It says attempted in one article but implies he succeeded in the other. Which is it? Did he fail successfully?
After the fall of our civilization due to our distance from God, I strongly suspect that the next St. Augustine will be writing about how we need to not glorify the past, and that it as abominations like creeper milk that led to its destruction, as an affront to God's natural law.
Creeper milk will be culturally considered the same way the carved penises that point to the local brothel in Pompei are considered today: an absurd and childish sign of the decadence of the fallen civilization.
Creeper milk will be culturally considered the same way the carved penises that point to the local brothel in Pompei are considered today: an absurd and childish sign of the decadence of the fallen civilization.
I compare what Trump is doing to the famous story of JCPenney. JCPenney was a mall slop store, and their core business model relied on pretending that all of their clothes were on sale when in reality that was just their normal price.
One CEO came in, and wanted to change the business model to low prices everyday. In my opinion, that was a good business move. Much bigger companies than JCPenney so have succeeded on low prices everyday, including Walmart and Target.
The problem is, there existing customer base expected fake sales and when they didn't see them they stopped coming. The result of this was a huge drop in sales.
A lot of advertisers take this to be evidence that you shouldn't make changes like that, and the return back and the ensuing recovery in sales is taken as an example of returning to normal after a bad decision.
The thing is, JCPenney still went out of business because that business model might have been making the money in the moment but it wasn't sustainable in the market that exists now. They needed to eat dirt for a few quarters and rebuild their customer base with people who weren't tricked by fake sales.
In the same way, it is entirely likely that high tariffs on countries like China will cause a major global recession. However, it's still the right thing to do. If the West wants to have things like labor law and environment regulation and reduction of carbon footprint they can't just keep on using China as a picture of Dorian Gray to cast all of our sins upon so we look like we're getting better by just getting them to do it for us.
Unfortunately, the two processes that are going on here don't act at the same speed. It takes seconds for an importer to call China and cancel their order, and it takes a couple quarters for that to burn its way through the economy. It takes years for a factory to be built, and after that it takes more years for it to get up to speed, to produce things at a profit, and to probably integrate into The national economy. Therefore, this really is an example of short-term pain hoping for longer-term game. Unfortunately, it's also an article of faith that it might actually work.
The idea that you can misread scary looking signs to be worse than they are is by no means a new one. In the epic of gilgamesh, the oldest story we have written down, has Gilgamesh and enkidu approached Humaba in the great cedar forest, and Gilgamesh had dreams that terrified him, but enkidu reassured him that they were actually signs of his ultimate victory, and he did ultimately prevail. Of course, in the same story and could do later interpreted his own dreams as a portent of his death and Gilgamesh tried to convince him that maybe the dreams meant something else but they did not, which shows that sometimes bad signs are just bad.
One CEO came in, and wanted to change the business model to low prices everyday. In my opinion, that was a good business move. Much bigger companies than JCPenney so have succeeded on low prices everyday, including Walmart and Target.
The problem is, there existing customer base expected fake sales and when they didn't see them they stopped coming. The result of this was a huge drop in sales.
A lot of advertisers take this to be evidence that you shouldn't make changes like that, and the return back and the ensuing recovery in sales is taken as an example of returning to normal after a bad decision.
The thing is, JCPenney still went out of business because that business model might have been making the money in the moment but it wasn't sustainable in the market that exists now. They needed to eat dirt for a few quarters and rebuild their customer base with people who weren't tricked by fake sales.
In the same way, it is entirely likely that high tariffs on countries like China will cause a major global recession. However, it's still the right thing to do. If the West wants to have things like labor law and environment regulation and reduction of carbon footprint they can't just keep on using China as a picture of Dorian Gray to cast all of our sins upon so we look like we're getting better by just getting them to do it for us.
Unfortunately, the two processes that are going on here don't act at the same speed. It takes seconds for an importer to call China and cancel their order, and it takes a couple quarters for that to burn its way through the economy. It takes years for a factory to be built, and after that it takes more years for it to get up to speed, to produce things at a profit, and to probably integrate into The national economy. Therefore, this really is an example of short-term pain hoping for longer-term game. Unfortunately, it's also an article of faith that it might actually work.
The idea that you can misread scary looking signs to be worse than they are is by no means a new one. In the epic of gilgamesh, the oldest story we have written down, has Gilgamesh and enkidu approached Humaba in the great cedar forest, and Gilgamesh had dreams that terrified him, but enkidu reassured him that they were actually signs of his ultimate victory, and he did ultimately prevail. Of course, in the same story and could do later interpreted his own dreams as a portent of his death and Gilgamesh tried to convince him that maybe the dreams meant something else but they did not, which shows that sometimes bad signs are just bad.
Takei is the same guy who said actions taken by the allies in a war against the literal third Reich were "fascist".
His takes would be taken out of a quarter gumball machine for being too worthless.
His takes would be taken out of a quarter gumball machine for being too worthless.
You know, I feel like one of the points of anything like the Olympics is to show what humanity is capable of, and whoever that was, that's pretty darn impressive.
There are so many individual movements there that I have never been able to do at any age and likely would not have been able to with any amount of training.
There are so many individual movements there that I have never been able to do at any age and likely would not have been able to with any amount of training.
One pet peeve I have is those devices that claim not to be vape pens, they claim that there's no vapor and that it's just flavored air.
Here's the problem: how exactly do you think air becomes flavored? Either a small amount of the chemical flavoring vaporizes under the mild vacuum when you suck on it, or small amount of chemical flavoring atomizes which is effectively the same thing for the purposes that they're talking about.
