Tech work can be highly volatile in the business environment. Maybe its different for new tech workers entering the work force, but for a worker owned company, this can mean large losses of revenue for months. I don’t know many tech workers that are willing to take a massive pay cut to continue to stay and commit to a worker owned company if they personally can find better paying work elsewhere.

From the article:

"The playful atmosphere of tech offices flush with investment, enjoying luxe catered lunches to attract programming talent, has been replaced by a looming fear that layoffs are just around the corner "

This boom-and-bust cycle of tech growth and devastation has happened three times during my IT career. Its even more frequent in specific IT niche industries.

Watching Breaking Bad was an amazing experience that I would recommend everyone do once. However, I don’t think I can ever take that full ride again. It just has too many people being so horrible to themselves and each other.

Runner up: The Wire

“You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.”

“Looking back, I probably wouldn’t do it again because I don’t want to bring that kind of scrutiny on my friends or anything else like that,” Slusser said.

Let me translate from GOP-speak: “I still truly believe he should be hanged, but I don’t like the personal consequences and public outrage at me for saying something so obviously obscene.”

“Anyone with common sense knows the remark wasn’t a literal call for public execution,”

“It was just a prank, bro” - Slusser probably

Nobody believed the Olympian damaged the pool. Headlines about the pool falling apart after trumps botched work were circulating for weeks before the Olympian came on the scene. The trump administration is trying to instill a chilling effect that trump cannot be questioned or you will be prosecuted, even if its on false charges. The trump administration knows the charges won’t still. They just want to cost regular Americans money and time they don’t have as punishment for making trump look bad.

Absolutely! People are always wondering “how do you get experience in X?”. The answer is “be the person that volunteers to research and implement it”. Multiple times in my career I’ve done this and I took that knowledge and experience and got a better higher paying job from it. Rinse repeat.

If your employer is going to pay you to learn a skill or product that will make you more valuable, if you turn that down you’re passing up an opportunity to advance. That advancement just may not be at that employer.

Or a more cynical version of this is “make your mistakes in learning at your current employer and if your efforts are not rewarded, take that knowledge and experience elsewhere for higher pay”.

Knowing that one if us will be without the other when one of us eventually dies first at some unknown point in the future hopefully from old age. It certainly beats the alternative though of not having met and fallen in love.

“We’re like a family here, in the sense that you’ll wear my mark literally on your skin for the rest of your life even long after I’m dead. We also do a pizza party in the office ever other Friday. So that’s fun!”

I had a half written post responding to what you wrote before I realized just how far off we are from one another in both ideology and tone. Clearly I’ve deleted all of it. I feel sorry for you, but worse, I feel bad knowing the damage your actions will have on your cause and that of my family. Still, I wish you good luck in life and hope you don’t end up regretting your choices of who you vote for.

Feel free to respond to my final post to you if you like if you want to put a coda on this thread for others, but I’ll never see it.

Again, you’re stuck in binary short term thinking. I need to be more long term and strategic than you do.

I have a trans family member. I am personally invested in their rights as a person be respected.

And yes, transphobic DNC candidates losing makes the party less transphobic in the long run.

We disagree completely. Up until 2 years ago I think we would agree that the DNC, for the most part, supported trans rights. When did we start seeing a handful of DNC candidates shifting on this position? When the candidates winning elections, the GOP, went transphobic. So the DNC losing more elections won’t make them less transphobic, it will make them more. We’ve seen this in real time in the last 2 years.

(Please don’t put words in my mouth and pretend I’m saying that means it’s a net positive that Trump won. You’re better than that.)

WTF. Its a good thing I never said anything of the sort. I don’t even think you need me in this conversation when you’re the one putting words in my mouth, and then criticizing me for it.

And frankly, if both parties turn transphobe, this whole country can burn to the ground as far as I care.

You are the one advocating for the GOP and voting for GOP candidates directly opposed to trans rights. You are directly hurting my trans sister. You are the person with the torch setting fire to the country.

