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- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Most of the rich cannot just move to a tax haven. Sure someone who inherited multi-generational wealth can hide it in the Caiman island.
But if you own a canned tomato factory, or even if you’re a business consultant, you get rich because of very local things, and can’t easily move-it away.
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, if OP lives in the northern hemisphere, the season for Tomatoes is over, so it’s hard to get fresh tomatoes that doesn’t taste like water
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
Answer based on European standard where worker have some basic rights
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Not happy in the job : do the bare minimum while looking for something else guarantees that pay keeps coming, worst-case they fire-you giving you a severance pay (not necessarily big if you’re new in the company) and keeping your right to unemployment (which in general are lost when you quit).
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Toxic environment impacting mental health : Go to your doctor and take sick-leaves, and please do it before being in full burn out, then come back to previous point
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Very toxic environment, like harassment : Talk with a lawyer or an union representative you may have a case to sue the company, and even quit on the spot while keeping severance pay and unemployment rights, but you may-need a legal advise for it
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- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 4 weeks ago:
Most people with Ph.D don’t use the Dr title out of a formal setting.
Between People thinking that you’re a physicianand asking about their health, and people thinking you’re pedantic. Better staying discrete.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 4 weeks ago:
How would a dishonest person add extra? Here in Australia you go in, get signed off on a book, and they give you a piece of paper for your voting preferences. You don’t get unlimited papers to vote multiple times.
My hypothesis is that the dishonest person is an official, so they can be the person giving the ballots/envelope, they were present when we opened the box with ballots/envelope to put them on the table, and have access to the box where they’re stored to refill the table over the day. So getting ballots/envelope is quite easy, and all in less than 2 minutes you can put them in the box and sign near a sick/old person name. Looks like even easier if you close/open the voting office every morning/evening for a week, and store the box for the night. So I am curious about the safeguards.
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- Comment on How can users avoid bad content on Lemmy (particularly rule breaking or illegal comments/posts? 1 month ago:
Block Lemmygrad, hexbear, and may-be even .ml if your instance doesn’t
Don’t browse the c/ starting with politics/worldnews and similar
Keep on relax, cool, communities. places like !foodporn@lemmy.world, !jukebox@sh.itjust.works or even !imageai@sh.itjust.works should be pretty safe compared to !world@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
Useful for what?
As a kind of joke, look at these senior citizen doing tai chi in the park, while many 80 years old can’t walk without a cane. Looks like pretty useful.
Judo or Aïkido will teach you how to fall, which may save you a visit to the ER if you slip on the street, and pretty useful again.
It’s also a fun way to exercise and stay in shape, so again, it’s useful
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is what brought the pirate bay guys in jail, why the scihub girl is seen as a criminal by the US, and what caused reddit founder Aaron Schwarz suicide
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 2 months ago:
Comm’on bringing reasonable and moderate argument on an internet discussion :) You’re supposed to bring strong troll-like arguments about one of them being a worst place than best Korea either because you couldn’t bring your god given car in the pedestrian centre of a European city, or that you fell threatened by the idea of everyone being a gun carrying psycho, even that a guy from the US office of your company brought you to a shooting range
- Comment on Board games (board games, card games, table top RPGs) related active communities promotion post 2 months ago:
A quick check shows me that there is also !osr@ttrpg.network which is also kinda unactive.
- Comment on Why is quakers.social defederated? 2 months ago:
Holy shit, there is instances named loli, rape and even pedo.
monde de merde
- Comment on If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social? 2 months ago:
We need some Lemmy gold, because tht comment desserve it
@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me A small statue of Lemming made in gold, inspired by award given at ceremonies
- Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to? 2 months ago:
What do you mean ? Tons of people come back to school later in life, and it’s ~~often ~~ sometimes funded by unemployment, better giving money to someone for 2 years than for thei rwhole life
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like
*During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️🗨️ at 💑 *
Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government
- Comment on If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized? 2 months ago:
Most of them aren’t.
User data are more than post/comment history and likes. Where do you connect from (no matter whether it gives hint about your relationship status or your work and customer), which comments you didn’t write, which device you use to connect and more.
Lemmy instance I know, don’t collect much data, hence the short term of services and the lack of cookies pop up unlike big (social) media sharing their data with hundreds of " partners"
- Comment on how does a tote bag work? 2 months ago:
It’s light and fit in a pocket/purse, so you can go shopping without carrying a heavier bag. But indeed, some have weird handles
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The question isn’t how many play, but how many song does your plbylist have.
If you pay Spotify/deezer 9.99 a month this is phe price of 10 song a month. After 5 years it’s a 600 songs play list.
If your plbylist aren’t that big, it’s a loss, if your playlists are bigger, it’s a win
- Comment on Question about south Korea customs declaration 3 months ago:
Not even too limit. Just to properly evaluate and tax it if needed.
While you bring only a laptop in carry on, someone may be transporting 15 000€ worth of diamonds for their Korean customer.
Custom also case about illegal goods such as drug and fake brands, but their main job is to ensure that the government properly collects import taxes
- Comment on What's the best way to measure the size of the government? 3 months ago:
US are actually a good example of the limit of small government. Not having a mandatory government owned health insurance show low taxes on paper. But average people and companies still need to pay a lot for health insurance. Replacing a tax, by a de facto mandatory payement still means that people don’t have disposable income.
Even in European democracies with high taxes and strong government the control on your life isn’t that big. Yes you may need a municipal permit rather than a HOA permission or may have a government employed University Dean telling you that you fail the medical school admission test rather than a private bank telling you the same. But in both cases, the government looks like the best option
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 3 months ago:
In their blisters.
That said, airport security aren’t cops, they care about bombs, not about drug, most likely, it’s too much work for them to care about some pills. Custom might be more of an issue
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I created also mbin account (on fedia) to try it. I used it mostly as a backup when SJW it down however, over the year, it really improved. My lemmy account is still my main, but at a point in future it may change
- Comment on Idea for the future Olympics Games 3 months ago:
I believe that the organizing committee for Paris Olympic plans a Marathon for all which is a Marathon open to the general public (so something like able to finish a Marathon in 6h) with a neat parcours like Eifel tower, Versailles castle and back.
That said, is someone able to finish a Marathon a random person or not?. Now, anyone is able to run. However, most of us would just be a danger for ourselves or the others in a judo, diving, climbing, skating event
- Comment on Are there any legal issues with pulling out of an interview? 3 months ago:
It’s a normal part of the game. You need to accept the employer and employer needs to accept you.
It’s nicer to call them hey, I’m going to cancel as I am no longer interested but you could totally come to test the water and get interviews experience. Or even within 10 minutes raise a blocking point and leave.
Once I interviewed someone who was a great fit for the company, but not for that specific position, we kept it short, and I complained afterward to the HR who made both of us loose time. I hope that person is doing well
- Comment on Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting? 3 months ago:
There was huge riots against alleged immigrants and alleged muslim. Protests are about Racism is evil, rioters are assholes
- Comment on is it possible to be married and still feel lonely? 3 months ago:
There is people in unhappy marriage. Who sometimes sacrified their own life for their marriage and kids and end up living with someone they don’t love anymore (if they ever did) and no social life on their own.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 3 months ago:
Right winger who support economic liberalism. Indeed, on Lemmy it’s seen like an insult
- Comment on How did orthopaedists started to use plate and screws to fix broken bones ? 3 months ago:
Thanks a lot, that’s a pretty extensive answer, and considering that tell that you do it from memory, it seems that you’re a real human :). May-be I’ll have a look at the internal fixation rabbithole, but it’s just curiosity knowing someone who just got that kind of surgery than a homework/project.
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