jecxjo

@jecxjo@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Your response is exactly why blanket rules are needed. You’re objecting about wearing safety equipment because you don’t feel like you need it. Maybe sometimes you don’t but allowing it to be a choice means that some moron is going to say they never need it. What is worse is that the one moron not being safe puts the rest of the team in danger. I used to work in the Oil and Gas industry and there were so many situations where someone getting injured meant someone else would have to extract them from the dangerous situation which then put the rescue team in danger. Personal choice isn’t cool when you’re then making everyone else’s lives worse.

  For 30 minutes every 2 weeks, how often do you inspect your hard hats? Do you know how long they are supposed to be in circulation before being removed? Do they have the appropriate documentation for inspection and replacement? I’m willing to bet that with such a small amount of use none of that is a thing for you and your team. Hard hats wear out due to sun and temperature exposure long before they actually “look worn out”. I’d see all of the guys on the pipelines and wells have hard hats and flame retardant clothes replaced on a regular bases and then we’d have the guys who came in the service the water tanks that were run by a 3rd party contractor who had all old equipment because we were their only client for the type of situation that actually needed PPE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a great example.

  What happens when that crew is called to work next week where there are trees? Without that rule some businesses would skip buying PPE all together and say “screw it, it’s just one day what could happen?” Or they might have PPE that no one takes care of. Someone forgets theirs and no one stops them from working. If you have ever watched an OSHA safety video you know most work place deaths are due to being lazy or stupid.

  Most businesses only cares about how much money you make and how much money you cost. That is why we need regulations even when you think they are a pointless waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Karma police arrest this man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So there is that story in Genesis where the sons of Jacob have an army of 318 men circumcised so they could follow their religion.

  Just think they probably put then into a pile, a small little mountain of foreskins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was all ad based, just you could pay it forward to the site themselves. The problem was that this clean generate any money due to no click through and the target audience wasn’t marketable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  while I hate ads as much as everyone else what do you propose funds all the sites people use that are high in operating costs? I doubt many people will pay five bucks a month for every site they use. The internet will just be more retro, which I think would be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of iLife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i switched when phones dropped the jack but just recently went USB to 3.5mm. Sadly both are crap.

  Honestly I’m going to look into a media device again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing you will eventually find out is there is a good portion of the company who thinks they are an effective employee when they really aren’t. For example I work in Software and Hardware development. In 25 years I’ve worked in large companies and small, big teams, small teams and teams of one. I’ve had many project managers and in almost all cases they have ranged from bad to pointless. The well oiled teams found the project managers only got in the way and provided no ROI to their work. So much so that in one org the PM left and they never replaced them which resulted in the teams highest productive quarters two years running.

  If we were to vote I’d ask for justification for those roles and what their returns are. What actual added benefit did they bring and what problems did they cause. The issue i foresee is that every single one of them would say they were very valuable and important. But if you asked the people under them doing the actual development you’d hear the exact opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest issue with capital gains is that they’re usually taxed lower than labour gains. I think that should be reversed. If capital gains were heavily taxed and that tax was used to better the community then I think it would have more justification.

  This is exactly the issue. It is what divides the upper from the lower classes. When you are the asset any issues in your life are compounded and there is no liquidation option like you have when its all assets. The safety nets are so drastically different between with what level of “becoming whole again” that its ridiculous we have gotten this far with capital gains not being seen as a real privilege. But that is why we are seeing a major generational gap between the realization of how bad things have gotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be fun idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see it, Yakety Sax playing the entier 4 minute game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the guy you’re thinking of Fox Mulder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The parable of the "Good Samaritan" is an ancient example of Israeli racism / bigotry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the children songs were like that. Remeber singing about the animals boarding the ark two by two. They seemed to skip over all the children on earth drowning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you think the results will be?

  They will point to all the laws they ignored and say they apply. When you point out “hey you did the same thing” they will change the subject or ignore you comment. They know they are hypocrits and don’t care. They will do whatever it takes to win including cheat. So again I ask you what do you think will happen? I think the answer is nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s the same Republicans who said Supreme Court nominations shouldn’t happen right before an election and also voted in nominations right before an election. They don’t give us shit about anything. Why would we go through a stunt when they wouldn’t think twice about how they are hypocritics. they know then are, they just don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The SNL skit started in 89

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the party that lies through their teeth. Why on earth would you think they would admit anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe both came out in '89

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the big issue with this is we would fall prey to the BS spin some parties like to push. Based on their stated goals like focusing on the family, workers rights, smaller government, you’d think they are a great option. But once you start yo listen to the candidates talk what you find out is that their entire list of selling points are made up and not at all what they want to push.

  While i agree some of the personal life stuff is ridiculous, looking at how some of these politicians act in society we aee exactly what they will be doing when “representing” all of us. If the candidate is a horrible person I’d hope that people qould recognize that they will not service the people fairly. But post pandemic we have seen that there is a lot of really crappy people out there who used to just keep quiet about their horrible views, today they are just lacking shame.