[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, but to be faaaaiirrrrr, the truly rich don’t collect a salary. It is arguable that if a person’s income is subject to income tax, the person is not a capitalist but a worker. The rich have all kinds of ways to avoid declaring income.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago

Driving in a Lyft operated by a sovcit who’s as evidently unhinged as this person would be terrifying. As if the lighting wasn’t a red flag for a “professional” service vehicle.

With licensed cabs, at least, there’s ostensibly a cab operator who is required to maintain insurance for the business license; with ride share you’re hoping some tech bros have insurance.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

HBC has a dark history but in modern form, it could have also provided important competition to Amazon. Apologies are in order nonetheless.

Aside: it’s amazing how HBC, Sears, etc. had successful mail-order/catalog businesses before Amazon came along and built a mail-order system on the internet - and completely threw away their lead.

The PE firm should be required to liquidate assets in order to pay the severance owed to the employees. It is a moral failure of the government and society to allow them to get away without paying.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 weeks ago

In which case it is clearly industrialized piracy-at-scale and should be handled in the same way.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Enforcement needs to be part of a multifaceted approach. Designing streets to match their speed limits is one of those facets. That means that the ever-popular 5-lane “stroad” shouldn’t exist, and certainly shouldn’t have direct access to schools, parking lots, and driveways, because it’s simply not workable to keep the speed limit to a reasonable 40kph when the design says 80. Just as one example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-v2-qyCc8

And this guy is still an idiot.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago

The original movie was made very much with an audience from 100 years ago in mind. Boomers have nostalgia for it, so can’t change the script too much. Meanwhile, millennials are socially aware and see the problems with the story. Disney tried to make everyone happy, and generate a little bit of free press, and failed to make anyone happy.

This was a remake that should never have gotten off the ground.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Less caffeine, less alcohol, sleep hygiene, less news cycle (I swore I wouldn’t get sucked into the trump bullshit, but when he’s making EOs that directly impact me…).

Moving my caffeine away from my medication (shifting meds 45 min later).

L-theanine, magnesium, B-complex.

Honestly though, caffeine and alcohol are bad. I didn’t have much caffeine, but the alcohol was a bit of a binge habit. None during week, but weekends were well above the national guidelines.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago

This sounds a little bit like sovcit noise.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 months ago

A gentle reminder to not buy things you don’t need simply because they’re supposedly Canadian, or replace things simply because they’re from USA.

Billionaires don’t need more funding.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago

“We’re so mad that you manufacture things cheaper than us, that we’re gonna make it so we pay more for those things.”

America doesn’t have aluminum manufacturing capacity. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aluminum-kitimat-quebec-tariffs-jobs-1.7472032

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately Europe has no competitior at present but more importantly they’re a long way from having a suitable (reusable, rapid cadence) launch vehicle. Ariane 6 is still not ready for prime time, the launch cadence can’t touch SpaceX, and the costs are higher. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/europes-first-ariane-6-flight-achieved-most-of-its-goals-but-ended-prematurely/

I’d leave Starlink in an instant if there was a reasonable alternative.

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