[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

This was shock and awe tactics at the time. Professional soldiers were trained to accept the casualties dealt out at the start of the battle and keep advancing until the enemy broke and then slaughter them as they attempted to flee. Everyone who makes fun of George Washington for how he conducted his troops conveniently forgets that his army consisted of untrained volunteers who consistently broke when confronted with the British war machine.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

It always amazes me how business owners are portrayed as greedy monsters instead of the pants pissing cowards they most likely are. If you need to raise the prices of your products to give your employees good wages, do it. And customers need to understand that better paid employees means higher prices.

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submitted 1 year ago by darkseer@lemmy.world to c/discworld@lemmy.ml

Anyone else notice that Moist Von Lipvig(Richard Coyle) is narrating the new Going Postal and Making Money audiobooks?

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Can't raise taxes for the rich exclusively in the US. The 16th amendments wording prohibits raising taxes for specific individuals or groups of people. It has to be that everyone pays more taxes or it violates the Constitution. So if any politician says they're going to make the rich pay their fair share, keep in mind that you're going to pay more too.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Truck drivers hours are federally regulated. We can't be on duty for more than 70 hours in an 8 day period. We also can't drive more than 11 hours a day and are required to wait ten hours before we can start driving again. To reset our weekly hours we are required to wait 34 hours before we can go on duty, though we do get hours back if we manage our hours well enough for them to rollback on the ninth day.

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submitted 1 year ago by darkseer@lemmy.world to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml

Pretty sure this doesn't belong here. But, it's been a year since I ditched my "we schedule you 32 hours, but you work 80 maybe 96 because your coworkers call out constantly" job and became a truck driver.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Let's face it. Raising the minimum wage does nothing except create more minimum wage workers, eliminates jobs as those roles are merged with other roles and increases the cost of living exponentially so that it's even more difficult to survive on minimum wage.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Police officers have the highest suicide rate after Doctors and Dentists. Not sure if it's because of poor stress management or being constantly in contact with some of the shittiest people to live.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They're called tips because tips have certain legal protections, while fees are up to the discretion of the business to give to their employees. Trust me. That delivery fee that you pay Papa Johns goes toward liability insurance, software fees, and other incidentals. None of it goes to the driver. And always pre tip more than 5 dollars if you don't want to be the last delivery of 3.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fascism has little to do with ideology. It's a refusal to allow any views other than your own to be voiced in your presence.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

According to the USDA, again, the majority of food waste is at the household level.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

But we are. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 22% of the food industries 26% CO2 emissions. And don't forget the diseases food waste produces.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Please remember that the corporations are polluting to provide services to the populace at large. You might as well accuse your pizza delivery driver for polluting after he gives you your order.

[-] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just started the Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay and am re-listening to the Shadow of the Lion by Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer and Eric Flint

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