My wife, newly hired, was asked to un-blur her camera during a routine meeting to confirm her I9 information. This seems like a violation to me?
No they are not fine in any sense. If they are true, they are awful, but in order to prove them, we need a better source. A PRIMARY source. Some corroborating evidence. Give us something more than 3 layers of hearsay which would be beyond inadmissible in court.
Although you are reciting a source, your source is so indirect and unproven that you're basically dancing on the line of defamation (although of course no one could give enough of a shit to sue).
If you alledge those things, you better have a good reason and at least a handful of evidence. Otherwise you are doing a disservice to every woman out there trying to prove awful allegations, because she has to fight all the mistrust you are building up.
*colonoscopies of life
I think there's a few things in your response that trigger alarm bells.
First of all, it sounds like your environment is awful. Can you try to change things just a bit? Step by step? Identify what exactly it is (if it's family, try to get some distance to them (try to not hang around them if you can, etc.), if it's friends, try to go out and do your own thing for a bit and maybe try to approach new ppl, if it's school, talk to someone you trust and maybe figure out a solution where you can get some help there.
In general if you can, maybe therapy could help. If it's a permanent thing, and that's what it sounds like, a therapist can help you find solutions to deal with it.
What's kind of odd to me is that you say it's the little things that contribute a lot. Now having a bad day is not odd, but if it's one of the reasons you have a bad life rn, that's odd. I would look into why this still affects you in that magnitude. This something else you could talk with a therapist about.
I know that if you have good mental health usually these small things shouldn't throw you off, they are just a bit annoying. That's basically how usually ppl deal with it.
Now mind you I'm def not judging, I let small things get to me as well, but I'm in therapy for related issues and that's why I know I will improve.
And the thing with social media: basically, there's infinite good things and infinite bad things on social media. But the response to bad things is much stronger than it is too good things, that's why social media has a bias to display bad things (news, etc). So either limiting social media usage can be good, or you can try to curb news and stuff to get less of a skewed view. I did the same - I completely removed my reddit account (which tends to have a more pessimistic user base) and on Lemmy I started unfollowing a lot of news communities. It's just more healthy for me to see more neutral and positive things.
So yeah I hope I could help you. And always remember, as long as you believe it will get better, it will. Your brain has an amazing ability to reinforce positive thinking patterns if you concentrate on them and this in turn makes you behave more positively towards others and therefore can actively help you on your conquest to change your environment. Wish I could link you studies on this rn but I can only give you the good ole trust me bro guarantee.
Good luck on making a change, I believe if you do you can be a big positive influence for others :)
The best reason to help others is because you are selfish and you like the feeling of helping someone else.
Because it means there is an endless supply of motivation to do the right thing.
Is this the US? Because iirc there's some workplace injury stuff in some EU countries, where the company might be liable and so they might need to advise you to do certain things to prevent injury if you work remotely.
Not trying to take the wind out of your sails, just making ppl aware.
A lot of the bigger songs from Bleachers
One of the newer ones is "Tiny Moves", but also older ones like "Stop Making This Hurt" or "Don't Take the Money"
The older songs from Billie Eilish like "I don't wanna be you anymore"
Johnny Yukon has makes me move as well, with "lights camera action" for example
I should mention Beck as well, one of the artists that stuck around for an eternity and still makes bangers
And then a lot of smaller ones like Jacob Banks, Gallant, Oscar Anton, Paper Idol, Nothing but Thieves, Ellis, ...
I just love music:)
And there's this whole thing with correlation and causation.
In the midst of a million different other potential causes, they are identifying "masculine fragility" as the big contributor to depression? Not missing data points, not social media, not the momentum of societal change in the last 30y, not socioeconomic factors, potential comorbidities as contributors, increasingly inflammatory politics, globalization as a whole, ...
It's so dumb to single this out. Sure some people need more confidence, but being "more masculine" sounds like the worst plan ever to gain healthy confidence. If you have problems with your confidence there's usually other factors at play and the most efficient way to improve is to seek a therapist and sort your life or your brain out.
Same goes for dating by the way. A million factors that are potentially contributing to that one, and that's a two player game, so even more factors to consider.
I imagine that if the DA tried to do this often enough, it could lead to a mistrial and possible disciplinary action.
You are 100% that at some point they would have been reprimanded by the judge and other counsel would have at least asked for a mistrial, although disciplinary action is very much more rare, as the bar reserves it for the more outrageous ethical misconduct like with Tom Girardi or Alex Murdough (not sure about spelling).
It actually happens a lot that counsel does improper stuff, but usually they keep it to a minimum. But it also heavily depends on how strict the judge is.
In the end, every trial is a new constellation with different dynamics and you never know what will happen, as is custom with juries as well.
But yeah to get back to get on topic, the jury is the one deciding and the judge is trying to make sure the jury only decides on the facts. Deciding what facts is trying to keep the trial fair to both parties. And making jurors disregard testimony is done in the hopes the jury will try to ignore it or at least not consider it for their decision.
And what you are saying makes it clear that it definitely works to some degree. I would love to know how well it works, but that is a different question, although we can assume it works reasonably well considering we're still doing it and these things are researched in the form of jury experiments every once in a while.
