Lenny users

Lemmy’s evil rich people only sister instance

Maybe they don’t agree the job is necessary.

If you’re patroning the business, you are implicitly conceding the necessity.

I’ll spot you there’s a plethora of Bullshit Jobs, but they are far more likely to be bureaucratic policing or saturation marketing than retail food service.

“It’s what the market will bare”

Burger Flippers Unionize, drive up wages

“They’re making my burgers too expensive!!!”

Me and the Boys in The Soft Underbelly of Europe

After a 40 day trial

Me: resetting my system clock by 39 days

WinRar: “There’s no need to do that. You can just steal it.”

Me: “I’m not a thief”

Reading through the codebase to find where those dastardly .ml devs injected the Leftist Extremism.

The Two Genders

Shanghai maglev

Communism Killed 10 Trillion People, though.

So we have to stick with cars

[Insert image of Chinese EVs]

No, idiot. American cars only.

They’d never attempt the battle due to The Rich’s Legislators and Governor

The private property between SF and LA keeps increasing in price so the costs for the project are in the billions before anything is even built.

Damn, if only eminent domain existed

A lot of it is commercial rail that nobody wants to disrupt

Well, don’t get too comfortable with that. The UK is also going in the direction of Oops, All Cars as they slash rail budgets and build out enormous new highway lines.

There’s a project, California High Speed Rail, under construction to connect these two cities.

Proposition 1A passed in 2008, followed by the awarding of federal stimulus funds in 2010.

The California HSR was a plot point in the second season of True Detective, which began production in January of 2014.

18 years later, the Phase One between San Francisco and Anaheim is still under construction.

I haven’t ever worked at a company where Office was the preference,

I haven’t worked at an office where it wasn’t. And I’ve done years of consulting at Deloitte, so I’ve seen a few places.

Standard Lemmy.world jerk off session.

One Million Henry Cuellars To Defeat Donald Trump

Banning harmless things because a dictator doesn’t like them

What if they’re banning harmful things?

Sometimes I get the sense that people on this site are crypto-libertarians fully invested in Market Based Social Darwinism.

Okay, but wouldn’t an authoritarian government that prohibited the sale of weapons for genocide be just as bad as one that directly orchestrated the sales?

To quote a wise man:

There is absolutely no difference between good and bad things. You idiot. You imbicile.