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Abongination posted:Magpies are super smart. My wifes crazy aunt has fed the ones around here a kg of premium mince every day for like 10 years. Magpies have successfully extracted protection money and now live like a rentier class on your wife's aunt is what I'm getting from this.
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Orange Devil posted:Magpies have successfully extracted protection money and now live like a rentier class on your wife's aunt is what I'm getting from this. Abongination posted:Magpies are super smart.
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May 7, 2021 08:51
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Maybe we have about twice as many lovely fast food restaurants that we, as a society, actually need
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May 7, 2021 09:21
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Thanatosian posted:Aren't Australian magpies like... Violently aggressive? No. They're fiercely territorial (i.e. they keep other magpies out of their patch), and when they have chicks in the nest (and only then), a small portion of the males decide cyclists (and certain individual pedestrians) are a threat. Abongination posted:Magpies are super smart. My wifes crazy aunt has fed the ones around here a kg of premium mince every day for like 10 years. Please tell your wife's lovely aunt to not feed them mince unless it's combined with insectivore mix or some other nutrient supplement. Mince causes them to lose calcium and seriously fucks up developing chicks if their parents feed it to them. There is a good book on this subject called Feeding The Birds At Your Table
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May 7, 2021 10:05
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GotLag posted:No. do you mean "The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters - Jones Darryl"? If so, I might read it.
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May 7, 2021 13:04
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They never said their aunt wasn't trying to eradicate all magpies.
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May 7, 2021 14:02
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3D Megadoodoo posted:They never said their aunt wasn't trying to eradicate all magpies. It's the Lysine contingency all over again
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May 7, 2021 14:11
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Piell posted:Lol at this tweet further down. loving Target pays $15 an hour but let me work for Chud And Sons for $12 instead
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May 7, 2021 14:31
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Heated Gaming Moment posted:loving Target pays $15 an hour but let me work for Chud And Sons for $12 instead Target also sucks rear end and $15 is not enough to work there and keep your sanity.
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May 7, 2021 14:40
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I think the real issue is in the past 20 year rents have doubled, which is the primary expense of low wage workers, but wages have far from doubled.
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May 7, 2021 14:46
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wow really? you know, you might have a point
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May 7, 2021 14:47
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lawns are bad, but without them we might live in a world where Rand Paul hadn’t gotten the poo poo kicked out of him while mowing one.
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May 7, 2021 14:50
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mycomancy posted:I'd rather take a drink from the WASP CUP 
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May 7, 2021 14:53
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Mukulu posted:Target also sucks rear end and $15 is not enough to work there and keep your sanity. It would take 6 figures and 8-hour work weeks to make any retail job tolerable
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May 7, 2021 14:55
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Proust Malone posted:lawns are bad, but without them we might live in a world where Rand Paul hadn’t gotten the poo poo kicked out of him while mowing one. I like to think his neighbor would have punched him eventually, the mower was just a variable. Could've happened over something equally dumb, like parking in front of his house or leaving christmas lights up into March.
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May 7, 2021 14:55
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starkebn posted:do you mean "The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters - Jones Darryl"? If so, I might read it. No, I specifically mean the book "Feeding the Birds at Your Table" by the same guy.
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May 7, 2021 15:31
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:It would take 6 figures and 8-hour work weeks to make any retail job tolerable 16 hour work week and 5 figures, but you can punch five customers per day and it rolls over
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May 7, 2021 15:44
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tokin opposition posted:16 hour work week and 5 figures, but you can punch five customers per day and it rolls over I think if you could punch one customer a day the number of customers requiring punching would decrease over time. But definitely 10/day to jumpstart the program.
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May 7, 2021 16:48
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kaschei posted:I think if you could punch one customer a day the number of customers requiring punching would decrease over time. But definitely 10/day to jumpstart the program. I would prefer an overwatch system, where customer interactions are recorded, and employees can file reports against bad customers. Then a jury of volunteers reviews the footage, and if a guilty verdict is passed, the customer receives a notification to report to the local PD to receive their punch, with medical staff nearby.
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May 7, 2021 16:57
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My wife feeds the stray cats in this public park near where we live (there's like 5 or 6 of em' that live in the bushes) and there's a crow that's always there and she'll give it some seeds or something too and it's learned her face as crows do and will fly over and hop up on a bush near her and honk now. Birds are neat. Also she recently built a bunch of small cat-sized tents around the food area cuz a crew came in and trimmed the bushes back so there's a lot less shelter from the weather. The cats seem to appreciate it, though one of them was occupied by a large duck instead last time she checked apparently.
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May 7, 2021 17:09
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Wouldn’t that violate the lease??? Is it like condos so it’s possible he owns his unit or a straight up apartment complex where it’s all owned by the same person CRUSTY MINGE explained the layout pretty well. These are all rental units, though. The owners are a husband and wife team that live out of state. I couldn't imagine they'd really give a poo poo about a guy laying down turf. They don't seem to give a poo poo about anything except making sure rent is on time.
