Good luck, wish I could help

Luckily my model of other people’s model of me has lost enough genuine character that it’s more of a trope so my model of someone else’s model of me has like 3 models that apply to everyone and that’s so reductive I ignore them.

No, because the Texas schools don’t know what those are.

Court costs are different than a fine.

If a random guy sued you for a nonsense reason and you had to show up to court and pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars just to basically say “this lawsuit is frivolous and the ruling is self evident”, it’s reasonable to expect that ransom guy to pay your court costs. The alternative is being sued itself would be like a fine. If some dude with a vendetta sued me 10 times over that I’d be ruined no matter the result.

So frivolous, ungrounded lawsuits have a cost to them that actually has nothing to do with the courts getting money, it has to do with making it right that someone has wasted your own time and money.

This guy did that, and has to pay for not only his own lawyer (if he brought one, I expect he didn’t) but also the lawyer for the city/police department.

Some areas do have an actual fine for wasting the court’s time, so the lawyer thing might not be the only thing going on here, but no matter what, the guy gets to pay more for losing at court when the matter is considered obvious to everyone else and it seems he only wants to argue to avoid a perfectly legal fine.

While you’re right, first I wanna say, “unskilled labor” tends to be cashiers, stocking, waiting on tables, that sort of thing. Any job where you’re an apprentice for any length of time, thats skilled labor.

“skilled labor” vs "unskilled labor would be named best as “credentialed labor” and “on-the-job training labor” in my opinion. There might be a better word, but the meaning of those is more accurate.

I was great at my call center job, I had skills that got me promotions, but many those skills could’ve only been taught at that job, and they only applied at that job. It’s not that that job didn’t have skills, it’s that you couldn’t arrive with all the skills you’d need to succeed.

This is also true of “skilled” labor, but to a much lesser degree.

Some people still might not know.

Probably Mac users, but I hope I make someone one of today’s lucky 10,000.

Windows key. The graphic itself is what they used from windows 8-10.

Super key in Linux, command key in macOS.

Officially, sure. He discriminated against Russians, and national origin is a protected group, so he’s “promoted hate”.

Realistically, this is older, reddit is biased, and they might not even look into the claim since you’re banned anyway, they might assume it’s a retaliation thing and move on. If they do look into it, they might just give them a warning.

But on paper, if that’s all that was said about why you were removed, yeah, that warrants reddit taking action.

The orcs he made.

I dunno about pricing back then but the issue is the amount of wealth that can be generated from a situation like that.

Like, hypothetically, let’s split your grandfather into two people. A landlord, and a maintenance guy hired to maintain those properties, getting paid a fair wage.

Would the landlord make money, after paying a mortgage and his maintenance man?

If the answer is no, then becoming a landlord isn’t financially beneficial, and your grandfather could’ve just been a handyman, and made a steadier income, his money not directly dependent on whether or not someone paid rent.

If the answer is yes, then your grandfather made more money than his labor was worth. While he earned money doing labor, the real issue is the money he earned by doing nothing. It’s likely your grandfather made quite a bit more money than his labor was worth, given the fact that property management companies live entirely off of the price difference from labor put into housing and the price they can charge.

Landlords are middlemen. They’re used car salesman for houses. Are there landlords that aren’t shitty? Yeah. My last landlord was awesome, he actually sold me the house I was renting, when I told him I was gonna buy a house and start my family. He was nice, reasonable, all those things. The total rent at the time (pre-covid, so a lot better than now, and split among 6 people) was 2250$, and my mortgage worked out to be 900$.

Did your grandfather put effort in? Yes. Did he make money doing nothing? Also yes, the difference between what his labor was worth and what he got paid.

That margin didn’t come from his labor or his smart investments, it came from other people trying to live, and potentially created hardships. If his tenants could’ve paid for the actual cost of housing instead of whatever your grandfather charged, that might mean another kid got to go to college, a father getting to retire earlier, a family that could’ve worked 1 job instead of 2.

Your grandfather is probably fine, he likely understood hardships and acted like a human being, but he still belonged to a class of people that are better off if they find ways to minimize the amount of money other people have. Some people judge others for taking what they don’t need.

Any company can take barter for their services if they wanted to.

They’d have to be pretty dumb to take a normal quarter as barter worth a whole mortgage instead of 0.25$ though.

Generally barter relies on the good being a similar value, whereas sovcit logic tries to force them to take terrible barter through the magical contract system america is beholden to, because obviously an all-encompassing contractual indentured servitude will have easy cheat codes to break out and get paid while you do.

Companies collect a bunch of telemetry about everyone they can, that’s the basis of their ad revenue. The data is used to identify you, your devices, and your preferences, and is called a digital fingerprint.

They also use this fingerprint to detect people doing things like making an account to avoid a ban.

Your fingerprint, when you made a reddit account at work, will have virtually identical devices attached as anyone else using reddit at work. Lots of people have alt accounts for normal reasons, so Reddit decided yours and someone else’s belonged to the same fingerprint, probably since you made the account.

But now they got banned. Maybe even got caught actually using a second account to circumvent it, and reddit is cracking down on the whole digital fingerprint because that’s “you”.

Well they still have a finite life and are less replaceable than a battery. Even if it quadrupled the lifespan (which is a reasonably generous estimate given OP’s 4-year duration and wikipedia telling me supercapacitors last 10-15 years), it would still eventually need to be replaced and that would generally require resoldering it.

I think a much better solution is 2 battery slots, one to be a backup battery, unused, and then when needed, an LED on the mobo can be turned on. Honestly OP could jury-rig up a similar system if he wanted to, although it’d be a bit ugly and anytime something is jury-rigged I don’t really think of it as reliable.

The only real solution is to make this an extended maintenance task. The batteries are cheap so an alert every 4 years is likely sufficient to replace the battery before it dies. You could do it every 2 or 3 years instead at your discretion.

You missed the memo!

https://www.walmart.com/plus

That’s old testament. What Jesus said overrode that.

Its a very common mistake since a lot of christian groups pull their hate from the old testament.

Specifically, Matthew 5:43-48

And, to be clear, worshipping another god remains a sin in basic Christianity, its just not an excuse to not love everyone.

They’re being sarcastic. You can tell by the list of people that have supported him linked with sexual assault.

The correct answer is to find someone who isn’t facing towards you and stare at their back.

Alternatively, if you put your hand on your chin like you’re thinking of something, then you can stare at your food while looking like you’re thinking, instead of like you’re sad.

There’s a separate weights and measures office here https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm

I’m not sure exactly what that’d change about this situation, but they seem to publish standards based on industry majorities, so there’s a proper baseline.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-threat-to-work-from-home-tax-breaks

This suggests it’s not necessarily a malicious thing as suggested, but just pre-covid rules that expect businesses to not do significant work from home.

Still, it means a lot of businesses are making this decision with tax breaks in mind.