These sorts of decisions can become more understandable when we incorporate the idea that corporate politics and management structure play a huge role in decision making. If the director of the division charged with building the software is close with the CTO or c-suite, they’re going to give that person the job and just make the numbers fit by adjusting the projections.

This is what’s referred to as the “agency problem” - that the people designated to act as the agents of others (whether you consider the others to be shareholders or employees) instead make the decisions based on the benefit to themselves, that’s a conflict of interest based on level of selection.

And in three years when it turns into a disaster, the director will have moved on to a new role or new company.

It looks like the cursed love child of SpongeBob and a minion.

I am selecting the files I wish to transfer and the ones I do not. It is my bandwidth. I also use reader mode as an accessibility feature.

“As per my previous emails…”

I also believe that the small bit of communication we saw indicates transphobia and should open this up for a hate crime charge, if they have those in the UK.

Also, this statement is ludicrous and self-contradicting:

The Birchwood community high school head, Emma Mills, told the BBC: “There was never any evidence of Brianna being bullied within school or out of school. Brianna was very much able to give as good as she got in that way.”

If she wasn’t getting bullied, she couldn’t have been giving as good as she got. All we know is that she was introverted and nervous being around people, which can come from bullying and a loss of trust in the public.

Everything I have heard about the experiences of community members in Britain is that the culture, while still less culturally conservative than the US, has been noticeably transphobic. While the US has always been transphobic (and increasingly so now that it’s the new evil that must be slain by all good republicans), it seems more mainstream in Britain for some reason.

I don’t live there, so this is all based on my read of the media and second hand impressions from people I’ve talked to. I actually think there might be less homophobia overall (same caveat) but the transphobia seems higher.

Manager and community member at a FAANG here. That’s frequently said, and it is certainly partly true. However, there’s a couple of other factors that also play into it.

First, yes, companies are aware that they are a brand, and maintaining their brand is a big deal. Diversity and inclusion are huge as parts of their brand identity. It’s what customers expect.

Second, though, is the employees. Coors was and remains a right wing company politically. However, they were also among the first companies in the US to extend married couple benefits to same sex partner households due to employee pressure. It’s not just the LGBT customers, it’s the employees (current and future) that push for companies to take public positions on the issues as well as make resources available internally.

Third, there are community members and allies throughout leadership as well as management and staff. They are the ones to make these kinds of calls.

I’ll be the first to call a company like Target out for rainbow washing, but it usually flows pretty smoothly. As someone who grew up in a very different America, I will take what we can get - especially these days.

I am also available to host.

Holy crap, that’s awesome.

That person may have one of the worst jobs on earth, and I saw the Dirty Jobs geoduck episode.

Yes you can. First result = 0, second = 1 to 9. You either roll two different color dice, or you roll one and then the other, but one is used for the tens place and the other for the ones.

0 and 0 means 100.

I think I might have DMed for you or your clone.

I had someone argue that their cherished d100 gave a different probability than 2d10.

Can’t wait to get in line for that Elon Misk brain chip!

2 in the back, one in the front

On an electric vehicle, I think we call that the shocker.

You’re exactly correct. That was my best approximation.

I first started using Linux in 1995 (I think it was kernel 1.2 or something), and this was being argued over (or at least discussed) even back then. The conclusion was that Leenus doesn’t care how you pronounce Leenux.

Here’s a link to the university press release on the study, which contains the actual study.

Bans work better on tobacco because unlike alcohol or drugs, they’re used habitually but generally not recreationally. That is, the role of cigarettes in society and individually is different from those of alcohol, cannabis, and the like.

I am going to hazard a guess that tobacco industry lobbying is responsible for this. They went into Eastern European nations and pitched the idea that tobacco control was bad for the country’s economy because without smokers they’d have to deal with more people who live to retirement age, and killing them earlier makes things cheaper.

Banning cigarettes removes them from convenience stores, making them much harder to buy. The work they’ve done so far has pulled the smoking population down to 8% from over 16% ten years ago, although it’s still 20% among Māori.

I would not be surprised if the ban cut that in half or more.

Found the parseltongue.

That bot is actually worse than useless because people read the god-awful summary and think they got the gist of the article. The bot has often left out the most important points.

It’s be better to just scrape the first Lee paragraphs and go with that.

I think the general idea would be to

1. Design a vehicle with as low a cost as possible. Maybe create a design challenge with a cash prize
2. Have the international community (mostly the US but it’d be reasonable for other countries to be pressured for this) subsidize the cost of the vehicles so they are competitive with ICE vehicles.
3. Infrastructure for charging and repairs. This is going to be incredibly expensive and we’d again have to look for subsidies to develop a power grid and charging stations, as well as creating local services to repair the vehicles.

The moral motivation for subsidies lies in the fact that the west in general is that the west has profited massively via wealth and resource extraction from Africa.

If you haven’t yet, I recommend reading A Stitch in Time. It’s written by Andrew Robinson and the audiobook is read by him as well.