AnUnusualRelic

joined 2 years ago
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

That old thing?

Hey, a fair number of them get paid to vandalise it.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The cartoonist for Dilbert was kind of fun, then he started to be kind of weird, then he became really odd, then he turned into a total weirdo, then he died. The end.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't have a cat, maybe next door?

If you have 3 day weeks, then yes, that's the only solution.

As the world evolves (supposedly), productivity rockets skywards.

And we have gone from a...

  • 3 hour work day... to a...
  • 6 hour work day... to a....
  • 12 hour work day... to a...
  • 7 hour work day... (or 8 or 9 or more if you're in the US or China or a factory- or fascist country)

And of course this is pitiful. We should be working a couple days a week at most.
The very idea that we have to work when we have so much automation is ludicrous. Why do we have to make our owners richer? Why can't we turn them into fertiliser instead? And why can't we make them really, and I mean really aware of the possibility.

That cartoon "there's so many of them, why don't they just eat the lesser class?" (ok, I don't remember how it was formulated), is something the billionaires (and politicians) ought to have pinned in each of their rooms.

Still, right now we should be at two days or 2 hour work days.

But thanks to AI, work days ought to be longer. You'll have to catch up for all the people that got laid off/

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tourist hunters are different. They know France is, for some reason, the first worldwide destination and flock here to steal your wallets. They'll be on the steps to the Sacré Cœur to tie a bit of string around your wrist while a comparse grabs your wallet, your keys, your underwear and your toupee.

Well, obviously. Although if you're from the US, that's true for most of Europe.

Hey, they're recycling the classics!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's present in numerous species. It's a very useful survival trait.

 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

view more: next ›