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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

It might be just the power button I can't see a power button anywhere else on it and presumably you can turn these things off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And when you paused something it used to start moving more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You can't bring a lawsuit for something you think might happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

They've got news in the title. They wouldn't lie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Wikipedia is weird. In an article that lists the largest protests that have occurred in the United States, they still feel the need to tell you that each one of these protests, that are on a list of protests that occurred in the United States, in fact occurred in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I thought they did invent a steam engine at some point. I'm sure I read that somewhere.

The thing is they were never going to invent the steam engine because they didn't have the technology to produce steel to the quality and strength that would be needed to build rails. And for that matter they didn't really have the metallurgy necessary to construct reliable boilers either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

I still like the fact that the guy that invented super glue was very annoyed by how sticky it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I mean it's kind of bizarre that he couldn't think of a practical application. We literally use invisible waves to communicate already, these ones move at light speed, how could that not be useful?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

During the pandemic our office was inspected and structurally condemned, so we literally have nowhere to go back to, the building is now a car park. It's great.

I wholeheartedly recommend black mould and a leaky roof to anyone that doesn't want to go back, it might be hard to arrange but it definitely works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Unions haven't got anything to do with it. Unions are about protecting you from unfair business practises, it's not a social club, nor do they try to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I used to work for a bunch of lawyers. I would happily take a fire axe to every single one of them.

They really didn't like remote working and tried to put a stop to it and "sense of community" was their excuse as well, but it was really about control.

It would be interesting if they did this study again in an environment like that, where people aren't really friendly with their co-workers. I imagine they would get a vastly different result.

This study may not be BS in particular, for that one case, but it is BS in general

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Or if we use less adversarial language, this study is far from universal and its findings should be applied with the understanding that not all people will not match those who were in the study. As with most things, far more research is needed to get a thorough understanding.

 

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When spoiler text is revealed it should render in the same colour as normal text. I'm not sure why it's white.

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