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FlyingSquid , in Fidelity cuts value of X stake, implying 73% decline in former Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder how Elon feels about his “go fuck yourselves” statement to the advertisers who left now?

DarkThoughts ,

He'd double down if you'd ask him.

evatronic ,

Let’s. Just to drive the point home to any remaining advertisers.

phoneymouse ,

I hope he does

BrokenGlepnir ,

He doesn’t “feel” any of this except in the ego, and the ego would hurt more if he admitted he was wrong. He can private jet around all day and not run out of money for the rest of his life. Maybe it delays his plans to be able to more fully buy people, but that’s not a feeling I’m curious to feel.

Landmammals , in Donald Trump Should Probably File for Bankruptcy, but Likely Won’t Because He’s Worried It Would Make Him Look Like a Loser: Report

That ship has sailed.

Mastengwe , in Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry

I mean, shouldn’t they have had to do that from the beginning?

Valmond ,

Too embarrassing :

Getting the economy back up, looking good

Silently working for the country, looking old but okay.

Recently (this might be added to the crimes) looking better than trump, slashing trump, and more.

ChickenLadyLovesLife ,

Like my mom used to tell me: “don’t talk with your mouth open”.

Smallwater ,

Yes. The whole thing is a sham, deliberately. They’re trying tomqake an impeachment seem ridiculous and frivolous, to make the impeachment against Trump seem like a non-issue.

Remember, these are modern-day politicians. They’re no longer interested in the truth. Only optics.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Plus impeachment crimes only occur when in office. Even if something shady happened before 2020 it will have to wait until Biden leaves office

Brkdncr , in Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid

Dell about to find out what a de-moralized and quiet-quitting workforce is like.

TexasDrunk ,

People talk about quiet quitting a lot so I looked it up. That just sounds like doing your job without trying to get ahead.

Wrench ,

More like intentionally dragging your team down and making your teammates pick up your slack until management has gone through all the written warning steps required to fire your ass.

PhlubbaDubba ,

Still their loss, firing you means paying out that severance they tried to dodge by inviting the quiet quitting in the first place

CthuluVoIP ,

Not true. If terminated for performance concerns, most companies would consider that “for cause” meaning that you would be ineligible for severance. The only costs are the OpEx of the manager and HR team member’s time in addition to the “lost productivity” that your underperformance caused.

Bezier ,
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There are two interpretations.

It’s either do the intended job, but nothing extra, which I think is just normal work, or don’t even try to do the job properly, do as little as possible while staying unnoticed to avoid getting fired.

The name implies the latter, but that’s not how all people use it.

Zaktor ,

Which is actually a perfectly good way to approach work, but even the hustle-is-virtue people who think workers should constantly be overperforming will have a hard time justifying it when the company has specifically said high-performance cannot yield a promotion.

Archer ,

Those people would justify charging their grandma for the current time

friend_of_satan ,

It’s honestly a great fit for all those remote Dell workers who are ineligible for promotion.

Sl00k , in Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more

They threatened the same with Seattle and surprise surprise they’re still here. They did pass the entire fee onto the consumer though, which sucks ass but at least gig workers are being paid.

Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

At least Seattle has a decent rail and bus system. In some smaller cities and rural areas, you are fucked AND Uber/Lyft is expensive af (if available)

Lucidlethargy ,

As a consumer visiting, I’d see that and think “Uber is too expensive now, I guess.” Then I’d not use them in other cities.

I’m already avoiding them right now, though, so no changes here.

Syn_Attck ,

It just means you’re guaranteed a single $15.57 drive per hour if you haven’t had one the entire hour. That’s unlikely so it’ll probably be split up making it a little more expensive.

TurboDiesel ,
@TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

They did the same thing for UberEats in NYC. “New York Courier Fee” of $2 on every order with the explainer text “Due to new requirements put in place by the City of New York, workers are guaranteed a minimum hourly pay rate while they are delivering orders to customers. Customers will now see an additional fee on all delivery orders to help cover this pay rate. Tipping remains optional.”

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of when my employer put a separate line item for “Obama care cost increase” on my paycheck

taanegl , in California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool

Another child murdered.

