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[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

there is nothing socialist about the CCP. "Communism with Chinese Characteristics" is just capitalism.

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

what was stopping them from doing this previously? Isn't this just government virtue signaling?

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago
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submitted 5 months ago by g8phcon2@kbin.social to c/cars@lemmy.world

Did anybody else see this and think the logo on the door was a giant USB port for charging this electric car sold in the USA (but only DC) and in the EU where you might not even need a license if your county classifies it as a "quadracycle" instead.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/842b2ead-fb7c-4224-a452-5f3c8af74af3.png

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

When I was in college I learned I liked the idea of coding a lot more than I liked coding. Now I know just enough C++ to be able to translate dev speak into corporates speak and back, can claim to be an engineer, and get to talk to stupid people, who think they are smart, who think that I'm really smart, and I spend more of my day on social media. I had one job that in the six months I was there I think I actually did MAYBE 40 hours of work. If it wasn't for "business conditions related to COVID-19" I'd probably still work there, though I'm making more, and working somewhat more, now.

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

developers SHOULD make more, but in my experience they don't. I suspect part of this is because the people that make the salary decisions frequently talk to the PM so they know he's valuable, but the devs even if he has talked to them he likley doesn't have a relationship with them, and sees them primarily as a number of spreadsheet that can be replaced with less expensive developing nation devlopers anytime the stock price goes down (or in my case went up but they thought it was going to go down, so they went ahead and laid off 1,000 devs in the States anyway, promising to hire 3,000 Indian devs in their place, and then not actually doing that even, which made the stock price go up again)

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's a crock. My first corporates job did that to us, and then never approved the paid vacation requests, let-a-lone the banked time-off we were promised for being such good cubicle slaves working above and beyond, and it is all legal because "exempt salary employee"

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

that's capitalist bullshit

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I have two degrees in music theory and a masters in English

Oh you poor baby. You remind me of my college roommate junior year, everyone knew he was gay except him.

[-] g8phcon2@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

My parents used to winter in Arizona. They told me many of their neighbors used to go to Mexico for dental care, but allegedly Mexico (I would think America but my dad said Mexico) is trying to put a stop to folks crossing the border for this kind of care.

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