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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
11m ago
Federal law requires employers to submit an I-9 employment eligibility verification form for all employees. Employees have to provide suitable documentation proving they are eligible to work legally in the US. Technically you can't require someone to be a US citizen, but proof of citizenship would be one way to prove you can legally work here.
NewCharlesInCharge
16m ago
“Girls don’t like me. Maybe I’m gay?”
This is unironically a thought I had in adolescence. I went to porn to test the hypothesis and it came back negative.
Mantergeistmann
19m ago
So it's not even "this meeting could have been an email," it's "this meeting could have been a corporate announcement of our new Our Values Sharepoint page?"
I was expecting something dumb, but that's just... wow.
kky
28m ago
I’m dismissing their physical abilities.
I’m surprised you quoted XX when XXI is pretty clearly what he’s referencing.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
29m ago
It's turned out to be nothing, so my crackpot theory is that Hegseth for drunk and called the meeting to announce something big, got sober and realized his announcement was a terrible idea, so he gave a weird values speech to cover.
Just more wasted money I guess.
AfterEpictetus
39m ago
U.S. employers are usually required to confirm US citizenship or legal residency and work authorization before hiring someone
Is that true for state/city governments? I'm reaching back a lot here, but I thought a lot of the laws the government uses here required the torturing of the commerce clause that was common between ~1940-2000 and didn't apply to government agencies themselves.
Of course, plenty of government positions do background checks for their own reasons, but I thought there was a big difference in this particular case.
It's the wrong way around. The armed one must be from H2, because the unarmed version was in H1.
TowardsPanna
1hr ago
Pulsing the blade grinder a few times, letting the beans fall to rest in between, and then keeping it going for a good emount of time seems to help with getting a more evenly ground result. I'll stick with this grinder for a while. Using half the amount of beans, around 8-10g of the Rwandan seems to actually help somewhat with bringing out its unique features rather than just 'coffee'. But I still very much prefer the Yirgacheffe.
I'm going to see if it's possible to train my nose to become more sensitive and receptive again. Sort of like how exercising the body influences the brain etc. If I demand more performance from my palate, maybe something will respond. I'm something of a food/drink enjoyer, it's one of my joys in life, so having a weak receptivity won't do. I'll be trying some more specialty beans over the next few months. Peru, Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya might be up next.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
1hr ago
Interesting tactical puzzle game: Tactical Nexus
If Into the Breach can be considered a degenerate version of X-Com, then Tactical Nexus can be considered a degenerate version of Into the Breach. But "degenerate" in this context is not necessarily pejorative.
The goal is to beat towers full of static enemies. As enemies are defeated, the player obtains experience, attack, defense, health, and keys. Multiplicative upgrades to experience and health are rare and valuable. When the player character levels up, he can upgrade his attack or defense, or he can get keys. The player must strategize regarding the order in which the enemies should be defeated and the items should be obtained. Depending on how well the player does in beating a tower, he can unlock medals that can be used to make other towers easier.
The first two of the game's eight "chapters" are provided for free. The developer claims that the full game can satisfy a player for ten thousand hours, and that even the free parts are good for one thousand hours.
2rafa
2hr ago
It seems to me to be a massive screw up if you do not become a citizen through marriage if you are not already a citizen.
If you’re an illegal immigrant can you easily naturalize by marriage? Presumably you’d have to leave the US (and they would have recorded no exit stamp from his student visa 20 years ago, which means he’d have to pretend he left the country without passing through any controlled emigration point), pretend you’d lived abroad for 20 years, and then apply from abroad for a marriage visa (concocting another fake narrative about how you met).
Are there not large continents of mainstream democrats calling for a conversation and a step back?
No?
Or at least, most of the calls for a step back in mainstream democratic political media are for the political opponents to step back, while the calls for a conversation are opened on the framing that conversation being that the political opponents are uber-evil fascists with genocidal intent towards LGBTQ+ and where law enforcement is gestapo oppression. In so much that it is a call for a political settlement, it is a call to not challenge the current status quo, which is a result of the last couple of decades of culture war advances.
