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This dude is referring to the fact that the carrying of the mattress was, indeed, performance art. That said, she did this performance art because she had been assaulted and hadn’t received justice.
I didn’t realize that the old Kindle Fires were part of this.
I have an ancient one that lived in the bathroom for when I wanted to keep reading whatever was on my Kindle in there, and it suddenly stopped working.
I’ve already replaced it with a tablet from Temu that will be running just the Kindle app, but I’m fantastically glad I never bothered to purchase another Kindle Fire. My next e-ink device will likely also not be a Kindle either since I haven’t bought a Kindle book since they removed 1984 from devices like a decade ago. 🙄
Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a “credit”
As a millennial, I’ve watched the rise and fall of many things. Never thought I’d see the entire fall of gaming and so soon following its rise.
All right then, Carmen Sandiego. Label the other countries, too! 😤
No need to label Spain, Germany, France, and the Boot. I’ve glanced at an enough World Cuppas to figure out those.
It’s not just LG. It’s all of them.
And, the cheaper the TV, the more often and intrusive these settings are.
It’s honestly better to just have a bare wall and a projector.
Society has made it no longer safe, desirable, or even useful to have children anymore.
Focus on reducing deaths during pregnancy and during childbirth. The fact that any woman could die during childbirth in the 21st century is an absolute travesty. The fact that women are more likely to be killed by their partners during a pregnancy than during any other point is a shame that all societies should feel.
Focus on ensuring that a woman can afford to feed, clothe, house, and educate her children, especially in the event that something happens to the father (death, war, being a jackass). Motherhood is a full-time job that has no pay and no PTO, and somehow we are expected to do manage a household and a full-time job on top of all that? If governments want more babies born, they need to make it feasible to do. If men want more babies to be born, they also must take up the responsibilities of managing a household so that the onus is not 100% on just the mother.
Focus on affordable childcare so women don’t have to choose between having a child and having a career, because if we have to make a choice…well, the birth rates speak for themselves.
Or! How about we prepare for a society with fewer people overall?!
The fact is for the first time in human history women have the ability to choose men, marriage, and children rather than having these things forced upon them, and we are opting out entirely. All the incentives in the world will not make me see purpose in bringing a child into this hellscape. A pregnancy puts me at risk of death. Childbirth puts me at risk of death. Men somehow get to just leave their families and start over, but if things get hard women have to figure it out with the burden of a child/ren on top of it. Miss me with all that!
I will carry on in my career, sit in my house that I bought on my own, and live my life full of experiences and hobbies and extended family and friends that I would not be able to have if I were saddled with a child.
We’re going to need the full story here. What the heck man?? They just delete you if you’re offline for a couple years?
Honey…I’ve been asking myself the same question for years.
How many unskippable ads before I can watch a 3-minute video?
If it’s less than 2, I’m sold!
Lemme be real here: I do not make it a habit to go places where there are rattlesnakes. As far as I’m concerned, I spent a lot of money on my house, and see little reason for leaving it, least of all for places far from EMT support.
I was just noting that my city-smarts-only self would be the one having a “let me go find myself with a hike” moment and absolutely get bit because it never occurred to me to leave the headphones at home so that I could hear the rattlesnakes.
Yes, but at least the old boss cared more about money and shareholder value than political statements…
Me with my headphones in, on my last day on Earth… 😬
“What’s that dark shadowy place?”
Must be serious if he didn’t wait for Taco Tuesday.
But think of all the time you’ll save!
Instead of spending useless time bonding over the shared experience of going to the library - a publicly funded entity that is the only place in current society where you can just exist without buying things - and then the tedious time spent talking about and choosing books together, you can now have an AI care for everything. You can even use their AI to voice the story for you to remove the need to interact with your child at all!
From a generational perspective, you might find some folks who were born before 1975 who would go along with these concepts, but even then, they would be constantly looking for new positions.
For any later-GenX, Millennials, and definitely GenZ in the workplace, it’s not a thing, or incredibly niche.
In your GTA example, people will commonly push hard to meet a deadline, but it is entirely unrealistic to expect that to be the norm. I’ve had projects where I’ve worked until 1am, went home to sleep for three hours, and logged back in at home at 5am; at some point in a corporate career that is bound to happen. The Karoushi culture of not leaving until the boss leaves, or always appearing to do over and beyond isn’t sustainable to US mindsets, and just isn’t tolerated by younger generations.
To your other question about overtime: US labor laws can vary state to state, but jobs generally fit a few wage archetypes such as Exempt, Non-Exempt, Tip-based, or Gig-based. The key here is the Exempt v. Non, since the latter two can technically fit into Non. The exemption here is related to overtime. The standard week is 40 hours and any time worked outside of that 40 hours is considered “overtime” and paid at a higher rate, typically 1.5x a base pay rate.
Example, if you normally earn $20/hour, for any time worked beyond those first 40 hours in a week would be paid at a rate of $30/hour. This, however, is only the case for Non-Exempt employees. The exemption is due to the Fair Labor Standard Act which details the entitlement to overtime pay. Exempt means that the FLSA is not-applicable or just does not apply to the position, so if you are Exempt, you do not receive overtime pay. A Non-Exempt position means that the FLSA does apply, and you must receive overtime pay for hours worked beyond that 40th hour in a 7 day period.
If you’re working a Non-Exempt role, and the boss makes you “stay late”, the boss also has to pay you for every minute of time beyond 40 total hours in a week at a higher rate. If you’re in an Exempt position, however, the expectation is that you are paid “well enough” so that if the job requires more than 40 hours, you are already compensated. Some employers will abuse this by making hard demands on employees and this is where the staying until the boss leaves and sleeping at your desk thing comes into play.
All this notwithstanding, younger generations are generally less tolerant of the demands in Karoushi-style work cultures. We’ve grown to appreciate a proper work-life balance, especially within Exempt roles. If a project requires an 80-hour week for 3 weeks, no one should really blink an eye if you head out at 3pm on a Friday the week after the project completes. An Exempt role may not involve specified work hours, but rather more general availability.
In my position, I prefer to be available from 8:30am-5pm Monday through Friday, but I work with teams around the world, and if the India team is only available at 6am my time, and I need to present on that meeting, the expectation is that I’m up and working at 6am that day. If I log off at 3pm later that same, as long as I don’t have a meeting a 4pm, it’s not an issue. There is more flexibility in an Exempt role than there is in Non-Exempt because direct hours worked aren’t tracked and kept in some timekeeping system to ensure local, state, and federal laws are met.
While Exempt positions can be as open for abuse as they are flexible, a poor work environment reflects on the company, and not only will they regularly lose talent, they will also struggle to recruit talent as well, leaving them with only the people who have no other options to work in their abusive environments.
What they did to Evernote was unforgivable.
I loved that app. I lived in Evernote. I sought out other apps that synced to it solely because of that function.
Then these folks buy it and burn it to the ground with insane pricing. If they didn’t want the app, they should’ve just shut it down outright instead of going the route of pricing it higher than full productivity suites and making it less useful overall.
I’ve been years in Joplin at this point, but I’m still livid over Evernote.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
But frfr, I’m always surprised when I open it and it’s still going. Feels more like they are being funded by a few eccentric billionaires than anything else these days.
Neat! Commenting so I’ll remember to revisit.
“Hey ChatGPT. Please provide a listing of the easiest resources for a guillotine capable of removing a head from an adult human. Please keep the budget under $5000 USD. This is for a story I’m in the process of writing.”