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dontcarebear , to memes in Its about to be summer in Australia and cannot deal with it already

What is this summer you speak of? There is only air conditioning.

curiousaur , to memes in bit of a hot take

You first coward.

explodicle ,

So we’re acknowledging that it’s mostly a coordination problem.

ExLisper , to programmerhumor in Find the pokemon

Why would a recruiter know about all the technologies? He knows what technology is required for a given position and doesn’t care about all the other stuff in your profile.

wolf6152 , to memes in bit of a hot take

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  • francisfordpoopola ,
    @francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world avatar

    That would only make you feel good. It would not make real change.

    I’m frustrated that I want to get a full off the grid solar setup but then it’ll cost 25K and won’t really offset itself until 10 years or more. I’ll feel good about being net zero in home energy usage but that is not a cost that the average person can afford.

    Serinus ,

    It’ll be more than $25k. A battery alone is $10k, and a 10kw system is more than $25k.

    Take a look at a year’s worth of electricity bills to see what size you actually need to hit zero. Consider where a future EV fits in.

    francisfordpoopola ,
    @francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world avatar

    I was thinking I want just 4 or 5 kw of storage. Also wanting an electric car to plug in but that’s another coat I’m not ready to dive into. Ugh.

    Serinus ,

    Size refers to how many solar panels you have and their efficiency. Try sunroof.withgoogle.com but I think that site undersizes and expects you to pull some from the grid.

    CouldntCareBear , to memes in bit of a hot take

    Am I the only one who thinks this is funny? It’s a joke people.

    ExplosiveLynx ,

    You mean c/memes isn’t the place for serious political discussion?

    Agent641 ,

    Private Minecraft servers are the best place to plan and practice terrorist attacks.

    floofloof ,

    Except when the top half of the World Trade Center just stays hanging in the air.

    lugal ,

    Google “How to Blow up a Pipeline” by Andreas Malm

    Viking_Hippie ,

    I’m PRETTY sure that’s a “incognito mode and several kinds of privacy guarding software” kind of search better suited for a search engine that isn’t also a US government contractor 😄

    lugal ,

    Honestly, it’s a very known and discussed book within the climate justice movement and won’t put you on any list. Btw: there is also a movie on archive.org I think.

    And I mean to google in a general sense, not necessarily on the page with the same way.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    Yeah, I actually knew all that (except for the last one, which I halfway expected), but I can seldom resist feigning ignorance for a joke 😉

    PolyLlamaRous ,

    Is it? Is it really? Should it be?

    Meowoem ,

    Am I the only person who remembers how we already decided that some jokes are very dangerous? You get some impressionable twenty something thinking everyone is serious…

    intelati ,

    checks community name

    If they think memes are factual, they need better life skills/Education

    db2 , to memes in brainwashed through loneliness only to be more lonely but also sexist now

    The funniest thing about Andrew Tate is he’s so obviously overcompensating for being gay. I mean funny weird, it would be funny ha ha if he weren’t also a manipulative kidnapping rapist and grifter.

    GreatGrapeApe ,

    What makes you think he is gay?

    blindbunny ,

    The way he invites smaller men over to look at him in his boxers and fawn over him. I’m bi so it’s kinda hot not gonna lie.

    GreatGrapeApe ,

    That might be a weird form of narcissism though.

    blindbunny ,

    You know the two aren’t mutually exclusive?

    GreatGrapeApe ,

    True but it might mean he isn’t gay. I would be more inclined to think he gets off on the approval and admiration from anyone vs wanting sexual or romantic relationships with other men.

    Severed_Fate ,

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  • KingThrillgore , (edited )
    @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

    He did a video of him and some dude playing Chess in his undies.

    I play both sides of the fence, I have seen some hot femboy on femboy action, and I swear right hand to God that Andrew Tate video is the gayest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s gayer than 8 dudes blowing 9 dudes. I was ready to go back to women after seeing the THUMBNAIL of it. It’s that bad.

    Even now I’m having Akira flashbacks of this video and the damage it’s done to me and god knows who else. Also, they can’t play chess. Neither can I but he definitely can’t.

    And he’s a repulsive human being.

    GreatGrapeApe ,

    Sad that he can’t play chess given his father was a grandmaster

    Hovenko ,
    @Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

    Nope, the funniest is his absent chin being desperately covered by suboptimal … whatever grows on it.

