FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is it to have very bright skin in America? 1 day ago:
depends on what you mean by “very bright skin”? It also depends very much on where in America you’re talking about.
Remember, geographically, the US is more on par with the whole of the EU than any single country in the EU; and similarly with population size as well. You’re going to have a different experience going to CA than NY, or texas or Iowa. Or even Austin, Texas and some rural small town full of nothing but inbred rednecks in Texas. (same also for some parts of CA, if we’re being honest. There are some very republican strongholds in CA.)
- Comment on are there bots that downvote every comment users have? 1 day ago:
It seems off and on, I routinely have one downvote show up on every thing, including totally benign “hahah cute cat” type comments, or comments that are otherwise well received.
It started happening after I criticized Israel for genocide. (Specifically around the time that there was that giant missile barrage right at the start of the Israeli response.)
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 day ago:
you know… I wouldn’t put it past starfleet to think that was a good idea.
I mean, they don’t use surge protectors, they don’t use seatbelts, they don’t have handrailing. They don’t secure their cargos. and there are those times where the gravity gets conked out.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 day ago:
one of the things I find amusing is how scifi loves using neutronium armor.
If you removed neutronium from the super-dense gravity of it’s star… it would go off like a neutron bomb. A very big, neutron bomb. a single teaspoon of the stuff would probably crack the earth open. a single gram of the stuff would be more powerful than any nuclear weapon ever developed.
and people just love slapping that stuff onto the outside of their starships.
- Comment on Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say 1 day ago:
so, like, think about it. Laziness is the root of all invention.
If you really enjoyed hard work, we wouldn’t have invented lawn mowers, we’d just scythe everything. Or like, pasta makes instead of rolling pins. rolling pins instead of whateve came before (your hands?). wheels for carts instead of a travois, a travois instead of a backpack, and backpacks instead of just carrying everything in your arms.
- Comment on brap brap brap 2 days ago:
Squirtle Squirt Squirt!
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 3 days ago:
can’t be worse than the current pres. prolly.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 3 days ago:
Aeigheynneah
how is that even close to pronounced the same as Anna? most half the word would have to be silent.
- Comment on Will i stop drifting off if i get water? 4 days ago:
It won’t hurt, and dehydration can cause drowsiness or fatigue.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 4 days ago:
There’s also significant precedent saying children don’t have the mental awareness to make those kinds of decisions and therefore removing it to… the parents.
sorry, but getting that done, whether or not it’s right or wrong, is basically impossible. you would be overturning a couple centuries of precedent.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 4 days ago:
Using a password generator to name your kid should be treated as child neglect. Just saying.
regardless of if it is legal or not, anything restricting names is going to run pretty hard up against first amendment rights.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 4 days ago:
the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.
so we agree. because that’s my point. They’re not breaking up google or meta because it’s good to break up monopolies. They’re breaking them up because the oligarchs told them to.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 4 days ago:
remember, the google and meta things are about advertisng tech.
It’s hurting walmart, kroger, and several others who are- basically- monopolies on their own. (and have many, many in congress paid off.)
I’m not saying any corpo is somehow magically benevolent. No, I’m saying if you stick your hand in a tank full of hungry sharks… yer gonna get bit.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 4 days ago:
even inside co-ops, employee compensation is not set by popular vote. Generally, the Co-Op members will vote on a board that controls the business.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 4 days ago:
Google and Meta started hurting other giant corporations though. That’s a big no no.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 5 days ago:
functionally, it wouldn’t work for anything more than a very small start up. just on the practical side.
it’s not just a question of unfair advantage. It’s a bald faced stupid way to run a company. you cannot make everyone happy, and most people won’t be invested in making a sound business decision. they’re going to invest as much thought into it as voting in a poll about what soup is their favorite. maybe considerably less.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 5 days ago:
You might want to edit the title to include the actual question.
but as for the question itself… Ahm. just on a pragmatic side… “the rest of the company…” might be something that could be reasonably done on a small company (less than a 250 people. Probably less than 50 people, actually,) but in any large company, you may as well send out a poll asking what kind of soup they prefer- Chicken or Pea Soup- and which ever manager backing the losing soup gets the axe.
