There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?
I will be registering elsewhere to see if the experience is any better. I really like the overall direction and design of kbin, but things have been dragging on updates and improvements.
For example, my settings are identical as far as I can tell between desktop and mobile, but my mobile feed is generally hitting day old on the first page while desktop has several pages of more recent content. I walked through the settings side by side and they appear identical.
But I haven't reported it or searched to see if someone else has because of the absence making the effort to document and report less urgent.
I'll keep my account of course and keep an eye out if it picks back up because do like the browser based interface and the combo of lemmy and mastodon in a single feed.
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
Am on the tail end of Gen X and when I started working even low pay allowed me to afford a place to live, food to eat, and doing fun things occasionally. While work sucked, it at least paid the bills and allowed the freedom to live. Plus there were still some companies that offered actual long term perks, tried and keep people with experience around, and promoted from within.
Gen Z still gets the low pay, but are treated as expendable, and can't afford anything and so it is understandable that they would hate working in comparison.
When the only people who commuted were those that were required to be physically present for their work or those that wanted to be in the office traffic was massively reduced and commute times shortened if the reduction meant being able to go the speed limit.
Bold of you to assume the stock market has anything to do with finite resources.
When the ultra wealthy and their companies run the system into the ground they will buy up the failed stocks and cheap land that nobody else can afford then come out ahead when the economy recovers like they have in the previous economic crashes. They can afford to buy low and cash out when it is high because they have zero pressure to act at any given point in time due to their ridiculous wealth and zero legal repercussions.
The stock market is the reason for chasing quarterly profits and a massive part of what gets counted as the economy. It is the main driver of all the shitty late stage capitalism practices we are discussing.
In the silence of the Civil War’s Antietam battlefield on a winter day, bucolic hills give way to rows of small, white gravestones in the nearby cemetery. Wandering over the deadliest ground in American history, a melancholy visitor may be excused for wondering if this November’s presidential contest poses the greatest...
I think it is simply that they don't have a lot of contact with people who are different, which most humans need to see others as people, and the main broadcasters in rural areas are conservatives that use the right terminology to convey their message. It became a feedback loop, where the few people they interact with share the same fears that they are all bombarded with, so their fears of the unknown are reinforced.
Then shit like Facebook allowed them to dial the whole thing up even further.
People in more densely populated areas are more likely to catch on that different people are just people, which is why they end up more liberal. Just like college education tends to correlate with being liberal.
Liberals could counter this with tailoring some messaging to the rural context, but they have a huge hurdle with the conservative promoted anti-intellectualism. So I kind of agree with you, but personally think the targeted messaging of conservatives is a far bigger influence than just the reception of conspiracies.
McDonald's gross profit for the quarter ending September 30, 2023 was $3.864B, a 12.12% increase year-over-year.
McDonald's gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $14.317B, a 9.63% increase year-over-year.
McDonald's annual gross profit for 2022 was $13.207B, a 4.98% increase from 2021.
McDonald's annual gross profit for 2021 was $12.58B, a 29% increase from 2020.
McDonald's annual gross profit for 2020 was $9.752B, a 12.77% decline from 2019.
Other than a dip in 2020 that was more than replaced in 2021, McDonald's is right back on track with record profits and the only reason they are losing low income earners is pricing themselves out of that market.
The big thing is that while there are benefits to shared spaces for most people, it is rare that it is something that is important enough to justify everyone making a daily commute. Especially when the vast majority of their jobs are done independently, with a small portion of their time benefiting from collaboration or chance interactions.
I have a hybrid schedule which works great because on the days I am in the office I interact with others most of the time and the days at home are spent getting the work done as a result of that interaction. I'm not being constantly interrupted or annoyed by the 'chance interactions' of everyone else in the wide open office environment for most of my week.
I'll take a smaller volume of stuff from people who want to engage over the quality of mass produced lowesr common denominator content that will come from Meta products.
A lot of the time that is the response after someone says that they did try to talk to their partner too. It is both true and a non-helpful answer in a lot of cases because the problems to discuss are caused by underlying communication problems.
I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop is just over a year old. I have already contacted the manufacturer, but with the holidays...
Just send them the pic and say you discarded it for safety reasons. Maybe take another pic with something identifying like the original receipt or something unique to the purchase and a date for proof. Make sure to get a clearer pic of the bar codes on the top as well.
