Saboth wrote on Mar 10, 2024, 16:16:Prez wrote on Mar 10, 2024, 14:24:
Oh boy. This is an example of what happens when you have a union leadership not being on the same page as the members of the union. They just settled a strike - this comes across as the union not being very effective I think.
The company I work for was bought out by another company about a year ago. The other company was in the process of unionizing. Two completely different cultures. Our company is made up of older veterans of the industry, people in their 40s, 50s, etc. The other company has a massive turnover rate, and most people are in their 20s. Their union demands were some of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. They wanted to be paid for their travel to work, paid for mental health, paid overtime for salary jobs, to have a committee that is made up of employees that can pick which clients we work with, and which projects we do, and the ability to reject client projects that don't meet certain morality codes as determined by the committee, and about a dozen other perks. Meanwhile, us old schoolers just want regular raises and job security.
I still think unions are a good idea because corporations are definitely working with each other and the government to keep wages and benefits and workers' rights down, but in our instance, many people seem to be on completely different pages and if those younger workers got all that they wanted, we'd probably be out of business within 1-2 years.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Nov 20, 2023, 12:23:
Well played, Snoop.
FloodAnxiety wrote on Jun 2, 2023, 13:13:
Re: US Air Force denies AI drone attacked operator in test.
Same old play book: making stuff up to scare people.
Prez wrote on Apr 23, 2023, 01:47:Sorry, but I am way too pragmatic for that. We are fucked. 100%.And I concur, we are pretty much fucked.
You know, I should really just let this go. But I continuously hear the oh-so-helpful-and-and-amazingly-specific mantra "we are fucked" by people who I am sure are oh so fun at parties and I feel compelled to ask - what does that even mean? Maybe my rose-colored glasses are making me thick but I need it spelled out for me. It sounds like a cop-out to be honest but maybe I'm just an old fool who knows nothing and being determined to look past the things we have lost or will lose and instead choose to focus on what can still be saved is just my way of putting my head in the sand and wanting us to all have a kumbaya circle jerk while the inevitable end of all things lurks right around the corner.
Beamer wrote on Nov 16, 2022, 15:03:Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Nov 16, 2022, 14:35:Beamer wrote on Nov 16, 2022, 14:32:
Who is going to do that? Who is going to do more work for the same or less money and be happy about it?
This is the key. Elon is making staying one of the worst possible options available to his remaining work force, which itself has a whole lot of other options. He really doesn't seem to understand who has the power here.
The worst part, I think, is that who would you rather hire or work with right now? Someone that was fired or left Twitter, or someone that stayed through all of this? I'm thinking that staying is starting to be detrimental to outside career opportunities. The people that are sticking through this, other than those with visa concerns, don't seem smart and loyal at the moment.
Meanwhile, to Verno's point:
* Elon demanded that employees come back in to the office with less than 24 hours notice, but he won't be in the office regularly
* Elon is demanding people give up work life balance for Twitter, but he'll never give Twitter his full attention
* Elon is angry at employees for shit posting on Twitter, but he makes dozens of shit posts a day
This is just really bad leadership.
Acleacius wrote on Nov 9, 2022, 12:36:
No experience with FromSoftware before Elden Ring. Just looked and there isn't a Coop mod, guess it's just pvp jank.
Apparently, their community despises Coop and explains why they cry and throw tantrums about the amazing Coop mod in ER!
Darks wrote on Nov 4, 2022, 12:03:Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 4, 2022, 11:31:
It's deeply satisfying to me to watch Twitter starting to flame out.
LOL, me too. I love it!!!
Go Elon!!
RedEye9 wrote on Oct 27, 2022, 16:26:
How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter
There’s more than one way to sink a social network.“Twitter has never been able to deal with the fact its users both hate using it and also hate each other,” and that the platform’s architecture causes such frequent context collapse and infighting that its least aggressive and obnoxious users tend to leave or just lurk. If Twitter is struggling with this now, imagine the impact if Musk does decide to turn the platform into a maximalist speech Thunderdome. The truth that the anti-“woke” warriors refuse to acknowledge is that the economic success of platforms depends on thoughtful, swift content moderation that strikes a balance between open dialogue and chaos. This morning, in a letter to advertisers in which he used the bloodless, platitudinal language of a veteran social-media executive, Musk wrote that Twitter cannot become a “free-for-all hellscape.”
