HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I take care of my dad full-time and he takes care of me financially - can I consider myself a “housedaughter”?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but is this a communist parade because that’s a lot of red flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please some more Sir?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Drake?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren’t as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s power grids under pressure amid record-breaking heatwaves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is Europe’s rate of growth for residential solar capacity? The Southwest US has seen daytime summer energy prices drop significantly because people use their personal solar panels to power their air conditioning. I would imagine that increasing solar capacity would help address air conditioning demand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨𝙸 𝚗 𝚜 𝚝 𝚊 𝚐 𝚛 𝚊 𝚖⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And they want to see your picture to sign into the site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll just move the office to Austin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve shifted to talking about tertiary education, which I’ll agree that the USA hasn’t funded to the level of other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how we shoehorned “China Bad” into the discussion.

  I’m not, but you’ve identified a a thing as American without looking at how the rest of the world operates and how some practices may be an international standard or at least more uniform than just one country. I didn’t say “China bad”, I brought up that China performs the a similar filtering of students; you applied the label that I was saying “China bad”.

  It sounds like you’re angry at the American system, a system you know, and think other systems must be better without understanding how other secondary education systems work. Other countries may do some things than the USA, but a lot of the basic structure that you complained out is more universal than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We have millenia of experience of people being idiots by being horny. This is just the first time we’ve seen a mass deployment of personalized horny generators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then, career tracking absolutely can and does take on a segregationist character when the wages of the labor make access to certain career paths a purchasable privilege.

  And yet it appears in most countries, including Communist ones like China. This isn’t a uniquely American action.

  That’s how you get all the Eton College grads going into politics and journalism as a single congealed cohort.

  That’s more due to family connections. Most UK students taking their A-Levels aren’t going into politics and journalism.

  And that’s created a rich vein of for-profit schools that exist above the High School grade, which people are obligated to assume debts to attend in order to be accredited for certain jobs.

  The USA still has one of the best public university systems in the world. This includes community college programs which help “lower” track students get a 4 year college degree.

  And, going back to what I’ve said earlier, other countries have degree restrictions on their jobs as well. Senior government positions in other countries are usually the domain of the college educated, with a much lower percentage of their populations having a college degree.

  You keep pointing to things happening in the USA as a uniquely American set-up and therefore evil without being able to contrast that with his the rest of the world handles secondary education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honor student truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would disagree. A lot of countries provide a multi track secondary education too account for the desire and ability of different students. Having different education tracks isn’t just American invention. It just happens to be that there is an easier jump from the lower education track to college in the USA compared to other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that, compared to before, a lot of services have shifted from interfacing with a human to interfacing with technology in some way. The ability to interact with a human in person may not be available or will have additional costs.

  Same with using cash. A lot of places have become card only because it is cheaper to pay 3% processing fees than to handle the labor costs of dealing with cash, especially in a larger organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You needed a payment card of some sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what part of the world you live in. At minimum, for the developed world, you’ll probably need at least #3 to maintain a job and connectivity with various government and commercial entities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How difficult would it be to live in a modern-day developed country without a smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on how you needed to sign up to buy tickets, but I bought tickets on my phone in Sweden with my smartphone in Sweden with only a valid email address. The app even had an English mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As second hand story from someone who lived in a Mafia controlled part of New York City, the neighborhood that he lived in was a poor working class neighborhood. Yet, each storefront had full glass pane windows while the other neighborhoods nearby had bars on their windows.

  The Mafia have an interest in protecting those “under their protection”. This would also spoil over into charity. The Mafia would generally be charitable to those within their neighborhoods to buy off complicity of the locals. For instance, you may not turn someone in if that person is running a soup kitchen in the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people use kindness as deception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is population x living standard. The median standard of living for Americans would break the planet if applied to the world. China’s current standard may have issues with longevity.

  You’re already running into problems with nations choosing fascism over reduced family size and standard of living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bolsonaro went into house arrest yesterday, so this could mean something.

  He was also elected President, so that can mean something too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FPTP needs voting districts for legislative bodies, and FPTP are the easiest implementation of voting districts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people have bad experiences where they lost trust in people and therefore treat the lack of trust as experience. That if you aren’t as paranoid as they are, you don’t know as much as they do.

  Also, some people are bad to work with or are mediocre at their jobs, especially at communication. This is how they cover for themselves. It isn’t their fault that they messed up, you didn’t tell them something that they should have realized they should have asked but it is easier just to blame you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People aren’t that dumb.

  Yeah they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like I’m listening to the Boomer complaining about kids today not knowing how to use a manual transmission.

  There have been some articles regarding beginning CS classes bring required to include teaching concepts like folder structures because a sizeable part of class was list on this concept.

  To use your transmission analogy, it would be like truck driving schools now need to how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, which adds to the length of the class. Or all the company vehicles are manual and now the company has to deal with hiring new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I choose to believe, what I was programmed to believe!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez. Look at the cum gutters on him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the research projects for long-term storage already deployed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the arguments for mutual tracking relate to safety, not cheating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if I just drove straight south to Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mexico City has a decent sized American citizen community living there, but it is mainly driven by full remote workers who live there but travel back to the USA for a few days every six months.

  I suspect that work authorization may be a problem. I’ve also heard that the culture in Mexico is somewhat conservative due to the Catholic Church; getting a job in a school will likely be difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except there are problems with training. Companies are going to need to train more competent staff. How do companies train competent staff without competent staff in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of CEO types think they’re amazing because they walk into a room and everyone’s like “yeah boss got it that’s great feedback”, and they don’t realize they just said a bunch of garbage and people just agreed because he’s the boss.

  I bet. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the CEO gives direction, hears “can do, boss!”, but it doesn’t actually get done because there isn’t a triggered deliverable to verify. You may have junior staff doing what they’re being told, but it isn’t what the CEO wants because it is going through several layers of telephone and, because everyone is remote, it is harder to identify where the problem is.