pixxelkick
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- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Fundamentally good CEOs expect a wage based on the market.
There’s tonnes of high paying positions so, no, non profits truly will struggle to find an actually good CEO if they dont offer a competitive wage.
It’s not their fault, it’s the lack of regulation on all the for-profits and the fact they can funnel so much money up to CEOs unchecked.
If for-profits had regulatory checks that made them do that less, then non-profits wouldn’t have to compete with nearly as insanely high wages.
IE if there was a law that CEOs couldn’t be paid more than 10x their lowest paid worker, this problem would be a lot less insane.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly the charities fault.
The real issue is that for profit companies can pay their CEOs this much, which means charities have to compete if they want a good CEO too.
In reality we should be cracking down on companies hoarding wealth towards to their CEOs at exorbitant rates, that way charities won’t have to pay a wage like this just to function and even hire a CEO.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 3 weeks ago:
You do know some jobs can’t be done remote right?
It’s possible the two people are the two with jobs that require some potential in person intervention (IT being the main case)
If something physically fails, you can’t exactly fix that remotely.
The fact only 2 people remained says to me they prolly had that sort of job, or, some people genuinely prefer working in the office.
Sounds crazy but some people don’t have a comfortable set up at home and find it easier to focus in the office. I’ve had data where construction was right outside my window at home so yeah, I went into work to have some quiet.
Most of the time I prefer WFH, for sure.
But to pretend that literally everyone can always wfh, and always wants to, is silly and you’ve gone too far off the other end.
- Comment on THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs 1 month ago:
If true, sounds kinda personal and will prolly result in repercussions.
But the fact so many MAGA idiots were acting violent towards FEMA operatives prolly is enough to justify it. Can’t blame em, if a group of people are actively fighting against your help then it’s better to not waste time/energy/safety on em.
I heard shit about MAGA idiots pulling out guns on FEMA folks, that’s fucked up lol
- Comment on Anon is jealous 1 month ago:
She didn’t become a millionaire afaik.
She has a podcast that’s slightly popular and was already well off.
Anon might stop feeling so jealous if they perhaps stopped making up random facts, or believing lies on the internet?
- Comment on Anon gets a lesson in genetics 2 months ago:
Sounds like a real story, and definitely not the sour grapes rambling of a racist incel…
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 3 months ago:
Disinformation is not the same as Misinformation mate.
It’s critical to know the difference.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 3 months ago:
Who determines what is disinformation?
A jury, for a given case
Who determines that the information is endangering lives?
A jury, for a given case
If Trump wins the election do you want him determining these things?
I wouldn’t put it past him to try and do that, knowing him.
But that’s not how laws work. Determining if a given case is or is not disinformation would be up to a jury to deliberate, based on facts presented by the lawyers.
As that’s how the justice system works. Or us supposed to at least.
And yes, proving it is disinformation is super hard, so the prosecutor must have a pretty iron tight case. You’d likely need witnesses that can attest to the defendant outright admitting to the act, or their behaviors that signal intent, or evidence on their devices, etc.
This is exactly how Libel and Slander / Defamation cases work right now, you have to prove the defendant knew they were lying and or making a story up intentionally which is incredibly hard, cuz the dependant can just go “I really thought that was the truth!”
For example in the Heard v Depp case, they had to pull evidence of her doctoring photos and using makeup to really sell the case and win the jury over.
So it’s a huge gap to cross…
But…
If you do cross it, I believe the penalty for it should be pretty severe. Especially if the defendant was:
- Endangering people’s lives with bad advice And/Or
- Posing as an expert without actually being one
IE those people that dress up like a doctor or nurse or etc and then sell extremely bullshit stuff on social media. That should straight up result in some prison time if they gave out genuinely harmful disinformation.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 3 months ago:
When they lead to harm, they do indeed end.
People often forget the right to free speech isn’t prioritized over other human rights in pretty kych every first world country.
Otherwise stuff like Libel and Slander wouldn’t make sense legally. As well as hate speech laws.
Your right to free speech comes after peoples rights to safety from harm, and how that’s worded varies country by country, but feel free to Google up on it for your specific case.
It’s why stuff like advertising laws, misinformation and disinformation laws, etc can work too.
Free speech isn’t right #1, which some people just can’t seem to wrap their head around I guess. This isn’t even new, it’s been like that for ages.
How do you think snake oil salesmen could be prosecuted if they were allowed to just say whatever they want?
Why do you think it’s possible to have legal repercussions for threatening to shoot up a school, or bomb a plane?
