jtrek

joined 6 months ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 5 months ago

Google also making search worse so people will use their slop machine instead

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 55 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In my experience in New York City, people will generally ignore you, except (usually) when there's a real emergency.

Someone crying? No big deal. Let them cry.

Saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs in the subway, and a bunch of people ran over to help her and return the stuff she dropped.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 62 points 5 months ago

Yep. Infrastructure shouldn't be privately owned.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there's six figure payouts to be had here.

This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren't getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago

Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk's presence would inevitably import onto campus

Peeve: it's not the division that's the problem. It's the hate and lies.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

# Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

It's because leadership is a heady cocktail of stupid and selfish.

I really want to stress stupid. That means they draw bad conclusions from facts.

Sometimes selfish is a factor. They have an obscure reason like "my share value goes up because we get a kickback from the city for staffing an office here". They don't care if it's bad for everyone else or the company long term. They'll get their money and then leave.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pop!_os has been fine for me. I'm not a tinkerer. It's a machine for a web browser and video games.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 63 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

I sincerely believe that being rich is bad some kinds of intelligence You don't have to deal with problems. You just brute force your way through with money. You don't have to practice restraint and delayed gratification. You can just buy the thing now.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you're being robbed.

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