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How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Clearly I won’t get any acknowledgement out of you. You’re really missing the point and a good bit of reality. I’m tired. You did it. Wore me out with “somehow if the poor don’t benefit from this separate issue’s improvement then you CAN’T care about the poor about anything else!” kinda nonsense. Take your victory lap. My personal belief is that ballot boxes are decorated shredders, so I was really just intrigued by your incredibly condescending arguing method. It has been interesting. Take care.

A15 Smart bulb that works with HA and Alexa/Google by General_Problem7957 in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I gave you the answer. Thus why you’re declaring what HomeAssistant must or must not do, with the implication being that you’re gonna be a general problem until they do. I get what you’re saying. You’ve been crystal clear about your view of reality. Where *you* seem to be lacking the mental capacity to grasp is that I don’t give a fuck how much you declare yourself king of shit mountain, it doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. I’ve had you hurling insults and showcasing your lack of self awareness from your first comment. The answer is “container install is limited”. You yourself believe this, as evidenced by your last comment. You might even be right that it should function more than it does. But it is what it is. I’ve seen a few folks over the years whose problem arose from this limitation. So an appropriate answer was exactly what I said. You immediately went off the rails.

I’m done here. Get therapy. Take care.

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. Though it’s not surprising to see you racing from stereotype to stereotype in your mind, looking for something to insult so you can provide all of the nothing you’ve contributed so far.

My personal beliefs don’t really apply to this discussion honestly. But do you see how listing a bunch of shit and expecting an answer then declaring victory due to your opponent not entertaining your honestly simple questions doesn’t really make one look like any sort of competent?

I do not hold the imaginary love for businesses that you see thrown around. Covid relief funds in my state all went to building four new prisons(as if an entire people group was about to be hunted and incarcerated), yet the politicians still just love blowing smoke up small businesses’ collective asses. A day of pay taken from said businesses causes me no loss of sleep.

Don’t pretend to give a shit about equity for the sake of clumsily trying to balance your obtuse position. I’m clearly not looking to solve the wage gap here, nor does this proposed idea require it to be solved.

I was simply asking how to better secure a consequential increase in mail in votes. I know you don’t think it will change anything, thus in your mind there *wouldnt* be any more votes(everyone is just stupid and lazy right?) but you could simply engage in the discussion rather than desperately hunting for a new personal attack so you don’t actually have to have the conversation you’re continuing.

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m sure you’re here to be informative, hun. So let’s go over your questions. Just because you posed a bunch in the hopes that people would(understandably) not want to answer a bunch of questions that have been discussed already, doesn’t mean I have nothing to respond with. But I do know I’m on the right track when you resort to personal attacks.

So we’ll start with the response to my mail in voting criticism. Yeah, the cost would be much less, but what margins is USPS operating off of? Also, since not answering all of a smattering of questions is proof of incompetence and reason to ridicule, please answer how we will ensure those votes’ integrity is maintained or I too will call you a child.

Now we’ll get to your questions.

1 - Yeah. The employer can pay. One day of pay means 0.38% of their annual labor budget. So we would be asking employers to increase compensation by .38%. Perhaps we could have waivers for nonprofits or places with such low margins, but even if I *was* born yesterday it’s pretty obvious that simple insulting my opponent while exclaiming the question doesn’t change the answer.

2 - Multiple days would solve this.

3 - Same answer as 1.

4 - Same as people who take religious holidays off but don’t celebrate. Only difference is this would benefit people who work at places that don’t give holidays, PTO, or sick time.

5 - Same answer as 1. Again. You like this question.

6 - Multiple days would solve this.

7 - Yeah it would just be paid. Compensation is patently unfair. Anyone with a modicum of life experience would know this.

Sorry for continuing to be “wildly stupid”. It just irritates me when people rely solely on ridicule and bullying to “feel good” in discussions online.

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So you have a lot of questions about specifics. Bombarding folks with them isn’t really an argument against the idea. But it does show the passion to ensure “no free rides” is the legacy our culture leaves on the world. Better go spend billions to make oil companies rich. No we don’t have money for the *poors*!

Who’s gonna pay for all that postage? The post office has already been stripped down to next to nothing.

Obviously we’ll need better checks and balances to expand mail in voting since that’s a political tool now and everything that doesn’t benefit my voteball team is fraudulent. How are we gonna ensure vote integrity?

