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My current workplace has an official policy of flexing hours for salaried employees. Which is exactly what you just described: if you work time outside of your regular hours, take comp time off for it. And my supervisor is probably the best boss I've ever had, she's super respectful of our team's time and work-life balance so we don't even need to run flex time by her. As long as we mark it on our calendars we can just do whatever. A good boss makes such a huge difference.

I'm also 9-5 salaried, hybrid with 1-2 days in office each week and the rest from home. It's very nice.

Salaried can be a double-edged sword. The occasional self-motivated "I actually really need to get this done" is no big deal, but some workplaces will pile work onto salaried workers with no respect for work-life balance. So you're left with either not getting your work done and feeling stress because you can't keep up, or regularly working extra hours for free so you feel stress because you don't have enough personal time. What kind of job it is can depend really heavily on your direct supervisor and general workplace culture. I had to suffer through a few of the bad kind of salaries positions before I lucked into finding a good one.

You have to recognize how absurdly fucked this logic is, right? "You have to vote for the guy currently in office who is actively supporting and supplying genocide or else you support genocide."

I'm not saying don't vote, but I am saying that if you want to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you then you need to find a different tactic.

This is probably just my layperson showing, but I honestly wouldn't be all that afraid of a cheetah. If I were in that situation in any other big cat habitat I would be absolutely terrified. Smaller cats like lynx I wouldn't really be afraid for my life but I would be fearful of attack and injury.

Cheetah I wouldn't really feel much fear, more just confusion about what I'm supposed to do. They really don't have the same cat software that all the others have. Much more chill.

Let's be real, if Israel succeeded in a full genocide of all Palestinians in the region Biden would still be defending them saying they still haven't crossed the red line because Palestinians still exist in our memories.

This shit is unacceptable. Made all the worse that they think they can get away with it simply because of the man they helped put into power. I fucking hate this country.

While true, it's also true that cats of all sizes behave very similarly. Cheetahs are probably the least similar to the other cats.

If you've had pet cats and gotten to know their behavior, it's remarkable how familiar the behavior of big cats can be.

Yep, that sure is a word from my comment.

These violent delights have violent ends.

No sorry, I didn't mean the image was AI generated. I interpreted the person in the image as being the employee correcting AI mistakes, but because of their hands they don't correct any of the deformed hands in other AI image gen.

I'm getting a kick out of this hypothetical person responsible for correcting AI mistakes looking at AI image gen with deformed hands and saying "looks fine to me, totally normal."

I sincerely doubt anyone at that zoo didn't suffer a severe emotional loss that day. That was an awful situation, and while I do think the zoo has the blame it is not because of their decision that day. For the employees, the death of an animal at a zoo can easily cause grief akin to the death of a family member or pet, depending on how closely they worked with the animal.

Once that child was in the enclosure they really didn't have time to try out different options that may have aggravated Harambe. Any option, including the lethal one, presented a risk to the child. They chose the option they thought gave the best chance to save the child.

Where the zoo has blame is the design of the habitat such that a child could just crawl in. I know they've learned from their terrible mistake and changed the design, but they really should have known better in 2016.

The bunnies in my neighborhood appreciate this very much.

For better or worse, my local/state government doesn't consider them noxious weeds because they're so firmly established that we can never get rid of them.

But if they open that book and actually read and understand it

Then they'd risk not believing anymore, and a lot of Christians are aware of this on some level so they choose ignorance.

Speaking as one, a lot of ex-Christian atheists started their journey by simply wanting to know more about their religion. Then somewhere along the way they realized it was getting harder to believe. But once you peel back that outer layer you can't easily put it back.

I'm pretty sure the age and gender in that table is just showing the frequency of the ages in the sample, not a crosstab of age or gender with personification/anthropomorphism.

So that's saying their autistic population skewed younger than their non-autistic population. Which isn't unsurprising, it's a lot easier to get a diagnosis as a child, and generally easier to get diagnosed now compared to a few decades ago. So people over 35 or so are going to just be less likely to have had the opportunity for diagnosis. The authors do address differences in gender representation between the samples but I don't see age addressed specifically. It could just be that younger people tend to personify/anthropomorphize more, so since the sample of people with autism skewed pretty heavily towards the 16-24 group the results could instead be displaying differences by age. I don't think they quite have the sample size to delve into age too much. I think they'd only be able to get away with doing two groups at 34 & under and 35+. That would be a good start though.

This is also a heavily self-selected population, apparently largely from social media. I'm always automatically skeptical of social media sampling.

I would've liked to see a little more detail about exactly which tests and assumptions they were using. The gender difference looks like they did a t-test, but it's left to the reader to assume they ran a two-tailed t-test. They could easily have bolstered their numbers by reporting the one-tailed test.

Oh nice, I picked this up a while back to play on Steam Deck. Very nice 2D Minecraft/Terraria-esque sandbox game. Looks like I'll be starting a new playthrough for 1.0. 😁

Someone posed a very ill-formed question that results in no winners. "Would you rather find yourself in the woods with a bear or a man?"

The argument is almost designed to make men feel discriminated against and women feel like men don't listen to them. There's just enough room for everyone to bring in their own assumptions about the situation to justify their position, so everyone else feels defensive.

The only winner is the bear.

Sorry, I didn't have a chance to get back on Lemmy until now. Bit of a now-or-never situation. The housing market is absolutely bonkers where I live (maybe where you live too, from your username). We had both made big leaps in salary recently that put the monthly payment in the barely-doable range, and her parents had some fixed funds available to help with the down payment.

Both the gift money and our salaries were going to be outpaced by the housing market if we waited, and interest rates were already on the post-COVID rise. I don't think it was a terrible financial decision in the long run, because at least now we're building equity and the house value will rise with the market. But until we sell (which we won't be able to afford to for a long time), those assets aren't liquid, so our month-to-month finances are a lot tighter than when we were renting. Which makes the repair work from the dipshit former owners hurt a lot more since it's gonna take a long time to recover from big financial hits.

My wife and I were able to buy a ridiculously priced starter home only because we had the privilege of her parents being able to help with the down payment. We had to move farther away from work than where we were renting just to be able to even consider homes.

Our mortgage is twice what our rent was, and we only gained about ~100 sq ft of interior space. Plus a whole host of problems because the previous owners were jackasses who DIYed everything and did it all wrong.

The ways of compression artifacts are mysterious.