SpaceCowboy

u/SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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There was a a daycare that was annoyed by parents that were always late to pick up their kids. This was a problem because it meant the staff would have to work late. So they decided to charge a fine when parents showed up late. Problem solved, right?

Parents were tardy more often after the fine were put in place.

The reason was that people who felt bad about their poor behavior no longer felt bad when they were compensating someone for it.

The Swedish fans pay for tickets which support the team. The ticket prices would go up when they behave this way. But we shouldn't assume that it would be a deterrent. They might think that because they pay higher ticket prices, they now have permission to behave poorly.

First paragraph:

I want the same as you, except, I don’t think that people should suffer because they don’t conform to my concept of moral value.

Second paragraph:

Also, stop fucking projecting your violence into me.

So you're regressing to weird hyperbolic statements to try to characterized me as immoral. I think that's you wanting me to conform your "moral values".

This isn't a discussion about morals, it's a discussion about how your ideology has some massive gaps because you think ideology is more important than know how things work. So you didn't bother to learn how complex people's jobs are, because work doesn't matter to you.

Must've gone to a university that taught you how to be part of the management class to have this level of disrespect for people that actually work for a living. In a few years you'll swap your leftist manifesto for a corporate policy manual because you really don't want to have a job that involves actual work. You just want to repeat a narrative you're told to repeat and get money for it. You'll fit in well with corporate management someday.

on Absolutely · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 6h

Burger King is very inconsistent. Some locations are good, some are kinda bad. General rule, if it's got some kind of play area for the kids, the burger's are going to suck. The kids make their parents take them there, so they don't have to care about making a decent burger. But if it's a location on a city street and there's a high volume, they tend to be better. But when you have a decent one nearby, it's a decent burger.

on Absolutely · c/lemmyshitpost · -1 pts · 6h

This smacks of elitists who turn their nose up over joints like Burger King and only go to a fancy restaurant for a fucking hamburger.

on Just helping out · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 6h

My mother has the sudo password. It's fine, she doesn't mess with the command line unless I write an email saying "open terminal and copy and past this command into it..."

And even then I have to be on the phone with her to explain how to open the terminal. But that's way easier than trying to explain how to navigate through a bunch of menus.

I don't trust studies about UBI since that shit is being pushed by corporations that want taxpayers (which obviously isn't them) to pay their workforce instead of them having to pay for it. They somehow scammed leftists into thinking it's a good idea for the working class to be paying the working class so the corporations can just become feudal lords that collect money and pay nothing.

It's mostly just a smokescreen to distract from real policies like increasing minimum wage. And it works. So great keep talking about UBI while while minimum wage isn't a living wage. Even if you get UBI, the corporations win, because they won't need to pay their workforce, and they don't pay any fucking taxes.

There is good evidence to demonstrate that an injection of cash increases household expenditures.

When people can eat, they can work. Wow!

Yeah, no shit. Do you need a study to tell you the sky is blue?

Once again, I go back to "there's no such thing as a free lunch." The question isn't about whether people people need food FFS. The question is, who should pay for it?

I think the company you work for should pay you enough money that you can afford to eat whatever the fuck you want. I don't even know what you want, just some vague idea that food should just magically exist for free. This is why it's so difficult to get people onboard with raising minimum wage, making corporations and the wealthy pay their fucking taxes, trust-busting corporations when they get to big so there's competition. You know, policies that actually work?

But sure keep on not voting because you want some magical world where food is free, money just pops into your bank account somehow, and nobody has to work. Maybe just spray some Brawndo on the plants so you can have free food. It's got what plants crave!

According to the article, yes:

The decision is tied to Singapore’s policies on public speech, which prohibit publicly displaying foreign national emblems without a permit or exemption.

You can freely wave the flag of Singapore in Singapore, but for any other national flag, there could be a problem if you don't get permission first.

There's just a lot of weird laws in Singapore.

Yeah social media is all about projecting vibes and knowing no one will bother to put any effort into finding any facts. And people are so saturated with information they won't remember that you're saying the exact opposite thing from what you said last week. With social media facts finding just slows you down, you win by producing more content, so you have an edge if you ignore the facts.

on Absolutely · c/lemmyshitpost · -2 pts · 7h

I go to Burger King on whopper Wednesday and get a burger, drink and some fries for <$10 CAD. On other days, this same meal is around $14.

Where the hell are you buying burgers?

This smacks of elitists who turn their nose up over joints like Burger King and only go to a fancy restaurant for a fucking hamburger. Then complain about how expensive it is.

Very "hello fellow working class" kinda vibes to this.

I don’t know, it just came to me, I’m sure nobody has done any serious writing about it.

This guys wrote a lot that was along your lines of thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

Millions of people starved because of his writings.

What you're missing is the fact that someone's gotta plow the fields, plant the crops, harvest the crops, and someone has to get the food to you. If you think in terms of the food just magically appearing in the grocery store, you're might start thinking "why can't this just be free?" It's not free because there's a lot of work that happens before you you see food on the shelf at the grocery store.

There's the whole field of economics that's about this. You might reject this because you think economics is about money. It's not. Economics is about work and resources. Being ignorant of the real work that's involved in food production and thinking that through ideology you can factor it all out is disrespectful to workers.

The things you're talking about have been tried before, the result was a lot of people starved. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Someone somewhere always has to do work to make that lunch. They need to be compensated for their labour like everyone else.

There were efforts to move down the anti-trust path when Biden was President. But too many Americans voted for a billionaire convicted of fraud, and all investigations into any billionaire disappeared and those that were already convicted of crimes were pardoned.

You can think it's my attitude that caused this but really it's ignorance that made things this way.

on That Damn Smile · c/lemmyshitpost · 5 pts · 8h

Truly a watershed moment in history. Things took a big turn for the worse in the world after that. Did the Undertaker's action unleash hell on Earth?

Yeah I remember Man in the High Castle was really terrible with subtitles. It didn't have hard-coded subtitles at all and the programmatic ones didn't work reliably. So I'd be sitting there and and thinking "ok am I not supposed to know what they're saying?" After the scene goes on for a while it becomes "yeah I definitely supposed to know what they're saying well I guess I have to mess with subtitle settings." Sometimes it wouldn't work at all and I'd have to open a ticket with Amazon Prime and wait until they got it working.

So I guess they gave up on fixing subtitles and just baked them in. But still fucked it up anyway. Apparently a company as big as Amazon still can't do QA on the use case of someone who's an english speaker just watching on their platform. It's sad.

If they did, the government would step in and decide for all parties what the terms of the contracts will be.

A lot of bad things would happen if there were zero airlines in operation. Just as collusion between companies is bad, collusion between unions is bad. There's a difference between taking action that negatively impacts a company and taking action that negatively impacts a whole country. So the government would need to be directly involved.