jrs100000

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[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

This applies to the US and western Europe. There are places in the world where hitmen can be hired by normal people, but they are closer to homeless drug addicts than the sort of professional you are probably envisioning.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Oh thank God. I thought they were bragging about using Twitter.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

No even a former colleague, Sisko was the guy he used to bully in school.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well Bones didn't appear in the pilot or first episode of TOS, so I dont think well get more than a cameo if he shows up at all.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which crimes are those?

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It sounds like the issue was that the two primary female characters in TNG were the doctor and the counselor. Whenever the two of them talked professionally it was probably going to be about a patient, and there was a good chance the patient would be male. For VOY, when the captain and chief engineer communicate professionally it would usually be about a piece of machinery, which would of course not be male.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Targeting civilians is a war crime, but targeting infrastructure and killing civilians in the process is not.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In practice, if you report so little tips you cant hit minimum wage management will assume you are (a) lying to the IRS, (b) providing awful service, or (c) business is too slow to justify you being there. Any way you look at you probably wont work there much longer.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Send everyone 12 dollars.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

must be a Picard fan.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tiny short term changes either way will not be enough to drastically alter people's behavior. If those changes are long term and predictable they will absolutely change people's behavior. 2% may not be much year over year, but over a 30 year mortgage you can expect to take a bath on any house you buy, even with 1% interest rate. And people, rich and poor, do horde cash when they think that returns are going to become negative. In a very mildly deflationary world this happens much more often than in an inflationary one.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, companies can save money because one person with a computer can replace a whole pool of secretaries or a room full of people doing mathematical calculation. You can buy a whole wardrobe of full of clothes for what a few outfits might have cost before, thanks to automation and cheap foreign labor. Weve seen quite a bit of that in the last 50 years. It means you can buy all the mass produced plastic crap you want, but you cant afford a house to put it in. And it has resulted in a MASSIVE boost in wealth equality, its just that it was a global phenomenon and it was the poor people in places like India and China that experienced it.

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