They should be broken up and shut down no matter what will be “shifting” as a result (whatever that is supposed to mean)

The brightest minds of our generation are working on making us click more ads — its dangerous and an unimaginable waste.

How the hell was this gem flagged @dang? One of the best things I read on HN and I almost missed it…

Doing that twice every day would also be torture, spending 8 hours in the train daily. I can’t fathom what would a human compel to do this.

To be fair we don’t have many fast food pizza chains in my country, it’s mostly dominos and a few small ones (with abysmal online order experience)

Now they only sell (arguable mid) pizza, but when I order there it’s delightful (to use an overused 2023 marketing buzzword)

It just makes your work much more fun and time pass faster than being sullen and distanced. It hs nothing to do with my wages being on the line, I literally had zero obligation to be nice to customers. But every once in a while I had a pleasant interaction and that made it worth the effort.

I would bet it’s the same for your crockery clerks. That kind of work is very boring and repetitive and social interaction is the only respite you get from it. Just something to keep in mind when you are feeling cynical about them greeting you friendly and so on.

There is some interesting data here - by the way data from 8025 yearly reports by farmers, so I think we can assume this is accurate: https://www.situationsbericht.de/5/52-buchfuehrungsergebniss...

See this graphic especially: https://magazin.diemayrei.de/storage/media/situ/46722.jpeg

The only ones who had sinking profits are the winegrowers. Wheat producers increased 27%, cattle too, all the while help by the state fell by 10%.

So I’m pretty much over the poor farmers protesting in Germany - of course the growing inequality __overall__ is a huge problem.

The problem is more corrupt politicians, a more and more unhinged “free market” and just the dystopian hellscape that capitalism is becoming. Of course cutting social services and benefits for 30 years+ straight will have some effect on the general population. Thank Schröder and the SPD for starting this and Merkel and the CDU for decades of inaction until it was too late and there was no more room for action. Now we will have a far right government next election cycle and the best plan they can come up with is to peddle the same lies that the AFD is spouting: that immigration is to blame for growing problems - when in reality immigration is the one thing that props up this failing system.

2. I used https://www.linen.dev/ but I think there are others. It turn Slack conversations in a searchable static site.

3. Developer community for an open source software product.

But in our case the server would be public, so yes anyone can raid it because there are no barriers for entry. Not saying this is not possible with Slack but it never happened and I have been part of multiple discord communities where it did happen.

Due to our community being public email addresses are exposed, at least last time I checked I could easily get a list of all the emails from registered users. This is in theory also possible with Slack but not as easily automated. Maybe discord improved this since.

The permission system is extensive but also complex - I have no time to learn the system and configure it correctly.

Discord is great for streamers and gaming communities - IMO it’s not a good fit for companies to build their communities on.

Of course everyone has different priorities. What might be right for us, might not be for your case.

I still stand by my comment that the Discord business model is shady - how can you provide voice chat, CDN for files, and everything else for free? I don’t think that their premium services can pay for that.

I would never use it for something professional/business related.

Sure messages disappear on the free plan, but there are ways around that.

I believe we will sooner solve the electricity problem with renewables though.

Agree that a vast majority of the jobs will be automated fairly soon - just not those pesky jobs that really need to be done and no one wants to do - like cooking, cleaning, childcare, taking care of sick people. Sure we will have some more nifty appliances that make it easier maybe, but I want (most of) that stuff fully automated, at least the cleaning part!

Anyway a beer sounds good right about now and we will just have to wait and see how it plays out I guess

I recently read the book and I couldn’t even remember the character now and had to look up who was meant. Maybe that is more a testament to how bad I am at remembering stuff I read in books than how important the character is but there you go.