Logan’s Run vibes now that you mention it!

My wife is fighting for her 10-year green card right now. It’s a fucking nightmare.

LOL, see my comment! That’s exactly what will happen. Some of the small-time landlords will do the right thing, but this is free money to the soulless corporate home owners.

Small business and franchises will be unable to afford more employees. Lemmy thinks these business owners are all rich. No, they can’t just hire more people.

Dug around one night looking at McDonald’s and franchising. You can expect a meager $50K your first year, $90K after that. No way in hell I’m putting in the hours and hassle of running a business, with a couple of dozen employees to care for, when I was making $83K sitting at home playing sysadmin. BTW, that $90K doesn’t include accounting and payroll, you on your own.

Min wage here is $15, so the employer cost is likely around $22. Even if the owner takes $0 pay, they could hire a whopping 2 employees.

Landlords will jack the rates knowing that their renters will make more and more money. This law funnels money from Main Street to corporate landlords. They’re punishing the good guys, incentivizing the bad guys, and minimum wage employees get squeezed from both ends.

SOURCE: Was a sysadmin for a payroll firm and was deeply involved in all aspects of the business. Most of our clients were not well off and paid minimum wage or close enough.

EDIT: Forgot to add; This is a revenue neutral law for the city. If they want more housing that’s money out of the budget or tax incentives to builders, so less budget next year. Probably worth the temporary lower budget to get the community thriving and able to pay taxes. No idea on all that. 🤷🏻

It’s not fabricated, these people honestly think one can live the “welfare queen” lifestyle. Reagan said the words and it resonated with the Republicans, Fox News ran with it. But really, this isn’t some master plan. Unless you’ve been through it or tried getting welfare, you can’t know how hard it is and how little you get. I’ve talked to many people like this.

You have to earn below 130% of the poverty line to get food stamps. More you make, less you get. I will say that when I first moved here I was getting a ridiculous amount for a single guy, and they just kept sending it, no questions asked for 6-months. Those days are long gone.

God knows what you have to do to get an actual check, but you have to be worse off than merely needing food stamps. And those checks are paltry. Unless you’re renting a room in someone’s house, you’re not making rent.

Unemployment is a fucking joke. In Florida, employers have to pay $7,200 when you first start, and they have 6 months to get it all paid into the unemployment fund. I would have got a MAX of $4,200, then it’s over. That was less than a month’s pay from my last job.

There is a gauntlet to be run to get a single penny. And you have to keep running that gauntlet, over and over again. I could go on and on, but I figured out 3 decades back that it’s easier, less time consuming, and more profitable, to work a shit job 40-hours a week.

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” - Eugene Debs

Aight! I want to heart from people thinking this is normal, or not, and if you can actually see pictures in your inner space. I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.

It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.

I’m on Win11. I spend a few minutes a year turning bullshit off when I notice it or hear news about it. Most of that time is spent, “Oh. Already killed it.”

I’m on Windows and will not experience it. I often have a hard time finding these new features that have supposedly been jammed down my throat.

“Oh. Never mind. Turned that off last year.”

Not like it’s some constant battle. I look every few months when I’m told I have a new “feature”.

“Welp. Don’t have that. On with my day.”

That’s on your sysadmin. GPOs should handle all the bullshit. And MS isn’t going to deny us GPOs, fucking around in that space is the beginning of the end for corporate Windows.

If the robot is tough enough for production they should have no fear of stripping the clothes off with a box knife. The whole scene was still pretty impressive, especially compared to last week’s Russia bot! 🤦🏻‍♂️

But still, were I heading this project, I’d insist on toughness at this point in development. (Talking out my ass, looking to the end game, no idea where they’re at ATM.)

That’s the most “Terminator” looking robot I’ve ever seen.

I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. My wife is like that. She won’t win any beauty pageants, but she is as attractive as it’s possible to be for her. It’s fucking hard work and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.

Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”

But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.

And I just noted that in my little, American, redneck town that you usually don’t have to stick the quarter in the Aldi cart as someone will come along and hand you their cart.

We have an Aldi in my little redneck American town. Not sure I’ve ever paid the $.25. Most people look for an incoming customer to hand off to.

Closest thing I can think of in my life was the Mexican chick downstairs bringing her cute young friend over one Saturday night. I was utterly hammered on vodka, so I was clueless until I looked over and saw Maria deep in her friend’s pussy. And away we go!

Been in all sorts of freaky sexual situations, but that one could have been filmed as a porno.

I could honestly see that coming from rich person born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Talk to conservatives and you might be surprised how much money they think poor people get from the government.

Just to get food stamps you have to earn 130% under the poverty line.

Does anyone not expect them to question sustainability going forward? Anyone in any sane position in healthcare investment is going to ask:

“This is a thing. How has it worked out so far? How will it work in the future?”

“While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”

The question is: “What is our future when our scientific output kills our business?”

This is a perfectly rational question to pursue. This is a place private medicine hasn’t visited. Yet another reason healthcare and research should be a government function. Government exists to spend money on societal benefits without expectation of near-term monetary profit.

God knows where they go with the answers, but putting off cures is conspiracy bullshit. You think the major pharma companies will drop monstrous short term profits? Tell me, with a straight face, that you believe these evil capitalists are planning long term. And then your next comment, “Line must go up!” And the next, “These corporations can’t think past the next quarter’s profits.”

The enemy is both strong and weak. 🙄

Some y’all have the business sense of angry teenagers. No, this shouldn’t be a discussion about business, but it is.

tl;dr: “This is going to hurt your bottom line. You need to start thinking about it.”

Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Someone whispered in his ear that he should do the right thing, hint, hint, or face monstrous consequences.