Yes. I didn't list blender because blender is kind of a unique case. An open source tool that basically slowly became industry standard? That's a 1 in a million from what I've seen. But: as soon as you get professional, like I said, all the plugins and additional software will cause headaches, provided it works at all. The tools I listed there afaik do not have native support / are very unstable on Linux, although I haven't confirmed it.
But yeah I get your point, and it is quite the accomplishment to the blender devs that they made it this far, tho it is not the rule.
Yes and people sell Linux to my like "either it works out of the box or it takes like 1google search" and that's polar opposite from my longer experience on Linux.
For work I had to set up an Ubuntu VM. Ubuntu is one of the most stable OS variants. But: it literally started throwing system application errors after 2h from a fresh install. We thought it was a one time thing or that we did something wrong so we tried again. The OS disk image was official and our VM Software was Virtual box. Both are supposed to be stable. And still, the OS started crying 2h in every time.
Or another time where I had to find scanner drivers and I lost it. 5h of searching and tinkering, I had to rewrite scripts I found which didn't work, had to add package manager repositories to my system, and try to look for 15y+ old forum posts which get very technical but also not really in depth. For a fucking scanner.
And then that time aI wanted to install some software (I think maybe Skype) from the official Ubuntu store. But it just wouldn't work. Everyone else apparently had no issues online. Everyone except for me. Tried to install it through downloading an archive and when that didn't work I installed it through the terminal apt-get. It still wouldn't work iirc.
Or that time I had an Ubuntu VM for like half a year and applications started to hang and the system started getting random issues.
Or that time Linux system just threw errors on every system upgrade (same happened to updates).
This is a reoccurring thing and this toxic Linux positivity will only make more people mad when things are not as promised and they realize they are fucked.
Yeah wtf
- Try producing decent music on Linux: run into issues with DAWs and plugins.
- try 3d anything more advanced on Linux: any fluid or gas simulation gets annoying real quick (real flow, Houdini, vray, octane)
- try layouting / handout design on linux: yeah let's hate on Adobe (and I do think they deserve it) but let's also realize most of the industry runs on their tools and Linux makes it complicated
Either you sacrifice money and freedom, or you sacrifice time and sanity. And I'm sorry, if I wanna do multiple of those things there's no way around mac or windows. I wish it was different, but it isn't and we gotta be realistic here.
And yes I see y'all shouting that there's a way for all of those things through workarounds but: for every one of those that works for me, there just as many that don't work, than just as many that restrict me in different ways, just as many that require documentation that I have to pull out of my ass cause it's not online, and just as many that make me look for the toenail of a harpy and sauron's tears to work.
Linux is not a direct alternative to windows, but it's a lifestyle and a commitment and I'm not out here trying to make it my personality, I want software to work in less than a month of me deciding to install it.
I can see the down votes rolling in on this but I'm tired of ppl selling their lifestyle instead of their OS.
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Just to explain more of this "approximate amount of fingers": you might have seen this in the wild, imagine the AI starting out with white noise, and then slowly brushing over different parts to add different things the model would expect. There's gonna be areas where the AI expects "heads" and "limbs" and finally "fingers". But it's more like a texture. Those AIs have no direct concept of what the right amounts are for animals and humans. That's why they paint "finger texture" in about the right spot and move on, and of course that's gonna look weird 50% of the time.
There's actually specific techniques modern AIs use to make sure any human or animal has the right amount of limbs and stuff because the AI on it's own would never learn how to do this well otherwise. With text it's really similar btw., although at least you can see the AI nailing the type of font before failing at coherent text. New AIs do a separate pass to recognize specific text in the prompt and then manually add that after the base sampling process iirc.
AIs are so interesting on many levels and the more you learn about them, the more respect you gain for artists and how much work goes into a piece of art. And it also really puts in perspective that (my opinion) AI will never completely replace artists. Our expertise on arts is just too strong so for the foreseeable future AIs will just be a solid helper to every artist at most.
My own playlists (don't wanna be annoying and advertise them rn) but also a few of those official Spotify indie playlists are great for discovering great new indie songs. A lot of small artists in there that you wouldn't find otherwise:D
Here's a link to one of them (I hope it works): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXdbXrPNafg9d?si=dk9YuhYvS0udyqsc5R6rvw&pi=kcVmqlzCTMWDa
NGL I thought it was win11 first I had to do a double take.
/\ that's the more formal way of addressing either a single person or multiple (yeah, this formal pronoun is a bit weird and can be read multiple ways). If you wanna address a group of people more informally: "Welche Sprachen sprecht ihr?".
No notes on your German. It sounds more formal than when I'd tell a friend but it def sounds right to me.
"So" is indeed one of those small things that's just colloquial to casual conversation in in Germany. To me personally it signals that you weren't as exact with your question so you're leaving it kinda open ended to some degree. But when it comes to Grammar no clue what this is.
It feels a bit similar to "do you speak any other languages or ~" because this leaves it less as a direct question and more as an open ended conversation, suggesting you just wanna know more and you're not very particular in your question and in what you expect as an answer.
AI right now is in that phase where we find out how to improve it and where to use it. It will be useful somewhere in the next 5 years, but not now. And I don't even know if it will ever be useful in finance. We'll see. Now is not the time.
The only reason to use it rn is if you're a scientist or an enthusiast. You are neither I'd assume.
Idk, every company is different and so is every country.
But let me also make clear, I'm not arguing this isn't odd. Just some things to rule out before going mayhem.