[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

It's both. Even terrible people with something to lose are less likely to throw it all away.

If this guy makes $35k a year at dollar general, he probably doesn't go on a murder spree.

But you could also just not be an asshole. Why go after random people instead of someone who actually helps cause the bullshit?

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago

They refused to respond to an Australian government investigation. (Because Elon fired the two people who interfaced with Australia.)

The fine is not directly because they haven't cracked down*, but because they couldn't competently answer if they're handling it at all.

(* and they've probably fired enough trust and safety people that they're also having trouble there, but that's not exactly what the fine is for.)

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 year ago

And they think everyone just ate the WMDs in Iraq thing. No, I was there at the protests. Many of us knew it was a bullshit excuse.

The only thing Iraq and Al Qaeda had in common was the Q. We knew that then.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago

Anti-corruption should be bipartisan.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 92 points 1 year ago

After they make the change, someone with an old Hue bulb should go to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Making this decision retroactive is clearly false advertising and anti-consumer. I don't really give a shit what their terms of use were.

They can do what they want with their future bulbs. The old ones need to be grandfathered in.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 163 points 1 year ago

She's not wrong. It's insane that we're still burning coal and oil.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 91 points 1 year ago

Which is kind of weird because most C# devs aren't doing games.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago

Uh, seems like an odd reason to quit your job.

I'd have to quit my job twice a week if I left every time my boss said something dumb.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

The biggest difference I've noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They'll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won't consider the meaning of all those words put together.

And yeah, "upvote does not mean agree" is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I've written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn't translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I've also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that in these situations it's not always their fault. Sometimes two other people have pulled in straight and they're the third. Then the other two leave, and they just look like an ass.

Or maybe they're just an ass. Can really go either way.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago
[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml 119 points 1 year ago

I switched this week.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Serinus@lemmy.ml to c/lifeprotips@lemmy.ml

The prices of the items you buy are not based on how much they cost to produce. The price is based on what people are willing to pay. And the corporations know that most people aren't paying that much attention.

If you put things into your grocery cart without considering what the price was two weeks ago or two months ago, they'll just keep jacking up the price.

Have you noticed that the price of coca-cola has doubled in the past 5 years? Do you look for alternatives, or do you just keep putting it in your cart? Is there a point at which you'll stop buying a particular thing, or does it have to be truly egregious?

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