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I might move again. (Or not) (lemy.lol)

I moved from Lemmy.ml because I liked the name of Lemmy.world and it ran a newer Lemmy version which meant I could make communities. I moved from Lemmy.world because they defederated from piracy communities they didn’t even host (but for some reason still kept the small piracy community they DID host) From thelemmy.club...

stevehobbes ,

Mostly the people running and modding it are insane.

stevehobbes ,

Which is fine for you, but other people might not like existing on an instance entirely devoted to bootlicking and silencing any differing opinions (that are even left of mainstream… but not left enough).

People joining .ml should know what they’re getting.

stevehobbes ,

I can understand that someone might think communism is a better solution and worth a shot - but what I can’t understand is the China/Russia apologia. Trying to convince people what is plainly happening isn’t is a form of mental illness.

stevehobbes ,

That thankfully isn’t true anymore. Pilots are now very highly compensated from the jump.

stevehobbes ,

Not anymore for most pilots. Pay has skyrocketed.

stevehobbes ,

They’re referring to a political party in Israel not Israel itself.

stevehobbes ,

You’re entitled to that opinion. You’re not entitled to misrepresent 70 year old letters to say something they didn’t say.

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    stevehobbes ,

    It won’t be popular here - but that report is just a report of allegations and is also not substantiated by anything?

    stevehobbes , (edited )

    The report is just repeating allegations and asking for an investigation. Did no one else read it?

    It is not a finding of fact or anything similar.

    The report here also does not include sources or evidence.

    The current membership of the HRC is: Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi and the Netherlands.

    Do with that what you will.

    stevehobbes ,

    That is neither evidence nor a source.

    stevehobbes ,

    Found the person who doesn’t own a Tesla.

    My Tesla did monumentally stupid things on the regular on autopilot. Like phantom braking. It would slam on the brakes while doing 65 on the highway because of shadows. You’d be flying over my hood in your bike.

    stevehobbes ,

    Glad you’re a trauma expert!

    stevehobbes ,

    This is so comically wrong I don’t know where to start. SMS was fucked from the get go, especially in the US where it was common to charge by the message for SMS. Seriously. It was $0.25 to send and $0.10 to receive them on a lot of people’s plans.

    The wireless carriers fucked SMS, and will absolutely fuck up RCS - along with all the various providers out there. It’s a dogshit standard that isn’t broadly interoperable still.

    iMessage was a breath of fresh air for people who did use SMS.

    stevehobbes ,

    I think they’re now broadly free on all but the most restrictive plans- but when iMessage came to be they weren’t - and most phones wouldn’t split 160 characters into multiple messages. You were literally limited by that.

    They used to charge extra if you were roaming too. I think T-Mobile was the first to stop and everyone followed.

    stevehobbes ,

    France has a whole host of laws to keep France French as well.

    Quebec and Montreal are wonderful because they’re so different and yet so close.

    It’s hard for me to hold a grudge against them for that. It’s not like they’re saying you must speak French to go to school there - they’re just saying you have to try to learn French if you want to go to school there.

    stevehobbes ,

    I’ve only ever really been to Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Canadian Niagara Falls. Montreal is fun and different, Toronto is like a baby NYC, Vancouver was cool but just ok. I’d go back to Montreal before I went back to any of the other places. Except in winter.

    stevehobbes ,

    What other French areas in North America are you familiar with? The only one I can think of is maybe Haiti?

    stevehobbes ,

    There is very little French spoken in Louisiana. There’s more creole, but it’s still single digit percentages. It is not common and their curriculums are certainly not in French.

    The entire towns website for Berlin, NH is in English: www.berlinnh.gov. There’s not even a French translation.

    I think you are severely overestimating the prevalence of French as an official language in North America - and even as a lingua Franca.

    stevehobbes ,

    There is very little French spoken in New Orleans. There’s more creole, but is absolutely not used virtually anywhere as a part of daily life.

    I haven’t been to Baton Rouge, but a quick googling suggests the same. It is not an official language and not part of daily life. It is heritage more than practice.

    Which is what Quebec is trying to avoid.

    More boomers are staying in their jobs instead of retiring. They’re working longer hours and making more money, new Pew data finds (finance.yahoo.com)

    The graying of the American workforce continues: Baby boomers are working longer and earning more than their predecessors did in what Americans typically think of as retirement years, new research finds....

    stevehobbes ,

    Surely they adjusted for that.

    stevehobbes ,

    And don’t call me Shirley.

    stevehobbes ,

    Yeah but the tomato pureé you guys make is way more delicious than the tomato paste that comes out of tubes this guy is referring to.

    stevehobbes ,

    They are probably still a little low - but there’s a giant gap between $400k and $200M.

