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  • Something I was really looking for was being able to Sync Newpipe with some interface on my desktop, this sounds great and maybe you could implement that as well?

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    Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
  • Do these terms actually come from racist backgrounds, or did they come up as a coincidence?
    It just feels weird someone would think of a way to degrade black people then decide to use blacklist for things they don't want, then engineers decide to use master and slave to piss off black people whatever. Is that literally the history behind it?

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    What is a subreddit you wish had a presense on Lemmy?
  • Education subs like ApplyingToCollege, 6thform, uniUK, SAT etc.
    I'm not a full Lemmy user because these constitute my primary usage of Reddit but still come around Lemmy sometimes

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    Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy
  • What does this actually mean? Can you literally sit on the desk all day, doing nothing or mess everything up, and your employer has to pay you still?
    Performance evaluation is a pretty broad word

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    Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy
  • They actually have many options, no way Amazon is the only employer that would employ them, and they chose Amazon probably because it's actually the least evil of options or somewhat "better" in something. It doesn't have to be actually better in terms of work or pay etc. but perhaps how easy it was to commute (though I heard Amazon has plenty of work benefits actually)
    Now other employers have to compete because they need an employee too. So they try to one up Amazon. If they get good enough Amazon will lose too many employees and have to one up the other employers. etc.

    Ok but this clearly doesn't seem to work well, right? Wages stagnating and harsh work etc. This is probably related to many factors but I guess job security is a big one, people don't job hop as much and fear getting fired homeslessness etc. Another one is too many potential employees to choose for limited spots (with the increasing levels of automation in every kind of work), so much that employers can actually down on their work conditions and say "ok then, whoever can stand these conditions for this price can work here".

    I'm not some economist or something but I believe UBI or some derivative of it at least would be the leverage for that. If someone who just got fired were to receive 1000$ per months on top of their current savings for 24 months, they won't be so much of a risk and won't be inclined to work in a 1200$ per month job either. We don't actually need this constant race of upping minimum wage and many other band aid regulations if that could be a thing.

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    They never admit they were just wrong
  • To layman's terms, people used to make 5 children and 3 of them would die. Then this mortality has dropped. People still make 5 children. The country has too much children. The country is really young and very few per capita are susceptible to covid.

    The opposite happens in Western countries. Old people don't die. People don't make children anymore. Population is really old, covid really affects a lot of people per capita.

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    People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office
  • I mean there are companies that do this for you, carry everything over (from the front of house to placing them inside as well, like couches and tv and everything) so you don't do anything really except paying them money (and ask for refund if they broke something 😡). Like I guess it's called forwarding

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    sToP pOsTiNg pOliTicAl mEmEs!!!
  • I know more about US politics than my own country politics and this is pretty blessing imo, it's like so depressing and toxic

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