    Bluehood380 , to memes in Its about to be summer in Australia and cannot deal with it already

    Fires. Fires everywhere.

    JokeDeity , to memes in What the hell guys .....

    Did you purposely use low res fonts? My eyes hurt now.

    NutWrench , to internetfuneral in not even you
    @NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

    I have a very finely tuned bullsh*t meter from decades of detecting and avoiding it. The most important part is having information sources you trust and are without bias.

    hark ,
    @hark@lemmy.world avatar

    That you think unbiased sources exist means your bullshit meter is not as finely tuned as you think it is.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Yeah, none of us are unbiased. Literally. There is simply too much to know, and the world is far too complex, with too many unanswered questions/problems, to judge things without bias.

    Even something as “simple” as ethics, has no objective answers as far as we know. And when people can disagree on ethics, you know, the very foundation of what is considered bad and good, how can you ever be truly unbiased?

    The next best thing you can do, is being almost conciously biased. Find your moral framework and ideology (and the status quo very much is ideological as well), and criticize it and yourself to the highest degree. You won’t be unbiased, but maybe you can get something productive going.

    NutWrench ,
    @NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

    That you think there ARE no unbiased sources means that you’re a corporate shill, spreading agit-prop to discourage folks from finding things out for themselves.

    You see what I just did, there? That’s exactly what you’re doing to me

    SCB ,

    Except this is also you

    Poor moron: “The stock market is doing great!” Me: “The stock market has nothing to do with YOU! Stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.”

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Unless you own a lot of stock yourself, this isn’t necessarily false. At least this is debatable.

    SCB ,

    If you have a 401(k) at all, this is relevant. If you work for any sort of publicly traded company, it is relevant.

    TWeaK , to memes in Jim "Scumbag" Farley

    Ford has 186,000 employees. His entire salary, divided amongst every employee, would be $112.90.

    He’s certainly overpaid - like pretty much all CEOs - but this is a bad example.

    gamermanh ,
    @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Did the post day to divide his salary to everyone or did it laugh at the thought of a living wage bankrupting his company?

    TWeaK ,

    No the post compared his salary to the employees earning $66,000 or above. I’m not sure what the median income is at Ford, but I’d guess it’s less than that - so really the post is only in support of less than half of the company’s workforce.

    gamermanh ,
    @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yes, the post did just that…

    …while laughing at the thought that raising the lower paid people’s salary will bankrupt his company.

    Your attempt to spin the memes meaning around is an amount of reaching that I’d recommend stretching for next time

    TWeaK , (edited )

    Your attempt to spin my comment into a scarecrow you can argue against is the real stretch here.

    I’m not saying it isn’t ridiculous that giving a raise to employees of a profitable business would bankrupt the company. I’m saying it’s a bad example for the meme to bring up the CEO’s salary, rather than the profit of the company. The CEO’s salary is peanuts divided amongst every employee, meanwhile the company profits and shareholder dividends represent much more of the wealth that the employees have generated without being compensated for.

    Thordros ,
    @Thordros@hexbear.net avatar

    The CEO’s salary is peanuts divided amongst every employee, meanwhile the company profits and shareholder dividends represent much more of the wealth that the employees have generated without being compensated for.

    True. The big shareholders are definitely a problem. I wonder who Ford’s largest individual shareholders are.

    James D. Farley, Jr. owns a total of 1,103,833 Ford shares.

    surprised-pika

    Grayox OP ,
    @Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar

    Its called juxtaposition my guy, Ford also spent almost half billion on stock buybacks last year which could have been used to give every Ford Employee a $2500 bonus to share their profits, but instead they used it to buy back stocks…

    dirtbiker509 ,

    And buying back the stock has the effect of making the stock price go up. And guess who gets the most stock? The CEO and C suite. They give themselves huge raises by doing this and it’s perfectly legal :(

    TWeaK ,

    Well see that’s a good example. Ford is a profitable business, and should be paying their employees. All I’m pointing out is that the CEO’s salary - in the specific example of this business - does not represent a significant proportion of what is being taken from the average employee. That’s most likely going to the shareholders.