I will not shed a single tear for when cops get shot and killed.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2 ,

US cops really have stored up an incredible amount of badwill, haven’t they? Now, I can’t help but see Nolan’s Batman film (whichever the one is with cops in tunnels), Brooklyn 99 and others as straight up copaganda. Just zero sympathy. The balance will shift at some point, it has to.

Maggoty ,

To be fair Brooklyn 99 dunks on cops. Like a lot.

kureta ,

Final. season was really interesting I that regard. Real cop propaganda is The Rookie. It is shameless.

Bonesince1997 ,

Law & Order

Notyou ,
Omegamanthethird ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

The final season was less humorous about it. But even in the earlier seasons, the vast majority of cops outside of the 99 are incompetent, corrupt, or both. Comparatively, Wuntch is one of the least bad in the force.

captainjaneway ,
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Blue Bloods is the worst of them. Flat out abusing people in custody followed by a friendly family Sunday dinner.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Yeah I knew a cop who can’t stand that show because of how blunt it’s propaganda, pro-police violence, and anti-civil rights the show is.

harderian729 ,

Not really. It’s just on these forums.

As soon as you go out into the real world, you’ll see cops are people too and have about the same amount of respect as everyone else.

First you need to go out into the real world, though.

Bobmighty ,

A cop in my area shot his car with a suspect in it multiple times because an acorn gave him spookies. Also, cops here are widely known to be corrupt and shitty. I’ll just keep on assuming they are incompetent and useless.

Passerby6497 ,

Well, the real world is where these cops are murdering children. And it’s in the real world that we get to experience their maliciousness directly.

Maybe you should stick to your fantasy land where cops aren’t hair trigger shooting people with basic tools?

Madison420 ,

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  • nac82 ,

    Rapists are people, too. Dictators are people, too. Murderers are people, too.

    ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

    I thought cops were pigs, though?

    Snowpix ,
    @Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

    How do you constantly and consistently have the most stupid takes on this platform, harderian? I can count on my fingers how many times you made a comment that wasn’t mind bogglingly braindead and/or blatantly wrong. Sheesh.

    Jiggle_Physics ,

    I had no hatred of police until I worked with/around them for the better part of a decade. Used to go around to different places training them on a new methodology of data entry, and had them come to us after out department got the space. Trained hundreds of departments of all types of cops, trained hundreds of different facilities of COs. Not a single time, in the 1-3 day training periods, did I come away without hearing them brag about, or do, some awful shit. After the 50th or so department, where police fist bumped, and cajoled each other over violating people’s rights, I just couldn’t stand them anymore. They will sit around bouncing ways of violating people’s rights that will still provide them the protection of immunity. They trade pointers on the best ways to trump up charges against people they know aren’t breaking the law, but they don’t like. The moment the room was all male, or all the x minority was out of ear shot, the bigotry came out. At first I tried reporting it. Got told that since I am a white dude they didn’t think I was gonna care, and if I pushed this issue it was only going to be bad for me.

    This stuff affects their personal lives too. It is very common for cops to slowly lose anyone out of their life that isn’t a cop, or directly related to one. They hang out in bars where they have driven off pretty much everyone but other cops, their social events tend to be nothing but other cops and their families. There are whole subdivisions of domestic violence professionals that deal only with the families of police. They isolate themselves with their behavior and then blame everyone else for hating cops. Meanwhile many of the people who stopped hanging around them will tell you it’s because they are paranoid, bigoted, and quick to anger, if not violence.

    They also drastically over value the rarest dangers of their jobs. Spend enough time around police and you will hear about how many of them are ambushed and murdered. That is very rare, and most often the result of the cops doing something shady with their position. You very rarely hear them mention how driving all the time, and the recklessness of driving in emergency situations, is actually what kills them most often. While it was starting to gain some traction in the latter days of me working in the justice industry, they also rarely discussed how sitting all day, alone, in their car, caused a myriad of health issues, namely heart disease and other obesity/sedentary related illnesses. No, not worth talking about much if they can’t make themselves the victim.

    Policing, in the US, has become a cult of sorts.

    negativeyoda ,

    Most depictions of LE in action movies are copoganda. I mean, shit: the Dirty Harry/ Legal Weapon trope of cops needing to sidestep the rules is so fucked when you think about it

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    3rd Batman movie, the one that made even less sense than a superhero movie normally makes.