The only people who might be aware of how hard any given person works are going to be the team members alongside them and the direct reports above and below them.
And to be perfectly blunt, working hard doesn’t necessarily translate to work getting done. if the manager is just spinning their wheels and not getting the core stuff done, it’s a problem. If the manager is spending too much time on things that simply don’t matter… it’s a problem.
Ultimately, even if you can have a reasonable belief that every one knows what every one else does and doesn’t do (that sounds like hell, actually.) it turns into a popularity contest and the manager whose actually keeping things running might not get recognized by it, where the manager throwing parties and blowing cash does. One might say I’m being a stick in the mud, but the reality is, if the managers stop facilitating the work their people do… then the company fails. No parties. no jobs. no company.
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 1 week ago:
I like to export the failing onto other people, though.
gravity doesn’t really care who tries to disprove it, they still go splat.
- Comment on What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want? 2 weeks ago:
Russia wasn’t tarrif’d
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the problem with averages.
That’s not how the markets necessarily work. A bad year this year doesn’t necessarily mean an extra special year next year.
I guess the problem I’m pointing out is that it’s unlikely to fully regain the lost value fast enough to make up for the compound value that would have existed.
For people just starting out, it puts a significant cramp on their ability to gain capital. There may not be any better options, but it hurts people and in ways that won’t necessarily be made whole.
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 weeks ago:
it kind of depends on what you did with that money. There is an opportunity cost there.
I used my 401k to start a company. so far that’s performing well above the market (and continuing to. It’s a second job so I’m reinvesting that with annual contribution caps, etc.)
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 weeks ago:
correct me if I’m wrong here, but that 11%, to roll with your example, would need to be recovered immediately for that math. Like every month it doesn’t go back up… that’s compounding the lost opportunity. And if 2008 is anything to go by… it’s not just going to go back up, it’s going to take time.
like, if you expect a certain amount of growth, it’s unlikely you’ll get the 11% plus that “normal” growth back.
- Comment on gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something? 2 weeks ago:
Usually friends-with-benefits types don’t necessarily involve involuntary 3rd parties in their role play, even if they’re open with their friend groups about their shenanigans.
there’s a lot of ‘might be’ here, but none of it is particularly ‘normal’ behavior. I’m just gonna assume they’re weird trolls (or just one weird troll.)
- Comment on gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something? 2 weeks ago:
off the internet, too.
but, uhm, this isn’t normal behavior for friends, no.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 weeks ago:
Depends. If it’s me we’re talking about…. Nope.
But if it’s some asshole douchenozzle that’s forcing them to be a fake online girlfriend…… I’m okay with that guy not existing.
- Comment on Are color palettes subject to copyright protection? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can copyright a color, per se. You can trademark certain uses of color in certain schemes. For example, the walmart smiley is trademarked, but they can’t go after people just using a yellow smiley. or like, Checker Cabs, with their yellow and black livery. (as mentioned elsewhere, the pantone colorset is trademarked.
Further, you can get patents for pigments- specifically, their production methods, and how they get bound into a solvent or whatever. For an example here- Vanta Black. If someone were to get their hands on some second hand, the people that make it can’t stop them from using it, but they could go after another company producing it the same way they do.
Copyright protections are for works of art (or other works, eh.), and while there are plenty of monochrome works, part of what makes “art” … “art” is composition. For example, in the sampling of monochrome, that first one is a blue panel set inside a white frame. Others, you see the single color is composed of texture. (the Yves Klien painting, for example.) Or, like Gerhard Ricther’s solid gray which was expressly intended to convey… nothing (A lack of emotion or feeling, etc.)
But all of these are more than just the color they’re painted in.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
if it’s not aligned properly, it should shut off to prevent that from happening. (or, for example, if you place something else that’s metal over it.)
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
it shouldn’t.
There shouldn’t be any heat at all from the signal passing through the plastic (It’s basically transparent to RF’s,). The heat mostly comes from the RF interacting with the metal in the receiving antenna and inducing an electric current.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 4 weeks ago:
How’s the realtime traffic on those? I’m currently using magic earth and the routing is mostly okay compared to GMaps, but the traffic data is frequently stale.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 4 weeks ago:
They’re scanning the email contents.
and your google drive contents.
and everything else you send through their services.