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Ulvain ,

Well… it’s the king of tanks, and it’s a hut at the same time. So :

King T’hut

Ulvain ,

I 10,000% guarantee this would not be enacted by a Trump presidency. Worst, if some for of it was put forward it would have specific conditions limiting which country of origin this would apply to (surprise surprise: white ones).

Please don’t get lured by the broken clock phenomenon…

Ulvain ,

Praise be! Under his eye.

Ulvain ,

This thread is focusing on whether he’s right, even while being a shithead. The problem IMO is not whether he’s right or not, it’s what his ‘plans’ are if the world moves in the direction he starts nudging. Guy’s a psycho edgelord pro-fascist with Bond villain tendencies, but he’s surfed on trends to carve monopolies before… Idk

Ulvain ,

Well, it’s not like he’s already done trainwrecks that tarnished the reputation of multiple companies, so I’m sure we’re safe 😏

Ulvain ,

Ironic

Ulvain ,

It seriously feels good to see this written down sometimes. I hate that religion somehow laid claim to morality.

Ulvain ,

Dude (or dudette) they fucking WERE. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/25ec5d01-f65e-4a33-bdb0-40a755ee0b6a.jpeg

Ulvain ,

What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of… Metal

Ulvain ,

Just insulting people will always make them buck against your points, however valid and informed. Bad approach.

The problem with radioactive waste isn’t the fact that it’s dangerous now, it’s the fact that it remains dangerous for much longer than we’re even remotely able to plan for. People will likely have to deal with that danger in waaaay longer than civilization has existed on earth so far.

So the horizontal borehole for instance: amazing idea for the next century - or even, heck, few millenia!! - but how do you make sure our ancestors in 50,000 years never drill a new borehole right there?

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

Ulvain ,

That fuckin sockets

Ulvain ,

Are we sure it’s not just breaking the plastic in microplastics?

Ulvain ,

Exactly! Like that if their health is too bad, they can also stop being homeless.

Ulvain ,

He just isn’t perfect. None of us are. I’ll just leave that here as a reminder. youtu.be/UEXDz91Gf_U?si=A_r57yrvw5RFBcO1

Ulvain ,

Like another person in here said, fuck extremists of all sorts and creed.

If that’s what you mean, wholeheartedly agree.

If not, if you’re generalizing from extremist israelis to all jewish people, you should be deeply ashamed.

Ulvain ,

Anyone else got some handmaid’s tale cold sweat vibes reading the headline?

Ulvain ,

I hope it’ll be a single player or coop story-based survival (like Grounded for instance) where your base building and research/magic allows you to go further and tackle more foes, rather than a fucking MMO style “bring me 50 orc trinkets” bore…

Ulvain ,

Make sure the virtual packaging is never opened!! The moment that “hours played” marker isn’t 0 anymore, it looses all collectability value

Ulvain ,

Nah, nah, nah. You all got it wrong. There’s one name and one name only: tech support.

Ulvain ,

They have no problems getting votes from people with problems

Ulvain ,

Note they just say record, not record high…

Ulvain ,

That’s a sad statement… Are there no possible changes that could give you a longer life expectancy? I’m in my early forties and I’m starting to have a different fear: my dad’s got advanced Parkinson’s and it’s a terrifying battle…

Watched the Netflix documentary on “blue zones” recently - not perfect, but a pretty compelling case for (at least for me) at least some dietary changes, and increasing substantially my daily walks… :-/

Tips for falljng back to sleep

I wake up at 3am to 4am daily as a neighbor makes noise walking their dog. This cannot be helped. Once I am awake, my mind won’t stop going over details about everything from the mundane to the critical. Often, I am able to fall asleep again after three or more hours of wakefulness, but only minutes before I have to wake for...

Ulvain ,

These are great tricks!! I’d add one that’s always worked for me: if you can’t get your mind to go still in pt#3 above, think back of the story in a book or show you like, and let your mind wander about the characters, the story, the background, the intrigue etc. Focusing on fiction and story helps me drift back, vs focusing on real life things…

Ulvain ,

I wonder…

By his own legal admission, he’s not a journalist but an entertainer.

Thus what he’s doing with Putin is entertainment.

So he’s dealing with Russia (literally) and Russian companies to produce a profit making entertainment content.

Russia is under sanctions.

Isn’t he breaking the law?

Ulvain ,

“like that” is probably the best position to see shit

Ulvain ,

Yes but if it’s anything like office chairs casters, there are 2 standard sizes (of course), the 10 and the 11 mm

Ulvain ,

Yes.

Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds (www.reuters.com)

About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....

Ulvain ,

Dear United States,

I hope this email finds you well. I couldn’t help but notice some unsettling developments in your life recently, and as your upstairs neighbor and friend, I felt the need to reach out.

It’s been hard to ignore the noise from your past relationship with that abusive ex-boyfriend. You were so brave to leave him four years ago, especially after that terrifying January 6 incident. But now, I’ve heard whispers that you might be considering getting back together with him. Is that true?

I remember how hard it was for you, and for all of us who care about you, when he was around. His actions and the chaos he brought into your life were not only harmful to you but also affected those around you, including us upstairs. We thought we had lost the warm, friendly neighbor we knew.

Please think carefully about this decision. We all want what’s best for you, and it’s painful to see you possibly walking back into a situation that caused so much hurt and turmoil. If you need someone to talk to, I’m always here.

Take care and stay safe.

Sincerely,

Canada

Ulvain ,

She did really good! Almost drove it home, she was so close… As a former manager in HR, here are my two cents. Note that I’m from canada, might not apply as I have it in mind in the US. If they’re trying to frame a layoff as a firing for cause and poor performance, her first way of handling it is excellent. Ask pointed specific questions on what about your performance was lacking and more importantly can you demonstrate to me that I’ve been communicated clear quantifiable and Timely objectives that I’ve been communicated means and ways to be coached and trained to meet those objectives and that I’ve been communicated milestones of me not meeting objectives, with proper corrective measures and coaching to then change course before a firing for poor performance.