    If you believe that a lot more lower level people should make $150-200k, their manager should probably make more, and their manager should probably make more, and their manager should probably make more, and the CEO should probably make more and all the sudden there isn’t a wide enough gap to pay those people more. Would you want to manage a bunch of people for $5k/yr more?

    Money that isn’t paid to employees is paid to shareholders or squandered on stupid stuff.

    Their CEOs should make more, and their regular employees should make more.

    stevehobbes ,

    I did not say they should get paid 100s of times more. In fact I said the opposite.

    But it’s not a leap to imagine someone who manages people has an outsized impact (on average) on the performance of the business relative to the people they manage. They set direction and goals - and while it isn’t more important than the individuals doing the work to achieve the goals, on average it has a larger impact.

    Cushy office job or not, managing people is a shit ton of work, work you don’t have as an IC. It’s work that is often done after you do your day job. There are shitty managers just like there are shitty ICs, but if you’re talking in generalities, the percentages are probably similar.

    stevehobbes ,

    The max bracket starts at $693k for married couples filing jointly. The vast majority of couples making $1M-10M are not running that that income through an LLC and shuffling into trusts and businesses. That definitely happens - not with ordinary income, which is what those tax brackets are for. It predominantly happens with people putting assets in trusts (i.e. stock). There are ways to play games with ordinary income, but it’s much, much harder.

    stevehobbes ,

    Not all zionists are religious, like at all.

    stevehobbes ,

    Would love some sources!

    stevehobbes ,

    Their expected reliability is lower.

    stevehobbes ,

    They had the 100k warranty long before the theta engine debacle.

    stevehobbes ,

    I mean, this is kinda the free market at work? Nvidia built and dominated a market, and AMD and Intel are pouring billions in to give people an alternative which will drive prices down?

    stevehobbes ,

    nvidia is a US company. They are subject to ITAR regulations.

    They need non-Chinese IP to build their GPUs and fab them (ie EUV tech and TSMC to fab).

    China is a big market, but still smaller than the US and Europe by quite a bit.

    stevehobbes ,

    I mean yes, they’ve stolen a lot of IP. Much of it was not transferred legally. They have a state run industrial and commercial spying program and have for decades - just like Russia.

    What OP is actually referring to is the lack of industrial oversight and the Chinese penchant for using substandard material like steel and lying about it to charge a higher price while providing an inferior good.

    Look up ‘tofu dreg’ construction.

    It’s not western capitalists getting rich off this, it’s unscrupulous Chinese factory owners and industry magnates.

    It’s also not just an export problem.

    stevehobbes ,

    What an insane thing to repeat without any evidence.

    stevehobbes ,

    It also benefits the upper middle class. And middle class in HCOL areas.

    It should be adjusted based on cost of living.

    Making $150k in NYC is like making $50k in middle america.

    stevehobbes ,

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    stevehobbes ,

    Nope. It’s exactly the same process - it’s just Type III not type II.

    The sealer is what makes it non porous. That sealer is usually teflon that wears off.

    stevehobbes ,

    Hard anodized aluminum is sealed with something, often teflon.

    stevehobbes ,

    Excellent rebuttal backed with facts.

    stevehobbes ,

    You could have asked them for a source then instead of doing something as useless?

    stevehobbes ,

    I mean…. She did go to a gala celebrating the 10th anniversary of Russia Today, which is state controlled propaganda.

    stevehobbes , (edited )

    No it doesn’t. Operation mockingbird implies that every government tries to influence the narrative of the free press, and literally always has. And the CIA was no exception.

    If you see no difference between an attempt to influence the narrative of the free press by the state, and not having a free press at all, only a literal extension of the state serving propaganda as the narrative, I don’t know what to tell you.

    stevehobbes ,

    Amazing take.

    stevehobbes ,

    Because it’s a government device, and account, they may not have that ability. The government could set the cap, I’m sure, but then if you really do need the data and have to call IT….

    stevehobbes ,

    Rationalizing collateral damage is not the same as intending to cause mass death without distinction.

    If the US or Israel’s goal was maximizing death, the numbers would be astronomically higher.

    It is false equivalence.

    stevehobbes ,

    Sorry, are you suggesting he was right?

    Point of clarification, he did not attack the US government or military. He murdered a bunch of folks going to work or taking a vacation, who just happened to be in the US at that moment.

    stevehobbes ,

    Yes, but in context:

    South Korea has essentially been free of bedbug issues since the 1970s when the government implemented insecticides all across the country resulting in just nine bedbug cases reported in the last decade, according to the Ministry of Disease Control and Prevention Agency

    9 in 10 years to 30 is an astronomical jump.

    stevehobbes ,

    Read the link I sent and decide for yourself how simple it is.

    You’ll find that Jewish people didn’t perpetrate settler-colonialism on Palestine either. The British did what the British do. Then the UN did some stuff.

    stevehobbes ,

    Ok cool, definitely don’t try to learn about any of this!

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