And all the doom games.
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13·2 days agoRobert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley
43·2 days agoThey forgot to mention he’s funding a PAC that is financing most of Trump’s campaign workers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/trump-voter-turnout-elon-musk-pac
Let’s hope it’s as well run as Twitter.
I used to love that every time I drove through Bedford, the sign said “welcome to Bedford midpoint of the Oxford Cambridge arc”
Such a nonentity that even the council couldn’t be fucked to say something about it.
21·7 days agoSlack supports self-hosting. https://api.slack.com/distribution/hosting
In theory. It’s just standard contract law. You violate the contract, so you have to make the other party right.
In practice, the court is likely to go, “You should’ve hired someone else to do the work. No costs”
No, not at all.
If the company fire you they have to pay you, e.g., three months notice, regardless of if they want you to do the work or not.
If you quit without notice, you might have to pay the costs incurred by you quitting early, but that’s not your salary -because they now wouldn’t be paying you.
Costs might be something like the company having to refuse an order because they now don’t have enough people to do the work, or the increased cost of an expedited hiring process.
I don’t know how common costs are in France, but the UK has the same rules and essentially no one ever claims costs. You need to really fuck over your employee in a very explicit and well documented way for this to even be considered.
The main disadvantage is you will have a bad reference if you leave without notice.
If you hate billionaires but like steak, have you tried eating the rich?
“Get out to vote” is a direct instruction. It means you personally should go and vote.
“Get out the vote” means you should get everyone else out to vote. “Vote” is being used as a mass noun that you want to make as large as possible -by getting it out and making sure people turn up.
A relationship graph which requires no gay relationships is called a bigraph (honest, I’m not making this up) or bipartite.
That follows because if you can two color the graph so that edges only connect different colors, you just assign male to one color and female to the other.
This means there’s a tone of mathematical identities describing this. Wikipedia has a good introduction.
2·14 days agoThat’s just what they want you to think.
14·14 days agoI heard that if her white van drops below 30 the cat explodes.
2·15 days agoI mean if it was a realistic list around 4 (not sure how many were actually released) of the top ten would be fantastic four films.
This is just a list of “superhero films everyone has seen that were kinda mid”. I want a list of the films that were so bad I’ve not heard of them, because they crashed and burned so spectacularly.
2·16 days agoGrammatically, introducing “her” doesn’t reduce the ambiguity.
The sentence still could refer to her ordering someone to steal her handbag. E.g. “the crime minister had her partner killed” will almost always refer to a murder for hire.
“The crime minister’s bag was stolen” is less ambiguous. But it’s English, everything is going to be a bit vague.
3·17 days agoHe fucked up dropping out as well as everything else. People can still vote 🪱 in a bunch of states.
9·19 days agoThe original case was just bullshit made up by a bored journalist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.
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26·21 days agoIt’s a recurring thing.
Right wing astroturfing groups keep trying to get control of the national trust.
If it’s not vegan food, they’re complaining about pride, or people explaining where all the money for these big country houses came from.
The group’s actually run out of the same place as a Tory think-tank. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/national-trust-captured-by-well-funded-fake-grassroots-group-restore-trust
I just went looking for this. Here’s a link to the podcast for everyone else: https://pca.st/episode/b8388458-0062-47c5-a259-fae295a45305
Both. It’s satire.
The “benefit” of world hunger is that it keeps people locked in their place and entrenches the status quo. This is actually true, and the author believes it, but he doesn’t like it.
Many people benefit from world hunger though, and every time you hear that poverty is a hard problem to solve you should ask yourself, how much of that is actual problems and how much is the status quo resisting change?