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by cudgy 3y ago
Consumerists can also become hoarders via their consumerist habits. I have an Aunt whose house is full of new books and clothes primarily with tags still on them. She effectively lives with her depreciated life savings.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Hoarding does have extremes and a multitude of rationalizations. I have several hoarders (I am the oddball thank god) in my family and the rationalizations are across the board from the “saver of past relics” to “the gatherer of all matter”
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by cudgy 3y ago
True. Some of them watched a TikTok for example of someone who got sad after they broke up with their boyfriend and then took antidepressants to “calm” them down. These drugs are overly prescribed along with a cavalier attitude about using
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by cudgy 3y ago
Uh that is naive. Employers will simply pay you the same $S as they were and pocket the $M as profit.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Odds Democrats would ever do something like this are slim too. Democrats receive more money from Wall Street than Republicans now https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/902626429/wall-streets-big-mo... Till we a
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by cudgy 3y ago
“In case the Agreement is amended as described, we will post an updated version of it in our website, at which time it becomes active and binding” Several years ago, a friend entered into a contract with Comcast for business internet and ph
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by cudgy 3y ago
Doesn’t using a Google product taint the solution, if privacy is a major concern? Also, WebRTC leaks ip addresses when using a VPN. What is the secure way to video conference? Webex? FaceTime offers end to end encryption, but can not easily
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by cudgy 3y ago
Yes, he was late and executed poorly. Generally Google is operationally deficient, but technically rich. That is a management problem. The best thing for Google is to split up into parts so they can become more focused and lean within each
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by cudgy 3y ago
A CEO cannot be a CEO (unless they are a founder which is a different matter altogether) without an existing enterprise with equipment and real estate to manage, so I don’t see the point there. Founder CEOs are founders of the company and o
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by cudgy 3y ago
How do you measure what affect the CEO had? CEOs (like Jack Welch for example) get great acclaim for years according to short term benchmarks only to be proven to have made disastrous decisions for the business. Appraisal of CEOs is more wi
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by cudgy 3y ago
The above advice seems sound. Find out who your doctor(s) use as their dentist. Ask other people too like neighbors, coworkers, and friends. Google Reviews can be helpful in some cases like when there are a reasonable number of reviews from
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by cudgy 3y ago
This is simplistic thinking. There is a reason there are minimum wage laws. While those rates are usually woefully low, there was a reason for them to be enacted. Certainly we can agree that a person’s “worth” from a full-time job be able t
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by cudgy 3y ago
“We're not talking about exporting critical manufacturing skills here.” True. Those critical skills have already been exported from the US.
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by cudgy 3y ago
So you are not interested or see any value in providing jobs for your fellow citizens? At the least, don’t hire thousands of people over 1-2 years and then lay them all off. That shows poor ethical, leadership and management skills.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Did you just learn this in Finance 101? The real stock market is priced based on many factors including interest rates, future growth expectations, etc, but the biggest factor of all is psychological.
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by cudgy 3y ago
If only you actually knew that he was the reason for that increase in performance.
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by cudgy 3y ago
“ then the increase in salary represents the responsibility amount that the CEO has, as bad decisions can cost lots of peoples jobs and so on.” He made bad decisions that caused people to lose jobs and they knew this well before the layoffs
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by cudgy 3y ago
Poor example. How many people bought or used a tech product solely based on the CEO of the company? Virtually none How many movies do people attend solely based on the actors in the movie? Or sporting events due to a player on a team? Many
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by cudgy 3y ago
Any moron knew it was time to invest in da Cloud once AWS was successful. I’d expect more interesting ideas than the old tried and true “get some lucrative government and enterprise contracts”, “guess we better dust off our AI tech and reac
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by cudgy 3y ago
No one knows how to be CEO of a giant company until they do it, but there are many better qualified people that could perform that job for a whole lot less money. One could argue that taking such a huge pay increase immediately before layin
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by cudgy 3y ago
Can the non-birth mother adopt to preserve parental rights?
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by cudgy 3y ago
At least this time, she didn’t fly. You can watch her cross the Atlantic on sailing vessel La Vagabonde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZI857axRs
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by cudgy 3y ago
It’s also possible that our attempts to mitigate the natural effects could cause unknown consequences that backfire on us.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Seems like AI may contribute to emissions with all of the processing that has to be done gathering, formatting, training, and executing these models. Of course, in the long run if AI replaces most of our jobs, the population may drop, reduc
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by cudgy 3y ago
I said nothing about trans. You must be addressing someone else.
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by cudgy 3y ago
“And the pandemic is another one of the many reasons this new requirement has been delayed by decades — there was no need for ETIAS when countries closed their borders to all travel amid fears of spreading COVID-19.” Decades? The pandemic i
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by cudgy 3y ago
It’s unclear who’s brainwashed here or who’s using critical thinking skills. Not all vaccines work. It’s ok and prudent to require efficacy trials and release of information about those trials before making a call on whether a person wants
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by cudgy 3y ago
“but if they hadn't censored in lockstep, it's likely that some government displeasure would come down on the uncooperative companies later” This is the root of the problem, right? In the US, the government is specifically exclude
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by cudgy 3y ago
Oh, of course. Communication is arguably the key factor in maintaining a strong relationship. However, there is an imbalance in societal pressure for men to change which can affect how others view the relationship. Have you ever heard someo
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by cudgy 3y ago
The problem is what are normal driving conditions? Another poster mentioned having efficiency numbers by the grade of the road, which would provide more information to buyers.

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