manicdave

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[–] manicdave 7 points 7 months ago

Yeah. That's the problem. It doesn't seem to be that they didn't do the work, it's that they did other stuff too.

[–] manicdave 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The article doesn't say anything about productivity or targets. They got as much done as someone who manually wiggles the mouse while thinking instead of going for a walk while thinking.

[–] manicdave 80 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Notice how this doesn't even have anything to do with productivity. These people were fired purely for having the gall to not respect office hours regardless of the completion of tasks.

[–] manicdave 27 points 7 months ago

There are sections of both the right and the left that have anti-authoritarian tendancies.

The libertarian right tends to view things purely in terms of government over reach, whilst the left tends to view things in terms of the power of capital.

Leftists saw Facebook pushing propaganda for the highest bidder, Reddit trying to be safe to sell to investors and twitter basically becoming a project to reflect Elon Musk's personal opinions.

Out of that came a bunch of attempts at creating new social networks. The right wing attempts were not cognisant that the aforementioned were the natural result of trying to get rich off it, while the left attempted to make it impossible to get into that position.

[–] manicdave 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How do you decide it's a good idea to risk getting a criminal record for fraud in the hopes of winning just one day's salary!?

[–] manicdave 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Never approach an empty section of the bar. Make sure to form an orderly queue that blocks the front door and the route to the toilets.

[–] manicdave 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Solar panels on cars are thought of the wrong way. The responses in this thread really demonstrate that.

It's true that they're kind of pointless on EVs, because they're never going to supply enough power to not need a proper charge, which makes the panels redundant.

Where they could be useful is hybrids, sold as something that makes the engine 10-20% more efficient.

[–] manicdave 3 points 8 months ago

I couldn't find it in jerbal or whatever this app's called so I just googled it

[–] manicdave 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Almost went to Stonehenge after visiting family down south. They wanted £60 and wouldn't let us take the dog in.

You can apparently get in cheaper if you're a member of English Heritage. So we looked online to see if it was a fair deal and what other sites membership grants you.

Turns out that English Heritage are a bunch of robbing bastards (they literally stole seahenge!) that enclose our historic sites in order to charge money for access to them.

I won't be visiting if I have to pay them.

[–] manicdave 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for having me. Is there a way to chuck in a few quid to help pay the bills?

[–] manicdave 5 points 8 months ago

I'm blaming imgflip, not my incredible laziness

[–] manicdave 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tbh, I didn't even realise you could do that. I'm just used to using grep and worked backwards. Thanks for pointing it out.

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