LycanGalen

Telecoms tradespeople in Canada are paid like absolute garbage. They used to be (and some still are, but they're dwindling) part of the steelworker's union, but they were hit hard by union busting, so now the majority are contractors who get paid by the job. This means a full 5 hour run of fibre to get a home set up pays the same as plugging a single wire in at the CO. But it's luck of tue draw, and with the telcos cutting corners on everything, the "plug in a wire" jobs are like unicorns.

Plus the rack people have all been laid off, so the guys have to do that job on top of their own, and the IT side has all been offshored to folks who are not trained or paid enough to be competent. So what should be a 45 minute job that they could do 11 of in a single day now takes 2 hours, meaning they're only getting paid for 4.

It would not surprise me if other blue collar industries started following suit.

They're saying they'd rather have had the money that went towards the purchases of switch 2s left in the form of cash, rather than spent for them.

It's a relevant critique because with their latest releases, Nintendo's doing the same 'cost increase to the detriment of employees and customers' dance as the other big gaming corpos.

A person can agree something is better than the horrible baseline, and still bring up a topic of discussion on something that isn't great.

Also, re: 2 weeks paid time off; look outside of 'Murica once in a while. The global average of paid days off is ~25. So 2 weeks, while lovely for America, is below normal.

I wish we had a Canadian option. In the meantime, I'll use Steam for reference, and buy on GOG.

It is a personal account, as that is her personal name, -and- she is the President. Both things can be true. Stephen King uses his personal profile in a casual format with quips and jokes, random posts about the weather, what he's doing today, retooting fan art, and correcting idiots; because that's what he wants to share, just like I do with my profile. Yes, he has to be mindful of what he posts because the internet never forgets; and so do I. My posts can have real world repercussions for my job, or business just like King or Whittaker. The only difference is viewership.

Regardless, if I accommodate your argument and focus on posts from "official" accounts, Wendy's has used their accounts to troll for at least a decade. They have established informal engagement as a legitimate customer engagement strategy and it has been adopted by marketing teams the world over. Whittaker's interaction has garnered hundreds of comments in this niche thread alone: hundreds of impressions of the Signal brand. You are arguably the only user who negatively responded to her. From a branding perspective, those are phenomenal Results.

I found the response humorous. I'd imagine if she felt this was actually important to address (rather than some idiot spouting BS) there would be a post from the Signal account, rather than her personal profile, and it would look very different.

A hyphen or dot couldn't serve the same function as a carriage return here? (Not being a dick; genuine question)

I would rotate the text 90 degrees so that it has the full length of the top tab, that should give you more room to work, and most humans can read rotated text.

Another suggestion would be to try a different font that works with the printing limitations: something curved like Exo 2 might be a little less of a fight.

Covid-19 causes permanent damage, and immune dysregulation in every person who is infected, each time they are infected, so it's no surprise other viruses are now having larger impacts.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

Nope, measles is up to six times more contagious (UNICEF measures it as only two times more infectious). It doesn't help that the world in general has gotten really lax about how dangerous Covid is, particularly with the latest variants, so our baseline is off.

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/5-things-you-didnt-but-should-know-about-measles/

https://www.unicef.org/uzbekistan/en/stories/how-dangerous-measles

I agree with you about feeling no pity for the tech bros. However, a big appeal of AI for them is elimination of employees. And that's going to hurt more regular folks who did not sign up for AI on a much more noticeable level. I dont think any nation is set up to handle the level of unemployment that's on the horzon. So ignoring the environmental impacts of LLM/AI servers; let's get national food, shelter, and healthcare systems in place, and then I'd be all for letting the venture capitalists shove their dicks in blenders.

Agreed; it's not worth the rhetoric and actions. And while there's definitely merit in assessing trans athletes to try and keep things as fair as possible (though they never stopped Phelps from competing, so "fair" is kind of a joke), it's far more complex than a simple "there was testosterone so they have an advantage!"

For the "nonathletic" groups - think community-level sport - based on what data is available, there is effectively no statistical difference between cis and trans women's physical performance after 2+ years on hormone therapy.

When it comes to elite athletes, trans women outperformed cis women in Fat-free mass index, Absolute hand grip strength, and Absolute Vo2Max, but under-performed in Relative VO2Max to mass, Ratio of expiratory volume to vital lung capacity, and Absolute countermovement jump (lower body power). The lower Relative VO2Max, and Expiratory volume can lead to disadvantages in terms of speed, recovery and endurance.

While hand grip strength is considered an indicator of overall muscle strength, to quote the first article linked:

The correlations between hand grip strength and individual sports are reviewed comprehensively in Cronin et al. Though maximum hand grip strength has a strong relationship with maximum upper or body strength in some movement patterns such as in powerlifting strength, there are weaker relationships with other movement patterns. There is evidence that hand grip strength is a poor correlate of knee flexion or extension strength and is far more reliable as a marker of physical function if used together with lower limb strength. Hand grip strength is more relevant for some physical performance activities such as rotational movements that transfer force and torque to the hand (ie, ball throwing), but shows poor correlation to movement patterns that require technical ability, physical capacity, aerobic fitness or tactical ability (ie, tennis stroke placement or cricket fielding performance)

It will require a lot more information before any athletics group would be able to make a truly informed decision, and it's going to have to be sport by sport. Elite athletes are all outliers in their genetic makeup (Phelps, The average height of a WNBA player, etc). We know athletes have different hormone levels depending on the sport they play, but it's chicken vs. egg on whether the hormones or elite performance came first. So trying to decide what is an acceptable advantage re: "pro athlete genetics", vs. an unacceptable advantage re: "transgender genetics" is little more than opinions and politics at this point.

/info dump

Missed the sarcasm, I see.