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 3 months ago:
I believe disinformation (not misinformation) that endangered lives should be illegal, yes.
If someone posts a video that purposefully tells people to do something that endangers lives and makes it look good/safe, that person should face penalties of fines or jail time functional of how dangerous their recommendation was.
As for the laptop, I’m not dismissing anything.
It’s 100% an entirely unrelated anecdote that was mentioned as a totally seperate and discrete event in the letter, that has nothing to do with the headline.
The article used vague wording to try and jumble the two seperate events together and make it sound like they were one event that occurred, which us extremely shitty journalism.
Stop falling for such obvious bullshit and go read the original source.
I have no issue with governments cracking down on disinformation. It’s a huge problem and should carry extremely heavy penalties if it causes harm.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 3 months ago:
The content in question?
COVID19 disinformation that was getting people killed.
The hunter Biden laptop thing is a secondary tied in unrelated cliff note that has nothing to do with the heading.
But “government pressures social media platform to crack down on COVID19 disinformation spreading” doesn’t have that catchy ring to it to get those clicks now does it.
- Comment on Behind Tim Walz's 'Hunter' Facade Is A Plan To Take Your Guns 4 months ago:
only 17 percent solely involve rifles of any variety.
Imagine having enough shootings per year in your country you can discuss the percents of what guns are used for your weekly massacres so casually.
Only in the US.
- Comment on Joaquin Phoenix’s sudden exit from film sparks ‘huge outrage’ in Hollywood 4 months ago:
“The actors role cannot be recast” the fuck you mean lol
- Comment on So Mark Zuckerberg called me 4 months ago:
I wanna say Donald Trump, what with the random fox news voyage the rambling goes on.
- Comment on Anon is asking the difficult questions 4 months ago:
Reread the post.
“Doesn’t share an interest with you” isn’t the same as “actively dislikes your interests”
- Comment on Anon is asking the difficult questions 4 months ago:
Easily #1, but that’s because they worded it as what her current interests are.
Just be interesting yourself, and put the work into finding out what about her interests are actually interesting. People find things interesting for a reason.
No one is actually boring, if you find someone boring it just means you dont understand them yet. Pay attention, listen, and try to see it through their eyes and maybe you’ll find their “boring” interests aren’t so boring after all, you just didnt “see” it fully yet to appreciate it.
And, typically, if you put the work into showing interest in whatever they are into, they’ll reciprocate.
Also, there’s infinite room for the two of you to both find new interests neither of you had before that now you both can share.
When my fiance and I started dating years ago, neither of us gave a shit about birds… but now that we live in a place with lots of cool random birds we can spot, and we go for walks everyday, we actually stop and go “holy shit what kind of bird is that, I dont recognize it” or “holy fuck are those pelicans? I didnt even know we got pelicans here!” etc etc.
The other day out of the blue when we were chilling at a nearby water reservoir watching a duck, a whole ass fuckin pelican came outta nowhere and swooped down, splashing into the water and sniped a random fish, then burst up with it in its mouth like… 2 feet in front of us. It was a pretty big “holy shit did that just happen?” moment.
If we hadn’t been sitting there just enjoying watching a duck, we never would’ve gotten to see that pelican.
So, you know, maybe there’s no such thing as “normie” interests, or a “boring” person. You might be the boring one if anything, because you can’t understand why people love something and get interested in it…
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 5 months ago:
Exponential growth, thats about all there is to it. Advancing from clacking rocks to hunting deer is actually already a huge advancement.
Those 190k years in caves however werent non-advancing. A lot of advancements happened over those years.
Fires, wheels, knot tying, ceramics, pottery, grains, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, language, art, music, rope…
Also, 10k years is after we gained writing of various forms to store information.
Keep in mind thats at the stage of shit like egypt, the great pyramids, etc. We were waaaaay beyond “cavemen” at that point. We already had trade routes, cities, nations, countless languages, doctors, etc.
The big issue was before that point, all our forms of storing information were just not able to stand the test of time very well, is all. We stopped being “cavemen” way before that mark though.
- Comment on Anon is a fish 5 months ago:
One can make the conscious adult decision to not propagate greatest that are abliest and, frankly speaking, not even funny.
This is a place to share actually entertaining content, not whatever this bottom of the barrel attempt at humor is…
- Comment on What is skibidi toilet? [Serious] 6 months ago:
It does mean something.
The skibidi toilet “creatures” are considered the antagonists, and the weird is associated with their traits.
