I got let go from a job once. They lost all of their contracts within a year. From personal experience, sometimes everything does depend on you. Whether your managers understand that or not is a different story.

Sure, but the company fronted the millions of dollars required to develop the technology. The investment needs to come from somewhere.

That doesn't have to be a private company, though. We need public funding that retains the patent rights, if not just to make the invention free from licensing costs to manufacture.

The insane thing about our current system is that we do have public funding, but private companies wind up with the patent anyway

Yes, actually.

https://youtu.be/sMjgaa5j_LE

Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay the rent.

When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we strike
And take our lives back.

Considering he died in 2011, I think that's a safe bet.

This is the greentext community, it's literally what we're here for.

Just because someone posted the greentext doesn't mean they think it's true or agree with it. Think of these like watching animals at the zoo.

Trustpilot tries to weed out fake reviews. A huge influx of reviews all at once looks like fake reviews. And, to be fair, I imagine a chunk of those reviews are "fake" in that the reviewers never used the app. It's easier for Trustpilot to cut off new reviews for the time being than to deal with evaluating all these new reviews.

If you take all the mass in our universe and run it through the Schwarzschild equation, you get a black hole with about the same radius as our observable universe.

Things don't need to be tightly packed to be a black hole, there just needs to be enough stuff in an area.

You are going to kill someone.

For anyone reading this - do not do this. There is a huge risk of aspirating on your own vomit and dying because you don't wake up due to the sleeping pill.

You need a small list of very focused demands. Occupy Wall Street and BLM failed because they started tacking on too many things.

Here are demands that will fix the core issues at the federal level:

1. An expansion of the number of seats in the house and senate. At the federal level, each congress person represents far too many constituents. This is not unprecedented; the house has been expanded before.
2. We must switch from first-past-the-post to proportional representation.
3. The Senate's role in passing legislation must be reduced to a time-based veto only. Meaning: a bill passed by the House must be vetoed by the Senate within 90 days or it goes to the president's desk.
4. An overturning of the Citizens United decision and publicly funded elections.
5. Removal of the presidental pardon.

These five items must be implemented if our democracy is to survive. Everything else can be handled after.

Learn new things, do new stuff.

"Lemmy is reddit methadone." Is my go-to answer.

No, that's a type of person. This is a ruble.

Octopodes

yes