I've had a job posting up for 3 months in the Midwest USA for a couple of warehouse positions starting at $25 an hour and I'm barely even getting any applicants. We still have a few boomers and GenX in the warehouse but the millennials (like me) and GenZ went to college so they aren't looking for these jobs, at least around here. We're a very small company so the weird thing to me is that this is an easier warehouse than Amazon to work in, by far, and the Amazon hub 10 miles down the road has no problem staffing, even though they only pay $16.00/hr and their benefits sucks ass compared to what we offer. The average warehouse pay in my area for my industry is $18 an hour.
Yeah, probably. We have posts up on indeed and in the local papers but we're getting nothing worth following up on. And I don't think anyone hires recruiters to track down manual laborers.
I also would hire anything with a pulse since we can train them on the job, but they can't have a criminal record due to the clients we deal with and some work travel is required. It's also messy work -- fiberglass -- and a lot of people don't want to do that (and I don't blame them lol).
I'd love to have one too but I live in the city now instead of the suburbs. My car is parked on a concrete pad in the alley behind my house, a good 80 feet from any electricity. I could probably charge at work though by just parking in the warehouse and plugging in to one of the many extension cords we have around.
It's no surprise that the Battlefield saga is not going through its prime. After the disappointing launch of Battlefield 2042, the publisher Electronic Arts
I was going to install CoD: Cold War from PS+ on my PS5 since I wanted to check out the campaign but I'd never buy it. Fuckin 230 GB for that shit. I lol'd a bit and moved on to something else. So ridiculous.
The only games I'll bother keeping installed that are over 100gb are my ESO with all the addons on PC, and Star Wars Battlefront II on PS5, and only because my friends and I play co-op every Friday night. But it's still ludicrous. My most played game recently, Battlebit Remastered, is a whopping 3 GB lol.
I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....
One of the first things I did when joining kbin was start blocking many of the meme communities. It's just not for me. Same reason I deleted my Facebook all those years ago. The ONE exception is LOTRmemes because come on
Hello, I hope you remember my, I’m the fake poster. I did a full confession on Reddit, I compiled over 40 of my fake stories. I had chosen AmITheAngel because it is the most adequate place to talk about fake stories on Reddit....
Which book? I've never heard of him before today but after reading a few articles I'd like to check out one of his books. Googling sends me quite a few results.
It's not that they're outright difficult, it's all about watching enemy attack patterns and memorizing them. I can do a no-death run of the first Dark Souls game now and I don't even like difficult games, I play every game on easy the first time, but the FromSoft development style pulled me in hard.
Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.
I’m male aged 19-22, I have an older brother about 4-5 years older (giving age ranges for better anonymity). Relationship is… not good (read: it’s terrible, horrifyingly terrible, arch-nemesis). How about you?
I'm 34 (male) and my brother is 31. He's my best friend (besides my wife) but he moved like 10 hours away so we try to fly a couple of times a year to hang out. We text every day multiple times.
I'm the opposite. I live in the midwestern US so when it's hot, it's also humid. If my room is above 72F I can't even sleep, I just sweat right through the sheets. On the other hand, when it's 40F out, I'll open my windows and sleep in my boxers.
I’ve been telling a lot of people about it, but everyone’s a skeptic. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’re just going to wait to see which Reddit clone comes out on top before switching. Most of them haven’t heard of the other parts of the fediverse like mastodon. I’d like to leave fb/instagram, but like...
Same thing as Lemmy, just a different site but it's federated as well. Lemmy can see kbin content and we can see Lemmy content. I'm replying from kbin right now.
I have Firefox set to automatically do all that whenever I close my browser but it's still somewhat of an issue on kbin. Not enough to bother me but it happens.
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
Fairly interesting overview of what’s become the “trendy” home decor style from things like HGTV and design magazines, as well a quick look at some other style trends we’ve gone through.
That, and the build quality on these new houses is sometimes astoundingly poor. My friend had a house built 2 years ago and he's had nothing but problems with shit breaking. My house was built in 1906 and while that comes with a different set of issues, it's not falling apart like these modern luxury shitboxes seem to. It's survived tornados, floods, and tons of other shit weather that living in the midwest brings, but it still stands strong.
But in regards to this article....the farmhouse shit is so fucking ugly. I live in a city and sometimes see people doing the farmhouse thing and it doesn't fit at all. My friend put a sliding barn door on his bathrooms and the damn things don't even close all the way, you can see right in through the crack where a normal door would seal. Lots of rooster-themed stuff in the kitchen and I'm just like....bud you've got a lot of cocks in your kitchen.
The above is like, just my opinion, man, if people reading this like the farmhouse stuff, hey it's your house, you do you.
One of our friends is a real-estate agent and she said the same thing. It's not going to age well and in 10-15 years people are going to be buying these houses and ripping all that shit out.
I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?
I decided to go with Plex because I can use it from my roku TVs and my game consoles. I let a few friends and family members log in as well to stream and they're primarily doing it from game consoles. Most of those people don't even have a desktop PC. Granted, I don't know what features in that ballpark that Jellyfin may have now, I set this up a long time ago and just haven't really given it much thought since then.
A butterfly effect is the phenomeon that a small change in initial conditions that leads to a significantly different result than if the initial conditions haven’t been changed. Have you personally witnessed such phenomeon?...
