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I would really recommend watching Miracle Workers, it's an anthology series where every season is a different short story, but with the same actors.

He is INCREDIBLE in it and I think should have won an Emmy for his role(s).

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lˈʊk ˈæt ˈɔːl ðˈiːz dummies ˈɪn ðˈɪsθɹˈɛd ðˈæt dˈo͡ʊnt nˈo͡ʊ ðˈəˌa͡ɪpˌiːˈe͡ɪ.

What has the education system been reduced to smh.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Don't worry, it wasn't mean! I haven't used IPA since probably secondary school where we had mayyybe three lessons on it, so it was bound to be off.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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So true bestie, can you come pick up your European friends in Thailand for me? They keep trying to fuck the animals here.

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The hero we needed 🙏

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Not only that, according to the wikipedia article OP linked:

"The boogaloo movement has created logos and other imagery incorporating [igloo] snow huts and Hawaiian prints based on these derivations."

If white supremacy was so "supreme", why are these morons using Indigenous-based iconography for their movement I wonder. They'll claim it's to "fly under the radar", but that just makes them look even more smooth brained.

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Naaah dude, don't let them claim Hawaiian shirts, keep wearing them and being radical

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I'm back home visiting Canada right now, and seeing this too. Children of immigrants/2nd gen immigrants using the same talking points as fascists about how there's too many immigrants being let in, or not "the right kind".

Astounding how they don't understand the cognitive dissonance of that.

sigmaklimgrindset OP ,
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Well, they technically will see SOME cents of this because I'm pretty sure Nvidia gives employees stocks too.

But yeah, I also posted this because it's a clear illustration of how most salaries will never reflect the value your labour brings to an organization.

sigmaklimgrindset OP ,
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Brilliant, thanks for this!

I said in a comment on mastodon that I don't think the batch of newer employees hired at Nvidia are going to have anywhere near the same compensation as the current employees do, and this kind of helps support my suspicions...

Which could lead to a morale problem in the company too (speaking from experience)

sigmaklimgrindset OP ,
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I don’t think many people would claim overall valuation has much of anything to do with the value labor brings to an organization.

Apologies, can you clarify what exactly you mean by this? Because when I say their labour is not being valued, I do extend that to the Wall Street orgs that are doing the evaluations. They look at the "product" on offer, not the people actually working and developing it.

Are you saying because stock prices aren't steady, we can't correlate that to salaries?

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94 dead Palestinians, including children.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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You're telling me that Idaho potatoes are bigot potatoes? But they're so delicious...

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Thank you, I now feel informed and also very slightly falsely advertised to.

I am not immune to propaganda 😞

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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So many come to mind...

But also, idk if asklemmy is the right audience for this question, friend...

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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If one of the best speculative fiction authors to live only needs 5 hours of work a day to create The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series, then maybe it's something worth exploring.

Most of us work 8 hours a day and probably produce nothing "valuable" except shareholder profits so...

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Personally, I wouldn't start with Wizard of Earthsea, that book was published in 1968 and definitely has the prose and flow modern readers are not as used to, especially for the fantasy genre.

I read Left Hand of Darkness for school, but it was The Dispossessed plus her non-fiction essays that got me into her. Omelas is also a good short story starting point, and I think it's only 20 pages.

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The Ones Who Left for Walk Away From Omelas. A 19-20 page short story about what a "utopia" truly is. (Yes, yes, "we live in an society")

Her non-fiction essays on writing, and reflecting on her body of work are also very good. She was an incredibly forward thinking writer, and one of my favourite authors of all time.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Omg not pedantic AT ALL, you're right! Embarrassing mistake, thank you for the correction!

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Oh the story itself is very accessible, I agree, and foundational for a lot of "magician's journey"-type storytelling we see today. The issue is that the writing itself is very...not dry per se... but definitely almost academic. It's closer to Tolkien's Two Towers than any of the Song of Ice and Fire series, to make a basic comparison.

Even reading the first chapter of Wizards, you see a lot of exposition and sentence structures that aren't as popular in modern writing today. For example, we have the author talk to us (the reader) directly, instead of through Sparrowhawk. That really isn't used anymore nowadays unless for comedic effect. Sparrowhawk himself is also kind of distant to us readers. We're reading his journey as a tale, but we're not necessarily experiencing it with him, if that makes sense.

If you're used to reading older sci-fi/fantasy, you'll be fine with most of this. If you've grown up in the Harry Potter/Percy Jackson/Song of Ice and Fire/ era, this will be incredibly jarring. I would actually say that Tombs of Atuan (the second book) is a better entry point to the series for these readers.

