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Being fired has a different meaning from being laid off. Fired implies performance. Lay off implies company restructure.

At that point you really want to quit. At least until it gets to the point where the company is trying hard to keep employees That’s when they start handling out raises again

That’s not fair to the kitty. Why can’t they skip ads too? Let’s get the European nut bags to draft up some ridiculous legislation like GDPR that forces advertisers to put another pop up warning potential ata they can’t skip these ads

Not surprising at all. Just as a mobile user, on websites, I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally clicked on any ad. Every fricken time it’s by accident because some stupid pop up or overlay was in the way of closing a modal or ad box.

There is a huge difference between a 7 year old and a 15 year old. Massive difference in maturity

At a certain point you’ll have to trust your youngster to make their own decisions on online content , mid teens seems like A good time to do that

At age 7 you should be watching everything with your kid. If that’s too much then they’re watching too much video content.

Yeah but why do kids need to be online at all? For millions of years kids never had computers and they grew up just fine. In fact they grew up with fewer cases of depression etc. I’ve got a kid and I don’t let them online unless I’m there interacting with them, doing stuff together. Maybe I’ll let them watch for 15min for a job well done but not for hours on end

When my daughter watches stuff online. I watch with her so we can discuss and interact with each other, aka quality time. That’s not helicopter parenting

I wish people would stop asking the government to raise their children. I am a parent. If you are a parent, start acting like one and watch your kids a lot more closely. Or better yet, actually spend time with them and stop using iPads as a baby sitter. I know this is harsh and may get downvoted but pared really need to start taking more responsibility on these matters

I wish this stuff was taught in school. This is essential knowledge everyone needs to know.

Also, your employer is not your friend and definitely not your family.

That has not been my experience

First they tell me I can use their IDE forever if I pay for it. Then they go back on their word and prevented me from using the thing I already paid for. They’re being spiteful to their customers

I stopped using jet brains because they went to subscription

AS a consumer I absolutely hate subscriptions. I will never own a subscription to anything I can replace for something else. I bought solar panels to avoid electric subscription, etc. I never buy on credit, etc

Generally speaking, no kids is a huge win. Most people aren’t able to escape that eventuality

The biological impulse to reproduce is too strong for most to resist

I got the cheapest tesla solar panels you can get and that produces more than x3 the electricity I need to power an electric car for 7k miles per year

Translation: we will pit you against your peers in a cage match to the death.

When you “turn up the heat”. Your just making more toxic work environment as people search for the sacrificial engineer Meanwhile, you don’t actually need to run faster to get away from the alligator, it’s much easier to trip up the guy next to you.

And To all the FB recruiters: don’t be surprised if I don’t reply to your ever more desperate emails.

And don’t go crying to Congress about H1B quotas when you can’t find anyone else to work for the awful conditions you’ve created

They just made their customers do the work for them

And with all the sh*t he has to deal with, The fact that he still shows up Is pretty remarkable

Why do we need to measure it in the first place?

So eat a diet of mostly fruit (comes premAde from nature) and boiled potatoes. It’ll e x10 more healthy than the alternative nd save time

And the whole world is free to suffer the consequences of global warming which are becoming increasingly dire.

Sorry for the snarkiness but it just needed to be said

I got an ebike and filling that up costs me very little. Not to mention the savings on insurance, registration, parking, smog, maintenance and they can be cheap to buy if you know where to look

Yes. You can say no taxes on anything up to 500k and then start property taxes at whatever percentage beyond 500k.

Taxes should be on luxury items.

I think it’s a bit crazy you have to pay rent on a property you supposedly own. I mean, out of thousands of items people own, shelter is the most basic essential need in life and yet it’s taxed at such extreme levels even after you’ve already purchased it. And this is somehow accepted as normal in the “developed world”

I don’t have to pay yearly to keep my shirt or my beanie baby collection or play station. All the frivolous stuff is tax free

I understand you pay to be in high value areas like near major transit and cities. But there ought to be rural low demand areas where people can live without being surfs all the time

You don’t really own it. That’s just a legal construct. If you have to pay rent to the government (property taxes) to “keep” it then you don’t really own it

Ta not just businesses. Voters aren’t the least bit thrilled with saving the environment even in the so called greenest state CA 40% of emissions come from transportation and 5 lane highways are clogged to the brim with cars on 50 mile commutes with no housing built next to work despite miles and miles of open space and the governor wants to hand out 400$ gas cards to incentivize even more CO2 creation while people regularly take 200 mile trips to Lake Tahoe every month like it’s nothing. And these are people who consider themselves very environmental. You can’t make this stuff up

One environmentalist gave quite the vigorous impassioned speech on reducing CO2 gases. After 30min the reporter asked “so you must be quite in favor of carbon taxes, right”. To which she replied “oh no, that wouldn’t be equitable “. My jaw nearly dropped to the floor.

Managers tend to be more extroverted and thus also more lonely at home. Several even admitted this to me. And so they want to make everyone come back to the office so they can have their social needs met. But the way they phrase it is, it’s easier to communicate and have meetings