I don’t really understand this scam. Your employer wrote a cheque on the account where he later deposited the cash he was given. What’s the purpose? To inflate expenses and profit numbers?

That is something they may not be allowed to say for legal reasons, especially if other investgations are going on.

Not here to defend the multi-milion dollar company, but how can you connect selling someone else’s stuff (which can be described by either extreme greed or a genuine mistake caused by dishorganization) and things like bullying and sexual harassment, which is not not even explainable by greed, only by being evil.

Like, they are not even comparable, it’s like saying that one accused of murder is convicted because they once didn’t pay their taxes.

Even then, everyine speaking english would make more sense than removing timezones

Also please remeber that “addict” doesn’t mean “weak” or “lesser man” or whatever. We all have our own struggles, facing them is the most brave thing one can do.

It depends on the series, there’s not a single formula good for all. If you want a dramatic “8 hours long movie” like The Last of Us, you cannot get a 24 episode season, because it would be boring/inconclusive, and the years between season is neede because these series are hard to make and take a long time. You can’t have the cake and eat it too, it’s either high quality series or one season every year (also see Fargo for an exmaple of this, one of the series I enjoyed the most and they take their good time to delived it).

If you like want less action drama and prefer extensive character and world building (see Star Trek), it’s very difficult to do so in 12 episodes, so 24 was used to sprinkle small details in a broader picture, and while the “monster of the week” trope is sometimes silly (also see early Star Trek) it sometimes make sense in the universe of the show (like Star Trek Voyager meeting a different species ebery week because they are literally travelling through the galaxy, or crime shows where you a literally going through a detective’s life one case at a time, while exploring their character and culture). With a lot of episodes you also have the advantage of being able to explore a ton of different topics and take your time to properly do it, more than an 8 hour movie can do. Also these types of series usually are less expensive to make so it’s easier to spit out 24 episodes seasons every year (altough it’s equally easy to drop in quality). They can also feel more “down to earth” insteaf of bombastic, if you appreciate this (like I do) they can be more enjoyable than the protagonist trying to save the world every season.

Fallout New Vegas was also repetitive in many aspects, mainly because they had limited time and resued assets when they could. Still doesn’t mean it’s not a fantastic game

Also certificate does not ensure the website is safe, only that you are really talking with the server the URL points to, and not a man-in-the-middle trying to hijack your information (like passwords or payment details).

Nothing stops a malicious site to have a valid https certificate. Sure, more spam-friendly Certification Authorities like Let’s Encrypt might revoke spammy certificate, but that’s not nevesserily always true.

Isn’t data uncountable in english?

As many other said, milli and kilo are the prefix you are going to use 90% of the time, with the exception of centimeters. Food and beverage products are measured in kg, liters or milliliters, furnitures are measured in mm, cm or meters, distances are in meters or kilometers. Everything else is relatively uncommon. If you are not used to them you can still use some rough estimates, at least to get a sense of scale, but it’s generally not used by people who learn it first.

For example, the width of a finger is a few centimeres, a bottle of water is usually 1 or 1.5 liters, a leg of an average male is around 1 meter long, a kilometer is how much you walk in 5 minutes, and so on.

As for the writing, the rules are quite simple: the base measurement is always in lowr case (m, g, l), you might see liter written as L instead of l but, while common, is technically wrong. For the modifiers, most are lower case, some are upper case to distinguish

1000 = kilo k 100 = hecta = h 1/10 = deci = d 1/100 = centi = c 1/1000 = milli = m 1000000 = mega = M

There are more specific rules for scientific units of measures, like if the abbreviation of the base unit is more than ine letter, the first is upper case (1 Pascal, the measure of pressure is 1 Pa instead of 1 pa), but if you don’t work in STEM, you likely won’t care.

There’s a difference between “win without even trying” and “barely holding up”

To a certain extent yes, but at least on most social you at least follow single creators you enjoy, and you are usually presented with a lost of content they made so you choose. With tik tok you are served a random video and the algorithm chooses the next one, I don’t even know if when finished to see a video you can get a list of reccommended of you are served one only. It’s just a differenr structure.

Tik Tok, mostly because it represent “fast entertainment” and is the epitome of “the algorithm chooses for you” which is what I despise the most. Now everythink tries to be like it because it’s famous, and everythink is more shitty.

Also, how many pizza parties are you getting that are worth a raise? If you consider a 1000$ raise per year, which is I guess nothing on a US salary, it’s like 50 pizzas. If you eat two whole pizzas at every single pizza party, that would be almost two parties per month. Is that a realistic amount of parties?

Sounds like a relatively confrting description for death

Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or “trust me bro” level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it’s people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I’m of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000’s, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010’s and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

Remeber when facebook was about “connecting with old friends” and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was “broadcast yourself” and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because “more future customers pay for the present ones”

I’ve only seen Legal Eagle’s highly edited reaction to the first episode, but holy hell from the little I saw I never want to see any.

Bad writing, well above the level of suspension of disbelief, totally stupid scenarios that come straight out of a 7 years-old idea of what’s like being a lawyer. Like I get it, nobody expects perfect realism from a tv show, but you don’t need to be a practicing laywer to feel the writers are pretending you are stupid and try and write scenes thay thought as fake arguments under the shower.

And the characters are these obnoxious alpha-male machos that try and fuck over each other and desperately try to not seem weak in front of others. Maybe this show is so meta to ridiculize the current 21st century man that it goes all around, who knows.

IQ does not measure intelligence, it measures different fields of intellect, mostly about logic, language comprehension and memory. It doesn’t measure intelligence per se, but if you have a low score <70, you can be sure your life is going to be impacted negatively in some way, either because you don’t understand other people, you don’t understand the world or you cannot chain together complex logical chains.

Global warming is not about producing more energy, it’s about burning fossil fuels instead of clean energy (renewables, nuclear…) and about wasting energy.

But it’s not as easy, technically everytime you use your car you become “part of the problem”, or everytime you buy some useless single-use crap from temu, but I think it’s unfair to blame yourself for it. The system allows and encourages wastes and “problematic behaviour” because it’s either more profitable (see bigger cars in the US) or changing is more difficult and politically inconvenient.