I wish I had the source, but one view of being in the dominant position in a relationship is that "one gets things done or their needs met, but 'moves' the least." A baby is an example they gave. It just lies there, but everyone around it tends to its needs unconditionally. It is in tyrannical control of the relationship.
In the case of Tesla vehicles, the human driver sits (or lies) there and his transportation needs are met. The auto-pilot does all the work. The driver is still in control of the relationship, even if the chauffeur is software. The technology serves him; very much in contrast to the similarly "rugged, individualist" men who felt threatened by industrialization 200 years ago.
Great point of view with regard to adults. This doesn't apply to babies, though, as it is ultimately up to the adults whether or not to abandon the baby to die. It is up to adults what kind of food, shelter, bedding, etcetera that the baby gets. The baby has no power, just the ability to project "take pity on me" through generally, but not universally, felt nurturing reactions in the adults.
Dependency is not equivalent to dominance. Dependency requires vulnerability, dominance requires the reduction of vulnerability.
> The technology serves him; very much in contrast to the similarly "rugged, individualist" men who felt threatened by industrialization 200 years ago.
These men had firearms which served them, and the ability to bend nature to their will. They lost this ability as nature was overtaken by industrialization controlled by others.
This was my experience at my last company, except compressed into 1 year.
Once I joined I learned that 30% of my time would be dedicated to hiring. The company had a pooled hiring process, and I came to hate it. I spent several hours a week reading resumes, interviewing, reading interviewers' feedback, sitting in roundtables, strategizing with recruiters, and if all that went well, pitching candidates to the hiring committee. Then I would sit back, with no control over the comp, and watch the candidate choose another team, largely because my team wasn't a "sexy" team; very critical to business, but not sexy.
In the handful of cases where my team was the only option, the candidates would turn down the offer due to "insufficient compensation". The company had a "no negotiation" stance on offers. So once the offer went out, that was that. In my first performance review my manager put "hiring" as an area of improvement. I felt this was a trap and would be used to let me go eventually, in spite of the fact my team grew from 3 to 10 engineers from internal transfers and we were hitting all our deliverables.
Between hiring and navigating the terribly siloed corporate structure to build cross-functional teams I had almost no time outside of 1:1s to spend with my own team. It was a really disappointing experience and I felt really bad when I left, because my team and stakeholders were all delightful and capable people. Like you, I felt I couldn't protect them and keep my mental health intact at the same time.
Back in 2010 I had a friend refer two potential clients to me, who were looking to get some links related to them pushed down and off the first page of search results. The links were about financial fraud convictions and ongoing investigations into them and their business. The guys were claiming that it was "hard to get dates" because "crazy chicks do Google-sleuthing" and ghost them. I knew that was all bullshit, and they were just looking to defraud more people.
I spoke to them for about 30 minutes and I remember feeling disgusted by the end of the call due to what absolute creeps they were. I was also certain they'd stiff me on the bill, if in some bizarro universe I had agreed to do the work.
So yeah, I can't imagine the morals of the person who willingly offers this type of service.
I love how they think “I don’t want girls to know I’m a criminal” makes them come off better. Also “crazy girls” aren’t googling you, it’s pretty much anyone.
It can be a basic personal safety step, if it’s a date rather than a hookup they could be doing a “do we have common interests, do we have incompatible beliefs,etc” search, and even a “I want to show interest in them, what are some things we can do/see together”.
If your first hits are you criming that implies that shit is recent, so they need to know.
I partially agree. People do want decentralization but don't want the responsibility of maintaining and moderating those systems. And in the end they, the passive consumers, end up with the same situation they were in when the systems they consumed were centralized.
Decentralization is just the tech equivalent of HOAs.
How in the world is decentralization like HOAs? Decentralization would be more like a neighborhood without an HOA, requiring more order and planning is what an HOA does as it centralized command of the neighborhood rather than leaving it up to the individual homeowners.
You have it the wrong way around. The advertiser will ask for the ads to be suppressed or removed from negative contexts, because that's part of the service they pay for.
I worked in management at Carta while Jerry was CTO. It was one of the most disorganized and chaotic companies I've ever been at. Extremely unprofessional in many ways and a total waste of time.
I was in pillar update meetings with both the CTO and CEO. Jerry may actually be a shitty person, but you can bet those messages were deliberately released to paint him as a shitty person and discredit him prior to a countersuit. Nevertheless, Henry, the CEO, is a way shittier person.
This is mainly me airing my grievances, but take some advice: if you feel like your workplace is a toxic hellhole, it probably is. It's not your job to fix it, and you should move on physically and mentally.
"circadian rhythms can be found in every cell" - seems vague.
The info-nibble doesn't detail some of the downsides of IF - like how difficult it can be to practice it in social life (married? good luck telling your spouse you're not eating with them for months/years/ever). I did the 18-6 and 20-4 cycles and it worked. However, I gained back all the weight when I stopped due to my partner pleading daily for months to "eat like a normal person" again.
No need to get that extreme... with 14-10 you start eating at 12 and stop at 22, so you can share the two main meals with your spouse, even breakfast if you just drink your unsweetened black coffee with her.
I've been looking for something like this. Is it DIY or something off-the-shelf? My spouse requires absolute darkness when sleeping, but I have SAD and require the blinds to be always open in order to... not want to die.
Not the OP but I am really happy with the IKEA Tradfri blinds [1].Every night at dark they close all the rooms so I don't feel like living in fish bowl. 30 minutes past sunrise they all open. Best investment ever.
For the more technical they are Zigbee and heard all of IKEA zigbee stuff works without the hub. I personally have had issues with HomeAssistant and Tradfri integration so just use the IKEA app and the hub with no issues for over 6mo now.
Directly connecting these blinds to my Home Assistant instance via the ZHA integration and a HUSBZB-1 Zigbee/ZWave stick[0] works pretty well. I've got 8 of them around my house, and some automations to open/close with the sun, etc.
Only small issues I've identified are that 1) Zigbee meshing doesn't seem to behave with these, so you'll have to pair the blinds directly to your hub. This is fine, as long as your place is small enough for there to be no signal quality issues. And 2) if Home Assistant instructs the blinds to open to a specific position (i.e. "80% closed") rather than fully open or fully closed, it can take a really long time for the blinds to update the hub with their state. This means they show as "opening" in the HA UI even though they're finished moving.
I use zemi smart curtains, they were a huge pain to assemble but work great now. We’re just using the remote so I can’t comment on the smart home features
Speaking as a former employee of a large adult content network, and as someone who bent laws in my frequent (oh so frequent) searches for porn as a teenager, this law will be about as effectual as Louisiana's public schooling.
In the case of Tesla vehicles, the human driver sits (or lies) there and his transportation needs are met. The auto-pilot does all the work. The driver is still in control of the relationship, even if the chauffeur is software. The technology serves him; very much in contrast to the similarly "rugged, individualist" men who felt threatened by industrialization 200 years ago.