Every time I see the word used outside of a biological context, I imagine the person looks like this:
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“It’s just a few bad apples” is the big one for me. The full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”, because rotting apples release gasses that quickly cause other apples to rot as well. So if you have a few bad apples in a bunch, you’ll very quickly have a bunch of bad apples.
The phrase is usually used to defend bad cops, and the irony is always lost on them when you point out the full saying. Because even the good cops uphold “circle the wagons” systems and “we’ve investigated ourselves and determined we did nothing wrong” policies that protect bad cops… Meaning a few bad cops will very quickly rot the “good” ones.
Yeah, I’m in a similar situation. The way my organization works, each department gets assigned an HR rep, and is forced to go through that single rep for anything. And our rep is… Pretty awful?
She’ll randomly close job postings without notifying hiring managers, meaning they’re stuck waiting for applications that will never arrive. She’ll leave job postings open even after they have been filled, meaning managers continue to get bogged down by applicants who have no chance of getting hired. She’ll “forget” to forward PII to hiring managers for weeks, so they can’t reach out to applicants to schedule interviews. And she’ll literally deny doing all of this, even when proof (like screenshots of the job postings page) is provided.
The US Army’s “Simple Sabotage” handbook states that if you can’t overtly sabotage the enemy via things like bombs, you can try to covertly sabotage the enemy by getting a position in middle management and embodying the term “middle manglement”. Just be as useless as possible, all the time, to ensure projects get delayed.
We’re convinced that’s actually what she’s doing to us, simply because she hates our department. We’re an arts department in an otherwise non-artsy organization. Like three quarters of our department’s staff is openly trans, and we’re in the Deep South where that tends to be frowned upon; we used to joke that the one cishet white male part-timer was the diversity hire. She openly refuses to let our trans staff use preferred names on company-provided things (like email addresses and name tags) and her excuse is that IT requires legal names on everything like email addresses… Despite the fact that there is someone in HR who uses a preferred name for her email address.
We’re trying to get the organization to let us go around her or reassign us to a different HR rep, but gathering evidence is a sort of catch-22. How do you gather evidence against her when she’s the sole gatekeeper for basically everything that hiring managers would need to prove that she’s not doing her job? We’ve had a few applicants reach out directly to basically be like “hey uhh what the hell is going on” and those are the only real chances that hiring managers have had to bypass the HR rep.
I know this may be a joke, but I have used timers to great effect in the past. One instance comes to mind:
My players were looking for a missing child. They suspected a kidnapping. The Druid had transformed into a wolf, and was using scent to track the suspected kidnapper. The trail led them to the edge of a lake. In the middle of the lake, they could see a man in a rowboat. He had rowed out to the middle of a lake, and was in the process of dumping a squirming sack overboard. The players heard my description of how the sack hit the water, floated for a few seconds while it thrashed around, then sank below the surface.
The players fell into analysis paralysis. Would it be best to row out and stop the kidnapper? Focus on retrieving the sack that obviously had the kidnapped child in it? Risk splitting the party to do both simultaneously? While they were bickering about what to do, I quietly started a timer and set it in front of my DM screen. It was a not-so-subtle “you’re all wasting time arguing while a child is literally drowning” reminder.
The party saw me set the timer down, a silent beat passed as the realization hit, and then the entire party immediately sprang into action. Everyone piled into the rowboat on shore, while the paladin was asking to make a strength check to shove off and get the boat into the water. He rolled a natural 20, so the boat skipped a few times across the surface before the warrior took over rowing with a constitution check. He rolled a natural 19. They made it to the middle of the lake very quickly. The Druid wildshaped into something aquatic (I think a dolphin?) to go diving for the child, while the warrior and sorcerer piled into the kidnapper’s boat to prevent his escape. While all of that was going on, the paladin was making constitution saving throws to swim out to the middle of the lake (in heavy armor, I might add) to be on standby in case the child needed healing.
I didn’t actually intend on using the timer for anything. But the simple fact that I had it running pushed them into action. It was a powerful reminder that their characters wouldn’t have the time to fully analyze the situation and arrive at a plan of action by committee.
