atro_city
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- Comment on Back in my day we could all fit in grocery stores 1 day ago:
People got wider
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Don't buy a playstation. Easy.
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 week ago:
Neo-libs love debt. It's how they control people.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Guess who's influencing them to do so.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
But the US has the world's first trilionaire, so suck it!
just kidding of course. that's a terrible achievement
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
It's how they keep people under control. Keep them dumb, desperate and distracted. Now wonder the US has the best entertainment on the planet.
- Comment on Any second now 🙏 1 week ago:
It will be forgotten by the next election cycle :)
- Comment on Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults 2 weeks ago:
Lobbying can bend the laws of nature 💪
- Comment on Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults 2 weeks ago:
Just wait until you have to show your ID for a big mac. (although, realistically, McFat will lobby hard enough to get the government to recognise big macs as "healthy" food)
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 2 weeks ago:
You're welcome :) I can recommend getting GrayJay to search across platforms.
- Comment on Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults 2 weeks ago:
Government: We must age-gate food!
- Comment on It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek 2 weeks ago:
If only people voted for it instead of "bUt BuT mIgRaNtS 😭😭😭". But the majority is too easily controlled by the wealthy...
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 2 weeks ago:
eh... I can wait. It'll come to Steam eventually and then it'll be piratable.
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 2 weeks ago:
It's unaffordable for those who don't sail the high seas.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
I have. They don't believe the science. "Cats only kill weak and sick animals". I've given up on it. Can't convince a mind that's made up. But the cadavers are annoying the whole household, so I was hoping for some possible solution that didn't involve getting the friend all wound up.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
Make the house unsafe for cats. Got it.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
My friend insists on letting it out because animals aren't supposed to be kept in captivity. And it's not easy to play with cats if you're gone 10 hours a day
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- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 2 weeks ago:
High seas for everyone!
- Comment on As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers' 2 weeks ago:
Pro-fossil fuel in the hottest heatwave that has hit the country yet. Can't make this stuff up 😂
- Comment on Steam Machine is DOA... Valve Lost. ($1048 / $1428 Price) 2 weeks ago:
Nice
titlebait - Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 2 weeks ago:
I think you're both on the same side and find that there aren't enough protections for consumers and that the existing ones are being ignored. You @Zoot and @imecth are describing how things are currently working out in reality despite the laws, @MagnificentSteiner is describing how things are legally despite their disregard.
We can probably all agree that we need to enforce the existing laws and expand them.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, technical people with those skills quickly rise past their non-technical peers.
They aren't held back by the org that limits technical salaries and request that they take on leadership responsibilities?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
What does this mean?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
- Social pressure - There's a need to be "seen". Being a technical expert on ground doesn't make you " seen".
Ah yes, exposure 🤔 So maybe by making technical experts seen, it would normalise increasing their salary.
- Money - The higher you go, the more money you make.
I'm questioning why this is the case ;)
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Leadership is undoubtedly important and good leadership even more so, but why do you bring singularity ("one person can only do so much work")? Experts work in teams too. Is there some kind of connotation with expertise that leads you (or people) to believe that is something which cannot be brought into a team?
A good leader can enable a team of people to work together achieving more than the sum of their individual contributions.
That is true, but isn't the ability of the team members important too? For example, if you have a team of juniors, you can get to a goal, however the question is in what state. And if the leader is just a leader but doesn't have understanding of the sector, why should their leadership be valued more than that of the team members who do?
As for force multipliers, experts can be force multipliers too. An expert that helps out and resolves (or even prevents) tricky situations for fellow team members (or the entire team) can improve team cohesion and productivity. Experts also often have an educative role in the team to spread knowledge and understanding. That seems to be valued less, and I don't understand why.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Also traditional companies don’t typically have knowledge based employees. There’s a limit to what high expertise can bring. This is what has led to management as the promotion track.
That is true, but you can become an expert in multiple things. For example you become an expert brick layer and then you become an expert plumber, and so on. Or in a knowledge based company, you become an expert payroll accountant, then an expert tax accountant, then an expert revenue accountant, etc.
Management is also a skill. And it’s arguable a more useful skill since it’s more transferable than a narrow focus. At very high levels you have a lot of responsibility figuring out where your company is headed.
So people value knowing where to go more than being able to get there? Is this the gist of it? If so, why? I don't understand why one is more important than the other. You can have the best plan on the planet, but if you don't have the people to get you there quickly, safely, and in top shape, that plan is just that, a plan.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe we're misunderstanding each other. I'm not talking about technical people going up the ladder. I'm asking why going up the ladder is valued more than becoming or being an expert on the ground.
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- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 3 weeks ago:
@stopkillinggames should make a list of killable games so that people can be aware of which games they are buying may end up killed and useless.