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Tree
21m ago
There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
the scheme benefits from significant tax relief, as vehicles are exempt from VAT and Insurance Premium Tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motability
Massive growth in the number of pip claimants:
https://x.com/thurhyde/status/1949753087419207786
IFS: 'The rapid growth in [working-age] health-related benefits [post-COVID] seems to be largely a UK phenomenon.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1945752894868701444
Less than 10% of motability cars have any modification for the disabled.
have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time.
I'm sure we all benefit when the state pays for everyone’s BMW. He is providing much more than mobility to the slightly anxious, he’s doling out unheard of creditworthiness to the not-so working class.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
29m ago
Thats another horrifying masterpiece.
But if we know of one place where the capitalists can't go... its SPACE!
DefinitelyAnAlt
33m ago
If you're hired, you have earned the right to be there. It means you are smart enough. A new employee seems stupid because they're ignorant and unfamiliar.
To that end, your goal should be to rid yourself of that ignorance and get familiar with the standard work-loop. This is very important. You only get better by doing. Best to pick up the smallest item that you can take to completion and build up momentum.
Once you find your bearings, you can nerd out with your coworker. To become an expert, one must obsessively chase excellence in their craft. By definition, they become nerds about some aspect of their job. If you start a conversation with them about that obsession, they are generous with their time. In fact, they'll often go out of their way to help you learn.
On your side, it means working hard, being proactive and following up on these resources/engagements offered by people. Yes, that means your first couple of months will demand longer hours. But for it most part, it's just time, repetition and focus.
I don't want to interrupt the smart people
You have to. You should. And you should more of it in your first few months. It's easy to get stuck in "you don't know what you don't know" if you don't deal with it early. The only way to mitigate this risk is to ask.
Set the expectation up front. I explicitly told my manager that 'I will be a loud idiot [1]' for the first few weeks. He agreed and encouraged it [2]. Everyone has been there before.
Have clear escalation ladder when asking for help. Mine goes something like: 'Spend a few hours trying to self-start -> Look for wiki -> DM a coworker for resources -> hop on a call -> sit side by side for spoon-fed demonstration'.
[1] in those exact words, but I did repeat it in more professional phrasing right after
[2] Takes some luck to have the right culture / leadership
edit: accidentally replied from my main account :|
If you're a software developer, I highly recommend sitting shoulder-to-shoulder or screen sharing with a coworker to see exactly how they work. It sounds intrusive, but there are a ton of subtle things that good devs do, that never gets brought up in conversations. It gives you a real feel for what your flow (as a fellow dev in the team) should look like.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
46m ago
Future world contains Outer Heaven?
wtf, I love low TFR now?!
yofuckreddit
46m ago
Thank you for the compliment, it means a lot.
I just want a relaxed trip on a road with a pub at the end of a few hours.
I don't think we're too different here in my default mode. I enjoy exerting myself this way precisely because it makes the nightly beers taste so much better.
The most relaxed route I've ridden and one that I've enjoyed very much is this one: https://bikepacking.com/routes/chauga-river-ramble/ over 3 days. I could go even more relaxed, to be honest, and rely more on the road. I've considered trying to put together a route for the bourbon trail, and there's also two other bikepacking "gravel growler" routes that stitch together breweries.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
46m ago
But hefting a weapon and swinging the same weapon are consecutive, not concurrent—in GURPS terms, a Ready action and then an Attack action.
Primaprimaprima
I am trying so hard not to say the MBTI type of everyone I reply to
48m ago
To a first approximation, no one actually wants values diversity, whether in their fiction or anywhere else.
Challenge accepted. ("No one could ever want X". Well then, it is the philosopher's duty to want X. No generalization can be allowed to stand without an exception.)
I agree that value diversity within a given concrete mode of life is hard to consciously wish for in a direct sense (unless you're a certain unique type of individual at any rate). But certainly if we zoom out and consider a patchwork of distinct modes of life, there is no issue. I don't agree with how Islamic societies treat their women, but in an abstract sense, I'm happy that Muslims are able to continue on with their cherished values all the same. (Selfishly, it provides a further object of contemplation for me.) And fiction is an ideal medium for exploring such alternative modes of life.
DefinitelyAnAlt
53m ago
IC = Individual contributors, as opposed to smooth-talking managers.
I'm ~30. I'm on the "younger" side for this team.
pretty stressful
Not yet. My 1st year at the previous job was god-tier stressful, so my tolerance has gone way up.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
54m ago
The annual US revenue of Novo Nordisk (Semaglutide) seems to be 45G$,
Isn't it a Danish company? I've wondered about that because I've seen lots of concern about cuts to research funding citing GLP medications as an example, but it seems odd that my tax dollars payed for the research, and now I would have to pay the Danes, as it were, to use it.
DirtyWaterHotDog
58m ago
- Rocky (1-4)
- Independence day (1996)
Some series (mostly 10 minute clips on Youtube)
- Supernatural (Season 1-6)
- House MD (As long as it's the OG crew)
- Chapelle show (especially this one)
- Would I lie to you (This video)
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1hr ago
I saw Jurassic World Rebirth in theaters a few weeks back, but didn't get around to writing a review, and honestly, don't think it deserves an exhaustive analysis. But it was okay! There were dinosaurs, in a dinosaur movie, and that is intrinsically appealing. It also raises pointed questions about how Dominion was so bad that I left it in a DNF state.
In favor:
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The movie is an intentional throwback to the first trilogy, in terms of setting, pacing and cinematography. It's more more restrained, the pacing more deliberate. There is a tangible sense of place, a welcome departure from the green-screen-heavy aesthetic of the World trilogy, which only reminds me (negatively) of Marvel slop.
