Phytanic t1_j1xc7hm wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:21 AM

Reply to comment by MistarGrimm in Ukraine lessens projected GDP fall from 50% to 32% by sviterochec

a lot it IS free though. You can argue all you want about "the implication" of it, but it's quite literally grants and aid. Yes, lend-lease isn't free, but the vast majority of stuff thus far has not been loans

Phytanic t1_j1keou8 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 1:59 AM

Reply to comment by sonicjigglebath in 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization discovered in the north of Guatemala by HRJafael

What does the Java Runtime Environment have to do with LiDAR?

Phytanic t1_j1kenbq wrote on December 25, 2022 at 1:58 AM

Reply to comment by Dhrnt in 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization discovered in the north of Guatemala by HRJafael

this dude is at best a "psuedoarcheologist", which IMHO is a more PR-friendly term for "raving conspiracy theorist who uses circumstantial evidence in an attempt to prove something that does not hold up against logic." AKA Whatever this guy does, know that any sort of "analysis" and expansion of ideas is going to be rather questionable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

Phytanic t1_iudvj9i wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by Inevitable_Egg4529 in Chinese cities brace for wave of Foxconn workers from COVID-hit Zhengzhou by KimCureAll

> They literally do nothing all day

I've had a job like that before and it's truly miserable. i would, quite literally, show up to work for days and even weeks at a time and do nothing but sit on my phone because there was nothing to do.

Phytanic t1_iud7hnu wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:17 PM

Reply to comment by turtmcgirt in Chinese cities brace for wave of Foxconn workers from COVID-hit Zhengzhou by KimCureAll

We all knew it was gonna happen, but Scott walker is a dumbass and he pushed it through. I still occasionally see "jobs" posted for them but it's well known here that they just don't exist

Phytanic t1_iud7cl8 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:15 PM

Reply to comment by PairOpen in Chinese cities brace for wave of Foxconn workers from COVID-hit Zhengzhou by KimCureAll

Dude fuck Foxconn. all those worker suicides, and their general treatment towards the workers is despicable.

Also fuck Scott walker for being swindled out of 10 billion dollars by Foxconn, who was supposed to make a factory here in WI nearly a decade ago.

EDIT: Apparently we managed to get it reduced to merely 8 million dollars now, so that's nice

Phytanic t1_iuc68jj wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:21 AM

Reply to comment by not-a_fed in Navy investigates submarine sex harassment claims - BBC News by MisterMovie50

I have a friend who was a submariner, and he explained it this way to me:

imagine being stuck in a super cramped boat, having to share the same tiny, cramped bunk bed with other crew mates (they sleep in it on their sleep time and so a bed isn't empty and wasting space), and you do it for months at a time.

and you do this all with the same group of guys, so you better hope that yall at least pretend to get along, because it's a long ass time trapped in there.

(I think he had mentioned its one of those "no girls allowed yet" jobs still because their mission parameters basically put them needing to be submerged for literally months and no access to offshore medical)