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gooba42

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I'm a programmer, I help people clock out and go see their kids.

Just for context - In the US, SW Missouri currently.

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GovTrack, to random
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Lawmakers expensed millions under new program that doesn’t require receipts - The Washington Post | Everyone grouses when Congress gives itself raises and baroque arrangements like this, ripe for abuse, are what they pass instead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/04/house-representatives-expenses-receipts-lodging/

gooba42,
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@GovTrack Maybe instead of trying to fleece us for more pay on top of their legalized insider trading, bribes, golden coffin retirement plans, they should make an attempt to bring down the cost of living.

They claim more pay will reduce the incentives to bribery but the incentive for the bribe is always "more than what you currently have" and that doesn't ever change no matter how much they currently have.

gooba42,
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@GovTrack That's a trap though. The majority of the country would already be receiving a significant pay raise if they stepped into a job in Congress right now.

Campaigns are expensive, the only fix there is publicly funded elections but lack of congressional pay is still a very hard sell to a country with a median income under 50% of what Congress gets just for having gotten the job regardless of performance.

gooba42,
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@GovTrack That's why they already get paid twice the average.

If they can't make that work, they are going to have to explain a lot better to us why they need to also have legal protection for insider trading and all the other perks they use to become millionaires on $174k annual income.

They can live in a Congressional dormitory.

gooba42,
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@GovTrack They don't have any motivation to care because their lives are uniquely insulated from the factors that run our lives.

It's not like nobody is advocating for a living wage, it's a majority opinion in the country that it's a good idea. Congress is free to oppose the majority opinion because they never directly feel the consequences of their actions.

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr And the worst of the worst are somehow the ones who feel most entitled to tell everyone to follow their models.

We have Costco guy quietly going "Hey, just pay everybody and treat them nicely" (individual Managers can and do differ here) and nobody's listening.

On the other side we have every wannabe Jack Welch getting lauded publicly for "Employees are disposable, just use them up until they're empty and turn them out into the streets!" in every media.

gooba42,
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@ianhecht @mentallyalex @RickiTarr The flat out lying to me is the worst part.

I would respond more positively to a voice message that said outright "We're never going to staff up to cover normal call volume. Please wait."

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr I've said, not really joking, that every generation of management commissions a new study by academia to figure out how to improve work productivity and morale. The study always says "Pay and treat people better" and they bury the results, complain about "ivory tower academics" (who worked from their real world data!) and we go another 20 years without fixing anything.

gooba42,
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@RickiTarr We keep asking after better benefits. I work for a major medical insurance and watching paperwork go by for fully covered single claims for amounts well under my deductible is rough sometimes.

Likewise we ask for better communication and management is sure we just want to hear more words so now we have more pointless town halls where the CEO brags about how his international vacation brought his family together so everyone should take one and then bullshits jargon for the VPs.

GottaLaff, to tesla
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“Some of 's institutional shareholders are getting out, convinced that the electric carmaker's days of dizzying growth are in the rear-view mirror.

The company's shares are down nearly 30% this year and have fallen by more than 50% since their 2021 high, wiping out some $600 billion in market value as CEO Elon has struggled with fierce competition and falling sales. Tesla's first-quarter results missed analyst expectations…”
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/these-early-tesla-bulls-are-giving-up-stock-2024-06-04/

gooba42,
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@GottaLaff I still think Musk is killing them on purpose so he can move on to Starlink and SpaceX where he can both make more money and provide more leverage to the people who pushed him to destroy Twitter.

br00t4c, to random
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Multiple Trump Fans and Sympathizers Dumped From Hunter Biden Jury

https://www.mediaite.com/news/multiple-trump-fans-and-sympathizers-dumped-from-hunter-biden-jury/

gooba42,
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@br00t4c They haven't followed the white supremacists' handbook properly. They were meant to hide their "power level" until they were installed in a position of authority and leverage.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Biden: "Every reason" for people to conclude Netanyahu is prolonging war in Gaza https://www.axios.com/2024/06/04/biden-israel-netanyahu-gaza-time-interview?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

gooba42,
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@realTuckFrumper Bibi wants to kill everyone in Gaza. His goal is genocide and every minute spent pretending otherwise is helping him finish the job.

whitequark, to random
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extremely specific spam

gooba42,
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@whitequark It's like the coupons given out at AliExpress - "$2 off if you order 10,000 laptops! How can you resist!"

br00t4c, to random
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New York Governor To Launch Bill Banning Smartphones in Schools

