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MrVilliam

@ MrVilliam @lemmy.world

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    CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says

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  • If this happens to two or three more CEOs over the next couple of months, they'll change their position on gun control, not change their behaviors that made somebody do this. And "they're coming for our guns" morons would find a way to not only excuse it, but fully support it, at least at first.

  • [Serious] What keeps you sane in these troubling times?

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  • This could be its own post. I posted there about going to get a haircut and asking if sport clips is more or less the Hooters of haircut places. (I've never been to sport clips)

  • Working weak

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  • Agreed on every point. It's possible. Bosses are bloated in that they're largely ineffective and are more costly to the salary chunk of budget. If they were expected to accomplish things like workers are, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

    In reality, we should be implementing 4 8s as full time since study after study has shown that productivity actually increases when executed properly. There is measurable incentive for companies to transition to it.

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  • Or you just stagger your workforce. Some are off Mondays, some are off Fridays, some can choose a midweek day as their regular day off. It's not super complicated; managers just don't want to put any effort into changing this.

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  • By actually being better than their competition and "let the free market decide"? Oh wait, no, that's just for deregulation.

  • Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’

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  • Yeah, you're probably right. I never thought "good" was on the table for him, but if he had used his wealth to get enough good things done for everybody, I could've overlooked a few things and thought of him as "okay".

  • I'm both happy and scared!

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  • I was in your situation until about a week ago. It's such a relief once the bed moves and you get to start sleeping in your new house, but the first few sleeps were not very restful for me. Try to replicate your good sleep situation as best as you can. For me, that means a fan for air flow and white noise, plus blackout curtains to block out both the sunrise and outside noises. I'm assuming you would bring all of your normal bedding stuff.

    I think that the best part was waking up in the house and being able to get coffee brewing and breakfast cooking while playing some Ray Lamontagne on the stereo. Do yourself a favor and think of how you want to start your first morning in your house and set yourself up!

    Congratulations!

  • Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’

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  • Fuck Musk, but the model 3 launched at like $35k and was eligible for a sizeable rebate. If you were already looking to buy a similar sized new car in 2019, it was relatively competitive. I don't remember what the rebate amount was, but I'm sure it took at least $5k off.

    The issue is that instead of continuing that trend of basically replacing the Honda Civic, he built a fugly, terrible, overpriced truck whose existence could only ever be excused by its concept being a make-a-wish request from a now-dead six year old. Alas, there are no dead six year olds to blame for that monstrosity. We should've had a reliable and affordable EV accessible to nearly every working family in the country. We should've had a whole damn fleet of EV freight trucks, possibly with some autonomous driving, at least across long interstate roads where they would just need to keep pace, stay in lane, and not crash. Instead we got a newer, dumber, more dangerous Hummer.

    Again, fuck Musk. He could've been okay, but he chose to be awful instead.

  • 'You deceived millions of us!': Trump fans tell him they're outraged over Navy pick

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  • This is the most terrifying part. They say that he's "liberated" now, but to me that just means he has nothing to lose. Assuming he lives past January 2029, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain by throwing all resources into staying in power. He has no reason to give a fuck about whether anything he does or says is "popular" once he's sworn in. There will be zero consequences for anything until he leaves office, if he leaves office.

    The dumb motherfucker proved that somebody with the mentality of a six year old can win the US presidency and then do whatever the fuck he wants, and he'll never face a single, real, goddamn consequence. I am ashamed of my country, and it's horribly depressing how many people died serving our military just to have this flag-hugging dipshit get to be the commander in chief, and he'll sell out to the highest bidders and get several more killed.

    We're fucked, and only a small fraction of his worshipers are even beginning to see that. And when the shit hits their fan specifically, most of them will find a way to blame somebody else, probably somebody who is brown and/or has a vagina. Most of these incurious assholes will line up for whatever strong daddy negs them hard enough, and right now that's trump, and there will be a new strong daddy successor to tell them what to do and who to love and how to dress. Strong daddy hurts you and controls you, but at least you don't have to make decisions for yourself when you have strong daddy there to tell you what to think.

    Fucking pathetic.

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  • The massive increase in ads on YouTube specifically pisses me off. I totally understand that ads are necessary to keep it free, but it's just insane how bad the ad problem has gotten. I used to be fine with watching YouTube on my PS5 until like a year ago. It went from a 7 second skippable ad every 5 minutes or so to a 30-60 second ad break every 3 minutes or so. And at the same time, they started cracking down on ad blockers.

