America has two authoritarian right-wing parties to pick from. One is less right wing than the other, but they’re still both to the right of the major right wing party in my country (New Zealand)
Just to flip this, do you have any sources that horseshoe theory is a real thing? That’s the funny thing about language, someone put Theory in the name and now people think it’s a real thing.
To save you the trouble, it hasn’t held up under academic study. Plenty of info on Wikipedia about it.
They don’t want to be told they have to wear a mask or that people should stay home from work when they’re sick. Anything that would impinge on the rights of businesses to make money is against my freedoms.
It’s the climate crisis but for health. Some people just can’t bear to give up their treats in order to save lives.
Tech has an abundance of people who really need to be right in an argument. I’ve had this same argument with a developer at a client company of mine. Just couldn’t let it go when I said I was comfortable with the Jetbrains suite and used their language specific tooling instead of VSCode.
I’ve had two remote jobs as a developer so far. I got the first one through a close friend and the second through a coworker from the first. The second job asked us to relocate and come into the office after a year so I quit. I’ve been living off savings overseas for the last year now with no job....
Hacker News has a monthly Whose Hiring thread which has a remote tag in the template. There’s a website that pulls all the comments out and makes it into a job board of sorts but I can’t remember what it is.
Awww yeah, first time I got in first with the daily thread.
I don’t have anything interesting to talk about but I like reading about everyone’s days. I only have to do a half day of work today to hit my hours for the week, so that’s nice. Gonna play more Baldurs Gate when I get home, such a good game.
I’ve done that. Was looking at the radio to change songs while going through an intersection. My brain was on autopilot and I followed a guy running a red turn signal. Just about had a head on crash with the straight through traffic 😬
Oooo old school forum flame wars. Is it weird that I miss that format? Might just be nostalgia, non-threaded forum arguments are kind of annoying to skip if you want something else out of the thread. It was always fun opening a long thread at the end and seeing the final dregs of the fight play out, then backtracking to find where it started.
I live in the far north and they’d be better off increasing the heavy rail capacity to get all the fucking logging trucks off the road. Will fix some of the pothole problems too - they created that mess by increasing the weight limits on large vehicles under the last National government, now they get to winge about Labour not fixing it. Standard right wing strategy.
I’ve been having a bit of a shit time with my back the last couple of weeks but it’s finally coming right. Didn’t realise how much of an effect it was having on my mood but I feel a lot better now 😄
Having had my Visa Debit card blocked twice in as many weeks, I’m beginning to question if our current “Plastic” cards are fit for purpose. A somewhat long story follows with a question at the end:...
As someone who started and still works in a co-op, it’s because it’s hard. Banks don’t understand worker coops and won’t lend money to you without a real person to attach the risk to, which means founders have to take an enormous risk which it can be hard to compensate them for. The legal structure isn’t common so you are limited in the lawyers who can set one up for you. Others have mentioned the cost problems - I started a software dev coop so we didn’t have a large capital outlay but it did cost nearly 10k just in setup costs.
It took a lot of work to get to where we are, with little supporting resources. In contrast, I started an LLC in half an hour and $150 registration fee to the government. So no, it not just “what people choose”.
Had something like this and it was fine but in a late 90s house and in Wellington so the wind covered a lot of noise so YMMV.
On a windless day we could hear only hear the neighbours via the windows - out theirs and in ours. Nothing except a massive party would go through the firewall.
This isn't going to fix anything except make sure that the gig economy continues to fuck workers. I say that as someone covered by this potential legislation- there's clear rules around who counts as an independent contractor and I've never had problems keeping to those rules because I want to retain my status as independent. You can't contract out of things like the CGA or basic labour laws, and that should continue to apply here. Seymour is cutting the courts ability to decide on the edge cases in favour of a broad brush that will absolutely result in more "independent" contractor gigs cropping up and further downwards pressure on workers and wages.
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What is the future of "Money"? (lemmy.nz)
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