this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
264 points (99.3% liked)

196

16542 readers
1953 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other^ ^rules^

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The orphan crushing machine continues its implacable work

top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] nyahlathotep 110 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

"Summer Camp"

  • Single Day
  • 3 Hours
  • Just learn to be a wage slave
  • All indoors, except presumably when you go out with an ipad to take orders from fucks in their car

I'm failing to see the camp here.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

I'm failing to see the camp here.

Oh, it’s more of a concentration camp than your traditional summer camp.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder at what point in those three hours do they try to indoctrinate your child to think being gay is a moral failing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Every Chic-fil-A I’ve been to has had at least one person working there who dropped a Gucci bag out of their mouth when speaking. This company really confuses me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wait, 12pm is midday, not midnight?
That makes no sense at all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AM is ante meridian and PM is post meridian. It's referenced to the prime meridian through Greenwich UK. If the sun is to the east of the line (ie. Before noon where it is vertical) it's before (ante) the meridian. If it's after (post) noon it's after the meridian. It's all outdated but that's how time works.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

12 pm isn't past noon, it's noon.
12 am is past noon just as much as it is before noon.
So for 12 o'clock, choosing am or pm is arbitrary convention.
So it would make more sense to reverse them, to get a consistant row that starts with 1:
1 am, 2 am, 3 am, 4 am, 5 am, 6 am, 7 am, 8 am, 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 am, 1 pm , 2 pm , 3 pm , 4 pm , 5 pm , 6 pm , 7 pm , 8 pm , 9 pm , 10 pm , 11 pm , 12 pm

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Except that you don't just use it for whole hours. 12.01 is clearly post meridian, so it has to be PM if you wanna keep the meaning. With your example 12 am and 12.01 pm would either be one minute apart or you'd have to drop the whole meaning of am and pm, which would just make it an entirely arbitrary construct that's even more difficult to understand.

On the other hand, as a European I'm quite happy with 24h time keeping. This whole am-pm system is quite unnecessary.

[–] ChanSecodina 12 points 5 months ago

Not to defend 12hr time because it’s dumb as a bag of bricks, but 12:45pm is definitely past noon and having the time go from 12:00am to 12:01pm would be way too silly. Also, you can think of the moment between 11:59:59.999999~ as just before noon and 12:00:00.0000000001 as the first fraction of a second after noon if it helps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The US loves systems of measurement that make no sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Away and don't talk pish. Ok, 12pm sounds a bit odd, but it would be even more odd to say 12.05pm, 12.59pm then jump to 1am

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Day camp is a thing that lots of places do, but still 3 hours seems a tad short. It's usually a week. And not to mention it's usually not so tied to a place of work.

[–] scottmeme 56 points 5 months ago

Paying for your kid to be a wage slave lmfao

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Start early to train to work dead end jobs. This really says that this is the best you can do and that's fucking awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

$5.15 minimum wage. I know because I worked that then. Thousands per semester just in tuition. In state, public. Burgers would be $10k/yr full time. No one puts themselves through college like that. $900/mo is mostly rent at that point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It just depends. I did nearly the same thing but went to a really cheap college. Mine was a bit more recent and I was making 8.25 also in a really low cost of living area which makes a big difference for sure

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wtf is this real? How is this legal

[–] wander1236 15 points 5 months ago

The QR code leads to what looks to be a subdomain of the real CFA website that redirects to a closed Google Form

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Why wouldn't it be?
The better question is, why would any parent sign up for this?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ. Yet another reason not to eat there. I hope the kids wipe boogers over everything in the kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The clidren yearn for the mines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The WorkReform discussion on this is how you know that shit's run by glowies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just caught up on what a tankie is. What's a glowie now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it means like someone in the CIA. It might be more specific though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It's any member of a federal agency trying to control or trick into a felony members of weirdo internet communities.

It started as a right-wing term, because they're obsessed with the idea that all their terrorists can't really be terrorists, but it's atypically nonracist so it's spread beyond that.