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my_hat_stinks

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  • Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point

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  • For many people, yes, there is no other choice. Was that meant to be a joke?

  • What have you viewed as the "least bad" among employers when looking for work?

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  • And it's differentiated from IC meaning Independent Contractor by...?

    No, corporate jargon is stupid and saying it's acceptable because a big corp uses corporate jargon is even stupider.

  • What have you viewed as the "least bad" among employers when looking for work?

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  • IC is a common term for integrated circuits and a hundred other things.

    Maybe it's used for workers in your specific region/field but that's not definitely universal and it's not even a useful or descriptive term. Managers are also individuals who ostensibly contribute something to the company. The distinction between managers and workers is that the workers are the people doing the actual work, not that they're individuals.

  • What have you viewed as the "least bad" among employers when looking for work?

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  • Sounds like corporate jargon. Why not just say worker, a term everyone understands?

  • Seating Posture

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  • I'm a short man (5'6")

    Worldwide average height for men is around 5'7", you're average. I'm guessing you just live in a region that skews taller.

  • New £200m train station will boast 1,000 bike spaces – but no car park

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  • Not sure what that has to do with anything? The article says there's spaces for blue badge holders, that's the UK's scheme for parking spaces for people with mobility issues.

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  • Still a nazi. You can say you hate tall people and want them all to be shot, that won't stop you being tall. Same thing.

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  • It's called nazism. People who defend nazis are almost certainly nazis themselves. People who claim the nazi salute was used by Romans are wrong or lying, and also probably nazis; the earliest known record of the salute in a Roman context was created a millennium after the end of the Roman empire.

    Edit: It's probably worth noting that Hitler was likely a fan of the Roman empire. Nazi Germany was known as the "third reich" where the first was the the Holy Roman Empire and the second was the German Empire. It's likely they appropriated the gesture thinking it was a legitimate Roman salute.

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  • When their kid grows up and has kids of their own. Then you know they're a grand dad.

  • New £200m train station will boast 1,000 bike spaces – but no car park

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  • Some local residents have not been onboard with the lack of car spaces at the new station.

    If you need a car to reach the station it's questionable to claim you're local.

  • Which is the suitable instance for creating AI communities?

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  • I don't see how ceding full control of your data to a third party is compatible with preservation of that data, you're giving someone else the delete button. That's a very odd argument.

  • Which is the suitable instance for creating AI communities?

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  • Why not run your own instance if you're creating so many communities? It'll be a lot easier to block if all the AI slop is on its own dedicated instance instead of polluting others.

  • Opossum In The Underworld #1

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  • TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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  • It's closer to planet 1.4 million if you include the rest of the dwarf parts and minor planets under the same logic. It gets a little hard to remember all the names at that point though.

  • TIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&white

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  • 0 to 1 is monochromacy, a single visual channel, eg only rods and no cones. I thought that was fairly clear. Full colour vision would be closer to 0,0,0 to 1,1,1 (plus low-light rods). Null would be no visual channels at all, ie completely blind. I didn't miss the point of your example, it's just a very bad analogy.

    Here's a quick article I found which demonstrates how individual channels are monochromatic and you only get full colour by combining channels, digital image formats were designed for human eyes so this is much more analogous to human vision. With no channels you get nothing at all.

  • TIL that due to a genetic bottle neck, 10% of the population of the pacific atoll of Pingelap has achromatopsia, i.e. only sees in black&white

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  • Null would be completely blind, no visual data at all. Monochromacy is receiving a single visual channel instead of the more common r,g,b. The original Nosferatu had more colour than that and very few people would argue that's not a black and white movie.

  • One in five trans and non-binary people threatened with physical violence

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  • Personally I find one in every five people of any group being threatened or attacked absurdly high, I definitely don't envy wherever you live.

    The survey question was specifically relating to physical violence, online and other forms of harassment were separate. Since a quarter of participants reported even going as far as avoiding retail stores within the past year to avoid harassment I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude they are less publicly visible than cis people. It's also worth noting that more than half of survey respondents identified more closely with non-binary than trans man or trans woman; the report states that trans women had a much higher rate at 25%, 14%, and 11% of threats, attempts, and deliberate physical harm respectively. These numbers do not include sexual assault and related crimes which were also disturbingly high.

    https://countingourselves.nz/2022-survey-report/

  • One in five trans and non-binary people threatened with physical violence

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  • The article says it's specifically violence "because of their gender identity" so it's reasonably safe to assume that yes, this is notably higher than cis people. It's a little uncommon for a cis person to receive threats because they present as the gender they were assigned at birth.

    There's no control group because it's a survey of trans and non-binary people, not a study.

  • are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that?

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  • Yes, because the person you replied to is either wrong or lying (some terfs claim terf is a slur). Terfs do self-identify as terfs. A recent prominent example would be Sall Grover, "During this incident, Grover self-identified as a trans-exclusionary radical feminist".