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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Despite Elon's best efforts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But at the same time they're encouraging the loss of jobs to bring down inflation. Everyone likes to talk about interest rate rises cooling inflation but they never mention that the cooling effect is largely a function of lost employment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

It was pointless, which is a reason to have not taken them, but they're back now so it's kind of a moot point. Just a "don't do it again" situation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you commemorate all the other atrocities?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Won't someone think of the poor ships sitting in a harbour!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You would think so, but companies generally believe that they own the right to your full potential output - not just the tasks that they set you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Somehow the "everybody has the right to an opinion" message got applied to objective topics

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tailgating doesn't get you there faster. Most highway accidents would be avoided if people would just leave some space, and then we wouldn't get stuck in accident traffic jams for hours.

Somewhat counterintuitively, traffic will flow better and you'll get places faster if you just leave some space (and you'll be safer and use less fuel as you won't be always on the accelerator and brakes)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, this is hardly a plan, it's just "head north to your nearest Canadian city"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the house I grew up in had so many frogs that you couldn't watch TV or make a phone call at night, it was like having the worst tinnitus every night. Frogs are cute, but that was too much!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't get kids from the asshole...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And depending on where you are the biological parents may be able to reclaim them at some point. My sister looked into it in my country and determined that they never really became your children, you were just taking care of them until they either grew up or their parents came back for them. I can't imagine taking care of a child for years, treating it like your own, and then a stranger just coming and taking it back (and possibly taking it into a terrible environment).

All the adopted kids I grew up with were adopted from overseas and now I understand why.

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