HubertManne
@HubertManne@piefed.social
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 2 hours ago:
nah it means blame something besides the company is doing poorly.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 3 hours ago:
I can’t think of a new thing since covid that seems any better than the stuff before. Im really not sure if your talking less than a decade old or 30 year old tech honestly.
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 3 hours ago:
So if you say you are laying off employees as necessary for cost cutting. One of the problem with fake jobs is companies that are seeking employees are seen as healthy and growing so it looks better for them to be seeking them. Cutting looks bad. Right now though we have this gift to corps. Its a horrible global economy but if you say you are laying off because you can make it all up and more with ai then your stock won’t just not fall but actually rise and you will be looked at as next gen smartz super good company. If its not clear I think many layoffs now is kinda being blamed on ai when that is not what its about at all.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 hours ago:
sorta but the idea is the market would be more like 5% but maybe 10 depending on the interest rate. Essentially enough that it does not go under but actual profit should be about the same as a certificate of deposit from a bank.
- Comment on YSK: The US Government Assassinated MLK 3 hours ago:
I mean I don’t even see where the government fits into the account outside of local cops.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 5 hours ago:
I find not many things are destroyed unless integral to the plot but there are times where it does because the story wanted it to. I think its more incommon with video games though as it makes a nice alternate gameplay thing to have in.
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 5 hours ago:
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 6 hours ago:
I often though about if for some reason I had a lot of money if I should try to make common things and sell at low margins over a charity setup. Like target 1% above inflation for the companies profit when targetting the price of the items.
- Comment on Gary is part of the super-rich. He believes wealthy Australians should be paying more tax 1 day ago:
gates and buffet have said this and they both held the richest man slot at one point. So has sorros and bloomberg (at one time and not that long ago), and even one of the disney heirs.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 1 day ago:
I think it depends on the backups. Im not sure how much is missed because I see very little gathering of info in communities. Like the reddit sto forums main value was in the sidebar and faq which listed all sorts of links to resources and faqs. If you wiped the whole thing but had those backed up it would allow anyone to quickly get into the game and the community could converse and answer questions not in the faw or resources that maybe would get integrated if it was important enough. Most communities I come across here you look at the sidebar and it does not even explain what the community is about. This one does but its not to common. So if the person or persons who mind this one have a backup of the sidebar then its good to get it going on a new instance if needed.
- Comment on The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it 1 day ago:
we need to collect taxes and if cuts need to be made it should start with the military and not go to other things till its disbanded. social safety nets should get cut last.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 1 day ago:
I use stock android but hate smartphones and only own it because of a previous job that required one but gave a monthly comp so you had to get one. I keep minimal apps on it. have it shutoff most times. I use it for phone calls and camera mostly with maybe maps and calendar. I have f-droid to avoid google apps but the stock camera works better than my alternate app so I use that for photos more.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 1 day ago:
US schools do not always have cafeterias and many students don’t use them. They cost money and bringing a lunch is cheaper. I know there are movies/tv with kids bringing their lunch and trading items as well as buying things from the cafeteria. Sometimes its setup were the parents paid for them to get a meal every day with a kind of pass or another style where its kinda billed to an account. So im guessing you have seen media that made you think kids always use a cafeteria but man you someone avoided the ones showing kids bringing lunch. Anyway some kids use when there is one and some don’t.
- Comment on Sooo... What's Mike Pillow up to these days? 1 day ago:
hopefully he died and no one noticed.
- Comment on How a Family of 3 Lives on $500,000 on the Upper West Side 2 days ago:
100k is a whole lot more than minimum wage. or did you mean like a years worth of minimum wage per month?
- Comment on ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance 2 days ago:
30 years is a long trumped trumping time.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 2 days ago:
fossils aren’t super easy to find and if you saw one you would think it just a rock. Not really sure how much is found above ground to. I mean if it looked immpressive enough maybe you sell it to a freak show or circus which I think something like them have been around for a long time.
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 2 days ago:
Im one of those folks who tend to not finish games. I sorta actively avoid the ending if there is more side quests that I have not done and such.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
not mention healthcare. pretty sure clean water is for those you can bid the highest. in bribes of course.
- Comment on Crimson Desert Surpasses 2 Million Sales, Fixes And Improvements Planned 2 days ago:
this seems wierd to me. why not go the no mans sky route and make it a kind of online/offline mmo?
- Comment on Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one but you don't need to engage when someone shows you theirs 2 days ago:
speak for yourself. I like the tight feel.
- Comment on Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one but you don't need to engage when someone shows you theirs 2 days ago:
and everyone is on the internet looking for some.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 3 days ago:
as someone said mailin is paper and im not sure if its still a thing because I have been doing mailin but in my state you could choose the electronic that had a paper trail reciept that showed all your selections as you went or the old hanging chad type.
- Comment on People from or student of 3rd world nations. Is America going that way? Or do we long way to get there? 3 days ago:
Well when I thought of effed up areas of the world I always picture masked paramilitary with ak looking rifles that randomly grab people off the streets.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 days ago:
Vance would name a vice president and judging by vance I bet it would be a bush jr chenney type situation although I have no idea who it would be.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I don’t think that argument is about using it for science experiments but for weather.
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 3 days ago:
i have android unfortunately. its a fire tablet.
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 days ago:
I swear not to long ago I saw the opposite conclusion to some studies on mental illness and drugs.
- Comment on Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host. 4 days ago:
also I don’t expect my accounts to go forever here. I have had three iterations. kbin, mbin, and piefed. I expect to have another one at some point. I like that stuff changes and new stuff pops up.
- Comment on In WW2 we were told Hitler was a danger but not to us directly. Iraq was for WMD''s. Now Iran is for oil basically? What if the US got out of other peeps stuff and went isolationist for about 10 years 4 days ago:
this was my thought but I was not sure how I wanted to phrase a reply.