Gladaed
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- Comment on Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest 12 hours ago:
This is bad, actually. “The met no longer investiges non-crime hate incidents”
Or is it not? I find it hard to tell.
- Comment on Same day shipping 13 hours ago:
Getting hit always carries a chance of death.
Another tragic case was a British boy getting hit by a bouncer(lightly) and just dying.
A person I know talks about how driving bicycles without helmets is very reckless as their mother had someone fall beside them when waiting at a traffic light and just dying. Wasn’t even a bad fall
- Comment on russia deadass fell offf 6 days ago:
Allegedly this is somewhat of a misnomer. Not writing it into the first version of a penal code doesn’t mean acceptance
- Comment on just have a fag bro 1 week ago:
When hitting share you shared it as the person you are on YouTube, i.e. you leaked your name.
- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 1 week ago:
I disagree. Most people use the generic term for all genders in english, similar to other languages that may have a grammatical gender.
A Woman who is a Werewolf is a weird thing to need an extra word. It’s not like wolfs act in our gender norms and expression.
- Comment on just have a fag bro 1 week ago:
Did that work?
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
To be fair, that is not one of the games that does not support controllers on PC.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Almost all games released for a console do work decently enough with a game pad. Some PC games are less suited for that. But this allows the casual consumer to just buy a console game without having to make sure that the input scheme is to their liking.
The game just being unavailable is a weakness, of course, but comes with upside too.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
A decent gui, not fiddling with settings, widespread hardware specs. Games that expect a gamepad and will work with it. Novel input techniques.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitshow 1 week ago:
The fact you are bothered by people calling the got new thing AI is weird. We have been calling a lot of hot new things in tech ai.
What grinds my gears is the less new thing no longer being called ai when it still is ai.
Ai is more than your sci-fi wifu.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
Most people lose interest. You have to help a lot to get a person who is going to help others in the future.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
Also, rent.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 2 weeks ago:
Germany and Yemen work on a technicality. German Y and Y emen. Though that is absurd.
Austria and Australia are a fan favorite, too.
- Comment on 🤯🤯🤯 2 weeks ago:
“AB” and “BC” give “AB” and “BC” if you swap “B” and “B”.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but that does not counter my point.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
This applies here due to the phrasing of the headline - the headline implies that the CEO got rewarded for doing a bad job based on being paid a “big” bonus. But their pay structure is structured in a way where this is a usual and expected part of their pay.
This isn’t really about what water company CEOs are paid but journalists using CEO pay structure for an outrage inducing headline.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
10% of your wage being base pay is absolutely a low percentage. Example: ipcconsultants.com/…/global-ceo-compensation-tren…
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
No. I didn’t even defend their pay. But people’s reading comprehension is extremely limited.
A car sales person who sells a single car in a year and still gets their commission for that one car is perfectly fine in my ears. Some jobs just work like that.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
I SAID RATIO. I never said their base pay wasn’t a living wage. You even quote me correctly and still interpret it your way.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
My point was that their pay is usually structured in a way that the base pay is a small percentage of their compensation and their bonuses are a virtually fixed part of their package and tied to company performance. They tend to not get any bonus when performing exceptionally poorly (e.g. going out of business). This means you get these bonus headlines even if they didn’t get a particularly big bonus at all and maybe even had their wage docked. These kinds of headlines are incendiary.
The magnitude of pay really does not matter much at all for this discussion.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
You clearly misunderstood what I was saying.
It’s a charged topic so it makes sense. Frustrating nonetheless.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t claim that they were doing a perfect job. My criticism is on the phrasing of the headline and how CEO pay consists of a base pay and bonus with the bonus being large.
This means even a middling performance would expect a bonus payment.
This is independent of the amount of basepay. I didn’t claim they were poor or underpaid. I only claimed that their wage structure enables polarizing headlines independent of facts.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 2 weeks ago:
You know, you could do a perfect job and still have accidents happen. CEOs typically have a low base pay to bonus ratio, i.e. their bonus is their wage. This means that this headline means nothing and is written to create outrage without factual basis.
- Comment on Zack Polanski says 7p carrots are too cheap. But is it hurting farmers or addressing food poverty? 3 weeks ago:
It’s about their phrasing, ad presence etc.
- Comment on Zack Polanski says 7p carrots are too cheap. But is it hurting farmers or addressing food poverty? 3 weeks ago:
Overweight and unhealthy Britain saved by vegetables being more expensive hence desirable?
- Comment on Nice 4 weeks ago:
X secretly control Y is a anti-X conspiracy at all times. You suggest the existence of a shadow cabal.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 4 weeks ago:
They virtually build themselves. Though whipping in the summer heat can be laborious.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
The obsession to have dedicated words when one would rarely bother to specify and just use the generic term anyway will forever elude me.
There is very little difference to me between saying two 1 syllable words and one two syllable words. And English is a very packed language. Most english wordy things already have meaning and reserving a 1 syllable thing that is sufficiently different to be distinguishable is just not realistic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A lot of female nudes are also boring. It’s just that men tend to wander in the disgusting camp.
It surely helps that a lot of nudes of woman online tend to be made for profit. This warps the perception of reality.
Looking at gone wild it’s pretty equal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sending images of vaguely phallic objects as dick prosthetic will never stop being a bit funny.