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shalafi ,

Registration is already required,and has been for decades. This only automates the thing so people aren’t breaking the law. Super simple stuff.

So I’m not sure what your point is?

shalafi ,

It should be automatic, and it is now. Why did I have to worry about it 40-years ago? Now? Now worries, done deal. Nothing has changed.

Of course lemmy thinks that serving means you’re on the front lines as a grunt with an M4.

shalafi ,

Bravo!

shalafi ,

New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour.”

If I had my druthers, Wells Fargo would have been parted out years ago. But I can’t blame them for firing unethical employees.

shalafi ,

Flip it. It’s not a fair thing since we read left to right.

shalafi ,

We can’t split up, all too interdependent. For example, I see people on here telling the red states to fuck off to themselves. Good luck eating food.

How about military presence? Trying to split down on that is a hard stop, not even thinkable. The federal government ain’t going to allow it, no matter what.

Any Southerners wanting to try again are getting stomped far faster than last time. Even then, you got armed libs like me embedded in the countryside. And yes, it’s worth my life to shoot “red shirts”. (And that’s easy for me to say. I’m older and understood my history classes.)

shalafi ,

Smelling salts are now a “new” thing. Take me out back like Old Yeller.

shalafi ,

And in Florida, the employer can go fuck themselves.

SOURCE: Worked 5-years at a payroll firm. You deposit the money, it’s theirs, end. Doesn’t even matter if it’s the wrong account.

shalafi ,

She’s the most beautiful woman in the world is who she is. Alien? Fine by me!

shalafi ,

We are solidly on the same page.

shalafi ,

Had a friend in the day named Mike. Mike was horrified when he found out the government burned worn out bills.

“We should be giving that money to poor people!” By which Mike meant “ME!”

“So Mike, do you realize the government could easily print $1,000,000 for every citizen and just give it to us?”

“Fuck yeah man! Why don’t they do that?”

“I mow lawns for a living, $20 a pop (this was 90’s money and I was cheap). If I had a million and you had a million, everybody had a million, fuck I want with $20?! Now it’s $20,000 to even consider mowing your yard.”

Mike did not see the problem with this because my original price, $20, would still buy me a McDonalds meal. Mike was dumber than a rock.

Tax the snot out them and spread it to the public good, but it’s childish thinking 2 billion people would suddenly not be poor.

shalafi ,

I honestly wondered what Negan was doing in the pic.

shalafi ,

That’s honestly he most disturbing picture of Jesus I’ve ever seen. Visceral disgust kinda reaction.

Like a poor, scrawny carpenter was some ripped American meatball. Fuck me, I’m an atheist and this is gross.

shalafi ,

Capitalism working as it should for once, even on a megacorp.

shalafi ,

Given that Grizzlies are extinct in California, yeah.

What about Brown Bears though?

shalafi ,

Agreed. All the drillers have to do is ride. OTOH, neither group would fare well learning to drill in microgravity.

shalafi ,

They’re just stating everything they know, which is very little.

shalafi ,

We tech support folks used to be able to discern a legit US Robotics 56K over a software modem. By listening to our customers connect.

shalafi ,

LMAO at the hate on this comment.

We can talk about immigration drivers, all night long, but the fact is that the host country is always resentful of immigrants. It doesn’t matter if that resentment is fair or true or justified, it exists.

Buncha children in here crying, “Racism bad!” Yeah. We know. Some of us grew up on Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. That doesn’t change countries seeing a bunch of poor people flooding in and taking their resources. And whether they’re actually sucking resources doesn’t fucking matter. It looks like they are.

And for all the whiners, how about you take in a poor immigrant family and take care of them yourself? Put your money where your mouth is?

“Uh no. The government should do that for free, somehow, and I don’t want to actually see or deal with it. Or I’ll leave a stern downvote!”

(And for the inbound haters, my wife is a brown immigrant, not even a citizen. Trying to get her youngest moved here.)

shalafi ,

All spot on!

Story: Some idiot company is trying to sell these things.

Lemmy: LOL, cops are idiots!

Who says anyone is purchasing this?!

Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras. Here’s how it’s going (www.cnn.com)

Retail chains like TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, are equipping some store employees with body cameras to deter shoplifting and improve safety. This is part of a growing trend in the retail industry, as stores respond to an increase in organized retail theft and violence against workers. However, some...

shalafi ,

reduce your prices to being affordable again

Uh, they don’t get much cheaper in the new clothing market. If you want even cheaper than the cheapest, learn to thrift and repair.

shalafi ,

And who is going to pay who for watching all that video?

shalafi ,

So, uh, you weren’t around for regular (leaded) gasoline? We humans are slowly figuring shit out. Given that we took a couple hundred thousand years to get past stone tools, and given what we’ve achieved in the last 100, we’re doing sorta OK. Wish I could see the world in 200-300 years.

shalafi ,

There’s always been a 2-tier system, through all nations and all times.

