I guess in the US we have "market based" paid time off like we do with so many other things. The results are the same. Inequality. Poor people put through the grinder and get nothing while the rich just watch numbers go up while life stays exactly the same.
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I mean, the douchebag CEO isn't exactly wrong.
I myself very much want a good work-life balance, therefore I do not apply for jobs to be one of the first ten people working for a CEO that thinks they're going to change the world.
He did a big favor for that candidate by not hitting him.
So given that I'm on a platform like Lemmy while living in the US, I am aware of so, so, so many bad aspects of this place. I mean like really.
But I'm still gonna spend some extra time to think on this one. And now with the current regime, things are very much moving in the wrong direction.
Well sure. The Only Moral Addiction Is My Addiction, so to speak.
Pointing out that a person has taken an illegal drug at some point is one of the top dehumanization tools of conservatives. It is a very potent catalyst when combined with non-whiteness. It has a rich history going back at least to the nixon days.
Aren't the anti-vaxxers in charge?
Y'all I think these anti-science terrorists might not be as smart as they look. And that's saying something.
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sure thing!
busy weekend for us but there's no way I don't finish it tomorrow. (right?)
The stuff I'm making right now is all just pine, with flat surfaces and 90 degree corners like you might get from ikea. But with visible wood grain and built so that you can dance on it or use it to hold the biggest aquarium you can find.
The people and/or sentient crabs that study us in thousands of years are going to have WAY crazier things to think about than how ancient the pyramids were to us.
Mint takes all the good work that's been put into Ubuntu and keeps a bunch of that while not including anything Canonical-specific like snaps. Almost all the typical "how do I linux" webpages new users will stumble upon will have instructions that will work for them. And of course there's a lot of added polish in the Mint distro.
I also like to point out that, unlike we expect to see with non-free corporate enshittified tech, the fact that Mint has a nice layer of polish, looks like Windows out of the box (talking of the default version with the Cinnamon DE), and installs in like 1/10 the time and clicks as Windows... basically, being friendly on the surface doesn't mean it is restricted under the hood. Mint doesn't get weird on me if I have half my monitors covered in terminals, ya know?
At first I was going to disagree and say "hey at least they are still looking up information, unlike most people" but then I did a 540° on that idea when I realized that I myself was a great example of how the OP is right.
I have been building things in my back yard like crazy this summer. I am currently working on a purpose-built little lego/craft tray for my wife to use in the house. I have gotten to plan out every detail in my head and sketching on paper, including convenient geometry knowledge like multiplying by the square root of 2 to find lengths for 45° supports or the good old 3-4-5 triangle for getting a right angle in a pinch. I have been able to discuss the table's use with my wife to figure out the perfect features. It will be a little wooden table that's ~2'/60cm wide like a TV tray but it will be held up by cantilever legs that are long enough and tall enough to hover the table over her lap with the footrest up. And it will have other features like little segmented bins for pieces/parts, and an instruction holder.
It's a great activity for numerous reasons. It gets me outside, it gets me physical, it gets me interacting with my wife and excited to give her the finished product, it gives me opportunities to practice new skills/tools, and it engages the senses as well as the mind while I spend hours in a calm almost meditative state and not seeing anything that's happening on my phone (though it will read texts to me through my earbuds).
It's a pretty funny look. I'm wearing a big round brimmed sun/fishing hat that looks almost like Gandalf's but without the pointy top. From the outside the sound of the scene is 95% the sound of falling water and birds chirping, interrupted by the 5% of the time spent actively cutting or planing some wood. But if my earbuds are in my ears, they are blasting my playlist of various high-tempo Thrash and Industrial Metal songs! (at 45-50% volume. I'm responsible here, lol)
So if I take all that and compare it to some schmuck who pulls up ChatGPT and types something like "design me a sturdy two foot wide table, create a list of the pieces I need and the cuts to make them, and generate detailed assembly instructions with pictures." Yeah you might still get a functional table but your life has missed out on the vast majority of the potential benefit of the activity!
This is the way I started looking at these tasks once I really internalized the whole "life is about the journey, not the destination" thing.
You just need a blowtorch with a really really long flame!