was it shipped by USPS? Then mark it “wrong address” and let them pick it up. if you want to go the extra mile, bring it to a post office.

If it was shipped by someone else, call them, they’ll probably come out. alternatively, they’re probably in your neighborhood. check for a shipping label with an address or something and walk it over.

if they confirm it was sent to your address. congratulations. free shit.

Pretty sure quokka employ musks old PR team.

Cuz like they’re gonna try and kill everyone. Just you watch.

Don’t buy the propaganda! They’re tyrants!

They’re plotting world domination!

The cuteness is just an act! Hide your grandma!

Wikipedia is for my benefit, so I can just read it.

Nobody else needs to even know I have it, necessarily.

Them not being able to read it might even be a boon.

The goal is to get a leg up on things, not start having nuclear reactors in the medieval era.

For example muskets had an iterative development as small incremental changes took place. Relatively small changes made modest improvements.

It would also be nice to know when eclipses are about to happen, for, ah, reasons.

First off. Do I get to bring stuff with me? Like say the entire printed off contents of wikipedia.

also, I would like find one or two things that hadn’t quite been invented yet and ‘invent’ it.

also, Also, with a modicum of military power, I’d probably start a religion.

This assumes I have time to learn the local dialect

the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

so we agree. because that’s my point. They’re not breaking up google or meta because it’s good to break up monopolies. They’re breaking them up because the oligarchs told them to.

remember, the google and meta things are about advertisng tech.

It’s hurting walmart, kroger, and several others who are- basically- monopolies on their own. (and have many, many in congress paid off.)

I’m not saying any corpo is somehow magically benevolent. No, I’m saying if you stick your hand in a tank full of hungry sharks… yer gonna get bit.

even inside co-ops, employee compensation is not set by popular vote. Generally, the Co-Op members will vote on a board that controls the business.

Google and Meta started hurting other giant corporations though. That’s a big no no.

functionally, it wouldn’t work for anything more than a very small start up. just on the practical side.

it’s not just a question of unfair advantage. It’s a bald faced stupid way to run a company. you cannot make everyone happy, and a good manager isn’t going to be the most liked person in the room.

Human nature means most people won’t be invested in making a sound business decision. they’re going to invest as much thought into it as voting in a poll about what soup is their favorite. maybe considerably less.

You might want to edit the title to include the actual question.

but as for the question itself… Ahm. just on a pragmatic side… “the rest of the company…” might be something that could be reasonably done on a small company (less than a 250 people. Probably less than 50 people, actually,) but in any large company, you may as well send out a poll asking what kind of soup they prefer- Chicken or Pea Soup- and which ever manager backing the losing soup gets the axe.

The only people who might be aware of how hard any given person works are going to be the team members alongside them and the direct reports above and below them.

And to be perfectly blunt, working hard doesn’t necessarily translate to work getting done. if the manager is just spinning their wheels and not getting the core stuff done, it’s a problem. If the manager is spending too much time on things that simply don’t matter… it’s a problem.

Ultimately, even if you can have a reasonable belief that every one knows what every one else does and doesn’t do (that sounds like hell, actually.) it turns into a popularity contest and the manager whose actually keeping things running might not get recognized by it, where the manager throwing parties and blowing cash does. One might say I’m being a stick in the mud, but the reality is, if the managers stop facilitating the work their people do… then the company fails. No parties. no jobs. no company.

Depends. If it’s me we’re talking about…. Nope.

But if it’s some asshole douchenozzle that’s forcing them to be a fake online girlfriend…… I’m okay with that guy not existing.

they weren’t, exactly.

neither the pyramids nor the coliseum in rome was ever truly lost to be rediscovered.

The Coliseum wasn’t even necesarily ‘abondoned’, but had rather been repurposed for workshops and housing after it was damaged in earthquakes, and in any case there just wasn’t the interest in the games there used to be. It costs money and resources to keep things up. especially old things, and the people who owned it found that, keeping the games going simply weren’t worth it.

For they pyramids… they were only ‘rediscovered’ by western people. Keep in mind, they were tombs, massive, expensive-to-maintain tombs. for long-dead rulers. Nobody went inside them becuase they’re tombs, and in any case, nobody kept them up because, again, it costs money and resources to do that. And as for exploring their chambers… it takes a certain kind of arrogance to do that, too.

