FYI: That is statistically not good for you or your boss. People who take lunches and breaks (even when forced to) are more productive than those who don’t (on average) enough to offset lost time.
Also you should check social media and connect with loved ones between tasks to maximize your morale and productivity.
Chronic Morbid tumescence
Molly carries minerals and we shoot bugs and mine! Dwarf life in a nutshell
— Dwarf Clone Frontloading
It’s called high-functioning mental illness and yes it’s based on the assumption that if you can hold a job, what’s you’re problem?
HFMI is epidemic in the US and probably throughout the industrialized world.
I am the orphans Ignorance and Want.
Yes, both of them.
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Why does this make sense to me?
How Money Works did a video on quiet quitting (e.g. doing your job and not a jot more) and how companies did that to themselves.
Rather than promoting from within, companies started hiring outsiders who didn’t need training in the software and duties of the new position, saving them the cost of training (or rather passing the cost on to the workers.)
(This is where my wife interjects an observation from her own job in admin, incuding HR, that the hired stranger will still have to be frontloaded with all the company specific protocols, like who signs your work logs, where you eat lunch, where the printers are in the LAN, what accountant orders more supplies and so on, and this process often takes longer than training)
Anyway, workers quickly learned rather than asking for a raise, they keep their résumé current and keep applying for higher paying jobs, and the moment they land one pull up stakes and leave, owing no loyalty to the old company.
And since working hard and sucking up to the managers doesn’t make a difference for promotions or raises, people bring their bare minimum effort to work. Doubly so since hiring from ouside pays on average three times what promotional salaries are.
If they’re not paying you what you are worth, keep light on your feet and look at competing companies. Heck if your workplace is toxic, secure whatever intel you can while you search for jobs.
It was weird to me, when I was looking for rings and jewelry that there are gems that have a higher brilliance and luster than diamonds (and unlike super-fancy bright glass is actually robust enough for typical use). And yet, the folks that want diamonds want diamonds. Since around 2016 after seeing the Mnuchins in the news, it felt like conflict diamonds and slave-mined diamonds are in.
There are two noteworthy points in history featuring boobs in cinema.
The 1980s in the US is the era of the slasher flick, and the film student age, so Lucas, Speilberg, Coppola, etc.) when arty films started getting a (tiny bit more of) a budget. It’s also before the internet, so one is not able to just look for boobs on the internet.
As Sarah Marshall notes (discussing the history of porn) these R-rated movies are the only place where a fellow might see boobs other than his partner’s. The early internet (and its predecessor, usenet) provided a lot more boobs, and so boob content fell off from mainstream cinema in the late 90s and early aughts. DVD is also a factor, which not only didn’t require MPAA approval, but often advertised The Unrated Version and we got to see a lot more European movies which were a lot more relaxed about boobs.
Also, we get plenty of boobs in TV series on Netflix and whatever HBO is called now.
But then there’s what happened to Spanish cinema after the death of General Franco
He died, and his extreme censorship was quickly lifted. Spanish Cinema went through The Stripping Years in which films featured at least one gratuitous sex scene with boobs and pubes (we weren’t all trimmed French or Brazilian yet) simply as a celebration of freedom of expression. So if the Republicans succeed in taking away everyone’s porn, there will not only be extra-risqué black market films, but the US mainstream cinema will likely go through a boobalicious phase because now we can show this again!
Wait, Bob Chipman quoted Sony Pictures in a critique of the Mark Webb Amazing Spider-Man series. They used a phase something like content as product. Chipman noted the Webb movies were greenlit not because we needed another Spider-Man movie. In fact, they rejected Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 on the assumption that Spidey was getting stale. (Even though 3 was well received, just not as much as the moguls wanted).
But Disney was wanting Spider-Man in the MCU, and Sony wanted to preserve its rights in order to get a slice of that Disney pie. Marvel owns Spider-Man and was free to sell to Disney if Sony wasn’t going to make a movie. So they made movies to cockblock Disney. They didn’t have a story or a good idea, they just needed to make a movie, even a bad one, to evergreen their Spider-Man rights.
And this led to some ideas from Marketing / Accountancy: What if we extend this same notion of just making movies without inspiration or concepts the same way, since we know enough about what consumers will buy tickets for. (The movie market is mostly teens who don’t know any better, hence the 1980s trend of making sure boobs happened in at least one scene.)
Content as product, manufactured the way one manufactures turkey bacon, or Twinkies.
Curiously, we actually saw a similar trend in the music industry in the late 80s, where the labels decided they figured out the perfect formula to knock out hit after hit. (Patrick Bateman would talk about how totally amazing this music was as he was prepping to butcher his next victim.)
We’re also seeing it in strategic maneuvers like Warner shelving Batgirl as a tax write off, a maneuver that demonstrates even Warner doesn’t regard cinema as art rather than content to be consumed.
We’ve already seen this kind of devastation happen to the game industry, where AAA games depend on a publisher-proprietary platform, have an always-online mandate (even with single-player) and is loaded with microtransactions, and intentionally made less fun by making the grind tedious so that bypasses of parts of the game can be sold as time savers.
When art is no longer about expression but consumption, the producers have lost the plot. Much like the dusk of Classical Hollywood and the art-film age of the 1970s this is probably going to create an era of low-budget films that are actually good, while the big studios try to sue the snot out of the small production companies for trumped-up rights violations (think the Pokémon vs. Palworld litigation that is ongoing, and apply the same notion to cinema projects).
Yes! That was a vast improvement. It’s not the only way that Americans are felons if the state needs to decide they are, or if they need to add charges / sentencing considerations if the prosecutors really want to throw away the key, such as embarrassing VIPs or killing rich people.
Still, you don’t want the police looking at your entire internet history, even if you believe you have nothing to hide, they will find things that they find objectionable enough to justify treating you roughly.
All Americans who have ever used the internet have violations of the CFAA, since website TOS violations are legally as criminal as hacking NORAD (the CFAA was passed after Reagan saw wargames ) normally letting your twelve-year-old start a Facebook account gets you 25 years, if some prosecutor wanted to enforce it. And they think that’s ridiculous and don’t.
However, if that prosecutor wants to turn a five month sentence into a ten year sentence, then the suspect’s CFAA violation history might be useful after all.
And that is just one of the laws that overreaches and is easily broken and not usually enforced.
Suddenly you may have something to hide after all, say if they’re rounding up gay felons and any petty felony would make your gay ass qualify. (The German SD and US ICE both ignore violent felon requirements when they’re rounding up folk to be detained and deported)
Wait until you see the difference between a 1920 fighter and a 1940 fighter.
This is also pretty much the plot of Satisfactory.
Weapons of terror tend to be messy. There were railroad guns that could hit Paris from seventy miles but couldn’t accurately target a spot within Paris, so it was used to stomp civilians.
Nukes are terror weapons in that they dont just kill the target but plenty of territory around it as well, which is an exclusion zone for a while.
I can’t speak for the Star Destroyer but the Death Star super-laser is clearly a mining tool used to crack open planets to get to the gooey center minerals. It can be used to annihilate a planet, but that’s usually a waste of real estate.
I didn’t see that.