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70 hours/week with 1 day off must become norm: Congress MP backs Narayana Murthy

I once had a job that was working me every single day 9 hours a day because they would not replace the 4th employee who quit, running a 24/7 location.

I told them that if they didn't hire somebody I would quit.

I gave them a week and they hadn't even made an attempt to hire anybody.

I offered to the manager that two days a week we would each take a 12-hour shift, so that each of us in turn would get one full day off each week.

My manager said no.

To my manager's shock and surprise I quit on the spot, and my manager and my coworker each got to work a 12-hour shift for the next 6 weeks every single day until the other person quit and they had to close the business down until they hired in replacements.

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So, the play here is to get everyone who agreed to the app to file a binding arbitration suit against McDonalds for wedging a binding arbitration clause into the app.

They have to respond to it and it will cost them a lot of lawyer time and money.

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Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company

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Shareholders are the worst creation of capitalism so far.

It allows you to create anonymous gray masters that you must serve at any cost no matter how humanly heinous they are.

Also, the bad thing that can happen to the shareholders is that they lose a little money whereas the people beholden to the shareholders can lose everything they have including their souls, and all the shareholders have to do is say "I had nothing to do with it, I just bought a piece of paper, I didn't even get a piece of paper I got an nft" and wash their hands of the whole thing.

The fact that our retirement accounts are being used to fund the hedge managers that create small shareholders that run the businesses that fire us so that the large shareholders get more money now in hopes that in some theoretical future the small shareholders get enough money to enjoy our twilight years is absolute insanity.

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I am native American and I have done exactly one rain dance in my life.

I was living in Texas at the time and I heard it was going to rain a little and being a dumb teenager I told my friends, "Hey check it out I'm going to do a rain dance" and I hooped around for a minute and called it quits.

So rather embarrassed but you know sometimes you just do shit to do shit whatever.

I figured what the hell, maybe they haven't seen the weather, maybe they'll think that I'm magic or something for just a moment.

It was the worst hail storm that town had had in 20 years.

Cars were dented, roofs were damaged, there were flash floods, nobody died that I'm aware of but there was a lot of property damage and I don't feel specifically responsible for it, but I do feel like it's more than a coincidence, like I pissed off some of my ancestors by doing that shit and I haven't done it since.

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And what's really fucking infuriating about this is that it honestly has nothing to do with making the internet a better place to be or improving the safety of the internet or protecting children or anything like that.

It's about ads.

They're literally trying to fuck the entire internet in broad daylight so that they have a way to guarantee to their advertisers that they are targeting you with the ads the advertisers want you to see.

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For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record

Reminds me of a story I read about how if you had a can of food and bacteria got into it, and every day the bacteria doubled in size, and somehow this bacteria had conversations with itself with all of the other bacterias in the can about how long the food would last.

How long would it be before everything ran out?

At some point, the smart bacteria would stand up and say, "Hey, my fellow Amoebas, we've used 1/4 of all of the food in the can! If we're not careful and if we don't manage our resources we will run out of food!"

And the politician bacteria would say, "Don't worry, everyone, we have 3 times as much food as we've ever used in all the months of our existence still in the can!"

And the bacteria was fruitful, and multiplied.

And when they hit the halfway mark the next day, the smart bacteria would stand up and say, "Hey my fellow Amoebas, we've used half of all of the food in the can! If we're not careful and if we don't manage our resources we will run out of food!"

And the bacteria politicians would say, "Everyone! Don't worry! We still have as much food left as we have used in our entire existence to this point!"

And the bacteria was fruitful, and multiplied.

And then another day passed, and all of the bacteria died.

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A friend of mine got roped into a game show when he was in Japan and ended up winning ~ $50,000 USD after taxes.

I think it was one of those shows where you had to contort your body into particular shapes to fit through a sliding wall.

Anyway, he bought a truck and paid off some of his family's bills and now he's running for some sort of city council position, but he's kind of a dick so I wouldn't vote for him.