It literally depends on how nice your employer wants to be.

I have a great job now, but I lost two jobs during the covid years. For one of them, my insurance lasted until the end of the next month or something like that, in addition to some severance pay.

For the other, it ended immediately. Like if you have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning that shit will not be paid for. If you wake up sick, maybe call a bankruptcy attorney because we won't be answering your calls.

Because the police are mercenaries, not wild animals. They generally don't bite the hand that feeds. Besides, they still have 99% of the population to target.

I think actual digital data centers can have value for humanity. You need to store things like Wikipedia and Archive.org and other worthwhile sites and services somewhere.

What is shit is the explosion in "data" centers that are really more like gigawatt space heaters that spit out fake images and wrong statements on the side.

Polluted waterways make me sad.

I think this is what people used to do before they were zoned out on their phone for hours on end, and it surely helped their sanity.

I kinda hate using my phone when I am home. Technology is awesome, but tech companies have become a blight on humanity that somehow manages to get more malignant every single year.

Yeah! I alternate between using Dr. Bronner's and simply reading the ramblings on the bottle if using some old shampoo/conditioner my wife moved on from.

Have you tried Double Commander or Superfile?

I get the inertia against switching when you have a setup you like, but the idea of going the other direction -- if I could get the best file manager in the universe but I have to switch to Windows to use it -- I just cannot imagine anything that would make it worth it.

If somebody actually hates all trans people, then I suggest it's not worthwhile for decent humans to strain their sanity to analyze whether bigots' patterns of hate and logic are internally consistent.

Ah, well thanks for the correction! That number just attached to the wrong variable in my brain I guess.

It should be minimum wage plus standard mileage cost at minimum, perhaps. In the US the IRS rate is 72.5 cents per mile right now, so if you figure that in for the 19 mile trip that's over $13 just to break even.

👉👈 But some of us DO live like animals...

I'm straddling the line between having my normal tech job and embodying the meme of the resume/linkedin that transitioned from Senior Architect at Microsoft to goose farmer.

That plus the AuDHD means I am deep into like 10 different projects at home, half of which involve the critters.

What can I say? Sometimes I'm a dirty boy.

I'm in the US and I park in a large hospital's parking garage a few times a year because one of my doctors has their office there.

They have automated systems AND a human in a booth. I think the human is mostly there to fix problems because the automated system uses paper tickets to track your time in the garage.

Many times in the past there has been a human standing at the ticket dispensing machine who would push the button as you roll up and hand you your parking slip.

Americuuuuh!