[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 101 points 4 months ago

Or a chicken drumstick for somewhat similar bone strength.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 80 points 4 months ago

How much do you think nurses make?

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 108 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.

I've only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.

Plus, let's look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don't expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You're more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 57 points 6 months ago

Trump has to be less than 1000 big macs from a massive heart attack. She should stay in the race as the contingency candidate.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 84 points 6 months ago

Even if you're confident that the only people working a task are competent, they will eventually do something idiotic. Someone will have multiple nights with barely any sleep, or work really long shifts, or have a terrible event in their personal life. Eventually, someone will be trying to do their job while not fit for the task.

The concept of idiot proofing can sound derogatory or elitist at times, but the reality is that any one of us could end up being the idiot given bad enough circumstances.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They're saying that at highway speeds the cars energy usage would be off the chart, or if they scaled the chart to that usage, everything else would be too small to discern the differences.

You guys are in agreement.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 91 points 6 months ago

It's never safe to experiment with replicators. Just ask the asgard how that turns out.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 45 points 6 months ago

Harambe was going to speak out against putin, so he had an accident.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 57 points 7 months ago

Or in the case of Comcast or Facebook, just rebrand without having to buy another company.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits-and-long-term-consequences-did-jack-welch-break-capitalism

The CEO that managed to take GE from being the single most valuable technology company and turn it into a poorly performing stagnant mess popularized the idea of survival of the fittest within companies. He asserted that by cutting the bottom performers and even whole divisions regularly that it would leave a stronger, better company. He set targets to lay off the bottom 10% every year regardless of whether it was financially necessary.

In the short term, this strategy makes efficiency metrics look really good, and with good looking metrics, the stock goes up temporarily. However, there are major costs to layoffs that take months, years, and decades to materialize. Eventually, forced churn ruins the best of companies, from GE to IBM. Unfortunately, this management style is still incredibly popular amongst publicly traded companies. Most of the investors are willing to accept the eventual demise of a company if it means a decade of really good returns in the meantime.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 88 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The glaring error is this screenshot is listing an income figure that is comparable to the 2022 total revenues in the 2022 fiscal report.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/ebitda

It looks like Starbucks 2023 EBITDA was $7.3 Billion and the net income was $4.1 Billion.

The post makes a good point, but uses garbage data. Why do they do this? Although an $11,000 raise would elliminate the actual net earnings figure.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 52 points 8 months ago

Elves are super racist toward pretty much every other race.

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