Any idea if Dante Virtual Soundcard supports Linux? I haven’t done any research on it, but I use a lot of audio-over-IP devices for work and all of them use the Dante protocol. It is definitely a “just open the program, tick a few boxes to route things from A to B, and everything works” solution.
I mean, that feels a little like saying “Andrew Jackson’s plan wasn’t to kill all native Americans. He just wanted to deport them across the country. Then things just got worse and worse, and now the only thing anyone remembers about that deportation plan is the Trail of Tears.”
That’s actually my personal theory on why they think it’s a choice. For them, it IS a conscious choice, because they’re gay and making an active choice to suppress it. They think everyone has gay urges, because they’re incapable of imagining a world where they aren’t their lived experience isn’t the default.
Yeah, heat dissipation is surprisingly difficult in space, because the only real way to do it is via radiation. And radiation is one of the least effective methods of dissipating heat.
The vast majority of heat transfer on earth happens via physical contact, in the form of fluids or solids touching each other. That’s what a heat sink is for. It increases surface area, so more fluid (air) can touch it and carry heat away. But without some sort of fluid contact, a heat sink isn’t going to help much. It’ll act as a radiator, but the cooling efficiency will only be a fraction of what is achieved via traditional forced air cooling.
Realistically, it would likely be broken up into smaller chunks. For instance, each console could be broken up and sorted by name, if it’s too large for a single torrent.
Individuals may not be able to afford the 390TB of storage for the entire thing… But plenty of people could spare a few MB to seed the “NES” section, or 398GB to seed the “PSX” section. How do I know? Because I have 398GB of PSX games being seeded on my NAS. It’s the entire PSX collection. And since no more PSX games are getting released, the torrent has been alive for literal years now. From that original 398GB, I have a ratio of over 300. That’s almost 120TB of upload traffic, purely from a PSX torrent.
And for the more modern systems, (which take exponentially more storage), those could be broken apart into more manageable chunks. For instance, the entire Xbox 360 collection is anywhere from 7-21TB, depending on how it is stored. Maybe the 7TB would be palatable, but it could even be broken apart further. For instance, maybe it could be broken into A-G, H-M, and N-Z (or whatever most evenly splits the collection into three separate torrents) to encourage more seeders.
You say that like Switzerland simply sat back and watched everyone else fight. Switzerland was only able to stay neutral because they were able to repel invasions extremely effectively. If they got conquered, they wouldn’t be able to remain neutral. Switzerland’s continued neutrality hinges on them being able to effectively defend their borders. Basically, they need to force any potential invaders to do the math and go “nah, it’s actually not worth invading. The benefits we would get aren’t going to outweigh the losses…”
That’s putting it lightly. Japan never really relaxed in regards to things like blatant racism and nationalism. In the wake of WW2, the Japanese government invested heavily in the arts to try and change their public image. And it largely worked. Overseas, the country is mostly known for anime and zany fashion.
But domestically, the country has always been extremely conservative and resistant to change. At ~99% natural Japanese, their population is one of the most homogenous in the world. And that ~1% of foreigners encompasses the entirety of tourism, foreign workers, etc… Japan has a saying that roughly translates to “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” and the culture definitely embodies that. The culture is largely defined by conformity and tradition, meaning even small deviations from societal expectations get heavily scrutinized.
This pressure to conform also means that Japan is extremely racist towards basically anyone who isn’t Japanese. If given the choice when hiring, Japanese companies will choose a Japanese applicant over a foreigner 100% of the time, even if the foreigner is just as qualified. That’s why the OP mentioned starting your own business if you plan on moving there. As a foreigner, you have basically no chance of getting hired by an existing company. As ann immigrant, your only real opportunities for employment will be in a stereotypically “foreign” job, (like teaching English), via international transfer, (like an American working for Toyota, and transferring to a Japanese branch), or via starting your own business.
And that racism has always been present, but it has recently started to percolate into outright jingoism. Their politics have always been a mess, but recent elections have swung things even farther towards fascism. They’re constitutionally prohibited from building an army, (it was one of the concessions they made after WW2, and they’re only allowed to keep a small national self-defense force), but they have politicians murmuring about building an army anyways.
