Comment Re: Quit complaining (Score 2, Insightful) 130
...Aaand what does the agreement you sign with Microsoft look like?
...Aaand what does the agreement you sign with Microsoft look like?
They didn't get hacked, they got "technical debt"
Taking a guess, if you are referring to the Mondragon Corporation, then you live in Spain.
Spain is a: Kingdom. Constitutional Monarchy, to be exact. Formerly a nationalist dictatorship. Not now or ever a socialist state.
I come from: Hungary. When I was born, it was the Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary. Socialist was literally in the title. It was very bad. Protesters murdered with tanks in the street, secret police torturers, endemic soul-rotting corruption bad.
Don't make up labels because of wishful thinking. Be glad you live in a social democracy.
You may call it a socialist country, but I'd bet a thousand dollars that your own state does not call itself that.
I come from a country that called itself a socialist country. It was in Eastern Europe and things didn't go well.
If your country does not put the word "Socialist" in its name, it is not a socialist country. It may be a social democratic country, but that's very, very different. This is like a reverse No True Scotsman fallacy.
The idea that willpower is a finite resource is called the ego depletion effect, and several very large scale studies in the 2010s failed to reproduce it. (Wikipedia has a decent summary.) Everything else you said may be true, but I wouldn't rely on that idea as a proven fact. It may have just been one of the overly optimistic p-hacked results that triggered the whole reproducibility crisis in psychology and beyond.
So did Roald Dahl; in fact he wrote the most prescient such story. The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1954).
"internet is full of shitbags" isn't on topic. Corporations are full of amoral, cocaine soaked greedy, selfich bastards with absolutely no empathy is.
the corporations are full of shitbags, news at 11
FTFY. Oh, and an offtopic educational link for you grocers and foreigners and others who don't understand English:
https://www.angryflower.com/24...
I see enough of that shit on Farcebook. Note, I've been staying away from
Vladimir "Dwarf Emperor" Putin can eat a racism bowl of yandicks.
That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.
I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.
You should check out Firefox Multi-Account Containers and reduce your headache 30x.
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The Russian military's atrocities are not due to lack of discipline. They operate that way by design, to sow fear. They always have.
During World War II, Russian conscripts were more afraid of their superiors than the Wehrmacht - trying to desert was certain death, trying to fight the Germans you at least had a chance. There was discipline all right. But they still raped, murdered, and looted their way across Eastern Europe. The Russian high command never imposed their iron discipline to crack down on it. In fact, they led by example.
No, the Russian high command actively condones atrocities. They have for centuries. Brutality is inherent to Russia.
I worked and lived for 11 years in California and I intend to retire there one day. California is a success because of its incredible climate and geography, which over the last 100 years have created an incredible concentration of brains and capital and business. Successful, high-achieving people in every single field will always want to move there because of its climate. There is no state in the union that comes close to its year-round, mild, non-humid sunshine with no hurricanes or tornadoes. It is a success because of its climate, not because of its pro-business policies. Look, it's my favorite state, and I'm glad it uses the revenue to fund social programs. But let's not pretend political acumen is what got it where it is today.
You're right, but just to point out a minor correction that doesn't detract from your argument: they already pay their employees in cash only. Employees can choose to spend some of their earnings on discounted Netflix stock, and most do. So if their stock keeps growing, it will affect their employees, but it's a little different than most other tech companies.
Watched 2/3's of it. It's awful like the new Star Wars flicks.
Totally whoring out the franchise for quick bucks. Matrix 2 and 3 we're the same.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce