Even if it were a gender thing, that’s still discrimination in the UK, you can’t sack people over that here.
Madness. They’re going mental over there. I hope they can purge these fascists before the fascists purge them, because gods knows they’re working towards it.
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Robots are already a veeeeeeery popular thing. Look at any car factory.
There won’t be much difference between those and general purpose AI robots, except that the general purpose ones will be WAY more capable and profitable.
Humans will always have jobs, but that doesn’t mean the trend of automation and advances replacing jobs won’t continue, and maybe accelerate too.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health department official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations and warning residents against getting a new COVID-19 booster, saying there’s not enough evidence it provides benefits that outweigh risks....
Interesting, this sort of intentional dangerous disinformation would be illegal here coming from a trusted public figure, what sort of charges will this De Santis guy be brought up on?
If there’s evidence he did it, it should be a pretty open and shut case.
Lustre, not luster. But I digress, I wish I had a better social connection with office colleagues, but yeah, everyone has to travel long distances to get home and they all have families and other responsibilities, it’s impossible to socialise unfortunately.
Even when it is possible, usually colleagues are a disparate bunch with wildly different interests and personalities, and probably wouldn’t make great friends anyway, as nice and professional as they all are at the office.
It’s very depressing and lonely, but yeah. It seems like the older you get, the more impossible it is to make a friend.
Damn, reminds me of when they announced copy and paste was coming to their phones as if it was some incredible breakthrough, and yet everyone else had it on their phones for a long time already.
Now they’re adding basic map features from a decade ago and have the gaul to suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative?
I wonder what other old, basic phone features Apple customers just don’t have. I feel sorry for them, people playing that much for a premium device deserve better.
I understand the reasoning and positivity behind this and I do believe it comes from a really good place, it may even be beneficial to customers, but it is gender discrimination in the workplace, whether it leads to mostly positive outcomes for some people or not.
If your employees bring in different amounts of money because you’ve started to split their available workloads based on gender (especially in an industry where gender has no impact on one’s ability to do the job), you’re now likely to decide that due to this trend over time, to discriminate further, prioritising the more popular genders over others when hiring, and when firing, and when deciding wages.
After all, if one gender brings in less profits consistently than the others - because they’re stifled by company policy - why pay them as much? It makes business sense to pay them what they’re worth, and they’re measurably worth less than the other genders, now.
It’s a slippery slope. Well intentioned, but damages equality in the workplace.
How is it 2023, when everybody uses microwave radios for communication constantly, and there are still people that don’t understand the absolute basics, like the difference between radio/light radiation and ionising radiation? And how important transmit power is to how dangerous or not a radio wave is?
They do teach this stuff in schools still, right?
It boggles my mind. It’s not some complex difficult topic, it’s like not knowing how electricity works, or how your body works. This is basic child level knowledge that everybody interacts with every single day, so it behoves them to understand it at least at an introductory level.
Treating people as sub-human - no longer with the same basic human rights, like the right to vote, as others - just for committing a crime, is an extremely dangerous fascist road to go down.
Criminals exist, they are people, and they have as much right to take part in the democratic process as anybody else. Equality is the cornerstone of democracy.
Does he not know that they are selling their labour to him? He is the client that needs them, they don’t need him. They can take their product elsewhere.
Setting up a network file share or FTP server or whatever and the app to access it is muuuch more effort than just plugging my phone in and using it like any other flash storage device, plus USB3 transfer speeds are better.
For me it’s just simpler and less prone to error is all.
Apple really done want to just adopt the global standards of USB, do they xD
Anything they can do to feel special and squeeze more money out of their customers, forcing them to remain in a proprietary ecosystem and buy more stuff that only works with Apple products, etc
Look up the DIY parabolic reflectors people used to use on their WiFi antennas, they did actually work! I used one and recorded a marked improvement in WiFi strength at the furthest point in my home that was previously a low connection quality spot.
Radio waves come out of an antenna and just go in every direction, so a router against your outer wall is wasting a lot of its energy just directed into the neighbour’s house. If you can reflect some of that back in, you get improved signal reception. It’s very cool :-)
It’s a dead man’s switch, if new episodes don’t keep getting released, its assumed that the USA has fallen and by the computers monitoring, and the nukes are automatically launched.
