As I understand it, in Australia it’s not uncommon. I don’t know if it happens elsewhere.

As an excuse, I’m going with common.

As a reality, I’d be surprised if it happened without significant damage to the body that landed on the bottle.

If you didn’t get that promise from HR in writing, it didn’t happen.

In some countries there are labour laws that determine that you have to become permanent if you have worked in the same role for a period.

HR is the company’s department that manages its human assets, you.

Your manager is the person who determines if you’re useful and will instruct HR accordingly.

The only time you’d go to HR directly is if your manager is dysfunctional or if they were advertising a new position you want to apply for.

I’m not an expert, just living in a country that has lots of bushfires, Australia.

Fire spreads in all manner of ways. Embers can be picked up by the wind and transported kilometres away from the firefront. Birds can pick up embers and drop them away from the fire. Burning materials can get stuck underneath a vehicle, or fire can race against the wind up a hill.

Something to keep in mind is that fire is a chemical reaction that needs fuel, oxygen and heat.

We’re building a new federated social media universe to distribute it rather than it being centralised in a few single companies like Meta and Reddit. It consists of several different service ideas like Lemmy, Mastodon and PeerTube, over 40 in all. Each of those has hundreds of different instances where little and larger communities share with each other and with other communities and services. We call this Federated Universe the fediverse. Wanna join?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

Open the site with Google Translate and pick your language.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&op=websites

From a productivity perspective it’s a good idea to leave a task unfinished because it gives you a place to start in the morning.

That doesn’t work for everyone, but perhaps it will help you.

At one point I had a team member nicknamed John Wayne, because no shit would stick to them.

This also applies in Australia where the leader of the COALition(*) gearing up for an election has announced an entertainment tax rebate for small businesses, so that they can entertain their employees to the tune of $20k.

Nevermind the people who cannot afford to buy food for their families.

• Yeah, they’re also being "supported "by the fossil fuel lobby who want nothing more than to keep their coal fired power stations running for as long as possible.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-19/dutton-promises-tax-free-lunches/104834958

USA congress?

From the article: “He believes that the current regulations are too rigid and that the focus should be on creating a sustainable and profitable business model for the automotive industry.”

In other words, fuck the environment, our profits are more important.

You can do whatever makes you feel beautiful.

Can’t wait for the Orange to start promoting bleach and ivermectin again.

Money.

TV is like making cheap movies. As an investor you can calculate your return on investment every time an episode goes to air. If you’re on a winning streak, you’ll make more, if not, you’ll pull out and the show is cancelled. Many TV shows never get past the first pilot episode.

Making movies gives you potentially a bigger payout, but only if it’s a hit, so an investor will do everything to maximise the chance of success. Massive budgets, known stars, etc.

In the end it’s all legalised gambling. If you’re lucky, something interesting comes from it, more often than not it’s Waterworld … yes, there are worse movies, but you won’t recognise them … and yes, it made a profit … eventually.

Worst performing movies of all time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs

This is the first “shitpost” I’ve seen in a very long while that’s absolutely a shit post for some people and the absolute truth for the rest of us. Gold!

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Same user, more than one computer?

Pretty sure that the only criteria is long hair :)

What about boys with long hair, do we get to play too?

If you think that’s remarkable, this will blow your mind. Mark Rober (of glitter bomb and squirrel fame) has been dealing with crows:

https://youtu.be/tpg3VvoIVfA