Beats getting a hoodie for Christmas!
(Don't ask me how I know)
Aceticon
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The Haaretz is a well established Israeli Newspaper.
The minions of the wealthy hate anything that impedes them from executing the will of their masters.
I use a pretty basic one (with an N100 microprocessor and intel integrated graphics) as a TV box + home server combo and its excellent for that.
It's totally unsuitable for gaming unless we're talking about stuff running in DOSEmu or similar and even then I'm using it with a wireless remote rather than a keyboard + mouse, which isn't exactly suitable for PC gaming.
Mind you, there are configurations with dedicated graphics but they're about 4x the price of the one I got (which cost me about €120) and at that point you're starting to enter into the same domain as small form factor desktop PCs using things like standard motherboards, which are probably better for PC gaming simply because you can upgrade just about anything in those whilst hardware upgradeability of mini PCs is limited to only some things (like SDD and RAM).
In my own personal experience of doing it in London for years (nowadays I'm in a different country and just walk to work) as well as a conference I attended way back by a researcher studying exposure to polution in London, if you're doing it in a big city like that, try and find a path that minimizes your exposure to polution, since whilst you actually get a proper daily fill of exercise cycling to work, you're subject to the same risks as people who jog near roads with lots of traffic, which include such unexpected things as a higher risk of heart attack (due to soot microparticles from ICE exhaust transversing the lungs into the blood and ending up accumulating around the heart) as a well as (more expected) problems in the respiratory system because the sulfur oxides emitted by cars (especially diesel) mix with the water in your airways and lungs and turn into acid.
Mind you, it doesn't need to be that much of a detour: from models I've seen for London polution, merely being one street over from a main road massivelly decreases the polution levels one is exposed to.
Ju$tice.
Meanwhile the NYC Police will be opening an emergency phone line exclusive for CEOs who feel threatened or harassed.
That's definitely going to convince people in general that the Police "works for the community" and that they should "trust the Police".
- Don't break the Law for the company or the boss.
- Keep the company shit in company devices and your shit in your devices. That means company computer and phone for their stuff and your own for yours. If there's ever any Lawsuit or Criminal investigation on the company they won't take your stuff as evidence if you don't at all use it for company work and won't intrude in your privacy if the company stuff isn't used for your own stuff.
- Even if it's totally legal, if something that your are being ordered to do against your better advice might come back to bite you (i.e. you might get blamed for the negative outcome you predict will come from it), get that order in writing.
Even your direct lead can't be assumed to be your friend (no matter how nice: niceness is easily and commonly faked) until you've gone through some proper shit together and he or she has shown themselves to be somebody that will take the hit rater than "blame their underlings" - trusts is earned, not due.
The kind of company were Management and HR go around trying to convince employees they're like family and other similar things are simply trying to act like abusive cults.
Sound more like "abusive cult" than "family" to me.
There are two things that the aftermath of Luigi's action has made poignantly clear to pretty much everybody:
- That the vast majority of people no matter their party affiliation and political leanings is feeling the pain and hates the abuses that carry on being committed by a minority of people in our system with total impunity ... until Luigi.
- That the Ju$tice System, the Police and most of the Press, unlike what they claim work for that minority of people, not for the rest of us.
It's amazing just how certain parts of the system that are supposed to work for everybody (such as in this case the Police, and in other cases large parts of the Press with their "poor CEO" articles) are pretty much shouting loud and clear for all to hear that "we're not working for you, we work for the ones that abuse you".
Most people just discovered now with this killing of a hated CEO that what they individually felt about certain things was also felt by almost everybody, and then these bought-and-paid-for minions who for decades have been putting a lot of effort in passing themselves as "working for the community" just repeatedly and overtly signal to everybody else their true minion-of-the-rich nature.
Mind you, as a Leftie who has been skeptical of whose those elements of the current system for decades, I'm happy they're basically outing themselves and they should keep on doing it so that everybody sees them for what they really are and who they really serve,
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The second line doesn't logically follow from the first - you're talking about a relatively better option all the way to that top line and then you switch from "better than other" to "good" - it's like going about how in a choice between being knifed twice versus being knifed just once the "just knifed once" is good in comparison and then jumping from that to saying that getting knifed once is good.
Even beyond that totally illogical jump, the other flaw of logic is treating each election as a unique totally independent choice whose results have no impact on the options available on subsequent choices - I.e. that who the Democrat Party puts forwards and who the Republic Party puts forwards as candidates in an election isn't at all influenced by how the electorate responded to previous candidates they put forward in previous elections - it is absolutely valid for people to refuse to vote for Kamala to "send a message to the Democrat Party" (I.e. to try to influence the candidates the party puts forward in subsequence election) and it's around the validity or not of risking 4 years of Trump to try and get an acceptable Democrat candidate in at the end of it that the discussion should be (and there are valid points both ways) not the hyper-reductive falacy you seem so wedded to.
Choices in the real world are a bit more multi faceted and with much more elements and implications than that self-serving "simpleton" slogan the DNC pushed out in its propaganda which you are parroting.