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jtrek

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  • I used to have a stupidly large beard. One time a pack of girls was walking by in Manhattan, dressed like they were going to a club or something. After we passed each other, one of them said something like "I want a man with a big ol beard like that! Rwar!"

    I choose to believe it was about me and that made me happy.

    On the other hand, one time I was in an elevator and it stopped on a lower floor before the lobby. Door opened and a woman looked at me and the mega beard. She turned around and took the stairs.

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    An AI hate wave is here

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  • Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

  • I would kill for decent public transportation in this fucking country

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  • This is part of my I'm an insufferable snob about living in NYC. I just walk places. Sometimes take a bus or subway. Never think about it very hard. Never worry about traffic, parking, gas, insurance. Don't feel guilty about casually polluting (in this specific way). It's nice.

  • Virginia becomes first Southern state to mandate paid family and medical leave for workers

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  • Fucking idiots can’t see the whole picture. Don’t understand economies of scale.

    From what I've been reading about it in "dying of whiteness" it's not that they don't understand. They understand. Conservatives just don't want the outgroups (eg: black people) to benefit. That's it. They'd rather die themselves.

  • This is a shitpost

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  • It's a horrible policy that people stop paying social security tax at like $200k or something. That's backwards. The first $50k or so should be untaxed, and it should ramp up from there.

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Unfortunately there is a large contingent of people who would literally rather die than have their out-group have something nice like public transit. (It's conservative whites)

    I started reading "dying of whiteness" and it's infuriating

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  • Are you mad about parents teaching their children their values?

  • America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the reason why

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  • Return to office mandates should be climate crimes and the people responsible should be punished appropriately. I want to see these CEO ghouls and souless VPs on the side of the road picking up trash for the rest of their damned lives.

  • Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology - flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data Extraction Factory'

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  • This is really quite "are we the baddies?"

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    Organize your workplace

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  • I'm really not sure why they don't just hire the contractors full time, since they're keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can't be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.

    It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.

  • Trump’s More Than 3,700 Trades Astonish Wall Street Insiders

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  • They just want their team to win, even if it means they personally suffer.

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    Is that even so much to ask?

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  • There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people"

    Some people just .. don't. If I had a magic wand I'd just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I'm not sure how to level it up from "we're reading this" to include "and we did some critical analysis". Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don't understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that's entirely about thinking.

    A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it's on hiatus.

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    Organize your workplace

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  • The place I work (a multinational company but not one you've probably heard of) has been hiring almost exclusively "contractors" for a while.

    They hire someone to be a software developer or qualify assurance engineer or whatever, but via a third party staffing company. Then that person acts exactly like a full time employee - goes to meetings, does work, reports to a boss - except they don't get the same benefits as full timers.

    This seems like it shouldn't be legal, but most people are too worried about losing their job to push much about it.

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    Republican Jim Jordan gives stark message to Americans reeling over rising gas prices: ‘That’s life’

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  • It's just a tribal thing for a lot of people. They'd die personally if it means the out-group suffers more.

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that "word recognition is a preoccupation" and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between "pony" and "horse", Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as "pony" and "horse" are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.

    Absolute nightmare

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool

    Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.

    Also there's a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like "it's just a story it doesn't have any deeper meaning!". Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don't find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)

  • lmao

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  • Conservatives tend to be some mix of stupid, cruel, and willfully ignorant. You have to be or the worldview falls apart.

  • 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don't need all the bells and whistles.