screwturner68

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by screwturner68 3y ago
A lot of the anti-china stuff is coming from the top, the CHIPS act is a great example. I think taking down Amazon and maybe busting them up ala AT&T would be a feather in Biden's cap with the liberals and the right thing to do.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I mean isn't that what we have with a self-driving car? Who do you sue when that car plows into a group of nuns that the algorithm mistook as a black hole? Who's the driver, the passenger sitting in the left front seat or the com
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I've been wondering about this for a while. Since we know corporations are people my friend and have all the rights or a person what should stop them from voting. I assume that if pressed a corporation that is 18 years old should be
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Coding is the solution to all problems; can't get a job, learn to code. Not making enough money working a cash register, become a web developer. Nobody wants to hire you with your comparative religions degree, don't worry just l
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by screwturner68 3y ago
This is a common position and it's really a choice each person has to make on their own because it really does vary person to person. Let me give you an example, when I was younger I was a pretty good programmer and I rose through the
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Farming is the only business in the US that is propped up whether they grow crops or not. We pay these millionaires all sorts of money to grow crops nobody wants and we also pay then not to grow crops nobody wants. The fact of the matter
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Rasing wages might add pennies to your food bill, honestly do you know how much food a worker can pick in an hour let alone a day? A lot aren't even paid by the hour they are paid by the ton/bushel. Labor is cheap that's why
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by screwturner68 3y ago
You work as an apprentice and part of a union -you are actually learning a trade. These are not union jobs so the wages are very low, you have no benefits (likely no health insurance or vacation) and they are strictly labor positions where
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I've done all of those things and a host of other shitty jobs -note I called them shitty jobs because despite being back braking work they pay the least and the bosses expect the most -don't ever be caught not moving on a construc
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I did all those jobs before I was 18 and I did farm labor too all for less than minimum wage and it's simply exploitation. These jobs are open because they pay shit, they are dangerous and they work you like a rented mule. The soluti
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I was a horrible college student. I came to play sports and being smart enough to never need to actually study I was completely unprepared for what was required to be a good student in college. I also didn't like to go to class, engi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I almost never see CI/CD and less than 50% use containers and I'm at a different site every few weeks. That said maybe it's because I deal with highly regulated companies that don't like change and large entities where
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by screwturner68 3y ago
they were dead by 40, skin cancer usually takes a little longer to show up and kill you.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
or it could mean not leaving your house for weeks at a time. At least when you go to the office you have to leave your home and go to the office and that in theory means time outside.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
That's because to the company we are nothing but interchangeable resources. We are the human equivalent of a 2X4 or ton of coal, something you buy and then use up. More importantly is that there is no difference between 2X4 one and 2
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by screwturner68 3y ago
as impersonal and remote HR has become I really can't see any difference fighting with an AI instance than the chuckle head in HR. Just like now I'm just going to assume they do not have my interests at heart.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Gottach, you aren't in the trades, you work for yourself on your own plot of land. That's exactly like working a 12 hour day in 10 degrees in an empty sky scraper. Herding your goats is not construction.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
As recently as the 90's you had to pay the desk SGT if you wanted to be the traffic cop on Lake Shore Drive because you'd make so much money from "tips" that everyone wanted a cut.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I come from a family of master plumbers and I was my uncles helper as soon as I was old enough to hold a 5 gallon bucket and bring back the right tool. Over the course of growing up I did all sorts of different trades, I banged nails, tore
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by screwturner68 3y ago
The firefights that I know are dead. Most left their wives with small children. I had the opportunity but I knew too many men who went to work and never came home.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I equate this to the people working with habitat for humanity (no offense it's a great program) but these people are for the most part cos playing construction workers. But there's no foreman busting your ass because you are movi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
First let me say that it's a decent bar, a good place to spend s snowy afternoon. Second, not as much now but 20+ years ago way too many City of Chicago employees were on the take and had an expectation that they were going to get som
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by screwturner68 3y ago
There's a point in your career where you have to decide do I want another $5000 a year or is it worth that $5000 to not have to drive into work and to work with people I like. I've been working remotely for over 20 years and WFH w
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I just heard Eric Hughes give a talk about this and the non-regulatory solution was pretty simple, flood the field with so much bullshit that the data collected is worthless. Sadly most people happily give away their most personal informat
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I'm not trying to justify this nonsense I'm just saying it's become a standard business practice and not not being transparent with the customer is also pretty standard business practices. We as consumers need to decide what
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Gotta love the subscription model, don't buy a BMW with heated seats. Honestly it's a horrible model for the customer but it's the world we live in now, you don't own anything you are just renting and are responsible for
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Hours aren't usually the problem I think where a lot of the stress comes from the fear of getting laid off, losing your health insurance and having your car/home repossessed. People that have lived through these employee purges n
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by screwturner68 3y ago
The issue is the fine is paid by the company and not the people who actually did the crime. As a result, the CEO, the board and the other players will all get big fat bonuses and the company will take a hit. When the company takes a hit o
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by screwturner68 3y ago
It's cheaper than cancer, the loss of work and the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on treatment, $100K is totally reasonalble.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
The Hep-B vaccine used to cost $100K and now it's about $4000 (in the US where we get screwed). Honestly a $20K vaccine that would protect me from the big killer cancers would be a check I'd write in a second and I'm not a r

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