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ShaunaTheDead

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  • curved it is

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  • Katana's are weak on the flat side. They aren't really meant to be used for parrying. In fact, most sword fights in Japan would be over after the first or second swing. It was commonplace to hold the grip of a katana but not draw it in such a way so that your enemy has trouble judging how long your katana is and what is a safe distance to be from you. Once your opponent is in range, draw it quickly and kill them in one blow, ideally.

    The act of killing your opponent in a single blow is called "nukitsuke" from "nukiuchi" meaning "to cut down an opponent" and "tsuke" meaning "to stop an opponent's attack before it begins".

    The Sekiro and popular media image of extended katana fights didn't really happen, but if they did, there would almost certainly be some broken katanas.

  • Eureka

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  • True, but I didn't say he was the first, I said "one of the first"

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • Wow, hey buddy, after looking through your comment history I see a long standing pattern of sarcasm, derision, and outright anger. If you're not already doing so, you should strongly consider therapy for anger management.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • Does it matter what their intentions are if the result is that they end up protecting employees too? They are being paid by the company too, and it's their job to make sure the company follows legal practices to ensure the company doesn't get sued. Of course they have an incentive to protect the company, but any trained and educated HR person knows that treating employees well is a great way to protect the company.

    Does it always work out that way? No. Why? There are HR people who are bad at their jobs or intentionally malicious or unscrupulous, yes. There are also "HR departments" that are run by family members of an executive of the company and don't have any idea what they're doing.

    All I'm saying is that HR departments, most of them, at least try to talk executives into doing the right thing, but at the end of the day HR doesn't get to make the final decision.

    If you're mad at the HR department of your company for something, it almost certainly wasn't their idea.

    Or in very simple terms, don't shoot the messenger.

  • Eureka

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  • Yeah I was gonna say that. He was famously single his entire life and is speculated to be one of the first historical examples of an asexual and aromantic person.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • I have no opinion on that because that's not what we're talking about. Usually companies that offer hourly rates rather than salaries don't have an HR department, or the HR department is so far removed from those employees as to make no difference to them whether they're there or not.

    I'm not sure what you want me to say because it's pretty much irrelevant to the situation I'm describing.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • You're making up straw man arguments and you obviously haven't even read my post.

    Also, I'm not HR.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • I understand your point, although I disagree. I will say that my intentions were never that you (and everyone else) should be buddies with HR, or even trust them. But there's a huge difference between being friendly but at a distance and being actively hostile.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • You get paid by the company. The company not closing down benefits you. Also, your performance should (in most cases) lead to raises to your salary.

  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • Do you dislike HR in workplaces?

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  • My wife works in HR and there a lot of misconceptions about the field. First off, a lot of people call them "the cops of the company" or claim that they're only out to protect the company. If your HR person is any good then that is not their goal. Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they're also there to protect the employees. It's been proven time and time again that being good and fair to your employees leads to more productivity. A good HR person is always fighting with the top brass trying to convince them to do the right thing for the employees. They're in the weeds with the executives explaining to them why giving a raise that just matches inflation is not a raise, and anything less is actually a demotion. They're explaining why giving benefits will actually earn the company money in the long run through employee retention. They're trying their best to get performance reports, pay bands, etc, so that employees will see feedback on their performance and receive help when they need it and increased salaries when they're excelling.

    Not all HR departments are great, there are plenty that are awful, but imagine this scenario -- and this has happened to my wife many, many, many times:

    You go to the executives with a plan for raises and benefits, you've been working on it for months. Both physically working on it, and in meetings explaining to the executives how this plan will not just benefit them but also the employees. After all that work, the executives take your carefully crafted plan, completely gut it despite all your advising, then hand it back to you and tell you to present it to everyone as though this was your grand dream from the beginning. It's pretty demoralizing, but you have to put on a brave face and try to remain positive while explaining "your plan", and keep all the stuff about how good it actually could have been if you'd be allowed to do what you know is right to yourself.

    It's better than nothing, after all. You've made some improvement to people's experience of the workplace.

    You know you've got a good HR team if you're working somewhere that has solid benefits, quarterly or semi-annual performance reports (with raises), pay bands and clear paths forward in your career, raises that at least meet inflation, a positive work culture where you feel at least some trust and comradery in your peers, etc. If you do, then those people are not your enemy.

    In brief, I hope some of you reading this will take away this message: HR people are not the enemy. They're just the messengers, and the advisors. If you have a problem with the HR department where you work, then you almost certainly have a problem with the team of executives who aren't listening to their expertise.

  • What's a trait you look for in potential partners that seems uniquely in your trait wishlist?

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  • What's a trait you look for in potential partners that seems uniquely in your trait wishlist?

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  • I enjoy that my wife is happy to, and even insists, upon going full goblin mode when we're at home. It's nice to just really relax and unwind with her with zero judgements.

  • Removing Windows. Choosing a new daily driver for a gaming PC

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  • I have no idea how to react to this.

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  • It's possible to be queer and racist, unfortunately.

  • Free Thinker

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  • Capitalism and Communism are bad, there is a middle ground which is better than both and most of the western world uses it. Have a largely free market, but also have socially funded services that wouldn't work under a free market system like healthcare.

  • What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now?

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  • I don't understand the appeal of foldable screen smart phones. Seems like nothing more than a gimmick to me.

  • [Solved?] Weird Font problems in desktop icons

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  • If you open /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icon/main.qml and search for line there's a section called PlasmaExtras.ShadowedLabel which seems to correspond with icon text and there's a line maximumLineCount: 2 you could try reducing that to 1 and it might fix your issue.

    It looks like KDE Plasma is based on QT6 and the icons I believe are a QT6 Label so you can also add some styling to it yourself. Here's the documentation for it: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-controls-label-members.html

    There is a property called lineHeight so you could just add that to the PlasmaExtras.ShadowedLabel and see if that fixes it.

  • big ol booties

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  • It's weevil time!