[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

Some people are just stupider than you would like to believe possible while still not forgetting to breathe. My father is one of the idiots that moans about "For English, press 1" or feeling slighted that people around him have private conversations in Spanish when he doesn't speak it. Out of all the states, where does this idiot move to for retirement? Florida, famously known for its lack of any Spanish-speaking population, of course.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

A good chunk of restaurants will also suddenly close or have massive price hikes when they can't count on taking advantage of undocumented people and paying them sub-minimum wage off the books.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

So does Qbittorrent, if you're unaware.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

That avoiding systemd is even a choise is nuts

I really want to know what the crossover is on people who know what systemd is, much less have any actual reason to decide they wish to actively avoid it, and those who would find this the best way of determining their next distro. That has to be a vanishingly small group of people.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago

This is great and all, but it doesn't mean too much if Biden doesn't actually care to correct course. There have been plenty of protests already showing the current policy is increasingly opposed by significant sections of the population, yet they're only making the most token efforts at any sort of real change in their stance towards Israel. If tens of thousands of people turning out for protests on the matter don't get it through the heads of Biden and other Democrats that this stance is untenable, I don't see why we should expect he'll suddenly start listening for a few staffers sending a stern letter.

In all likelihood, they'll hold the line on this, then when Democrats lose the next elections, they'll blame it on racists, antisemites, more leftist candidates spoiling their chances, or literally anything but doing some reflection and realizing some of their long-held positions are now deeply unpopular with a significant portion of their voter base.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

If you could offer enough money, you could probably get him to show up to hear cases dressed liked Judge Dredd.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Do they not have phones or emails? Why do they specifically need to contact you via Facebook? The whole setup sounds rather intrusive and unnecessary, just tell them to call or email you.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Mental health care is also often just excluded from coverage. My current job is the first time in my life I've had insurance that would cover therapy rather than be like "Look, we gave you one 60 minute session with our free crisis line, what more do you want? If you really need it, it's only $450 a session if it's that important."

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Could be for the sort of awful filters so frequently employed by schools that just block content based on matching a list of banned words exactly, like I used to have in high school years ago. We couldn't visit a page on breast cancer without an admin override while learning about cancer in the school library as part of an assignment, all because their awful content filter flagged the page as porn for having the word breast in the page.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are the biggest group, but it's a pretty diverse group with a wide range of beliefs. It covers the whole gamut from Evangelicals who declare anything that has ever made someone smile to be of the devil and the King James Bible to be the literal word of god to the hippy dippy churches that are cool with gay marriage and will say the whole bible is just metaphorical, so come play guitar with them at coffee hour before the church goes on a nature hike to do yoga and meditate on top of a local mountain. If you consider the denominations individually, Roman Catholicism is a larger denomination than the biggest Protestant denomination, at least according to Wikipedia.

Also worth considering how many people in all camps don't really practice their professed faith and just keep saying they identify as follower of whatever creed anyway.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Spanish gave us the word machismo, and it also conveniently has its opposite, hembrismo. So, yeah, I'd go with that, myself.

[-] shikitohno@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Sure, you can get a warm body in a seat, but that's not the same thing as being as effective at the job as the person they're replacing. Lots of companies are now reaping the harvest of treating their employees as disposable, interchangeable cogs. That mentality destroys moral amongst workers, and new employees can see that glazed over, dead-eyed look when they come onboard. Even for what's considered low-skill work, there is some value in institutional knowledge and general proficiency at a job that companies just completely disregard.

They're currently engaged in a race to the bottom of the barrel, asking themselves why employee engagement is down while they adjust their stance to really put some weight into the next kick in the ribs they give us peasants.

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