Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely agree. I wasn’t trying to defend the company’s practice. Just explaining why they make those kind of decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutely sucks, but from a company perspective it’s not about greed, it’s about legal liability. If they provide food to a charity and someone gets sick from it, they are responsible for it. So the legal danger of giving away your “close to be expired” food is fraught with corporate danger.

  Does it suck. Yes. Absolutely. But Joe opened them up to a potential lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only issue with Unions is a corporate system that has spent decades on a campaign of misinformation and vilification.

  Never forget that its unions that gave you a five day work week, 8 hour days, and child labour laws.

  Nothing is given by a corporation out of the kindness of their heart. And nothing makes them more gleeful than listening to people repeat their anti-union screed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Davenport

  Chesterfield actually. “Davenport” was a name brand of chesterfiled-style-sofa that became popular enough to become synonymous (Like Kleenex became synonymous with tissues, or Chapagne became synonymous with almost any bubbly wine)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly does Apple think that they’re brining to the equation in order to deserve that 30? Is it simply that they’re hosting an app on their store, so therefore they’re entitled to a cut?

  So if I write a novel, and get it published, Microsoft can say "We deserve 30% because you used our product to produce your product?

  I’m so fucking tired of corporations. It’s well past guillotine-o-clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “most”?

  Try “all”. Everything always eventually comes down to someone, somewhere, trying to make more profit for themselves.

  That’s why “Follow the money” is the surest way to solve any crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm good, thanks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is…

  Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Picked up a copy of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for XB360⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PC Version was hard as hell. I was shocked by how differently designed the XBox 360 version was. It was two entirely different games for the most part. I remember back then that was the first time I had seen that sort of purposeful disparity between what was supposed to be the same game on both platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NO JUSTICE, NO WORK!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying this isn’t what needs to happen. Shut everything down, for sure.

  But the reality is that Trump and his Gestapo don’t give a shit if a blue state slows to a crawl from a walkout. Their not smart enough to grasp that blue states actually contribute more.

  In their brains, blue state walkouts just means blue state chaos, which they love.

  Until it starts hitting GOP states, the assholes in charge won’t pay attention.

  The US is already in a civil war. But only one side is actually fighting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give my smart-ass answer first before deliving into my serious answer.

  Smart-ass: Yes…tangible literally means “possible to touch”. So yeah…digital stuff isn’t, by definition “tangible” in the way that records, cds, etc… are. You’ve never “touched” an mp3 file. You’ve never “touched” a streaming movie like you handle a DVD or a VHS tape.

  Now…to my serious answer: I’ve long been working on what started as an article, became a treatise, and is now morphing into a non-fiction book about that very concept. Still a very long way to go, and with my stop-and-start creative blocks, it may never get done, but I felt it was important to write it all down while I still have a functioning brain. (I’m not getting any younger)

  I’ve added to it for years every time a new thought about it comes to me, talking about what I call “Patina” (the tendency for mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses to age individually, almost developing a personality as they age) and equating it with the Japanese concept of Tsukomogami (the idea that physical things gain a soul after 100 years)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. You got me.

  I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably around the same time that Adolph makes a comeback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking finally!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Canadian living north of the nut-hatch, I wish I had the money to excercise my dual citizenship and get out of here to Portugal, or anywhere else in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I’m concerned, unionization should be government mandated for every company everywhere in every industry.

  But unfortunately we live in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite questlines in Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely Crimson Fleet. During my first playthough, I still hadn’t done a lot of the main quest, so I felt I HAD to side with the UC at the end just because trying to do Constellation missions while not having proper access to UC space. And I legitimately felt torn and sad for the Crimson Fleet. It was one of the only decently written quest lines that made me feel that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After literally decades of sending manufacturing overseas, there is NO WAY Trumpistan pivots back to domestic production in time to prevent complete anarchy in its streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, every single country should be embargoing the US. It’s well past that point that we cut them off from the world stage entirely economically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d make for some mighty fine eatin’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you’re saying. But to me it’s very much a “You can’t swim in the sewer without getting covered in shit” morality-play.

