If one employee sucks fire them. If all your employees suck maybe you should do something to attract better talent.

Oooo time for me to reveal my hottest take. Politicians are generally very underpaid. When a job puts you under a microscope, involves people yelling at you and inherently lacks job security it better be pretty well paid. And yet any electable, competent politician could turn around and make at least 2-3x as much (as they are making legitimately at least) doing something else and keep having weird sex without newspapers writing stories about them. No one who is rational and not evil would ever go into politics just for money of it so all that’s left is the corrupt, the truly dumb and the unpractical idealists.

If you want better politicians then pay for it. Give them all multi-million dollars salaries, ban them from stock exchange, and keep paying them even if they lose.

My last apartment (~2020) was at less than 30% occupancy and I was the only person living on my floor. Yay housing crisis.

My apartment before that was in an older Orthodox Jewish Ukrainian community that was very hostile to outsiders, and particularly my interracial relationship. The head door guard was especially racist. There was one other guy with a dog who was super nice and friendly we’d talk a bunch especially while walking. He was feeling as unwelcome as we were and they drove him out a few months before we got driven out.

Now, as a homeowner I’ve exchanged misdelivered packages with my neighbours and done trick or treating. I don’t really know their names but i recognize their faces. There was one guy that was a creep to the femmes of our building but he’s moved out thankfully, but it kinda spoilt the first impressions a bit.

It’s a bit blurry but that is definitely an NA plug in the background.

And you don’t do it why exactly? It’s Wikipedia after all

archive of the original NYT article here for reference.

Yet we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats. No employees — be they the people who answer customer calls or nurses who visit patients in their homes — should have to fear for their and their loved ones’ safety.

The subtle implication that all the vitriol is directed at front line workers instead of the executive team is infuriating and calculated.

Health care is both intensely personal and very complicated, and the reasons behind coverage decisions are not well understood. We share some of the responsibility for that. Together with employers, governments and others who pay for care, we need to improve how we explain what insurance covers and how decisions are made.

A hollow apology, the problems with US healthcare is not a communication problem.

Those were the only two sentences that aren’t just empty platitudes in my opinion, at least within what I can read for free.

This seems to be a very unhealthy mindset and also full of bullshit.

I have this fun strategy, I’ll save my charity money until there is a public call for action, then I dump a larger sum all at once.

For instance my work during covid set up a (money only) drive for a food bank that corporate would match. My bosses donated 200 a piece, until they noticed that I donated 1000, then they all found it in their hearts to donate 1000 too. Turned that 1000 bucks into about 8000.

I do have some reoccurring and misc donations.

People in those countries absolutelly aren’t going bankrupt due to being denied life-saving treatment and having to pay for it from their own pocket.

The meme has an “or” in it though. About 20% of Canadian bankruptcy is due to health and illness. Here in Canada the maximum disability is ~1500cad a month, which might pay your rent if you live in a really really cheap area. Part of the reason it’s bad like that is because it is so often compared to America, and often greatly exaggerated like in this meme.

It’s a long way from over, a lot more can happen.

Ok but gingerbread is cooked, cooked human flesh smells good ignoring where it came from, from what I hear.

But that is almost worse if you think about it.

do gingerbread men make miniture houses out of brick and mortar during the holidays?

Is nan an acronym for something on the asexual spectrum, a typo for man or are you saying grandma’s can’t get it on?

Great idea! So long as the current safety laws for aviation are followed. That would disqualify most people from flying and dramatically reduce the number of personal vehicles in use.

There’s a lot of cool science stuff on tik tok too.

I know of this largely abandoned project: https://github.com/dmadisetti/steam-tui

I believe that while steam has public APIs for most stuff but there’s no way for a 3rd party client to provide DRM authentication, so the majority of games will not launch unless you also have the official steam client installed (note that steam does have a cli client)., rendering any 3rd party apps either simple wrappers for steam or severely limited.

we had bad luck Brian, now say hello to bad karma Brian.

there’s plenty of “ugly” games here’s some I’ve played recently that came out this year:

• UFO 50: A collection of new games in the style (mechanically and visually) of the 8bit games. 8 bit graphics
• Balatro: A GOTY nominee, it’s a roguelike that is extremely loosely based on poker. modern pixel art style static images
• Children of the sun: a puzzle game where you are a sniper that bends and deflects bullets to kill whole rooms of people with 1 bullet. Graphics are pretty imo but not advanced.
• Echo Point Nova: a movement focused shooter. games plays on a potato. There is technically a a ray tracing option, but I think it’s more of a future proofing thing/a personal interest of the dev.

Ironically street signage is generally one of the more regulated forms of advertising. Those guys that spin signs were originally there to get around those laws.