valek879

@valek879@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying they’re too stormy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10. I’ve since moved on to 11 but haven’t tried it since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also interested in the Lemmy opinion of windscribe. My wife really likes them but their app used to brick my computer requiring a hard reset so I don’t use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you turned on?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems as though you underestimate the appeal of billions of dollars. It’s not just the ability to never have to work again. Or power, prestige or any other nonsense. Or even just having tons of money. It’s not greed that makes it appealing.

  It’s the security. The safety if knowing you’ll never have to worry about food or housing. That your parents and family will be well taken care of. Your children will be able to have it all, that you’ve set them up for success and they won’t have to struggle. It’s knowing that your best friend who was diagnosed with cancer will have the best care available, wherever that may be in the world, and won’t have to worry about food or housing or anything else while getting better.

  You’re either too young to understand or are lacking in empathy.

  I’m not saying being a billionaire isn’t inherently immoral. But the reason people take payouts like that are not solely down to greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people are saying they did this job as a teenager, I did it mid 20’s and yes, I liked the job. I never had to deal with customers, I just pushed carts. But people leaving carts in the middle of nowhere were a babe on my existence.

  I don’t know how many carts there were in or store but on a normal day and especially a busy day they would be constantly used. Our corrals would all overflow simultaneously if not emptied. And then you have some dipshit who decides they can’t be asked to walk a little further. I had to have a route in order to collect carts and keep our corrals under control. If I had to walk an extra 10 minutes out of my way to get a cart it would set me back 20+ minutes of work, without fail. And if I didn’t collect it then carts would start piling up, without fail. Then you’d get the mixed cart bullshit and you can only push so many mixed carts.

  Putting your cart makes the job actually reasonable. You can plan and coordinate and organize yourself to know where to go when to pick up carts. It allows you to predict where carts will end up and efficiently walk so you’re not destroying your body. When people screw with that rhythm the whole thing goes to pot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that’s cool but also not really a rebuttal to the user above. Now the person above is not correct. Kids absolutely know when they’re getting the short end of a deal or at least when it comes to stuff they care about. And Congress didn’t give a flying fuck about the good of the children or we’d have a food guarantee for all children and single prayer health care already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 has been great so far...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re right. I’m glad that they’re paid more and I’m glad tipping is still possible but it just seems super uncool to remove the prompt.

  I had an argument with a coworker once about their second job. They said they blacklist people who don’t tip them for delivering pizza. I was surprised and asked them to explain and they said that most of their money came from tips. Without it they made state minimum wage and the job wasn’t worth it.

  I said they should be paid better.

  My coworker responded that they are paid better by people tipping and that’s why they blacklist people who don’t tip.

  I followed it up by pushing the idea that the restaurant should be paying them more so that the job is worth it without tips. And well… The whole thing devolved for some reason and almost ended with me getting punched.

  Either way I think you should be paid a living wage and have the ability to get tips for going above and beyond. Tipping shouldn’t be the norm/required but it should be available and it sounds like it is in this case just a bit more hidden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s fucked up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pshh I bet you use acoustic time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon is a company in the technology sector. They might be a retailer but they are also a part of big tech and the foundation of much of the Internet. A large portion of their workforce are tech workers.

  Articles like this are not focused on warehouse employees, they have to go into the office to do their jobs at all. This article is talking about people who don’t have to go into work to perform their job… Like tech workers.

  So like it or not, this is tech news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. You should have said it so others don’t have to point it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German anti-racism body leaves X over 'rise in hate speech'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally deleted Twitter from my phone a couple weeks ago.

  I only used it for porn for the last 3 years and hadn’t been on in over a month but I saw an article on here and was curious. So I opened it up and looked to see how the porn situation was going. I was going to keep it around if I could find a bit of good porn. But I scrolled and scrolled down through my feed and I only had politics, bigots, ragebait, and hateporn. I hadn’t realized it had gotten so bad… I also have no idea where all my porn creators fled to.

  Oh well, nothing of value was lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC lays out new rule that could end hidden fees | The agency is proposing a new rule that could require businesses, from hotels to ticket sellers, to provide clear disclosures on costs and whether...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this will include groceries. I hate when I go to buy something and it says $9.99 and I get up to the register and they hit me with this stupid, obnoxious hidden fee!

  I only have a $10 bill, it says it costs less then $10. Why is it not false advertising to have it say $9.99 when it costs $12.37 at the register?

  The whole thing is a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google wants to be at the center of all your climate change decisions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s difficult for me to be happy seeing Google do all this, however a lot of what they are doing is actually pretty cool. A couple years ago when there was a wildfire 7 miles away I was able to watch the spread and know when I wanted to get out. It was a bit clunky to get to but that was through Google. It was clear and concise and it was updated at the same time as the first service websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At the end of the article it says he’s being held at a mental hospital until he is well enough to serve his sentence.

  Fuuck.

  I get it but this reads as:

  Be mentally unwell Get seduced by chatbot to commit treason Get caught receive the help you need to be a stable human Spend 9 years in prison Get released as a mentally unwell individual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does cigarette smoking do for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It also gives you a way to interact with social situations where you feel awkward. Or if you’re like me and you are awkward it gives you positive learning social situations. Makes it much harder to quit when you get suicidal interactions that you’re craving and don’t otherwise get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Australian PM wins $715,000 settlement against Google/YouTube for enabling comedian and journalist Jordan Shanks aka FriendlyJordies to mock him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit, I’ve not seen the videos in question here but FriendlyJordies had been putting it videos talking about and exposing corruption in Australian and NSW governments. Even having his house fire bombed over exposing some of this corruption. I think I saw a video talking about this case from him and I have to admit I’ve never heard the term “wog” before and it doesn’t look or sound like much… But that’s part of the insidiousness of a slur. Jordies videos have targeted individual politician in the past and I believe this guy in particular because of their corrupt dealings and or ties to the mafia and or general anti-citizen/anti-poor policies.

  From what I’ve seen of Jordies, I would assume he either believed that this politician way forfeited his right to feel bad about the names he’s called, kind of like Trump here in the States, or just didn’t understand how much emotional damage he was causing. I’m not saying this makes it right but there is likely more to the story than what has been brought up in the court case. I think Australia has some laws about speaking civilly about public figures and it looks like he ran afoul of those laws.