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I was not aware that KDE Connect ran on Windows! This is great to hear for recommendations. Thanks for spreading awareness!
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I was not aware that KDE Connect ran on Windows! This is great to hear for recommendations. Thanks for spreading awareness!
Yeah, it definitely rehashed the trope, but I still think that movie is underrated.
It’s certainly subjective, but I don’t find this overly weird. Mildly interesting, sure, but not weird.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what’s supposed to be construed as weird? 500$ is a normal amount of money. 1998 isn’t that long ago. 100 miles of travel feels totally possible. Perhaps it’s the fact that an uncashed cheque was found? But, even still, that’s not really that weird — people can lose things. It’s more unfortunate than anything.
Am I overthinking this? Yes.
I honestly forgot that this game existed. I remember it being very well made, but I could never fully get into it for some reason.
There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?
Orchis Italica
Thank you!
What plant is that?
That’s an interesting idea, but I feel that it overcomplicates things without much benefit.
I apologize if I’ve offended you, as that wasn’t my intention — I’m only trying to understand your opinion. I’m aware that we have different opinions, I’m just curious what your rationale is for yours.
Am I correct in understanding that you are inferring that the security guards would be likely to do what the police did?
replying in individual comments is stupid and more confusing.
For clarity, would you mind explicitly stating why you believe that atomic comments are intrinsically more confusing?
Ha, I didn’t notice that in the thumbnail. Very interesting indeed, if it is a 22 degree halo!
Would you mind elaborating?
Regarding that, I found this:
The school district also has its own police force with four officers and partners with local law enforcement, according to the document. Secondary campuses have staff who patrol door entrances, parking lots and perimeters of campuses. [source]
If that’s what you are referring to, it isn’t exactly what I meant. I was more referring to a dedicated static armed security force that watches entrances to the school.
What if the security is competent?
Even if the police were functioning well enough to act to stop a school shooter, there is still the issue of time — it takes time to arrive to the scene to respond to the threat. A competent on-site security presence would be a good first line of defense. Think of a time sensitive scenario like a home invasion — would you rather have the means to immediately protect your home, or would you rather wait for the police to arrive? What if someone attacks you on the street? Would you rather have the means to immediately protect yourself, or would you rather wait for police to arrive? In some cases, no matter how competent the law enforcement is, it’s simply impossible for them to respond fast enough.
Oh. I completely missed that. Thanks for clarifying! I’m still at a loss for what it means, though.
But the bomb i meant is a different scale. if recreational or scientific explosives are what you want are you really going to do so using an actual truckload of industrial fertilizer?
And in that case, the collection of explosives could potentially be a passive threat to others. Imo, the laws surrounding it should depend on the context — ie threat to public safety.
So your suggestion is that in order to keep the business afloat, Uber should be allowed to pay their workers less than minimum wage?
Ideally, imo, I would advocate for the abolishment of minimum wage in its entirety (this is, in practice, of course, heavily dependent on many other conflicting factors). I believe that the damages caused by a minimum wage outweigh its benefits.
other places have done this with no increase in cost
Do you have any sources for this? It is, of course, important to note that minimum wage increases don’t necessitate that businesses raise their prices, but it puts an upward pressure on them, as, if they don’t, their profits will decrease, and, generally, a business seeks to increase their profits, and they will do so so long as people are willing to pay. Increasing the supply of money available in the market through a minimum wage will induce demand-pull inflation — people have more money so they are more able to buy things, which puts an upward pressure on prices. In addition to that, the increased overhead for employers would induce cost-push inflation.
EDIT (2024-06-23T06:20Z): I was reading this Investopedia page, and the interaction between raising the minimum wage and inflation is more complex than I was initially aware. A specific quote of interest is the following:
in 2016, researchers from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research examined the effect of prices on minimum wage increases in various states in the U.S. from 1978 through 2015. They found that “wage-price elasticities are notably lower than reported in previous work: we find prices grow by 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage.”
These empirical results are quite interesting. I will have to look into this much more. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
I do wonder, though, if the interactions that the article cites are dependent on the minimum wage already being present — I’d be curious to know what the outcome would be if one started without a minimum wage and implemented one.
Allowing Uber to underpay their workers
Hm, I take issue with this specific language. It’s not necessarily underpayment — it’s payment that the market has deemed appropriate for the employment given the current supply of it and demand for it. Underpaying implies an official baseline which would only apply in a market with a minimum wage.
Allowing Uber to underpay their workers means we have to subsidize the company by providing welfare for workers who don’t earn enough.
Things start to get complicated when one starts introducing other factors like welfare (ie social security income). If there is welfare, depending on how its structured exactly, a minimum wage typically must accompany it, as far as I currently understand things. There are indeed scenarios where welfare could end up subsidizing a company, eg if there is welfare imposed to meet a living wage, but I’m not confident in my knowledge of the specifics.
Ah, right. I forgot that they’re based in Sweden. That’s understandable if it’s simply a lack of familiarity with the language, but, still, I would expect a company like Mullvad to at least have one native-equivalent English speaker to look over their public facing English stuff. None of this is the end of the world, ofc — I’m just mildly surprised.