captainlezbian

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captainlezbian ,

And we shoot back. Yes the class war

captainlezbian ,

I learned it trying to fix a coffee maker. It’s news to me that it ain’t a coffee specific word.

captainlezbian ,

Exactly that. I picture it as one of those big jugs on an industrial coffee machine with the black or orange plastic to indicate if it has caffeine

captainlezbian ,

That’s not true. When I drive I still hate drivers

captainlezbian ,

Alternatively he was the adult in the room

captainlezbian ,

Yeah it should’ve been twice the workers for half the time

captainlezbian ,

Are there any worker owned distilleries? I’d buy coop bourbon and scotch

captainlezbian ,

Midwestern possibly. It works with my accent at least

captainlezbian ,

Start with dvorak. It’ll ruin you best. You’ll be that person to your it department

captainlezbian ,

Also by restricting access for sexually mature people it opens a means by which adults can provide access as a way to prey on them.

The reason adults shouldn’t be fucking 17 year olds isn’t their bodies, it’s the fact that the age of majority and difference in experience means for a massive power imbalance

captainlezbian ,

Wait until they find out the deep personal relationship between triangles and circles

The end of workplace loyalty: Why work feels so broken right now — and how it can be repaired ( www.businessinsider.com )

In the two years I've been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there's one theme that's come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups....

captainlezbian ,

It’s worse than that. If I show loyalty they’ll actively screw me over for it. Staying in one job ensures my pay stagnates compared to market value.

captainlezbian ,

I dare these people to try the disability income lifestyle. If you manage to save you lose disability before you have enough to do anything with it

captainlezbian ,

Yeah also, when you’re in a union you can talk to your manager and have your rep on the side as referee. Also sometimes union reps are there to be the second sane person in a conversation, often that’s because the manager is a lunatic, but other times it’s to translate a screamed string of profanity into actual actionable complaints for the manager.

captainlezbian ,

And you can’t buy a new car without those high tech things. And also this shit isn’t “high tech” anymore. Large screens are dirt cheap. Aftermarket rear view cameras are going out to eat money. Idk about radar and sensors but as technology matures and becomes cheap it finds its way into every car. A budget car should be nicer now than 20 years ago because nice things have been around longer.

captainlezbian ,

Yeah I’d kill for an office at this point. Like it’s not even to fuck around, I just need to not be constantly distracted or on show. I’m a professional, part of my job is sitting there thinking, I’d like to have space to do that. But nope, open office plan with insane upper management

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    captainlezbian ,

    Can California just adopt a single payer system so the rest of us can get one later already

    captainlezbian ,

    DC has the best fucking subway. It goes everywhere you want to go and is convenient as shit about it.

    captainlezbian ,

    DC has the best fucking subway. It goes everywhere you want to go and is convenient as shit about it.

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    Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

    It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,

    https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/

    developers are working hard on getting 6 ready for the scheduled for February.

    @kde

    Plasma Mobile 6 screen with most used apps and a clock app in the lower right corner

    captainlezbian ,

    Kver khere

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    One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?

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    captainlezbian ,

    Bottom right though center left is off doing its own thing which I can respect

    Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?

    So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...

    captainlezbian ,

    In grade school i learned it was about 32 ft/s2, but by high school on it was all 9.8[1/06] m/s2. Then in engineering school it was sometimes 10. None of that had anything to do with local gravity and everything to do with Americans having to be special at first, followed by the fact that our science classes are actually in metric (statics and dynamics were in both as some fields of engineering haven’t metricated yet here). And the 10 is because you can round to a round number by barely even touching your fudge factor so why not.

    captainlezbian ,

    I’ve seen engineers use all of these. Bridges still work

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah air resistance is a stronger factor than those .2 m/s2. If we can ignore it we can ignore both

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    Ohio, and Catholic schools. It was clearly on its way out. In retrospect it was definitely a strange situation where different teachers had different opinions on metric. Some clearly thought it’s fine for science, and others clearly just wanted to quit our two measurement system that does nothing but prolongs the inevitable.

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    As an industrial engineer it’s amazing that this is proving effective in manufacturing environments. I’d suspected it would but much like with WFH, I assumed this was one of those things that had a chance of catching on for office workers but wouldn’t in factories.

    The 40 hour work week was a massive success not because it was just right but because cutting hours so workers can rest was hugely beneficial

    Can you offer investment advice? I'm debt-free, about to start earning $2k more per month than I need to survive. Please offer any suggestions for optimal investment method(s).