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The characters, sometimes, act self-aware.
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There are dinosaurs. Most of them act like wild carnivores as opposed to horror movie villains.
Against:
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The characters just as often turn off their brain when convenient for the plot.
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The onus for being there, namely to create a super anti-clotting drug and the precise means of doing so, are not very plausible. They need three samples from 3 different types of large dinosaur to "cure heart disease", and
there is literally a wild Apatosaur in the first scene of the movie, in New Fucking York, why didn't they just sample that?? -
Do not look too hard for plot holes, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. To pick on them makes me feel bad, like challenging a child with Downs syndrome to a debate.
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In continued Hollywood tradition, the trailer spoils about 90% of the tense scenes in the movie.
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Children = invincible.
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- They soft retconned the entire point of the last two movies. Dinosaurs got loose and spread throughout terrestrial ecosystems, being somewhere between invasive and endemic. Photos of Triceratops herds migrating through Wyoming, Pteranodons nesting on skyscrapers, the works. And then they just... died off. No, seriously, dinosaurs - which colonized everything from the Arctic to the Antarctic - just couldn't handle conditions outside the modern equator. Thanks, global warming?
??? What. It would have been better to just reframe this as an alternate universe take or properly retcon things.
Overall, a 7/10. A good way to please the child in you that still fondly remembers making their plastic Rex fight and win against Army men. The British are an enlightened people, so I enjoyed it with multiple beers in the movie hall, and didn't miss anything of note during the necessary piss breaks.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
1hr ago
At the Mountains of Madness truly deserves a remake in Spess
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1hr ago
They've got Motability, a scheme where the disabled get vehicles paid for by the state.
This is only true in the sense that anything bought out of state benefits is paid for by the state, including the food retirees eat etc. Motability is a scheme where people getting disability benefits can have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time. There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
NunoSempere
1hr ago
Thanks.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
China does not have universal high school.
No doubt the Chinese are capable of psyopping the crème de la crème of their society into three kids is better than none. But effective government propaganda is hard, and it has to hit the middle and lower classes in these cases. Does China have an equivalent of country music pushing the idea that having kids is the obvious culmination of a romantic relationship? Is the ministry of culture able to pivot to producing this, or is it stuck with the usual East Asian model of gay virgins who might think you in particular are appealing but really, focus on your studies? Is there a critical development window for exposure to childcare(afaik we really, actually DON’T know this, but it’s plausible)? And I mean obviously, is China just old enough that the damage is done, a 2.5 ish tfr among current twenty year olds won’t change much? Are the economic incentives too hard against women having kids(in practice female coded jobs in America expect resume gaps and maternity leave even if they don’t like them)?
NunoSempere
1hr ago
XD, thanks
Primaprimaprima
I am trying so hard not to say the MBTI type of everyone I reply to
1hr ago
But who even tosses their hair over their shoulder and hits Send at the exact same time? Most people don't have the coordination for that. You ever tried to pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time? It's that sort of thing.
She's obviously going to toss her hair first, and then hit Send a moment later.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
I don’t value that personally because it’s not authentic to the period or setting. It’s like having a character in 1500s France Google something. To me it’s jarring because people living in premodern times absolutely do not see the world like modern Californians.
FtttG
1hr ago
This sounds perfectly natural to me.
"Xing his Y, he Zed" is meant to describe two concurrent actions. "Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she pressed send on the email."
FtttG
1hr ago
Awhile back I asked for some kind of gaming platform aggregator: a program that pulls all the games you own on Steam, GOG, Epic etc. in one place, so that you don't e.g accidentally buy a game on Steam that you forgot you already bought on GOG.
Playnite was exactly what I was looking for, it's easy to use, does exacty what it says on the tin, and it's free.
Turniper
1hr ago
You just dive in. The most critical two things are an actual task, so you can test your knowledge, and as much face time as you can manage with your team to get KT until you feel like you're not drowning. I usually just work 60 hours my first week if I feel at all behind, focusing on asking questions during work hours, and getting my full dev environment running and adding toy components after work. Then I drop down to 40 as soon as I feel confident I'll be delivering my work in a timely manner.
Also helps to do one-off questions in chat asynchronously, and be prepared with a ton of topics whenever you get actual face time. I generally ask asap if it's blocking me, and write it down for my next call if I'm just curious.
EmbalmedOnes
included in this classification
1hr ago
Definite +1 for Tatami Galaxy. Beautiful show worth coming back to
It’s like we cannot wrap our heads around the idea that people exist or even could exist that think in ways that we disagree with.
Values are fundamental. To a first approximation, no one actually wants values diversity, whether in their fiction or anywhere else. Good things are good, bad things are bad, more bad things are not good.
People like reading about things far away in time or distance because they crave novelty, but they want some recognizable values-coherence to bridge the gap because novelty is not terminal, but values are. Victorians write poems about Brave Horatius at the gate and I enjoy the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Pentateuch for the same reason: because all these deliver a perception of values-consonance across vast gulfs of time and space; we have our cake and eat it too.
The elements you highlight are there because the people generating them consider them terminal, and so their fiction cannot do without them.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
2hr ago
Present-mindedness. It’s annoying. It’s like we cannot wrap our heads around the idea that people exist or even could exist that think in ways that we disagree with. I like the Mist Crown series by Sarah Maas, but its so annoying to read a medieval peasant acting like a modern, feminist, atheistic modern American as though the author literally couldn’t conceive of a premodern woman in a premodern world.
anti-dan already attacked your source. I'm defending the idea of dismissing such sources. I know it's really annoying to have someone go through all this effort to put up the form of something that should be really persuasive, then have people see through it and realize it is only the form and the thing is not persuasive at all, but it's absolutely the right thing.
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