In other places, like the pyramids in south america, they’re lost because the civilization that built them died out, and the jungle reclaimed that land, hiding them. (mayan temples, for example.) Others were, similar to the egyptian pyramids, never actually lost to the culture that built it.

You may notice a trend here. These places are old, and take money, resources and effort to maintain. When times are hard, no one is spending it on upkeeping something that just sits there. not unless there’s a very important reason to do so.

Batman is an example. Batman is a human being with a brilliant intellect, which is not a problem, but being a human being without powers, he manages to be more intelligent than aliens superior to humans, he manages to be a MASTER in all martial arts and no matter who the opponent is, he is always prepared and can win. Any writer who dares to create a female character with these characteristics would be attacked and called woke

Is he? or is he a rich fucking Neppo Baby running around in tights, cape and a mask, and you just assume he’s brilliant because he bought all his lab equipment or had it built?

Batman/Bruce Wayne is far from perfect. For example, the “good” he brings with his vigilantism is no where near the good he brings if he were simply taxed into obsolescence. and he’s pretty shit at crimefighting, too, frequently causing more harm than the people he’s stopping. (“oopsie, I blew up another factory causing a massive chemical spill.” with Joker going “And you get a super power, and you get a super power, and YOU get a super power. EVERYBODY GETS A SUPERPOWER!”)

as for always being prepared, that’s not how the pro forma story arc goes. First he gets into a fight, gets his ass kicked and then runs and hides in his batcave while the labtechs whip up the perfect solution for him.

Put another way, He’s what Musk wishes to be.

There are many other examples, just watch any Japanese isekai anime

The vast majority of which is geared towards teenage boys who are just discovering boobies, and most the protagonists are male simply to cater to their audience.

In any case, while yes, criticising mary sues is definitely more extensive than gary stus- and we both know why- there are plenty of gary stu’s to hate. (pretty much anything played by tom cruise, for example.)

thermostats don’t run off what the temperature is outside.

usually, they have set points- heat comes on if the temperature goes below x, cooling/air conditioning comes on if it goes above y.

Does your system have a physical outside sensor for temperature? or is it pulling that information off the internet? your immediate location and how you’re situated on your property (plus things like how well your home is insulated, the color, how many windows you have… etc,) has more to do with how hot it gets inside. Or, for example, if you get a lot of sunlight coming in, it can heat up the house with it being horribly cold outside.

Regardless, if it’s not staying comfortable, look for a “heat and cool” option and then adjust the set points to within a more comfortable range. keep in mind that will cause energy costs to go up as it’s now actively heating or cooling more. (This time of year plays merry hell with HVAC systems,)

Every performance is different. Sometimes it’s faster sometimes it’s slower. Some times it changes during the song.

Some of that is responding to the audience’s energy or whatever, and some of it is just the natural human imprecision.

For your typical rock band set up, the drummer sets the tempo, which is part of why they slap their sticks together at the start of a song. (They may also do it because they think it’s cool.) sometimes different people might set the tempo, but the drums picks it up and carries it.

Jazz is a bit more fluid, especially with improvisational jazz, where everyone takes a turn leading and with slight changes. More rigid jazz, it‘s set by the leader with everyone coming together on that- but also, jazz is a bit more fluid and responsive to the audience. L

they shove all their “special” cookies up your computer’s ass and it gets super stoned and forgets it’s not supposed to tell you about how they’ve already taken over the world.

legally as mentioned elsewhere, it’s supposed to treat it as a rejection, except for “necessary” cookies. but, eh… I’m not sure I would trust that. if there’s a website you’re concerned pushing cookies, use firefox’s private window mode. (I wouldn’t trust chrome to not just pretend like incognito actually did something. while it really does nothing.) all cookies are sandboxed, and deleted after you close the browser.

Technically, satan is a prosecutor, god is the judge and Jesus the defense attorney.

But, eh, it’s all just cosplay and your fucked.

One can see why.

I agree that graphene is the hands down best. But for people who have a device and want to switch, and that device is not a google pixel, well that severely limits your options.

An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.

have you considered flashing custom roms on it? e/OS, LineageOS and GrapheneOS (restricted to google pixel for hardware+privacy/security reasons) are all opensource.