BozeKnoflook

joined 2 years ago
[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All of your descriptions are hardly unskilled, those take a good deal of education, practice, and in the case of plumbers legal certification that probably involves an apprenticeship. It's absolutely a skilled profession.

In my youth I briefly worked for a temporary agency and did a bunch of odd tasks to fill in when needed. The least skilled thing I did was for a newspaper: sliding racks of newspapers from a conveyor belt onto a long table, watching this massive table vibrate the newspapers for a solid couple of minutes (to prevent pages from getting stuck together as the ink dried), then throwing in the day's collection of laminated ad inserts into each set, and then pushing the boxes onto the next conveyor belt down the line. Training was thirty seconds of instruction.

I would call it 'labor' because it doesn't need any adjectives or qualifiers. It's just work, somebody laboring at a task.

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

30 euro for gigabit up/down, Netherlands

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As somebody that rode a motorcycle for years: you can make eye contact and still be unseen.

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He also once thought every home would have a dedicated ISDN line.