device IP addresses and reaching out to dyndns....
(August) What are you working on now, DIY? ( beehaw.org )
Making any progress, you slackers? Tell us about it!
[News] Federal appeals court rules Kentucky can force trans kids to detransition ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
A federal appeals court has ruled that Kentucky can continue to enforce a gender-affirming care ban that also requires trans youth already receiving this care to detransition....
Are Democrats Tricking Republicans Into Nominating Trump? ( nymag.com )
FTA:...
Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy ( www.insider.com )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/2911882...
[News] DeSantis-controlled Disney World district gets rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staffers ( www.nbcnews.com )
ORLANDO, Fla. — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs were abolished Tuesday from Walt Disney World’s governing district, now controlled by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an echo of the Florida governor’s agenda which has championed curtailing such programs in higher education and elsewhere....
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor ( www.theguardian.com )
A few notable quotes from the article follow:...
Trump’s Rivals Can’t Compete With His Version Of Masculinity ( fivethirtyeight.com )
TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out ( www.kuow.org )
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best ( arstechnica.com )
Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing ( www.msn.com )