Science: knowledge workers stop being consistently productive past 40 hours per week, and probably less than that

Rentier-capitalists hot boxing their own farts recreationally: ackshually the problem is we let you dirty fucking peasants go home to sleep at all

GenZ is the generation raised by helicopter parents, whose late-Boomer-to-early-GenX parents went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that they never faced any challenges. Of course they’d have some odd ideas about how the world ought to work, after spending their entire childhood and early adulthood with Mom and Dad working strenuously to shield them from personal struggles, emotional distress, and the consequences of their actions. What remains to be seen is how those attitudes shift as the rubber hits the road and their parents lose the ability to protect them from the increasingly dire state of the world. I suspect it’ll be an even three-way split between blithe entitlement, despair and withdrawal, and an impulse to step up and do something about it.

I love it, but I haven’t gone back to watch it since 2016 because it felt a bit too much like current events played for laughs.

Cops don’t usually distinguish between net and gross revenue when they put out these kinds of press releases.

I’m assuming that most of the people making these arguments (at least on Lemmy) are coming from the “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs” point of view where they presuppose some sort of command economy scenario, with housing being a basic right provided by the state and work being an optional thing you can do if you want to.

Which is all well and good, but we’re not in that society right now, and the suffering of the unhoused isn’t something that just goes on hold while we wait for the proletariat to rise up. There are solutions that we can implement now that will make things better, which work better than, I dunno, then the government eminent-domaining every derelict property in East Waynesvilleboro, Pennsyltucky, and shipping homeless people there en masse, away from family members and support systems.

True as it may be that there are more vacant homes than there are homeless people in America, the expression misses the forest for the trees. In many cases, those homes are vacant for a reason – they may be located in places like dying rural villages, or declining Rust Belt manufacturing towns where the local economy is severely depressed and there’s no work to be had for residents. They may also be severely dilapidated and unsafe to live in. Solving the housing crisis isn’t as simple as just assigning existing vacant homes to people who don’t have them – housing needs to be in the right place, and of decent quality, too, or else it’s not doing any good.

Okay, but like… Even if the decimal point is supposed to be two places over, how often is Starfleet replacing people’s shoes after they get embedded in the deck plates by a millimeter? Do the floors of transporter rooms get permanently rubberized after enough use? Does Chief O’Brien have a special floor razor tool to scrape shoes off the pad when they’re too deeply embedded to pull out?

On the one hand Ricciardo’s washed, he’s been washed since at least his time at McLaren, and it was long past time for him to move on from F1.

On the other hand, RB as an organization and Marko in particular routinely handle the failings of drivers other than Max in ways that seem calculated to maximize humiliation. It’s honestly reminiscent of the golden child/scapegoat dynamic that often happens in households dominated by a narcissist parent, and it’s one of the reasons why I’ve always suspected that Red Bull has a particularly toxic team culture.

Mine is about the same for family coverage, and the shocking thing is that it’s pretty good relative to the market – my previous employer was about ~100/mo cheaper for an equivalent HDHP plan, but I’ve seen much, much worse.

Honestly, though, even more than the cost (having run the numbers, the tax I’d pay in a European country to cover similar services is about the same, all things considered) is the sheer level of friction that insurers inject into the healthcare system. You have to get a referral to a specialist even if you know you need to see one. You have to get insurance authorization for specialty treatments. You have to think about deductibles and out-of-pocket-maximums, and Lord help you if you start having complex medical problems around the end of the year and the maximums reset in the middle of your treatment!

We pay out of pocket for a direct primary care pediatrician for our kid (on top of his insurance, to cover any meds or emergencies) and the fact that there’s no insurance to deal with means that it’s vastly easier to get a hold of her to get a medical opinion whenever there’s a bad bump or a strange rash that needs a professional opinion. It’s shocking to see how things could be if insurance companies and PBMs and for-profit hospital networks hadn’t inserted themselves in between patients and doctors, with a sole eye towards making sure they pay out at little as humanly possible while maybe keeping patients alive in the process.

Terrible. Take your upvote and get the hell out of here.

My wife is in the “they’re false-flag psyops” camp, whereas my position is “the ourobouros is eating its own tail.”

You can be smart and evil, but at this point it’s pretty hard to be a conscious human engaged in society and not have an opinion either way.

For what it’s worth, there’s been talk that they’re really having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find true undecided voters willing to go on TV and be part of these panels. That’s unfortunate in the sense that it suggests there aren’t many actually-persuadable voters out there, but these clowns aren’t especially representative of the general electorate, either.

Given how many women he’s knocked up, and the way he talks about it, I’m about 95% sure he’s got a breeding kink that he’s using his fame and money to act it out in real life. 🤮

I did a little digging and it seems like there’s a tiny kernel of fact at the core of this giant turd of a hype-piece, and that is the fact that they electrified this little spur line from Berlin to the new German Tesla factory by using a battery-electric trainset. Which is not a terrible solution for electrifying a very short branch line that presumably doesn’t need frequent all-day service, even if it’s a bit of a janky approach compared to overhead lines. But hand that off to the overworked, underpaid twenty-two-year old gig worker they’ve got doing “editing” at Yahoo for two bucks an article, and I guess it turns into “world-first electric wonder train amazes!”

For a second, though, I read the headline and wondered if Musk and co. had finally looped all the way around to reinventing commuter rail from first principles after all these years of trying to “disrupt” it with bullshit ideas like Hyperloop and Tunnels, But Dumber.

That’s at least more cultured than my brain shouting “MULATTO BUTTS! (Mulatto butts!)” at me

Right now Intel and AMD have less to fear from Apple than they do from Qualcomm – the people who can do what they need to do with a Mac and want to are already doing that, it’s businesses that are locked into the Windows ecosystem that drive the bulk of their laptop sales right now, and ARM laptops running Windows are the main threat in the short term.

If going wider and integrating more coprocessors gets them closer to matching Apple Silicon in performance per watt, that’s great, but Apple snatching up their traditional PC market sector is a fairly distant threat in comparison.

Do you think he capitalized “LAW & ORDER” like that because it’s how it looks in the TV show title sequence?

Doubt it. “RuPaul” and "Lachluster"are too clever to have emerged from the dishwater-soaked, infected sponge sitting on top of his spinal column where a real human would have a brain.

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Lindsey Graham is a piece of shit, but he’s an entertaining piece of shit. Not to mention, he’s like the yappy little Chihuahua that barks bloody murder at whoever the bigger dog he’s hiding behind doesn’t like – I’m pretty sure I could get him on side to shit-talk Thomas to his face for at least the last half of the flight.