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  • Then the OP is pointless. It speaks to employee quality. If that isn't in any way useful in the context, the question is dumb. It wouldn't matter how motivated that employee was, so why mention it.

    So either quality counts, or layoffs are entirely based on luck, often firing the best of them all. Sounds like you are coping. Quality almost always matters. And the smallest things can save your ass.

    Even in a game with odds as bad as the lottery, you still have to play it to win.

    In your educated opinion, what are layoffs based on? Can't be random. So what? Race? Gender? Age? Everything but performance? Because who cares about performance. Just fire someone, Fred. Anyone.

  • It is just mentioned. Just a description of what happened. What's wrong about saying it was a white male when it was a white male? Why jump to the opinion that mentioning the gender or complexion has any other purpose than being descriptive?

  • Possibly because many users coming to Lemmy are pissed off by something. It's not a platform for fun users, but for grumpy old cats wanting their unachievable utopian discussion forum, where all behave the same as they do. ;)

    Criticise lemmy and prepare for downvotes deluxe.

  • It is not really an alternative. So many people here complaining about quality, and the constant desire for this not to become the new Reddit.

    But that's exactly what it needs to become. A place where mindless users can post the same silly crap every day, without getting shit for it. And without being rattled by entitled mods that feel they should be compensated for doing what they want to do.

    Let communities talk and mods just be mods, not critics.

  • Some would say that most of the spending is based on greed. Individual salaries doubled to tripled in the last decade, with their head earning three quarters of a million now.

    It was a tenth 15 years ago.

    They started out right, like they all do. Then personal money catches up.

  • Well, that's why you guys are allowed to bear arms, right? In case the cops and government get all crazy? Isn't that the whole reason for the gun thing? So, go strike. Wait for cops. If they open fire, take them down. Mobilize more people, because the military is next. See what happens. Defend your rights. Don't just pose around with a shotgun in your truck.

  • Probably language barrier. That figure of speech is not the easiest for Germans to grasp.

    The first thing coming to mind is “we tried to add a checkbox, but failed, it just wouldn't work”

    To my German mind, failing means “trying and not managing it, giving up in the end.”

    Failing to so somehing by forgetting doesn't really make sense. :) How can you fail something you've never attempted.

    It's just a figure of speech, I know.

  • I'm not gravitating to that first at all. The other side of the story has been already told. I'm just saying what if. And things like that have happened. Why woulda nyone jump to the conclusion that it might be my first thought? It's my last one. But one that has to be completely discussed and dismissed. Innocent until proven guilty. That article didn't even hint at the possibility, it is an atrocity of journalism.

  • Is it possible that the girls wanted to get rid of the father of their friend, spiked their own smoothies, and now an honest man is being pitchforked?

    Did that man do anything else than being present? Playing with the girls? Taking part in the sleepover? Did he have the drugs on hand? Did any of the girls have access to that drug at all? Was there a grudge?

    How single-sided can this reporting be?

    But after reading the initial article, yeah, probably a predator. Still. A thorough investigation should take place. There are well-meaning and involved people who don't have an interest in abuse. It's still possible the daughter was sick of her hyper-involved dad, and planned the whole thing. :')

  • You are right in principle. New words can pop up. Them being accepted however is not just a matter of a few people using them and saying that it is so.

    It's about usage and being accepted in larger groups or areas. Language is defined by what's surviving a generation or two. Everything else is slang.

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  • I guess I would also answer that with controversial opinion.

    They don't want a better platform. Reddit does exactly what they want it to do. To generate tons of discussions about the same things, over and over again. To generate loads of different feelings and situations. To create a very diverse pool of data.

    They might have started out with a good ideology, but then success came.

    I like to compare it with Quora. It could have been the best site of its kind. But it served its purpose, being a feed-bucket for an AI, and now it's not even moderated anymore. And they did pay their users and mods, but it didn't work out, too many tiny transactions, only like a handful of people got anything, and those abused it like crazy.

    Just my take on it. Such payment models won't work. A few giants will earn the majority, and they will cheat and fight for it, the rest will still get nothing. They could have taken three thirds of that CEO money to create a few resident jobs. But why bother, Reddit is exactly how they want it to be. Most users just don't realize the pseudo-scam, believing it's their favorite discussion platform that they can influence, while the creators have a content-generator with free labor in mind.

  • After twenty years on Steam, I've been asked three times to participate in the survey on my gaming setup, and on three occasions I played on Windows. No survey in the last five years while using Linux. :)

    I've got it twice on my work laptop, where I used it just for the messenger, back when I ran an active community for a game.

    Not sure if I want to trust that data.