The key thing here is that flavor ends up in suspension, and then you inhale and it ends up in your mouth and down your throat and into your lungs.
Here's the problem: how exactly do you think air becomes flavored? Either a small amount of the chemical flavoring vaporizes under the mild vacuum when you suck on it, or small amount of chemical flavoring atomizes which is effectively the same thing for the purposes that they're talking about.
The key thing here is that flavor ends up in suspension, and then you inhale and it ends up in your mouth and down your throat and into your lungs.
"it's rude not to"
Yeah and it's also rude to ask for 50%.
You want 50% tip, the level of service I expect is black butler levels. Like the anime. "Sir, I used my demonic powers of hell to defeat your enemies." Ok you get 50%.
Yeah and it's also rude to ask for 50%.
You want 50% tip, the level of service I expect is black butler levels. Like the anime. "Sir, I used my demonic powers of hell to defeat your enemies." Ok you get 50%.
You'd listen to that more than most other windows startup sounds because windows 9x was as stable as that hot ex-girlfriend you had once and try not to think about anymore.
Ironically, it was quite the opposite that led to the rise of the national socialism. All the sexual liberation had people going "Holy shit we need some nazis because this shit is bananas"
Seems to me the root problem is the hollowing out of culture, and that's not something that you can legislate into existence.
If culture is failing then if it isn't social media it'll be something else. Culture and ideology must be stronger than the things that would tear it down, and we've got a fairly weak culture at the moment.
Effectively, if the dam is leaking, it's because we needed to build a better dam and it might be time to get to work before we all drown.
If culture is failing then if it isn't social media it'll be something else. Culture and ideology must be stronger than the things that would tear it down, and we've got a fairly weak culture at the moment.
Effectively, if the dam is leaking, it's because we needed to build a better dam and it might be time to get to work before we all drown.
Honestly, using base 10 for everything is actually super recent in historical terms.
For a lot of things throughout history going back the babylonians, things were base 60, the babylonians were base 24, and a lot of stuff in English history is based around these as well, which is why you'd have "sixpence" -- their entire money system was base 240 or something nuts like that. So the idea that other cultures would set up their number naming conventions on another base than 10 then look strange because of it isn't so insane.
We use base 60 more in our lives than you think -- 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours (which is divisible by 60) in a day, 360 degrees in a circle.
If you think about it, it makes some sense -- in a world before calculators, having a base that can be divided in many ways without getting into long division would be quite efficient, even if it doesn't match our number of fingers (or the number system we're using)
For a lot of things throughout history going back the babylonians, things were base 60, the babylonians were base 24, and a lot of stuff in English history is based around these as well, which is why you'd have "sixpence" -- their entire money system was base 240 or something nuts like that. So the idea that other cultures would set up their number naming conventions on another base than 10 then look strange because of it isn't so insane.
We use base 60 more in our lives than you think -- 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours (which is divisible by 60) in a day, 360 degrees in a circle.
If you think about it, it makes some sense -- in a world before calculators, having a base that can be divided in many ways without getting into long division would be quite efficient, even if it doesn't match our number of fingers (or the number system we're using)
The advice to change jobs every 2 years to make sure you optimize the amount of money you make intuitively seems like the sort of thing that is statistically true but is missing the bigger picture. It's the sort of thing that seems like it'll work for a while if some people do it, but if enough people are doing it hiring managers will start selecting against it.
Usually 2 years is the amount of time it takes for someone to actually be up to speed at their job, so spending 2 years training someone just to have them rush off at the moment they're actually useful doesn't seem like a good look.
My experience (and I'm not in silicon valley so take it for what it's worth), has been that karma has a tendency to throw opportunities to you every 4 years, and 4 years is long enough that your boss won't feel taken advantage of for training you. OTOH, 4 years often is enough runway for other opportunities to show up in the one organization.
It isn't like a hard time limit -- sometimes switching much earlier is the right answer if something you couldn't possibly live without happens, and sometimes those opportunities come to you and they're not worth taking, and sometimes you're in something really good and it's worth sticking around and becoming the old greybeard who knows what you're working on inside and out. But a hard 2 year career cadence will eventually start showing up on your resume, I suspect.
Usually 2 years is the amount of time it takes for someone to actually be up to speed at their job, so spending 2 years training someone just to have them rush off at the moment they're actually useful doesn't seem like a good look.
My experience (and I'm not in silicon valley so take it for what it's worth), has been that karma has a tendency to throw opportunities to you every 4 years, and 4 years is long enough that your boss won't feel taken advantage of for training you. OTOH, 4 years often is enough runway for other opportunities to show up in the one organization.
It isn't like a hard time limit -- sometimes switching much earlier is the right answer if something you couldn't possibly live without happens, and sometimes those opportunities come to you and they're not worth taking, and sometimes you're in something really good and it's worth sticking around and becoming the old greybeard who knows what you're working on inside and out. But a hard 2 year career cadence will eventually start showing up on your resume, I suspect.
You've still got one of the only decent instances on lemmy. I'm obviously not over there much, but it understands life is fun.
He reminds me of a male Kamala Harris, but I'm worried Canadians actually are dumber than Americans and will let him get a win anyway.
Sort of a sparse season of anime, tbh. On the other hand, we've had banger after banger for a long while, so it's kind of unfair to expect that every season (and not everyone like dumb trash isekai like I do)