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  • SippyCup@feddit.nltomemes@lemmy.world•No to slavery!
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact, John Brown had chronic back pain from carrying around the weight of his massive balls.

    Actual fact: Americans don’t learn about John Brown because John Brown’s existence highlights a lot of ugly truths about American history, the American people at the time, and how corrupted the core of the American experiment really is.







  • SippyCup@feddit.nltomemes@lemmy.world•Unpaid lunch
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    8-4 to your payroll people is 8 hours less a lunch break. Because they expect you took it and went home early.

    Again it’s not something that can’t be fixed, and I’m sure once in a while it would be fine. But a bunch of people doing it all the time probably causes enough extra work to need to hire someone just to take care of it.

    The most unreasonably rigid people you’ve ever met will work in accounting and payroll.


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    This is less common than you think, and gets pretty hazy pretty fast where it is true.

    The real reason is payroll and accounting.

    If you leave an hour early to take your lunch, it looks like you only worked 7 hours.

    Could this be fixed? Probably. But accountants are notoriously salty about anything that threatens to crack the mold.




  • Yes, that’s literally taught in a high school level journalism class. Assume your reader has never heard of things before and give a quick, concise description of them. And then after giving the facts, if it’s super relevant to the story, give a detailed description of them.

    For example. "Video streaming giant Netflix announced today that it’s going to be raising prices again. Subscribers can expect to see the new prices starting this fall. Base level subscribers yada yada yada…

    Netflix rose to prominence with mail order DVDs, competing with rising prices and return fees from Blockbuster video, a brick and mortar video rental service. Netflix pioneered the streaming model yada yada yada"







  • A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it. Child’s device Y/N. If no, proceed. Your browser or whatever app you’re using would only need to see that one setting, and it’s not much different than your browser looking at any number of settings on your device.

    Shit with TWO toggles, the other being “is this child under the age of 13?” You could even force sites like YouTube actually to comply with federal law about targeting minors with advertising.

    But. These laws aren’t actually about protecting children, they’re about establishing a real identity for every person online.



  • In medieval times that’s certainly true. Egyptian laborers were paid. Generally in food and housing, as coinage wouldn’t be introduced for quite some time. Especially skilled laborers were sometimes given land. Egypt had a very routinized farming season and most laborers were farmers with nothing to farm in the off season.

    Skilled stone masons could kinda go wherever so locking them in to work with taxes was a great way to get them to leave.

    Fun fact, they had a daily meal of a particularly thick beer that had chunks of bread in it. And one time they went on strike when they ran out of wigs.