BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on Dogs need love too 1 day ago:
We don’t tend to make our best decisions under the influence.
- Comment on Dogs need love too 1 day ago:
That’s a pretty majestic looking goat. He’s as good as any dog.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 day ago:
I’m not a scientist, but isn’t EVERYTHING made of carbon?
Source: Joni Mitchell, Woodstock -
We are stardust, we are golden We are billion-year-old carbon
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 day ago:
The first time I had “I can’t believe it’s not butter,” I said “I can believe it’s not butter.”
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 3 days ago:
The problem is that when a bubble pops and exposes the problem, the government leaders should take the opportunity to fix the problem so it doesn’t happen again.
Instead they bail them all out, so there are not only no consequences to their actions, they are literally rewarded with unimaginable wealth. What about this strategy would induce them to change their ways, over doing it all over again, and getting rewarded again?
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 3 days ago:
If that’s really true, then we should all sign up.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 3 days ago:
My Dad died five years ago, and my mom will still spend 15 minutes haggling over his 10% military discount at Lowe’s over $20 worth of plants. She doesn’t do it anywhere else, just Lowe’s.
JFC, Mom, here’s two bucks, let’s move on.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
Probably nothing, but it just makes sense to tip on the actual bill. Why am I tipping the government tax?
So now I have to figure the tip before tax, then after tax, then decide which I want to pay, etc. just pay the pretax bill. Why is that controversial?
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
Right but the fraud is with the server, or possibly the restaurant, not the industry as a whole. I just think getting the government involved to deal with a dishonest server is going a bit far. Just make the manager and corporate aware. They’ll deal with it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
This is one server, in one restaurant, not an industry-wide issue. Expecting some kind of regulatory remedy over an anecdotal issue is not the answer. I’m not a right-winger by any means, but even I know that the government isn’t the solution to anything. There already is a law against this, so the local gendarmes are as far as this needs to go.
Remember when your mom told you “Don’t make a Federal case out of it?” This is the kind of thing she was talking about, literally.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 5 days ago:
I get it, but you make them all do it anyway, just on principle, if nothing else.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
This seems like it is probably more of a server issue, and not a restaurant issue. The server has learned how to increase their tips, I doubt that’s company policy. This is Management’s problem to solve, not the government’s.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 5 days ago:
Why isn’t the roof of that facility covered with solar panels? It might not provide all the juice they need, but it will offset some. Future facilities like this should be forced to install some sort of energy mitigation strategy before getting approval.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
My Dad taught me that as a kid. I’m extremely supportive of wait staff, and I’m an excellent tipper (25% is not unusual), but I’m not tipping on tax. I draw the line there.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
Do a review on Google maps, and TripAdvisor, if you are in a touristy city. Warn the world, and put the ownership on notice.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 days ago:
Google it. It’s pretty fascinating.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 days ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 6 days ago:
You’re right, the target audience will ignore it, until it grows to a point that they can’t ignore it any longer, and they finally decide to ask what’s going on.
The point when some Sociopathic Oligarch finally learns what it means, and realizes that it has been growing and growing, as he ignored it until it reached a point of critical mass, will be a powerful one for them.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 6 days ago:
Lazy politics leads to movements like MAGA. We need to educate and motivate our citizens to care enough to want to read an explanation.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 6 days ago:
She wrote it in her fucking auto-biography! She was bragging about it! She was proud of it, she thought it made her sound tough, but it only made her sound like the psychopath that she is.
BTW, she also wrote that after killing the puppy, she immediately killed a goat that she said was “disgusting.” So she got angry enough at a recalcitrant puppy that she yanked out a handgun and shot it, and was still so fired up, she had to kill something else, too.
I’ve been really angry before, but never angry enough to pull a gun and start killing all the innocent animals in my proximity. Now that she is essentially untouchable, what happens if she gets that furious at a person?
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 week ago:
Fuck, I’m going to have to go back to doing math iny head again, aren’t I?
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 1 week ago:
Oh, so you haven’t seen it?
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 1 week ago:
Just watched it last night. It was definitely NOT “the greatest alien movie of all time.”
That’s the look you have when you realize that someone thinks that POS movie you shot for the paycheck during Covid is being called “the greatest alien movie of all time.”
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 weeks ago:
Sure, because of all the things that we could loosen regulations on, CRYPTO should be at the top of the list. After all, we have only people with the most unquestionable integrity involved. /S
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate' 3 weeks ago:
They are all evil, so just choose the cheapest one.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 3 weeks ago:
Start reading about business, and start thinking about a micro business you can start with very little money, and start doing it. Never forget that the ONLY goal is to make a profit, because that is your income.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 3 weeks ago:
If you’re going to work that hard to make some rich guy richer, why wouldn’t you do that for yourself?
I had that revelation 30 years ago, and I’ve been mostly self-employed since. Even in those times when I wasn’t, I was still working for my own benefit, not anyone else’s. Those jobs didn’t last long. I can only work for myself. I’m a good boss, I get away with everything.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 3 weeks ago:
I’d consider it for:
- The right job
- The right money
But it’s going to have to be the kind of job I would put in those kinds of hours for free, and get paid at least triple what is reasonably expected.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 3 weeks ago:
Good, keep those freaks away from the rest of us.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate' 3 weeks ago:
Prices always rise, that’s life. But when I can get equal service at half the price, I’m taking the cheaper option. I need the money more than some evil transnational corporation.