MystikIncarnate

OSHA probably cares.

The company should care, because if the workers are dropping off because of heat stroke, they're not creating value for the shareholders.

Sooooo. Middle aged people? Or are we now dealing with those going into retirement.

I think I'm technically "middle aged" now.... No idea how that happened... But I know better than to think you can work your way through college and not come out the other side with a crushing amount of debt....

My country subsidized my education, and provided me with a loan to attend college. I finally paid it off some 20-ish years after I started college.

I've never seen a six-figure salary, despite probably being owed one, but the top rate I can find for my vocation in my local area is around $80k/yr or about 50-60k USD/yr.

Yet, if I go to the USA, and get the exact same job, I can make $80k+ USD, which would easily push me over $100k/yr in my country's currency.

If you guessed I'm from Canada, you may have looked at my username, and noted my home Lemmy instance.

International students pay something like 5x what Canadian citizens do for college/uni (at least they did, the last time I checked), and my local provincial government set up a student assistance program, which provides loans to college/uni students.

I still walked out of college with over $40k in debt and this was in the mid 2000s. Costs have only gone up.

I support student loan forgiveness. It won't help me at all, but I don't really want anyone else to have to go through what I did trying to pay everything back.

As a straight, I agree with this.

Me personally, I'm ok, for the most part. I'm sure you are too ... But all of my fellow straights? Most of them are.... Well.... Very not ok.

As someone who is straight/cis/male, and very secure in that..... Anyone who takes offense.... Probably gay. Just saying.

I don't take any offense to this stuff. I know who I am. I know what I like. I know where I stand in the grand scheme of things. I live by a very straightforward philosophy: don't like gay sex? don't have gay sex. Don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married. Don't deny someone else of what you don't want for yourself.

We're all different, and that's a good thing.

Do not apologize. That's quite the story you have.

If you're unhappy with where you are, who you are with, or who you are, you can always change. It's never too late and trust me, as a long term supporter of the LGBTQ+ movement (despite being very straight/cis), they are a very accepting group.

As an outsider, I can't tell you what, how, or when changes are going to work best for you, nor what changes you could, or should make. That's entirely your decision and it's a big one, and I'm sorry about that. I'm only saying that it's not too late to figure out who you are and how to be comfortable with your life.

All the best. Take care of yourself.

I don't expect to retire.

I'll probably be found at my desk on a Monday, not even first thing, but like, at 11:45, after dying there sometime Friday afternoon, and people just thought I was "working late" and left for the weekend, while I'm a literal corpse.

Whatever. I'm over it. I won't have any fucks left to give when that happens because I won't be alive to give any fucks.

4 day work weeks or 52 vacation days per year as a minimum. You can either take one day a week and only work 4 days each week, or save them up and take a 10 week vacation.

I need to check into this, but maybe someone knows.

I assumed that if you're using incognito and you don't sign into your Google account, the activity wouldn't be tied to your Google account. It might be recorded and sent to Google, but anonymously, unless you signed into Google/Gmail/YouTube/whatever, while incognito.

The obvious is that your activity wouldn't end up on your Internet history in your non-incognito Chrome.

Now I want pickles

As someone who lives and works online. I wish.

It seems super consolidated, right up until you start listing the "handful" of big vendors that run the Internet..... You get passed the first 3 or 4 big players and end up with a long list of "of yeah, these guys too"....

Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, CloudFlare, valve (and every other game publisher), Netflix, PayPal, Uber, Spotify, Apple, Yahoo (yes, they still exist), xitter, Rackspace, zoom, Dropbox, Etsy, Pinterest.....

The list is super long.

And that's just companies that people would have heard of. The companies that actually make the Internet work is a much longer list, and GoDaddy plays a surprisingly large role as well. There's also entire business sectors that most people aren't aware of, for network transit services, and interconnects.

It's a pretty deep topic.

Well, the feds did it to themselves. Rather than focusing on the crime of murder, they focused on the victim, who is completely unrelatable, and generally disliked, then they focused on the motive, which they presented in the context of "it was pre-meditated!" And everyone just saw a very relatable person in the accused and collectively we all kind of went "mood" ..... So I'm not sure what they expected, but that CEO guy that's not important enough to remember the name of, who died, is not the victim here.

The victims are all the people that were denied while CEO guy was in charge, denied by the policies he put in place, promoted, demanded that people enforce, or any of the above.... Luigi is just the latest in a long line of victims that this guy has caused suffering to.

Not even... Like, one letter?