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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

“or make a bad decision” is hilarious. Like say, insist that the company spend 4 years developing a bizarrely impractical truck that Elton himself said they “dug their own grave” with?

Musk said, adding that he's "not looking for additional economics; I just want to be an effective steward of powerful technology."

Oh yes, we all believe this techno Jesus crap at this point. Right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, hearing him talk for 2 minutes in 2015 I was “wow, what the fuck is wrong with the this guy?”. I can’t fathom how anyone would have ever voted for him for any reason whatsoever, but somehow people come up with explanations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I knew a 3/4 deaf girl who had learned ASL, who had a bf who was fully deaf from birth… he did send her videos of himself signing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

A terminal is a physical device like a VT100. When people refer to a terminal today it's almost always a terminal emulator running on a TTY, ssh on a PTY, a login shell or a GUI program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it’s different because this game is apparently horrible. I’m sure not all the games he reviews are good, either… just that they’re theoretically viable and exist but hardly anybody plays them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, I’m sure that power wouldn’t be misused or abused.

“Hey, Sheriff McDinkley and your neighbor Becky suspect you of something!!! We’re executing your entire family.”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I was watching a YouTube series recently about situations like this… online games that were pretty decent and still had servers but only 3-4 people a week signed on. Pretty entertaining.

Edit: looks like a few people do this. This is one I was thinking of: https://youtu.be/PGqyvq9l0Mo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That would be fine. If the “idea people” I talked to were proposing a partnership where they brought valuable skills to the table, like anything - salesmanship, advertising expertise, accounting, investment, financial knowledge, graphic design - that would be totally different than just “I have this killer idea”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If people wanted to pay me to make their project, I’d consider it. But usually I’ve gotten people who think I’m going to work on their “idea” for months with no investment or compensation, then release it and cut them in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The relevant ones are the ones cartels make money trafficking or producing: opiates, cocaine and meth.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It's more complex for salary jobs and why sometimes it's worse to go salary if you're hourly. Some salaried positions are exempt from receiving overtime, some aren't.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Wage theft is when they don't pay what you agreed on, or are violating laws about things like overtime and minimum wage. For instance if they make you clock in and be basically at work but they're not paying you, that's wage theft. Or if they have you work 55 hours a week but don't pay you time and a half for the extra 15 hours over 40, that's wage theft.

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