davidhmccoy

rbreich, 14 days ago to random

Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

QasimRashid, 1 month ago to random

MAGAs are labeling DEI as "Didn't Earn It," which is wild because in reality, generating historic wealth through 2 billion acres of stolen land from Native Americans, enslaving Black people for 300 years, banning Asian immigration until 1965, & banning women from financial access til 1974 — all without paying a single red cent in reparations or restitution — is the living breathing example not earning it.

VeroniqueB99, 1 month ago to random

If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

davidhmccoy, 3 months ago to random

@ivory

Hey! Any way to make not including location with images a default?

maxleibman, 11 days ago to infosec

“As a best practice, every user's display name in every corporate system should be their actual legal name.”

–Only an asshole

#infosec

(Go ahead, argue with me. Whatever notional safety you're adding by making sure every email and Teams chat from me comes from “Maximilian" doesn't outweigh the many annoyances this causes me and my colleagues, and if you think it does you've proved my point.)

maxleibman, 1 month ago to productivity

1. Finish task on to do list.

2. Look at to do list to check task off.

3. Discover task is not on list.

4. Write task down.

5. Check task off.

#productivity #ToDoList

jrconlin, 1 month ago to random

I'm sure that this will get blocked.
By assholes.
For asshole reasons.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/01/california-could-be-first-state-to-give-workers-right-to-ignore-boss-after-hours-calls-texts-emails/

JamesWNeal, 1 month ago to random

Some insight into what happened in the minutes before the Key Bridge collapsed.

Cool, direct, urgent, successful. Maybe not a college degree or a 6-figure salary among them—and they used their training & experience at the most critical, high-pressure moment to save lives. All day, every day-that happens & we don't see it. That's your 'deep state? Just in Port of Baltimore, 45 cargo container ships come & go every 24 hours. 16,000 ships a year. They require all this guidance all the time (and US has 8 LARGER ports). Each ship with 5,000 containers loaded & unloaded. Not to mention The 8 construction workers on the bridge—-patching potholes in the middle of the night, so the road stays maintained, at a time that reduces inconvenience to us (and yes, is easier for them too because of low traffic). Every night...
Every night, 5 or 6 days a week, men & women just like them do that dangerous work on interstates & bridges in all 50 states. ... Here's the moment: An officer who closed one of the approaches says on radio...Can we notify the construction workers? Can we call the supervisor?' The officer was ready to drive out & warn the workers when someone on the radio — seconds later — said, The bridge is down. The whole bridge. That unnamed officer had been immediately thinking about how to save those guys out on the bridge—workers just like him. Thanks. - Thanks to all these folks who make the world run, and run safely 99% of the time, and work with skill, grace, clear-headedness in invisible but essential jobs. Even as disaster unfolded Tuesday after midnight, they were at work.

pbump, 1 month ago to random

Trump's been very good at wringing votes out of conservative Christians despite his personal indifference to religion. Now he's figured out a way to get some cash out of them, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/26/trump-bible-sales-money/

davidhmccoy, 4 months ago to random

@ivory

Why does “boost to followers” keep moving?

maxleibman, 9 hours ago to random

8 GB of RAM in the $700 M1 MacBook Air is way less of a rip off than 4 GB of RAM in a $300 Chromebook, and the target consumer for the latter will feel the pinch WAY more often than the former.

QasimRashid, 1 month ago to random

DEI was never about accepting unqualified Black & brown people. It was always about ensuring qualified Black & brown people also had a fair shot at acceptance despite systemic racism.

The “Didn't Earn It” you’re thinking of are legacy acceptance—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale.

QasimRashid, 28 days ago to random

Why are pro genocide Nazis treated better by the state than anti genocide college students??🤔

Subscribe here to support my human rights advocacy: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid

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macstories, 17 days ago to random

Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs Explains the iPad Pro’s Tandem OLED Screen and the M4 Chip https://www.macstories.net/linked/quinn-nelson-of-snazzy-labs-explains-the-ipad-pros-tandem-oled-screen-and-the-m4-chip/

davidhmccoy, 11 months ago to random

@jamesthomson

What if this thing was pitched as a virtual monitor for the office? Sit on a plane or a cube and have 6 virtual monitors at your disposal?

Just monitors.

Movies. Email. Zoom. Coding.

Oh, and it does some cool VR stuff too. (

Vision Pro. An entire workspace at your disposal and it fits in the smallest space.

Only $3499. The future of work. Next year.

No monitors. Ever again? I think I would buy that.

maxleibman, 1 month ago to random

If you are offended by any of my Jesus jokes, relax. I’m not making fun of Jesus.

I’m making fun of you.

QasimRashid, 15 days ago to random

Mourning the tragic police killing of US Airman Roger Fortson.

“The USA massively leads the developed world in police killings of its residents. My critique of policing in America is of a system that is failing to meet the needs of the hour, because it was not built to meet the needs of the hour. The tragic murder of U.S. Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 is a painful example of that failure, and why we need change.”

Read & Sub: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/do-not-let-media-ignore-the-tragic

robertdalton, 1 month ago to StarTrek

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davidhmccoy, 6 months ago to random

Better shot…

Gassing out from doing leg-ups holding a kicking shield while an instructor was pressing down on the shield. People may have thought I’d just expired on the spot.

Or

Taking it to that kicking paddle

You decide!

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davidhmccoy, 11 months ago to random

@jamesthomson

The return of the interactive PCalc widget!!!

davidhmccoy, 14 days ago to random