They probably don’t believe you because most of the time a 20% growth rate doesn’t just stay constant for a decade, allowing for such simplistic extrapolations. There are examples to the contrary. But a 20% growth rate means 750% growth over 10 years and that is a lot.

I would venture to guess that the disciplinary action generated more attention than the haka itself. So a good thing in the end.

Employee retention is not difficult right now. Hiring is on pause everywhere. Layoffs have been sweeping through over and over. It’s an employer’s market right now, through and through. Companies are looking for ways to get people to quit, not complaining about low retention.

quickly

That’s the problem. It wasn’t quick. If it had been released quickly and been a failure, that would be one thing. But to hype it and hype it and pre-sell it into new devices for 9 months only THEN to release a failure… now that’s fucked up. Apple hardware has been crushing it for years. Software is a mess. Services couldn’t piss themselves if their pants were on fire.

When has it ever been any better? There’s plenty we can say about class exploitation, racism, lack of healthcare for the poor, low wages, war… but was any part of that better in any other era of history? You could make a tenuous argument that some of these were marginally better a decade or three ago, but in the grand schemes of things, the only thing that’s gotten worse during our history is environmental devastation. And even on that score, we are rookies. The cyanobacteria fucked this ball of slime UP long before it was cool.

I’m not saying everything’s great. I’m saying it’s only been worse as you look back.

I usually agree but sometimes I think it’s a mistake to attribute any principle to them whatsoever. More and more I think the right wing has no actual center and is just an agglomeration of voters being swung around and manipulated by a random list of media and political hustlers. They’re a blob of chaos being goaded forward by this grifter and now that grifter. I’d like to believe there is any kind of guiding principle they have in mind but I don’t think there actually is any. They are so-and-so many asses braying toward so-and-so many dangled carrots.

AND the stock market ROARS BACK to… 80% of previous baseline. O the winning!

This points to a flaw in your question.

You probably should have said “foolproof countermeasure” if you really just wanted to remove nukes as a factor to see what happens.

But you said “foolproof deterrent” and now you’re quibbling at people over whether a psychological deterrent can actually be foolproof.

Maybe not, but then your question is nonsensical. The fact is that we are already using guaranteed total destruction of the world as a deterrent and it has so far worked. What more deterrence are you even suggesting we might add to that???

I mean… for now. How long until drones with thrusters on their backs can land on a missle and redirect it wherever they want?

Sometimes we ask questions to gain knowledge we simply haven’t found yet.

Other times we ask questions because some knowledge just won’t stick in our brains even when it’s given to us, and then we spend the thread fighting the answer for that same reason: it just won’t stick.

Anti-ballistic missile defense systems are a technology.

You asked what would happen. A treaty is a thing that can happen.

Why don’t you tell us what you think would happen and be done, if that’s what this is really about.

In all seriousness I wonder if GCal could schedule something this far in the future…

Spoken like someone who has never attended university. Please don’t come back and say you did - that would be even worse, because it will mean you didn’t learn a fucking thing by being there.

It’s kind a pronoum rite?

While I understand the sentiment, I think it’s a little over the top despairing. Kids DO get free lunch and breakfast where I live. The district and parents banded together to even make sure this continued all throughout COVID.

“Where I live” is the best I can do. I can’t guarantee it gets done everywhere. But I also don’t want to act like nothing ever gets done anywhere. While you’re cursing the darkness, a lot of people are out there lighting candles.

It actually does, but then one doesn’t like to offer the utilitarian argument for feeding children. If it has to be debated down at that level, the day is already lost.

Next time just tell her nope actually Jesus said it’s YOUR responsibility.

I sob like a kid every time. They are purely innocent and loving. The grief is correspondingly pure.

No one will like hearing this answer but they may already understand the issue of it being bad data and have a good reason not to care.

Here’s the thing. When “none” or “skip” is there, people gravitate toward it. You end up getting 75% of people saying “none” for every question, and then your entire survey is meaningless. I hate surveys too. Everyone hates them. All the more reason to just mash “skip” or “none.” Because fuck you and fuck your survey.

Meanwhile, what % of people don’t touch any of these social networks? Maybe we can’t say for sure, but it’s way less than 75%.

So you’re choosing between two possible sources of bad data, and choosing the one you know to be of lower magnitude.

You’re right. I was thinking about private citizens but that’s not the situation on this one.

I couldn’t mind less. A sad little ad hominem like that from someone stupid enough to see it that way is no skin off my nose.