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Most "unskilled labor" is heavily skill dependant. You wouldn't want a chef, builder or plumber who didn't know what they were doing. And for production: machinists, mechanics and foremen make or break profit with their skills.

So what's a better name for these jobs?

I'm quite partial to Tesseract.

I’m 36 and have been with my current girlfriend for almost 5 years now - my longest relationship yet. We live together & everything else couply, just not married. I see marriage as unnecessary pressure that has a tendency to put strain on the relationship. Right now if we’re happy together we stay, if we’re not we split. Simple. Marriage complicates it.

I am looking to visit a friend in a place where the major airport is like 3 hours away. But there are regional airports too. But the search engines I have tried either won't take just a town, or they seem to only choose the closest to the town, and the major airport. Skipping all the other regionals. Any good engine out there for considering all of the regional airports?

Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.

~~Edit: pls do not downvote the comments this is a constructive discussion~~

Edit2: IP= intellectal property

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Three of Trump's core policies are the genesis for this question. The desire to annex Canada, the desire to annex Greenland, and the push for autarky.

Now, I realize this isn't an explicit policy, and it couldn't be considering how they message politically on climate change. And even if Trump isn't thinking that far ahead, I wouldn't be so sure about the Silicon Valley billionaires like Musk that are running most of his cabinet and feeding him ideas. Sure, Trump doesn't have long to live based on his age. But someone like Zuckerberg? Catastrophic climate collapse is a scenario that you may face in your lifetime.

In a catastrophic climate change scenario, the appeal of having more northern territory is obvious. In some of the more severe scenarios, this century the US is looking at the collapse of its agricultural heartland as corn, soy, and wheat belts march north. And of course there are newly opening Northernly trade routes as the polar ice thaws.

Trump has long had a belief that the US should be more self-sufficient. He seems to genuinely believe in the concept of autarky. And if some of the worse projections of climate change come to pass, we are looking at what may be known to history as the Great Famine. We're facing potential vast decreases in agricultural productivity and multiple simultaneous breadbasket failures. And whenever a country experiences a food shortage, the very first thing its government does is to prohibit the export of food staples.

I again don't think Trump himself is playing this level of chess, strategizing for decades in the future. But some of the tech billionaires, the ones that follow Yarvin and dream of reorganizing society from top to bottom? There's zero chance those guys aren't also factoring in climate change into their machinations. There's a reason so many of them are building bunkers in New Zealand and other remote locations likely to fair relatively well in the event of catastrophic climate change.

I would never expect them to admit this is their strategy. The fossil fuel wing of the Republican Party has been pushing the "climate change is a hoax" line for so long that the party can't just abandon that messaging without being eaten alive by their base. But looking at their actions, it sure looks like the actions of an amoral sociopath that was concerned about catastrophic climate change.

I ask myself, "if I had no conscience, didn't care about hurting innocent people, and was running the US, what would I do to best position the US for catastrophic climate change?" And it looks an awful lot like what the Trump administration is doing right now.

To WiFi users.

Do you reduce your router's WiFi Transmit Power to the bare minimum as required by you?

• Do you just keep it at the default 100%
• Did you not know you could reduce it (until now)
• Are you not able to control "your" WiFi router because it's the ISP provided router and they didn't give you the password?
• Do you actually require the 100% !?

Or another question, how much would you say is the price for an "average" apartment in Sofia?

Or other permanent body things.

I didnt have much to begin with only lost about 12k, I have nothing anyway. My mother lost roughly 100k in her retirement fund from all this crashing. My grandmother even more. How much have you lost in Trump's Tantrum Tariffs game?

I want to know why I'm wrong- because this question has been eating at me for years- and I secretly blame the Democrats for all of the health insurance problems.

Why can't California and New York bind together in an interstate compact, and create medicare for all of their citizens?

California and New York have GDP's above most other countries in the world. In general, democrats hold majorities. Tell me why I shouldn't blame the democrats for:

1. Doing Obama care half assed, when something like 80% people wanted a public option.

2. Not just doing it themselves. For instance even NYC by itself has a GDP above Denmark, and NYC is filled to the brim with the super rich.

Seems like Journey to the West is referenced and copied so much in Eastern cultures without any fear of it getting old or going stale.

Is there something similar for Westerners? Is there some Shakespearean story we keep re-imagining again and again without shame?

Silence is said to be golden - implying even some sort of material benefit or wealth as it's reward.

I wonder, how exactly does silence ever translate to material benefit or wealth?

Or just how precisely is silence golden generally speaking?

I know, most of Temu is trash. Anything you highly recommend?

I'm still searching for a job. On some of these applications they want a 1-3 minute video of me just answering questions to myself and send it in. If feels scammy, but maybe I'm just not doing it right. What do you do?

Original question text by @CozyLorraine@lemmy.world

Like... I don't know what's the point. Eat heathy, and live a long life? Jesus christ, who has the energy for that?

Just eat whatever. Drink Sodas. Die. Who cares. There's probably gonna be a global recession, or global great depression. Everyone around me is toxic. People in my country is toxic. The government is toxic. Why even live that long? Maybe my next incarnation will be better.

I've got quite a lot of rice and beans saved up, and some canned goods and I'm a mechanic by trade, 2nd least likely to die in an Apocalypse scenario, 1st being Doctors, of course.

I'm rural and have running water just a short walk from the property if the well stops pumping and I've got an old revolver with a few rounds in case I feel like checking-out early.

You guys?

In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed, the collection Epistulae ad Atticum, in the Chapter Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) of Verona Cathedral

So basically a guy goes into a library, rummages for a while, and finds ~1400 years old text no one knew was there

Do we still have places that store texts (like libraries, but doesn't have to strictly be a library) where we don't have everything catalogued and we don't know what might be inside?