A person's perception is highly informed by how well or poorly they understand the subject or situation in question.

Let's say you got stood up by a first date because they got hit by a car on their way to you. Your perception of them is going to vary wildly depending on whether or not you know the facts behind why they didn't show up.

Similarly, knowing how you actually fit into things at your job - i.e. your importance to your working group, the company, it's customers, society itself, allows you to have a more accurate set of facts to base your perception on.

So yes, the truth matters.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this.

People have all sorts of beliefs that can qualitatively be proven as right or wrong. For example, all the wingnuts who believe that the COVID vaccine has trackers from Microsoft. Their beliefs are 100% bereft of reality.

Now, can they go ahead and act on those mistaken beliefs? Sure. But that doesn't make their beliefs correct in any way.

While I get that this is an article geared to laymen/the general public, I do think we should be holding science communication to a higher standard.

I agree with you 100%.

It's perfectly possible to have both a reasonable salary as well as intrinsic satisfaction.

However, I will say that getting both of those characteristics together is far more likely with a skilled job compared to an unskilled job (i.e. jobs that require specific training and/or degrees).

It's worth pointing out that feeling like you work in a pointless, meaningless job doesn't necessarily make it true. This paper is solely about people's perceptions, not facts.

A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.

But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying "tell me your phone number so we can make sure it's you". They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.

After that, I said "fuck em", changed to other providers, and haven't look back since.

Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.

You won't find that level of detail in typical articles, because they are intended for the general public and are intended to be an overview that a layman can comprehend.

However, the paper itself, which the article links to, has more detail including deformation testing.

Believe it or not, you're the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.

You don't hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren't insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.

Don't make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.

I understand what you're saying completely. I'm not even saying that I disagree with you - to be honest, I'm not quite sure what to think about this circumstance.

However, I will say that there are limits to being lax on someone just because they are a child. This was a serious offense that could have cost multiple people their lives and a serious response is justifiably warranted.

If we were talking about shoplifting, sure. This case is more serious, however, and I'm not sure the same approach would be taken under the circumstances.

Your issue is that she's still there? The article implies that this only happened yesterday, so she's only been there for 1 day. That's not unreasonable for a felony.

This entire topic is about shortening the work week without any loss in pay.

Have you not been reading articles on this topic? Yes, we are talking about a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay.

Two things to consider are:

1. In my hypothetical, I did say that these were androids which could convincingly emulate personalities and human behavior. In other words, they would be capable of fulfilling psychological and emotional sides of a relationship.

2. The dating scene is particularly rough for men at the moment for various reasons. The internet's effect on social activities magnifies that, and the shift to work-from-home has made it worse.

Changes have to be made in the pay scale first, and then we can remove tipping...

I understand what you're saying, but that's just not how things work. As long as tipping is the norm, that pay scale will never change.

The only way it will change is if tipping stops and restaurants find themselves with no staff because they can no longer hire anyone for $2/hour.

Sometimes, communal sacrifice is the only way to get bad practices to change. I agree with you that it hurts, but the simple fact is that restaurants will not stop underpaying staff unless they are forced to.

And attempts to put this into law was fought by the servers themselves because enough of them make more money off of tips than they would from a straight salary.

So it's just not going to happen unless society forces their hand by saying "no, this is ridiculous" and stops paying extra for everything.

It shows 5 if you scan w14.monkrus.ws.

And this is Quttera's analysis here:
https://quttera.com/detailed_report/w14.monkrus.ws

Whether there is a real problem or not, it might be something the monkrus admins want to look into in order to address it.

But if anyone else has a better understanding of what's going on with their site, I'd love to hear it and it's probably good information for the rest of this sub.

There's nothing absurd about it. Your ignorance doesn't make your perspective valid.

What a load of BS. Where did I say that unrealistic standards referred to basic hygiene and the ability to enjoy being out of the house?

You're making up imaginary statements and then refuting them. Try improving your reading comprehension.

The two authors and their editor need to go back to school and re-learn what an order of magnitude is.

I find regular briefs to be the most comfortable.

You pointed out one of the issues with boxer-briefs, and regular boxers is like throwing a random wad of fabric down there and finding new ways of being uncomfortable throughout the day.

