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- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
Yeah good old fashioned sunlight is what this needs.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Goodness me. One of us is certainly getting defensive. There’s not much point continuing this. Feel free to have the last word while continuing to assume anyone with a better understanding than you is a liar.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Sorry mate you’re kind of embarrassing yourself a little bit here.
Of course the CEO equivalent exists in government. It’s just a management position. Equivalent services will need equivalent management.
Do you realize how little a CEO does?
I’ve sat on hiring committees for CEO’s. Refining their job descriptions and interviewing candidates. I know exactly what CEO’s of non-profits and charities do. I suspect that you do not.
Do you realize how little the actual money donated to an organization trickles down to the cause?
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment. I’ve been a treasurer for a number of medium size charities. I know exactly how much money is needed to support the charities objectives.
In recent years grant funding for charities has been extraordinarily difficult to obtain. Often it’s not indexed. Where grant funding is not indexed for a number of years, it becomes impossible to maintain the same services because wages and other costs are always getting more expensive. I’ve had to have that very difficult conversation with social workers - that their hours need to be reduced and as a result their client numbers will be cut. It’s a ridiculous absurdity to suggest that volunteers like myself would be taking those measures without first seeking to maximise the efficiency of the entire organisation.
Do you realize that there are multiple charities for the same thing, which just means more and more waste?
For example?
In fact in pretty much every instance of a modern government taking over a service, it becomes cheaper and more efficient. That’s why many governments run utilities, and healthcare.
You’re talking about public vs private institutions. That just doesn’t make any sense applied to charities because they’re already public institutions.
Look I’m not saying your service is useless, but I am saying it would be more efficient elsewhere.
Sorry mate, this is just an absurd thought bubble borne of naivety. Get involved in a charity and you’ll understand why it exists. Until then maybe just start with the assumption that the people who are involved have a better understanding of it’s context and it’s objectives and how best to serve those objectives than you do. It’s incredible arrogant to suppose that entire organisations ought not to exist because the people involved just haven’t realised how inefficient they are. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
A refuge isn’t really a shelter for people who are “homeless”.
How would a government provide temporary accommodation to a 12 year old who is at risk of abuse?
The need for this type of refuge isn’t the product of a shitty housing market.
Note also, most of the funding comes from government agencies.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I’ve been involved as a treasurer for a number of “medium” charities in Australia. Most recently one providing free legal services to the disadvantaged, and another running a refuge for homeless youth.
As an aside, bear in mind that I as a treasurer as well as the entire board are volunteers - well qualified and experienced professionals donating their time to ensure that the organisation is run efficiently and is maximising the benefit to the community.
Your comments really grind my gears. They’re born of shallow social media type thinking. These falsehoods are commonly used as a “reason” why one ought not to donate to charities.
Certainly there are overpaid CEOs, but these are a minority. Recently the charity running the refuge got a new CEO. He had been a police superintendent. He took a pay cut of about two thirds in order to be our CEO. He said that he had spent most of his career locking people up, and wanted to spend the last part of his career changing kids trajectories before they got involved with the law.
Imagine saying that this organisation would be more efficient of it were subsumed by the government, so the CEO-equivalent could be paid 3x as much.
- Comment on Current state of Reddit 1 year ago:
do donations need to be truthful in plain terms of how the funds are used ?
I think in 2023 parlance the claim is probably plain enough to be “truthful”.
Giving gold supports the contributors you love
It’s pretty well established that receiving gold on reddit is perks like… a gold star or something, rather than actual real gold.
- Comment on What happened to LineageOS? Has it been replaced by GrapheneOS? 1 year ago:
Probably because the lack of google apps is the most noticeable difference to stock android?
- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 1 year ago:
Some of the best / most nuanced medical advice I’ve ever received is from online forums.
I think what you really mean is “don’t risk your life on the basis of advice from strangers”.
Note that all the other answers ITT say “yes anything that elevates your HR is dangerous”, so OP knows not to play that type of game before his next appointment with his cardiologist, which could be weeks or months away.
Had they not asked, they wouldn’t know to avoid that activity.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 1 year ago:
I have no idea.
This says the PTFE passes through undigested but who knows:
- Comment on why do some clothes shrink in the laundry and what can I do to prevent it? 1 year ago:
Top loaders submerge & scrub. Front loaders dunk.
- Comment on why do some clothes shrink in the laundry and what can I do to prevent it? 1 year ago:
Yeah but the concept is still the same. Top loaders submerge and scrub, front loaders dunk.
- Comment on why do some clothes shrink in the laundry and what can I do to prevent it? 1 year ago:
- no wool
- anticipate 3% shrinkage on new items
- front loader
- cold wash
- no fab softener
- line dry
- Comment on I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal? 1 year ago:
Is that normal?
