[-] arensb@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The nafety for safety.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

I’m pretty sure I saw that headline, with X = Obama or Elizabeth Warren or someone. Then it got shot down because… Idunno, they probably would have blown it all on rent and food and car repairs instead of Job Creation.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"I don't get it, dad. What's a check?"

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also known as the Wal-Mart business model.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

For some reason, that one didn’t annoy me as much. Maybe I saw that season only after it came out on DVD, and thought “yeah, this is dated, but I see how it landed when it was still fresh. This season, I’m watching the episodes within a day or two of them coming out, so it feels like getting stale bread at the bakery.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

So they name this episode Parasites Regained.

Not sure if everyone here knows that Paradise Regained is Milton's sequel to his earlier Paradise Lost.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

A big part of why this season feels stale is that its topical references are several years old. Like Dune and Ivermectin, in this episode. Was this season written two years ago and is only being released now?

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Some years ago, employees sued Amazon because the company had a lengthy security scan when people left, to prevent theft. Apparently it could take half an hour to go through, and they argued that this was unpaid overtime.

They lost, which seems like bullshit: as far as I can tell, the sane way to look at it is, if you're obligated to do what the company tells you and go where the company says, then you're on the job and should be paid for it. Once you're out the door, you can choose whether you want to go home or go to a bar or just sit on the sidewalk; you're not on the clock and you're not getting paid.

If the company wants you to work 8 hours in the warehouse, then spend half an hour in the security scan, then you're doing company business for 8.5 hours.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Could you do a better job than him

"I could've not drunk-bought Twitter, thereby saving $44 billion."

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Step 3: Profit!

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I can say that some websites don’t work on Firefox

threads.net comes to mind. That annoyed me until I opened the console and saw that it was because of an infinite number of cross-site origin violations, at which point I lost interest in Threads.

[-] arensb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, just for contrast: imagine someone who graduates from med school, immediately gets a job as a neurosurgeon making $200,000/year — No, let's say she really works hard, and is very good at her job, and spends wisely, and actually manages to save $200,000/year. Let's say she manages to keep this up every year for 50 years. How much does she have when she retires? $20 million, less than if Elon Musk lost 99% of everything, and then lost 99% again.

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