SoleInvictus

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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even with the fine, it's still financially advantageous for the landlord. They'll make that $100k back in about four years (accounting for taxes) given the extra $700 they're pulling in per tenant. Then they'll just make an extra $2800/month ad perpetuum. There really needs to be greater repercussions for actions like these.

Thankfully no longer the case according to his Patreon account:

https://www.patreon.com/billmessnerloebs

I'D CRANK YOUR HOG AND YOUR DOG'S HOG BROTHER

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I see you're familiar with the Two Santas strategy. Link for those not familiar, and you really need to be familiar.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Let's pretend there are only $100 in our imaginary economy which buys and sells a limited supply of 100 bricks at $1/brick. You ask to borrow $50 to buy 50 bricks, so a lender loans you $50, to be repaid with 10% interest. You work and are paid from the other $50 owned by others. Eventually, you pay back $55 (due to interest). There's still only $100 in the economy throughout this exercise, just the relative proportions owned by people change.

Alternately, the government prints that $50 and gives it to you (this is a gross oversimplification of quantitative easing). Now there are $150 in the system. The brick sellers know the government has done this and that you have more money, so they bump up their prices to $1.50 simply because they want the most money possible. $1 now buys less, 33.3% less.

Sub Rosa always gets my nacelles humming and ready to warp.

How did you react when you found out you won?

How about making their city have more pet capybaras per capita than anywhere else in the United States?

Not yet, but don't give them any ideas!

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's become Quakers and refuse to pay war taxes.

A nuanced and informed opinion... on the Internet?! Very nice, a perfect 5/7.

 

Seriously people, use the fucking fan. It clears away odors and covers up the sounds of your dropping a deuce. If you want to stew in your shit smell and revel in the music of your magical poop plops, do so in the comfort of your own home. If you're a guest and the bathroom has a fan, turn it on. We don't want to share.

 

"I live in a right-to-work state, so my employer can shitcan me for any reason".

-Linus K. Lemming

Sorry friends, that's at-will employment, *and you still can't be terminated for any reasons that are protected by law, but we're not here to discuss that. Right-to-work laws mean one thing: that non-union employees cannot be required to contribute to the cost of union representation.

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 prohibits "closed shops", where union membership is a condition of employment; however, union represented positions can still be required to contribute to the cost of that representation. Right-to-work laws prohibit that requirement, allowing employees in union represented positions who choose not to join the union to also choose whether or not they contribute to the union's costs, i.e., if they pay dues or not.

I see this mistake frequently and thought folks might want to know the correct information so they don't unintentionally perpetuate it.

Edit: updated to include link to info about at-will employment.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12310804

Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30

Hey all! I've been having an issue I can't figure out. Suddenly, I realized I'm in the heart of Linux users! I can ask here! I'm a total noob, so please be gentle.

I installed Xubuntu and got everything but the touchscreen working properly. The touchscreen works but the cursor is consistently off a bit, with the least error in the center of the screen and increasing as it moves to the sides. I've tried running xinput_calibrator but it doesn't help. I attempted to run libinput.calibrate-touchscreen but keep getting a "is a Wayland compositor running?" error message.

Any suggestions?

 

Hey all! I've been having an issue I can't figure out. Suddenly, I realized I'm in the heart of Linux users! I can ask here! I'm a total noob, so please be gentle.

I installed Xubuntu and got everything but the touchscreen working properly. The touchscreen works but the cursor is consistently off a bit, with the least error in the center of the screen and increasing as it moves to the sides. I've tried running xinput_calibrator but it doesn't help. I attempted to run libinput.calibrate-touchscreen but keep getting a "is a Wayland compositor running?" error message.

Any suggestions?

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