- creepy
- gross
- scary
- weird
Its an insult to and pretty much interchangeably with “creepy” with a splash of “cringe”
Often paired with “ohio” which means “bland” / " boring" / “mid”
Example:
“Yo he got that skibidi Ohio rizz”
Translation:
“This dude has zero game, in fact he is creepy and weird and has negative charisma, people find him repulsive and boring”
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 8 months ago:
Others have covered the fact it’s because of air pressure but haven’t fully answered why that is the way it is.
It’s simple really.
The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth’s centre.
And it is that gravitational force that increases the air’s density, same reason why if you keep going.g down in the water, the water gets denser.
For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.
It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convention energy around… but not so dense they can’t move much either.
Furthermore there’s actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.
First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiation back out as well as the perpetual heat from the earth’s core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).
The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth’s surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.
Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it’s ice cold and the air this out.
However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, ack to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?
Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there’s a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.
Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly.
Then we hot the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the “outside” of our protective blanket.
You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bot higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit Temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.
So to answer the question overall:
Hot air rises… but only when there is air to rise.
Top of the mountains just don’t have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still dies but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.
- Comment on Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4 8 months ago:
Prolly for the best, WotC seems he’ll bent on destroying every IP goldmine they can, good to not strap yourself to a sinking ship.
Would’ve liked to see some kind of endgame for baldurs gate but oh well.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 11 months ago:
This, my machine is in the basement inside my server rack lol.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 11 months ago:
I haven’t found a compelling reason to not just build a solid gaming pc, then buy a Chromecast and steam link to it.
Latency is quite low on a wired connection, I can steam 4k to my TV, and I can use an Xbox controller. You literally couldn’t tell me the difference most of the time.
I’m rocking an 11th gen Intel i9, 4060 ti, and gigabit network wired between PC <-> chromecast.
Just make sure you get the latest chromecast that can handle 4k streaming though!
- Comment on Microsoft are adding a dedicated AI button to Windows keyboards as they call 2024 “the year of the AI PC” 11 months ago:
Honestly I never use right ctrl for anything, having a dedicated hockey to get ai prompting for coding sounds actually fine and I don’t mind its location.
I expect we will start to see it get integration with ms office sooner than later as well.
- Comment on 'This is only the beginning': Metal Gear Solid fans lose their minds as David Hayter returns to voice Solid Snake in a new teaser 1 year ago:
try to keep the franchise on the road roughly in the same direction it has been going and avoid crashing into stuff.
Based on their last attempt they couldn’t even manage that. Have we already forgotten that as soon as Kojima left the company, Metal Gear Survive came out?
PS, Kojima has a really cool Instagram where he posts his thoughts and stuff he likes, if anyone is a big fan and wants to sub to him. Dude has some radical tastes lol
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 1 year ago:
Im not entirely sure this specific issue has much to do with Synthetic CDOs.
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 1 year ago:
Still seems to me the idea of “if people don’t come back into work the real estate market implodes” is the most convincing.
Commuters vaporizing and countless city blocks losing their purpose will cause huge upheaval in the real estate market.
And turns out a /lot/ of CEOs have a vested interest in keeping the real estate market artificially propped up.
Thus, they try and force people back to work as hard as they can.
It won’t last, the big companies that don’t give a shit about real estate due to being even bigger in scale will out compete and the international market will absorb most of the workforce.
If you shackle your success to real estate, then you can’t compete with international megacpros that saw this coming awhile ago. Prepare to be acquired.
- Comment on The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021) 1 year ago:
Is this satire? Surely it must be.
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
Can’t relate. I work in software dev, and had to do a bout of job applications over a few weeks a bit ago.
Nearly every single job responded back asap confirming they got my application.
Most of the declines emailed me back to inform me they declined a week or two later.
I got several interviews, looking to asap connect.
Most were normal and standard process. One was way too many steps and wasted my time.
I got three offers tabled, and all were fine to give me a day or two to mull it over.i accepted the best offer and total was only unemployed for about 5 weeks total.
What I can say is hot damn has ChatGPT made the application process take like 1/10th the work lol
Did I make a simple little copy paste for chatgpt to quickly construct my cover letters? You bet your ass I did.
Did one job call me out on it? Yes they did. And they liked it and expressed that having someone who was comfortable using AI tools was actually a plus.
I sent out an LOT more than 20 applications though. I was averaging about 6 to 7 a day over 2 weeks, so prolly close to 120+ applications total.