makeshiftreaper @ makeshiftreaper @lemmy.world

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I've seen both The Symphony of the Goddess (Zelda) and Distant Worlds (Final Fantasy) live and both were excellent. This should be a treat for people who like this music

I've only seen the 1931 movie but didn't he have Renfield as a servant? Plus he had help when he traveled from Transylvania to London. So it still doesn't make sense to me

I think you're vastly understating the price problem. Bulk purchases of laptops, monitors, keyboards, mice, and cameras are going to push prices well below a third of the cost of Apple Vision Pro. That's on top of the licenses needed for employees which I wouldn't be shocked to find out they're more expensive/nonexistent on Apple Vision Pro. This price point confuses me on who this is supposed to be for

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Firstly an aristocrat in the late 1800s, especially one who had been around for a long time, would not cook their own food, that's servant work. Secondly, vampires don't generally gain sustenance from food, so why would he care? Finally, if this dude can't eat garlic I question his ability to make tasty food

I actually speed ran some of the tutorial. Turns out you don't actually need all that much out of the 2nd grade level. Makes the college stage a little trickier because people unlock drinking before you but otherwise it was helpful

I'd have a little more sympathy if companies were actually hiring people and not doing absolutely everything in their power to not hire real employees. Restaurants refuse to pay people minimum wage, corporate jobs only hire contractors, airbnb, lyft, and Uber all claim their workers aren't employees, and if someone sneezes and it sounds like the word union they're gone. We can live in magical fantasy ecomnics land, or we can discuss reality. Harsh regulations need to stop these companies from shafting regular people and if they decide to hold the economy hostage like 2008 then we forcibly make the company public property

Obviously this will never happen in America but let's stop giving them lip service and call them the greedy leeches they are, and not holy job creators who bestow the gift of a prosperous economy upon us

Yeah I was alluding to that. One would hope that death, permanent disability, and prolonged suffering would be stronger emotional motivators than minor heart problems, learning disabilities, and government overreach. But it appears that your preconceived notions can be so strong that you ignore the real possibile outcomes of your actions. I just wish so many people didn't have to pay for their ignorance with their lives

Hey quick question, what the fuck are you talking about?

The other guy started this.

do these offices actually achieve anything?

I responded with a list of things that they do

do you have any evidence to back up these claims

I responded with why I didn't need evidence to make my point, then provided it anyway.

Maybe I could be perceived as snarky and mean, but I suspect the commenter suggesting the removal of diversity, equity, and inclusion offices in places where we shape the future of our society might not be sincerely posing the question.

What is so hard about using what you learned without quoting all you know?

Literally the 2nd highest upvoted comment on this post and the first response to the commenter is me doing just that

I'm going to run around making claims and when people disagree I'll make them have evidence!

If you claim these offices are worthless and that this is a good policy then prove it. It's not the defense's job in an argument to prove their point. Anything asserted without evidence can be equally dismissed without evidence.

Anyway here's an academic study stating that exposure to diversity improves cultural awareness and political involvement: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680930210127577

Here's a statement from an inter-collegiate group on these programs:

"Data shows, DEI efforts help create an academic community that generates a higher enrollment rate, matriculation rate, and eventual success rate. DEI is for students with disabilities, veterans with PTSD, minority students, and students who are New Americans who may need extra help due to language or cultural barriers. DEI helps more students achieve the American Dream of success via a college education." Source

Ah yes, suddenly everyone cares about where money is going when discussing something they dislike.

The thing about diversity and inclusion is that there are a lot of systemic barriers that people don't see until they go looking for them. People who live with disadvantages learn to adapt to them and frequently don't vocalize them to avoid being a burden. Contrary to conservative narrative, these offices do more than promote affirmative action. These offices examine historical architecture to make them more accessible to the handicapped, proactively identify/resolve problems for university brands, provide funds and support to clubs, and help with employment opportunities for students.

Will the closure of these offices immediately create problems for campuses? Probably not. Will there be other issues that pop up that these departments exist to prevent? Almost certainly

Halal Chicken and Lamb over rice. I've made my own at home before and after all the effort that goes into making the sauces, the meats, the rice, and veggies, I somehow end up with a dish that cost at least twice what street carts sell, at 5 times the length to make it and isn't as good. I wouldn't make it at home unless I lived somewhere where that was the only way I could get it

As a Scrum Master myself this isn't a question anyone outside of your work flow can answer. I've worked at organizations where we expected people to complete 8 points of work per sprint, and some where we expected people to do 30. Additionally, from a pure philosophy stand point, points measure complexity/uncertainty not time needed to complete the task. As such, you should be both reducing the average number of points per feature and increasing your average velocity over time.

OK, semantics aside, here's some useful advice: jira has free accounts for individuals (check with their licenses before you sell any work) and is obviously built for software development. You can also install addons like Clone Plus that will let you clone epics and the stories within them. I'd recommend making a shell epic that contains the maximum amount of work a project would take, then appropriately size, sequence, and relate all stories to each other. After you have that template epic you can clone it and all the relevant stories underneath, then using Jira dashboards put them in the order they need to be done and use your estimated weekly velocity to see what you can do. Then you'll have a list of tasks, how many points they total, and a rough timeline of story delivery

If you get called by telemarketers, political people, charities, etc. just hang up on them. Almost all of them require a minimum of 3 "nos" before they can end the call and some of the shittier ones aren't even allowed to end the call. Being polite and listening to them wastes both your time and ruins their metrics

It's an old skit

Wouldn't they be hedgehoglets?

I'm going to go classic and name a company that personally wronged me: Noodles & Co. I used to work in a mall and every single restaurant in the mall had a mall employee discount. It was usually a token discount between 5-10% but still it made a difference on your lunch break during an 8 hour shift. Noodles & Co. had no discounts for mall employees and one time I found a hair in my food there. It's petty but since then I have never returned to that restaurant

Yeah, it's available on basically every video game platform. This will likely be the only way to play it on mobile though. It's an amazing game. I'd highly recommend it

It's a great vacation read! It's pretty light and fun, I'd recommend it for that

The book Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi actually explains this for the megafauna in its universe. It's not a perfect explanation but it does well enough