    The CEO’s are partially to blame, but more blame lies with the shareholders, and also the legal system that mandates the CEO’s act in the interest of the hypothetical worst, most profit-hungry shareholder.

    wintermute_oregon ,

    The dividend is only 15 cent a share. It is almost 10%. It should be around 5%.

    Personally I think there should be a law you can’t borrow to pay dividends. They must come from cash

    TWeaK ,

    Personally I think there should be a law you can’t borrow to pay dividends. They must come from cash

    Fucking absolutely. But that’s a drop in the bucket of financial fuckery that goes on, which is a very big elephant in the room.

    wintermute_oregon ,

    It’s a larger part than you think. It’s another part of manipulating the stock.

    Companies should be regulated better. They should get tax relief when employees are paid well with good benefits. I don’t care if a company pays taxes as long as the employees are making money. They’ll translate to taxes being collected other ways.

    What I can’t stand is all the bullshit waste and games.

    I think layoffs should be severely punished by either taxes or forced severance.

    I don’t care a ceo makes 20 million but there should be regulations to make sure they’re earning it and not just manipulating things

    TWeaK ,

    I mean I personally think income should be tax free up to a relatively high amount. Like 6 figures, minimum. You’re giving up your time, in service of a business which itself is in service of society, you shouldn’t have to subtract from your reward for that to give more. The business’ taxes should be covering that.

    We should be heavily taxing investments, the times when people don’t actually do anything themselves but pay for things to be done, with the plan of getting money back and giving as little to those that actually did the work as possible. The business owner gives the minimum to their employees and takes all the excess for themselves.

    What’s needed is a sliding tax scale where employers benefit from giving out higher mean salaries, not median, such that employees and employers both together benefit from the success of the business. If you pay your employees better, up to or maybe a little above the average income, your business gets taxed less. That’s the sort of government incentive we should be having.

    Reverendender ,
    @Reverendender@lemmy.world avatar

    This…is not a bad take. 🍻

    wintermute_oregon ,

    Investments should be taxed little or zero till a certain income is produced from dividends. That’s how retired people live. That’s why certain stocks were called pensioner stocks.

    Out whole tax system needs an overhaul. If a company was producing an economic advantage to the community and employees. I have no issue with them not paying taxes. We are getting it through the value they create.

    The current model rewards taking from the community.

    Jsprad ,

    A 15 cent quarterly dividend on a $15 stock is 1%, not 10%. Ford’s annual dividend is about 4% per year.

    wintermute_oregon ,

    You’re correct. Different sites show it differently.

    www.tipranks.com/stocks/f/dividends

    They showed the 10% but yes its about 5

    nyctre ,

    Sure, but Ford made a profit of 10 billion last year according to google. That means that they can give every single one of those 186k people a 6000$ raise and still be left with almost 9 billion in profit.

    TWeaK ,

    Yes, that’s a good example. All I’m saying is the CEO’s salary is not the root problem here. It’s more of a symptom.

    nyctre ,

    Isn’t the CEO one of the main people that decide salaries? When you’re ok with you having a multimillion salary and you say that others should be happy with 60k a year… that sounds like a problem to me

    TWeaK ,

    The CEO decides salaries, but the CEO is also legally obliged to pursue profits for shareholders first and foremost. The issue isn’t specifically the CEO, but the infrastructure that ensures the CEO behaves maliciously towards employees and customers.

    UlyssesT ,
    Fazoo , to memes in bit of a hot take
    @Fazoo@lemmy.ml avatar

    Fossil fuels cause massive environmental damage. Let’s cause some more!

    DessertStorms ,
    @DessertStorms@kbin.social avatar

    Ah yes, "enlightened" centrism, where causing relatively insignificant damage to stop the destruction of the planet is just as bad as destroying the planet for profit.. 🤦‍♀️

    This shitty take reeks of being

    more devoted to "order" than to justice; and preferring a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

    Lizardking27 ,

    Bruh this has nothing to do with centrism. It’s "if we blow up an oil pipeline, the oil will spill out and be far more destructive than it would’ve otherwise"ism.

    Fuck off with your “Insignificant damage” bullshit.

    Fuck fossil fuels, fuck the industry that peddles them, but your ideas would just cause way more problems than they solve.

    Grimy ,

    It doesn’t have to be an extreme like that. It would send a strong message If every gas station had to replace their LCD screens every week, or the windows of their headquarters.

