Lucelu2
@Lucelu2@lemmy.zip
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
couldn’t a ramp be installed?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Well, you need to understand, Palantir needs a library for their facial recognition software.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for reminding me to buy radish seeds. I want to know if Daikon radishes also have these same properties.
- Comment on congrats to Egypt 2 weeks ago:
So, it is abuse when the wife fights back?
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
Our state legislatures really don’t care about babies after they are born.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
FMLA is for any kind of family leave (children, parents, even your own medical issues) but there are requirements on how long you are employed at a particular place and how many employees they have there. For most small businesses – they do not qualify. Larger institutions/job places do.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
You are told after a certain amount of time, if you do not return to work full time, you are laid off/fired and lose your health insurance. By law, they have to offer COBRA health insurance coverage to you but that is like 3X the cost of your insurance while employed. At that point, you apply for state funded health insurance (Medicaid) and are still given a work requirement… 80 hrs a month now unless you can prove disability and it takes at least 2 years to qualify for SSD (Social Security Disability). There are some carve outs… like if you have really bad cancer, there is a Medicaid spend down for treatment, or if you are in kidney failure and need regular hemodialysis.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
That is complicated. First, women who have given birth are eligible for Disability Pay for the first 6 -8 weeks. This is a fraction of their pay and generally does not actually arrive until a month or two later. Some states have paid maternity leave, providing certain conditions. NY state, where I live, provides for paid maternity leave on top of the temporary disability for up to 67% of pay… there is a cap on the income. For 2026, the NYSAWW is $1,833.63, which means the maximum weekly benefit is $1,228.53-- but this is at scale for the employee’s regular pay. This is $51.21 more than the maximum weekly benefit for 2025. There, however, are many states that do not offer anything other than the temporary disability. Some workplaces/employers offer some paid maternity leave as an employee benefit. Many do not but if you work for an employer that has over a certain number of employees, you may be able to get family leave (FMLA) which is generally unpaid but provides job security in name… but At-Will Employment states are free to just fire anyone under specious reasons. States that have banned abortion or severely restricted it offer the least amount of maternity leave benefits, ironically.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 3 weeks ago:
Melania is the worst first lady we ever had in the US. She is at base, the most uninteresting person. She is supposed to be on “the Five” tomorrow. I hope they ask her uncomfortable questions but I bet it will mostly be softball bullshit questions. She sucks and is unintelligent, just greedy and an Epstein operative/prop, as it is how she met the Orange Asshole. I hope she remains stuck with him because those who marry for money should be required to earn it.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 3 weeks ago:
So… you think there will be people working at your doctor’s office on a day of a General Strike? This is very entitled attitude. I mean, I get it, I am a nurse and I anticipate the general public will rely on our ethical code to ensure emergency rooms are staffed as well as the other inpatient floors so people in need for acute health care will have beds. However, what if we just don’t show up? There is a nurses’ strike in NYC, staff from major hospital systems are not showing up for work. There is a plethora of temporary healthcare employee agencies recruiting strike crossers – some for almost $200/hr. Why can’t those hospitals just pay their nurses? They are certainly able to pay these scabs.
I wonder if you expect the police, teachers, garbage collectors and firemen to also show up for their jobs to continue to make your life smooth and safe? That is an antithesis of a general strike’s impact. Some of you realize your jobs are really unimportant, the rest of us have to carry society and humanity.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 3 weeks ago:
I am a nurse and work at a hospital. I can’t even ethically participate in this as abandoning the sick is against our moral code. Imagine if there was no staff at your ER after getting clubbed, beaten and gassed at your General Strike Day Protest nor no one there for Meemaw who is half demented and needing hip surgery. I respect the ideal of a General Strike but this the US and we all live on a budgeting razor edge that has gotten more and more sharp since the morons elected this asshole.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 weeks ago:
Monopolies are bad for everyone except their CEO and stockholders.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 weeks ago:
I have been permanently banned from Reddit for wishing for a natural disease process to occur in a certain individual.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
Do you think a Linux phone would have the same weaknesses?
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
You can also use an old style camera that uses film or a polaroid.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
also, tape recorders. And if you travel out of the country… buy a burner flip phone to use.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
Yes, and printed maps still work. Keeping an address/phone book still works (so do sharpies on your arm).
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
yeah, you have to analog.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
Noem is so dumb she could not figure out how to train a dog and she felt her best idea was to shoot it in the head. These are not smart people.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
Remember that tv series “Person of Interest?”… we need someone to be that guy and his team.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 month ago:
If you are not specifically targeted d/t your status… start first with phone free Fridays. You will feel at first some discomfort… but after that initial feeling… you will start to feel free. Make sure your family has your work number. Turn off the phone on the weekend and put it in something like a lead lined or metal mesh sack… what they used to call a Faraday Cage/Bag.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 1 month ago:
Yes, I am Fucking Pissed at my energy bills for the last 6 months. Like WTH. It is like $500 a month vs what was $300 max. I told my husband… it is time to start investing in solar generators. We are getting screwed for some stupid tech boy.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
When Trump is gone, we need to Nuremburg and aggressively FTC those assholes. And raise their taxes to 90%. GTFO of here.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
what pisses me off about this whole AI bullshit bubble are the higher energy prices I am being charged for their data centers. It moved me to purchase shares in National grid to hedge this shit.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
Oh, the guy who intimated that the US gov will have to bail their asses out because their futures were TBTF. I will be happy to see that guy in prison for his pyramid schemes.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
I am with you man… going to the fire sales, second hand all the way. Even now… all my holiday purchases are secondhand, ebay, thrift, flea market purchases. Fuck the corporations.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
they can be adapted, and will be in order to sell them.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
woo hoo! I am thinking about the tower of my son’s gaming computer who’s nvidia card died… and they were total dicks about replacing it. I can’t wait to buy a better one at a major loss to them off ebay.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
I really miss the time we just considered Nvidia as a great source for graphics cards on our gaming computers.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
Nah, we would just get great bargain basement prices on GPUs.