Wrench

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

And I just went back to Reddit after the election. Lemmy is full of the most annoying social warrior edgelords where every fucking thread devolves into fighting from insane viewpoints. The "never genocide" "both sides" kind of people.

It's fucking exhausting.

But guess Reddit is imploding again. Hopefully we get more normal people to migrate this time to help drown out the nutters.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck do you expect them to do with a minority at every level? All they can do is try to get the message out.

Trump has repeatedly made empty campaign promises, yet voters take the bait every fucking time.

Pointing this out in real time is an important step.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Former smart TV app developer. I'm going to drive my old dumb lcd TV into the ground before I'm forced to use a "smart" TV.

I prefer casting, but for convenience for my wife, we have a fire tv stick.

I want my panels rendering, not thinking / reporting.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Best to just call it in. Even for pick up, all these online providers take a huge cut, eating the profit margin from the people actually making the food you like.

I try to only use online orders for restaurants that have their own website cart. I do sometimes resort to the big ones when I'm busy / lazy, but I make a point to try to make sure the actual restaurant gets my money, because I want them to survive and keep making me tasty food.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They do. A friend in a fire prone area is unable to get fire coverage through his former provider. He was trying to find an alternative last time we spoke, but the estimate from the state was $500/mo. Just for fire insurance.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At my first job it if college, we had one QA guy at a small company. He did everything. He worked 12+ hours a day and weekends to support a team of ~8 devs iirc.

He was an H-1B. He didn't have a choice but to work his butt off and do anything they asked.

At one point while I was there, they honored him at some company party, thanking him for his hard work over the last 2 years. The gift was a $100 restaurant gift card.

And management had the nerve to be "shocked" when he quit immediately after getting his green card.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago

Eh. He could have intended to use it again, or didn't find an opportune time to ditch/destroy it. Or maybe he's not the master People's assassin that everyone wants him to be.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (9 children)

The whole gun planting take seems like conspiratory nonsense to me. And I'll trust the forensic science on the striations.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Didn't he have the burner gun still on him? Honestly asking, I know a lot of disinformation tends to go out early, and I haven't followed up on verified facts.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Remind me again how Dems are really anti-worker?

We have the Biden administration consistently fighting the pardon student debt, fighting for unions (despite the frequent misrepresentation of facts trying to frame them as union busting), etc.

Then you have Republicans dragging student relief efforts through appeals, repeatedly putting government payroll at risk for shits and giggles, etc.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Hahah yep. But it'd be a nice precedent to twist this upcoming president in knots.

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