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The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party | Robert Reich in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Get out of here with your "nuance" and "critical thinking skills"!

/s, great job, keep up the good work

Trump Picks Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

~~Badly~~ ~~Bigly~~ Yugely

Kermit :) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

He's a frog, they breathe through their skin.

QED

Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Emergency exit mechanisms should be designed in such a way that one CAN forget about it or never even know about it, then have it obvious, readily available, and usable, all for/by the dumbest motherfucker in existence, in an emergency situation.

The most common analogous situation is emergency exit door signage. Most companies do an annual fire drill, which isn't enough to really learn anything. Emergency exit signs are easy to interpret and anyone can understand what they mean and use them to get to safety, regardless of prior experience.

Vehicle doors should be the same. Tesla front doors tend to be easy and obvious to open in an emergency (I own one and front seat passengers frequently use the emergency latch instead of the door button), but the rear doors (for the people seated closest to the damn battery nonetheless) have ridiculously difficult emergency opening procedures.

Israeli hooligans in Amsterdam sung about raping Arab women in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That was a sobering video. What awful people.

The "m" in motel refers to a motorcar. The "h" in hotel, an older term, is presumably a reference to a horse. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, they're not even close for hotel. Here's the etymology:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hotel

They're correct about motel, though:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/motel

Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Try Acme Valley ice cream. I just bought a pint and it's great. No injected air!

Max Planning to Crack Down on Password Sharing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Holy hell there are some great deals on that website! Thanks for the rec, I wouldn't have believed it was real if I just stumbled upon it.

"it's making me uncomfortable" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck, my neighbor says the same every time Trump says something awful. "Trump just talks a lot of shit, he's just joking."

Fuck you neighbor, you approved leadership from the guy who encouraged putting kids in cages.

TIL Clive Barker created Hellraiser and Candyman in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure they're mixing him up with Clive Cussler.

Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I see you're also an AASS man!

Democrats should have listened to Bernie Sanders, historians say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

If the government doesn't take care of his poor, minorities, what are they doing.

Facilitating the transfer of wealth to the richest fraction of the population.

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I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
41 comments fedilink
 

I couldn't find a more appropriate place to post this. It's a bar in Reykjavik. Cool place, would recommend.

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People who poop with the bathroom fan off (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seriously people, use the fucking fan. It clears away odors and covers up the sounds of your dropping a deuce. If you want to stew in your shit smell and revel in the music of your magical poop plops, do so in the comfort of your own home. If you're a guest and the bathroom has a fan, turn it on. We don't want to share.

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Right-to-Work Laws don't mean your employer can fire you at any time for any reason (US Law) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
24 comments fedilink
 

"I live in a right-to-work state, so my employer can shitcan me for any reason".

-Linus K. Lemming

Sorry friends, that's at-will employment, *and you still can't be terminated for any reasons that are protected by law, but we're not here to discuss that. Right-to-work laws mean one thing: that non-union employees cannot be required to contribute to the cost of union representation.

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 prohibits "closed shops", where union membership is a condition of employment; however, union represented positions can still be required to contribute to the cost of that representation. Right-to-work laws prohibit that requirement, allowing employees in union represented positions who choose not to join the union to also choose whether or not they contribute to the union's costs, i.e., if they pay dues or not.

I see this mistake frequently and thought folks might want to know the correct information so they don't unintentionally perpetuate it.

Edit: updated to include link to info about at-will employment.

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Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12310804

Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30

Hey all! I've been having an issue I can't figure out. Suddenly, I realized I'm in the heart of Linux users! I can ask here! I'm a total noob, so please be gentle.

I installed Xubuntu and got everything but the touchscreen working properly. The touchscreen works but the cursor is consistently off a bit, with the least error in the center of the screen and increasing as it moves to the sides. I've tried running xinput_calibrator but it doesn't help. I attempted to run libinput.calibrate-touchscreen but keep getting a "is a Wayland compositor running?" error message.

Any suggestions?

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