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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the employee’s gross pay works out to less than $7.25/h, then the employer is obligated to make up the difference.

I imagine the result it that any employee demanding the employer to fill the gap is fired because obviously they provide bad service, otherwise they'd get more tips. Right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

⁸I don't know what data they have at hand to work with, the following is mainly guesswork / how I would do it:

As far as I know, US authorities have quite liberal access to data stored by US companies (due to the cloud act even if the data isn't originally stored in the US), especially in case the data is about non-citizens where some of their protection laws don't hold. Most social media accounts are tied to phone numbers and/or email addresses.

If I was in their place, I'd have a relatively small database with all (or at least all non-US) phone numbers used for social media accounts, with the email addresses tied to those accounts. If a visa-applicant applies and I get their phone number (email address),

  1. I'd query a list of all accounts for that number (email) to get the associated emails (numbers).
  2. With those new emails (numbers) I'd repeat step 1

If you call the office or enter your number in your application, they might get some accounts. If you associated an email address to that account, they might get additional different accounts by that email. If those different accounts have a different phone number associated to them, they use that new phone number to get more accounts. rinse, repeat.

[Edit: This process would be completely automated, of course. Not manual.]

The consequence of being caught lying might be to get your visa revoked / denied once you are already in the US at the airport, which would be highly inconvenient. Or, if they get suspicious, find something else, and get annoyed, maybe it could even be punished? I don't know.

You could maintain a separate phone with a separate phone number and separate email addresses for accounts you want to keep secret. Or maybe get a fresh phone number / email address just for the trip. But that's quite a bit of effort to maintain consistently.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  1. It's not a visa but an ESTA. The visa is still granted on the fly on entry.
  2. The U.S. require the same the other way around, only the one granted by the EU is $10 cheaper and valid for 3 years instead of 2, so still U.S. citizens get an advantage
  3. EU citizens (like all other non-immigrants) have to, as far as I understand, disclose all their social media accounts when applying for a US visa

Sources for (3):

For VISA applications, https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vetting/CA%20-%20FAQs%20on%20Social%20Media%20Collection%20-%206-4-2019%20(v.2).pdf should apply.

What if applicants participate in multiple online platforms? Are they being asked to list all of their handles, or only one?

Applicants must provide all identifiers used for all listed platforms.

I reached that document via https://www.ustraveldocs.com/de/de-gen-faq.asp#qlistgen21 ("Apply for a U.S. Visa in Germany") and didn't find any hint for exemptions for German citizens or E U citizens, so I assume it applies. (But I might still be wrong.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live on 7 acres of mostly heavily wooded land

Well, the activists target SUVs in the middle of Hamburg. That's not really a comparable situation. I agree it would suck if you visit a big city and get targeted there, but I would hope the activists can decide between a polished up city-only SUV and an actual working-vehicle and act accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Well, if they want to go shopping right now, chances are for this one trip they'll take their spouses smaller car, public transport or maybe even walk. If SUVs become generally unreliable (because you never know if you have air in your tires when you need it), people will look for something more reliable. They'll bitch about it, they won't act out of conviction or so, but who cares.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They target SUVs and alike. In what area do you live that a much more affordable and less gasoline consuming car wouldn't work for you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is why I like this targeted actions over the gluing themselves to the road ones. This is targeted to people destroying the climate. I don't think there is any good reason to drive an SUV or a sports-car in a city, and it is actively harmful. To pick up your equivalence: Feminists fight misogyny and inconvenience those guys actively showing it without necessarily alienating average guys.

 

From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *

Personally, I like this protest way more than glueing themselves to the streets, causing traffic jams where cars burn gasoline for hours and ambulances / firefighters / police gets stuck, putting innocent life in danger.

The article is in German. Warning: this link leads to google translate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Controversial opinion of an atheist:

Most religion is incitement to hate-crimes. While I think Sweden has probably bigger Christian societies and should probably rather burn bibles, the guy burning the Quran is an Iraqi, and therefore choosing the Quran is understandable. Afaik, he protested against his own former repression by Muslim religion whe still lived in Iraq.