None of this means Wizards is badly written by the way. It is intentionally written like a "modern" (1960s) saga akin to the Poetic Edda, and it works extremely well in that sense. For me personally, the Earthsea Cycle is probably my favourite fantasy series of all time, and nothing (sorry Tolkienites, not even LotR) comes close to the experience I had reading for the first time. But I can't recommend Wizards of Earthsea as the entry point to le Guin without asking whether or not you read the Silmarillion by yourself front to back of your own volition, lol.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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LOL

Don't worry, I actually originally started with Atuan first (just what my grandma had on the shelf), and then went back to the first book. I still had that moment like a chapter into Wizards.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Wait...90% of Hexbear isn't gay?

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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I mean she started it, it's a response from another Congresswoman after MTG attacked AOC's appearance.

(Shout out to the remixes of Bleach Blonde Bad Build Butch Body on soundcloud)

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Thanks for the clarification, I only saw an abridged clip of MTG's original comment and AOC looking frustrated, so I thought the comments were towards her and not Crockett.

State Department official resigns after Biden administration says Israel not blocking Gaza aid ( www.middleeasteye.net )

A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza....

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The Democrat's strategy to appeal to their base really seems to be, "Look, we're not as bad at the other guys." And they really aren't realizing that that isn't enough, because it's not just about Israel/Palestine anymore. I really don't think the people who are also repeating this party line (including the ones on Lemmy) are realizing how out of touch this sentiment is especially the younger Millennials/Gen Z.

I've seen my friends get attacked, arrested, and get criminal records from the university encampments and protests, and nothing was done to protect them. In their eyes, Trump would never protect them, but neither did Biden or any other Democrat in power. How can they be trusted to protect the people in the future? Seen from this lens, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that there might be people out there who find voting for Biden unpalatable.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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...you can make tea out of raspberries?

sigmaklimgrindset , (edited )
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I'm not fancy enough to have all of this, but I have raspberries, mint, and honey. Time to experiment

edit: I am getting so many good tips here, I'll see if I can make something to post on Lemmy at a later date

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I see we are also telling jokes from 2003.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Nah "there's no girls on the internet" jokes in 2023 (or current year) are kind of cringe, and the only people I hear say jokes like that (even ironically) are in their 40s. Lemmy skews older, so I can see why we'd find that funny.

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If we're going to be pedantic, it's "at LAN parties".

And our experiences are very different. I went to a lot of LANs in the 2000s with my parents where there were many women participants. Not quite 50/50, but a sizeable percentage. 0% women at a LAN sounds like a culture issue to me.

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This is why I report the job postings to the website posted, and to my country's department of labour. I know it seems futile, but I'm petty and I have time.

Turns out, it's actually helpful, I had someone reach out to me saying they were investigating a certain company, and if I had any more information about the screenshot I sent them a year ago.

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YOOO RAVE CONE

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I'm realizing I don't even know the slurs associated with those races, never mind food referring to those slurs.

...I should really go thank my grandparents.

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"Dehomed" is such a better term than "homeless" or "unhoused". First term I've heard that doesn't put the blame on the person without a home.

Even "unhoused" is too neutral of a term for how people often end up without secure shelter.

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To your first point, I just automatically assumed that it was to feed into Samsung AI. I'm not a values customer, but my data sure is 🤡

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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My niece calls them "skrunkly"

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Undergraduate me: GIVE ME THE CUM LAUDE

Post-grad me: Please sir, I just want the fancy piece of paper.

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There's a Tiktok account (yes, boo hiss tomato, etc) that makes AI generated music, and the country songs are indistinguishable from actual country songs on the radio until you listen to the lyrics.

There was one where the lyrics were something like "thinking about corn/gun up my butt" that I still think about...

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I mean they're trying to ban it because they don't want American social media data in China's or hostile 3rd party hands.

The hypocrisy comes from the fact that they won't regulate the Silicon Valley social media companies the same way. Cambridge Analytica (now Emerdata) wasn't Chinese, they were British. The fact that tech giants like Meta are looking to buy Tiktok in order to stop the ban should also be something to raise eyebrows at.

I'm not for or against Tiktok, btw, I see it as a tool for study. From a professional standpoint, it's algorithm is fascinating, especially as so much other social media is getting more and more enshitified. And a lot of people who don't use it don't realize how tailored it can based on their usage. Scary stuff, but also shows an effective use of user data compared to other sites like Instagram or YouTube's algorithms.

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Where is this from?? Is this AI?

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Thank you, I just read the Wikipedia summary of the event, and I can't believe this isn't even as big as the "Big One" everyone talks about for Yellowstone.

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Haha, yea, I wasn't born in the right decade on the right continent to know about this, so I had a really good time learning about something new!

The only reason I even know about the Yellowstone caldera eruption zone is because my American cousin once told me about it in the form of a horror story when we were both younger, and I started crying because I thought the world was going to end while we were visiting Connecticut, lol.

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Congrats on successfully defeating your thesis!

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Help I am stuck in a science loop

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Yes, that is indeed my point.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Everyone else has done the in-depth design analysis already, so I'm gonna say what's really on my mind:

They made him less fuckable. I would never put the new Captain Morgan logo on my "hall pass" list.

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