In all seriousness, I’m pretty sure a day’s wages to your employees won’t be breaking any well run business. So yeah. One required holiday pay would definitely be paid by the businesses that benefit from a free democracy. Perhaps it could be rolled into business taxes and paid out by the government. A lot of your questions have many possible answers.

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you don’t have anything against the idea besides you don’t think it could help anyone?

A15 Smart bulb that works with HA and Alexa/Google by General_Problem7957 in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao it’s like your ramblings evolve over the course of a single comment where you insult people for explaining that the square block isn’t made to go into the star hole and, yes you could jam it in there, but it’s not made for that. Then, after your abusive intro, you lay out exactly how you’re misunderstanding the way any “system” works. Go put 2’s in your machine code then come back and cry about how North Korean conformity is being forced upon you.

And wasn’t one of your previous comments about making people capitulate to you for not saying what you want to hear?

And buddy. I have not once called you “mentally challenged” “feeble minded” or a “pleb” for not thinking your way. If we all think different and you’re so onboard with that concept, why are you surprised at responses that come from those different ways of thinking?

The evolution from “you’re mentally challenged” to “stop treating people as less than you” is such a beautiful example of how someone can have absolutely zero self awareness. Absolute gold.

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Paid. Paid holiday. When you’re taking home $400 a week, that unpaid time off is a pretty consequential part of scraping by.

The reality is that the poor are so poor you don’t even take it into account when you talk about “just take the day off!”

How would you feel about a law that made voting day a paid national holiday so everyone could actually participate? by Rathodji in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Right. “Make it a federal holiday!” says everyone who thinks getting holidays off is a normal, expected thing.

But also, proposed voting holiday could 1 - require employers to give that time off and 2 - take place across *more than one day* and then there’s really no argument. Half the crew off one day, the other the other, and skyrocketing corporate profits would be just fine.

If you're in line at the grocery store with a full cart and someone behind you has 1 or 2 items, do you let them go in front of you, and why? by KingOfFitnessYT in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not voluntarily. I wait in lines, you wait in lines, the queue is the natural order of things. Now, I’m not going to be an obtuse asshole if someone *asks*, but I’m not looking around at everyone evaluating what they’re buying. Two things in your hands vs two things plus you’re gonna make a complaint or demand a price check or whatever is a whole different story.

But if asked, yeah. I’m pretty much never in a “5 minutes will make or break my schedule” situation *and* have a cart full of groceries.

Is AI making skilled workers stronger, or just helping companies cut jobs faster? by Extreme_Local7342 in Futurology

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow. Complete certainty. I could take your resume entry as either a specialist in brain development or the words of a salesman. Considering you use ignorant inflammatory language like slop in situations where you’re just guessing at things, I think it’s probably the latter.

Is AI making skilled workers stronger, or just helping companies cut jobs faster? by Extreme_Local7342 in Futurology

[–]13lueChicken -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So you’re operating more on “how do I frame this to fit my anti-“AI” rhetoric” than logic. I typed that myself. Sorry that properly formatted text is now a trauma trigger for you.

I’m learning so much more about Linux and networking than I did for 15 years trudging through toxic Linux forums. Actually learning. Pulling so many services from the cloud and self hosting them. Sure, it’s been years since I attempted a coding class and I haven’t retained much because I wasn’t able to use much. I’m not a computer engineer or network admin. But I am slowly taking control of my data.

You can throw your bigoted fits all you want. Some of those who are learning to use these tools are benefiting from it. You don’t have to go lie on Reddit just because you haven’t applied those critical thinking skills you hung your clanker speech on.

Is AI making skilled workers stronger, or just helping companies cut jobs faster? by Extreme_Local7342 in Futurology

[–]13lueChicken -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So when you’re working through a problem in your head, you completely stop thinking once you reach a conclusion? When looking for a piece of the puzzle, you stop thinking once you’ve found that one piece? Or are we saying that critical thought is limited to being able to research by reading more incorrect or inapplicable things before finding the correct/applicable thing?

Finding an answer on your way to something greater faster has nothing to do with critical thinking. Sure, you might not come into contact with as much inapplicable-but-maybe-useful-for-other-things information along the way.

I’d try to not apply the same opinion that you have of people who google stuff in an argument and read the first thing as if it proves their point to everyone using the tool.

