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  • FatherPeanut@pawb.socialtoWholesome@reddthat.comYes! It's our turn!
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    1 month ago

    What I believe the real answer is, is that the restaurant is likely trying to beat the JIT (Just In Time) production system. For example: If you are a restaurant themed around southern comfort, some of that food can take quite a while to prepare. To get ahead of the curve, you avoid making food in response to each order, and instead opt to make food in bulk at several points along the day, knowing you get X orders on average every few hours. For a sandwich joint, it probably has some additional nuance to it since its not quite as time intensive to make one, but I believe this to be the general answer.

    Edit: this works better for some restaurants than others. It brings a higher production cost to cover the waste that went unused, but cuts out costs for labor. And for some joints like a Taco Bell, it can be optimized well enough that it’ll hardly make a difference whether they make it on the fly, or in advance.



  • FatherPeanut@pawb.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Bit of a nuanced take, a trimmed down copy-paste from another comment of mine prior. Tl;Dr: he’s a product of the system that left the system.

    Snowden was an individual that worked in the intelligence community in the mid-2000s. In this era, the American populace was so afraid of terrorism they signed away freedoms for national security. In this post 9/11 world, patriotism was a given, almost nationalistically, if you were American. It’s fair to say that a highly nationalistic media and culture can influence the individual to embrace those mentalities more… even if it perverts your true best interest. Snowden likely viewed service to the NSA as patriotic, and in support of his fellow Americans. While he started off supporting it, he soon saw immorality, and decided to resist against them with what I see as an effective measure. I feel that for most whistleblowers, this logic applies. I wanna say “Good job, but still shame on you for taking the job to begin with,” yet this system we’re in can cause us to support things we otherwise wouldn’t like.

    Looking to modern issues: The manipulation of individuals, mass surveillance, leveraging of government by powerful. Critisizim of these was always there, but where it was pointed at and pursued sure felt a lot different after Snowden.


  • Honestly I’d say the ones who ruined it were the cryptobros who only care about seeing number go up. Gave a bad rep to crypto right outta the gate, especially with causing the (first) GPU shortage. Now if you mention crypto to anyone, even with a legitimate interest, they instantly get a bad taste in their mouth.

    It is always nice when some service allows payment in Monero though. The default of bitcoin is still prominent, but thankfully most people are realizing it ain’t private at all.



  • We do have some similar things, like Meshtastic for messages, but that’s just texting via radio. As far as calls go, it’s mostly also just radio for now.

    Session tried to get a call and text system setup whereby anyone can host a node, similar to a TOR node, but their foundation didn’t reach the funding total. The work is done, but some services are gonna be scaled back a bit. There is definitely a considerable push for systems like that, but they’ll take a bit of time for implementation as it’d otherwise just be another company owned service that’s outside our control.




  • So, different mentalities express themselves in different places. For my workplace, talk about AI as an innovation happens more often. In my day-to-day, all the talk is concern about a new datacenter going up in our community. In the internet, people seem largely against AI. I find it to be a symptom of certain environments leveraging a different thought process.

    I think it’s pretty fair to say, the internet overall cares deeply for expression and humanity, to which AI has fed off of to train, and now regurgitates in inhuman speech. This affects us all, and makes the overall internet experience worse. Oppositionally, AI has allowed businesses to streamline workflows. No more fluffing up an email with bullshit to “sound professional,” just have an AI do it for you and save the time. And as for local datacenters, no shame if you don’t know what they do to communities, but I don’t think you’d believe a Lemmy comment if it’s your first time hearing of it.



  • Progress happens in spite of them, aye. Feudalism led to capitalism, while it is flawed, I’d say this is an upgrade. Capitalism originally embraced slavery, and while some aspects still exist today, mostly all capitalist governments have put massive blocks on it. Monarchism led to constitutional monarchism, the beginnings of the rule of law. Through this rule of law, democracy could be organized.

    Thr next steps are entirely up to your opinion, yet I feel things will on average improve. There will be setbacks, yet onward we go.





  • Quick disclaimer, some of this sounds more snarky than I wanted, so apologies in advance. Also Tl;Dr: this isn’t another pandemic, just a new disease.

    Real talk, I only heard of it yesterday. Thing is, and the internet reeeeaally doesnt like this sorta thing… it isn’t a big deal. It only takes a few searches through studies to see, and even then there’s articles that do a deep dive that explain how this virus works that are just openly found on google without much digging at all.

    So, what it has going for it is that the virus started off as a plague. That meaning that it transmitted itself from animal to human. Exceptionally rare chance, yet our immune system is not setup to deal with it as we’ve historically never been exposed to it. Looking into this specific virus, there are several strands we’ve identified. The vast majority of which have an insane death rate, save for a single normal-rate strain for a typical cold.

    Here’s the kicker. The type that’s spread without incredible difficulty is the type that’s akin to a normal, run of the mill cold. The high death rate strains are simply not easy to get. Yet when people share info about it, what’s mentioned is how contagious the low-death rate strain is, and the death rate of the more dangerous ones that don’t spread easily. Looks like a nightmare so it grabs headlines, but really it’s not all too horrible.




  • I do not know the internals as far as desired, but USPS was developed to be completely self-reliant, as in no funds should be extracted or provided to/from any government’s budget. Massively oversimplifying here, this means that managers are incentivised to push workers they do have, and avoid hiring new workers where extra aid is needed. Throw in a burecracy that does incentivize lower performing carriers to be promoted, and now there’s a a management issue.

    For those looking to get into the postal service, the crappy management is a hurdle to deal with, and the hiring procedure is a manifestation of that.

    Not to stray away from it, as some people enjoy it thoroughly, but USPS tends to be a very finicky place to work at. It often doesn’t lead into career growth, the workplace can get bogged by bad management, and the phrase “Going Postal” happened enough to become a common concept.