You’re right, though. AWS has far more data centers/regions. Even if a company only uses AWS, they can set up High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions that replicate across AWS regions.
But they won’t because:
It’s actually pretty easy to compartmentalize your job if you’re not directly confronted with what the company actually does.
If you’re an elevator maintenance technician working for a defense contractor, your job is the elevators, and you and your peers probably only deal with elevators, and the job probably pays pretty well. There’s a layer of abstraction between you and the “bad” things that your company may do.
Also, getting to make an employment decision based on “is this company evil” isn’t a luxury most people have until they’ve built some experience. Most entry level professionals are just happy to get a job.
Metalocalypse was amazing. The fact that it was never officially finished is a travesty. Honestly, when Adult Swim did the Petition to Bring Back Metalocalypse fax machine --> paper shredder stunt is around when I kinda lost interest in Adult Swim.
I always give two weeks. I’ve never quit a job without having another lined up, so maybe that’s the difference.
Honestly I love the feeling during those two weeks. The “I don’t gove a fuck” vibe that I feel deep down in my bones is kind of nice.
Frequency varies, sometimes monthly, sometimes not. All of my friends have dispersed across the country, got married, got divorced, bought houses, went crazy…the usual.
The one thing I need to say here is if that there is a real friend in your life that you value, you still have to invest in that friendship. Once you leave high school/college it’s not just “hanging out”. No one has that kind of free time anymore. If you really value a friendship, make sure you put in the effort. Don’t hang on to one-sided friendships where you are the only one trying, but make sure you’re putting in the effort in an actual good friendship. I know it doesn’t seem like that and you have that vibe that makes you think you’ll always be friends, but adult friendships take more than just a vibe.
You hit the nail on the head. As a society we can’t even agree that basic healthcare and education are human rights.
Just pile access to the Internet on top, I guess. Sure, access to the Internet is a requirement for modern life. So is not dying from treatable diseases.
Dude…I know I used to be able to do this but it’s been decades.
I can’t do it anymore. It feels so awkward and strange and hurts my tendons just trying it…Whuuuut?
Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
In the book the character Duddits had the shining, yes that motherfucking shining.
In the movie they made him an undercover alien. Man what a let down.
When I was younger a person who I admired said:
“I always carry some extra money in my wallet for when someone needy asks. It’s not my place to decide if this person needs help or not. Maybe they will use the money for drugs, maybe they need the money for clothes for their children. When I die and get to the pearly gates, I don’t want to find out that I had the opportunity to help someone who needed help and I didn’t help them because I assumed they would spend the money on drugs. Maybe they will spend the money on drugs, but that’s not for me to know right now.”
I thought that was some of the most noble shit my early 20’s ass had ever heard.
Fast-forward a few years to me and my new wife honeymooning in…San Francisco. My noble naive ass brought a wallet full of cash with me so I could help people in need. Nothing terrible happened, but I soon ran out of cash and we decided to start handing out food. NOBODY WANTED THE FOOD. They just wanted the money. I would offer food, and they would just say “do you have any money?”
Anyway, nowadays I just say “sorry bro, I don’t carry cash”.
I’m sure there are some people who take advantage of returns and the restocking fee is there to dissuade them. But also I’m sure the retailers are trying to make some extra money on returns.
I’m really fond of using “I’mma” and “gonna”.
I obviously wouldn’t use these words in a professional document, but everywhere else I’mma use “gonna” and “I’mma” whenever I feel like it.
This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.
They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.
You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.
I expected nothing yet I’m still disappointed…
I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.
The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.
For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.
It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:
Any country where healthcare and higher education are considered human rights and not commodities will work for me.
I only post or reply on Lemmy.
I don’t have a facebook, instagram, snapchat, or twitter account.
I deleted my two reddit accounts after RIF stopped working.
I do have accounts on a couple of car forums so I can ask questions about fixing my car, if that counts.
Sure. I agree with all of that. But I live in a suburban sprawl of a US city that is just dense enough to have lots of cars, but nowhere near dense enough to have decent public transportation…unless we as a society decided to bulldoze this entire vast suburban landscape and start over with density as a goal. It’s hot here too. Nobody is riding their bike 12 miles to work in 95⁰ weather (35⁰ for our metric homies).
Maybe within the next few years the Netherlands will let me and my family in as refugees so I can bike everywhere on a 72⁰ summer day.
But I like where your head’s at. Hopefully you’re young and can make a difference.
To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.
Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.
If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.
Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.
I’d really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I’m losing hope.
I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn’t be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.
I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it’s shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we’re in is just part of a larger cycle.
Memories fade.
Take tons of pictures and videos now. Make sure you have storage and backups.
When I was younger I didn’t like taking pictures.
When I got older and had kids I didn’t want to spend all my times taking pictures. We were “building memories” was my excuse.
Now all I have are memories, but those will disappear when I cease to exist. I don’t like that one bit.