Useful for those whose noses were affected long term by COVID.

Not quite. Worst case scenario is I make a torture machine for any dog, cat, and maybe other non-human animal in the area.

I found one for sale that does 40k that has the same form factor as the one shown in the paper. I almost want to make a high-speed coldbrew system but I don’t expect it’d be worthwhile for the coffee, only maybe for the fun of building it.

Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

Yet again, we see that marketers being harmful lying parasites and managers being overpaid slackers.

Piezotransducer? As in the little thing that makes electronics beep and buzz?

The realist in me says ‘Ooh, what interesting systems created a seeming whale ossuary?’ The child in me says, ‘OoOoOoOoh, something down there is so big it eats whales. Do not disturb the Leviathan.’

There is ‘ein volk’ and Muslims are not in it.

Will there be movies about haunted figurines that kill the people who buy them?

It’s a framework for understanding, a map of a territory that exists only in the mind, like everything else.

Mmm, spaghetti.

At least Andrew of the royal family of the UK has been stripped of title. Still wealthy and not in prison last I heard though.

The white Americans certainly seem to like it.

Two immediate thoughts:

One key there is ‘savvy manager.’ I’ve met too many who would see a line item for interviews and say ‘why is this so high? Don’t the HR team vet these people. I’m cutting the budget for interviews. Hey, Direct Report, I just saved the company another several thousand dollars a year. Aren’t I great?’

And neither way explains a reason one would do MORE interviews if candidates were paid than while they were free. The cost increase for doubling the number of interviewees while we still aren’t paying them is ~$0. You could centuple the number of interviews and 100*0 is still 0. There is still no incentive to do something MORE after it has a cost. If you want to hire the right person, you’ll do as many interviews as it takes, until the cost of interviews grows beyond the expected cost of hiring a suboptimal candidate. That’s true now. Why would it be different then?

Find where the rainbow touches the ground. Or, wait, that’s leprechauns.

Think paintball guns that shoot the absorbent gel balls used to fill vases for cut flowers.

It’s a self-perpetuating system too. Bad managers create awful workplaces, where people who come in wanting to do good things are punished for trying until they become slackers and slackers keep going as long as the managers’ ignorance allows. Then the shmooziest slackers are in perfect position to take the manager’s seat when they go.

How would it make them go up? It currently costs zero, and adding the cost of that pay doesn’t change any other expenses for recruitment contractors. Even if they don’t view it as a significant cost relative to the full HR department, they’d still either ignore it and maintain current rates or view it as an avoidable expense and minimise it. I don’t see a mechanism for increasing them unless the law gave them some backdoors to, say, pay below standard wages while asking candidates to do work as part of the interview, effectively turning them into sub-minimum wage workers for businesses where that might be useful.

The point is the difference between the slacker on the shop floor and the slacker in the back office is just the job title, not the approach. If you can let other people do all the work while you collect a paycheck, you’re winning as a slacker.

Now, you might think, ‘but won’t they just get fired once their direct report gets wind of what they’re doing?’ The answer is yes, but if their direct report is also slacking, when would they see the employee’s work to know they need to be fired?

And if they’re a good liar, the slacker can say ‘Oops, yeah, I fucked up by trusting Soandso with that. I’ve fired them now so it won’t be a problem anymore.’ Then they burn that employee/contractor and keep collecting a paycheck. Depending on how lazy/stupid/gullible their management is, this can be repeated for years.

How long until America tells Georgia they have seceded from the union successfully and they don’t want them back?

Trojans: ‘Wow, they made us this big cool horse as a gift for withstanding their little tantrum? Nifty. Let’s install it right outside the gate so people can see it as they come in and see how great we are without blocking our roads.’

Wooden horse: ‘Mother fucker!’