#newyork #thenewyork

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/30/1924202/new-york-governor-to-launch-bill-banning-smartphones-in-schools

gooba42,
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@br00t4c Then how do the students let their parents know they're being shot while the media is still too busy with copaganda to provide any useful information?

br00t4c, to random
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Musk wants to help Trump stop nonexistent voter fraud. What could go wrong?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/30/2243605/-Musk-wants-to-help-Trump-stop-nonexistent-voter-fraud-What-could-go-wrong

gooba42,
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@br00t4c Why do we report it like this was in good faith?
"Musk wants to help Trump stop nonexistent voter fraud."=> "Musk wants to help Trump win by disenfranchising minorities and dissenters."

atomicpoet, to random
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Me to my smartwatch: “I just spent five minutes walking, and now you’re going to nag me to walk now that I just sat down?”

gooba42,
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@atomicpoet I remember Leo Laporte complaining similarly that his Apple Watch didn't believe in skipping a walk. Every 50 minutes or so, no matter what he was doing or had done, the watch would go off and insist he get up and go take a walk now.

br00t4c, to random
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What happens if there is a hung jury at Trump's New York hush money trial?

#formerpresident #trump

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hung-jury-trump-hush-money-trial-b2553918.html

gooba42,
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@br00t4c Then we start over with another inconsequential trial that ends with SCOTUS declaring him our tyrant king.

gooba42,
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@br00t4c They already told us, they will elect him from prison. That won't help us.

br00t4c, to random
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Miscreants claim they've snatched 560M people's info from Ticketmaster

#data #people

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/breachforums_ticketmaster_data/

gooba42,
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@br00t4c It seems like maybe Ticketmaster shouldn't have kept half a billion people's information on any long term basis.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Thank you, @RepRaskin. Now if only the AG could grow a spine.
"The U.S. Department of Justice...can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law."
Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?pvid=jMnlOpphfOlEr_NG_x0HLuZ6&u2g=c&smid=tw-share

gooba42,
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@jeffjarvis Every possible legal avenue to salvation requires the Democrats to do things they refuse to consider.

We won't expand the courts.
We won't force a recusal.
We won't charge any of the organizers or financial backers of Trump's coup.
We won't take down any of the Right Wing terror orgs currently building up for their 11/5 revolts and voter intimidation.

They've told us flat out when, where and what they intend to do to harass and attack us and we're still going to idle.

Green_Footballs, to random
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On his garbage website, Trump just effusively thanked Supreme Court extremist Samuel Alito for refusing to recuse himself from January 6 cases.

The corruption is right out in the open.

gooba42,
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@Green_Footballs Name Thomas and Alito as co-conspirators and charge them.

br00t4c, to random
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Why do these people think having a bunch of babies will save the world?

#billionaire #people

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/29/2243287/-Why-do-these-people-think-having-a-bunch-of-babies-will-save-the-world

gooba42,
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@br00t4c They don't, they think it'll position them to dominate what's left after they destroy civilization.

br00t4c, to random
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US state named global shark attack capital

#state #volusiacounty

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shark-attack-florida-volusia-county-b2553146.html

gooba42,
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@br00t4c Where do sharks and people without respect for nature overlap most often?

br00t4c, to random
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Trump suggested at fundraiser he 'would have bombed' Russia and China

#formerpresident #trump

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-china-fundraiser-b2552749.html

gooba42,
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@br00t4c Does his daughter know about his threat to her friends in China?

And his sons told us they make most of their money from Russia. Are they okay with Daddy blowing the shit out of their cash cow?

shoq, to random
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I’m not that confident he’ll be convicted. Anybody else would be. But he’s had a lifetime of paying people off or intimidating them to get his way. I can’t imagine all 12 jurors being immune to whatever tactics he and his goons have applied. And then there’s the appeal. We already know he owns much of that process.

In reply to…
https://mastodon.social/@Tonkey@universeodon.com/112520516213966637

gooba42,
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@shoq Eventually appealing all the way to his pet SCOTUS is his "Get out of jail free card" and they will be more than happy to fast track his appeal ahead of any more legitimate court business.

br00t4c, to random
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US 'deeply saddened' by Israeli strike on Rafah camp that killed dozens, but will wait for investigation

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rafah-strike-biden-israel-gaza-b2552745.html

gooba42,
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@br00t4c What could the investigation possibly reveal that justifies murdering kettled refugees en masse?

What's meaningfully different between rounding up "undesirables" in concentration camps and bombing them versus gassing them?

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