theragu40 @ theragu40 @lemmy.world

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Listen here you little shit

Yeah fair, but as you said if you know anything about Zelda at all it's pretty obvious who the demon king looks like and is supposed to be as soon as you see him.

I wish to unread this

As if you could just stop being sick when the time runs out!

Yuuup. The delightful logic of US working culture.

But counting it as if it were discretionary does not make sense.

You are absolutely right, but alas... This is how it is. You can't get fired for being sick, but you can definitely get fired for not showing up to work for too many days in a row which can definitely happen if you're sick. It's very stupid and very fucked up.

Because Republicans long ago stopped campaigning on normal political issues and began fighting a culture war instead. The result is that a whole ton of things that shouldn't be political issues at all somehow are.

I think they mean 5-7 weeks paid time off in total. Mainly because a 3 week long vacation for someone in the US isn't just problematic, for most it's a literal impossibility. Not now, not ever. So suggesting 5+ weeks straight isn't even on someone's radar if they are in the US.

From what I've seen 5-7 is still a bit high for European countries as an average (someone correct me if my experience is too limited to be correct). But the difference is that sick leave policies seem to be much more employee friendly. In the US it is most common that PTO and sick leave are combined into a single bucket. If you have 4 weeks of PTO and are sick for 3 weeks, sorry you only have 1 week to take vacation.

So even given equal PTO buckets, usually the effective number is less for someone in the US. Our work culture sucks here.

Your mistake was actually assuming that there is any discernible difference between a Musk statement he considers serious, and bullshit. They are the same.

And they won't, because that level of precision is stupid for this application, and not required. They can't even come close to matching the quality and precision of larger auto makers, how and why would they require levels many times what those manufacturers have deemed necessary?

Classic example of an exec understanding on a high level that they have fit and finish issues with parts, and pulling a completely inane statement out of his ass to make it sound like he has any real understanding or power whatsoever to address the issue.

It's Musk, so everyone immediately knows he's full of shit. But it's a good reminder to not entirely trust CEOs when they make statements related to specific technical details because the fact of the matter is they are not engineers and for large companies they are nowhere near close enough to the design and manufacturing process to be able to make statements like this that are actually informed. It's just PR bullshit.

Which is so silly because it should be relatively obvious that people use keep for more than Tasks. But this is Google we're talking about so nothing should surprise me.

This is great advice. The other advice I would give is to make sure the household is prepared for the impact of routing everything through a pihole. There are quite a few things out there on the internet that will simply stop working with the default block lists. Yes, that is obviously the point. But it is helpful to prepare everyone with how to do temporary allows, and have a strategy for what type of things you might want to whitelist and which you're content with leaving blocked. Otherwise it can be very jarring especially at the beginning.

Similarly, the former mayor of Milwaukee is now the ambassador to Luxembourg. He didn't get that because he was qualified, he got it because he did favors for people in high places and it gets him paid to do literally nothing.

I have these faint memories of watching my uncles play The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends for NES when I was super little. That's probably where I first got an interest. But then the first game that I actually played myself that got me truly hooked was Super Mario World for SNES.

Still one of my favorite games ever.

Those signs were awesome and whoever decided they should change to what they have now should be ashamed.

Isn't there something to be said about parents just not doing cruel things to their kids? Like, this isn't even funny it's just mean. I have kids. Why would I do this to them?

I honestly don't know how much of a concern salmonella is from this. In the US at least, eggs are required to be thoroughly washed to be sold in stores. Bruising from literally hitting your kid seems like a real concern though. And the person your kid should be able to trust the most humiliating them on the Internet is absolutely a core memory forming event.

Just all around stupid.

People are definitely strange creatures lol

Ah the old "it's what everyone does so it must be better" argument. A classic.

Agreed, though if you are measuring it via instrument then what difference does it make how "round" the number is?

Why would you talk about metric as a whole in response to a question asking about Celsius in particular? I very openly stated that I understand why metric in general is used for measurements of length, weight, and volume and asked specifically why people argue that Celsius is superior when its weaknesses in comparison to fahrenheit are similar to imperial's weaknesses in comparison to metric.

I would have thought that was obvious.

The crossover is so fascinating to me.

Like you just nonchalantly use it for pools and ovens and nothing else. Kind of like we use liters randomly for certain soda bottles and basically nothing else.

How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn't that what we are stupid for doing?

And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.

I'm being genuine, I'm not trying to shit on you. I'm pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don't use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it's pretty clearly worse.

But I legitimately don't understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.