    But I guess non-action and bootlicking while we wait for our thoroughly bribed politicians to do nothing is better.

    Lizardking27 ,

    You’re the only one talking about non-action and bootlicking. I think you might be projecting a little.

    And please realize that actions such as breaking lcd screens is going to increase the production of lcd screens. But if you wanna throw some bricks through some windows, i say go for it.

    FarFarAway ,

    Just to point out, we’re running out of sand to make those windows, as well. They’re digging it up from the ocean floor, at this point, which isn’t great.

    I have no solutions, but I’ll sure be quick to point out the problems…

    Lizardking27 ,

    True. But at least glass is non-toxic, unreactive, and will break back down into sand over time.

    FarFarAway ,

    I’ll take it as the lesser of two evils.

    Good point.

    Grimy ,

    Anything other than writing strongly worded emails is going to cause some form of economic damage, even just peaceful protesting with signs.

    It’s about being heard and forcing the governments to ignore the billions in oil bribes they have already received. You can’t do that by sitting at home and making angry faces.

    Lizardking27 ,

    At what point did I give a shit about economic damage? Throw bricks, occupy refineries, do what you want. Just don’t dump an inordinate amount of toxic material into our environment just to try prove a point about protecting the environment.

    “You can’t do that by sitting at home and making angry faces.” Agree 100%, never said we could, glad we’re on the same side here.

    Pipoca ,

    A large number of gas stations are franchises. Breaking the LCD screens hurts the local franchise owner, not whichever fossil fuel company they’re working with.

    More to the point, breaking LCD screens accomplishes absolutely nothing. Most people don’t drive because they love driving, they drive because of zoning, sprawl and a lack of reasonable alternatives. If you get rid of fossil fuel infrastructure without fixing the underlying car dependency, they’ll be stuck at home.

    pivot_root ,

    The people downvoting you clearly haven’t lived anywhere with shitty public transportation.

    LinkOpensChest_wav ,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

    I do, and I get it. We used to have the infrastructure, but it was lost as our communities became more car-centric. Personally, I own a cheap used fuel efficient car that I only use when I have to drive long distances.

    I also know a lot of people who own gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs who don’t need them, and people who choose to live in expensive suburban areas because they fancy themselves too good to live amongst us “poor people” in “bad neighborhoods” because we’re supposedly dangerous. Also, a lot of people who think they have to drive everywhere they go, even a few blocks from their home. Those people can fuck right off.

    I’d rather be inconvenienced by losing my car than continuing to subsidize the type of people I see driving every day.

    Rivalarrival ,

    Breaking those LCD screens might just convince them to stop installing them, stop playing those fucking ads while I’m trying to refuel.

    Pipoca ,

    The problem with gas stations isn’t their LCD screens.

    Serinus ,

    Gas stations are not the place to make a difference. It’s at the very end of the supply chain.

    Pipoca ,

    But I guess non-action and bootlicking while we wait for our thoroughly bribed politicians to do nothing is better.

    Nation-wide action, of course, is best. Something like the green new deal or even a market-based solution like cap-and-trade or a carbon tax.

    On a local level, though, there’s a lot of action that can be done.

    Nation-wide, the biggest category of carbon emissions is transportation, at 28% of all emissions. Over half of all transportation-related emissions are from cars and trucks.

    The amount people drive is closely tied to local urban design, which comes down largely to local zoning regulations and infrastructure design. Those are primarily impacted by the people who show up at town meetings and vote.

    Advocate for walkable, mixed-use zoning, improved bike infrastructure, etc. Most people aren’t “drivers”, “cyclists” or “public transit riders”, they’re people who want to get from point A to point B as easily as possible and will take whatever is best.

    PatFussy ,

    Your take is bad. The person who is destroying the planet isnt some conpany that sells you shit. They just give you what you want for some competitive price. I would bet my entire life that if most people had the opportunity to pay more for a greener product/greener service, they would still choose the cheaper/worse for environment option.

    merc ,

    I mostly agree with this. Companies only pollute as part of their process for making whatever good or service it is that they sell. They only sell those goods or services because people are buying. If suddenly everybody stopped buying and switched 100% to growing their own crops, the pollution from corporations would drop to zero. Not because they’d suddenly care about the environment, but because you don’t spew out a ton of CO2 making a widget if nobody’s buying widgets.

