MisterBastahrd

That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to those vehicles.

You can void your warranty by driving them through car washes. What exactly is the point of a bulletproof truck that can't get wet?

When boomers were the age of millennials, they were eating foods that were just foods. They weren't overly engineered. The 80s came about, scientists decided that fat was a problem, and so they started removing fat from food. But in order to make those foods palatable, they needed to add a filler. They chose the cheapest one, most addictive one: sugar. Then when people got tired of eating oat bran with everything, they added the fat back but kept the sugar. So now you've got the very worst of both worlds. Likewise, when boomers were growing up, even the pre-packaged food they ate was packaged in wax paper and glass. Everything today is some form of plastic.

It's much harder to become obese if you aren't eating products that come out of food labs.

Most D2 players flat out don't trust Bungie anymore. Not only have they been mailing in their seasonal content for years now, but their last campaign was abysmal. Taking an extra 6 months on development won't change things. I've got a group of 12 friends who all have been playing since alpha. One has purchased the next expansion, and nobody else is even considering it. I'm relieved to finally be done with it, personally.

Never had the soup, but wanted to. I figure that if I'm already eating soup with crackers, I might as well try soup where cracker is the main point.

It isn't a smear. His qualifying remarks indicate that he's either too stupid, arrogant, or bigoted to understand or care how context works, and thus has no business running a hot dog stand, much less an institute. Even disregarding that, publicly revealing his thoughts and framing them in such a fashion shows he has no common sense.

Yeah, couldn't possibly be that he got approval for outside work. That's too hard to even comprehend.

WSJ is hilariously biased. It might as well be the financial arm of the NY Post at this point.

Being born into a situation where your problems are minor is a great way to be ignorant of how systemic issues affect people.

If a child shows up to school every day unfed for breakfast and without lunch money, right-wing states have decided that somehow their kid not having food is a motivational issue for the parent. And their solution for when a distracted, hungry student is unable to focus in class is to bring back corporal punishment and post religious texts in classrooms.

If it were merely a motivational issue for parents, then the child would already be fed. The political situation that made the most sense for the school district in which I grew up, which is a bright red area that is also a public education stronghold, was to dip into the budget to ensure that all kids got breakfast and lunch if they wanted it. That way it can't be framed as a political issue.

The issue was never about the benefit, it was about the race and class of people who received it.

Same thing with work. We have age-based workplace discrimination laws precisely because a class of workers who are over the age of 50 have been discriminated against due to their age and in lieu of other concerns. Those problems are outside of their control. Most people with 20+ year careers are unemployed for reasons that have nothing to do with performance, and they can't help what age they are.

This isn't authoritarianism. It's basic common sense.

In what way was Reagan a fiscal conservative other than making the poor targets for pain? He destroyed half the social safety net in this country while running on a hideously bigoted platform and STILL ended up spending an insane amount of money compared to his predecessors. The only fiscal conservative of the past 50 years in the White House was Bill Clinton.

My co-workers now do remote standup, travel to the office to get in around 10:30, and leave at 3 to make it home for 4 and log out at 5. So much more efficient than just... staying home and working the entire day.

When I was 8, I told my mom I wanted to be a garbage man because I figured they got off really early to play since they were up so early to throw away trash, and they were providing a societal benefit that didn't require schooling (My teacher, Mrs. Morgan, was a complete asshole). My 11 year old nephew wants to go to the Navy to cook because he loves cooking and once saw a show about the mess halls there.

Kids have kid dreams.

The average person in Louisiana eats rice daily, and rice has been cultivated in the state since the first settlers because wheat doesn't grow well there. Tell me how they're not individualistic.

The oceanfront properties will only become worthless when the land directly beneath them is submerged because the people who own those properties can enjoy them just fine with or without insurance coverage.

We should really have three bins: organic waste, recyclable waste, everything else. We should be composting organic waste, not simply throwing it in a giant pile with everything else where it can sit be useless. Think of all that topsoil that has gone into creating the remains of the leftover food in these landfills, and instead of using it to create more fertile soil, it just sits there and rots with old televisions and refrigerators and pizza boxes.

Land is cheap. Location is expensive.

Not going to work for them because they're tearing the front covers off of the boxes.

In America, you work, you get a paycheck for hours worked.

At Roblox, you work, they take the majority of the proceeds and then your project has to make a decent amount of money or you NEVER get paid.

Well, the stock issue is sort of a manpower issue. For example, back home, the shelf with canned green beans, corn, and pre-cooked red beans was 4 cans high, and each section of those items was about 12 cans across. It'd be nice if we could simply spend the time to rotate and stock the items, but that just isn't feasible. It's far easier and more cost effective for the store to periodically check for expired product than it is to rotate them. It's even harder with tiny items like seasoning bottles. It would be nice if someone could design a shelving system that could be moved and stocked from the back, but that'd be quite an engineering feat given the sheer weight of the shelves and the proclivity for items to fall over when they're moved.

