Unshittification

Kid at school named Miles Long.

“No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”

Meet the (Many) Small Business Owners Stiffed by Donald Trump - inc.com

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I’m pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

It was four wheel drive, so it may have been a manual transmission for off-roading, which would be fairly common in those parts. The fact that it was brand new suggests the possibility that they didn’t realize a manual can roll on a steep incline if the handbrake isn’t engaged (of course it could also have simply been left in neutral, regardless of the transmission type).

all aboard! Coming soon to your local employment office.

I’m getting laid.

Thanks for the additional info. Sorry - that article I posted was not very well researched - I should have looked for something better, but was just making a point that inequity is still a big problem in a “prosperous” Mexico.

I appreciate you also confirming that working conditions in maquiladoras are accountable to some decent standards, and that they provide additional benefits - overtime pay rates being one of them, which is encouraging to hear - I wonder if that was due to labor unions or not.

Clearly, they are better places to work than many other local options. So for sure, not everything about maquiladoras is negative - and they are certainly not the root cause of disparity in North America. Thanks again for correcting the perception I might have given with that article.

“Despite working long hours doing many times strenuous and dangerous work, maquila workers earn only 50 cents to 1 dollar per hour.”

https://maquiladoras-educateyourself.weebly.com/wages.html

The guy who runs Reddit is an utter douchebag.

kidney stones - my only experience with morphine - pretty sweet - apart from the sheer fucking agony preceding it.

ahem - nobody I know will use X.

Does anyone have experience using NFTs for bail bonds?

“I suspect that will be the end of it”

yeah, nah

Loose (verb) = “to let loose” = “to free” (verb), so “loose their power” implies freeing or expressing their power. (Having power)

Lose (verb) = “to not have any more” (lost), so “lose their power” implies no longer having their power. (Not having power).

“Loose” and “lose” are completely different words. “Loose” is commonly written incorrectly online for “lose”, so many English speakers make this mistake when writing it.

Editing to add that “loose” is very rarely used as a verb in the way described - it’s archaic and nobody would use it in conversation - it is normally an adjective meaning “not tight”. The main thing is to remember that “lose”, like “lost” is spelled with a single “o” and “loose”, like “not tight” has two.

We need a new deal - a sauna in every boat.

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Cost of Revenue: 19,715,368,000

Gross Profit: 14,007,929,000

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Sauna boats sound much more innovative than “full self-driving”.

The MGM attack originated with calling their help desk pretending to be somebody inside. They found enough info on LinkedIn to be convincing enough to get credentials https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/15/23875113/mgm-hack-casino-vishing-cybersecurity-ransomware

What’s next?

A gigantic Lemmy instance?