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Reddit decides to remove r/all
Not quite, because /popular sorts by sub popularity, not post popularity.
Let’s say I make a post on a popular subreddit. The sub has 1M active users, and the post gets 10k upvotes, (so 1% of the active users upvoted it). It shows up on /popular, because the sub has a million active users, but will likely be buried on /all because it has a small proportional rate (only 1%) of upvotes.
Now let’s say I make a post on a niche sub. It only has 100 active users, but it gets 100 upvotes. Literally every single person on the sub who saw it upvoted. It’s the most popular post that the sub has ever seen. It would show up in /all because it was extremely popular where it was posted… But it doesn’t show up in /popular, because the sub only has 100 active users.
Removing /all will only serve to hurt niche communities, which historically rely on /all for visibility and to bring in new users. I personally found a ton of small niche subs that I otherwise never would have, simply by browsing /all.
It’s also going to help the site more easily control what content appears on their front page, because they can focus their moderation efforts on the most popular subs. With /all, niche communities were able to reach wide audiences… From the perspective of someone who is trying to push an agenda, that is a nightmare scenario. By removing /all, if the site admins want to shift the site’s zeitgeist, they only need to focus their censorship on a few select subs. The small niche subs can be easily ignored, because they won’t have any visibility except for the people who are already subscribed.
There were three other people in the car, the other three people survived, and the witness wasn’t even the one driving. They left a bar at like 1AM, and were driving home. The driver lost control when exiting the highway. It’s most likely a case of drunk driving ending in a crash. There are enough conspiracy theories, please stop trying to turn this into another one.
Suspect it was the way Sonarr/Radarr work their way through your monitored items but never get around to searching for some of them?
This is a common misconception, and is the exact thing Huntarr was meant to fix. The arr stack doesn’t search for items on your list after it has been added. You can configure them to search when the item is first added, but there are no follow-up searches after that. None. Zero. Nada.
Instead, the arr stack monitors RSS feeds from your configured trackers, and if it sees something that is on your list, it will grab the item. But it isn’t actively searching for anything on your list. It’s just getting a list of what was recently posted to the various trackers, and then comparing to your list of requested items.
But this presents a problem for lots of media. Especially older media that doesn’t get active re-releases or upscales. That content will simply sit on your Wanted list indefinitely, because nobody is posting them on your various trackers. And that’s exactly what Huntarr was meant to fix. It occasionally poked your arr stack to tell it to actively search for content that was already on its list, instead of simply waiting around for it to pop up on an RSS feed.
But yeah, it was obviously vibe-coded BS. It was a neat idea, and did exactly what it said on the label. But it’s not worth the massive potential for abuse.
Yup, they did the same with the FFX/X-2 port a while ago, and the PC version is now considered the definitive version because the QoL stuff is so nice.
Bazzite: The kid with rich parents who has built three gaming PCs in the past year, just to keep his hardware up-to-date… But he only uses them to emulate games that are at least 10 years old. He also thinks RAID is a backup. He happily parrots whatever last week’s tech blogger was posting about, but he gets some big parts of it wrong because he only read the AI generated summaries.
The article states that cancerous areas had ~2.5x more microplastics than the surrounding non-cancerous areas. It could be a chicken and egg/correlation≠causation situation, (is cancer caused by microplastics, or do cancerous cells attract microplastics?) but the article does outline that cancer cells clearly had more microplastics.
He always looks like someone is slowly but steadily sliding hardboiled eggs into his asshole, and he’s lowkey enjoying it but is trying not to react.
It’d be nice to be able to walk down a street without making other people uncomfortable because men in general are less assholish than bears.
A part of it is large numbers bias. Very few people encounter bears, so very few people experience bear attacks. Even if every bear was predisposed to attacking people, there would still be very few bear attacks. But virtually everyone encounters men on a near daily basis. So even if the likelihood of an attack is extremely low on a case-by-case basis, the overall number of incidents is much higher simply because there are more cases of people encountering men.
That’s why the go-to response to “it’s not every man” essentially boils down to “sure, it’s not every man. But it’s enough of them…”
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For the idiots like me who had to google it: HRT increases the risk of gout.
I was over here like “what, did you fuck a trans woman with your big toe?”