    48 years old, currently have no investments. My net worth is my car and the clothes on my back, and I don’t ever want to be in this situation again....

    captainlezbian ,

    Max our employer contributions to 401k then use a managed plan that adjusts risk based on your age

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah when I’ve been allowed to work from home I’ve either done chores or talked to my wife during breaks. And I’ve been more comfortable doing the things that make me more effective in my work that bosses don’t like like listening to books during repetitive work

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah that’s DC based on metro. Food is crazy there

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah that’s a peanut butter sandwich. And it’s good for you

    captainlezbian ,

    I kept trying to disagree but I couldn’t. It’ll suck but it’ll be worth it. We should metricate the English speaking world while we do it. And no the uk has not metricated, they just pretend to have

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah I’m in the us east but work in a factory so I have to explain it anyways

    What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. ( www.cnbc.com )

    Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations....

    captainlezbian ,

    Not enough income to live indoors, but income nonetheless

    captainlezbian ,

    You’re right. In a 1 bedroom in a rural city in a low cost of living state living as a freegan who never needs anything like medications you might be able to live off that.

    I for one think that the situation with social security is that my parents and grandparents took one of the best things my country ever did, robbed it blind, and pissed all over it. Fuck. That. Shit.

    And yeah I’m prepared to work the rest of my life until I get too old to work and then die homeless. That’s not what people should live like. We had something beautiful and let it fall into disrepair

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah as a female engineer I’ve been told that it’s a double edged sword. You get a lot more opportunities but they’re opportunities working for a misogynist

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah there’s a reason a lot of us become managers or something. Ok there’s several

    captainlezbian ,

    Idk in reasonable countries it seems like there’d be an election because our two party system keeps failing to form a government

    captainlezbian ,

    We can unionize as well and stand in solidarity with blue collar workers. The UAW strike is strong now, but if the engineers and accountants joined in that would be even more pressure on the company

    captainlezbian ,

    Desantis won’t be vp. He went against trump and trump is that petty

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah I was raised to understand debt is for three things: education (as an investment and treated as such), mortgages, and cars (though I avoid car loans where I can).

    captainlezbian ,

    Idk my engineering degree is paying off as is my sister’s.

    Cars can be bought on debt but shouldn’t stupidly be bought on debt. You buy a practical car with a strong down payment and a manageable interest rate. I don’t do that myself when I can help it, but as I see it I took a loan from my savings to buy my car because nobody offered a better interest rate.

    Also I could buy heating aids on credit in this line of thought, but I once again choose to pay cash when possible.

    captainlezbian ,

    That’s generally pretty true and also irrelevant to my point of it being worth it to go into debt to invest in education.

    Additionally degrees in things like philosophy and art history can be valuable if you go in with a clear headed career path from them.

    Trades absolutely shouldn’t be discarded. But the toll on the body should be weighed alongside it. You can make great money as a plumber while you’re still physically able. But if your knees hurt as an 18 year old, don’t try.

    captainlezbian ,

    Oh good. Can we have one in Ohio? I’d like my vote to impact my state’s legislature

    captainlezbian ,

    I really appreciate this comment. You’re absolutely right, crushing fascism is going to fucking suck. They will make life worse for us. In the aftermath people like me that they’ve been targeting are going to face a hell of a lot more violence in an attempt to force you to stop. Stopping will be the worst decision. Conservatives have been treated with kiddie gloves for a long time and now the fascists are crying persecution when they get the mildest pushback. Keep going. Root it out.

    If you let them continue you may not be next, but you’re on the list. If you want to understand their goals look at the White Terror in Spain under Franco. Franco didn’t make Spain glorious or powerful again but he soaked the soil of his nation in the blood of countless people.

    If you swore an oath to this nation, it’s people, democracy, maybe you thought of it as words or intentions or having reasonable boundaries. I sympathize there, but it didn’t. Good leadership sometimes risks your life.

    captainlezbian ,

    Ok absolute mood

    CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 ( www.epi.org )

    “average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989”

    captainlezbian ,

    Yeah worker owned coops still have ceos. They perform a useful role as coordinative support staff. The problem isn’t that you have bosses, it’s that they aren’t accountable to you. They’re treated as face to an oligopoly, but they could instead be the head of a democracy. They also really don’t need that level of compensation

    captainlezbian ,

    I disagree. Some profit is good. It allows you to keep a coffer so you can keep afloat in bad years, as well as to buy back stocks for the employees. Once employee owned any profit can be voted on to either be added to budgets or distributed out amongst the employees.

    captainlezbian ,

    Ah yes, the idea that taxes are penalizing the American dream and not just paying your fair share from what you can

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