Not_Alec_Baldwin @ Not_Alec_Baldwin @lemmy.world

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Yep, I got an EV purely for the savings.

Then you're not blind, my friend 😂

People that are blindly anti-capitalism and pro something else (usually social/communism) tend to justify their feelings by saying that all of human weakness (greed, corruption, laziness) are the fault of capitalism.

People that are blindly pro-capitalism tend to blame all the failures of capitalism on regulation.

Really, all the failures of all our systems seem to be that humans are greedy, selfish creatures. And regulation is the (only?) thing that governs human weaknesses.

MAYBE, if we manage to generate a post-scarcity world, we'll be able to manage that greed problem. I definitely experience feelings of kindness and generosity with my friends, family, or in times/places where I'm not stressed/rushed/feeling scarcity.

But I don't know how pathetic, greedy humans ever generate a post scarcity world.

The real controversy seems to be around her calling them fromage fighters.

Edit: FREEDOM fighters lmao, but I can't bring myself to fix it.

What are you even talking about?

There is no technically beneficial reason to using carbon fiber in a submarine hull. It won't happen again, and it shouldn't have happened in the first place.

It's like making a car out of Swiss cheese, it's just pointless.

The data is not important.

Everyone knows exactly how it failed.

They used GLUE to stick carbon fiber to titanium.

All three of those components behave very different under pressure.

Every engineer warned them against the use of carbon fiber and the bonehead CEO insisted because he liked it.

It's literally an ego trip that got 5 people killed.

Anything that can happen will happen, and because the manual is finite, eventually the will be a situation that the company is unprepared for.

Take responsibility, yes, but don't act beyond your authority. Tell the person that you'll find out, and ask the appropriate person.

If there is time pressure, don't take on more than you can reliably handle - don't take info and promise to contact the person unless you can do that. It's always better to give the person contact information and ask them to call or come back.

For years companies loved "I can" statements. "I can help you with that", "I can find out for you", etc. But I think that might have fallen out of favor, check with someone younger than me (lol!).

I'm in support of not negotiating with terrorists. If I'm captured, kill me. I'm likely too suffer and then die anyway, and be leverage in the process. Fuck that.

If you decide to START history in 1947 you might miss out on over a thousand years of Muslim aggression towards Jews.

I'm no Quran expert but people seem to talk about numerous passages where Muhammad went on one rant or another about how awful they were.

https://www.answering-islam.org/authors/roark/hate_jews.html

Also the regional conflict goes way farther than the 20th century.

https://www.profolus.com/topics/origin-causes-israeli-palestinian-conflict-explained/

Poe's Law strikes again.

Misread the post.

Costco.

It's not all companies that are trash. It's just most.

Costco is (afaik) not unionized, though the company is union friendly (there may be unionized stores?). They are publicly traded. And workers are paid better than a living wage and have a bunch of benefits.

The company chooses to do this despite their shareholder responsibility, and I will never shut up about it.

Once you're getting a fair shake, if the company establishes trust, you can get rid of the union. And the company can save the money they spend trying to ruin your lives on something else instead. Not all companies are trash.

But most are.

It's absolutely vital for governments to promote workers' ability to unionize and provide employees with rights to protect them from corporate greed.

That's because the manager is incentivized to not help you, while the union is incentivized to help you.

Unions are game-theoretically necessary.

Yep.

It's the way market forces work.

Markets aren't moral. So while this is how it works, that doesn't make it good. It's so important for governments to protect workers for exactly this reason.

On this front, America is a literal joke.

I didn't mean to sound like I was blaming you - I realize how it came across that way and I'm sorry.

Your situation sucks. And I know you're not alone, there are tons of areas that have what basically works out to a labor surplus. It drives wages down because there's no protection for workers and the minimum wage is a fucking joke.

I'm playing with a friend but we just host locally.

It's tricky because either you have to double everything, or you have to share resources... Which creates random and very interesting problems.

We're enjoying it, but I'm not sure it's faster or easier than solo. Unless you've each already figured out the processes individually.

Because clearly she randomly fainted from low blood pressure and slammed her head repeatedly on the pavement.

You are getting paid less than $8.33/hr at a challenging job?

Unless you're getting hella personal satisfaction you need to pound pavement.