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“No One Wants to Work Anymore”, and Other Distasteful Fictions
  • Actually I did want to work for them, at the wage they were giving me, and then they laid me off because it was their best quarter ever, but things were slowing a little.

    Edit: and knowing the state of things in the department I was laid off from, there was an exceptional amount of work that still needed doing, that will never get done with fewer people after the mass layoffs, so those that didn't get laid off will be overworked and or have a never getting anywhere feeling now.

  • Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%
  • I tried doing a dual boot to Mint awhile back, I did the mint backup at the start like it suggests, changed some things, broke it, restored from the backup thinking it was great id already made one, and broke the WHOLE pc.

    I had to pull the battery on the BIOS to get it to go beyond a black screen when turning on.

    It was terrible.

    It seem to recall at the time recommendations about not doing dual boot, and if you wanted to dual boot, remove the main OS drive when you install Linux. Then put it back in.

  • Intel's Arrow Lake CPU socket is nearly identical to the old socket — LGA1851 pinout shows one additional USB 2.0 port
  • I don't know what the situation is today, but I had to build a new computer during the end of the series for the AMD chips and have a 5800x

    I know they have since released some newer chips for that motherboard series for gaming, but I'm now on a cycle of when I may want to upgrade its near the end of a cycle.

    Kinda annoying.

  • This was a really good interview, worth the watch!

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    US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts
  • I'm sure he could have done more than he did. Ultimately, they didn't think Trump would win and didn't fight back hard enough because they were worried about the backlash that might cause on the upcoming election.

    Now, Republicans have shown that they won't allow votes in the last year, but only if the dems have the presidency. It also set the precedent that they can even do that in the first place.

    I guarantee you someone who needs replacing further out than a year will now be denied in the future for some other bullshit reason.

    Edit: here's my worst outcome guess. For all future terms where the dems hold the presidency, but not the senate, all future SC nomination votes will be denied since congress and the presidency is conflicted and we can't have a vote while it's in conflict.

  • US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts
  • So..

    Fuck Trump obviously. And everyone who voted for him. (Edit and fuck everyone in the voting doesn't matter camp)

    Also fuck Mitch McConnell

    But god damnit, fuck Obama for not fighting Mitch, and fuck Ruth for not retiring when she should have.

  • US Supreme Court rules Trump has immunity for official, not private acts
  • So, has there been a more monumentally catastrophic series of rulings like we've had this week?

    Presidents are kings and immune to the law

    Kickbacks are now legal

    Executive agencies completely destroyed

    I know other individual rulings may be worse, but in this case the series of rulings.

  • Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour
  • Does an airline baggage-handler only get paid for the “specific minutes” when he is lifting luggage?

    What's actually tragic is similar things like this do happen in the air industry

    Flight attendants for example are often paid only for hours on the plane. All the time getting to the planes through security screenings doesn't count. All the work they do at the gate before and after doesn't count. It's only hours in the plane.

  • 2024 Tesla Model 3 AWD Qualifies for $7500 USD EV Credit again.

    It doesn't say what was changed but that makes it a great price again.

    It also really messes up the pricing between the 3 RWD which doesn't qualify and the AWD that does since it's only a 1k difference now. I wonder if we'll see them lower the RWD or potentially raise the AWD price?

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    Thoughts on range extenders for commuter cars?

    So both Rivian and Tesla have or say they are going to have range extenders for their trucks, but in both cases even if they are removable and rentable they are huge as trucks are huge. In teslas case it seems to be a permanent change though.

    What about commuter cars though?

    One thing we really need is cheaper in city commuters and those don't need a long range. That brings costs down and gets more people into EVs, but those will get relegated to 2nd cars in many cases.

    If those commuter cars could go to a shop and get an extender added in the trunk though that would make them much more capable of longer trips as well while keeping costs down.

    If the battery rental is similar or less to renting a car for the same period then people would opt to use their own car for the longer trip and all the personal comforts that provides.

    The batteries would be much smaller as well for a smaller vehicle.

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    Why dont the financial services join the Tesla strike to end things?

    I've been following the strike and sympathy strike happening against Tesla and the similarities to what happened with Toys R Us, and I'm left wondering why the financial sector in Sweden hasn't stepped in by now?

    This has spread to multiple countries now, so it's not like this is day 1 of the strike.

    Do they consider themselves some sort of thermonuclear option and would rather not get involved unless necessary for some reason?

    If my understanding is right, they're what forced Toys R Us to sign an agreement since they couldn't effectively do anything like payroll anymore?

    It seems like the logical next step to me at this point unless I don't understand something about how the sympathy strikes work there?

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