She’s an absolute scumbag, but yes, certain dog breeds that only exist to be violent, such as Rottweilers, should simply be ended. That’s pretty obvious, I would have thought.
But… Violent people don’t care about the safety of others, and don’t see a problem with abusing dogs to get what they want out of them either.
Okay, but who is building the vast energy grid infrastructure required to move the gargantuan amounts of electricity that will be required once all vehicles make the switch?
I’m all for it, but I don’t hear anybody talking about the huge national grid upgrades that will be required, or who’s going to pay for it all, or how many years it’ll take to get done.
Everyone seems to talk about building more chargers, but not going any further than that.
In classrooms children shouldn’t remove their phones from their pockets at all, they are there to focus on the class. If we removed our phones from our pockets, they would be confiscated until the end of class, and rightly so.
School is for paying attention and learning, not for going into your own little world on your phone (which we’re all guilty of).
Also, the only time you need to use a computer at school is during IT lessons, or study/research sessions. School is the time that we learn and perfect our handwriting abilities, and our abilities to read through books, make notes based on what the teacher is saying, or writing on the blackboard, etc. It is not appropriate to pull out a laptop and use that instead, because that won’t teach the child these important hand skills.
I’m talking about primary school and secondary school, and mostly college too. Once the student is 18 and begins university, there’s nothing stopping them from using computers or phones, it’s up to them to regulate their own attention and such.
Context: I currently have a back injury and as such my sleep schedule has been destroyed. There are days that I simply cannot get comfortable no matter where I sit/lie....
I don’t mean to sound rude at all, I’m just genuinely curious how it is that you can’t identify what 3am means? I’m guessing maybe English isn’t your native language, or such?
Again, no negativity intended, I’m just really curious :-)
Nebraska governor Jim Pillen, a Republican not noted as a women’s rights supporter, yesterday issued an executive order “defining” males and females and the attributes thereof. The anti-transgender political grandstanding offers fusty explanations of the sexes–men are “bigger, stronger and faster” on average–in...
Edit: Looks like you can opt-out of that “new look and feel” pretty easily under the appearance settings but still, whats with putting rounded corners everywhere?...
I’ve noticed that there’s a shift in UI design currently back to the 2000s style of round UI design, which eventually moved out of the way for nice straight crisp corners when we shifted from CRTs to LCDs which could render pixel perfect images at last.
We never limited the viewport on a browser of course, that’s madness. But just look at XP’s bubbly design and interfaces of the time vs Win8/10’s very angular, clean crisp interface.
I do hope we’re not descending back into an age of curves, I’m not a fan. But styles come and go every few decades, and maybe younger people today are ready to experience their “age of curves” for the first time?
Does it help that I don’t know who Steve Crowder is? I suspect he’s done something bad if people don’t like him, but seeing as I don’t even know the guy, he can’t be that globally famous. So…I couldn’t care less about the guy 🤷♀️
So I am a part of the LGBTQ community and work in a big city in middle europe. A lot of my coworkers are religios and have a foreign background. They are mostly very nationalist and homo-/transphobic. I hate them for their blind hate and bigotry, which wont change. I have realised, that I have become a bit bigotred towards...
Being religious or homophobic isn’t a ethnic group. OP is basically growing a hatred for bigoted/sexist/xenophobic people because they’re forced to interact with them on a regular basis, which sucks for sure :-(
Blocks of flats are awful places. No garden to put up a workshed, or greenhouse or anything at all, or play with your dog or kids (and no dog - it would be cruel to keep a dog in a flat and not have it able to roam a garden all day), they’re noisy, loud neighbours can be above, below, to the left, to the right, and in front …
You can’t modify your home how you’d like, can’t choose what utility companies run into your home, can’t let your kid cycle up and down the street and still be able to see and hear them from the windows etc.
I see your point about density absolutely, but I HATE flats. Awful places.
I also hate how people have started trying to make them sound fancy and posh by calling them “apartments” to try to sound fancy and European/French, as if that will make them more appealing.
Yeah, he’s not the best source for information of any kind really, good production values though. All you need is a slick production and people will eat up anything you say.
2 librarians were fired after the board mistook an autism symbol for a Pride display. They’re suing. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
[SOLVED] Linux app which downloads torrent from begginning to end and allows me to watch the torrent as I am downloading it.
