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2024-05-29 07:10:50

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@npub1rkt…sqek What exactly should he apologize for? What harm has come to whom from him?

2024-05-28 19:40:06

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@npub1rkt…sqek It's still better that he changed his mind. May be more believable as an AI sceptic.

2024-05-23 17:55:29

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@npub1jpp…u59l I don't even know if it was a decision :) I just get a 404 error message when I click "edit".

2024-05-23 16:22:45

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@npub1jpp…u59l My Mastodon instance/client doesn't allow editing posts, which is kind of a blessing.

2024-01-28 20:28:01

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1pcm…60vg @npub18zd…zymh @npub1nqz…838y To be honest I've never heard of overtime pay for hourly employees. How does that work? Where does the overtime start? It's just more hours.

2024-01-25 08:47:00

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1pcm…60vg @npub18zd…zymh @npub1nqz…838y At my company you calculate your hourly wage from salary divided by 30*8 then multiply it by 1.5 to get the overtime pay rate. Many companies expect people to work for free, like you've said, but they're not good companies.

2024-01-22 20:34:17

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub18zd…zymh @npub1nqz…838y No, they are not. That's why we have something called "overtime pay". Because work in excess of agreed hours is something that is compensated separately.

2024-01-07 19:07:39

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@npub1t7d…pqpp In a business it might make sense to raise the resources until the problem is fixed. It might also be cheaper to run a larger server instead of getting devs to optimize it/fix it.

2023-12-28 18:43:15

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1nqz…838y And yet, the "moderate" Republican candidate can't even say what he said.

2023-04-22 16:36:55

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#[0] #[1] #[2] US has an incredibly high murder rate for its level of income. Source is mentioned.
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/110/243/440/504/930/440/original/49091f60d12df70b.jpg

2023-04-22 14:50:37

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Fewer gun deaths usually also means fewer deaths in general. It doesn't have to, but it does.
Obviously higher birth rate also causes more deaths :) But having a gun allows for more opportunities to intimidate and hurt people with it, opportunities that are often not available to people who's best available weapon is a kitchen knife.
It also allows for some opportunities that aren't really possible with blunt force objects and blades, such as deadly accidents and mass killings. There's very few multiple death stabbings and almost no baseball bat suicides.
And I have yet to hear a good argument for risks related to harder access to guns that isn't based on there being very easy access to guns.
Poland has 40 million people and the number of mass shootings that can be counted on one hand within the living history. The same is true for the great majority of countries. US is a special case for many reasons - lack of social safety net is a big factor in violence in general, so is the mass incarceration - but you could only makes things better if you make sure a crazy person can't easily purchase an automatic rifle.

2023-04-21 17:26:52

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#[0] #[1] I don't know if they're the answer, but taking guns away from people results in fewer gun deaths. Yes, there will still be bat deaths and hammer deaths and what have you, and we can generalise that as blunt force objects. You can't get rid of blunt force objects. Getting rid of 99% of guns is trivial in comparison.

2023-04-21 17:22:28

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#[0] #[1] #[2] So guns don't kill people but they save lives? How nice of them.