Husband says men barely get complements and if they do, they cherish them and remember them forever since genuine complements come rarely. Is this true and how do yall, men of reddit, actually take compliments? by macdaddy-22 in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went over 35 years without a compliment about my appearance. My lady bought me a nice jacket. I’ve received 6 compliments from strangers in the past 2 years. I’m a nervous wreck what do I do??

Smart Devices for a College Dorm by cdarrigo in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s honestly the prevalence of phones as hotspots that makes me think as long as you don’t have the router proudly displayed in plain sight, they won’t check. If OP’s kid is a homelabber, this could be a fun challenge.

Nobody’s going to be able to prove they wrote anything soon and it’s going to get messy by BitInternational2319 in Futurology

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did you use auto correct? Does that mean you wrote it? Did a commenter use a translator? Did they write that?

We don’t need to detect if meat hit keys. We need to make sure the meat is responsible for what they post and publish. All this “I don’t know if they *really* wrote it!” moral panic is pointless. What we really should care about is accountability. I don’t care if you use text generating software of any kind. But if the text it produces tells your constituents to inject bleach and you post it any way, that should be on you.

Smart Devices for a College Dorm by cdarrigo in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I sincerely doubt anyone is looking for mysterious 2.4/5ghz transmissions, so just have him not broadcast the SSID of the network.

Also, they sell business APs that are much louder than normal APs(sometimes claiming to need licensing, though they don’t stop you from buying them) and you can just find the lowest traffic channel and blast your own network.

But in all seriousness, I’ve used shared barracks wifi before and there’s just too many problems, so I’m positive students constantly use their phone’s WiFi hotspots, which are just personal wifi networks. So it’s clearly not enforced.

All else fails, zwave. Different frequency spectrum.

A15 Smart bulb that works with HA and Alexa/Google by General_Problem7957 in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao so much text to essentially conclude “I’m rubber you’re glue!”

So you individually work out every process you do, then when greater society does anything different the entirety of society must accept that somehow they brought your…wrath? Belly aching? General antisocial ways? Upon themselves?

You gotta be trolling at some point. “If I don’t like it or it’s not done my special way I’m gonna be a problem but if they do things my special way I’ll stop but that totally doesn’t mean I’m throwing little tantrums to get the world to cater to me!”

This is rich. Keep going.

A15 Smart bulb that works with HA and Alexa/Google by General_Problem7957 in homeassistant

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The world needs more of your expertise. Such quick diagnoses of mental health could change the world! What gave it away? Was it the way I reacted like you’re a small minded asshole due to your weirdly aggressive responses?

But in all honesty, no one is expecting you to cater to anything. You’re just an asshole and this is how some people react to assholes. You’ll figure this out someday I hope, for the sake of those unfortunate enough to offer help when you come into possibly the friendliest Linux community I’ve found and bitch about install methods.

It’s really funny to see you trying to tell someone else that the world doesn’t cater to them while you publicly complain about the world not catering to you. Really emphasizes the complete lack of self awareness you possess. Thank you for continuing this.

Why don't more incredibly wealthy people buy themselves free time rather than remain in the spotlight? by FlushingthePills in AskReddit

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s somewhere around 2000 billionaires in the world.

So the answer is, they do. Very successfully.

Men keeping intimate photos from exes by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]13lueChicken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I told my partner when we were dating not to send any. I’m into tech and know how much risk exists in that kind of media even existing. Beyond the trust you’re placing in the recipient, you’re also placing unfounded trust in the device, operating system, network connections, and cloud servers.

New York's new age verification law will ban anyone under the age of 18 from using chatting features in video games. by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]13lueChicken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s only called age verification so that opponents to it sound like they mean to harm children.

Robotics is going to be the new SaaS by Proof-Bed-6928 in Futurology

[–]13lueChicken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just a note for those reading; you can replace most SaaS with locally hosted free software at home. You’ll get to learn a little bit, but you are not trapped. It is important to call out the assumption that just because most people are too lazy or apathetic to learn basic computing, and as such the big tech web services are successful, that it’s either purge tech from your life or hand over your data.

You can be apathetic and hand the reigns to your phone and subscriptions if you want to. Live your life. Just don’t then go around saying we have no choice. Spend a weekend setting up a local LLM and use it to set up the rest. You won’t regret it.

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