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Boomers: Lets make wives the butt of every joke.

Also Boomers: skinner meme Why are our wives divorcing us? Could we be the problem? No, it’s divorce that’s the problem.

because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90’s

Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?

it’s a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there’s the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you’re not going to do it?

What are the specific DVD discs you’re using?

If it’s got any type of rewriteable ability, it likely won’t play in a DVD player.

If I remember I had the best luck with DVD-R discs ( NOT DVD+R ) but it has to do with the dvd burner and the final dvd player they end up in. Might be worth trying both.

edit: just read your comment that it previously worked but stopped working? In that case Id agree that maybe your DVD burner needs a replace

lol, only left-wing brains manage to be pissed when their movement grows too much

yeah the right is guilty of sheeping around too much, but the left is the opposite - they won’t unite unless they feel 100% aligned. Stop purity testing each other and embrace the guy who is just here at talk about how much their bosses suck.

you don’t understand, every challenge your employee faces is a good chance to test them further!!

of course don’t ever try to apply this to the boss by testing their character / reaction etc when they are under stress, they’re fine at it - and testing them shows a lack of trust

always at least 2 tiers with these people

I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the ‘risk’ for the rich never plays out.

The rich don’t actually risk their money. They risk the government’s money and other’s lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don’t pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.

Rather than inflating everything, why don’t we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE

all these takes kinda suck.

The people most affected by inflation aren’t the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.

Because capitalism = cancer. It survives on endless growth. it hates retraction, even if the host survives longer.

So they print money and target inflation. They take actions that MAKE it so things never deflate.

The most horrible thing about being in the USA is the lack of holidays. We are always working. They can’t have us traveling or having any time to think.

The contrast between capitalist and precapitalist work patterns is most striking in respect to the working year. The medieval calendar was filled with holidays. Official—that is, church—holidays included not only long ‘vacations’ at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer but also numerous saints’ and rest days. They were spent in sober churchgoing and in feasting, drinking, and merrymaking. In addition to official celebrations, there were often weeks’ worth of ales-to mark important life events (bride ales or wake ales) as well as less momentous occasions (scot ale, lamb ale, and hock ale). All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one third of the year. And the English were apparently working harder than their neighbors. The ancient regime in France is reported to have guaranteed fifty-two Sundays, ninety rest days, and thirty-eight holidays. In Spain, travelers noted that holidays totaled five months per year.

yet I’m told as a modern American that I should be happy to get 5 weeks of vacation a year.

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and theres this

The degradation which most workers experience on the job is the sum of assorted indignities which can be denominated as ‘discipline.’…Discipline consists of the totality of totalitarian controls at the workplace—surveillance, rotework, imposed work tempos, production quotas, punching-in and out, etc. Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital. It is something historically original and horrible. It was beyond the capacities of such demonic dictators of yore as Nero and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible. For all their bad intentions they just didn’t have the machinery to control their subjects as thoroughly as modern despots do.

oh my boss felt entitled to this recently

they point blank told me they needed me in the office because ‘they owned the building’ (read: they think they are entitled to use their employees time and resources to prop up the value of their commercial real estate)

they also spent the time during the pandemic installing a giant paid cafeteria, so they were hoping to capture some of that lunch revenue I mentioned for themselves, or the company they sub-contracted with

(yes, I did quit, get a new job, and a raise)

I work remote and do see that money. Let me explain how:

• I save money on car maintenance, gas, and business attire.

• I save money on food by eating at home or eating in my neighborhood instead, which adds value to my neighborhood and creates businesses in my neighborhood instead of my bosses

• I save roughly 2 hours of getting ready / commute time per day, and time is money.

What’s wild is that my boss ever felt entitled to all of that for their benefit.

very hit and miss. It’s okay if Im trying to learn something new, and once or twice it has found and suggested some fix that I probably wouldn’t have thought of otherwise - but it also makes up methods & syntax and then you’re playing ‘whack a mole’ to figure out where it hallucinated.

I think right now it’s not really boosting my productivity much, but I think in another 5ish years it could be better.

I’m curious what your area of expertise is? I’m interested in using ai for a programming assistant, but it seems an entirely different skillset than, say, a language model. I assume some models will be good in 1 area and some models in another

Seems like it was a mix between usenet being a magnet for piracy, which all the ISPs were getting pressure to combat, and demand for usenet cratering - as newer users came on the internet they went to other places (myspace had started which appealed more to young users)

This is why everyone should take steps to protect their privacy. You don’t have to go 0-100 overnight. Just audit yourself and do a few things now. Keep those habits up. Then audit and add a few more things, repeat.

I need to do this myself, I’ve been slipping

is this the 2023 version of dogs playing poker?

reddit was always heavily moderated for real piracy discussion, I believe

Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!