'The uber-evil outgroup needs to take a step back and stop its totalitarian abuse while preserving our culture war gains' is neither a call for a conversation, nor a call for a step back by the speaking faction in any sort of detente sense.
Note that most of your comments on Trump actually getting the executive branch to do what he wants are part of the Trump 2 administration, not Trump 1 when overt and covert acts of deviance were regularly reported. Trump 2, in turn, has been an administration with exceptional deliberate pre-planning on how to try and make politically unpopular changes over the objection / resistance over the minority party, particularly with the atypical advantage of a governing trifecta, and has been accompanied by explicit denunciations for Trump installing loyalists and opposing 'independent' agencies.
There has also been questions about his education credentials as well. I see two extreme interpretations of the current situation. Either he is extremely unlucky and has been a victim of ICE and now the internet sleuths have been activated and is now is whole life is being painted in the worse possible light or he is a serial grifter archetype. Laura Powell has a breakdown here: https://x.com/LauraPowellEsq/status/1971811032235753770
The other weird thing is in that twitter thread from Laura Powell it shows he was married and presumably married to an American for a long period of time. It seems to me to be a massive screw up if you do not become a citizen through marriage if you are not already a citizen.
It's also interesting to read his statement about the hunting rifle while imagining he is either this unlucky victim of circumstance or he is the grifter. He even implies that maybe it was not a case of luck but rather that he had been targeted due to race and that the citation was due to him trying to create a safer situation for the law enforcement officer. His statement could definitely be true. There is no doubt that there are law enforcement people out there that might see you place a rifle back into your vehicle temporarily and then write you up instead of letting it slide. (https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/millcreek-superintendent-issues-statement-after-receiving-hunting-citation/)
He also has not made everything up because is is an olympic athlete and did compete in the Sydney 2000 Olympics where is ran 1:52.32 in the 800m qualifier. (https://worldathletics.org/results/olympic-games/2000/27th-olympic-games-6951910/men/800-metres/heats/result)
Some people are claiming he is was able to get a pass due to his ethnicity but maybe he was able to get a pass because of his sporting accomplishments. Maybe the school board thought that employing an Olympian would help inspire kids regardless of his actual suitability for the job itself.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
It would make sense if men and women were looking for sex for the sake of sex with the same frequency, intensity, etc, and the only thing stopping them from getting it in the past, were those evil traditional sexual mores. This is the case with gay hookups, and you indeed see amounts of sex orders of magnitude beyond what straights can achieve. However, in the case of relations between men and women, the sexual mores performed a regulatory function (rather than a purely restrictive one), attempting to give the most amount of people at least some of what they want. But because men and women have different preferences, and are looking for different things, by abolishing the sexual mores, instead of "lifting restrictions on sex" all we accomplished was locking men and women into a defect-defect spiral, which resulted in less sex for everybody.
While i have issues with wokeness in Hades 2 Hestia isn't really it.
She is the goddess of the hearth and having skin like coal and ash feels like a thematically appropriate take. I didn't even consider that they tried to do something ridiculous like vitiligo representation.
I got more irritated at retarded stuff like Hephaestus wheelchair or the uglification and darkening of Athena making her look like a racist caricature.
Principles such as tension and release, foreshadowing, thematic development, chord resolution are the essential tools of virtually every composer, regardless of genre. While often discussed in a classical context, their application is universal and apply to pretty much all genres.
This seems like a consistent weakness in at least current AI-generated music, which often does well with short-term musical grammar but fails to build a cohesive, long-form structure, resulting in a piece that feels aimless and unsatisfying, IE "it doesn't go anywhere".
These same concepts of building expectation and providing resolution are fundamental to other time-based art forms, such as literature and film, and to effective communication in general.
I think this feels similar to how earlier text generating models wrote and similar to how they still struggle to write longer form text. Perhaps the issue is an insufficiently large context window or perhaps it's something else more fundamental to how the models function, I don't know.
TheLoser
6hr ago
Sorry for the late reply.
Disclaimer: I read this like a year ago, so the details might be hazy, and I am not re-reading the book to give you a more accurate critique. Also, I will be spoiling the entirety of the book. Continue at your own risk.
