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It's one good thing to have on a resume, sure, but another is the skillset itself. For example, I work with a highly specialized software, so I frequently get messaged with interview offers on LinkedIn because I show up every time employers search for that specific software.

That's a fair point. You're correct that my point is that the equation should be balanced, but you're understating the reality with the statement "unfortunately it usually isn't."

I put in 4 hours of work last week, though my employer thinks I put in 40. In those 4 hours of work I started and finished a project for the company that will earn over $100k in gross profit. It ended up being almost exactly 1.5x my yearly salary. Just by putting in the absolute minimum effort I'm already earning my company more in a week than they pay me in a year. And I don't even work for a large company. I'd imagine corporate giants have an even greater divide.

I'm not responsible for worrying about whether I benefit the company; most companies have gotten so good at maximizing profits while minimizing costs that even the most layabout worker earns them significantly more money than they cost to employ. My only thought is about how I can do as little as possible while still ensuring management continues to think I'm being productive.

I turned down the promotion they offered me. It was significantly more work, required me to come back to the office, and only offered a 10% pay raise. It doesn't matter where your "standing" in the company is - if you're indispensable, you can fight for good pay even outside of managerial roles.

I get paid way more than my coworkers, and even my supervisor, because when I got hired I immediately made a bunch of random tools in google sheets that only I know how to maintain, and spread them around until everyone was using them. Before long, I was essential to my department, and praised for going "above and beyond" even though I was mostly just dicking around making the tools rather than doing my actual job.

I have 0 coding experience, so the tools are absolutely horrendous behind the scenes, but that just means that they break pretty often, and people are reminded that only I know how to fix them. So, when I went looking around on LinkedIn for other offers after a few years, I eventually got one that was paying way more since it was in a major metro area, and I took it back to my manager to negotiate a 50% raise and a full-remote designation that virtually nobody else in my office is given.

You don't get ahead by working hard, and you don't get ahead by working smart to benefit the company, you get ahead by working smart to benefit yourself. Think about it this way - if you're at the store to buy bananas, and you see that they're selling bananas for $0.05 ea, you'll likely think "Wow, that's a great deal!" and buy a bunch of those bananas at the $0.05 price. You're not going to pay them the price you think would be fair for a banana, you're going to take advantage of the price you're allowed to pay so that you can save money. Your employer sees you - working for less than you're worth - as a $0.05 banana. You're nothing more than a cheap commodity they were lucky to snag on sale.

I don't know much about Helium, so I'm a bit confused... What's to stop us from purifying grade 4 further into 4.7 and beyond besides cost? If the only thing stopping us is cost, then it's not inaccurate to say that, regardless of grade, the non-renewable element of Helium is being used in frivolous ways because it makes more money to find profitable ways to use the lower-grade helium than to actually further purify and conserve it for more important usage.

It's good, but we're not good for doing it. We're acting like tyrants - supplying the guns that kill their friends and loved ones with one hand, and supplying the food that keeps them alive with the other. We're playing with their lives, saving or condemning them on a whim. I always felt I'd have done something if I'd been a German during WWII, but here I am doing nothing but posting on social media as if that's any better than "Thoughts and Prayers."

Yeah, it seems to me that Democrats are in a pretty nice position for themselves - they can claim to be for the people, while lamenting that they're unable to make the big changes that the people want due to conservatives holding them back. If they didn't have that excuse, they might actually need to coordinate those changes, which they likely don't want to do.

I'm a bit of a noob about privacy, but wouldn't preventing people from knowing you're using Tor be pretty important? I know that, among people who know of Tor, but don't know much about it, the use of Tor alone is generally associated with criminal activity, and often conjures up imagery of worse things than just piracy.

If I were to tell my friends I was thinking of using Tor, and I didn't immediately have a good explanation of what I'd use it for beyond "privacy," then they'd think I was into some nasty shit. I'd imagine the ISPs, and anyone else they might give/sell their info to, would be suspicious of anyone logged to be using Tor.

Correct, which is why I didn't use the word "trisomy" when referring to the translocation case. My point is that, even in that situation, the condition is caused by the presence of the translocated piece of chromosome 21 in addition to 2 normal copies. It's not referred to as a trisomy, as many times only part of the entire chromosome is translocated, but the functional cause of the condition is the same. So, when writing a paper for the general population, it's not a stretch to call Down Syndrome and Trisomy 21 synonymous.

It doesn't matter if you're blind or not if you're not going to bother to look. Most people simply don't assess their media for underlying messages. They see Professor X as the good guy and Magneto as a bad guy, and don't think any more about them. They don't ask how or why they can be identified as the protagonist/antagonist, they just identify the general alignment and that's it.

If it was realistic to expect people to do that, fast food wouldn't be the enormous moneymaker it is.

Ah, my mistake. I'm surprised people can be so publicly selfish as to actively strike against the notion that there should be a greater amount of people who can save lives...

This is like how American schools are authorizing unqualified people to be teachers to "resolve" the teacher shortage. It's not "empowering," it's a dangerous short-term solution that they're choosing over fixing the actual issue because that would require making actual positive change.

Because in that scenario you need to think about where to eat, and you need to wait a few minutes for the burger. People go to fast food places because they immediately recognize the logos and know they can eat there without having to think about it, and they'll happily pay more money for a worse product if they can get it right now without having to leave their car. And they'll happily pay this higher price for the same reason. And they'll view the normal price as being the "cheaper" price and probably go more often during the off-peak hours to "save money" as well. It's a win-win-win for Wendy's.

America has been emphasizing convenience over all else for decades for this exact reason. It's cheaper and more lucrative for a company to provide a quick, easy product than a better quality one, so they just shoved advertisements into our faces until we were collectively convinced that that's what we want, too.

"Let them eat flakes."

Definitely. Aside from sex chromosome trisomies which often have such little impact that they may go entirely undiagnosed, trisomy 21 is by far the least severe. Trisomy 13 and 18 are usually unviable pregnancies, and when they do survive until birth, they're severely disabled and often don't survive to their first year of life.

Well, Down Syndrome is always caused by a 3rd copy of chromosome 21. Sometimes it's translocated, attached to another chromosome, but the extra DNA is still there. A mosaic, where some cells have the trisomy and some don't, can also result in Down Syndrome, but again, it's caused by the extra DNA in those cells that have it. There are other conditions caused by trisomies of chromosome 13 or 18, or of the sex chromosomes, but those aren't Down Syndrome.

I don't see any sugar. This guy made lemon juice instead of lemonade - no wonder life keeps giving him more lemons.

Best I can do is whooping cough.

I'm really looking forward to it. The only reason I don't enjoy souls games is because I hate their gloomy emo setting, so this looks right up my alley.