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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I feel like people need an education about the difference between spirit of the law and letter of the law.

    This comment reads like this:

    “I posted some truly heinous shit and a mod/admin removed it but I didn’t break any written rules therefore my right to force other people to be subjected to my desires was impinged upon😭😭😭😭.”




  • This will do the opposite of what you want. All of these policies disproportionately cause poor people to remain poor.

    It’s not intuitive and it sounds great till you realize that unless you tax wealth and income with a progressive rate well into the 90% at the highest levels.

    People who are wealthy don’t give a single shit about consumption tax. They also don’t care about transaction taxes (unless it’s progressive). A person with a million dollars doesn’t care if milk costs 5 bucks or 6 bucks a gallon… But the person making the minimum wage absolutely cares.




  • fkn@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlWhat a classic song though
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    Them: “How do I get to your place in my career?”

    Me: “What do you mean?”

    Them: “You… Have the position I want eventually. What did you do?”

    Me: “Well. 20… No that cant be right… I mean… Yeah… 20 years ago… I graduated college… Then uhh. I’m… Uh…”

    At this point either you make up some bullshit or you say it’s just experience. Then you realize what a midlife crisis is and wonder if you are having one which like like 20% of the definition of a midlife crisis.


  • fkn@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlWarm Water Port Envy
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    8 months ago

    Most Americans on the west coast call any place a shipping container can unload or an aircraft carrier to dock a port.

    A grand total of zero Americans would ever think to disambiguate a warm water port or not. Especially from Texas. That’s the weird part. Not the word port itself.

    Harbor is usually reserved for non-commercial or fishing use only.











  • Generally yes with two huge caveats.

    First, It has been widely demonstrated that diverse teams are more productive and produce higher quality products than homogeneous teams.

    Second, selection criteria is heavily biased towards homogeneous teams and has also been demonstrated to stifle innovation.

    Desire/inspiration is nearly as important as capability and non-optimal teams (according to most, if not all selection criteria) will consistently outperform “optimal” teams in any tasks that require innovation.