Isn’t that the same kind of manipulation they’re accusing Musk of currently? He literally wants to buy the elections.

The thing is, if Bezos wants the deliveries to take longer, they will. And he can easily lie about it and tell people it’s not his fault.

People have told me and my friend to be silent twice before when we were talking in a respectful quiet tone, not even addressing anyone else.

It seems the rest of the world has decided that saunas need to be quiet, when the actual Finnish thing is a social event. You have a beer, sometimes a sausage on the oven. I don’t know what the point of a stfu wellness sauna in a gym is.

Yeah you stupid pay pigs, don’t you know economics!? Supply and demand! Just stop demanding the resource we spent decades making indispensable and kept artificially scarce!

They died from the shock. 😔

My proposal is based on fair prices to begin with. I’m saying we as humanity don’t have enough work capacity to sustain ourselves if we don’t contribute a certain minimum because of necessities. I’m not simping for capitalism, I’m saying there’s a lower limit of work hours a day we need to contribute to even exist.

2017 BMW i3, original version. Can’t do shit, I upgraded with Android Auto and a rear camera. Just… the doors… But otherwise I love it.

I don’t know who would make the opposite claim. Everything I hear has always been “hardly anyone would go back”.

And “does the distinction actually matter”!

We’d have to double to triple the workforce in logistics and construction and other necessary sectors. A reduction in work hours necessarily means a reduction in standard of living - even with CEO wages factored in - because the overhead of necessities grows compared to societal achievements. We need the same amount of food delivered and the same amount of houses built, but now it takes two to three times as many people to do it. The same applies to doctors or teachers, so the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This assumes steady productive output. In some sectors, this assumption is wrong, but I think it’s a fair assumption for logistics and construction.

Putting all essential jobs together (health, education, construction, logistics, agriculture, food retail, utilities, public administration, plus the required manufacturing and IT infrastructure) is already 50-55% of the workforce. In order for everyone to halve their workday, we’d all have to exclusively work only for the status quo. Which means no watches, no smartphones, no TV, no cinema, no museums, no parks.

A reduction of work hours would be nice, no question. But we also have to remember that the work goes somewhere and time/energy/resource efficiency matters on a fundamental biological level. We have to be a productive part of society for it to function, and while this is usually co-opted by capitalists to extract money, it remains a fact of life.

E: We’re already having healthcare only because we’re exploiting healthcare workers to the maximum. Even at the current status quo, treating them fairly would just not work. We’re already in a state of broken equilibrium between what we need and what we want. The healthcare workforce would have to double only for them to have a 40h work week.

And then there’s people with three jobs who still can’t make ends meet. I propose we make the 40h week work for everyone first before we reduce further.

Banquet my ass. More like shitty high school cafeteria lunch.

Same experience with a really old German book. He wanted to know the color of the hat one of the side characters was wearing. I had no clue, after investing so much time into trying to understand it. That kinda made me give up - why try to participate when the outcome is the same as if I didn’t?

Have you ever looked at code and thought “oh this is beautiful”? Or - even better - have had someone else look at your code and say it? Pure bliss.

You could try needles or sounding or a cage. Kicks aren’t the only option!

oh cool, i didn’t know about those!

Easy mode.

I’ve actively started doing tickets manually again. Just reviewing is exhausting, and yes, in part because I’m overwhelmed by what I don’t understand. I’m somewhat new in our codebase and letting AI do all the work means I’ll never get to know it in depth. That means I’m not meeting the productivity goals managers have already adopted, though. :/

And it’ll even sometimes show relevant results!

Seriously though, noai.ddg is my default, but I still have to switch to google way too often.

Fuck.