Knowingly mailing a swelling battery is a safety hazard and there should not be any issue with disposing of it as long as you have something to show it was the one in that particular laptop.
The downvotes are most likely because you said to go 'against what was said' instead of adding to it with the long term solution. It read as if you disagreed with taking it outside where it would be immediately safer.
Despite the favorable polling on housing reforms, local political opposition to new housing development in single-family neighborhoods often can remain strong. People tend to be supportive of more housing in general, just as long as it’s not right next to them.
Though no-fault divorce was first legalized more than 50 years ago, it has long been sneered at in conservative circles, who see it as a danger to the sanctity of marriage and the concept of the American family.
Lucas made such a mess of the original Star Wars movies with his changes over the years that I’m sure a lot of people are probably sour in general on the idea of unnecessarily changing anything in a remaster....
If the remaster is to address the quality degradation or to get a better starting point from the original film I am all in favor of it. Just improve the picture/sound quality, not the scenes.
Boys refusing to do an exercise about imagining a day as the other gender represents a social problem, not a men problem. High school boys who refuse to imagine themselves as someone else were taught to be resistant to that idea, and not only by men but society as a whole.
Kind of like how money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is root of all evil. Or how power doesn't really corrupt good people, but it certainly attracts corrupt people and allows terrible people to act on their terrible ideas.
One thing that conservatives like to do is act like poor people who spend all their money and don't save are making the decision to do so instead of acknowledging the situation. They equate any level of income and whether or not all of the money is spent, using the same phrasing that you are using to say that spending all the money is bad. Adding a qualifier at the end that they don't have a choice but still saying it is bad implies that they are making a choice which just opens up more room for nitpicking on how they spend their money.
"Being forced to live paycheck to paycheck is bad because there is no ability to save for emergencies" means they are not doing a bad thing because it is about the situation. Focus on the inability to save, not that they spent all their money.
Put the bad label on the situation, not the action that is the result of the situation.
Yeah, they are just letting the companies know that they will be ready for the next round and that they aren't going to accept less than their value like they were in past negotiations.
Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.
Slavery is legal foe the incarcerated, so it should be no surprise that they are treated with the same respect that slaves have always been in this shitty country.
No respect whatsoever, because we are horribly racist.
A Texas prisoner who is facing execution having been sent to death row on the basis of “shaken baby syndrome”, a child abuse theory that has been widely debunked as junk science, has had his petition to the US supreme court denied....
It is junk science in that assuming any physical damage that matches the three symptoms to a baby was intentional and that the way that it is regularly used in courts has the same assumption of intent. The whole shaken baby syndrome is tied up with the assumption of intent in the context of courts enough to make it junk science in the same way that failing a stress detector means someone is lying.
Yes, shaking a baby causes those injuries. So can seizures. Which makes this not junk journalism, as they even quoted a recent ruling that literally called it junk science.
Last month, an appeals court in New Jersey ruled that the theory was “junk science” and “scientifically unreliable”.
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday....
In the US, zoning restrictions means people literally cannot live very close to their jobs in a lot of locations because housing is far from businesses. City structures encourage commutes, and would require spending money to undo those problems. Your suggestion punishes the poor who would need to move more often to find new jobs.
We should instead sponsor more mass transit accessibility and frequency to decrease the use of single occupancy vehicles in daily commutes, which would have a for larger positive impact over trying to force people to live in specific locations that limit their ability to find work. For example, if people move near their jobs and want a different job, making them movie again is stupid when instead they could have easy access many potential jobs within 30 minutes or less on public transportation if working at home is jot an option.
There should be a reasonable limit of one hour in normal traffic for the commute each way though. Basing it on time would encourage companies to be flexible on start/end times to avoid needing to pay for people to sit in traffic, and there should be some kind of high but not crazy limit on commute time.
I am so glad that Microsoft always tells the truth so we can just take them at their word. It would be totally different if they had a history of lying and doing shady stuff.
If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What...
Of course 'looks like it is improving' and 'underperformed employees' tend to be abstract numbers on spreadsheets that only exist to increase short term stocks. Productions in general doesn't fall off for some time even if you fire the best employees, so anything below that will prop up the company while it coasts for a few quarters before the wealthy that know start dumping the stocks.