JFC, the answer to your question is literally the first sentence of the article. It would have taken you less time to read it then to post your question.

For the last month or two, my AV blocks their site because it detected a ScrInject.B trojan.

And yes, it's the correct site (monkrus.ws).

The size of a person's household or whether they live in the city are not the sole factors that go into a decision on what car to purchase.

A person can live alone but regularly car pool with coworkers, get together with multiple friends, go on day trips with family, or make extra income by driving for Uber (larger vehicles can charge more). Heck, sometimes just needing extra leg or head room rules out most regular sedans and makes an SUV more comfortable.

In addition, if a person's activities require a lot of cargo capacity, that essentially leaves you with either an SUV or a pickup as the primary options. So whether it's for luggage, buying stock for a family store, etc... that could be another reason for purchasing an SUV.

Sometimes, people feel that having a higher view of the road is safer because they can see more of what's ahead of them.

So don't fall prey to judging people as only needing an SUV if they have a large household or live in rural areas. It's a lot more involved than that.

Not that enriched if you're trying to insult people with "OK, Boomer".

That's an excellent point and very true.

Who actually gives a fuck?

A lot of people do.

What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

Understandtable, but if that's all it is, then there are already aggregate search websites.

Searching through that app still requires a plugin, and all the plugins I saw just seemed to be related to specific sites anyway - so you might as well just search on those sites.

Or is there a plugin that stands out over the rest?

You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.

I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it's yours.

Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it's for) - but oh, no, that's still not good enough for them.

Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number "so they can make sure it's you" - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.

That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.

A U-Haul doesn't need to achieve those speeds in order to kill multiple people in a single surge.

As for what's on what level, it all depends on the context. If we're talking about one-on-one violence, then a gun is no more deadly than a knife assuming that there isn't a significant difference between the two people involved.

If we're talking one person killing several, then a gun has an advantage at range while a knife has an advantage at close distances.

My original points still hold - if one person is trying to kill another, then that's the problem, not the tool that's used. Putting the blame on the tool is an ultimately fruitless endeavor - people can and will always be able to find another tool. The fact that people are getting murderous in the first place is what the real problem is.

The US cohabitated with guns for many years without mass shootings being nearly the epidemic that it currently is. There was no significant change in guns themselves that led to that change in mass shootings. But you know what did change? The internet came along.

The internet makes it really easy for someone with dark thoughts to find an echo chamber with a hundred contemptible numbnuts egging them on to do whatever they were contemplating doing.

Addressing that will be far more effective then trying to ban any particular tool. Take away guns? Then people will drive vehicles into crowds. Take away cars? Then people will make bombs. Take away explosives? Then people will use poison. Take away poisons? Then people will learn how to make bioweapons in their garage.

It's not about the tool. It's about thinking it's okay to murder someone just because you don't like them.

Doesn't really factor into this because if that's what you want, there are other ways. People rent trucks and drive them into crowds, but that doesn't mean that U-Haul is evil.

No, endocrine disrupting chemicals - which include pesticides, bisphenols, and phthalates.

Sequestering is absolutely not bullshit. It's done for very important reasons and judges are very careful about not ordering it unless it's truly necessary.

That has to do with how she behaved as a human being, not what tool she used. She could just have easily have stabbed him in the neck or strangled him with her purse strap.

You have given zero information that we need to offer relevant advice. You haven't told us your gender or the gender of your partner, what your ages are, what your respective experience levels are, what you normally like to do, etc...

Any specific advice anyone tries to give you would be nothing more than throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.

If you want good answers, you need to provide more information.

If you look at the nesting, you'll see that I wasn't responding to you, but to Hillock.

I actually agreed with your post. :)

If you have chosen to hide NSFW content, then what do you care if people who have it enabled have it as part of their feed?

What do you think the point is of subscribing to a sub is if it isn't incorporated into your feed? You are literally asking to break how kbin is designed to work.

No one is saying that blurring shouldn't be an option - just that it should either be tied to a user's NSFW setting or that it should be a user-selectable option.

There is no reason why blurred thumbnails can't easily be made into a user-selectable feature. That makes everyone happy.