    The entire plan depends on a fusion reactor acting like a fission bomb that Bane didn’t even know was down there, Blackgate being moved within city limits after the events of the second movie for no clear reason, and a letter that again no one knew existed while the plan was being carried out.

    Also if he broke Batman’s back why not just kill him? Why give him a chance to escape?

    Moneo ,

    Also if he broke Batman’s back why not just kill him? Why give him a chance to escape?

    He explains that he wants batman to watch his city deteriorate to chaos or whatever.

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    By putting him in an underground prison where he can’t see it happening?

    Also why? In the comics Bane removed Batman because he was a threat not because of a personal grievance.

    Moneo ,

    He has a TV showing him Gotham news or some shit. idc what happens in the comic. I’m not defending the movie just telling you what I remember from watching this movie like 10 years ago. There’s a lot of stupid shit in the movie but it’s made abundantly clear why he’s alive and in prison.

    harderian729 ,

    I hope you have a gun or know how to fight.

    Otherwise you need cops to defend you.

    BorgDrone ,

    Otherwise you need cops to defend you.

    Like the kids in Uvalde?

    Gimpydude ,

    But they don’t do that. Cops don’t defend people, they look for people to prosecute.

    STOMPYI ,

    Fuck rhe police

    NoIWontPickAName ,

    From who? The police?

    Bleach7297 ,
    @Bleach7297@lemmy.ca avatar

    I’m just nice so I have a lot of friends. A lot. I’ll stick up for them and they’ll stick up for me. Don’t mess.

    Passerby6497 ,

    Is that why cops have no legal requirements to protect and serve, or even save civilians from criminals? Or why they can murder civilians without consequences?

    indistincthobby ,

    Cops don’t fucking defend anyone, the fuck are you on about?

    nac82 ,

    Cops are not for personal defense lmao. Who told you that?

    wildcardology ,

    Your supreme court already said that police have no obligation to protect citizens.

    negativeyoda ,

    Just like Uvalde, right?

    taanegl ,

    Everybody getting a gun was the problem. Now you got paranoid, trigger-happy police who get to keep their pensions after murdering an actual child, and people like you promoting both.

    aphlamingphoenix ,

    The only people who have ever assaulted me were cops.

    Jiggle_Physics ,

    Yeah, if your house gets invaded, you better hope you are in a low population area, and the cops happen to be close to your house, or you will wait at least 20 minutes for them to show. You will have been robbed, or worse, before any police can get to the scene under most conditions.

    Rakudjo ,
    @Rakudjo@lemmy.world avatar

    Who watches the watchmen?

    ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

    Dr. Manhattan

    ZeroCool , in Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says

    Russian asset correctly states other Russian asset will do the thing that benefits Russia. Now here’s Tom with the weather…

    karashta , in Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

    "The law of the jungle".

    So they must mean the one where we work cooperatively together to survive, since banding together has been the thing that kept us alive the most?

    Or do they mean the "law" where we band together and purposefully exterminate entities like them which threaten our survival?

    Diplomjodler ,

    They mean the “law” where they’re the predators and we are the prey.

    Eezyville ,
    @Eezyville@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I think they meant the one where they sic’d the police on us if we got out of line.

    captainlezbian ,

    Oh, literal class war. We’ll bring our guns.

    Chozo , in Photo agencies are refusing to publish a portrait of Kate Middleton with her children over concerns it was manipulated

    Okay, I thought the conspiracy theories were kinda silly at first. But now, even though I don't care about Kate Middleton or any of the royal family, I gotta admit I'm kinda curious now.

    dexa_scantron ,
    @dexa_scantron@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah, this is getting pretty weird.

    BananaTrifleViolin ,

    There is nothing to the conspiracy theories, she’s had abdominal surgery and wants to keep her health problems private. The UK press are intrusive and horrible, and the social media conspiracy theories are just gossiping.

    There are plenty of operations that would need a couple weeks of hospital recovery and about 6 weeks recovery at hone (Easter is only the end of March). People speculating are ignorant about basic medical matters and can’t let someone have their privacy. There is no conspiracy.

    Sizzler ,

    She had a breakdown, that’s what’s being hid.

