I don’t think it’s about being doomed and giving up. For me it’s just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.
I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.
The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we’d stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.
Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you’d expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.
I think this conversation is more about office workers than site workers. You need to get on site to do the work but office workers don’t need to actually go in, they are being told they have to come in and the time needed to adhere to an enforced policy should be included in the work day.
I’m not paid well at my current job but it’s also close and I can walk/bike.
I’m looking at jobs that pay me a lot more and it’s not worth it since I have to buy, license, and maintain a car then on top of that I’m driving into work, which blows.
You again! Do you post more tame content on lemmy.ml and keep the bonkers on lemmygrad? If so, that’s appreciated.
(Also no to ownership. All the offices are leased.)
Lol no I wish!
I swear to god we just had all our leases expire and chose to renew ALL OF THEMMMM.
In fact, for the main office we’ve just signed a new multi-year lease in a new building. It’s smaller tho. Renovations currently in progress.
But no raises. Times are too tough.
Ugh I really want to out the company I work at. Of all companies we should be going and advocating for remote.
But we aren’t. ‘Because being with each is SO valuable’.
A little less than the last big one I went to, but not bad. Several thousand people for sure. Critical mass during the walk. The large majority of people bail during the end speeches.
I went to one on Friday (not NY) AMA
I used a tutorial book to help me create a python text game, then I rewrote it and have been casually adding things. I sort of want to re-write it again in Java to see how it compares, I’m more comfortable with java so I’m hoping I could focus more on system design. I’m noticing that the more I add to the base game the more spread out my solutions become, so addressing that is the main interest I have with it.
A new project I’m working on is a simple web scraper. I liked building a lexer/parser in the text game and I think having my own web scraper would be useful.
I’m still learning so I aim for projects I can ‘finish’ in 2-4 weeks.
Oh and a windows notepad that looks like the windows notepad except more customizable. I like the idea of building utilities.
Is there a word for it? When I posted it I was hoping someone might correct me :)
It’s more that the US is all about personal liberty and personal freedoms. Other places that you’re referring to have a charter of rights, which still allow for personal freedoms but are also constructed to protect minorities or at risk groups, like Jewish people.
That said the Bill of Rights that the Americans produced was first of it’s kind and amazing. Personally I just don’t think they got it quite right and charter of rights take into account the personal liberties of all people and not just the dominant majority.
It was built for rich republicans and now it’s home to their base.
Bussing during rush hour sucks no matter what city it is. I’d rather bike, or if I could, I’d drive.
Well actually… driving during rush hour also sucks so I’m not sure between the two. During non-peak hours it’s not bad, kind of expensive though.
I feel like we shouldn’t be arguing with each other about this stuff? It’s like class conflict, wrong enemy.
Damn that’s a lot more than I would think is needed. I think Craigslist had/has like 50 people so I figured you can still keep a business chugging along without a ton of staff.
Throughout all this I haven’t understood why the only thing central authorities seem able to do is raise interest rates. Why can’t the federal or provincial/state government introduce legislation to do exactly what you propose. It’s so damn obvious.
It really feels like everyone is observing the ultra rich and profiteering companies make record profits and then turning around and being like ‘welp, nothing we could possibly do about that’ and then the bank does what it is supposed to do raises interest rates.
I know it’s more complicated than I’m aware, for example if you tax the wealthy they might just leave. Well, they would certainly leave because that is what they do.
It’s probably a tricky line to pull because you can’t just take money from private companies and wealthy families. If we had legislation that allowed that I feel like that would be quite intense or radical, like a course of action not available in the current paradigm. It’s probably that our current system is designed to protect wealthy companies and families, maybe that’s how they exist in the first place and certainly how they continue to exist and get bigger at our expense.
Groceries is that area in a budget that you can adjust to ‘scrape by’ so it can feel sensitive to price fluctuations more than other things. It’s also a $2400+ a year, which is not nothing and is in fact quite a lot for a lot of people. Psychologically it feels like getting kicked in the dick by the economy when I go grocery shopping. I adapt, but it hurts.
Groceries are 6.5-8% of my net income. If I spent the same amount on monthly food that my friends spend it’d be around 15%-20% which would put me in the negative each month. So I also think there is something in here about lifestyle or socioeconomic status which translates into grocery spend.
But not to be totally discouraging… I might not be able to eat well every day, but I can eat well periodically and still hit my budget.
They’ll get more votes but people are still going to vote strategically because what choice do they have.