Where to start? Well, at the obvious place; the author, Gabrielle Zelvin. Gabrielle Zelvin is half eastern European Jew, half Korean, who went to Harvard University. Now let's switch tracks. What are the deuteragonists of the novel? Sam Masur, a half-Jew, half-East Asian man, and Sadie Green, a bonafide women-in-stem. And here we arrive at the most obvious and glaring problem; it is painfully apparent that the protagonists of the novel are essentially self-inserts. Sam Masur represents the half-Jew half-Asian experience, and Sadie Green represents the women in higher education experience. You can imagine how a progressive half-Jew half-Asian would portray themselves, the narrative and their environment. Hint; annoyingly.
While I list out my grievances with this book, keep in mind that the writing is tumblr tier; overly saccharine, uses too many metaphors, and is generally unfulfilling/meaningless.
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The book is a narrative exploring the relationship between Sam Masur, and Sadie Green, through the narrative device of their joint game development company. Gabrielle Zelvin either doesn't play games, or is ass at describing games. As a gamer, there were many many instances of me tilting my head at some of the descriptions. They aren't strictly wrong as far as I remember, just not completely 100% accurate. Think the Doakes meme of him staring in his car; you know something's up but you can't put your finger on it.
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Sam Masur is used as a punching bag for Gabrielle to take out all her frustrations about nice guys on. I'm not joking. The entire beginning of the book sets up this weird dynamic where there is some sort of romantic tension between Sam Masur and Sadie Green. Sam and Sadie are literal childhood friends who go through a falling out; the natural conclusion is that there is going to be some tension. However, Sam Masur is portrayed as a pathetic, emotionally immature, ugly, indecisive, loser. He's literally crippled. Gabrielle goes at length to insinuate if not state that just because you are nice to a woman, you aren't entitled to be in a relationship with them. And I'm not kidding you, Sadie Green ends up with an almost caricature of a chad; a tall, emotionally mature, strong, smart, funny, Korean man. Oh and he's called Marx btw.
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Speaking of romantic misadventures, Sadie Green's professor, mentor, Dov, is also, clearly a stand-in for Gabrielle's own experiences with older men. Sadie falls for him, even though he has a wife, and undergoes an extremally toxic relationship that culminates in the grand finale for why this book is hot fucking ass, but more on that later. In short; this book is a barely concealed cathartic writing experience for Gabrielle to complain about guys she doesn't like; nice guys and toxic old guys women fall for.
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The middle part of the book is a mess, but in short it details the growing tension between Sadie and Sam, because Sadie feels that the media is giving most of credit with respect to contributions to Sam. There's that feminist lens again. This whole thing culminates in Sam metamorphosing into another caricature; this time of a tech-bro. He literally get's a buzzcut after a suicide attempt, dresses in turtlenecks, and transforms into a confident speaker in front of the press, in a seemingly miraculous reversal from his usual timid nature. And throughout this whole sub-narrative, you can feel the resentment dripping. Sadie is pissed off at Sam for being the face of the company, for getting most of the praise, for being charismatic, as opposed to her more reserved behavior in-front of the press. Again, you can literally see that the narrative is a soapbox for a progressive passive woman to complain about what they perceive as slights they receive from the world.
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The ending is the most political, partisan drivel you will ever see. The book's emotional climax is a shooting conducted at their studio, wherein Marx dies, conducted by a radicalized white teenage man, over the inclusion of gay marriage in their MMO. It's so blatantly biased. When I was reading it I literally thought to myself, "Are we forgetting about Charlie Hebdo"? It's progressive fanfiction, where their enemies actually do the things they accuse them of doing.