One of my favorite parts of Noble House, set in 1840s Hong Kong, was a Chinese guy disgusted with the English notion of “equal under the law”. “Of course there are different laws for the rich and poor! Why else would I strive to be rich?!”

I think on that now and again.

shalafi ,

Like a real crime boss, Trump never, ever dumps on family. No one else is safe, but the wife and kids are sacrosanct.

Now that I think on it, the man does indeed seem to have a single moral. How odd I’m just now seeing it.

shalafi ,

The pardon is a last-ditch effort at justice. I’m fine with it.

POTUS can only waive off on federal crimes, the states still have hold on their own convictions. And even then, the governor can pardon.

Even if abused now and again, it’s still good for the broader system.

shalafi ,

You don’t have much outdoor experience I guess? I see so many comments like yours.

“I have no experience with this. DEATH TRAP!”

Go outside. Take some risks. Live life.

shalafi ,

Yep. This and Boeing. It’s astonishing how easily manipulated our view of reality is, and it’s all because we can’t tell what’s a real risk and what’s not. Humans are stupid at assessing risk in today’s enormous world, we just did not evolve for it.

For example, people think getting randomly shot, murdered or raped is likely. Half of gun deaths are suicides and the vast majority of the remainder are bad people in bad places. The vast majority of rapes and murders are by someone known to the victim. (That’s not victim blaming, only saying such violence doesn’t often come out of the clear blue sky.)

OTOH, getting smeared to death on the road is truly random. Yet we all happily jump in our cars, roll hard down the interstate and think nothing of it. The news doesn’t harp on it, that sort of death is understood, nothing sexy to report.

shalafi ,

We pay our city councilmen $6,000/yr. The “big” city of which we’re a suburb pays them $27,000.

shalafi ,

In no way do I condone his actions, so let’s start with that. Coulda, shoulda, whatever, is not what his trial was about.

Given the video evidence presented, he shot in self-defense. Given Washington state’s law regarding self-defense, he shot in self-defense. Not going to replay it all, you can see for yourself.

All in all, it was a clusterfuck of biblical proportions. “Should have never happened.”, isn’t a legal doctrine. “He went looking for trouble and found it.”, isn’t a thing.

As to why we’re still talking about this little maggot? Fuck if I know. I’d be the first to punch him in his fat face. I would happily spend the weekend in jail and lose on a battery charge.

shalafi ,

Got my kids back for the summer, first time since they got phones (9 and 11-yo). They’re hooked through the fucking bag. And that’s with their mom having severely limiting their screen time.

If I so much as threaten to take their phones, they act exactly like an addict having their stash stolen. If a literal demon jumped out the phone, grabbed them by the neck and punched them in face, they’d go right back on the screen.

I listen in, and it’s all high-pitched chatter at 100mph, randomly switching topics and formats. If the internet has fried my brain at 53, god knows what it’s doing to them.

shalafi ,

It’s a bit messy for the employer. You can’t just hand out 20% raises every time someone threatens to leave. Then everyone would be threatening to leave. And that’s a hefty cost to add to what’s likely your largest operating expense. Also, that’s not just 20% in the employee’s pocket, there are additional costs like unemployment insurance and the like.

OTOH, unless your employee plain sucks or the job is simple, it’s almost always better to keep them than train a replacement. Tribal knowledge is valuable knowledge.

And no, only very small-time employers expect loyalty. They understand the game, and we should as well.

Funny that lemmy whines and moans about capitalism all day, without realizing they can play as well. Jumping jobs over the last 11 years got me $14 > $22 > $39. Been at this place 5-years, thinking about jumping ship again. Probably put me over $100K with a little luck. Oh, and I’ve never had such fat benefits or worked less. From home to boot.

Related: When we first moved here, a friend started at an oil change place, well below his skill set and previous pay. Kept job hopping and stacking his resume, now he’s the top service manager at the largest auto dealer group. He quit moving, guess he’s fat and happy. Sure drags in the $.

shalafi ,

Preach. You gotta move to get paid. I have no idea why people would think their current employer would just throw them a gigantic increase.

shalafi ,

Fine. They all claim to have offers. It’s not like employers don’t track turnover and market rates. Some of them just decide it’s cheaper to allow high turnover. Not like they can’t work an Excel sheet.