  The very act of providing a service that earns more than a billion dollars by necessity requires the cooperation of a number of different entities. As you described, Ticket Master, Publishers, Distributors, etc… So while they themselves might not be directly exploiting people, they have to interact and make use of partners that do if they want to play in that billionaire paddling pool.

  To me, exploitation by association is still exploitation.

  But that’s me. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cant we outlaw corporations and continue as we are? Sure would be nice.

  I think the world would do better if all of us shrank a bit to be more mindful of a community economy.

  If my neighbour down the street woodworks in his spare time and makes bespoke tables and chairs, I’ll do everything I can to go buy from him rather than a corporation (for example)

  Growing up on an Acreage, it was more common for us to buy a half a side of beef or pork from the farmer next door than to go to the grocery store. Same for vegetables from farmer’s markets or similar community markets.

  It’s less about criminalizing corporations and more about refusing to reward them for making their profits off the backs of poverty wages and government subsidies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me put it this way.

  It’s possible to become a millionaire through a combination of hardwork, brains, luck and timing.

  It’s impossible to become a billionaire after that without exploiting others, whether that is workers, employees, investors…whoever.

  In other words, it’s possible to be an honest millionaire, but not an honest billionaire.

  So the amount of wealth a person is entitled to is the amount that they can earn with their own labour without exploiting others in order to do so.

  So if you own a furniture store, and you pay your employees a living wage, give benefits, etc… and after that you’re successful enough to be a millionaire…great. You deserve it. If you’re an employer and you own a furniture store, and in order to become a millionaire you have to pay your workers minimum wage and rely on unfair labour practices to inflate your profits…you don’t deserve it.

  I use the furniture store example because I worked for just such a guy. Family run business. Paid us all well enough. Gave us benefits. Made sure we were taken care of. Treated us like family. And he was financially very successful while managing to do so. Could he have made even MORE if he had taken it from wages and benefits…sure. But that wasn’t the type of person he was.

  To me, THAT example is capitalism working as it should in it’s purest form. Corporatization is just a bastardization of the concept created by venture capitalists and shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Devil’s advocate:

  You can either protect everyone’s privacy, or you can protect no one’s.

  Doxxing is a privacy issue. It’s not “okay if it’s someone you don’t like”. I’m sure if the tables were reversed and people on the right had doxxed a bunch of left-leaning people, the left would be up-in-arms about it, demanding that it be removed and for the people who posted it to be suspended. But because they’re far-right, it’s suddenly okay?

  I hate the far-right, don’t get me wrong. But get off the high-horse. Companies can either protect everyone from doxxing, or they can protect no one from doxxing. There’s no in-between just because the people being doxxed are people you find repugnant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason the “kill-switch” wasn’t made clear originally was because it literally didn’t exist until users very vocally tool them where to shove their AI crap.

  It was added on afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only a matter of time. I want nothing to do with any company that is giving so called “A.I” the time of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well…fuck Udemy I guess.

  One of my old employers used to pay out small bonus incentives onto a prepaid credit card for each staff member, and I called it my “fun money” that I would invariably spend on Udemy enrolling in whatever seemed interesting to me. It was truly enjoyable and I feel like I’m a more well rounded person because of it.

  And now AI is going to fuck all of that. I want to learn from PEOPLE, not LLM’s cosplaying as A.I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Robotaxi just flat out steal the Cyberpunk font in order to try to look cool? It seems like a very Musk thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never a bad idea to learn another language.

  It’s never a bad idea to learn. period…full stop.

  The act of learning anything wires our brains in a thousand different ways; increases our critical thinking skills. Increases our verbosity and our ability to communicate our own ideas more effectively. It increases problem solving skills, etc…

  The very act of learning is something that should be practiced every day with something, whether that’s a new language, or a hobby, or being a history buff…it doesn’t matter. What matters is the learning itself.

  So if Russian is what is giving you that interest right now, do it. At the very least, chicks dig polyglots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anytime a sentence begins with “Trump says”, it should be followed with “Trump, however, is an idiot.”