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CEO Pay Jumps in UK But Remains Below Pre-Covid Levels. Top British bosses earned an average of £3.91 million in 2022. Chiefs were paid 118 times as much as the average worker.

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    • McDonald's worker makes desperate plea to Aussie customers

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  • Sorry for bringing the mood down, but this story isn't exactly my idea of 'light-hearted':

    The woman claimed McDonald's kitchen workers are under extreme pressure to process drive-thru orders. "We get yelled at and pushed so hard until we beat those times, we sadly can't have a conversation with any customers," she stated.

    • People who have died and came back, what was your experience?

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  • I never came across that subreddit! On a quick search I found there is a direct equivalent in the form of !creepyasklemmy@lemmy.world . It's not very active but there's only one way to change that! There might be another community that's more active and basically the same thing, but, like I said, I only did a very quick search, just to see if there was a community with a directly corresponding name.

    Here's some other communities you might be interested in, though, that I grabbed from my subscriptions list:

    PARANORMAL / MISC.

    CRYPTID

    UFO / UAP

    • India : Christians Attacked and Bible Torn in Church Attack in Delhi During Sunday Service

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    • People who have died and came back, what was your experience?

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  • FYI, there is a community, !nde@lemmy.world, if anyone here is interested in this kind of thing.

    • Roadmap for Viewing Mastodon User Posts?

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  • Hey, this community is for general questions to users of Lemmy, not questions about Lemmy, or questions to the Lemmy developers.

    See the rules in the sidebar, particularly:

    1. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below

    You can try over at !lemmy@lemmy.ml, but your best bet to find this kind of information is probably taking a look at the GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+mastodon

    • Barnaby Joyce admits watching wrong Matildas game after pub showed July friendly

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  • We need a !NotTheBetoota 😆

    • Barnaby Joyce admits watching wrong Matildas game after pub showed July friendly

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  • The game he was watching a replay of was against France, it was just a friendly before the World Cup.

    • When a 'fire hurricane' hit, Maui's warning sirens never sounded

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    • 'Looking for an off-ramp': Assange plea deal could see him return to Australia

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    • Is intelligence a genetic trait in any way shape or form?

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  • Go ask a chimpanzee 😆

    Okay, so forgive the glib answer, but yeah, obviously on the macro level our genetic differences with the other apes contribute massively to our difference in intelligence with them.

    At the micro level - i.e. between individual humans - my understanding is that the evidence also suggests that genetic variations lead to variation in intelligence (of course, as mentioned by other commenters, the usual caveats of how exactly you define and measure intelligence apply.)

    See: https://archive.is/9o5cy

    Researchers found that the IQ of children adopted at birth bore little correlation with that of their adoptive parents, but strongly correlated with that of their biological parents. What’s more, this association became stronger as the children grew older.

    In fact, hundreds of studies all point in the same direction. “About 50 per cent of the difference in intelligence between people is due to genetics,” he says.

    Although each gene associated with intelligence has only a minuscule effect in isolation, the combined effect of the 500-odd genes identified so far is quite substantial. “We are still a long way from accounting for all the heritability,” says Plomin, “but just in the last year we have gone from being able to account for about 1 per cent of the variance to maybe 10 per cent.”

    Also: https://www.une.edu.au/connect/news/2022/10/multiple-insights-in-a-decade-of-twins-data

    The longitudinal Academic Development Study of Australian Twins (ADSAT) is the first project of its kind in Australia and has amassed revealing data on 2,762 twin pairs, 40 triplet sets and 1,485 non-twin siblings. Using the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), and regular parent surveys, it has given researchers a unique picture of the behaviours and demography that contribute to educational achievement – and the extent to which our genes influence them.

    Genetic differences among students are the single biggest influence on differences in literacy and numeracy standing and growth, accounting for half or more of that variability across tests and across time.

    • If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?

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  • This is a question, not a thought... You want !asklemmy

    • I F*cked up and I need help.

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  • New to Linux so I’m sorry if I’m being ignorant, but it does seem crazy you can get access to a machine without the password.

    This is always the case, no matter what OS you use, unless you use full-disk encryption. User credentials are all just data on a disk, so if someone has physical access to your machine, and your disk isn't encrypted, then they can access (and change) those credentials or any other data.

    See also: https://ostechnix.com/reset-windows-password-with-linux-live-cd/

    What’s even the point of having a password

    As you say, preventing remote access is one, but also a password will slow someone down a bit, and stop low-knowledge adversaries entirely, possibly. Also you will at least know someone has messed with your machine if they change the password.

    Really, though, there's nothing malicious someone can do to an unencrypted computer by changing the password that they couldn't do without changing the password (copy all your files, delete all your files, install malicious software). Except I guess annoying you by making you change your password back. 😆

    • What are your favorite ambient releases?

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    • 1 2 3 - Pole
    • And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid
    • Plume - Loscil
    • The Sound of Lights When Dim - Slow Dancing Society

    • Heatwave energy shortages would have been ‘much worse’ without solar power, experts say

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  • Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

    Sure, but heat-wave weather doesn't increase the supply of fossil fuel energy.

    • Is there a business in your town, which you are 100% sure is a front?

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  • Absolutely. Calzones are pointless. They're just pizza that's harder to eat. No one likes them.

    • what are some advanced linux distros that don't have me compiling everything?

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    • performance by distro

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  • Thanks for the info!

    • performance by distro

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    • archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet

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  • Way more interesting than I thought it was going to be!