I decided to come home during summer break during my senior year of college. I wasn't going to but I decided I should do something besides sitting around playing video games. I got in the car, drove for 4 hours, and got a call from my best friend that he was having some people over that night. I almost didn't go because I was tired from the drive. I decided to go. I knew everyone there, including a girl I had been friends with for years but hadn't seen in awhile. We were all hanging out, me and this girl ended up hooking up that night. We've been together over 12 years, married for 6. If I had decided to stay at my apartment and play Skyrim instead of driving home, we very likely wouldn't be together. I think about it more than I should lol.
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
I can make my chat bubbles be whatever color I want. My brother-in-law sometimes gives me lighthearted shit for being the green bubble or whatever in the chat but like, hey man you're the one who put yourself in a walled garden, I don't see it on my end.
I have been on a kick lately with short games. Because I’m a parent with a hectic job, it’s really nice to be able to beat a game in just a few days....
I'd look at Telltale-style games. They're roughly 10 hours each ( five 2-hour ish episodes) and are almost entirely story driven. The gameplay is usually very simple. You choose dialogue choices to drive the story.
The best Telltale games are in my opinion: The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, The Walking Dead, Batman: The Telltale Series and its sequel, Batman: The Enemy Within. They're also releasing the first episode of The Expanse (based on the TV show since the character Camina Drummer does not exist in the books) later this month.
Another series that is very much that same style but by different devs is the Life is Strange series. I've played the first one and the prequel called Before the Storm. They are very emotionally heavy stories so I'm taking some time before I can go into the sequels but I absolutely love that series and will preach it to anyone who will listen.
10 hours is definitely short but it also helps that they are all done in 2-hour episodes so you can easily take breaks.
'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)
When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.
'World’s first mass-produced' humanoid robot to tackle labour shortages amid ageing population (www.euronews.com)
AI summary:...
The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot (www.eurogamer.net)
The executive producer on Netflix's The Witcher has blamed American audiences and social media sites such as TikTok for…
Research Firm Claims Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas (www.businessinsider.com)
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The next Battlefield will ‘reimagine’ the series as a ‘truly connected ecosystem’ (gamerkick.com)
It's no surprise that the Battlefield saga is not going through its prime. After the disappointing launch of Battlefield 2042, the publisher Electronic Arts
Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.
What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)
I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....
Child Safety on Federated Social Media (purl.stanford.edu)
Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.
What kind of memes do you guys want to see (i.imgur.com)
I like slightly surreal, mildly whimsical memes but art is made to be viewed what do you guys like
Which is your preferred smartwatch/fitness tracker? (www.tomsguide.com)
I have been using the Mi Band for years which I generally like, although it’s quite a simple device
Square Enix Responds to Final Fantasy 16 Sales Concern, Points to PS5 Install Base | IGN (www.ign.com)
My list of 40+ fake reddit posts.
Hello, I hope you remember my, I’m the fake poster. I did a full confession on Reddit, I compiled over 40 of my fake stories. I had chosen AmITheAngel because it is the most adequate place to talk about fake stories on Reddit....
What is the main platform you use for gaming? (strawpoll.com)
Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59 (archive.is)
Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?
The American way of expressing distances by drive time - what does that include?
Microsoft Possibly Teasing Elden Ring Coming to Xbox Game Pass (wccftech.com)
Boycott In-N-Out. (www.latimes.com)
What would you do if you won the lottery?
The Powerball lottery is up to $1 billion tonight. If you won it, what would you do?
What was your first videogame that made you say "Ok, I need to play this game properly: I need to upgrade my specs"?
Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.
Do you have a sibling? What is the relationship like?
I’m male aged 19-22, I have an older brother about 4-5 years older (giving age ranges for better anonymity). Relationship is… not good (read: it’s terrible, horrifyingly terrible, arch-nemesis). How about you?
3-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 1-year-old sibling after getting ahold of unsecured handgun: SDSO (www.nbcsandiego.com)
People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?
I am from Eastern Europe and this is the hottest summer on my memory. For at least 3 consecutive years the heat is breaking all records....
Are any of your friends on the fediverse too? If not, have you tried to get them to join?
I’ve been telling a lot of people about it, but everyone’s a skeptic. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’re just going to wait to see which Reddit clone comes out on top before switching. Most of them haven’t heard of the other parts of the fediverse like mastodon. I’d like to leave fb/instagram, but like...
What replacement for each major social media do you use
As I see it:...
YSK PSA: if you're having any trouble logging in, staying logged in, editing a post etc... to Lemmy or apps, make sure you clear cache / cookies
Why YSK: after yesterday’s security incident many instances have reset the session tokens which your browser remembers. This is causing issues....
5000 Members! Your Kbin Milestone Appreciation Station (kbin.social)
Introduce yourself, celebrate, whatevs
/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans (kbin.social)
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
The Modern Farmhouse Is Today’s McMansion. (www.nytimes.com)
Fairly interesting overview of what’s become the “trendy” home decor style from things like HGTV and design magazines, as well a quick look at some other style trends we’ve gone through.
plex or Jellyfin?
I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?
Northern lights could be visible in more than a dozen US states this week (www.theguardian.com)
Artemis is experimenting with a Discovery Mode for your feed ✋✨ (media.kbin.social)
What butterfly effect have you personally witnessed?
A butterfly effect is the phenomeon that a small change in initial conditions that leads to a significantly different result than if the initial conditions haven’t been changed. Have you personally witnessed such phenomeon?...
Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
Best sub-20 hour games?
I have been on a kick lately with short games. Because I’m a parent with a hectic job, it’s really nice to be able to beat a game in just a few days....
The worst wedding you've ever been ? (kbin.social)
Personally, this one:...