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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sounds like a horrific place to work.
I can get the abstainment from alcohol, but where can I find a job that wants me to get laid so badly they'll fire me fore refusing?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
where can I find a job that wants me to get laid so badly they'll fire me fore refusing?
Prostitution
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sounds like a horrific place to work.
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forciblyparticipate inseminars andend-of-week drinks frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available”.I'm onboard with that part, except forcing people to drink.
“humiliating and intrusive practices regarding privacy such as simulated sexual acts, the obligation to share a bed with a colleague during seminars, the use of nicknames to designate people and hanging up deformed and made-up photos in offices”, said the court in its ruling.
The rest just sounds like a Uni frat house from a teenage movie and not how any adults should function at work or at a work event.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
where can I find a job that wants me to get laid so badly they'll fire me fore refusing?
Prostitution
That's illegal here.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
That's illegal here.
Everything is legal, until you get caught
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
That's illegal here.
Everything is legal, until you get caught
Risk not worth reward. Besides, employer would have to do the catching avoidance.
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@Tsaukpaetra self-employed
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
employerpimp would have to do the catching avoidance.FTFY
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra self-employed
You know how that ends though. Also, statement still stands.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra self-employed
You know how that ends though.
I don't. But I know it starts with OnlyFans.
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https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/519686517/unieke-golf-van-protesten-in-china-vrijheid-is-zuurstof-voor-de-ziel
(Paywalled, Dutch)Hundreds protest against Chinese anti-covid policy (and the government in general) in Shanghai.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
where can I find a job that wants me to get laid so badly they'll fire me fore refusing?
Prostitution
That's illegal here.
Not if you record it. Then it's perfectly legal.
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@BernieTheBernie you never told us Kevin was an actual bird.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
you never told us Kevin was an actual bird
Maybe he chickened out?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Woburn near Boston
Paging @GuyWhoKilledBear for clarification regarding distance.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I used to live in the area. I'm pretty sure he will say it's close enough.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
I used to live in the area.
You fled the wild turkeys?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You fled the wild turkeys?
I lived about half an hour away from Boston University so the wild turkeys weren't that much of an issue.
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@dcon And thus we learned why those turkeys are so aggressive: ethanol intoxication.
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Cows fed with hemp are living the high life and produce milk with THC
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@TimeBandit And what about cannabinoids in steaks? Getting high while they are still on the grill?
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@BernieTheBernie It's rare
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie It's rare
Well, rare for rare, given the fat content. But only medium-rare for medium-rare.
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Wait a second...
Ever heard ofleap seconds
? Can we get rid of them?
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@BernieTheBernie linked an article in In other news today... that said:
But Russia, which voted against the proposal, wants to push back the date to 2040 or later to deal with technical issues in its satellite-navigation system, GLONASS.
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- Why and how the $hell do they do that? GPS sends down TAI. It is up to the receiver on the ground to know how many leap seconds there were to do the conversion to UTC. That sounds like the only sane approach to me.
- Even if the satellites are told about leap seconds for some reason, I don't see how the case when leap seconds stop being added differs from there being none needed.
- Unless they managed to entangle the fact that UTC never differs from UT1 by more than 0.9 seconds in the position calculation itself, but 0.9 seconds is 13.5", which is up to ~417 m, too much to not have the correction included in the ephemeris calculation.
So …
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Let us talk about smart phone addiction: "linked with lower cognitive abilities, less self-control, and worse psychological well-being"
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@BernieTheBernie linked an article in In other news today... that also said:
Astronomers who rely on
UT1
to align their telescopes will also need to adjust for the changeThose 13.5" is absolutely massive difference for higher performance telescopes, so those astronomers already can't use UTC as substitute for UT1 anyway.
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The activist group intends to keep up the pressure in the coming weeks.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The activist group intends to keep up the pressure in the coming weeks.
, but poorly. "Keep the pressure going" would actually work.
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Warning: auto-playing video
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Article @TimeBandit posted in In other news today... said:
after the company missed earlier timelines set by him.
Why do outlets still think this is strange enough to report?
We've been in the "within two years" hell for two decades!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Wait a second...
Ever heard ofleap seconds
? Can we get rid of them?
Now do DST
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/30/trustcor-internet-authority-mozilla/
Missing The Point Award from the comments section:
The first guy mentioned crypto(currency) companies, yes, but if quantum computing breaks cryptography, altcoins will be the least of everyone's worries
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@hungrier unless your RSA key is literally 3*7, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Now do DST
EU already agreed on abolishing DST. By the end of 2021! Well, guess what, it's 2022 and we still have DST. The whole agreement collapsed when they couldn't agree whether the Central European Time should get stuck at UTC+1 or UTC+2.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Now do DST
EU already agreed on abolishing DST. By the end of 2021! Well, guess what, it's 2022 and we still have DST. The whole agreement collapsed when they couldn't agree whether the Central European Time should get stuck at UTC+1 or UTC+2.
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Similarly, the US has a bill to abolish the DST here. But it's stuck because they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
Toby Faire, there are allegedly places (known as "the South") where the Sun stays up hours later in the winter.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
That's better than driving to work in the dark.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
@dcon said in In other news today...:
That's better than driving to work in the dark.
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This is from a couple of days ago:
“Google and iHeartMedia paid influencers to promote products they never used, showing a blatant disrespect for truth-in-advertising rules,” Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Samuel Levine said in a statement provided by the FTC. “The FTC will not stop working with our partners in the states to crack down on deceptive ads and ensure firms that break the rules pay a price.”
Of course, $9.4M is barely pocket change for Google.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
@dcon said in In other news today...:
That's better than driving to work in the dark.
I haven't seen the sun for about a month now. And even without the cloud cover, I wouldn't see the sun during my commute either way for the next 3-4 months. In the winter, my only glimpses of it are through the office windows. So the question is frankly rather academic from my point of view.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
It's still the same time whether you call it 4PM or 5PM. And it's being called 4PM now anyway.
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No idea what Hive Social is, but apparently a site run by two guys might not be all that secure...