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bavent··on [dead]
Go advertise somewhere else.
bavent··on Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs
Big surprise, the jobs that pay more attract more people than the jobs that pay less. My partner has a bio undergrad degree, she works in a field having nothing to do with it because she didn’t want to pursue masters/phd.
bavent··on With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People
So you work weekends? This seems more like an extra break, akin to having a holiday off.
bavent··on Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong
You mean backing things up with facts instead of anecdotes is thought control? What?
bavent··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
As an aside, usually those gas station ads are mutable. There are unlabeled buttons on the sides of the monitor - press them. One of them mutes it. I have yet to find a gas station at which this won’t work.
bavent··on What’s behind the Freud resurgence?
Care to elaborate? A four-word rebuttal to a well-written, fairly detailed response doesn't really make your case for you.
bavent··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
I don’t get why it matters where you join a meeting from. If you’re in bed, so what? You’re still on the meeting aren’t you? If I can do my job perfectly fine sitting poolside, and still hit all my metrics, does it matter that I’m at a pool and not sitting at a desk?
bavent··on Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics
I remember a scene in the show "Mad Men" where they just flick out their blanket to scatter all trash from a picnic and then leave. I thought it had to be satire but I asked an older coworker and he said it was pretty accurate to how things were when he was a kid.
bavent··on Maintain consistent styles for developers working across various editors
I used asdf for a long time and recently switched over to rtx (https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx) and so far it's been a better experience for me. I must have screwed up something years ago in my dotfiles, but when I setup asdf two or so years ago, I kept running into odd issues - the wrong version of ruby being used for running rubocop/rspec, vim being unable to autofix styling, misc other tools not working as expected when maintaining several versions of them. I installed rtx as kind of a hail Mary and it's been much more smooth so far.
bavent··on Trendy “raw water” source under bird’s nest sparks diarrheal outbreak
Could be the chlorine. With some of my plants, I used to decant water into an a pitcher and let it off-gas for a day or two and then use that to water the plants.
bavent··on AirPods causing tinnitus?
I think there is a replacement program for this issue - https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...
bavent··on Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot
Don’t taste good and aren’t edible for you maybe, but all my local bugs and critters seem to love the ones I’ve planted.
bavent··on My network home setup – v4.0
Do you not have any hobbies? I find this to maybe not be practical, but that’s not the point of it.
bavent··on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
Really? I see the "[flagged]", and the post, it's just slightly dimmer and I had to manually open it. I'm using no special extensions or anything, just a normal browser.
bavent··on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
People disagreeing with you is not censorship. We can all still see your comment.
bavent··on The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
Working on something at your house is very different from doing it day in and day out, year after year. I have worked many manual labor jobs over the years and after just a few years started having constant pain in my knees, feet, and lower back. My father has been in a trade his entire life and in his late 50s, he was already having many physical issues from it. Not everyone can just take on an apprentice - especially since this article is stating that nobody wants to do these jobs.
bavent··on Their Flights Canceled, Southwest Travelers Were Threatened With Arrest
Not sure where you're getting this from. Police have no duty to protect or serve, this was just a slogan on squad cars in some departments and became a TV trope. If they take some sort of oath, it's not really legally binding.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...

bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
It’s both. I don’t think actual white supremacists are “censoring” me. I think people who saw a way to make money by catering to that demographic are not practicing the “free speech paradise” that they preach. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Also, if I’m belligerent for disagreeing with you, then clearly you are also belligerent for disagreeing with me. You can accuse me of moving goalposts or whatever makes you feel better about it, but i am not meaning to. English is not my first language and it sometimes my point does not shine through the way I would like.

bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
If you want to call me an asshole, call me an asshole directly instead of “this thread might be a clue why.”

I never said white supremacists were censoring me. I said Gab is full of them and that as a platform, they too censor views that dissent from their majority. So it’s not some free speech wonderland like OP implied. He suggested it as an alternative. I said it’s not really an alternative. The content of what I said to get banned from Twitter or from Gab is irrelevant to my point.

bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Did you not see where I said they censored me? I disagreed with a prominent Gab user and posted something that was, by their criteria, “left wing” and I was banned. That is 100% censorship by the criteria he established. How are they not catering to white supremacists etc. if they are banning people for disagreeing? Weren’t they started in order to cater to that demographic as well?

I was also banned from Twitter, and I’m not out crying about it as nothing of value was really lost there either.

bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Well apparently they won’t let me use it. They censored me for not having views that aligned with theirs.

But also yes, I’m not a fan of white supremacists and I won’t voluntarily use a platform that caters to them. Just like I wouldn’t eat at a “Hitler was great”-themed cafe.

bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Gab should do whatever they are legally required to do under the law and no more. If they want to provide a safe space for white supremacists/conspiracy theorists/whatever, I don’t care. I won’t use it. Me not using their service is not me condoning “censorship” or whatever you think is happening, it’s just me not wanting to use a shitty platform full of shitty people. I don’t like the fact that Visa won’t let sex workers use them as a payment processor either. Just because I am against one thing does not mean I am automatically for another thing.
bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
I would rather they didn't but the post I replied to was about one alternative to things - not any of the other alternatives, like federated systems (Mastodon, etc) or even something like IRC that I love dearly. They picked one of the things that is notorious for being full of white supremacists (and also banning people for being "left wing", as was my experience of disagreeing with a prominent Gab user, on Gab, for which my account was banned. So much for "freedom of speech".)
bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Right, what do you mean by that? That Americans aren't using it because they prefer censorship, or that they aren't using it because they're dumb, or some third or fourth points? I'm not sure what you mean.
bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Which was what?
bavent··on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
Maybe there's no censorship, but there's a shitload of white supremacists. Almost exclusively from what I've seen.
bavent··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
I know there have been some higher-profile suits filed against some famous and semi-famous chefs for unpaid wages/stolen tips (Mario Batali, Tom Douglas, Charlie Trotter, a few others), but it's hard to directly challenge collusion like this when it's very unofficial. And a quick way to end your career and get blacklisted from any other high end restaurant.
bavent··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
In a lot of the Michelin places, usually the chef will have a stake in it. To get investors behind them, they usually already have a name and bit of cachet and also worked for other Michelin-starred chefs. The ones I've worked at have varied from "celebrity chef, never actually in the kitchen, everything is actually created by the chef de cuisine and sous" to "micromanaging psycho" to "humble dude who just wants to make good food." So it varies - some manage every aspect of it, but usually there is a dedicated team for the front-of-house and the chef just does the creative side of the food, collaborating usually with his chef de cuisine and sous chefs. CDC and sous handle the day-to-day stuff like ordering, inventory, scheduling.
bavent··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
It's me, I'm the source. I worked in a lot of those Michelin-starred places in quite a few cities.

I also bailed. The pay and hours were a large part of it. But I did it for years and years.

bavent··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
They are - usually a place will charge 3-4x, sometimes 5-6x depending on the type of liquor and brand, what they paid for the product. You lose a bit to labor if you're making craft cocktails, as there can be a lot of prep behind those. Having a good wine list usually means have a sommelier or wine steward who will get paid a bit more than the rest of the serving staff. But for the most part the labor costs for front-of-house are nothing ($2.13/hr in a lot of states) compared to the cooking staff.
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