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May 7, 2021 17:11
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Shame Boy posted:My wife feeds the stray cats in this public park near where we live (there's like 5 or 6 of em' that live in the bushes) and there's a crow that's always there and she'll give it some seeds or something too and it's learned her face as crows do and will fly over and hop up on a bush near her and honk now. Birds are neat. yeah hi i'm going to need pics of the cat tents and also cats, thanks i will also accept a duck-in-tent
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May 7, 2021 17:18
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Eat This Glob posted:CRUSTY MINGE explained the layout pretty well. These are all rental units, though. The owners are a husband and wife team that live out of state. I couldn't imagine they'd really give a poo poo about a guy laying down turf. They don't seem to give a poo poo about anything except making sure rent is on time. Christ that's mind boggling. I can't imagine how broken you have to be to spend time and money improving a rental unit. poo poo, when my parents visited me a couple years ago my step-dad replaced a washer that made the kitchen sink make a squeaky noise, probably twenty-five cents in parts and the twenty minute trip to Fred Meyer was all it cost, and it still made me feel like I was getting cheated
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May 7, 2021 17:23
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inferis posted:https://twitter.com/SabrinaNC9/status/1390009290619068425 since like a century+ ago, says the recent citations need ep135: The “Labor Shortage” Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages
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May 7, 2021 17:56
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Eat This Glob posted:oh gently caress, i forgot my new-ish neighbor is slavishly devoted to his lawn. i saw him bring terf in, which makes sense here in NH as we have super sandy soil. big, lush, green lawns are tough to come by, even though we don't often lack water. he's out there every weekend with a trowel putting down pavers around his lawn Lawn fertilizer seems like a good use for TERFs. yes, I understand what turf is and I don't mean to shame you for dumb spelling poo poo. Crow birds like magpies are crazy smart. Not just do they know to stay on the right side of white lines in the road (and ignore traffic safely), they can solve some crazy riddles that scientists invent, including ones that require cooperation across several birds. Flying dinosaurs are awesome. Unless they're pigeons.
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May 7, 2021 18:00
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kaschei posted:I think if you could punch one customer a day the number of customers requiring punching would decrease over time. But definitely 10/day to jumpstart the program. you know you'd have that one co-worker who will open up the shop at 10 AM, use his punch by 10:30 and then complain about he needs more until close
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Christ that's mind boggling. I can't imagine how broken you have to be to spend time and money improving a rental unit. poo poo, when my parents visited me a couple years ago my step-dad replaced a washer that made the kitchen sink make a squeaky noise, probably twenty-five cents in parts and the twenty minute trip to Fred Meyer was all it cost, and it still made me feel like I was getting cheated I let mine know that a light fixture in my place was busted and they marked it as fixed and moved on with their day. I only did it because gently caress you there's a paper trail that I tried to tell you about this and you didn't give a gently caress
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:yeah hi i'm going to need pics of the cat tents and also cats, thanks I'll ask her to get some pictures next time. To tie it back into this thread, our roommate was like "make sure the cops don't see you doing that, putting up tents in a park is a crime I'm pretty sure" and I'm like "no that's only a crime if you do it to help homeless people" 
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there's this big 750 unit housing development proposed for a very fancy neighborhood in SF (not far from nancy pelosi's home lol) lets see what the developers are proposing to make it acceptable to the fancy folks: As is often the case in SF, the small affordable component is only available to senior citizens (young folks are too rowdy and dangerous, might impact property values), and i would bet that it's also going to be at the upper range of "affordable", meaning for people making like 80%-120% of the median area income...which means it isn't actually affordable lol (and units in that income range make up like 80% of all "affordable" housing built in SF in the past few years). It's more affordable than market rate, but still expensive enough to keep the filthy poors out, while the city then gets to claim that it built affordable housing. its an area that's well served by public transit, but there's a 1:1 parking to unit ratio. 754 units and 754 parking spaces, which im pretty sure goes against city policy, and is way more parking than is in projects in less fancy parts of the city. The fancy folks need all their cars. also they decided that instead of building planters boxes and an extra apartment building, they will build a big lawn, and they're also deciding not to plant a bunch of trees, to preserve views from the lawn lol 
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May 7, 2021 18:45
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As I sit here hating my job I realize they my customer cut multiple departments on their end and added their work to me We don't even bill them extra for it. So I get to do more work and they pay the same rate
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May 7, 2021 19:03
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Len posted:As I sit here hating my job I realize they my customer cut multiple departments on their end and added their work to me That implies you had the capacity to do more work before, but chose not to. This is theft.
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May 7, 2021 19:04
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Len posted:As I sit here hating my job I realize they my customer cut multiple departments on their end and added their work to me Your boss doesn't have to work any harder. What's the problem??
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May 7, 2021 19:09
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:Your boss doesn't have to work any harder. What's the problem?? I mean yeah but you'd think they would take the chance to make more money. They don't pay it out so it literally goes into their hoard. No bonus, no 401k matching, this is just money they could have but don't
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May 8, 2021 21:39
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Programming is inherently reactionary and rots ur brain
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Rah! posted:its an area that's well served by public transit, but there's a 1:1 parking to unit ratio. That is a ludicrous amount of parking for any city let alone SF.
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May 9, 2021 01:11
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Skippy McPants posted:That is a ludicrous amount of parking for any city let alone SF. Well, you need a sports car, a business car, a wife car and two kids cars, at the very least. That's 5 cars needed per unit. ban cars for people transport in cities. special exception for people in wheelchairs
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May 9, 2021 06:34
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Salary is an integer. 
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May 9, 2021 07:42
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Xand_Man posted:Salary is an integer. Eh it could have decimals if you wanna be weird about it, but you'd never use a floating point type for it you'd use an exact algorithmic numeric class like BigDecimal so you don't get rounding errors. Cuz otherwise you might inadvertently steal a few cents from a rich person, and they will probably literally execute you for it.
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But what if we implemented floating point, and squirreled away those fractions of a cent into our own pockets, inadvertently getting unexpectedly rich in the process? That would be a great premise for a sci-fi novel. Much more believable than this crypto nonsense. I also wonder what cryptographers think about their name being subsumed by the beast.
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