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tax the rich (in islam) (discuss.tchncs.de)
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4chan is all about being out of the norm, being the 4-leaved clover

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What i mean with the title is: Mothers often feel as if they can't be successful themselves, due to their role as a mother. So, they try to make their child(ren) "successful" in their place. What that entails is a strict, hierarchical upbringing and a lot of "discipline" for the child(ren). As a direct consequence, the child(ren) have significantly reduced Quality Of Life, to the point of many committing suicide, and as such they are definitely a thing that can end lifes, or personal worlds (for the children). As such, they are clearly one of the "horsemen of the apocalypse".

He also criticized EU product standards as “non-monetary barriers” designed to block American exports.

lol, lmfao even

product standards exist for a reason.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don't have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can't be streamed.

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Consider the following drawing:

I take it that solar panel's generated electricity would be the same whether it's installed in scandinavia or africa, as long as it faces in the same direction? or am i stupid

i'm asking this because everywhere i hear how "solar panels have higher efficiency near the equator", but that's just not true. Maps such as these are common on the internet:

And they suggest that solar energy around the equator would be twice as available as on northern latitudes, but actually that's just the solar irradiation if the panels weren't inclined, but in practice, they were likely will be. So they receive similar amounts of power.


edit: so, it's the cloud cover. got it; thanks :D

I also feel quite bad for us.

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Interesting channel. They talk about solar power and how it replaces coal power, and what that means for climate warming until 2100.

Spoiler: The "business as usual" climate model significantly overestimates climate warming until 2100, and it will probably be much much less severe.

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I work full time at a grocery store. I show up, do what’s asked of me, make sure the product is good quality, treat customers with respect, and work decently hard for at least 75% of the time.

I’m not lazy. I get my work done. But I’m not emotionally invested, and I have no desire to go above and beyond for a job that sees me as replaceable. I was offered a promotion recently, but the raise was only $1 more an hour. I turned it down because:

  1. That raise is laughable for the extra responsibility they wanted to dump on me.
  2. I know myself, I simply don’t care enough to manage or lead other people.

I don’t care about delegating to part-timers. I don’t care about store numbers. I don’t care what my coworkers are doing. If someone takes an extra-long break? Don’t care. If they call out and I’m left alone? Don’t care.

And I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but even if someone half-asses something and it ends up making more work for me, it still doesn’t bother me. The way I see it, I’m here for 8 hours either way. I’ll go at my own pace, do what I can, and if something doesn’t get finished, that’s not my problem.

I’m also tired of how you walk into a job and everyone’s got pet peeves or weird OCDs about how things have to be done and these aren’t even managers or leads. Just regular workers like me acting like they’re running the place. Meanwhile, I don’t have an issue with anyone or anything. I’m not trying to police people.

I’ll also never understand why people get so mad over what someone else chooses to do with their life. It’s like they’re offended that someone dared to prioritize themselves. Who cares? A coworker recently got all worked up because someone requested a Saturday off and wasn’t there to help us when it was really busy, so we were short-handed. And I’m sitting there thinking, “Good for her! Why don’t you request a Saturday off too and enjoy your life like she is?”

In my mind whether we are fully staffed or understaffed I'm paid the same. I'm not going faster or slower. Is that so wrong?

Don’t get me wrong I totally understand if you’re someone trying to move up in the company. You’ve got to play the game, kiss a little ass, stay extra sharp. I get that. But the people I see getting the most emotionally invested aren’t even trying to move up.

This job gives us money so we can survive (barely, for some). But that doesn’t mean this job is our life. Why is that such a hard concept for people to grasp?

I’m here to make money so I can fund what I actually want to do with my life. Like my passion, my career, the thing that actually gives me purpose. So all this petty shit most of these people removed about? At the end of the day, it truly isn’t that big of a deal.

I know I’m ironically complaining here and being just like them but this has just been on my mind. People stress themselves out over jobs and the people they work with way too much. Especially considering how little the job (or those people) care about you back.

For me, it’s about choosing peace over pointless stress. And this isn’t me saying you should slack off or be a shitty worker...but for God’s sake, have some dignity and don’t let these people (management OR co workers) make you feel bad for having it.

Anyone else relate? Or maybe feel the need to vent.

Edit: Also wanted to add, TAKE YOUR BREAKS.

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finally human lefts (discuss.tchncs.de)

isn't this also, like, a tweet about queer people?

You're forgetting the speed at which the shockwave from the compression travels through the stick. I guess it's around the speed of sound in that material, which might be ~2 km/s

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

applies to words as well

i'm smelling some human rights abuses here

I honestly started out not liking systemd at all, mostly due to the reports that it did waaay to much, but nowadays, I like the concept.

It is basically officially moving daemon management from a script-based approach to a table/database-based approach. That improves static analyzability, therefore increasing clarity, and probably even performance.

I agree that we should abandon scripts and move towards declarative software management, and abandoning sudo for a more declarative system seems like a good step to me.

Honestly the problem I see here is not the layoff, which was disguised as a "lack of performance". Yes, it wasn't done perfectly, but still, it's no tragedy.

What is definitely the problem here is the absolute lack of a social security system in the US. That should be implemented.

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