I think it was Jesus that said, “It’s better to ban an entire nation from existing than it is to work out your own sexuality with fear and trembling”.

Its not stupid to be optimistic. Every good thing starts with optimism as far as I know

The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.

That was not obvious. I’m glad I procrastinated and haven’t bought Proton yet.

How does that jive with your saying that they don’t support the Trump administration?

I don’t support companies that support the Trump administration. You said they don’t, and then the very next post you say that they do. What the fuck?

If I see a 40 plus year old man and a 16 year old girl going places together, I’m going to assume the girl is his daughter.

Pretty high Ick factor.

It’s amazing the lengths people will go to to avoid a difficult conversation.

Whether you like it or not, you are a part of the total equation and if you have issues with it, you should try to communicate your concerns with all relevant people.

Once you have communicated your concerns, It’s not your problem anymore.

People don’t have to listen, don’t have to do what you tell them to do, and they don’t have to take your concerns into consideration.

If they choose to do something stupid that’s on them.

The author is active on bluesky and she’s actually quite nice and everything you would expect her to be.

Yeah, and?

Do you honestly believe there’s a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?

Regardless of the truth, I prefer Diane Duane’s explanation in the “So, You Want to Be a Wizard” novel, In that all of the steam in the subways are generated by a breed of fire worms. These worms, if left long enough, can grow to the size of a respectable and quite terrifying dragon.

You just convinced me to get proton

Edit: This was a misunderstanding. I assumed they were saying that proton does not support the Trump administration and therefore I was going to use them as my new mail server, but now that I know that they kind of do, fuck proton, they won’t get a penny from me.

Also money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format

NASCAR might do those speeds fairly regularly for short bursts

Long story short, people that use it get really used to using it.

It’s kind of wild to think that you could make so much money by making an open-source TV ecosystem.

Or if making money is not your thing, you could acquire so much internet clout by developing it and then publishing it online.

Additionally, if your smart TV requires an internet connection in order to be set up in the first place, use the hotspot on your phone with a new SSID, and set it up, and then change the SSID on your phone.

After that, it should work without an internet connection, and it’ll spend all of its time attempting to connect to an internet connection that is no longer there.

You know?

You made me think about this for a minute and I think I figured it out.

Use the circle pin to draw the circle.

Then use the select tool to select the circle that you drew.

Then use the grow/shrink tool to shrink the selection by however many pixels thick you want the circle to be.

Then use the erase tool to erase all the parts of the circle that you don’t want.

Easy peasy.

Thank you. I was afraid I was being a little too subtle.

Kubuntu isn’t too bad

You can also use the brush tool and just draw a circle that’s completely filled in at whatever size you want and then remove the inner portion that you don’t want by switching to the erase tool and then shrinking the size of the circle brush to what you don’t need and clicking directly in the center of the circle.