BigMikeInAustin
@BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Red Lobster files for bankruptcy 22 minutes ago:
Well, the middle class is disappearing, so the businesses catering to them are dying.
- Comment on Red Lobster files for bankruptcy 23 minutes ago:
$1,000 Million in debt is a business strategy, not a couple of bad years.
- Comment on Report Indicates Israel Uses WhatsApp Data in Targeted Killings of Palestinians 19 hours ago:
I haven’t used Whatsapp Groups. This says the analysis is from looking at who is in a group, so just metadata, not contents of messages.
That sounds like a normal marketing technique, though I don’t know how hard or easy it is to get a list of users in a group.
And also a phone number is Whatsapp is easy to lookup in Facebook and tie to a real person.
It’s all plausible without breaking into Whatsapp. But that doesn’t disprove inside information.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 5 days ago:
Dude, that hurt my brain trying to follow it.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 5 days ago:
The only winning move is not to play.
- Comment on Brexit border IT outages delay import of perishable items to UK by up to 20 hours 5 days ago:
Hey, but at least there aren’t any more foreigners simultaneously using up all the social benefits from their couch and also taking everyone’s job, right?
Well, imagine how bad it would be if an outside government (The European Union) was directing this movement of goods between many countries. Only the UK knows how to keep life moving best for UK citizens.
- Comment on Red Lobster could file for bankruptcy this month following the closure of 50+ stores: WSJ 5 days ago:
It would be interesting if the owners knew it was slowly going down, so they decided to throw an all you can eat shrimp party to hasten the fall and go out with style.
- Comment on Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year 5 days ago:
development slowed considerably after people returned to offices that had been empty due to the covid pandemic and after a number of key employees left.
I wonder if those two things are related. Hmm.
Also, the return to office was a conscious and forced decision with lots of evidence against it, so boo hoo.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter. 10s or 100s of thousands of people are lined up ready to take any job at Google.
Not like Google has high quality for most of its products in the last 15 years.
- Comment on Russian soldier says in video that Russian commanders execute their own men 1 week ago:
What has happened in the past?
- Comment on Russian soldier says in video that Russian commanders execute their own men 1 week ago:
What’s going to happen to the commanders once they go back to civilian life? Either after the war, or after retiring from the military later?
Russian citizens will know the commanders executed fellow countrymen.
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 1 week ago:
And cops are trained to lie about everything.
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 1 week ago:
So many stories of people needing their medicine, and going into spams, but the cops just say it is all fake and purposely ignore the person.
- Comment on Students suspended at Yarra Valley grammar school over ‘disgraceful’ spreadsheet rating female classmates 1 week ago:
I’m saddened you think raping girls is natural instead of teaching kids that it is not ok.
- Comment on Students suspended at Yarra Valley grammar school over ‘disgraceful’ spreadsheet rating female classmates 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of words to say you can’t read. Ha ha.
This article says only suspended. You provide no evidence for more.
Also, the kids rated girls as “unrapable.”
The kids are thinking it is ok to rape girls.
How much rape is acceptable to you to not suspend a kid?
- Comment on Students suspended at Yarra Valley grammar school over ‘disgraceful’ spreadsheet rating female classmates 2 weeks ago:
Teaching kids to respect women? US conservatives are going to complain that you can’t say anything these days and that the communist Marxist socialist liberal froo-froo touchy-feely teachers are brainwashing grammar school now; not just at the college level.
- Comment on Republicans / conservatives are winning the immigration and values game. Am I misguided? (read post) 2 weeks ago:
Republicans campaign on “YOU are better than THEM. We will protect you from THEM.” With them being whatever group plays on fears the most. Republicans don’t campaign on tax cuts for the rich, which is what their policies actually are. People are happy to be miserable as long as they think they are better than someone else.
Democrats campaign on the idea that everyone can be equal and things can be more fair. There isn’t a perfect fair for everybody in all circumstances, so each kink is an attack vector. And people who are miserable would have to actually take a look at their life and have some responsibility if they are equal to others.
Fear is a powerful motivator, and it can focus a person on just the fear and ignore everything else happening to them. Especially the ones who have purposely been kept dumb.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never used a wok.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
That really sucks you can’t use the counter space where the stove is.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
Nitrogen dioxide is a made up liberal democratic fake new word. Sounds like something a socialist marxist communists college professor would brain wash into students.
I’ve been using a stove forever. I’ve never seen this so called nitrogen dioxide. Smell that steam (cough cough). Don’t look at the marks on the ceiling. It’s a fine dust that sticks to everything. Can you open the window wide? I’ve been getting the strangest headaches when cooking lately.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
My great great grandfather tested an electric stove in 1927. It was horrible. He wrote using a fountain pen in his journal using cursive that I should never buy one.
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
Which gas stoves and what electric stoves did you test this on?
- Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
My family has been
smoking cigarettesusing gas stoves for generationsIf
smoking age is raisedgas stoves aren’t sold anymore, Biden will come take it from my home!My father’s father lived a happy life with cancer from
smokingcooking daily on an unventilated gas stove, and died happily at 53. I never met him.Look around. Point to me the people walking around who are dead from
smokingcooking daily over an unventilated gas stove. - Comment on Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study 2 weeks ago:
Ha ha. All these people think:
- Biden Clause is going to visit every one of their homes one day, rip out their gas stove, leaving a huge hole in the wall
- Force everyone to buy from the
TrumpDemocrat store for a markup - Buy their electricity from the
HaliburtonDemocrat electric company - Or face punishment by the
watweboarding Blackwater company pardoned by TrumpDemocrats - And all that money will funnel to
Trump’s son in law’s businesses in Saudi ArabiaDemocrat pockets
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
The National Bear Association?
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to find a non-racist meaning to this.
- Comment on Clean your physical connectors! 2 weeks ago:
Nice. I would not have thought to clean the connectors.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
This is what I use for both.
Boost coming to Lemmy is what got me to try Lemmy.
- Comment on FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data 2 weeks ago:
So, the equivalent of them having 1 bad week of sales out of 52?
- Comment on I don't really know how to deal with coworkers who emotionally dump their issues on me 3 weeks ago:
Say: “It’s great to meet another true Christian like myself. How much do you tithe to the church? I give 25% weekly. In the Bible, Jesus says to test him on the returns of tithing.”
Some very Christian guy kept telling me how he tithes and theta the Bible says God will pay back 10 fold. And that supposedly that’s the only rule in the Bible Jesus says for people to test the Lord on.