UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 14 hours ago:
Haha. Yeah. Stupid Republican voters.
shuffles feet through the tattered remains of all the liberal broken promises
- Comment on doctors 14 hours ago:
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 15 hours ago:
Yeah, Trump’s making America great by killing white collar industries
True(ish).
and offering factory jobs
Flatly false.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 15 hours ago:
I started my own company because I was sick of it.
I’m genuinely curious to hear how you’ve found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you’re going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
If not for the battery with a disturbing history of exploding, it would be the vehicle’s worst feature.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 16 hours ago:
Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas!
That’s a great idea you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
“Zero Emissions” has never sounded so sinister.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
Angry Labour Value Fundamentalist Noises
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
I’m forced to say that some of the wraps and textures added to the vehicles do make them look cool again.
But I feel like that’s equivalent to saying “Once you drown the turd in whipped cream and cherries, it looks edible.” I mean, fuck, I suppose so. But I know what’s underneath so I’m not touching that spoon.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
I would pay $15,000 for one.
I would pay $15k for a better vehicle. I’m not getting in The Truck That Kills You Instantly.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 16 hours ago:
Strip out the bad stuff
What’s left after that?
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
My brother in Christ, if this is sexual harassment, your are assaulting everyone who sees you leave the house.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
Her middle fingers
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
Based and ass-pilled
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
If someone wants to be fat, they can be fat.
This isn’t a binary choice.
Denying that is akin to vaccine skepticism
Fad diets are the height of pseudo-science and routinely harm their practitioners.
It’s not a coincidence that vaccine skeptics are regularly peddling weight lose programs and other quack remedies that don’t work. Guys like Dr Oz and RJK Jr are at the forefront of both grifts.
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
It’s terrible primarily because of risk of concussion and other injuries.
Also, because being - for instance - basketball height is hard on your body as you get older.
But telling LeBron James that he’s overweight and he’s going to die if he doesn’t lose weight does nothing of benefit. He’s not going to get any shorter and he’s not going to retire just so he can give up a professional’s career requirements.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 days ago:
You give the yokels far too little credit. Quite a few of them are convinced it is the liberals who want to means test away their quality of life and expose them to the predation of foreign markets.
And they’re often right. DLC liberals were perfectly fine with Midwestern deindustrialized, education privatization, military expansion, and corrosive financialization. The problem is that they’re boxed in, with nowhere to go. Conservatives ensconced them in a media monopoly, screaming a partial truth - that liberal business interests have fully compromised their wing of government. That’s made selling “we’re all you’ve got” an incredibly powerful message on the right.
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
Fat people are fat because they eat too much.
You can have the same diet your entire life and fluctuate in weight significantly.
If Bob has a “slow metabolism”, then Bob should stop eating desert
Anything else? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Is your singular goal your weight or do you have any other considerations?
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
They see a ton of people whos problems are irrefutably due to their weight.
Weight is a symptom not a cause. Metabolism, age, injury, psychology - these are causes.
burn down capitalism and replace it with a system that doesnt incentivise companies to use the cheapest least healthy ingredients, or tell the patient unless they lose weight they’re going to die.
Everyone dies. And big people have existed far longer than the advent of processed sugar. But asking people to adopt unhealthy eating habits in pursuit of a tiny waistline isn’t healthy.
Too often I see people conflating “Looking healthy” with “looking pretty”, absent any of the trade offs necessary to maintain appearances.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 days ago:
I was able to refinance my home at 2.8% during COVID. Now I’m paying less than $2k for a 2200 sqft home. I’ve got neighbors who are paying $4-6k for equivalent housing.
My mom, who bought her home in the 90s, has the mortgage fully paid off and only owes real estate taxes (around $12k annually) on a 5000 sqft property.
A lot of landlords simply inherited their homes or had enough credit to buy cheap units during the dips.
They also do a shit job of maintenance. But it can’t be overstated how much of this property is either owned on extremely low interest credit or fully paid off.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 days ago:
I mean, you can go one further and establish public utilities that ration resources per capita instead of charging a vig on top of the production cost.
Why do I need UBI and wages if I can just claim a vacant apartment and be guaranteed power/telecom, of which their are millions nationally?
We could divert the tens of billions we’re throwing away on AI subsidies and everyone can live a comfortable middle class life free of charge.
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
Are they doing that or is this just a “stupid idiot is clearly just cheating” blanket retort?
Had a friend who was overweight and got into long distance running. He went from 300 lbs to a lean, mean 140. Then he injured his knee and had to give to his sport. Simple diet didn’t work, he steadily put on 100 lbs over the next two years.
That’s got nothing to do with intake and everything to do with metabolism
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
Being fat is unhealthy
It’s funny, because the metrics we use to declare an individual “fat” loops in quite a few professional athletes.
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
Look around your doctor’s waiting room. Everyone is fat.
Lots of people are old and age correlates with weight gain. But the volleyball player who blew out her ACL isn’t fat. Neither is the chem patient who is back for a final round.
How can those observations not color their general attitude?
Doctor: “Feels like everyone I see is either sick or injured”
Nurse: “Try spending less time in the ER”
- Comment on Thats fair 4 days ago:
rubbing a monkey’s paw
Oh no! I didn’t realize I was asking for Nazi balls!
- Comment on Thats fair 4 days ago:
All y’all are picking dick.
But the correct answer is that balls. Need something more durable and with a faster reload time.
- Comment on Anyone? 6 days ago:
Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
- Comment on Anyone? 6 days ago:
The perfect hand doesn’t ex-
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 6 days ago:
Two in the back, one in the front.
The Shocker
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 6 days ago:
