[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 33 points 4 months ago

Microsoft Windows. I used to be a sysadmin. New job is 100% Linux. Now I never touch Windows unless it's to play a game.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

I don't disagree with the sentiment here, the world is fucked and unchecked crony capitalism is the problem. The rich get richer and the rest of us barely get by. Also fuck Huffman for ruining the only social media platform I'd used consistently for over a decade.

That said, Huffman's salary is not even close to the number reported here. He makes something like $350k in a year (still a wildly high salary, no one person needs to make that much in a single year!), this "compensation" is closely tied to his equity in Reddit and it's predicted value when the company goes public.

Most CEOs are compensated in this way and I think it's not exactly a bad way to do it (partially for employees but mostly for investors). This value is tied to performance, so if the CEO does stupid shit and ruins the company, it directly affects his compensation. This can be a good thing if that CEO makes good business decisions, which can lead to more jobs and more stability for the workers. I realize this is not always the case, but that's the general idea.

It still sucks, and I still think no individual should make more money than is needed to live comfortably, but it's not like he's raking in 193 million every year like it seems from this tweet.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

This thread is a dumpster fire.

Also: no one has mentioned they maybe this "boy" was actually being sincere and trying to study with someone.

Of course, it doesn't matter since this screen shot is most likely not from a real conversation.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just saw this morning that the police are saying the death was not caused by injuries from the fight.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-news/nonbinary-student-nex-benedicts-death-was-not-caused-by-injuries-from-school-fight-police/amp/

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago

We keep holding these debates, but it seems all of our uneducated brainwashed constituents keep wanting to vote for some asshole who thinks he's too important to show up to them. So we quit. Thoughts and prayers.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. I might even say impossible. There's some kind of distortion of the numbers here.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

Stop giving this asshole headlines, please.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago

100% if that country is in northern Europe. Hard nope if it's in South America.

I'd buy a ticket tomorrow if there was a job for me in a Scandinavian country and I didn't need to speak the language immediately.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago

This is probably one of the most important (legally and politically speaking) events to happen in the U.S. this year, but I feel like it will not get very much attention at all and might set a very dangerous precedent going into the next decade.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

But with Musk's wealth compared to the average white collar workers wealth, isn't that like 35 bucks?

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

But then they would have to report on the systems funding them. That's a bit too easy for corruption to take place in my opinion.

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago

I don't have anything to add here; I'm an engineer, not an artist. But I just want to say this is one of the best questions and resulting conversation I have seen on Lemmy so far. Definitely not a stupid question, Ziggurat!

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