You lovely people have given me a lot of great FOSS apps and I thank you for your suggestions...
Where are all of the reddit refugees these days?
Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.
Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone....
Lemmy World is now on Matrix (matrix.to)
We know most of you were thrilled about our Discord server, so we decided to make you even happier with our very own space on matrix!...
Robots (lemmy.sdf.org)
The green ones make me gay (sh.itjust.works)
In Saratov, Russia, a Ukranian UAV reportedly hit a gas pipeline. (streamable.com)
Video 2: i.imgur.com/udsCwfr.mp4...
Contradicting federal health officials, Florida Gov. DeSantis recommends against new COVID booster (apnews.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health department official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations and warning residents against getting a new COVID-19 booster, saying there’s not enough evidence it provides benefits that outweigh risks....
5:01 and Done: No One Wants to Schmooze After Work (www.wsj.com)
Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home...
PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion
Thought I’d share this in case there are people who are unaware or have been pending off the migration process....
Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads (lemmy.world)
New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque (apnews.com)
Apple event as a consumer vs. investor (lemmy.world)
🥱 ➡️ 🤑
Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated!
Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator....
Lyft’s new feature lets women and non-binary riders request their driver’s gender (www.cnn.com)
Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender....
French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it (abcnews.go.com)
They can't keep getting away with it (lemmy.world)
The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch (arstechnica.com)
The amount of spam texts I get from Republican campaigns (lemmy.world)
It’s been going on for months and no matter how many I mark as spam and block they keep coming back with new numbers!...
Pour one out for the youtubers that chased the algorithm away from what you enjoy. (lemmy.world)
Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place (www.rawstory.com)
'If the Black players don’t like it here, they should go back to Africa and see how bad it is' - Buffalo Bills owner (deadspin.com)
Former reporter claims Bills owner Terry Pegula, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made racist comments about hiring, social justice protests...
iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds (www.macrumors.com)
Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) (www.macworld.com)
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
I need answers (lemmy.world)
What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?
Too many “what got cancelled too soon” questions, what’s a show that went on too long?...
McDonald's plans to transition away from self-serve soda fountains in US by 2032 (www.usatoday.com)
Suella Braverman orders urgent advice on banning American bully XLs (www.bbc.com)
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too (www.thedrive.com)
WhatsApp will soon be your one-stop solution for all your chat apps (www.androidpolice.com)
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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
Why must we be done this way? (lemmy.ml)
You'll never take me alive (startrek.website)
Chinese propaganda makes America look so damn cool (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
My wife says standing over the sink at 3am cleaning tea infusers with a brass tooth brush, dremel tool, and dental picks is not normal. Is she right?
Context: I currently have a back injury and as such my sleep schedule has been destroyed. There are days that I simply cannot get comfortable no matter where I sit/lie....
Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster" (boingboing.net)
Nebraska governor Jim Pillen, a Republican not noted as a women’s rights supporter, yesterday issued an executive order “defining” males and females and the attributes thereof. The anti-transgender political grandstanding offers fusty explanations of the sexes–men are “bigger, stronger and faster” on average–in...
Just watching tv with dad (lemmy.world)
Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website (lemmy.world)
Edit: Looks like you can opt-out of that “new look and feel” pretty easily under the appearance settings but still, whats with putting rounded corners everywhere?...
IT'S HERE!!! (i.imgflip.com)
I can’t watch it till Friday though, since I’m watching it with one of my cultured friends; GIF from [email protected]
Websurfx - An open source alternative to Searx which aggregates results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. (programming.dev)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/2678496...
StEvEN cROWdER doES Not dESERvE a MEME foRmat (i.imgur.com)
CHaNGE my miNd
How to be less racist/bigotred?
So I am a part of the LGBTQ community and work in a big city in middle europe. A lot of my coworkers are religios and have a foreign background. They are mostly very nationalist and homo-/transphobic. I hate them for their blind hate and bigotry, which wont change. I have realised, that I have become a bit bigotred towards...
[meme] How would you rather see this land developed? (lemmy.world)
Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack (www.reuters.com)
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy that is preserving old cooking recipes. (lemmy.world)
Scholz: Germany will be the first country in Europe to introduce a law requiring operators of 80% of all service stations to provide fast-charging options with at least 150 kilowatts for e-cars. (www.reuters.com)