    Bernie_Sandals ,
    @Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world avatar

    And your evidence is?

    Sizzler ,

    Dodgily edited photos for a start lol. I’m closer than you are, let’s just leave it at that.

    Bernie_Sandals ,
    @Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world avatar

    Lol yeah sure bud.

    Sizzler ,

    Cancer mate.

    Sizzler ,

    Seems like its cancer, sadly.

    Socsa ,

    Is it really that difficult to just not post a picture then? I mean, I’ve managed to go 40 years without posting any pictures to social media, and I’m not even a princess.

    glovecraft , in Conservative Christian women in red states are rising up to defend IVF

    You can’t believe that a fertilized egg is a human being and also do IVF. Because typically 15 harvested eggs will lead to 12 fertilized eggs will end up with a few viable eggs which will end up with one pregnancy (if you’re lucky). That’s 11 murdered “children” by their definition.

    They want to have their cake and eat it too.

    ebits21 ,
    @ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

    Man wait till they learn about masturbation…

    STOMPYI ,

    Dude shut the fuck up… seriously… don’t give them ideas lol! Pry this dick from my cold dead sticky hands

    Mbourgon ,

    Why do you think all these porn bans are being passed into law?

    Jode , in Trump is prepared to post $100 million bond but not the full $454 million judgment, lawyers say

    Sure wish if I had a 500 dollar speeding ticket I could just say “nah I’ll give you 60 bucks”

    LufyCZ ,

    It’s not like that makes the whole thing go away

    Hotzilla ,

    He will flee to Russia instantly when there is a risk of jail or too large fine to cover.

    kent_eh ,

    He will flee to Russia instantly when there is a risk of jail or too large fine to cover.

    That’s an acceptable outcome.

    As long as he stays there.

    badbytes ,

    Probably would work, if you are a white male.

    Pretzilla ,

    That actually works if you are poor and remorseful. The judge typically has discretion.

    BruceTwarzen , in Kellogg CEO now faces backlash for suggesting people eat 'cereal for dinner' to save money

    To save money, people should stop buying kelloggs shit.

    MeekerThanBeaker ,

    I stopped eating breakfast most days. Don’t need it. I rarely eat cereal when I do. And I used eat cereal so much when I was younger. Then I realized even the “healthy” cereal is not good for you. Just sugar disguised as something else.

    Hildegarde ,

    When the commercials say [brand] [product] is a part of this complete breakfast, it would still be a complete breakfast with the cereal removed.

    Soggy ,

    You can get unsweetened bran flakes, those are a great source of fiber and added vitamins. They suck, because they’re unsweetened bran flakes, but healthy cereal does exist.

    the_post_of_tom_joad ,

    I hope Grape Nuts are healthy because goddamn are they a chore to eat.

    MeekerThanBeaker ,

    I didn’t mind Grape Nuts as a kid… but had to sprinkle sugar on it, which kind of defeated any health benefits.

    shadowSprite ,

    I’ve stopped eating breakfast, lunch, and most days dinner too! Gosh end stage capitalism is fun when for meals I just keep convincing my body that no, you aren’t actually hungry as I drink more water.

    MeekerThanBeaker ,

    I stopped eating breakfast not really to save money, but to extend my fasting for health benefits. I too skip most lunches. Autophagy can repair damage the human body goes through.

    We really don’t need to eat as much as we were programmed into thinking we do. Going from low-carb/keto to OMAD (one meal a day) made it easier to do.

    Breakfast being the most important meal of the day was an ad campaign. Same with Milk doing a body good. It’s all corporate nonsense.

    shadowSprite ,

    Milk doing a body good

    I’m a child of the 90s. My parents believed that so hard. I had to have a large glass of milk every night with dinner, and couldn’t leave the table until it was gone. I’m also lactose intolerant. I have many memories of crying in pain in the bathroom :)

    hardcoreufo ,

    In high school my girlfriend’s family had a milk fridge in the garage. A whole fridge full of gallons of whole milk. They went through over a gallon a day between her parents and 2 siblings. They bought into the propaganda hard.