Having said that, I’ve found many employers wholly ignorant of metrics that aren’t easily tracked. For example, 2 jobs ago I was a key player at my shitty little shop. Kept the customers rolling in, despite their aggravations with the company. You can’t put a solid number on that. (And many told me they left for the competition when I quit.)

Last job, I quit for an offer doubling my pay and benefits. They loved me, wouldn’t go for it. The next year they paid far more in IT costs than it would have cost to keep me.

Back to my point, work hard, achieve something to be proud of on your resume, jump ship. The game is only rigged for the employer is you’re in a shit job that requires almost no skills. As to that, see the example I talked about with my oil change buddy.

shalafi ,

Do you think employers are stone ignorant of market rates? Who said anything about mass quitting? The people not moving on are the people who can’t. Hell, that’s where I’m at. Pretty sure I’ve attained the Peter Principle for now.

shalafi ,

Windows opens RAR files right out the box. Just tested.

And if you need a separate unzipper for whatever reason, 7-Zip opens all the things.

shalafi ,

That episode should be required for all Americans. ALL Americans.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

That was so powerful it killed the program.

I’d put this as close second for required viewing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs

No. America isn’t the greatest country in the world anymore.

shalafi ,

He got CNN’s Crossfire cancelled. Seen that one? You should.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

He retired, quit. And still he came back to say these things, add to our discourse. He didn’t have to. He could have wondered off to an island and fucked off forever.

And OP added so much more. I don’t know what more you want from the man.

shalafi ,

The one guy is right. You can have a beer or two and be perfectly safe to drive. (Unless you’re my 99lb. wife who hardly ever drinks.)

For those not around, MADD was a force to be reckoned with. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, who wouldn’t normally have given a shit, but we were well aware of MADD. They were powerful and they were heard. I give them about all the credit.

As to the stats at the end, kinda wishy washy. Deaths dropping despite the huge population increase is eye opening. But vehicles and driving practices became far safer in those years. Crumple zones? No thanks. We rolled tanks. Seat belts were for communists and air bags were considered deadly.

FFS, my parents were very safety minded, but I was napping in the rear-view window deck, hauling ass on the interstate. Not sure I ever wore a seatbelt in the backseat. (And then there was the time I pulled a toy revolver on a Missouri State trooper. LOL, dad had to go downtown and pay that ticket on the spot.)

The 38,000 number is for 2020. Remember that year when we weren’t driving? Car deaths are on par with gun deaths, about 50K per CDC numbers. And one type of violence is rarely random while the other type almost always is. Driving is still pretty scary if you look at it like that.

So I’d hardly give the turnaround on drunk driving all the credit. OTOH, nobody seemed to give a shit before MADD got mad. Young people would be fucking appalled at what attitudes were like in the day.

shalafi ,

But he still won’t even fucking say it…

He just did. In diplomatic terms, he screamed it to the heavens.

International messaging isn’t played at the level of you and I shooting the shit between ourselves. Netanyahu likely shit himself in rage and fear over this.

shalafi ,

Cooling and filtering water is hardly free, nor is the added maintenance. I don’t know the context here but it may be something the building should be paying for.

shalafi ,

Yeah, I can’t do that. As little as I drive, they would last longer, but still. I’ll be retired or close enough in 12-years, won’t be able to afford a fresh battery. My ICE convertible and truck are 02 and 04 models and run fine.

Knowing there’s a hard limit on usage, with a wildly expensive repair at the end, that’s tough to swallow. I can keep my 04 F150 running forever. (For certain values of forever.)

shalafi ,

Napster BAD!!! Fire BAD!!!

shalafi ,

Lot of people loved Marcos Sr., my wife grew up under him. She says he accomplished much. She goes off about the infrastructure improvements she saw as a kid and later as an adult. Roads, hospitals, education, the very things that make society work.

shalafi ,

I use this about once a month. Seriously.

shalafi ,

Right with ya. Problem is, the vast majority of Americans are ignorant of history and have a, “Can’t happen here!” attitude.

Fascism isn’t coming, it’s here, now, today.

You have it right on the best/worst case scenarios. Best case might sober enough people up to turn the ride. Otherwise we’re sleepwalking into this.

shalafi ,

The “both sides” argument is a cheap cop out to having a real talk.

Yes, the GOP is the primary obstruction, but the Democrats aren’t helping much either.

I vote D all the way down to dogcatcher, but I certainly don’t look to them to solve anything.

shalafi ,

Then you will starve to death. Comments like this make it obvious who has and hasn’t driven through red states.

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