The show is set in the 90s and IT wasn’t something mainstream back then. The plot is not that they’re too dense to understand, it’s that it is too obscure to care
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These were supposed to be young people with very laid back schedules. That’s what the vibe of the show was about. I’m pretty sure there isn’t a shortage of groups of young adults with moderately wealthy parents living in this sort of bohemian setting now and there certainly wasn’t one in the 90s.
But yeah, it isn’t universal and it can come across badly in sine cases
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does it feel weird to anyone else watching American Streamers in this political climate?131·2 months agoThey weren’t their “normal lives”. People were affected by the rule of the nazi party since it very quickly installed a new social order in the country. We shouldn’t think that the move of the country towards violent totalitarianism happened without people noticing.
But just like now, the future wasn’t obvious. If you could have convinced people in 1932 that the nazi party world start WW2, they wouldn’t have voted for it. If you could have convinced them in 1935 that not only will they be anther world war, but their nation would try and almost succeed in exterminating various peoples from their own country, people world have violently rebelled and deposed the nazis, but that wasn’t obvious. It wasn’t obvious even in 1938 - “peace for our time”, eh? So people did grudgingly accepted what was happening while completely misunderstanding the seriousness of the situation.
There is no way around this. It will happen again and again and there is no way to prevent it because this shift from a strong democracy to authoritarianism is so impossible to believe that people will rather go by their preconceptions rather than the evidence in front of them and simply refuse to think something like this can actually happen.
This is why it isn’t reasonable to expect the people to simply take to the streets. We need leadership
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - GothamistEnglish1·10 months agomy experience with iCloud is pretty bad. I worked in a startup at some point which was giving Macs to employees and sort of expected them to figure it out. We had a few people quit and that’s when we figured out that the macs became shiny useless things since we didn’t have access to wipe the associated account and Apple didn’t help in any way. So, from my experience, this is a horrible “feature”.
Now i find out that it’s even worse and it gives 3rd parties means to harass you… I really think that avoiding theft comes at a far to high a price
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - GothamistEnglish1·10 months agoSure. My point was that exposing someone to scams like social engineering is really really bad and far less desirable than keeping an open line of communication for a purchase
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - GothamistEnglish0·11 months agoIs it though? The author of this article knows what they’re doing, but a regular person would probably not be as relaxed with some of the threats. I didn’t see this in the article, how does the thief have the ability to contact the victim?
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Tesla Fires Guy Who Slept In Car, Showered At Work, Embracing The Elon Musk Dream0·1 year agoThat’s a dumb question in this context. Mass layoffs are not performance based
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announcedEnglish203·1 year agoA company who’s unable to meet customer demands should not be this profitable. It should use it’s revenue to invest back into growing the business to meet customer demand. This should be the real headline.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish11·1 year agoso do you have any case whatsoever that shows that this shit would fly at a Swedish company? One where it was legally challenged at least? If no, then what exactly is your point?
The fact that I don’t have an example doesn’t mean that it can’t happen. It just means that it hasn’t yet or that I don’t know of it. Just because you can’t show me an example of an atom bomb attack in Sweden or of me getting punched in the face in 2024 does not mean that these things can’t happen, does it? This whole thread started with people saying that this can’t happen in Europe. It absolutely can. And having worked in various corporations across Europe (though not Sweden specifically), I can tell you that they all have clauses in the work contract saying that you can be fired for conduct while representing the company, especially for conduct in relation to customers. So if Google employees would block the headquarters in Stockholm to convince the company to stop trading with Israel because it’s a genocidal state, I guarantee you they’d not be safe from disciplinary measures including termination.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP lawEnglish12·1 year agoThe thing that gets me is that it doesn’t even hurt performance metrics. The performance of this type of employee is not measured in hours worked. That extra week made zero difference to the company but had an immense impact on her.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP lawEnglish78·1 year agoGhaderi claims Krishnakumar later pressured her into delaying the start of her maternity leave from the planned date of November 7. Agreeing to the request, she worked until November 15, 2022, “the day she was forced to undergo an emergency C-section,” according to the filing.
What the actual fuck!?
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish1·1 year agoCan you show me an instance where a Swedish employee did what you claim? I showed you that it is within the legal framework. That should be enough.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish11·1 year agoThese are the government guidelines.
You should be more careful on how you let information reach you. You have to be pretty ignorant to think that there exists a country which doesn’t allow business to fire employees.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish1·1 year agoThat’s stupid. How can I show you an instance of someone talking against a customer publicly is Sweden? Calming that employees cannot get fired for damaging the business in any country is completely false. Thinking that the situation in Sweden with Tesla is similar to what happened in Google is completely ignorant.
I understand simple facts extremely well. The problem is that you’re trying to make this situation into something it isn’t
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish12·1 year agoPublicly labeling customers as “war criminals” is misconduct and will get you fired anywhere in the world, yes. Stop pretending you misunderstand this simple fact.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish11·1 year agoThat’s not actually true. Even in Sweden, employees can be fired for misconduct and what constitutes misconduct is a complex matter. But more importantly, in the Tesla case, those employees are on strike which is a different issue.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Children run risk of preventable deaths from declining vaccinationsEnglish6·1 year agoNo, I know that, but the original vaccination hesitancy in UK and Ireland made sense because Wakefield published a study in a reputable peer reviewed medical journal. Since then it has taken a life of its own in US even after the original claim was refuted. Political entities got involved and so on and so forth.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politicsEnglish2·1 year agoYou should be aware of the fact that Google & the others have offices in Europe and they have the same policy here too. These type of policies fit well within the legal framework in most EU countries. And I guarantee that people would get fired over protests disrupting the workplace if found unwarranted.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Children run risk of preventable deaths from declining vaccinationsEnglish362·1 year agoI understand how “Big pharma” type conspiracy theories might appear in the USA, but how the hell can someone believe them in EU where the pharmaceutical and health industries are heavily regulated and vaccines are almost exclusively provided by the state? I just can’t wrap my head around this.
since when is war an internal affair?