But see, all of these pale in comparison to the scene that utterly dooms this book. Remember that toxic relationship with the mentor I mentioned? Well, apparently, that relationship had a bondage element, where the mentor would tie Sadie up and shave her pubic hair. Also, that relationship lead to an abortion. But that's not the worst part. In the midst of this description, there's a throwaway line about how the mentor experimented with pissing on her. What the fuck. It is so against the run of play of the narrative of the book. Like, seriously, why the fuck are we talking about piss kinks in a fucking book ostensibly about game dev? That's the reason why I went crazy. This scene is emblematic of the overarching problem of this book. Which is that the book is Half-Jewish, Half-Asian woman smut/bellyaching wrapped up in the most meagre of narratives. The subtext drips with resentment that only a half-jewish, half-asian women could have. Its romance scenes include the scenes that would get women hot; the older mentor, and the bondage, and the piss and the pubic hair and the Korean chad. It validates all the annoyances/"challenges " that that demographic has; about asian nice guys, and people downplaying their accomplishments, and about toxic old guys they fall in love get manipulated into being with, and imaginary white extremists.
Another reason why I had a strong reaction to it was because at that time, a lot of sci-fantasy books were being written by asian women and recommended to me. And reading their synopses, you could tell that they had the same problems as this book.
Genuinely, we need to shut things down until we know what the fuck is going.
MathWizard
Good things are good
6hr ago
https://www.lovepanky.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lesbian-stereotypes-1.jpg
Not like the short haired butch kind, the feminine one in the pair. I don't think lesbians adhere to the top-bottom dynamic quite as strictly as male homosexuals due, since there isn't a sexual requirement to, but often you'll see a masculine obviously lesbian paired with a more feminine one who sometimes passes for straight but is sometimes almost-but-not-quite-straight-presenting. I dunno, I haven't put a ton of thought into pinning down a strict definition, it's just a sort of vibe I've seen in certain lesbian pairings. But I think it makes sense in theory, given that some lesbians are attracted to feminine features, some will maintain enough feminine features to attract them.
But on further thought, I'm not sure if I've seen it in real lesbians or only games/tv/movies...
SkoomaDentist
6hr ago
Does it?
I’ve met my fair share of public school administrators. They were 1) very small in number compared to the total school staff and 2) did the necessary ground level admin work mandated by the law and city, required planning (eg. resource allocation depending on student numbers etc), hiring teachers and so on. They had zero input into any of the ”improved” education styles and similar foolishness (that was all mandated at city / ministry level). Of course this wasn’t in the US, but I’d be surprised if it was all that different.
Now university administration is a whole different game.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
7hr ago
I don't see how the reporting is deceptive. They're implying that this illegal immigrant from Guyana is a sketchy character and it seems like he is a sketchy character. How did he come to get a highly paid job in the administration? How did he pass the background check? Why is there all this cash in his car? Why did he try to flee law enforcement? These questions are probably not unrelated.
It's not a crime to have lots of cash nor should it be. But it is useful in trying to analyse the situation.
Not all people with certain kinds of obnoxious tattoos are criminals. But they do send a message and wisdom involves receiving that message and calibrating appropriately.
ThenElection
7hr ago
Making sure you have funding is still an important function. And I'm not sure it's actually better for the district to have a principal who makes a courageous stand against bad policy as opposed to one who secures funding. If nothing else, the district already pays taxes; if the school district is better described as babysitting than an educational organization, at least there's the befit of getting the babysitting you pay for.
ThenElection
7hr ago
Administrators are (obviously?) necessary and useful, so it's not a purely parasitic function. Imagine a world where we have a good public school system, but a teacher is refusing to teach or use effective methods to teach. Who will discipline or fire them?
In the world we actually have, they... fall short of that ideal, to say the least. But it seems alienating to call them a parasite class. For people who do want a public school system but one that's better run, it's better to distinguish between good administrators and destructive ones, even if as a class a current supermajority of them can be fairly described as destructive and self interested.
TheLoser
8hr ago
I mostly think the old model of expecting marriageable women to be virgins worked really well, there were no pregnancy accidents, less STDs I'd guess, less jealousy on the part of the man, and less expectations for performance on the part of the woman.
I hate to point this out, considering that I myself am more of a traditionalist, but your own life experiences call in to question the validity of the above statement. Your father was immersed in that conservative culture, and he still had pregnancy scares and jealousy issues.
This is your brain on online gender war.
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