Religion is notoriously used to reduce other people's freedom. Be it fundamental Christians e.g. in the US or Poland denying healthcare to pregnant women, be it the atrocities committed by the "moral police" in Iran, be it other religions killing people for their sexuality. I support the idea that religious law should be limited to followers of that religion, and no person should be forced in any way to follow or keeps following any religion. Those are fundamental human rights principles in my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We’re going to be the first species to go extinct due to stupidity.

Because we act global. The mechanism isn't new at all, though. We as a species are just as stupid as yeast: Watch a slice of bread mould. It starts with a tiny dot, within a day or two the whole slice is green and the bread already unrecognisable, after a couple of days the yeast will die because there isn't any bread any more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If we went back to that, I'd probably immediately miss the days when objects in our day-to-day were attainable for one Euro or so :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not at all, the old, chunky office printers you get for cheap work even without any special driver or so, just postscript. (You might get better quality for pictures with the original driver, but for simple letters it just works.)

Edit: Where HP really sucks is the consumer market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had a Brother printer, the costs were prohibitive. For over a decade now buy discarded office laserjet printers, chunky as hell, but for 100€ you get tens of thousands of pages out of them. And for those 100€, often a duplex unit is included. Am currently on my 2nd printer over 15 years.

 

Sorry if this was already posted, I just subscribed to this community and didn't see a related article replicated to my lemmy instance yet.

 

I wish for a world where this wasn't news and wouldn't matter anymore, but as the world is right now, this is still an issue in many countries, and therefore imo noteworthy and good news.

(I have no idea if he is a good president otherwise, I'm not promoting his political leanings because I don't know them.)

 

Stephen hawking, not only one of the physics geniuses, but also exemplary for not giving up in spite of a terrible disease, and a pop-star of science, died aged 76 in Cambridge.

 

Seems windows are still dangerous in Russia. The article does not provide any information why she fell; it seems she had a visitor at the time who was subsequently questioned by the police, and by quoting other "accidents" the article seems to insinuate this might be a sanctioned hit, but there is no further speculation on the rumour.

 

Apparently Prigozhin should better have requested to get his amnesty in writing... According to Kommersant and three main news agencies, the case is not closed and still investigated. An unidentified source claimed there had not been enough time to close the case.

In other news (yahoo news, so I would treat it as a rumour at best and don't want to link it here) it was mentioned, threats to Prigozhins family and the families of his officers stopped the revolt. I find it quite hard to believe, though, that they didn't see that coming and didn't take such threats into account.

 

The article raises most of the questions we were already asking ourselves, giving some background, but obviously no answers...

  • What will Putin do? The whole situation makes him look week, will he lash out to show strength? Purge annyone seen as not supportive enough during the whole situation?

  • What will Prigozhin do? It would look out of character for him to just leave in silence?

  • Will Russian troops want to fight alongside Wagner troops after this? Will Wagner troops accept now to be integrated with the Russian army?

 

Seems Prigozhin allegedly stops march on Moscow to avoid bloodshed after Belarusian president brokers deal with Putin

(I hope this is a big enough update to justify a separate post?)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Due to copyright I just post the link, but the laugh is just one click away :-) I was considering to replace "weather" with "climate", but thought then it's not really funny any more

 

Shouldn't books be sorted by ISBN? :-)

 

I have my self-hosted instance now, but there are some issues / open questions:

  • When going to my admin-page, I see tons of banned users I never banned myself. Who banned them, why do I need to know about it?
  • Concerned I might have left my instance too open and they might have used my instance for spamming, I tried to look for all users on my instance. By directly accessing postgres:lemmy and checking the user-ids, I saw it's just the expected ones, however, I wasn't able to find the usernames, neither easily in postgres nor on the lemmy admin page. Any ideas?
  • I see timeouts when accessing my lemmy instance, however, the host doesn't show high cpu-, memory- or network-load and I don't see anything immediately suspicious in the logs. According to iftop, there aren't insane amounts of connections, either. Sometimes it seems to help temporarily to restart my apache server. Any ideas, what to look out for?
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