BaldProphet

TheDemonBuer, 2 days ago

Jobs suck. That’s not news, everyone has known that for a very long time. Sure, some jobs suck less than others, and some people genuinely enjoy their job, but generally jobs just suck. That’s why they have to pay you to do them. But it takes more than a paycheck to make a job worth it. There was a time in America where the average person could work a job (albeit, often a sucky one) making a decent wage working only 40 hours a week, take a vacation every year, own a home, have a family and a community, all the things that make working a sucky job worth it. Over the last fifty years or so, many or all of the things that make working a sucky job worth it have slowly become less and less accessible to many people.

I am one of those people. I worked full time. It sucked, as many jobs do, but after putting in a full day’s work I didn’t go home to a wife and kids or a life that made me feel happy and fulfilled. I would drive my hour commute, which I hated, pick up take out or fast food, come home and watch TV, play video games, smoke pot, and drink. I’d go to sleep, wake up the next day and do exactly the same thing. I did that for years. I was absolutely miserable. People can’t live like that.

Maiznieks, 8 days ago

It’s not about participation, but rather the socially unacceptable ways to express it. Come on, please be decent, others are here too.

flumph, 1 month ago

Too many industries are shitting on entry level employees now… They’re easy targets for layoffs and easy targets for AI, apparently. Now they’re already complaining about the lack of quality talent.

The Great Resignation is effectively over. We’re now in the Great Talent Stagnation, where employers’ biggest concern is the lack of qualified applicants

If you don’t invest in the next set of entry-level employees, you won’t have the next set of qualified employees.

IWantToFuckSpez, 1 month ago

Also arm up. There are 800k cops in the US that’s only 1 cop for every 320 US adults. Communities should organize and stand up against these tyrants with force if diplomacy doesn’t work.

Potatos_are_not_friends, 3 months ago

People tell me I don’t have company loyalty.

But then I ask which companies have employee loyalty.

This guy gets it.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

About time some Democrats start developing the awareness that they’ll have to aim above their target if they want to hit it instead of consistently missing or failing to take the shot.

First I want to put out that Lee is basing her argument in data, something her detractors in the article are not doing.

The number she’s putting out is about twice what wages would be had they kept up with either a) per worker productivity or b) inflation. Once we account for inflation, real wages have declined by about 20% since the 70s.

If minimum wage had kept up with CEO compensation, the minimum wage in today dollars would be ~$130.

So Lee is striking a mid point between those two values. This seems reasonable.

I propose that we decide on some ratio of CEO compensation to minimum wage at a given company (say, 100x), and any company in violation of this has their profits taxed at 100% and redistributed to their employees.

Kalkaline, 3 months ago

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3 if you haven’t seen this, it pretty well describes how far ahead the billionaire class is.

silence7, 3 months ago

Large parts of the Bay Area mountains don’t have cell service

pinkdrunkenelephants, 4 months ago

I’m sorry that happened to you, and you’re right, all signs are pointing to a second civil war in the U.S.

banneryear1868, 4 months ago

The aftermath of racial desegregation court victories are some of the most interesting things in recent US history. A law would be struck down and sort of left like that… and people would take it upon themselves to organize and challenge the new law, often in the face of violent opposition. Freedom Riders taking busses down to the south to challenge desegregation of public transit being met with mobs and put in jail.

Heresy_generator, 4 months ago

Just glossing over implementation. So every car will have to have wireless communications of some sort? Will there be some government system that all California cars will have to be integrated with that tracks where they are at all times so the car can know the correct speed limit? A tracking system that surely would never be abused or turned into a surveillance device.

"I don't think it's at all an overreach, and I don't think most people would view it as an overreach, we have speed limits, I think most people support speed limits because people know that speed kills," Wiener said.

Not unless they think about it for five seconds.

LesserAbe, 4 months ago

Have you ever rented one of those electronic scooters? I was visiting LA and riding one to Venice Beach. I knew you weren’t allowed to ride them in Venice Beach proper so I stopped about a block away to park it. The app said that I was inside the forbidden zone, so it wouldn’t let me lock the scooter. I thought fine, I’ll ride a block or two away. But it said I was in the forbidden zone, so I couldn’t drive it. I tried rolling it but the wheels were locked up. I started dragging it and an alarm went off the whole way.

Later I was riding a scooter back to the hotel on a main road, and two times the system thought I had entered a no go area (despite just following the road) and the scooter lost power, although thankfully it didn’t stop entirely.

Now imagine you’re on an expressway and this system decides you’re actually on an access road running parallel to the expressway, where the speed is 20mph instead of 65. That’s not just annoying, it’s a threat to your safety and those around you. I already have GPS making that mistake a few times here and there.

Or imagine a solar flare or attack disables the GPS system, would that mean that all cars stop moving?

avidamoeba, 4 months ago

I think the Framework laptop is absolutely good for the industry. Many of your points attempt to diminish or omit the pros and emphasize the cons of things.

E.g. ports. You don’t notice that the Framework ports also work with everything else that a dongle does. You also don’t notice that having modular ports provides extraordinary durability. Ports are often a thing that gets destroyed on laptops. Repairing often means a main board replacement. With a Framework, it’s $20 port card and 10 seconds of work.

You compare their parts situation to Apple’s by omitting the important fact that Framework’s parts, especially the wear and tear ones like coolers, keyboards and batteries are dirt cheap and easily available for purchase. I don’t know about you but I’ve replaced many ThinkPad batteries over the years and finding genuine ones is often a pain and they’re invariably very expensive. 2-3x more expensive than what a Framework battery is.

Personally, I’ve already seen the benefits of the Framework model. I have a Framework 13 which I nastily dropped and bent as a result. One bottom cover order and replacement later it’s as good as new.

I think the Framework model is absolutely positive for the industry, so long as it keeps working. If they go out of business in a year, or get sold to some profit maximizing group that disrupts the model, then yeah, at that point it may become a negative. In my opinion this is the risk for this company and this product model.

helmet91, 4 months ago

End of the day, nothing you can do will change what’s happening half way across the world, so why let it change you?

I beg to differ. Here are a few things you can do. I agree these won’t make an impact, but if enough people are willing to do these, it could work:

• Donate money if you can afford it. (Just carefully check where you’re exactly donating to.)
• Promote non-propaganda, factual information. Muscovy spreads disinformation through social media and propaganda websites using their trolls. So why can’t ordinary people step up and upvote, share, publish, and promote factual information? Sure, the algorithms of social media platforms favor the disinformation, but again, if enough people are willing to overcome what’s happening, I believe, it could make a change.
• Promote education. Only stupid people can be influenced by the far right propaganda. Unfortunately there are way too many stupid people.
• Just do what you’re good at. If your profession is irrelevant, that’s fine. But if you happen to be a hacker, or want to become one, go ahead, and fight online scammers and trolls. Are you a software developer? Wanna be a web developer? Create something that has an impact if you have the free time and interest. Make it open source. Encourage others to join. Again, if you have no affinity for this kind of stuff, it’s totally fine.
• Do your research and vote on elections.

In my opinion, this kind of mindset of “you cannot do anything, get used to it” is a very demotivating and harmful piece of advice. Because that’s what’s been going on all this time; everyone being ignorant, while evil people never stop doing what they’re doing.

peopleproblems, 4 months ago

the “fiduciary duty” isn’t a real thing.

they can fire and change who governs the board by using their majority share holder votes (which has been selecting short term max profit guys) but it’s a myth that they have a legal responsibility to return anything to shareholders