MNByChoice 4h ago • 100%
The tentative agreement — which will have to receive a majority from union members before finalized — includes a 35% wage increase over four years of the contract, a larger signing bonus of $7,000, guaranteed minimum payouts in a new annual bonus program, and increased contributions to worker 401(k) retirement plans.
Even over 4 years it is big.
MNByChoice 4h ago • 100%
Yay! There are dual USB adapters. And the system puts out lots of wattage
MNByChoice 4h ago • 100%
Greentexts are fake, but this is funny!
MNByChoice 1d ago • 100%
Is it the murders? Its the murders.
MNByChoice 2d ago • 100%
four wives and two girlfriends so far.
MNByChoice 4d ago • 100%
18 doesn't seem like many. North Korea must have sent thousands
MNByChoice 6d ago • 100%
naturally with a smaller population and less damage to the environment.
You are correct. It is worth reminding others that humans nearly went extinct twice.
MNByChoice 6d ago • 100%
Peak oil was reached locally, not globally. Enough need to drive innovation, but not all of the fun aftereffects predicted.
I point this out as "peak oil" was more than just "no oil", and I don't want that lost on the young ones. It was about the collapse of everything dependent on oil.
Otherwise yes.
MNByChoice 7d ago • 100%
Great article with various bases of comparison for salaries.
MNByChoice 7d ago • 97%
"Peak Oil" they used to call it. Lots written about to collapse of everything after Peak Oil. Been predicted since at least 1970's.
Now we need to run out for our own good.
MNByChoice 1w ago • 100%
She may not actually be ready. When they are ready it is fast. When they are not ready they physically cannot do it. Pressure on her will absolutely make it worse.
Take a 4 month break and try again.
MNByChoice 1w ago • 100%
Holy FUCK!!
Posing as a child in Roblox’s “therapy” experience, our therapist introduced himself as a “rapper with only one p”. We were advised to run away from home and that he would come pick us up so we could move into his basement in exchange for paying rent with our body.
MNByChoice 1w ago • 100%
For anyone wondering, Snopes says it was real in 2022. Perhaps a "joke", but not a wise one.
MNByChoice 1w ago • 100%
Because sometimes they insist on abbreviating. It is just a stupid abbreviation.
MNByChoice 1w ago • 100%
What mass transit program is Musk trying to disrupt now? (As he did California's high speed rail with the Hyperloop.)
MNByChoice 2w ago • 100%
Literally a whole song about this. You likely know the tune from MASH.
MNByChoice 2w ago • 100%
That surgeon is bound to get one right one of these days!
MNByChoice 2w ago • 100%
I would like to know a few useful salary ranges. 30% of what?
There is a trend of doing no increases for years and crowing about being responsible. When an increase is needed then badmouthing the large percentage increase. Responsible would have been to increase every year by at least inflation.
MNByChoice 2w ago • 100%
It takes a high level license to be paid to fly people.
It is fairly applicable to learn enough to fly one self (in theory from reading). There are airplane clubs where one owns a tiny part of a plane. Fuel and maintenance are not free, but not horrible for a few hours travel.
A very cleverly designed club could work somewhat for weekend trips within a tank of gas distance. Maybe.
MNByChoice 2w ago • 100%
(No sources) but apps with no updates get removed from the stores. So yes , some updates are "nothing".
I like a certain unremarkable car from the recent past. As they are repairable currently, can one just buy all of the parts new and put it together? Are there any parts that aren't sold new? Have you done this? Are there any tools to help one get all of the parts? Any communities?
"The Mighty Ducks" did a good job featuring Minnesota. "D2" did a shit job. Even called Minneapolis a "po dunk town". I think the writers had nit watched the first movies.
The lines are long. The food is expensive. Everyone in the group wants to eat something different. The food taste is a gamble. There are few places to eat. Does everyone stick together and wait in all of the lines? Split up and meet at some location? Eat on the way to the festival and just hang out?
It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day. What if we just cut out the rest? Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.
www.pewresearch.org
In the USA, 3.1% claim Atheist, 4% Agnostic, and a total of 22.8% "Unaffiliated". In [Minnesota](https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/database/state/minnesota/), 3% claim to be Atheist, 4% Agnostic, with a total of 20% Unaffiliated. Posted as I often feel there are few Atheists in the USA. Turns out Atheists are under noticed.
I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?
How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks? How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want. It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved. Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.
I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it. I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me. I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice. Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.
Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.) Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere? I declare email bankruptcy daily.... Send whiskey. Edit: I was unclear. I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.) I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.
streets.mn
Today, I was playing with an immediate annuity calculator. For about $106K (USA Dollar), one can get a 10 year Immediate annuity that pays about $1K per month. For $1 million, 9 people could be covered for 10 years. For $1 billion, 9,400. Every American could be covered for the next 10 years for ~$35 trillion. Rolled out over 10 years, it could be $3.5 trillion per year. I am better able to reason about annuities, than government spending, so this started to put the costs in perspective for me. The costs also stop being as "squishy". UBI would be life changing for many. Those with lots of income already would be paying about 30% back to the IRS. There are lots of optimizations. For 60% more, the term could be doubled to 20 years, cutting the annual rollout cost by 20%. I bet costs could be improved when purchasing $1 trillion of anything. Annuity rates are also not great right now, so there a likely better structures. Thoughts?
prospect.org
> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.
Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first. A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking. Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know. How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles. I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with". Thoughts? Concepts to investigate? Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.
Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier. > The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. Thank you to [@urlyman@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/users/urlyman) for pointing this out. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html
> "I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"
