spireghost

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[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

retired boomers went and volunteered at chain restaurants

Source on this? This sounds insane

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea the picture is not related at all. Elder care is bleeding their money dry, they're not choosing to spend it on lavish vacations.

Once you get to a point where you run out of insurance and health savings, you have to go to Medicaid, which will take your house and the rest of your savings after you die. (And if you try to give your house to your child before you die, unless you do it 5 years before enrolling in medicaid you will get a huge delay in services)

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I mean that would definitely get an 18 rating, I'm not sure what you are meaning to say

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I looked up astronaut pay and it says it's between $100-180,000. Somewhat depressing that people can make more sitting in their house writing code working remote than someone who is risking their life on space missions. I guess you do get food and housing paid for that whole time, but wow.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

And electric car parts. It's an engineering / machining company, you would be very hard pressed to find any companies like it that don't work with the largest source of funding in the world

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

This isn't :(

I understand that we are angry, BUT we know nothing about this guy -- the company seems like a small niche manufacturing business. The guy isn't some super elite C-suite executive, he's just a high-level manager/director. Maybe he was an asshole. Don't know if he is guilty of anything though

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Right, "just" is carrying a lot of weight here

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 120 points 4 days ago (23 children)

The reasoning in question:

This game teaches - by way of images, information and gameplay - skills and knowledge that are used in poker. During gameplay, the player is rewarded with ‘chips’ for playing certain hands. The player is able to access a list of poker hand names. As the player hovers over these poker hands, the game explains what types of cards the player would need in order to play certain hands. As the game goes on, the player becomes increasingly familiar with which hands would earn more points. Because these are hands that exist in the real world, this knowledge and skill could be transferred to a real-life game of poker

So, this game teaches skills and knowledge that are used in poker. The skills in knowledge are limited to... playing and making poker hands. That's it. Also, "as the game goes on, the player becomes increasingly familiar with which hands would earn more points" -- is hilariously funny. The idea that knowledge of what a poker hand is is anything related to the dangers of gambling is ridiculous.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

well 1. he could be defended legally -- it's still not certain that he is even the shooter. The police and media have worked together and released lots of information on their side framing him as the criminal, but -- not unlike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell -- trial by media is not a verdict. Does the evidence hold up? All we have seen are pictures of the person of interest, pictures of Luigi, and statements that certain items were received. Without actual footage of the scenario, testimony, etc. it's totally possible that things aren't what they seem.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Read. the. article.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, you see, America is bigger so it won't work for some reason

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