GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.

I was 22 when I realized I should stop seeing my pediatrician.

The Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!

In America, and other countries, it used to be backed by gold.

Best ELI5 here!

The juxtaposition of life giving water and the utter lifelessness of the desert always has me staring at pics like this. Logically I get it, but it’s hard to wrap my head around it emotionally.

I honestly think most of these bugfuck crazy views stem from we humans not having evolved to deal with the modern world. People feed us the simple answers we crave.

This is part of what Forrest Gump was about. Think Forrest and Bubba would have made it to boot in the first place?

FYI: A “school shooting” is anytime a gun is discharged on school grounds. If I go shoot the soccer field on a Saturday afternoon, that counts.

And the San Francisco shooting? That was one kid purposefully going after another. It was a fight with a gun involved, not some random kid shooting the place up.

set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future

Funny, that’s how it worked at my last job. And then there’s Quik Trip, an untold story.

As to the working hard part, I think you’re missing the “move on” part. Gain experience, QUIT. Lemmy in general, if not you, has this victim take on employment. As an old supervisor used to say, “Fuck me? No, no, no, fuck YOU!”

“They’re getting rich on our labor!”

“What if I told you, you can withhold that labor?”

If one’s job is that shitty, they can easily move on for the same pay at another shitty job. The least we can do is punish bad behavior.

Anyway, capitalism was pretty OK when we had unions (back to the punishing bad behavior bit) and didn’t allow megacorps to monopolize every sector of the economy. Most here are probably too young to remember those days. :(

Sorry, but planning a Linux PC sounds hilarious to me.

“Meh. This piece of crap will do great.”

Yeah, I would say so.

Huh. I called it “singing through your teeth”. That’s how I karaoke 90s songs! Had no idea there was was a word for it.

At my last job HR announced that they had found studies showing increased productivity and employee satisfaction when people had one 3-day weekend a month. From there on we were given a choice of any Monday or Friday off, but we had to take one.

My friend: “Yeah, that’s fucked up not paying you.”

“It’s PTO.”

“That’s fucked forcing you to use your PTO.”

“It’s on top of our PTO. We get an extra 12-days a year now.”

I’m sure someone will find a cynical take on this story.

Lemmy: CaPitALisM!

Gosh! I left out a really important part! That business wasn’t part of a monopoly or cartel. Well, ironically, we did have a basic monopoly, no one else did what we did, but we weren’t a subsidiary of a megacorp, if you get my drift.

LOL, two years in a row our CEO told the board we would lose money on purpose to build our people and products. They applauded him. We fucked around and made a profit anyway. Got FAT Christmas bonuses!

If you think that’s a one-off company, you should hear how Quik Trip stores operate. Imagine people dedicating a career to working in a convenience store. That’s another story. (And an amazing one.)

Work hard, get experience, stack resume, move on until you land at a solid employer.

When my two friends and I moved to NW Florida, we knew no one, had no family. One guy started at an oil change place, way below his skill set and experience. Kept quitting and moving to better jobs. Within a decade he was the top service manager for the top car dealer in the area, clocking 6 digits, treated with utmost respect, seat at the table.

Well I would hope we could find someone with more qualifications than running a satire account.

Well then, good thing Newsome didn’t post this!

All y’all need to join with the FaceBook conservatives for a social media literacy class.

“NOOAWW! I believe whatever I want to believe and it’s all TRUE!”

OP knew exactly where they were going with this one!

our aim is to keep Reddit the most human place on the internet

Every time this guy posts or speaks publicly he has to mention the “human” aspect of reddit. No idea why. 🙄

We don’t have those in that part of North America.

Japan will be the first industrialized nation to suffer depopulation. Been saying it will be interesting to see how they navigate the problem because sooner or later we’ll all be faced with it.