I as a trans person need to vote against any transphobic Democrat.

I don’t know your candidates, but if both candidates are transphobic in some way, can I safely assume that the GOP candidate is more transphobic or are you saying the DNC candidate is more transphobic than your GOP one?

For me personally, a transphobic Democrat is far more dangerous to my safety and well being than any Republican. It’s more important to make sure at least one party isn’t transphobic than it is to win every election.

Wait, let me follow your logic. Am I reading you right that you positing that voting for the GOP makes the DNC less transphobic?

You’re going to vote for the GOP, which by every measure, is the more transphobic party, as a strategy to try to reduce transphobic legislation being written into law? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. If anything I think it would make the DNC more transphobic because they see they are losing elections to pro-transphobia GOP candidates and the DNC would think thats what voters want.

I too, am disappointed in the lack of action from the DNC, and even worse the actions the DNC are taking to bridle the DSA who are actually pushing change forward. However, a “do nothing” DNC is safer than the actively destructive GOP.

There are better targets for the anger for not paying enough taxes:

Alphabet (Google parent company) earned $132.17 billion in profits in 2025 and paid $26.656 billion in US taxes for an effective tax rate of 20.1%. Sure this could be, and historically was, higher before trump cut the corporate tax rate from 35% in 2017.

Tesla, on the other hand at the same time in 2025, paid $0 in US taxes in 2025 on profits of $3.794 billion for an effective tax rate of 0%.

Google isn’t in financial trouble from this spending. Cash Flow Negative just means in a specific period they’re spending more than they bring for that period. Google and other tech giants have been sitting on mountains of unused cash at $242.5 billion for years. This is a rare time where they’re finally dipping into it to the tune of $5.9 billion.

“Sure we’re openly shooting and killing American citizens lawfully demonstrating against government overreach, but the Democrats want people to be able to go to the bathroom without us looking at their genitalia. Vote GOP this fall.”

• Republican political ad probably

The front page is just VetOfTheSeas and everybody else lol.

The default Lemmy UI “front page” is posts that are “Active”. First, try setting it to “Scaled” and you’ll get much more variety of posts instead of just the ones with the most replies. You can set this as a setting each time you visit Lemmy, or edit your Lemmy profile so it defaults to “Scaled” all the time you visit.

Second, start cultivating Lemmy communities you like. “Subscribe” to communities and block the ones you don’t like. Your “front page” will have lots more content you like and far fewer of things you don’t care about.

Third, some poster are consistently too far away from from what I want to consume on the internet. You’ll know them when you see them where everything they post something you wish you didn’t have to see. Block these users and you won’t see their posts or their comments on other posts. None of these change affect what other people see so there’s not risk of harming others or censoring them for others. They are free to continue to be seen by whomever else doesn’t want to block them.

With these three changes I have found Lemmy to be a much more engaging place.

TIHI

The couple was reported missing in Guatemala on July 20 after attempting to register a motorcycle in a nearby town, Rolando Pérez Paz told the radio outlet.

The couple was murdered in Guatemala. My heart goes out to their infant daughter.

I guess I’ll go against the common answer. I choose “customs”.

Learning customs requires vastly more time than language. Each situation would have its own nuance given the parties involved, the prior events, and the intent you want to communicate. Social class, religion, and history all influence customs. Dress, speech, body language, all are part of customs that are subtle and not necessarily written down to study.

To be able to instantly know all the customs for every situation would be amazing! Language can be learned in isolation and with the instant knowledge of custom language learning itself would be significantly easier.

Although less integrated with the vehicle’s systems, aftermarket telematics and diagnostic-port (OBD) solutions offer limited cloud connectivity to fill the gap left by OE services when they’re phased out. Unfortunately, most are engineered for fleet services

No mention of Open Vehicle Monitoring System (OVMS) here? Its mostly focused on older EVs where the manufacturer has abandoned the cloud portal for remote management of the car. However, that’s nearly the exact problem the article is calling out for other non-EV cars.