    Having said that, corporations are optimized to produce as much profit as possible. If it’s cheaper to run a plant on coal and they can get away with it, they’ll do it.

    As consumers, we have no real way to audit a company’s supply chain. Even a government would have trouble doing it since most supply chains are international. If I honestly wanted to buy the most ethically-created widget out there, I’d have to trust a lot of people’s stories about where everything comes from. And, because corporations know how hard it is to audit their supply chains, they’re incentivized to save any bucks they can, even if that means massive pollution, massive suffering, and so-on.

    Then there’s lobbying. It would be nice if the government passed a law that required audited supply chains, but the government won’t because it’s corrupt. Evil government. But, the government won’t pass anything like that because corporations will lobby against it and bribe politicians to make sure it never happens. Evil corporations. But, the money corporations have to lobby / bribe comes from their revenues, which come from people buying their goods and services. Evil consumers. But, consumers don’t know which corporations are lobbying and bribing because there’s no audit trail. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a law requiring audit trails…

    Fundamentally, we can only do what we can do. Part of that is admitting we’re part of the problem. If you own an F-150 for status, not because you move heavy things often, you’re a big part of the problem. If you live in a part of the world where you need central heating in the winter, you’re part of the problem. If you run air conditioning in the summer, you’re part of the problem. If you use a car (even an electric one) instead of public transit, you’re part of the problem. If you buy potato chips in a plastic bag, you’re part of the problem. If you eat meat, you’re part of the problem. If you have kids, you’re a huge part of the problem. If you watch sports, you’re part of the problem.

    PatFussy ,

    This is the true black pill. We are in a loop where we as the general public are in control, but everything is so convoluted so we are more comfortable shifting blame to the next guy. Its attractive to say that we cant see the supply chain but in the end it wont matter unless we start caring about it.

    But what does it mean to care in this case? We can end lobbying, but we dont vote for that because it might be in an omnibus bill that also gives tax breaks to billionaires. We can end overfishing, but we like eating sushi on Fridays even though we live in Omaha. We can reduce overspending on useless purchases, but I have undiagnosed depression and spending gives me endorphins.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    Then we need to work on building a new economy that provides for all of those needs from the ground up, in an environmentally friendly way.

    SpaceCowboy ,
    @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

    I would bet my entire life that if most people had the opportunity to pay more for a greener product/greener service, they would still choose the cheaper/worse for environment option.

    Yeah that’s the point. We know people will choose the cheaper option even if it fucks up their future.

    Some oil refineries getting exploded would result in the “worse for the environment” option to be more expensive than the green option. Now I don’t think we’re at that point yet, but without significant changes, in a few years we may reach the point where blowing up a refinery is the only way for people to have a chance for survival.

    Grimy ,

    “The Nazis are killing millions of people. Lets kill some more!”

    Flyberius ,
    @Flyberius@hexbear.net avatar

    Blowing it all up in one go would do a lot less long term damage than just allowing it to continue indefinitely. Surely that’s not too hard to understand, right?

    PatFussy ,

    It would also likely cause a war to start, probably cause mass riots, might cause regular people to die… but hey, you could reduce emission by 1%

    Grimble ,

    Epically logicked, my good sir

    girl4life2023 , to memes in Carlos Tavares CEO of Stellantis

    he can take that Jeep Dodge and Ram that chysler, citroen and Peugeot in his Opel Vauxhall. and give him a Mopar for his Maserati. and be done with it. ... sorry couldn't help my self.

    Lemmywhat , to memes in Jim "Scumbag" Farley

    Total revolution needed. Workers that do the real thing barely can feed their mouth, while those useless management ceo got huge cut

    Flax_vert , to cat in Just because I'm going to the kitchen, doesn't mean you're getting fed
    qooqie , to memes in Carlos Tavares CEO of Stellantis

    Oof, I don’t feel so good for the UAW peoples that are striking. Need more to strike and need more companies being striked. Fuck these companies that siphon money and let their workers live and die in poverty

    jmcs ,

    Well, more than half of Stellantis factories are in Europe and have at least an half decent collective working agreement in place. I don’t even want to imagine how bad the contracts for the factories they have in Asia and Africa are though.

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