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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Narrator: they were hypocritical

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The year: 1859

The Union took the worst possible course with "reconstruction": it placated and allowed the rot to persist, grow and self-govern again while having equal voice so quickly to states that didn't attempt to secede. The north should have either just let the south secede, or finished the job with a full-scale cultural annihilation that would have taken decades. We have been fighting the civil war since 1860, the civil rights movement a major battle but have now ceded government power to a group who wants to finally kill the union and get revenge on those terrible folks who took away their slave labor.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would enter "memories of murder". It goes toe to toe with Rear Window as one of the best suspense movies ever made, and MOM would go on my top 50 in any language any genre.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Lol "cut off the water"

Nothing needs doing less. The entirety of the SW is entering the "FO" phase of 1950s hubris, and LV is low-hanging fruit. With the advent of the Internet and business model change to maximize revenue in every single moment, it's easy to lose to online gambling as a proposition it was always going to be an uphill climb.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (6 children)

If "capital gains not taxed" didn't leap off the page at you, you are a poor slob who must actually have w-2 income? Keep up the good work while the wealthy sleep soundly on the tax code they bought and wrote.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'd love to see the HR team at Uline, must be some real data analysis specialists with these tired-as-fuck tropes.

Much, much more damaging to companies than employees looking for better work are managers who are unable or unwilling to see who their actions and behaviors contribute to issues.

  1. Did you try paying above minimum wage or even "50th percentile" of market for jobs where you have high turnover?

  2. Do you ensure your employees have adequate holidays and Time Off? And by that I mean they don't actually have to work on their personal time or jump through hoops to take time off work? You're an employer, not an overseer, staff your company so that you don't have to exhaust the employees you do have who do want to be there.

  3. Do you train and onboard people at all? When was the last time they did a deep dive into the new hire experience? The answers are there for the taking from people who are largely unbiased and ready to tell you what is needed for them to be successful. On aggregate, all that takes are a few fucks given to find the issues and address them.

  4. Leadership who start by blaming the least powerful group in explanations always set a good course for company culture.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"...told the FT it’s becoming difficult to stay ahead of the curb..."

Watch out for that curb, so incredibly difficult to stay ahead of, always moving, adjusting and changing as curbs do against sets of data.

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Yikes.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Paywall, link?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Go broke or go home

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"this will not be used for blanket surveillance"

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I can't imagine how this might be (mi's)used...

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App used to automatically load posts from what I recall but no longer seems to even under "all" categories so it's certainly not a "tiny communities/no new posts” thing. If I scroll back to the top of "all" and drag down to refresh, new content loads

Boost/Lemmy/android/pixel8a but seems like a server issues unless I've missed a setting somewhere?

 

Right wing media and think tanks consistently blitz the news and press when tax increases are discussed, threatened or, in the recnent instance of Mamdani, the new more progressive mayor of NY, that progressive taxation policy drives the rich to leave.

I wanted to share this article about the UK media outlets misleading, inaccurate and over representation of coverage here of the identical issue as the same schlock fear mongering without any data is done there as in the US. I assume the playbook is the same in Canada, Australia and elsewhere but would be interested to hear from those better informed.

Coordinated, well funded attacks on critical democratic infrastructure are not coincidence globally, they are the playbook.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/29858954

 

As someone >90th percentile in height and >75th percentile in weight for the US, I've found in the last 5 years I now no longer fit into most "Large" size clothing and need to buy more "Medium" sized clothing. I haven't lost/gained weight nor shrunk(that I'm aware of). Statistically, numerically and culturally this seems strange.

Anyone else find sizes that "should" or "used to" fit have morphed and you now shop different sizes where your body size hasn't changed?

A few random calculators: https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/ https://simulconsult.com/resources/measurement.html?type=weight

 
 

OregonLive is known for gating links after the fact, so here's the important bit for folks living under the Sinclair or Nexstar umbrellas:

"If you live in a broadcast region run by the Sinclair or Nexstar media companies, you can only watch the full Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Hulu (free trial) streaming the day after it airs, or you can watch Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and more clips from the show on YouTube shortly after it airs (this should be some time after 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday)."

 

OregonLive is known for gating links after the fact, so here's the important bit for folks living under the Sinclair or Nexstar umbrellas:

"If you live in a broadcast region run by the Sinclair or Nexstar media companies, you can only watch the full Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Hulu (free trial) streaming the day after it airs, or you can watch Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and more clips from the show on YouTube shortly after it airs (this should be some time after 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday)."

 

I assume the company, regardless of its home nation, would issues new shares for the new market and the income from equity issued would be added to the overall corporate balance sheet.

I ask; isn't this essentially, for current shareholders, a dilution? While opening new markets is generally positive for growth, existing shareholders get no stake in the new issued shares right? Existing shares they have don't gain in value at all from the price of another trade/exchange value right? Are there share classes where maybe new issuance would actually make them increase in value?

Own shares in a foreign market that I think will expand to the US soon and wanted to make sure I understood impact.

 

Using android keyboard users can easily search GIFs but get a notice the app doesn't support inserting them into comments. Would like to have this feature.

Thank you for considering.

 

Yell at your local governments to stop flushing money on tax breaks.

 

Pharma manufacturer Gilead making available at cost (2 million doses in most needed countries) while generics are developed and can later be distributed. Decent play from a Pharma company.

 

Help me understand the administration angle here. I mean, obviously, it disenfranchises American workers and corps have been abusing it for 30nyears now, no news there. Is it to pressure concessions elsewhere from tech companies as the corporate-technofascist state solidifies?

Here's an article from 2022 about how when working in VC he of course invested in companies that proscribe to the visa abuse practices he's railing against: https://www.axios.com/2022/04/22/jd-vances-investments-made-use-of-h-1b-visas-he-opposes

Is the snake eating it's tail here? Is the left hand slapping the right hand? TF.

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