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- Comment on Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes 6 months ago:
If the Chamber of Commerce lobbies for billionaires then the Chamber of Commerce deserves the same wrath from the working class.
- Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 7 months ago:
Oil companies are the reason we haven’t already made the change to electric transportation and renewable energy decades ago.
It could have already happened if it wasn’t for these companies trying to prevent it.
- Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 7 months ago:
The end user doesn’t care if their house is warmed by a gas furnace or a an electric heat pump so long as their house is warm and it’s affordable.
Those 57 companies are the ones that don’t want to change and they lobby, bribe, lie, cheat and steal to keep their hold on the market.
Those 57 companies are both the root cause of the problem and the easiest thing to change.
- Comment on Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 7 months ago:
It’s easier to change 57 companies than it is to change 8 billion people.
- Comment on No Man's Sky studio Hello Games unveil Light No Fire, a fantasy survival game set on a single, huge planet 11 months ago:
More like Game No Buyer
- Comment on A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams 11 months ago:
Agreed, almost every profession has advanced to the point where they require specialization. Everything has become so complex that being a jack of all trades means you fail at them all. Even trade skills have specialization: carpenters specialize in framing or cabinetry or furniture, mechanics specialize in specific machines or sub-systems like engines or transmissions, etc.
But it seems most of the people responsible for filling these positions have t realized this yet or don’t know enough about the jobs they are hiring for.
- Comment on A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams 11 months ago:
lol, you got me
- Comment on A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams 11 months ago:
The only perspective was a wishlist of responsibilities for a software developer.
It seems delusional to pretend one developer “should” do the job of a whole team.
- Comment on A ‘Software Developer’ Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams 11 months ago:
What is this trash? It reads like an AI hallucination.
- Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail 11 months ago:
Louis Dejoy served as a supply chain chief executive for XPO Logistics before he became Post Master General of USPS. After joining USPS a 120 million dollar contract was awarded to his former company XPO Logistics.
He has also been actively trying to sabotage USPS since he became Postmaster General. His motive is obvious because his actions benefit XPO Logistics.
This contract is just another example of that sabotage.
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
It’s not some crazy conspiracy to say this doesn’t look like an accident
- Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail 11 months ago:
How do you know what was promised? Can you share a copy of the contract?
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
“_ If you’re going to attribute an action to a company as a whole, then it at least needs to be a decision made by a high-level employee and not some peon._”
I’ve had many experiences with companies that fire “peons” for bad PR or misrepresenting the views of the company or however HR wants to word it to avoid legal problems.
It is very easy for CEOs or upper management or middle management to pass down orders that are worded in a way that imply what they want workers to do without saying it in a legally binding way.
“The idea that Apple decided to just unilaterally delete portions of his speech at the last minute, without his consent, is among the least plausible scenarios.”
The why is it the first conclusion that De Niro and many others came to?
“Anybody with any actual authority at the company is smart enough to know how stupid that would be.”
Because it looks like they are censoring his speech.
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
If Apple wanted him to only talk about certain things during his speech they could’ve communicated that before he accepted their request for him to give a speech.
He probably would’ve turned down the request.
You acknowledge that it is common for actors to do what he did so it is safe to say Apple knew also.
So Apple takes the “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission” approach and plays dumb.
- Comment on Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please? 11 months ago:
But the word shit is ok? Classic lemmyshitpornpost
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
I don’t buy it. Those decisions always include the actor for obvious reasons.
“Oops! We aCciDeNtLy cut out the part that might cause insurrection supporters to not watch our award show! Aww shucks our mistake increased our ratings.”
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
If they didn’t want to hear what HE had to say then why give him an award and a mic?
It is very common for actors to use their speeches as a chance to speak about issues important to them. From Joaquin Phoenix all the way back to Marlon Brando.
This is an obvious attempt from Apple to censor a speech they asked for.
- Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail 11 months ago:
None of those other retailers are as big as Amazon
- Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail 11 months ago:
USPS isn’t a business it’s a service
- Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail 11 months ago:
TLDR Amazon is making taxpayers fund their business model by dumping their work on USPS and pocketing the payment.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Insurance contracts are written/worded in a way that allow denial of most claims without much effort. But hard to understand so it is unnoticed by the customer and only the claims adjuster that has read the contract a thousand times would notice.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
The difference is…
a publicly traded insurance company is required by the shareholders that fund it to make larger profits, every year, year after year, forever.
They attempt to achieve this impossible goal of infinite growth by denying more and more claims, while charging more.
A government program like universal healthcare does not need to deny claims. Universal healthcare serves the voters that voted for it. Not shareholders that push companies to destroy themselves for infinite growth.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
And universal health care isn’t insurance so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
When I was a kid my dads house caught on fire. The fire was caused by old wiring so the insurance claim was denied.
They weren’t worried about verifying the condition of the wiring when they were collecting my dad’s insurance payments. And they didn’t return the money he paid into it after denying the claim. So we ended up homeless even after my father had spent all that money on insurance to prevent it.
If he had all those insurance payments in a bank account we could’ve at least afforded a hotel or apartment while we figured out what to do.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
I realize that there are situations where insurance can be beneficial.
I’m just sharing what I’ve learned from working as a claims adjuster. The company I worked for created incentives for denying claims. Customers were often lied to about what is covered by the person selling the insurance. We often shared technicalities that were found in the contract that allowed us to deny more claims.
This did not only happen at the company I worked for. It is common practice in the insurance industry.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
I’ve worked as a claims adjuster. It was my job to find ways to deny claims so that my employer could make more profit. My employer was very clear about that.
Even if the insurance company is profitable, they will always want more.
Publicly traded insurance companies have an obligation to their shareholders to make larger profits year over year. The shareholders never say “we’ve made enough profit on investing, we dont need more profit”.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
I’m aware some insurance is required by law.
Considering publicly traded insurance companies need to make larger profit margins than their previous year. Every year. And the government doesn’t. It’s safe to say the insurance company will deny more claims and you will get less and less than what you pay into it over time.
Either way everyone is better off saving that money so they can actually use it if they need it.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
For an insurance company to exist it has to spend less covering claims than it collects in payments.
Otherwise they end up bankrupt.
If you got back every dollar you spent on insurance, there would be nothing left over to spend on staff or any other part of their business.
This means anyone with insurance is better off taking their payments and saving it for when they need something covered.
Insurance is a scam.
- Comment on It's actually true! 1 year ago:
Or is Gary Oldman 13 days newer than Gary Numan?