Got_Bent

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to technology in How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status

Friend of mine had a heart attack in his early thirties working for AT&T in the nineties. I ended up in the ER with acute chest pains working for UBS.

These days, I’m generally able to weather the daily shit storms, but I’m mostly dead inside just waiting for the sweet, sweet relief of the real mortal deal.

I kinda wonder what the machine is going to have at its disposal to extract more out of me after I’ve left this mortal coil. Reanimated labor I suppose.

I got a pretty decent raise a couple weeks ago. As I usually do, I expressed my appreciation, but added the commentary that when a hundred percent of my time away from work is spent bedridden from exhaustion, what’s the difference between an $X thousand dollar raise and an $X million dollar raise.

Got_Bent OP , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in My phone is just one big shitpost

I never see most of these calls. They just show up on recent activity

Got_Bent OP , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in My phone is just one big shitpost

For friends my own age, we’re all working sixty plus hours a week because hurray America and we live in different time zones. It’s a mutual courtesy to set a time to talk.

Got_Bent OP , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in My phone is just one big shitpost

I’ve had the same number for over twenty years. My guess would be all that time yielding no results from those calls. Otherwise I guess I’m just lucky. I almost never have my ringer or vibrate on so I never even see them as they come in.

Got_Bent OP , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in My phone is just one big shitpost

I’m likely your dad’s age. Strange that he wouldn’t get this concept. Even if you’re in my contacts, I’ll text before I call to ask if it’s ok. Even with my own spawn, I don’t just up and directly call her.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to news in Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states

Interesting to see this. I live in Texas and the online comments every time they kill an inmate cause me to envision thousands of pro death penalty guys unzipping when it happens.

I guess having to face it in person affects the stimulative properties. Who’d a thunk it?

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to science_memes in Recognize the mother of Wifi

This is 1874! You’ll be able to sue HER!

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to technology in YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

Yes, yes. I’m sure I’ve got several things in my home that are terrible. I’ve cut off streaming and Amazon, have never owned a gaming console or gaming PC, quit reddit, quit Facebook, never had Twitter, Instagram, Tok Tok, used wish, etc. I do not use cash transfer apps. Neither my appliances nor my HVAC connect to the Internet.

But I can’t become a complete Luddite overnight. It’s a series of steps. So until this Roku that I bought about six or seven years ago craps the bed, I will continue using it, mostly with antenna broadcast local stations, but also with some of the free streaming sites like Tubi.

If you would like to come audit the entirety of my existence and personally fund immediate replacement of everything I have that is evil or offensive, I invite your benevolence.

Otherwise, let a guy use an illustrative example while engaging in casual Internet conversation in peace.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to technology in YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

My Roku is doing this and has been doing this for quite some time.

Of all the ad delivery schemes cooked up over the past ten years, this one is the least offensive to me.

Like I’ll come back from the bathroom or whatever, and all that registers before I hit play is that some random graphic is covering the screen while on pause. I cannot name a single thing that’s been in any of those ads.

In general, I do wonder how effective this constant onslaught of marketing is. At some point there have got to be diminishing returns, right?

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to memes in yeah why

Well I did just read an article yesterday where some European billionaire was complaining that Europeans don’t have the “ambition” that Americans do, so they waste their lives by working fewer hours and spending time in social situations.

Clearly, the Italian builders guild only allows for a two hour work week, so no jobs ever get completed.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to news in Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune, new report finds

We’re having the same conversation but about two different things. I thought we were discussing tax rates that trusts themselves pay. Not individual tax rates.

One thing I’ll correct myself on is that I just looked up trust tax rates and they’re paying only 20% on capital gains now. Pretty sure that was higher before the Cheeto took over.

I used to do a whole lot of trust returns, but I’m admittedly rusty on them today.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to news in Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune, new report finds

They still do, but there are ways to either distribute the funds or set up grantor trusts that bring the rates back down to an acceptable billionaire rate. You know, next to nothing.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to asklemmy in Signs you're getting old?

On the trust thing - every once in a while I’ll go to a concert by myself, stand in the back, and enjoy the moment and remember the old times.

More often than not, three or four young ladies will come up over the course of the evening and start giving me their life stories and their relationship struggles and whatnot.

This isn’t a flirting or drunk thing on either end of the equation. In that moment, they just seem to need somebody to listen to them.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to science_memes in just say no!!

I went to non-Euclidian space and all I got was this lousy username.

Got_Bent , 2 months ago to showerthoughts in It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men.

What if they’re tiny men though? Like a hail report but, “Today across the central plains, residents experienced golf ball sized man rain.”