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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • Under oath. In front of everyone.

  • Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.

  • Nothing says ‘free speech’ like arresting people during your speech.

  • Sorry, but this is kinda separate:

    we couldn't possibly pay the market price for it.

    &

    I was like but that's the job.

    This is literally what labour unions are for?

  • Well, this shows that the people in charge have no idea what they’re running, and are not adding any value. We’ve been brainwashed (by them buying our eyeballs and brains) to think they do.

    They do not.

    I cannot stress this enough:

    THEY. DO. NOT.

  • Thanks. It sounds like our backgrounds are similar.

    Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

    That’s awful. It feels really bad when you feel you’re standing in the way of people getting jobs. When you would normally feel like you might be a leftist, this sort of point can be easily exploited to make you feel bad, right?

    I don’t even want to address the rest of your points until we go over this one because it feels so important.

  • No, I ended up hiring under qualified people who had skills on paper but had no talent for the job, because I had to look at candidates who had ‘book’ qualifications in adjacent fields but not passion or any qualifications that actually meant anything to the specialty itself.This was a design and engineering job.

    e: and to be clear, our company president was famous for saying ‘specialisation is for insects’. Like that was his catchphrase.

    I’d rather teach someone with passion and interest on the job vs someone who has neither of those but with a certificate any day, and I’ve done both.

  • 15 years ago. Unfortunately not of my own volition (I became unable to work due to disability).

    e: I can’t write right

  • Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even consider people with my own qualifications.

    I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.

    e: You can probably guess how that went.

  • It’s actually a domestic peccary, neither a pig nor a boar. That long snout is 100% peccary.

    A boar is going to be mean, and a pig doesn’t look like that. Peccaries are routinely domesticated in South America, and look more ‘weird’ to a NA audience.

    e: picture of a happy peccary, without the costume that makes it look menacing:

    You’ll notice the same tan face colouring as the TNG actor. And look at his cute little ears – this one’s a baby. :)

  • Clearly the dog. Poor thing had to wear 2 fur suits under all those hot lights, whereas George just had to carry an annoyed dog.

  • I am sorry you had to go through that growing up. It makes perfect sense that would influence your first/last desires.

  • We’ve already seen this in medical, with Dr Oz being promoted to a leadership position in the government. And now, since Measles has made a comeback, he’s floundering trying to get a pro-vaccine message out, since oh shit, it turns out traditional doctors who actually listened in med school instead of just paying professors off whilst doing bumps in the dorm room were actually right. Who’da thought?

  • rule

    Jump
  • Quantum physics is Yokai.

    Specifically, Shirime.

  • US brain drain effects for the next generation will be brutal.

  • It started with Nixon, though (arguably before, but not in pop-psy). Reagan should be the point of convergence.

  • This is what I do. Some of the good stuff up first, then save the rest of the good stuff for last. Kind of a shit sandwich, but with the best bread.

  • Hey man, I’m busy. Future Me has way more time, and they’re already angry at me, so they can deal with it.

    (JK… I’m pretty good at documenting my shit now.)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Are you a 'do the good part first' or 'save the best part for last' sort of person?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Fuck that guy

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    I was a rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Potato rules

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Potato, better than beans, better than corn rule

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Pam Bondi’s Prepared Insult Flash Cards Exposed by GOP Rep

    www.thedailybeast.com /thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/
  • Comedy Heaven @lemmy.world

    Meta comedy in a children's show

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Could make a comeback

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world

    YSK You may have unclaimed funds held by your government

  • News @lemmy.world

    Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service

    www.huffpost.com /entry/latest-news-trump-maduro_n_695bb603e4b0d6beb5fd9469/liveblog_695c153ce4b0d6beb5fe025f
  • Videos @lemmy.world

    The Unbelievable Story of the Carol of the Bells

  • Today I learned @lemmy.ml

    TIL of Dawson disease, a horrific complication of measles

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencephalitis
  • Books @lemmy.ml

    Blue Are the Hills – a character-driven scifi novel about transhumanism and hope

    a.co /d/7UpPxDZ
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    What story would you like to read or watch?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Yawn

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    What's your comfort movie?

  • Today I learned @lemmy.ml

    TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Number_sense_in_animals
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

    Not a bot.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    Several times a day

  • science @lemmy.world

    Why does seafood sometimes taste sweet