If you can’t communicate any of these to me, the objectives, my performance against his objectives, the milestones, and the coaching I received to meet objectives when I did not, then this is not a poor performance related firing. If you’re missing any of these information then I am not yet terminated and I am at your employment until a subsequent meeting where you can come back with that information. On the other hand if what you meant to say is that this is a layoff because you have hired too many people, and that this letting Go has nothing to do with my performance, okay no problem, let’s talk, but in this case it will be with X months of severance and a glowing recommendation letter.

Lastly I want to make you aware that I’ve recorded this conversation, in which it’s now clearly documented that you have no clear tangible indication of any notion of documented poor performance about me, and thus I am still at the employed of my employer until you either provide those, or provide me with coaching that I then fail to put into practice to meet objectives, or until you come back with the severance package for a layoff that has nothing to do with my performance.

Something along those lines…

Ulvain ,

100% on the recording, fair pt.

On the letter: that’d be good - go ahead and give me written evidence…

Ulvain ,

Please allow me to offer a nuance on the topic of HR. I see a lot of hate about HR on this thread and quite a bit is founded… But on the other hand, two things:

  1. the HR folks themselves are not to blame for the fact that the company overhired, are cutting people, or even to some extent some shitty strategies like pretending people are fire for cause instead of laid off. It’s decided by executives ans the CEO, and HR operationalizes. I’ll fully grant though that they sometimes (often) operationalize shittily.
  2. and more importantly, HR is shitty in a shitty company, and pretty decent in a (quite rare) decent company. Fundamentally HR’s job is to help manage humans as a resource, and among other tasks it means to protect the company against human-related risks. There are different fundamental beliefs and philosophies companies can have around how to avoid that risk - and their HR strategy is set accordingly.

Some decent (rare) employers believe that to avoid risks like being sued or unionizing, the best strategy is to provide employees with a healthy work environment, competitive pay and to remove toxic managers and executives quickly. In these companies HR plays a very strong policing role ensuring that managers don’t cause human related risk by abusing workers. I know it sounds idealistic and I’ll 100% grant that it applies unfortunately to a very small sample of employers, but it’s true.

Of course way more common are companies with the philosophy that to avoid these risks you need to squash people, back your managers at all cost, never admit a fault, etc - and that’s the shitty strategy operationalized by shitty a HR department.

Lastly the governmental labour laws framework of a country plays a big role too - in some countries where those laws are super weak like the US, particularly if your employer is your only way to access half decent healthcare, you can’t afford to change employer - and the shitty strategy becomes a much lower cost than the decent one (found a bit more often in Canada, way more in Europe and even more in Scandinavian countries)

Sorry for the walltext rambling

Ulvain ,

I get your point, but just playing Devil’s advocate here: don’t work in real estate because it’s fraud and landlords are thieves, don’t work for McDonald’s because your work make people fat and unhealthy, don’t work retail or manufacturing because your work encourages capitalism and all its evils…? I mean… don’t like 90% of all jobs require you to do shitty things?

Most people in HR went in the field with pretty decent intentions. They have debts and families to feed and the job they landed is sometimes for a shitty employer.

If you want to hate someone, don’t hate the HR person who’s dealing with their own shitty problems, blame the uber rich, that maintain everyone else in a constant state of infighting while they lobby or buy lawmakers to ensure the poor get poorer so they get richer. There the ones maintaining a hyper capitalistic society and making sure executives are ordering the cuts (often ending with cutting the HR folks after they finish the layoffs)

Ulvain ,

0.01$ super salty fries, 80% ice 1500% overpriced drinks FTW

Ulvain ,

I think you’re right, but it’ll cause just so much abominable misery to so many for so long before that, and take so many decades to undo afterwards, it’s disheartening.

Ulvain ,

In other news, study reveals stuff gets wet when splashed with water. More at 11.

Ulvain ,

I finished Baldur’s Gate 3, so i fell in the post-great-game melancholy. I reinstalled Hades and Stardew Valley, but ya know

Ulvain ,

I played the one, all the way to the big fight at the end, failed it and got too exhausted to reload and redo it… But it was a really good game though , it’s true! Is the 2 as good/better?

Ulvain ,

Yeah, get a car, op!

Ulvain ,

I could imagine, yes, that 44% of aggressive men would stop dead in their tracks if shouted “SMELL MY TEARS! SNIFF’EM, GEORGE!” mid fight

Ulvain ,

That’s a very capitalistic or even libertarian view - i don’t like it but what horrifies me is that in the current US political climate it sounds more feasible than making the police, you know… Not kill people (sigh)

Ulvain ,

Shocked! Shocked I say!

Ulvain ,

I don’t know what you millenial z’s or something keep complaining about - just buy a detached single family house with a backyard in the city for 125k and pay up your 1% interest rate mortgage within 10 years while your wife keeps it clean and drinks herself to death while resenting you daily, like any civilized 30 year old with a job for life and guaranteed payout pension does!

Is the /s really necessary?

Ulvain ,

How many pebbles in a stone, and stone in a boulder? It’s a convenient measurement, I’m sure.

Ulvain ,

Wrong place to post - this is just high quality content

Ulvain ,

“oh while you’re out, beam me up some Scotties”

Ulvain ,

Hmm it’s an interesting philosophical debate - does that not qualify as “forever”?

Ulvain ,

Larian: hold my Blingdenstone Blush

Ulvain ,

That is aweeeesome!!! Save me from myself!!

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