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mozz Admin , in What jobs were you horrified to learn are done by people with little to no experience or training?
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One of the really notable things about war is that it’s so rare (if you aren’t the US military or else actively engaged in some ongoing conflict), and the rate of people dying and having to be replaced with brand new people is so high, that almost all the time it’s being done for real life-or-death stakes by people who are learning on the job as they go and have no real experience in what they are doing.

A lot of things about military decisions and events don’t completely make sense why they happened the way they do, until you imagine a whole airline being run by people most of whom it’s their first week on the job, and then you say oh okay I get it now; that’s why that happened that way.

Apytele OP ,

Jesus yeah I completely believe you.

Today ,

We don't have time to train people to make good decisions. Let's just train them to say, "Yessir!"

Getawombatupya ,

Perun (youtuber) sums it up- for many militaries there is no organisational experience in actual conflict, outside the pomp and ceremony it's hard to tell what substance exists

mozz Admin , in What is the point of cruel and deadly border policies if employers could just be penalized for hiring unauthorized labor all along?
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You broke the code, I think.

More than once, the anti-immigrant people have succeeded a little too much, and actually gotten all the immigrants away from a given community / given state, and it's created a big catastrophe for the economy and there was a ton of pushback until they made the immigration policy back less strict again (usually, by looking the other way on the hiring side exactly as you pointed out, but still being strict on the coming-into-the-country side, since trying to enforce that side is a lot less effective and basically just accomplishes short-term cruelty without doing much in the long term to stop people from coming in the country).

mozz Admin , in What are some cool/interesting/entertaining accounts to follow on the fediverse?
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@hourlyfops - Hourly fox pictures

@CatsOfYore - Vintage cat pictures

@GottaLaff - Wonderful breaking political news / analysis

GottaLaff ,
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maniel , in Do you prefer Gaming PCS or Gaming Laptops?
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Many people I know don't have room to spare for a PC, small desk etc, nowadays for gaming handheld PCs are more and more obvious choice, as you could use them connected to a TV like a conventional console, and do actual work with a wireless kb/m combo, it's not ergonomic than a laptop IMO,

Personally I'd go ITX in a small <15L case

Adalast , in What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

Is a functional government based on logic and compassion too much to ask/too cliché?

Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (Yes, there are stories behind this one)

I guess a company that actually pays me what I'm worth (which I'm not even really looking for that much).

froh42 , in What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?
hanrahan , in What comes to mind if someone uses the term "deeply unserious"?
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Donald Trump?

TheOubliette , in What do you all check instead of the news?

Is there any chance you'd want to, at least in part, get away from the instant hit of info? It's possible to train your brain out of that habit if you'd rather be doing something else. No judgment if you'd really rather find something Iike you described.

1984 , (edited ) in What do you all check instead of the news?
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Hacker news is often interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/

I started looking at summarized hacker news articles in the last month also, I like the format of this:

https://hackernews.betacat.io/#

But sometimes I check Lemmy instead. It's a lot easier to digest for the brain.

aredditimmigrant , in What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day.....

A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

return2ozma OP ,
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Google search foldable flats. Dr Scholl's even makes some.

pelletbucket , in Soap makes water wetter. Kind of. It reduces the surface tension, allowing it to spread out and penetrate better. Making it clean better. So could we produce a surface tension-free water?
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oh and you're talking about dry cleaning chemicals. dry cleaning isn't actually clean, it's just tumbled in chemicals that aren't water

pelletbucket , in Soap makes water wetter. Kind of. It reduces the surface tension, allowing it to spread out and penetrate better. Making it clean better. So could we produce a surface tension-free water?
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I add borax to my laundry because it does that.

pelletbucket , in What comes to mind if someone uses the term "deeply unserious"?
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me

pelletbucket , in Has anybody noticed that some videos on YouTube will let you out of the app and continue playing in PiP mode on iOS?
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nice man. My phone has been in split screen 90% of the time since I think Android 8. Plex or YouTube revanced up top, Lemmy or Reddit on the bottom.

meekah ,
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I really don't get how people enjoy consuming two sources of information at once. Every time I try to watch something while doing something else, I get frustrated at how I'm unable to properly focus on one thing.

pelletbucket , in What do you all check instead of the news?
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tiktok. you get war news faster than any news outlet does, you get unvarnished war and protest news as it's happening before it's been filtered by the spin room. I found out about Chiquita banana being held liable for multiple banana farm related murders in Columbia on tiktok well before it popped up on any other news source, stuff like that.

pelletbucket ,
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oh you meant instead of getting the news lol. I watch stuff on Plex and scroll Lemmy on the bottom in split screen

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