Are they crying too much? Being too vulnerable? Too angry?
I mean, make someone hide their emotions for decades and they are probably going to let out a couple decades worth when they are told they can. But it seems like men are told "let out your emotions" and then when they do "not like that!"
Or not because the characters are so unlikeable that m sorting out the time loops makes you just wish the thing killed them the first time they got in.
"The movie doesn't blatantly contradict itself" is not the selling point that a lit of people think it is.
So much spam ( kbin.social )
There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?
Gen Z is unhappier at work than any other generation. Here are the two things they want. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
Discovery returns to screens April 4th ( universeodon.com )
Last season for DISCO, will we see it finally grow a beard and everyone be raging no 6?
Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds ( fortune.com )
A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? ( lemmy.world )
Is Iowa the next step to civil war? ( unherd.com )
In the silence of the Civil War’s Antietam battlefield on a winter day, bucolic hills give way to rows of small, white gravestones in the nearby cemetery. Wandering over the deadliest ground in American history, a melancholy visitor may be excused for wondering if this November’s presidential contest poses the greatest...
I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices ( www.businessinsider.com )
Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to ‘blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance,’ new research finds ( fortune.com )
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse ( plasticbag.org )
Why do hardly any straight men write about sex and dating? | Imogen West-Knights ( www.theguardian.com )
Men do think about matters of the heart, but writing about it publicly could be seen as undignified, says journalist Imogen West-Knights
Texas can ban emergency abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy despite federal guidance, court rules ( apnews.com )
bad battery? ( lemmy.world )
I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop is just over a year old. I have already contacted the manufacturer, but with the holidays...
xkcd #2869: Puzzles ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2869...
For the "Why are you so hostile to Threads federating?" people.. ( kbin.social )
Check this out. Remember that Facebook isn't just the place where moms and aunts swap recipes:...
[News] America is becoming a country of YIMBYs ( www.cnn.com )
spoiler...
[Analysis] What is no-fault divorce, and why do some conservatives want to get rid of it? | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Though no-fault divorce was first legalized more than 50 years ago, it has long been sneered at in conservative circles, who see it as a danger to the sanctity of marriage and the concept of the American family.
Thoughts on fixing production mistakes in remasters?
Lucas made such a mess of the original Star Wars movies with his changes over the years that I’m sure a lot of people are probably sour in general on the idea of unnecessarily changing anything in a remaster....
Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. ( www.nytimes.com )
Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches.
I'm not asking to be rich. ( lemmy.world )
UAW preparing the US for a general strike in 2028 ( www.404media.co )
Mark your calendars
Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect ( www.cnbc.com )
Gene Roddenberry's first sci-fi show pitch from 1955: "The Transporter" ( startrek.website )
I thought this was an interesting read. You can see that the seeds of what would become Star Trek were already growing....
'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do ( finance.yahoo.com )
US prisons rife with human rights abuses, especially against Black people, UN says ( www.reuters.com )
Practices that are routine in U.S. prisons, like shackling women during childbirth and unpaid forced labor, are an “affront to human dignity,” and represent the “worst version of a racist criminal legal system” that perpetuates slavery to the present day, according to the U.N. report.
Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US supreme court appeal ( www.theguardian.com )
A Texas prisoner who is facing execution having been sent to death row on the basis of “shaken baby syndrome”, a child abuse theory that has been widely debunked as junk science, has had his petition to the US supreme court denied....
[News] Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday....
‘We Can't Defend Ourselves’: Amazon Isn’t Doing Enough About Its Dog Bite Problem, Drivers Say ( www.vice.com )
Drivers who spoke to Motherboard described not being allowed to carry defensive spray and inadequate training....
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) ( www.nbclosangeles.com )
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 )
Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer ( medium.com )
If you work at one of the large tech companies that, in the last few weeks [or months], have laid off thousands of employees, you may be wondering what the hell is going on. Especially if the company you’re working for is not actually struggling economically right now. If you work for Google, say, you must be thinking, “What...
Wear pink but don’t cry - "Men under 25 are less likely than their elders to feel comfortable hugging another man or weeping in front of them. What happened?" ( www.thetimes.co.uk )
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xkcd #657: Movie Narrative Charts ( imgs.xkcd.com )
Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively....
The salary a single person needs to get by in every U.S. state ( www.cnbc.com )