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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • The US has absolutely mad road to traffic laws. Zero concept of lane discipline, you driving whatever lane you feel like. Don’t understand roundabouts even though it’s just a curved road, it’s really not that hard. Still don’t have standardised pedestrian crossings even when other countries had them back in the 1920s. A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right. No one obeys the speed limit, people regularly exceed it, and see no problem with that. And of course no one has separate indicator lights and brake lights because when would you ever slow down and go around a corner, definitely no need to engineer for that eventuality.



  • Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

    The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

    Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.




  • I’m colour blind so there’s basically only three colours on this graph but what I’m assuming is showing is that windows is decreasing in popularity and apparently so is OS X. I’m assuming the other colour is Linux or Chrome but no idea which is which.

    For future reference, when making graphs make them in black and white first and if they are visually distinct then you can add whatever colours you want.





  • I’ve worked there for years now and I’m still unclear on the hierarchy. I think they’re both the same level of authority but I honestly could be wrong, the organisation is an absolute mess.

    You can tell when you work for a big multinational because it’s never clear who’s in charge. If you know what’s going on you’re not working for an important enough organisation.

    So to be clear I “report” to the manager that I actually like. What I’m supposed to be doing I have no idea about. Given that I’ve never actually got in trouble for withholding information I assume that the other guy isn’t my direct line manager. But it really is all up in the air.







  • One of my managers is like that, I’ve known him for about 5 years and he’s been the biggest idiot I’ve ever met the entire time. But ever since AI came out he’s turned it up to 11.

    Fortunately my other manager can’t stand him, and they have blazing arguments, so generally speaking if he tells me to do something I don’t like / want to do, I go and tattle tell.


  • Yeah I do sort of wonder what the point of his channel is. Every now and then one of his videos will be recommended and I’ll watch it, but I’ve learnt that there is absolutely no point because they’re all exactly the same. He always picks every lock within about 4 seconds.

    I’m not really interested in knowing which locks I shouldn’t buy. I want to know which locks I should.

    All the lock picking channels are like that though, I think they feel that if they upload video where they can’t get into a lock, that means that in some way they’ve failed. So they don’t do it.