jocanib

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[–] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is so scarily reminiscent of Dem complacency in 2016. Learn from history lest you be doomed to repeat it. Please.

[–] jocanib 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using the wrong picture is almost as ridiculous as reducing his career to Dumbledore. For shame.

[–] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago

I know that. I did add a disclaimer, I'm not trying to sell the things.

[–] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a free-standing waste of space when the nook for the cupboard is already there?

[–] jocanib 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don’t get complacent.

This was a good start. But then you finished by giving loads of reasons to remain complacent.

Polticial polls have to adjust for turnout and that is extremely difficult to get right. But it is a nailed on guarantee that Trump fans will turn out. Dems should be worried that the polls (in general, not just this one) are very close. Biden's presidency has been somewhat better than expected from a progressive perspective but is still too beholden to the kind of Dem that lost it in 2016 by appealing solely to rich people instead of the tens of millions of voters with no one to vote for. They will struggle to enthuse the people they need to enthuse and that is showing up in the polls.

Don't get complacent. Don't push narratives that encourage complacency.

[–] jocanib 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Still haven’t had it

You almost certainly have. A substantial minority never develop symptoms. It's one of the things that makes it spread so easily. If it made everyone very sick they'd all be safely tucked up in bed and not spreading it.

There is no useful answer to your question. Some people develop symptoms very quickly, some people are asymptomatic for a period, others remain asymptomatic throughout.

If you think you've been exposed and you could put others at risk, do a test. False positives are common but they're better at picking up people who are very infectious so that's something.

If you want to know if you've had it, there are antibody tests which check for antibodies from infection rather than vaccination. (Example for information, not a personal recommendation.) They're not 100% accurate but a positive is most likely a true positive, given that the vast majority of people have had it by now. They test for two types of antibody, IgM and IgG. IgM should only show up during or immediately after recovery from an infection, IgG turns up later in the course of an infection and sticks around after recovery.

[–] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago

You don't need to register a company unless you need to employ people yourself to get the work done. You can just register as self-employed. The details will vary depending on where you are. You'll most likely have to convince the tax authorities that it is genuine self-employment and not your employer dodging taxes. If you have an actual job with an employer abroad, you'll need to ask your local tax authority how to handle it.

Your hourly rate when self-employed should be around 2.5x the equivalent salaried hourly rate. This is because the employer is not paying for your admin time, training, equipment, office costs, holiday pay*, sick pay*, or contributing to your pension, or doing your taxes for you*. And because you don't have the security of a salary and will need to spend a lot of time bidding for work that might not pan out, while they get the benefit of having you on tap with no long-term commitment.

*these are not USian things but as a European you will still be losing them

It depends a bit on the field you work in but self-employment is not generally a great idea for a fresh graduate. Your degree qualifies you to become qualified and you can't easily do that on your own. Lack of experience will also make it hard to get the kind of work you need to develop your skills and get better work.

[–] jocanib 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He actually made that demand before they illegally demolished it, when the facade was still mostly intact. I don't think it would have been very practical but still, they absolutely cannot allow the developers to profit from this vandalism.

They should build a mining museum on the site, with a modern but still wonky design (and coins rolling uphill). And force the crooked developers to donate the site as part of a plea deal. It may have been impossible to prove they were behind the arson but a piece of piss to prove that they were behind the illegal demolition.

[–] jocanib 6 points 1 year ago

Comfortably-off customers casting aspersions on "minimum wage workers" are the absolute pits.

There is lots to say here but you are too clueless to say any of it. FFS

[–] jocanib 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article was about poverty wages as well as those who cannot work. Setting poor people at each other's throats is missing the point (and doing free PR for the rich people who have taken all the money).

[–] jocanib 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Our tram is called the Metro, which is light rail. It connects a small city to a bigger city, and loops around the bigger city. The residential zone along it is enormous, well beyond walking distance. Many people need buses to make use of it.

[–] jocanib 3 points 1 year ago

I have no idea why you're directing this question at me.

London has the tube. It does not need a tram.

Obviously buses are needed to get people to the tram/tube/train stations.

This thread has precisely fuck all to do with London. London has very good public transport already. It's everywhere else that is expected to do without.

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