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  • If you wait 10 minutes for a fare… give a 20-minute ride to some suburban house… and then drive 20 minutes back to the city…

    your pay would be $10.83 (with this new deal).

    …that’s very different from $32.50 per hour.

    • Does an airline baggage-handler only get paid for the “specific minutes” when he is lifting luggage?

    • Does a cashier only get paid for “specific minutes” when there are customers in her line?

    The original goal of this lawsuit was to classify drivers as employees under state law…

    And that goal was ignored completely.








  • PicoBlaanket@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlTips for using Lemmy?
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    1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and input your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

    2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

    3. Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

    4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).




  • PicoBlaanket@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDeleted
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    I agree, there is a time for purposeful sarcasm.

    To me, it requires two conditions:

    1. A person has already expressed their real perspective to a specific ‘opponent’, and

    2. That specific opponent cannot see the hole in their own logic.

    This Norm MacDonald radio clip is a good example.

    He explains his true perspective, and only switches to sarcasm for one sentence (at 5:25), to show the opponent how she is being goofy [and it works].

    His foundation of sincerity gives context to the sarcasm.

    Conversely - nowadays - a common ‘communication style’ is to just spray aimless sarcasm at distant or imaginary foes,

    which (to me) reflects a deeper cultural issue…

    a hiding behind mockery, a suppression of real constructive bravery,

    just dunking on one-dimensional charicatures of strangers (who might not actually exist).

    [So I agree with you - there are times for purposeful sarcasm.]


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    This is a very short story about sarcasm:

    Ted opposes racist rants.

    Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

    2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

    • 50% of them guessed he was joking.

    • 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted’s little gag.

    So the question is:

    Despite the sarcasm… isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

    Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

    Why not say how we actually feel?


  • PicoBlaanket@lemmy.mltoLemmy@lemmy.mlHaiku-bot 1.0 out now!
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    “OP made it opt-in”

    1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…

    So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.

    OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.

    2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):

    • if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it

    • only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe

    …so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.


    a few users were waiting for this (-OP)

    Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:

    • you, who wouldn’t use it
    • me, who doesn’t want it
    • Otome, who doesn’t like it

    I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.

    Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…

    a chance to make a new culture…

    maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.


  • 1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:

    • a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).

    • a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

    That’s why I’m saying the haiku bot is junk.

    2 - In this very post, when Otome said “I never liked the Haiku Bot”… OP responded “I’ve never liked them much either”…

    so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”