BIGtrouble77 wrote on Aug 5, 2022, 13:20:
For my next GPU purchase, I'm pretty sure I'm going to do what I did when I bought my GTX 1080 TI for $600... I'm just going to buy the best card I can when the 4000 series is announced. I need an AMD card this time around, so hopefully the RX 6900XT is nearing $600 by then.
Even if the next gen cards are available and reasonably priced, my board from 2018 is only PCI 3.0 (so I will be leaving performance on the table) and I also don't want to deal with the absurd power requirements they are going to have.
Simon Says wrote on Jun 6, 2022, 20:12:RedEye9 wrote on Jun 6, 2022, 20:01:
Sounds like that engineer put the chip tech to good use.
A refreshing take on the subject. Especially in the current context ( see the edit below ).
Most people foam at the mouth spouting insane babble around "IP THEFT".
Most people also forget that one of China's conditions for foreign companies to operate there was more often than not a mandatory technology transfer.
How many of those transfers have occurred in the last 30 years implicating how many patents?
When you take that into consideration "IP theft" is a rounding error on a fraction of a percent.
But... Do continue foaming at the mouth folks who do, helps me more easily spot the people I prefer to stay away from. win/win
Edit: I'm not defending IP theft or trying to downplay it. But I am more than tired enough of the cherry picking bullshit with China about that subject. There's enough sabre rattling atm without unnecessarily adding to it. Unless you want Taiwan to burn like Ukraine is burning atm after a successful baiting into a proxy war by the US ( official statements from the DoD suggests it was planned since at least 2014, yep, well played USA ) with Russia swallowing it hook, bait and sinker, then go ahead, cherry pick all you want. Knock yourself out, but don't complain here that you can't buy anything with chips in it without a X times markup if the US succeeds in baiting China too into a proxy war of their own.
jdreyer wrote on May 8, 2022, 13:37:
GPU prices could soon drop below MSRP triggering a ‘surge’ of gamers building PCs
Which will drive prices up. Fasten your seat belt.
I have the opposite problem: I have a decent GPU, I need to upgrade CPU, MB, memory, and OS drive.
The Half Elf wrote on Mar 26, 2022, 05:31:1badmf wrote on Mar 26, 2022, 04:29:
you're talking about the ending i assume? you're overreacting. there are a lot of ways that coulda went down, all of which are unlikely to impossible, but this is halo so it's really par for the course. the spartans find themselves playing out the kobayashi maru 10 times a day in the games and the books. to hate the series for it is just looking for an excuse to justify your hate. as it is, it was an effective introduction to... that deus ex side of halo that's always been there.
Stan Lee said it best in regards to a black Johnny Storm in the last Fantastic Four movie :"They're outraged not because of any personal prejudice. They're outraged because they hate to see any change made on a series and characters they had gotten familiar with. In Spider-Man, when they got a new actor, that bothered them, even though it was a white actor. I don't think it had to do with racial prejudice as much as they don't like things changed.""
You take a character with a 40+ year history and change it and there is going to be some problems with the established fan base. But at the same time you also had a bad movie. So the question is... is it the fan's fault for not liking the change, or the fans faults for thinking it's crap?
Battlestar Galactica is a good example of how you can change the entire narrative and still produce something wildly different and still amazing.
RedEye9 wrote on Mar 2, 2022, 00:21:
FirstWorldProblems
At least people have their priorities.
I can see where the word choice in a free game takes precedence over Ukraine or the fact that women can't get a medically needed abortion in Tx.
TheBigVlad wrote on Jan 25, 2022, 19:36:mag wrote on Jan 25, 2022, 18:15:
The invasions are the best parts of these games! You are the content for the product I purchased, I demand you let me invade and kill you. Or whatever, gank me with your 3 co-op friends, that's fine. But I demand random asshattery!
I'm sure you're being sarcastic, but you sound like those jerks who were upset at the lack of PvP in Diablo 3 when it came out. Like... the whole point in PvP in Diablo 2 was to gank people, that's it, and people were upset that you couldn't do that in Diablo 3. It was pretty funny reading the complaints at the time.
OmegaFoRCe wrote on Jan 24, 2022, 13:58:
I cannot wait to buy this. I love the Dark Souls series (haven't played Demon Souls due to lack of PlayStation consoles). Playing them co-op is a blast. I really hope Elden Ring's co-op is good.