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by tristor 3y ago
If you’re referring to discussing their qualifications to be on the board, I don’t think that is in any way driven by sexism. There were numerous comment threads discussing the qualifications of all the board members and these two stood ou
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by tristor 3y ago
These are interesting, because from an outside observer what's described as the allegations here don't seem particularly damning, with the exception of the hostile work environment allegation against Greg, however the only signifi
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by tristor 3y ago
There might be some real analysis hidden in there, but this is clearly deeply biased by the author’s ideological lens and no attempt to shore up its thesis with facts rather than rhetoric.
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by tristor 3y ago
Since we are just sharing how we feel, anecdotally, my observation with my teen and her friends is that TikTok makes people think they are informed while actually misinforming them. This is very much not limited to social and political issu
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by tristor 3y ago
Their perspective is biased, but not necessarily discriminatory unless they are taking actions on the basis of that bias. Also, bias is not necessarily a net-negative, bias and stereotypes form via collective observation. Soccer hooliganis
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by tristor 3y ago
To be clear, it was not just for my personal use. I brought it in at the request of my team and it was available for anyone to use. The team had a collection jar and we all pitched in for maintenance and supplies, just like we did with ou
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by tristor 3y ago
> Is your espresso machine improving your productivity, or is it a hobby to fiddle with throughout the day? What other distractions are at home that aren't at the office? This is what you said. Spot the differences. Trick question,
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by tristor 3y ago
Imagine referring to good coffee, the substance that built modern America and industrialized the world, as a “distraction” and arguing that it doesn’t improve productivity. Can you imagine?
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by tristor 3y ago
>> you are incredibly lucky > Says who? Says anyone who has spent more than a decade in the workforce. > There's no more reason for an office space to be bad rather than good. And there's no reason to think that having
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by tristor 3y ago
One of the primary reasons that remote work improves productivity is that it allows employees to tailor their environment to their needs, rather than be forced into a hostile office space that requires kafkaesque bureaucratic bullshit to ma
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by tristor 3y ago
I've lived in and driven in several different cities in the US, and driven around the world. What I've observed is that broadly speaking, brand doesn't matter, but affordable sporty cars tend to be driven by younger people w
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by tristor 3y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this already exists. This is basically what the entire LTL freight market is based around. Am I missing something?
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by tristor 3y ago
Honestly, you made an incredibly irrational choice. You went from what is likely a $2500 machine to a $250 machine that is more than 10x worse, but you could have gone from a $2500 machine to a $1200 machine that is less than 2x worse by b
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by tristor 3y ago
> but some people are against paying their fair share. You're right, but you also left it as an exercise to the reader about who the "some people" are. Those "some people" are mostly large corporate entities, li
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by tristor 3y ago
I was hoping a trackball would help me, but unfortunately I have De Quervain's Thumb, which means that a trackball is probably a no-go, but a vertical mouse was a lifechanger. I'm still curious about this, because in my younger d
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by tristor 3y ago
As someone who has lived in the Midwest and now in Colorado, and has driven all over the US in all seasons, as well as overseas in various other countries, I /really/ /really/ wish we would stop salting roads and people
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by tristor 3y ago
> the risk of using political office for personal gain remains. You're absolutely correct. I think the person you were replying to was being pithy about the fact we have essentially in-the-open legal corruption happening in the US
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by tristor 3y ago
Calling Israel defending itself from hostile invasion a genocide is the sort of thing you’d think this wealth of information would prevent, unfortunately it seems the Internet did not shepherd in an informational utopia after all.
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by tristor 3y ago
And by "correct" data, you mean data that comes from Hamas and is politically tinged, rather than data that comes from the numerous non-aligned/independent sources? Don't think what you're doing isn't transpare
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by tristor 3y ago
> It becomes an issue if a group of landlords agree not to rent below a certain threshold in a community. This is classic price fixing - leaving renters no alternative other than paying the minimum rate set. This is exactly what's h
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by tristor 3y ago
In the US, you can turn the ding or visual indicator off. You can also adjust when the notification happens. I kept it to visual only and set it to alert when I went more than 5MPH over the speed limit, because I want to help keep myself
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by tristor 3y ago
That would have been a significant improvement. But compared to the OPs experience in the link, I am okay with my current level of frustration. This is a small item to be bothered by.
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by tristor 3y ago
No. But if you ever remove your seatbelt while it's on, it immediately starts dinging, even if you're in park with the parking brake set (which is an electronic parking brake). It typically takes me around 20-30 seconds to get s
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by tristor 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that point was about 5 years ago. I was recently in an Uber with a driver that ardently ignored every ding or alert from the car. Although, that's nothing new, it is basically standard fare to ride in Ubers with
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by tristor 3y ago
I'm guessing the driver's seatbelt ding is one of the mandatory ones. Thanks to the 99% of terrible drivers in the US and our incompetent regulators, we get enforced mandatory enshittification.
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by tristor 3y ago
I just bought a brand new Mazda3 (2024 model year) and picked it up on Monday. I am able to disable all of the features you're mentioning on this car, and I can also choose whether alerts are only visual in the HUD or if they are visu
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by tristor 3y ago
> So you don't want more coverage because you don't feel like doing paperwork? We're talking about around $85/mo, and in every company I've been at that offered this (voluntarily) I declined, because spending 2-3
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by tristor 3y ago
If the state requires it to be covered for all employees and it's subject to audit, whether or not I pay for anything additional, I'd still have to follow the policies and provide supporting documentation so my employer would be a
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by tristor 3y ago
I've worked remotely for about 10 years now. I actually don't want my employer covering these expenses. If the employer is covering these expenses it requires me to document the expenses and comply with employer policies related
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by tristor 3y ago
As an autistic person, my problem with authority figures throughout my life has always been that authority figures were generally incompetent for the role they were fulfilling and they behaved in arbitrary and capricious way. Ironically, m

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