All of these stores have budgeted in losses. My managers were almost fired for the sheer amount of negligence they gave the store when it came to ordering product. Each location has a certain cadence to them when it comes to what people are buying. My managers didn't understand it, so they ended up with 25 rolling carts packed solid with backstock (these are 8 feet tall and have two shelves), and another 20-30 pallets. If you're unfamiliar, for a normal sized grocery store, you should really only have backstock on the top sides of those carts. Instead of filling the shelves with the product they'd already bought for the store, they were buying entirely new product! I managed to wrangle the order gun from them for the grocery department and they went from losing $30K a quarter in inventory to gaining about $15K. I kept an inventory in my head of what we had in the back and made sure not to order it.

How? Because when pallets inevitably tumble in the distribution centers, the centers can't waste time sorting through inventory to determine what's damaged. So they count it as a loss and toss the product into crates so that store employees can sort through them. Good stuff goes on the shelf, damaged stuff goes in the trash. Apparently the distribution centers damaged a lot of product, lol. My managers got cash bonuses for turning things around, and I got a 6 pack of beer.

One of the various jobs I had during the 90s to put myself through college was stocking store shelves in a large grocery store. During my time there, I placed every item on the shelf by hand, rotated forward, so that the shelves were easy to front and look respectable by the time the morning came. After a few months, it was fairly easy to eyeball an item in the case, lift it while rotating, and place it on the shelf facing forward. It also became reflex to hear something fall and catch it without looking. We also mopped the entire store by hand, twice, before getting down to the business of fronting the shelves one final time.

As time went on, they hired a cleaning crew to clean the floors with a machine. They'd miss things. After my time, they started having their employees cut boxes and just plop entire boxes onto store shelves, ripping the fronts off of them. I'm sure it saves a little bit of time, but you end up with a store that is a complete mess full of discarded cardboard. All of that adds up to a terrible customer experience.

Productivity doesn't matter as long as all the wealth generated from the increases is captured at the top.

Tesla's target consumer is not the sort of person who shares Musk's personal or political views. Add the facts that you can't even be sure what you're going to get when you buy one of their cars, that the company has constantly overpromised and underdelivered, interest rates are high, and there's simply more competition in the electric space... why buy a Tesla?

Aside from all of that, Musk's views on his expectations from employees alone would have been enough to turn me off from ever purchasing one of those cars.

Because when IE was utter garbage, Chrome had better performance, an ecosystem that included GMail, and also stored our passwords and bookmarks. Chrome also eventually allowed you to conduct google searches directly from the address bar. People use what they are comfortable with, and all the functionality built into Chrome by google is a HUGE sunk cost to bypass. The only person I know who uses Edge and Bing regularly does it to earn gift cards from Microsoft.

It does mean that they're soft.

Necessarily.

If you grew up in the 70s and 80s, you likely lived during an era where your parents paid little to no attention to what you were doing on a daily basis. People had children after a childhood of benign neglect and decided that they were going to be their kids' friends and began to hover. They bought into every stupid little bit of propaganda and couldn't let their kids out of earshot. So now they have a bunch of kids who only ever get away from their parental units when they're at school, and they are unsocialized as hell because most hoverparents will take their kids' word over that of their teachers.

They have no internal conflict resolution skills because their parents would jump in to handle the situation. They have little to no socialization skills. They need apps to find dates.

Generations are largely what their parents make them to be, and these kids are the absolute epitome of soft. And they're gonna be real big mad in another 30 years when they don't get anywhere with work because their entitlement continues to outweigh their performance.

I would argue that not being able to achieve the goals set out by the authors is the main hook behind their content in the first place. First, you read their stuff, and the advice sounds really good. Next, if you try really hard, you achieve about 50% of their instructions because you're just an average person living an average life with average-person-type restrictions on your time. Then, you go on another quest to get more information from people whose lives are nothing like yours because they've managed to achieve income streams that don't require them to hold down a full time job... by donating to their income streams for even more information that will undoubtedly be mostly useless to you as you crawl past that 50% you've already achieved.

The world exists the way that it is regardless of how you would like it to be. The very idea that somehow watching older family members die from disease or illness is somehow unique to them is utterly ridiculous. Even WITH covid, the outcomes were pretty good. They didn't have to worry about dying from measles or being crippled with polio, and medical outcomes are much better nowadays across the board. And the periodic drills comparison is also ridiculous. Kids for generations in the US have been taught to hide underneath their desks in the case of NUCLEAR destruction. Doing it for shooter drills is simply another scare tactic.

Soft is a perfectly fine way to describe them.

I grew up dirt poor and worked 3 jobs to put myself through college, and I still wouldn't wish that shit on anybody.

They absolutely CAN afford those kinds of things if they'd stop giving away sweetheart tax deals to major corporations and actually accept federal funds when they're offered.

Maybe? Possibly?

You know how many nerds didn't know they had any sort of issue other than being antisocial and lonely, and then someone made Slashdot aware of Asperger's and suddenly 90% of the site was self-diagnosed?

No.

They wanted a list of names of people accessing these sites. Texas is the same state that tried to coerce out of state abortion clinics into giving up their medical data. The sites instead decided to not play spy games with their clientele. I'm sure the money would be fine, but you'd also have to build and maintain systems for every state that would want to invade the privacy of its residence, which is a headache.

All of this pretending to be concerned about children is really about doxxing and creating lists of political undesirables.