I’ve been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!

I believe in Canada we have high standards for our potable water, unlike the UK for example our water heaters need to be up to par (UK typically has seperate taps AFAIK).

So no need to boil, also if you’re trying to get rid of chlorine you can just use Brita filters, carbon filters that restaurants use do the same AFAIK. Also even cities like mine which (at least at some point before now) had way more houses than apartments still chlorinated the entire city’s supply.

Filters are insanely good these days. I was thinking about getting a life straw, but there’s a slightly more expensive alternative that can do like 500x more filtering before it needs to be replaced, and comes with a pouch you can fill and then pour into a regular water bottle. Life straws are meant to be drank from directly, and the alternatives that company offers are just water bottles with life straws built in - so you put unfiltered water in the bottle itself… Probably gets gross or requires constant cleaning

The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I’d call the early internet, I’d say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

…what do you get for $9 a month? I’m guessing you’re not in Ontario? Since I was a loyal long term customer I was lucky to get my bill down to 40 minus 10 bucks promotionally (which doesn’t show up in my account or say how long it’ll last) from 60 a month for 15GB of data. And now of course you can get more data for the same price or some shit as a new customer

Opening up to international competition is one option… Honestly we could have Canadian companies be competitive but that would involve work and effort from all levels: government, consumer, and business.

These dare the days of everyone wanting everything for free, but I’m not talking lazy hobos - I’m talking the entitled rich who think they can just keep sucking the rest of us dry indefinitely

Experience? If you say so, again just sounds like you’re quoting a textbook.

If you’re referring to experience all the way back to your quality of life comment, how old are you? Quality of life has definitely dropped since baby boomers were in their 20s and 30s and 40s

Sure we have netflix, we’re all interconnected and have instant access to information on the internet, but we can’t raise a family on a single income, we can’t pay off college or university with a single year of a summer job

…uh okay?

So back to my questions, by what scale?

Care to have a conversation and not just repeat random excerpts you read from a textbook?

So tell me, how exactly are we expected to consume all those goods in that basket that are used to measure inflation, when we are not paid in proportion to our increased productivity? Do those goods just pay for themselves with wages we do not receive?

Whenever I hear inflation I instantly think “how much do you want to bet a bunch of greedy landlords and whatnot jacked up their prices without any of their costs going up even remotely as much, while blaming it on inflation?” and I feel like it’s literally every landlord, capitalist who’s money makes them money and they have an overinflated sense of importance and societal value

By what scale? Medieval peasants only had to pay 10% in taxes and got sooooo much free time. Technology even today is still bad for us, but nature and free time? Come on, what’s the point of having all these gadgets and what not if we don’t have the time to use them, and they’re all run by faceless corporations who make things as addictive and monetized as possible?

Productivity. That’s what you want to compare to wages, and it has definitely increased faster than wages, so why aren’t the workers being paid proportionately to their increased productivity?

Humanity is broken 🤕

Guess we will just have to mod the shit out of this place until then

I worked for the biggest Canadian chain and they’re awful. Got stuck with an assistant manager who was demoted from store manager for treating her staff like shit.

They thought it was a good idea to stick like 3 or 4 of those staff that quit back with her when they applied during a wave of expansion. She was awful. The store manager was good at first, you could tell she didn’t like the assistant. Things got bad enough for me to go to the DM since nothing was being done and it just felt like a good cop bad cop situation. The meeting I had was with a Sophia? I think and some other dude being TRAINED for DM (I had my BBA at this point and the best they could offer was temporary lowest ranking position with potential to be permanent part time. Full timers only got 25 hours a week… Absolutely insulting. Get a degree. There will be jobs…). They took the issues seriously. I was told to contact her again if there was any “retaliation”. When I left the office and closed the door they burst into laughter. It didn’t sound like uneasy laughter, it sounded like “what a fucking joke” laughter. They also shafted my good friend an assistant (different store I wanted to transfer to, and someone wanted to swap with me as it would be closer for both of us, but DENIED) - they offered her store manager but after she accepted they changed their minds! The DM in training ended up quitting, maybe he was looking for a more professional business!

Anyways a few weeks later after I was sure there was retaliation and not incompetence, I contacted the DM and she gaslight me. She said she never told me to contact her about retaliation. She fucking said there wasn’t anything wrong the AM did even though in the meeting she explicitly said she was doing SM stuff that as an AM she could only go to the actual SM and then get them to do it. I should’ve recorded the meeting! RECORD EVERYTHING, I swear, even if you have a good feeling about things or it’s not meetings about problems. If you live in a one party state, protect your ass.

I’m a survivor of narcissist abuse from family, friends, school etc and when it happens in the workplace I shut down, my anxiety goes thru the roof, I get panic attacks, fight or flight response, I have trouble speaking, so I do the only thing I can do - remove myself from the situation. I gave my notice and things were so uncomfortable I had to call in sick. Despite a nasty letter sent to me from the DM which was a blatant attempt to deny my EI, all I had to do was explain my situation to Service Canada, get a doctor’s note for my anxiety, and I got it. They mightve gotten off the hook as an employee because of the medical note though… It’s not just business that needs heavy reform but government as well.

It’s wine when they have it but yes it turns into literal horseshit by the time it trickles down.

There’s just enough people in the middle class, pacified by their Netflix accounts and multiple yearly vacations to not give a fuck about the rest of us ☹️

And of course us working smucks get to taste all that shit just enough to want to struggle paycheck to paycheck, if we’re lucky

Awesome! That means you’ll make a mental note and avoid making the mistake in the future?

That, or this is clearly a potentially intentional (or unintentional) misuse of the saying “I could’nt care less”

It’s because you’re a non native speaker. Should of is a phonetic mistake that can be traced back to repeating words you hear over and over again before you know what they actually mean

…the reason “in some dialects of English native speakers really do say ‘should of’ etc” is phonetics. Kids hear “should’ve” and repeat it phonetically, before learning the actual words or their meaning. Combine that with the awful state of education and literacy in the USA (and other countries etc) and voila, you’ve got some armchair internet expert justifying it with some big words trying a weeeee bit too hard to make it work.

Then you’ve got teachers who still gaf and know their shit who will correct this before middle/high school, and no, last I checked it was never added to the dictionary or considered correct. Language of course is living and ever changing, but the line must be drawn somewhere lest we devolve into shouting and grunts like neanderthals

I see this is NOT a place for open discussion. Noted.

Maybe not fuel savings in an economic sense, but definitely still in an environmental sense. Of course the emissions are going to be substantially lower when you are idling versus driving in a city for example, but when every car doesn’t idle for let’s say 5 or 10 minutes every day, all over the world, those little “non matters of fuel savings” tend to add up. Like all the grains of sand on a beach

Don’t worry, they will notice a difference when the content eventually stops or drops in quality, or at the very least a large portion of it will move here

As for the app thing, they’re clearly ignorant and don’t know what they’re missing. That or they grew up with gross filtered feeds that were literally engineered to be toxic and addicting. Even I remember how addicting that shit was before they went a bit too crazy with ads and irrelevant posts. Used to be you could scroll and scroll thru Facebook and you wouldn’t run out of interesting posts from friends, groups etc. Now it’s all pages I don’t even like or follow. Adpocalypse 2.0

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

Sheesh. And all the muskites will still find a way to spin this as being the result of his genius…