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  • Trump warns Netflix of ‘consequences’ unless it pulls top Democrat from board

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  • The past few months have really made it clear just how much bigotry is literally the only thing that the Republican base cares about. States rights? Gun rights? Free trade? Stopping interventionism? "Protecting children?" Turns out none of that actually matters to Republican voters after all when they can beat up and murder minorities or have other people do that on their behalf. I must admit I have been shocked at just how much of what they claimed were long held beliefs they have been willing to give up to fuck over other people they see as lesser.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • You're trying to make a weird semantic distinction that doesn't really accomplish anything. Unskilled labor doesn't mean undignified or unworthy of respect, it is just a description of a certain kind of work with essentially no barrier to entry. Again it's very uncommon in modern advanced economies but in the past (and today in some very poor areas) you'd have people whose job it was to push millstones around in a circle all day, a job that is also done by literal donkeys. That is not skilled labor.

  • Just getting into a little bit of Troubles

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  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • Bro there were people back in the day who would just push a heavy millstone around in a circle, a job that was often also done by literal donkeys. It's hard to imagine in a modern economy, where truly unskilled labor is rare, but it exists. We often forget how much is done by machines that was done by laborers in the past or still is in poorer countries.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • It usually is. True unskilled labor is becoming less and less common as machines take over those tasks. Unskilled labor means that you could get any random person off the street and, if they had the physical ability to do the work (such as lifting heavy objects) they could do it with minimal training. Think of the type of thing you do at volunteering events where you get at most like a 30 minute explanation of what the job is and are set off with your task, or just moving a heavy object you can't move yourself. It's not that you can't be skilled at these jobs, but rather that there is little to no barrier to entry for starting and actually doing the job. This type of job was way more common most places in the past, where you had people whose job it was to mill grain by pushing a giant wheel, or people whose job it was to break rocks apart by hitting them with a hammer. Sure you can be better or worse at this, but it's not like you couldn't figure it out very quickly.

    These days, true unskilled labor is pretty rare in advanced economies. You have to have a lot of knowledge of how to use some kind of machinery or equipment, or how to do some kind of craft. The closest is something like low level retail work but even then that requires more skill than traditional "unskilled labor" required- skills such as reading, writing, and counting money, and even fast food jobs usually require training periods.

  • Do you think that blue collar work should come under the category of skilled work?

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  • Eh. There are definitely jobs that you can grab random guys off the street for and they will be okay enough at them to get started right away or will be able to be trained to do them in an afternoon. Think of any time you've done a volunteering project - you don't get any specialized training to do this type of work, but you can go ahead and get started with maybe like a short explanation of how it works. Sure you won't be as good as a pro, but you could get up to speed quite quickly if it was all you were doing. These types of jobs are becoming less and less common as they get automated, but they do still exist. That is what is meant by "unskilled labor." It's not a dig at the people who do these types of jobs, but rather that you don't need specialized training to do them.

  • WMD

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  • The problem with railguns is that chemical propellants are just really, really good. The main thing that came out of the railgun project (pictured in this meme) was the projectile that can survive extreme acceleration and maintain incredible accuracy. It is just better to shoot said projectile out of traditional gun instead of the railgun because the equipment required to run the railgun is huge and the projectile will fit in an existing terrestrial howitzer. That said, the equipment size and energy requirements really aren't a huge problem for naval applications, but then again you can do the math and find that an equivalent size of traditional gun can sling way more mass per hour than the railgun can and you can make a hundred of them for the cost of one railgun.

  • 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN

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  • Because their real answer of "Because you dumb fucks will buy it anyway" wasn't nice enough for the press lol. Seriously as long as you dumb asses keep buying old ass games from Nintendo for way too much money they will keep letting you do it.

  • buncha nerd shit

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  • You do realize that even Karl Marx himself agreed with Smith on a number of points, right (including this one)? I know this is Lemmy where uneducated socialism is the predominant ideology to the point of what often amounts to hostility to learning more about anything, but it would be a good idea to read an actual book every now and then and learn how to recognize nuance, especially in political and economic topics. It astounds me how few of the self-proclaimed socialists on Lemmy have read any of the actual views or History of Karl Marx.

  • Allahu Akbar

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  • It's more just pointing out that the two thoughts are completely unrelated to each other. It's a non-sequitur

  • Allahu Akbar

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  • Tbh I'd expect low crime rates with Sharia law. It's notoriously pretty harsh with punishments, like cutting off the hands of thieves or whippings for various crimes. I like Mamdani, but I don't really see how the two ideas are connected to each other

  • Allahu Akbar

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  • Legitimately there is a problem with stupidity on Lemmy. I don't know if it's because the average user is younger than other sites or what, but I have seen the absolute dumbest, most blatantly wrong shit get upvoted all over the place and there are a number of people who will get into arguments over obvious misreadings of articles.

  • lelz

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  • Eh. The biggest trump fans I know are well paid blue collar workers who definitely have something to lose if shit gets worse for them. They're just legitimately stupid people who refuse to see any evidence that Trump isn't their Messiah.

  • Staff Rule

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  • I've read the synopsis of this book and the ones in this book don't either

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • I think there's a valid concern here. When fake meat technology inevitably becomes cheaper than real meat, companies will definitely try passing off fake meat as real meat or try to thin out real meat with fake meat, and will definitely try to be deceptive about it. However, I think the solution is to allow the terms sausage and burger, but require very clear labeling like requiring the term "plant-based" or "partially plant based" to be on the packaging in the same font size as the term "sausage" or "burger" if there is more than 20% plant matter included (number based on existing EU regulations for sausages). That said, IDK if this would fully stop it. In the US it would just have as little description as possible with "[Brand Name] Links" or "[Brand Name] Patties" if they weren't allowed to say sausage or burger.

  • Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent, make you feel dizzy and give you headaches

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  • They come from a time when heavy machinery didn't exist. They're descended from fancy scarves.

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    A Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.

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  • I flip off every cybercuck I see. You can't own one without supporting a fascist so everyone driving one is an asshole. I think you should be socially ostracized for owning one of these pieces of shit and I am doing my part.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • Perhaps a privileged take but I'd be completely willing to pay way more for games with no micro transactions or other "live service" BS. Like if economics make it so that it doesn't make sense to sell most high budget games for $70 without micro transactions then sell me one at $100. Video games were way more expensive when I was a kid and prices haven't risen with inflation at all. Consider that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.99 in 1998 while Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom cost $69.99 in 2023. That is a 16.7% increase over 25 years, or an average increase of 0.619% each year. Meanwhile, average CPI inflation is usually ~2% per year.

  • Why Games Like ‘Highguard’ And ‘Concord’ Are Spontaneously Combusting

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  • Hero shooters? Yeah. TF2, Overwatch, and APEX legends are all very popular. The problem is that there isn't a lot of room for new games to come on the scene because of how hard these games are to make and balance, and how deeply invested people are in their games of choice. People still play TF2 despite the fact that it's nearly 20 years old and hasn't had major content updates in a long time. Overwatch is 10 years old and is still getting updates, and APEX legends is nearly as old.