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    • coliverC
      coliver @RojoLoco
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      @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Miami closer and closer to have having water.

      WTF is "have having water"???

      They are about to have way too much water. And it won't be the drinking kind.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @RojoLoco
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        @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

        Miami closer and closer to have having water.

        WTF is "have having water"???

        This is why I always complain about @scottalanmiller restating headlines for his own benefit.
        From the article, the headline is actually: Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco @JaredBusch
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          @jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          Miami closer and closer to have having water.

          WTF is "have having water"???

          This is why I always complain about @scottalanmiller restating headlines for his own benefit.
          From the article, the headline is actually: Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

          I saw that, I was just pointing out the oddball autocorrect language.

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          • momurdaM
            momurda
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            This is interesting.
            https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @RojoLoco
              last edited by

              @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

              @jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

              @rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

              Miami closer and closer to have having water.

              WTF is "have having water"???

              This is why I always complain about @scottalanmiller restating headlines for his own benefit.
              From the article, the headline is actually: Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

              I saw that, I was just pointing out the oddball autocorrect language.

              I know, but i co-opted your point to argue my point.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @momurda
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                @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                This is interesting.
                https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

                This is something @scottalanmiller has argued for int he past. I happen to generally agree with it.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                  @jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  This is interesting.
                  https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

                  This is something @scottalanmiller has argued for int he past. I happen to generally agree with it.

                  Yup, I'm a huge believer in universal basic income. I love the idea from Scott Adam's talking about it in the early 1990s.

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @momurda
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                    @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    This is interesting.
                    https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

                    And they make some good points, I think.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @dafyre
                      last edited by

                      @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      This is interesting.
                      https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

                      And they make some good points, I think.

                      When I worked as a Burger King manager, I was able to show that a crew of three (plus the manager) was able to run the store, full time, better than any larger number. We made maximum profits, and performed at peak, at that crew size. The crew of 20+ that they maintained was all for show, all because some rulebook said to have lots of people. 17+ of those people only served to drive away the good workers, destroy profits, get in the way and make food take longer and be of lower quality. The financial damage that 17 people did was incredible, the company could still profit, but a fraction of what it should have as it lost customers, lost money in food waste, and paid wages at least quadruple what they should have been.

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                      • momurdaM
                        momurda
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                        Yea i dont disagree, and think it is going to happen sooner than what others think, except in US which will likely be the last country on earth to do UBI.

                        How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre @momurda
                          last edited by

                          @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          Yea i dont disagree, and think it is going to happen sooner than what others think, except in US which will likely be the last country on earth to do UBI.

                          How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

                          Some days I feel like one of those employees that has too much time.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @momurda
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                            @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

                            We were, but we got to clean those up a few months ago. But as an MSP, we have to supply positions like that to customers. So they aren't useless to us, but are to the customer. Positions that exist only to babysit customer needs.

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                            • momurdaM
                              momurda
                              last edited by momurda

                              You mean you have employees who only work with 1 customer, like always on call every day for just that one customer?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @momurda
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                                @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                You mean you have employees who only work with 1 customer, like always on call every day for just that one customer?

                                No, employees who exists only to talk to the customer so that the customer doesn't interrupt the techs. Just there to keep customers with too much spare time themselves from using the techs as someone to chat with all day.

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                                • mlnewsM
                                  mlnews
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                                  The New Yorker on the situation in Nicaragua.

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce
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                                    Google just bought your banking data

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                      @obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                      Google just bought your banking data

                                      Best way to combat this... pay attention to ads and do NO business with anyone advertising with platforms like this. If someone advertises to you, avoid them.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        When the news.... makes the news...

                                        US news anchor's skull fractured in fracas with colleague - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45371607

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                                        • ObsolesceO
                                          Obsolesce
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                                          Incredible
                                          https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2018/08/31/this-is-why-mars-will-always-have-the-solar-systems-largest-volcano/#1def5f897960

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                                          • black3dynamiteB
                                            black3dynamite
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                                            https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-fire-museum/rios-200-year-old-national-museum-hit-by-massive-fire-idUSKCN1LJ00L

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