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https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/1062249/Flood-water-use#entry-comment-6881433

Here’s my half baked response.

They can pipeline oil over thousands of miles.

Why can’t they pipeline water?

Oh shit. I think Nestlé heard me and all of our money goes to blowing up Palestinians, not giving drinkable water to Flint.

Disregard please.

11 hours ago in a post asking why America cant build infrastructure to collect flood water to be used during dry season/in regions that lack potable water…

My memory is I checked with no intention to actually file, first job lost and all, and Arizona + part time = no unemployment.

Gotta be over 40 a week to qualify.

My first breaking point was the millionth time I was in the printer aisle before open on a Saturday with a manager laying into me for a half hour about how to “squeeze the last of the juice” out of people, and they dropped the “tell them you are an un-comissioned salesperson so you have no reason to take advantage of them, it disarms them, makes them trust you, you can load anything into their cart after you make them believe that” and I had a moment of clarity, and instead of going “Uh huh. Yes sir” I thought “No. I am an un-comissioned salesperson so I have no reason to take advantage of them. End of sentence.”

Genuinely, Best Buy is one of the worst companies on planet earth.

Yup.

I was 17, I was about to graduate high school so it was part time. I was the most reliable department associate, but one of the “weaker” salesmen.

The department was spotless when I was there and the phone always got answered, and I made sure to bag 3 or 4 big sales a week, but I wasn’t out to bleed every poor soul who walked into the department dry. I was more about good service and finding the right solution for each person.

So I got an average of 32 hours a week, well over all the other people in the department, but I was definitely on my way out, and that raging hemorrhoid of a waste of air reaming me out over helping an 80 year old woman who literally showed me her social security check, but assured me she had friends she could get to invite her over for dinner if the computer was too expensive pushed me out.

Its not even like if they fired me I would have gotten unemployment. It was just a petty move from a coward with a micro-peen who couldn’t handle a 17 year old telling them they were a 45 year old failure at life working in a Best Buy for just over minimum wage taking advantage of nice elderly ladies.

Yup.

I was in the computer sales department.

We were flat out told what the lies were, and how to make them more convincing.

The service contracts were non-refundable, so it didn’t matter.

When a manager caught me helping a retiree get a cheap setup to email her grandkids instead of getting them on a line of credit for a top of the line gaming pc, they didn’t even fire me. They just stopped scheduling me hours and told me to keep coming in to get my schedule.

Picked up a blank schedule for 5 weeks before I stopped going in and I’m sure they filed no call no show paperwork when I didn’t show up for my 1 hour 3 weeks later.

Fuck best buy.

Ya.

I worked there when they launched a membership thing, and it was points to gift cards that got printed on receipt paper in hopes the barcode on the carbon paper would fade before you tried to scan it, not any actual price reduction.

Kind of like how there was all that fine print in the 200 dollar service plan that made it sound like you got more, but it was always just the manufacturer warantee, so if your device qualified for manufacturer warentee, geek squad would give you the cheap out fix, and get the preemo replacements and put them into stock. If the manufacturer warantee didn’t cover it, you were fucked.

In the end, there is this great fear of “the AI is going to fully replace us developers” and the reality is that while that may be a possibility one day, it wont be any day soon.

You still need people with deep technical knowledge to pilot the AI and drive it to an implemented solution.

AI isnt the end of the industry, it has just greatly sped up the industry.

Developing with ChatGPT feels bizzarely like when Tony Stark invented a new element with Jarvis’ assistance.

It’s a prolonged back and forth, and you need to point out the AIs mistakes and work through a ton of iterations to get something that is close enough that you can tweak it and use, but it’s SO much faster than trawling through Stack Overflow or hoping someone who knows more than you can answer a post for you.

Overall… I agree with your take.

I counter with electricity costs of keeping them AC units at the clean room mouth running 24/7 vs in presence of new contaminant and how dust blows both ways and mold tends to blow one way.

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The plan is already to decimate moon settlers with nuclear meltdowns.

Really highlights how fucking dumb the elite are.

It’s not like one side of the moon is always facing the sun, which has been the chief argument against solar panels for decades and decades (that being: the sun goes down and then solar panels dont generate, so an electric grid that is mostly used at night isnt feasable).

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You know, communism/socialism is a failed model that has never succeeded.

Laissez-faire is the only economic model that has been 100% successful every time. Capitalism is the only way to stop the RED MENACE. /s

Now please lemmy/mbin. Commence your “tankie/russian bot” comments.

The sarcasm is that anyone who was paying attention knew all this 20 years ago.

Everyone was too busy pushing the war on Iraq and buying American flag stickers for 30 bucks a pop to notice, however.

I dont. Shits already bad.

Not ignoring it. Awarely and consciously abstaining.

What the 2 party system delivers?

I agree.

But cute sidestep on the question.

I endorse invalidating the 2 party system by not participating in the 2 party system and forcing reform.

You aparently want round 2, Genocidal Joe vs Always was that Trump, but expect a new result. Electric boogaloo.

I also won’t vote for militarized police and genocide.

So there’s that too.

And who won?

I think you meant than.