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@Byte@kolektiva.social he called you a robutt?
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@peterdrake how the heck did you realize you could make a card game out of fire knife dancing?

@peterdrake I see the preview even with the shortened URL

@peterdrake perennially frustrating. if I see a post I want to remember, I interact with it or bookmark it

math makes so much more sense when you actually have something to use it on

@_astronoMay PV = nRT applies? I guess the pressure can't increase since there isn't an enclosed volume, so the volume must increase @loveisgrief@mastodon.online

I've been working my way through love death and robots. the drowned giant was my least favorite so far. disliked the narrator pretty much immediately and found the whole story boring, pointless, hifalutin bullshit

i like most of it though. i really enjoyed the season 2 opener, having listened to the short story by Scalzi that it's based on a couple times before. All Through the House has a hilarious twist 😆

if you've seen it, do you have a favorite?
#tv #scifi

@valleyforge @vib
definition of disposable income from the OECD, consistent with Canberra Group standard used in the chart you link: https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=3020

I had trouble finding a definition of "inter-household cash transfers," which may encompass more than it sounds like, but I don't think it includes income used on consumables or durables and things like health care costs.

also that data is 10 years old

also, medians don't tell even a large part of the story: there are percentiles below and above that halfway point that encompass most people.

@eqyo heh. yeah, I'm thinking more like "which could we not repeat as a human species"

@soup_reviews there're pretty colors and the sounds can be exciting. a good fireworks show also requires skill to schedule and synchronize to music and other events.

that said, I'm not a fan of unscheduled loud and dangerous fireworks in residential areas.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I didn't follow my own advice here, but it may help someone else make a better choice.

Don't sign a retention agreement that requires you to pay back money to the company should you choose to leave early. Unless you're a psychopath probably (or an economist), that's going to set up some costs in your biased human mind that are way imbalanced between you and the company. at the very least, if you go for this, negotiate better terms than I did--I agreed to two years for what amounts to barely more than two months salary *if* I stick it out, besides the opportunity cost for what I could be making elsewhere.

If I do switch before the term is up, there's the slightly uncomfortable option of negotiating with my next employer to make up the difference in paying back my current employer. It seems pretty doable if I go to a similarly sized company, but it's a hassle for not all that much money relatively.
#career #work

@lucifargundam what i thought of is broad social experiments. like you can't really redo the first reality TV shows because people are too savvy about how those things play out. sure, not everyone saw "The Real World" or whatever but there's an awareness. could you redo the Stanford prison experiment? or the Milgram obedience experiment? how faithfully?

of course, people forget. so maybe not exactly "only once"

@lucifargundam yeah, I don't think I'd want to work at a startup unless I was a founder. I'd be worried about trustworthiness.

are there experiments you can only perform once ever? if so, how would you plan for and conduct them?