Digitalprimate @ RecursiveParadox @lemmy.world

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Yeah, no. Crude and coal are still 95% USD denominated, and that's more than half Russia's exports.

I would I would! But I cannot seem to find a decent one since Google killed theirs! What's a good one?

I could keep up with so much more when I used RSS.

Yeah I saw this over on Mastodon, and there were a lot of stats folks questioning the methodology. I'm not qualified to do that, but my sons are Zoomers as are all their male friends, and they are all good feminists. This is in NW Europe, so might be a bit biased.

I think you're confusing the poor FBI guy reading our conversation ;)

Generics are required to be as efficacious as name brand in the US.

Let me introduce you to the way the FDA actually works.

Lots of stuff is easy to DIY if you have some work space. Furniture, fish tanks, thermonuclear warheads. Learning to sew is valuable, not because you should make your own clothes -fuck that- but because you can mend the stitching on your current clothes.

One of those things is not like the other....

Not related to the article, totally anecdotal, and n=1, but it seems Google Maps has really dropped the ball as well.

Not going to downvote you since I use iTunes for streaming, but when they changed their policy a few years ago about DRM, they fucking deleted about 20 songs I wrote and recorded solo or with my bands. My friends had backups, but man that sucked. So beware, I suppose.

The team I manage are Millennials and Gen Z (I'm a slightly older Xer, born a couple of weeks before Kurt Cobain).

Here is a problem some folks might not have considered that doesn't really have anything to do with the "nature" of the younger generations. I fight very hard for flexible hours, better compensation, scheduling flexibility, etc. I do not tell my folks how to do something, I leave that to them, and they'll generally find a better way than the way I initially imagined. Someone needs a day off or to come in/leave at a different time or to WFH, I never ask why.

And generally our CEO has given me what I want, and I can give my people what they want. Admittedly, this is in part due to the nature of what my team does and the visible quality of our work (not IT, btw). So far so good.

The problem is other managers. Other Xers and a couple of Boomers. They see my department getting all this stuff, and they start getting paranoid their departments (or other companies; we are a conglomerate) will start demanding the same. And they do not understand WFH, worse they are afraid of it. Likewise with all the QoL and work/life balance stuff. And if their people found out about the raises my people got, oh boy would that be a problem for the other managers.

That's often where the real fight inside companies is, between managers vying with each to determine which way the company will go, or to, at least, to keep their part of it a nice ecosystem to work in. Fear of change is a big factor.

Had not heard of this technique being applied outside qualitative research (although its goal is the opposite of qualitative research, the methods are near identical). Thanks for introducing me to this.

Now. We just need to find one, just one billionaire on our side to fund it.

Quality knives do not have to be super expensive. The trick is to maintain them. Honing of course, and unless you are a super enthusiastic home cook, a proper sharpening by a pro on Japanese wet stone twice a year is all it takes. That's like at most USD 20 in most places, probably less. Even mid range knives are fine, so long as you keep them sharp.

And you don't need a lot. In theory a good chefs knife and a good paring knife will do. In practice, you also want a bread knife and filleting knife, but you can start small.

arc'teryx for life.

"If you saw someone stealing food, no you didn't."

Broadcasting "no contact Israel" or similar is novel. Broadcasting "armed guards aboard" has been going on for at least a decade.

A 3.5mm for mixing? I'm with you on all the other stuff, but that's garbage without RCA.

Totally agree about Obama's well intentioned but ultimately disastrous attempt to reach across the aisle. He had two miraculous years to change it all, and blew it on trying to reconcile two utterly incompatible views of what America should be. Noble, but in the end foolish.

If you are right, it won't really matter who takes the blame. Part of me thinks you are right, but the better part of me is still fighting.

Long story short, I don’t know that I consider Biden a pragmatic alternative at this point.

I get you, and you're not wrong with the rest of what you wrote. The R's have had a coherent game plan since Nixon and executed on it well enough (and had enough lucky accidents) to engineer exactly this kind of election.

The choice is whether or not the US continues as a representative democracy. This time it's no hyperbole; it's a truly binary decision for the future. And I'm afraid unless the D's grow a real backbone, every election for the foreseeable future is going to be a response to an existential threat.

But the R's cannot win. On this we can all agree.

I forgave his sins and allowed myself to miss him. The magpies in my back garden agreed with this.

Me either but as a CIS Het dude, I may be unlikely to notice it. Can anyone tell me more? Serious question, want to be part of the solution here.

Nothing to add here, but wanted OP to know I saved this post for all the good info people are giving.