    I would gladly sit through occasional, short ad breaks. They've altered that deal, and so I've changed habits, so now instead of living with some ads, I experience none. ReVanced or Firefox with ad blockers work great to achieve this.

    Loosely related gripe: I just learned that with-ads tier of Max disables downloads and Netflix's limits you to 15 downloads. Why in the fuck are you giving paying customers a worse experience than what pirates can get? I'm already paying and still sitting through ads, and you're gonna restrict my ability to use your service away from Wi-Fi? Fuck all the way off with that shit.

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  • Yep. I started playing Rocket League when it became free to play. After playing for a couple of years, I decided that I had easily gotten over $10 worth of fun out of it, and so I felt justified in spending that to get a new car body that I wanted. And because it's closer to the shape of the actual hitbox of the car I was playing with, it actually made it easier for me to judge how I would hit things. I've never played a $60-70 game for 4 years, so $10 on this has been money well spent.

  • Trump hush-money case sentencing postponed indefinitely

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  • Fucking cowards. He's not legally immune from prosecution, it's just DOJ policy to not prosecute a sitting president. And the recent presidential immunity opinion from the SCOTUS just said that a president is immune from being prosecuted for official presidential acts, which this fucking wasn't. And he's not yet a sitting president. Also, the prosecution is done. Just sentence him and then the case will be done with, and this can be done well before he's sworn in. If he feels like appealing it after he's sworn in, then he's consenting to court activity while he's in office.

    I'm so sick of everybody bending over backwards to give him a pass.

  • 'Bomb Cyclone' Becomes One Of The Northeast Pacific's Strongest On Record As It Hammers West Coast

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  • Interesting. Thanks!

    Per NOAA, "In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used." Source. I thought that the appropriate term for a hurricane-like storm anywhere in the Pacific was "typhoon," but it appears that that is reserved for the Western Pacific. So continuing your trend of learning a thing about this and helping others learn it today too!

  • Texas offers Donald Trump huge ranch for mass deportation plan

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  • Interesting. When the topic is punishment, there are plenty of resources. When the topic is helping people, it's "who's footing the bill for that?!" I never saw a headline about a 1400 acre ranch being offered up to house people in poverty, but it gets offered up to imprison people with the "wrong" names and skin color. And they have the audacity to parade out "America first!" as a slogan to prioritize helping Americans before worrying about solving problems around the world.

    Punishing people for allegedly coming here illegally will do nothing to help me. Them allegedly having come here illegally never hurt me. Help people who have been unhoused or addicted to harmful substances or traumatized by abuse to get to a place where that can be productive in our society. That would obviously help them, and then they would be able to help their communities. It's complicated and it's difficult, but it's work worth doing. I'm tired of lazy politicians and leaders looking for quick and easy solutions to fabricated problems so they can maximize the number of boxes that get checked. And that's a generous read on it. The reality is that they're greedy whores accepting money and power in exchange for punishing certain people while rewarding certain companies.

    Republican politicians don't give a flying fuck about you and yours.

  • How are people so chill about co-workers stealing food?

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  • Steal from the company, not from the employees.

  • According to the Wall Street Journal, "Wicked" Parts One and Two cost $320 million ($160 million per film). Both parts were shot back-to-back.

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  • I really do. I think it will be more Lion King remake than Cats adaptation. But I'm ready to admit that I was wrong if people don't line up in droves for it. I think the first will do much better than the second, because a ton of people will say "the ending sucked. It just stopped without any resolution. And there wasn't even half the songs from Wizard of Oz."

  • According to the Wall Street Journal, "Wicked" Parts One and Two cost $320 million ($160 million per film). Both parts were shot back-to-back.

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  • It really grinds my gears that they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they'll be rewarded for it. Together, they'll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.

  • Haircut Adventure

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  • My wife offered to cut my hair. I told her no. She's a very clumsy person lol. I also have a Wahl clipper, but it's for trimming my beard.

  • What side hustles have you personally seen work pretty well?

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  • By "performer" do you mean musician? Playing bars or coffee shops here and there? I've done that for a free drink or two here and there. I think that would be one of my retirement activities if I had loads of free time, but it takes a lot of energy to set it all up and be "on" regularly while also working full time.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    Haircut Adventure

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    My wife is angry with somebody at our bank.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What is the best alternative to Cozi? (shared calendar and list app)

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    Such benefits. Very wow. Praise the almighty job creators.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Their boycotts are always so effective...

  • Antiwork @lemmy.ml
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    Work/Life Balance

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Zuck be pouncing

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    The secret to becoming the cleverest witch of her age

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Can we talk about The Forgotten City?