    Sodis ,

    I think there are some studies around, where people eating breakfast have an easier time to control their weight. They let them eat the same calories on a day and the breakfast group didn’t take on weight. I think that might be because the breakfast group had higher energy levels and therefore also expended more energy by movement before lunch.

    xor , in Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

    i feel like people will spray paint all over the store now…

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    I hope people will.

    uis ,

    I want. But I’m on the other side of bathtub.

    lntl , in Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat shortage

    yeah it’s so weird that a state like Florida can’t find enough teachers to work there

    metallic_substance ,

    Suuuuper weird. I’m willing to bet that they will settle for substandard teachers to fill the void. Teachers who will be okay with not teaching “challenging” topics like equal rights and evolution

    SeaJ ,

    Hell, they are already letting people without teaching certificates teach as long as they are veterans.

    Hyperreality ,

    Are they really?

    Throwing in someone potentially suffering from PTSD into a classroom filled with sociopathic teenagers sounds like a great idea.

    SeaJ ,

    Yup. De Santis is giving veterans 5 year temporary teaching certificates even if they have no other qualifications.

    aniki ,

    I mean – that’s the army. :-D

    Hyperreality ,

    LOL. Fair enough.

    Patches , (edited )

    This is disingenuous. They don’t just step off the battlefield into teaching.

    You have to be a veteran, spent 2 years at college(no degree), and also pass a 4-hour ‘Florida Subject Area Test’ with a score of at least 71% in each subject they plan to teach.

    Lmao.

    rusticus ,

    It’s not disingenuous if it’s factual. Thanks for confirming the comments truthfulness.

    papertowels ,

    I suspect the comment was sarcastic given the low requirements they offered.

    Illuminostro ,

    Cool, the “The Mighty Whitey Righty Curriculum.”

    Lol.

    SeaJ ,

    I have to assume you are being sarcastic but in case you are not (no /s):

    That is not much better. The first couple years of college are pretty basic courses that do not help someone know how to teach. Getting a C- on a test in a subject does not really instill confidence that they know the subject well…and can teach. Just because you know a subject does not mean you know shit about teaching.

    not_again ,

    Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?

    Dead_or_Alive ,

    Believe me Florida does not make it easy to be a teacher and Ron Desantis’s policies have a lot to do with this.

    But the primary factor is pay. Teachers are laughably under paid in Fl. My sister has been teaching for 15 years makes little more than she did when she started. Most of the teachers my two older kids had in their elementary school have left for better paying careers. The number of teachers moving into the profession is not enough to compensate for retiring older teachers and the loss of teachers to other professions.

    It’s simple supply and demand. Pay your fucking people and they will stay.

    spider , (edited )

    It’s simple supply and demand. Pay your fucking people and they will stay.

    Well, that’s part of the equation.

    The other part is: Don’t treat them like shit.

    radicalautonomy ,
    @radicalautonomy@lemmy.world avatar

    Texas is going to be in the same boat. I know of two other teachers from the high school I teach at doing the same thing I’m doing and leaving the state this summer.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Indiana is facing a teacher drain as well, in part because we pay our teachers terribly. My daughter had a shitty substitute teacher for all of fifth grade. She had no idea how to do things. I had to raise hell about some of the things she did (like punish my daughter for not saying the pledge of allegiance) and my daughter only told me about some of them later (she pushed Trump’s Big Lie on the kids).

    And she’s had teachers who aren’t much better in terms of skill.

    Edit: Even that so-called teacher quit public school at the end of the year to, appropriately, go work in a Christian private school.

    Redshlrt , in United Airlines raises checked bag fee $5, following American

    And that’s the problem. It’s not enough to be profitable, you have to be more profitable year over year, forever.

    Winter8593 ,

    Infinite growth is unsustainable. How long before it collapses?

    Haagel ,

    When we realize that part of the solution is to kill the culprits.

    There is plenty of historical precedent…

    ShepherdPie ,

    The next recession when they’ll get bailed out by the government (yet again) and start the same process over again.

    tb_ ,
    @tb_@lemmy.world avatar

    Privatize the gains, socialize the losses

    Oh wait but it’s wrong when the people get government support, that’s socialism!

    A_Random_Idiot ,

    Wish we’d start socializing the gains and privitizing the fuckin losses.

    msage ,

    Or the environment collapses, whichever happens first.

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