I don’t think retail theft is as big as retailers claim ( https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html ) , but even if it was it’s still not even close

In 2012, there were 292,074 robberies of all kinds, including bank robberies, residential robberies, convenience store and gas station robberies, and street robberies. The total value of the property taken in those crimes was $340,850,358. By contrast, the total amount recovered for the victims of wage theft who retained private lawyers or complained to federal or state agencies was at least $933 million in 2012. This is almost three times greater than all the money stolen in robberies that year. Further, the nearly $1 billion successfully reclaimed by workers is only the tip of the wage-theft iceberg, since most victims never sue and never complain to the government.

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/

If you need help visualizing scale, revisit https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you’d have more people working.

Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.

But it’s not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.

Wage theft is bigger than all other theft combined, but your coworkers probably aren’t nearly so upset about that.

I still remember being really mad I missed the “added effect” materia in the original FF7. You can never ever go back to that cave, so if you don’t turn around to pick it up you never get it. Pain.

A friend of mine had a similar thought. He was sitting down to do some work on an open source game, and then was like “Wait. What am I doing?” and he made his own game from scratch. ( This one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271280/Rift_Wizard/ - It’s good, but kind of too hard for my brain )

It helped that he a had a lot of xp in game development. I imagine some of the boring, difficult, stuff doesn’t have as many people readily available. There’s a lot of “Why does the game crash if I push the up arrow key when I’m in my inventory, sometimes?” stuff you have to worry about when you’re doing the whole thing.

Everyone involved in this decision should be shot.

What happened to all the republicans crying about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”? Oh right, they’re hypocritical little shits that should be in the ground.

So tired of everything trash because like a third of the country has less emotional maturity than a toddler.

You all see that article that said there’s a study saying at least a third of Americans are okay with musk being murdered? Shit like this is going to goose those numbers.

Right?? I’m like, didn’t you learn anything in high school history? But then I know that conservatives have been attacking education for decades, and a lot of people just kind of slept through school.

I think a lot of people are legitimately too stupid to understand harm reduction and multi step processes. It’s like that SpongeBob meme with Patrick’s wallet, except it ends in incalculable sorrow.

Another reason “I’m a rugged individual don’t tell me what to do” people are absolute fools.

Benefitting from untold quantities of rules and regulations, thinking it’s all their personal merit, wanting to swing an axe at the branch they’re sitting on.

I’ve had people tell me that “the market” would solve the problem is people were selling tainted food. idiots.

Maybe saint Luigi will visit us.

I don’t think we’re going to see any lasting improvements unless the Republicans are forcibly removed from power.

It’s about in-group membership. In-group loyalty to trump is supreme, followed by Republican party, with American a distant third.

It’s not about values or internal consistency. It’s about belonging.

Sidebar defaults are bad. There’s no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You can’t see the file system’s structure in Finder. The GUI doesn’t have a way to go “up” in the directory structure. I don’t think you can do it in the GUI alone.

It won’t let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I don’t know how to open stuff in places like that without cd’ing to the location in the terminal, and doing open . in the desired directory.

The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. It’s also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.

I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesn’t want to cooperate. If I do find the file I’m looking for, and want the full path, it doesn’t want to give it. I don’t even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> “new iterm2 tab here” -> pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.

Contrast with windows’ default explorer. It’s not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, there’s the “my pc”, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.

Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windows’ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.

I guess most everyone else that works at microsoft is cool with this.

Saint Luigi guide us.

What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesn’t have a sensible tree view, does it?

I think everywhere I’ve worked has said “we have 20% time for tech debt” but has never actually done that. It’s always “we need to ship this by end of week” and “the CEO wants us to add the thing we said we’d cut so we could make the deadline”.

Cool. Maybe they can have life in exile instead of the firing squad the rest of the republican party deserves.

Every day I hope that someone will shoot everyone working at DOGE, and all the republicans, but people tell me peaceful revolution is actually more effective long term. I don’t know if we really have a long term to work with, but that’s what I’m told.

Yeah the tutorial fight isn’t a “you should win easy-peasy” like some games. But it’s also not like Genichiro in Sekiro where you’re supposed to lose. I wonder if GGG published a breakdown of deaths to the boss. I think I cleared him four times on four characters and never died to him, but I also play a lot of this kind of game. (Unlike Musk, who is a fraud)

That’s what you get for walking around with 300,000 souls unspent! (meant as a joke, because in text you might read this with actual hostility lol)