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Gosh, really? Did they just move out there? How did they get there? Are there many of them? Eye opening stuff!

The existence... of the nation ... of Taiwan ... is a ridiculous conservative conspiracy theory?

My man, I've been there. It existed! Go figure

I have very few writing tasks that don't require careful consideration, so it's not super useful in my day to day. But it can be helpful to get the ball rolling on an outline or first draft so I'm not staring at a blank sheet of paper.

How are those things related? There's a wide spectrum between "right wing wacko" and "tankie nutjob".

Ooh maybe he can form a third party and field a bunch of candidates for the senate!

For sure, but the fine wasn't for noncompliance, it was for three days of noncompliance. Pushing that to a week would have cost him over $10m, pushing it to two weeks would have been almost a billion dollars

Iirc this fine started at $50k and each day of noncompliance. Another fine 2x the size of the prior days fine was added.

So noncompliance for another day would have cost another $400k, then $800k, then $1.6m, and so on. By day 30 of noncompliance, the fine would be over $5 billion.

It can't, so this must not be part of the PRC's territory! :)

It's a good objective, but it would take a lot to make it happen. It's significantly more challenging for tech workers to effectively unionize en masse for several reasons:

• Tech isn't monopsonistic, or even close to it; there isn't a single large employer... even the biggest tech companies employ only a relatively small fraction of the tech workforce. That means separate unionization efforts at thousands of big companies, not at one.
• Tech job functions are much more widely varied than "delivery driver"; job responsibilities differ greatly, complexity and education requirements differ greatly, workplace expectations differ greatly ... think of the difference between help desk, front end dev, network security engineering, data science and DBA. Collective bargaining is harder the more varied the needs of the collective are.
• Job mobility is really high in the tech sector ... in other words, tech employees (by and large) have access to many prospective employers (especially with the prevalence of remote work), and tech employers to a wide geographic pool of talent. That means if your San Francisco office seems on the path to unionization, you can shift work to your Chennai office.
• It also means that, when the working conditions at a tech company suck, a lot of tech workers can easily jump ship. It's hard to get a union going when your voters can easily quit and go work someplace nicer, rather than take the more difficult path of staying and trying to force your employer to improve.

Again, I think highly of unions and would really like to see more effective unionization efforts in tech -- I just want folks to go into it eyes wide open and intelligently, vs throwing up their hands and saying, "Why don't tech workers unionize?"

Portuguese, there's a few hundred million speakers of Portuguese in South America.

I suppose I should have included French and made it four ... there's Quebec, but also Martinique, French Guiana, and so on. Maybe 10-15 million all in all?

Vs. ~450m for Spanish, ~400m for English and ~300m for Portuguese.

Right? People are forgetting that we've got essentially three languages in the entire hemisphere.

You speak three languages in Europe? Congrats you speak 12% of the commonly spoken / national languages.

Speak one language in the Americas? Congrats, you speak 1/3 of them!

These bills are intended to make it harder for anyone to look at porn online. There are plenty of tools parents can employ to make it harder for their own kids to see porn -- that's where the responsibility belongs.

Sent an application in!

Went to see the Barbie movie a couple days ago. This woman had brought her 2-3 year old kid, who started crying.

... so she turned on an iPad and started playing an episode of Paw Patrol for the kid.

I told the staff, they warned her ... twice... then eventually escorted her out. I guess the ladies behind her had told her to hush, because she threatened to wait for them in the parking lot and "beat their sorry asses."

Which she did (wait, that is... the cops came and escorted those ladies home).

I've never seen such total dedication to being an asshole.

I am blessed, in that I tan easily to become quite dark, and so I don't burn often.

...but no amount of sunscreen protects my bald head from eventually burning. Luckily, hats!

Just watched it, gotta say I really enjoyed it. I thought it was smart and fun -- I am not super familiar with the toys but I feel like if I were, there would have been a lot of Easter eggs.

I keep forgetting you have to comment or post to be considered active

Exactly. "Pay people enough, " is table stakes. It's good business strategy and it's a basic moral duty. "Grossly over pay people, " is probably not good business strategy; even if you do, it isn't going to make up for being a shitty place to work

Yep. It's why companies can offer ridiculous salaries and still have crazy employee churn (see: amazon, tesla).

Right... "perform an actual exit interview" would be good