Yes
- Comment on Voyager 1's Golden Record 1 year ago:
Trust me, I’ve been a space/Star Trek nerd since my youth. I know what’s on there.
I’m not saying you don’t know what’s on there, but your comments kinda make you sound like someone who doesn’t know what’s on there.
include more stuff from the nations of Africa, Asia, South America, and some stuff from the native people of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Americas.
There literally is stuff from all of those places.
You could argue that Bach and Beethoven are over-represented, but I’m sure that a great deal of consideration and deliberation was devoted to deciding what to include.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
“I was able to find something that aligned with my assertion”
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
They really are.
Every generation since the dawn of mankind thought that the world was about to end.
Things are gonna get a bit shit in the coming decades - but really that’s all the more reason to save some money.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
This narrative sounds nice and makes me feel safe, it must be true.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
I don’t think there’s consensus on the numbers you’re quoting.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
the expectation that everyone must pick a side
Yeah, I’ve had some nauseating back and forth with several users who just can’t seem to grasp the notion that criticising Israel does not mean you support Hamas.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
That’s not what’s happening though.
Regardless, hostages require at least negotiation. They could execute a few hostages to provoke israel further.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
Their objective was to provoke this response from Israel. Hostages really force Israel to act immediately.
- Comment on How to deal with annoying co-worker 1 year ago:
Your entire post is about managing a neurodivergent person. That’s a diagnosis.
It’s completely inappropriate to make assumptions about a co-worker’s mental faculties, and to act on those assumptions.
OP did try talking to the person but frankly, doesn’t seem very experienced in that regard.
OP needs to build a working relationship with this guy such that he doesn’t respond to feedback as though it’s a personal attack. The only way to do that is talking.
- Comment on How to deal with annoying co-worker 1 year ago:
Sorry mate this is just wrong all the way up and down.
Don’t try diagnosing a co-worker, don’t go running to HR asking about “equality” for someone you’ve diagnosed, and as a team leader just separating yourself from your team is not a solution.
- Comment on How to deal with annoying co-worker 1 year ago:
Sorry mate. IMO this is really bread and butter for a team leader.
You’re not children. You don’t need to be “nice” or “mean”.
- hey guy
- I’m really enjoying working with you. You seem to be amazing at x. I’m really hoping I can learn about y from you.
- If I’m really honest though, I just can’t concentrate with the fart noises. I know it’s just a joke and maybe others are ok with it but it really disrupts my flow, every time.
- Anyhow, how have you been going with z.
- Comment on How to deal with annoying co-worker 1 year ago:
Have you tried… you know… talking to him about it?
I mean a cool headed calm discussion avoid not making farther noises.
I guess it depends on the culture of your work place but honestly I feel like this is something that can be easily resolved and it’s part of managing a team.
- Comment on Why do phones come with SMS delivery reports turned off by default? 1 year ago:
Could it be that it’s just not reliable on all networks in all countries?
- Comment on What does going to a mental institution do for you? 1 year ago:
I’ve been to a bunch of therapists in my time.
They’re not just people to talk to about your problems. Find a friend or family member or write a journal or something for that.
Basically, if you have a harmful behavior, a therapist can help you understand what’s causing it and maybe correct it. For example, in my case I worry constantly about my work. The the point where it’s more or less paralysing and I’m afraid to leave my house. Therapy can kind of help me dig into the underlying misconceptions which cause the worry.
For me, personally, 100s of hours of therapy was nowhere as beneficial as reading a few books about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). Learning about these therapies isn’t enough, you have to put them into practice which is hard work.
That said, feeling tired and unmotivated can be caused by a plethora of different physical and mental ailments. Honestly I think step 1 would be to talk to a GP. Here in Australia you can get a full panel of bloods that will show if you’re deficient in any vitamins.
A mental institution is not the right place for you. We are all of us a bit messed up in the head. If you’re 20% messed up and I’m 40% messed up, being somewhere surrounded by people who are 80% or 90% messed up would not be a nice place for either of us to recuperate. Institutions are usually for people who are at risk of harming themselves or others. Another commenter said that’s only for involuntary patients but honestly, you’d only volunteer to be in a place like that if you acknowledged that you were at risk of harming yourself or others.
- Comment on I feel stupid asking this 1 year ago:
Not necessarily. If (big if) there’s enough users here then celebrities will come.
They’d want to form their own instance though, and for that reason it wouldnt have the glorious drama of /r/AMA - they would just delete any spicy stuff.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
Hmm. I did have a look.
I think you could divide extraction methods into pressurised vs non-pressurised.
Probably personal preference which is best.
- Comment on Will people respond better if you say you're teetotal, or straight edge? 1 year ago:
Just say no thanks. No need to tell them that it’s a life long choice.