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  • Yeah - I do find it odd when people say Facebook is dying, because it really isn't. Unless Zuckerberg pulls a Musk anytime soon, it isn't going anywhere - unlike Xitter, Facebook is an advertising juggernaught that makes more than enough money to keep itself afloat.

    And that's not even mentioning Facebook groups, news pages, business pages, the market place, etc.. they've got fingers in many different pies, and it shows.

    And even more, while it may not be popular amongst tech savvy folks, it is still insanely popular amongst regular folks. I for one can vouch that a significant proportion of my non-techy friends use either it or Instagram as their primary social media.

    Hell, that's why messenger is up there too - everyone has Facebook, so everyone has messenger, making it extremely convenient to message people you know. It's certainly why I use it a lot, it's where my friends are.

    Meta dominates social media even now - just look at your list. Of the top seven, over half of them are Meta.

  • We're always told the people at the bottom rung of society, the people doing "entry level" jobs just need to work harder and harder to earn a proper living...

    But how does that work really? Unlike a lot of high level jobs, none of these jobs just exist for the sake of existing, most of these "entry level" jobs are essential to society (we saw that much during the pandemic).

    Somebody has to do them or society just doesn't work, so don't the people doing these literally essential jobs deserve to be paid a fair living wage? They're working just as hard as the people above them, yet they're paid peanuts in comparison

  • Well somebody ought to tell them that they should maybe put that +1000% margin they make on their drugs into that rather than lining their pockets.

    God forbid the executives make a little less money - won't somebody think of those poor multi-millionaires! /s

  • Because it's worth knowing beforehand what a company is really like behind closed doors.

    Some companies are great, some suck in standard corporate fashion, but there are some out there that are exceptional in sucking...

    I'll use myself an example... the last company I worked for, our team was constantly given deadlines that were impossible to meet within work hours. The company basically refused to pay for what was essentially mandatory overtime required to catch up - wage theft by a different name.

    Fortunately my role allowed me to push back, but most of peers didn't - we were all straight out of university, some needed the money/job, but most just didn't know how to fight in the corporate environment.

    Not to mention that a few folks who did try to complain against the company conveniently found themselves fired for some miscellaneous breaches of contract. From what I heard, one was even fired based on their reaction to being told they were being dismissed - quite literally entrapment.

    If you're wondering why we didn't sue or anything like that, again we were all straight out of uni, we barely knew what our working rights were...

    Which is why Glassdoor was important - it was how most of these folks got word out about the company and tried to warn other potential candidates of what they were walking into.

    The company knew about it too because they posted multiple fake reviews to try to drown out the real ones. I know for a fact that if they were able to find out who posted these, they would have retaliated, likely in the form of litigation.

  • At the point where Putin can quite easily have any popular opposition stricken from the ballot, imprisoned, or worse still coincidentally fall from a building or endure some "freak accident", is there all that much use in pretending any opposition ever had a chance to win?

  • Exactly how do Glassdoor expect people to give earnest reviews of their employers (which is literally the core of their business) if those people can't trust Glassdoor to not to throw them under the bus when they give honest reviews of malicious employers?

    Talk about sabotaging your own business model - idiots.

  • God damn Tories. What do they know about “best interests of the child” that a doctor doesn't already know? Less than nothing is the answer.

    If a young person is suffering from gender dysmorphia to the point of considering gender affirmation procedures, then I think it'd be in their best interest to not exacerbate that condition. Delaying the onset of puberty via puberty blockers until they're at the age where that can legally consent to such procedures isn't exactly novel.

    Even if they eventually decide not to undergo those procedures, all you habr to do is take them off the blockers and they'd undergo puberty as normal. There's not all that much downside for an awful lot of upside for those in need.

  • Generally about every 4 years - I feel like it's the sweetspot between longevity and keeping up with the technology, plus that's usually around when updates stop and physical issues start

  • yea

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  • That's the hill Pope Francis is willing to die on? - that Gender ideology is the ugliest danger today?
    Not Russia's endless onslaught against the Ukrainian people or Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people?
    Pope Francis needs to get outside more often.

  • "Cleaner Fossil Fuels" my arse. There's no such thing.

    And in terms of money, are Exxon really expecting us to believe that they couldn't possibly shoulder the bill for even attempting to clean up the mess they're actively causing?

  • It would make sense for Israel to block aid workers from entering Gaza, because they don't want anybody to help the Palestinians, they want them wiped off the face of the planet and they're not exactly subtle about it

  • The absolute gut-punch at the end of Jurassic Bark still kills me every time - the only silver-lining is that Bender's Big Score gives Seymour the ending he always deserved

  • It's a crime that many people have to fight to merely exist then this piece of shit decides to rub it in by suggesting those folks eat cereal for dinner, as though that's a realistic or fair solution to the problem, especially while full well knowing he's going home to a 5-star dinner likely cooked by a private chef.

  • Yeah - but if you can show someone directly what you animated, that's far better than someone's review of what you animated. If a show is no longer available due to licensing, then the seas (or physical copies if you can find them) are the way to do that.

  • I dislike wayland

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  • Dude - you're either stupid enough to not realise the irony of what you've just said, or you're trolling. For your sake, I kinda hope it's the latter

  • Technically speaking yes, but that assumes they're treated the same. It's almost certain that if the executioners are under the illusion their anesthesia has worked, they're not going to do things in such a way as to minimise pain.

    Prisons seem determined to turn executions into torture sessions - and while the need for capital punishment can be debated all day, we can all agree that the death is supposed to be the punishment, not the procedure.

  • Of an overdose sure, but if they botch it the other way, there's a good possibility the prisoner never properly goes under or they wake up during the execution, either way experiencing the full pain of death.

    That I'd figure is the worse of the results, and likely the one that'd happen given these guys seem to have a knack for torturous executions.

  • If they can't properly enact what should've been a painless execution, how do you expect them to properly anesthetise someone?