The part of capitalism where the owner sits back, the workers do the work, and the owner keeps the profits is not necessary. It is in fact fucked up.
You can have competition without that. (You can have other bad things too- it’s not a magic cure-all for workers to own the business)
Good. I’m sick of this “oh you’re not an employee we just treat you like one” nonsense.
The place I work abuses “contractors” like that. Full time responsibility, but less pay and no benefits.
This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.
I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.
I would disapprove of hunting for sport.
If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.
I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?
No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.
It just takes one industrious plumber.
I don’t especially want to live in a world full of stochastic terror, but if we’re going to have some I’d prefer billionaires were on the receiving end sometimes.
it’s like a “you break it, you buy it” policy - you charge as much as the broken thing costs
So if the thing they broke can never be whole again, we take infinite value out of the company? Leave all the shareholders with nothing, seize their personal assets, and put their pictures on a big “WALL OF SHAME - DO NOT SERVE” mural? I could get behind this.
It has to be worth, not just income. There’s too many loopholes around “I don’t have income I just have stock I use as collateral for a loan” or “I don’t have income but my LLC happens to pay for all of my daily expenses”.
But yes, all fines need to scale with the perpetrator. The more dollars you have, the less each dollar means.
A $100 ticket for parking on a crosswalk means nothing to a millionaire, but is potentially ruinous for someone living in poverty. It needs to hurt the same for everyone. The millionaire should have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need to feel pain.
A lot of people are really shitty and operate at a very basic level of moral reasoning. It’s just “did I get punished?”.
billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day
They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.
If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.
But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.
Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.
You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
I believe it was this one : https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/169
I also got one to speed up the walk speed, since the default is glacial. I think this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/2736
I got a mod to adjust the flow of time, which was nice.
I still lost interest pretty fast though. Shame, since it seems like a nice game.
I dislike all the long term on street parking here. Some of it I’d rather was just 15 minute parking for when you need to load or unload something. Most of the time I look at the cars and I’m like why are you here. There’s a subway stop and two bus lines here.
This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.
Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.
This is vital context. Big difference between like working in a kitchen with a bunch of people and working a software remote job.
Projection is a psychological defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s undesirable traits, feelings, or impulses to other people.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychological-projection-defense-mechanism.html
Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)
TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
I work at a multinational mega Corp, but not one you’ve probably heard of. I am very disengaged.
For one thing, I’m technically a “contractor”. I have to go to all the meetings, but I don’t technically work for them. They give me the legal minimum of paid time off, but only after I looked up what my rights are and fought them for it. They don’t pay for holidays. They say “have a nice Thanksgiving” and then dock me two days pay.
The pay is insulting. I’m making less than I made ten years ago.
There’s no technical leadership. These people are supposed to be doing python. They don’t know what unit tests are. They barely know how imports work. Trying to change everything is a months long battle and emotion massaging exercise. The people in charge don’t understand or care.
They do love AI though. Lots of AI generated code. They don’t understand it but it looks so slick. Vomit.
So fuck them. I used to go out of my way to fix problems and promote good practices. Not anymore. I hope the upper management and owners suffer.
They’re probably not even renewing contractors past the end of the year anyway.