How about a Thermal High Efficiency Motor?

Generally, I like that idea, but I can also see some ways it would fail.

People vote based on what they know, and there’s a limit to what people can know. In a small company, you can easily know everyone, but in a massive corporation, you simply run into some human limitations in this regard.

Some people have a highly visible job, like someone in IT tech support. If you have problems with your computer, and tech support is able to help you out, you’ll happily vote for that guy to get a raise.

However, the IT boss made the arrangements for a server upgrade, so your storage space didn’t come close to running out. Do you even know what goes on in the background? No. Would you vote for the IT boss to get a raise, since you have no idea how they’ve contributed to your wellbeing? Probably not.

Also, some people will find ways to make their minuscule efforts look much grander than they deserve to be seen as. If that works out, they’ll get lots of votes and pay rises even though their contributions are hardly worth mentioning, which actually sounds a lot like the situation we’re currently in.

The thing is, when everything is running smoothly, you don’t even know who fixed what. If things break, you may have some idea whose fault it is, but that’s not guaranteed either. We can’t just wait for things to break so that the guy who fixes it could become famous and popular. Ideally, people would avert disasters rather than put out fires, and that would a be a far more efficient way to run a company. This sort of voting system could result in horrible inefficiency and pressure to be seen and loved.

People could also cooperate. What if a manager promises a coffee machine that gives free coffee if he gets a raise? Maybe the workers could vote for that, but should they really? What if the workers pool their votes to give one of their own a raise? They could rotate who gets the raise, so that each of them gets a raise when it’s their turn. Oh, and that sort of cooperative voting system could be used as a bullying instrument. You could discriminate one of the workers just because they have the wrong skin color, wrong accent, wrong family name or whatever. I’m sure people would come up with all sorts of messed up ways to abuse this system.

But the big questions is: Would this be better than the current system? Maybe, but we would need to set up some rules first. Doing it wild-wild-west style would be a complete disaster. Then again, the current system has some serious problems too, so…

Test drills near the site’s “peripheral areas” found more gold, suggesting that the deposit could be even larger.

They usually are much larger than what the initial results make you think. If you’re reading about an old mine that has already been drilling for 50 and they’ve tried literally every place they can think of, those numbers are pretty much final. Other mines can only report numbers that have a tendency to grow as they drill more.

No. It’s going to be completely queer.

As long as you keep a straight face while looking in the mirror.

Legal Eagle has recently made a few videos where he explains how due process and laws were thrown out the window. Previously, it was just a ridiculous PR dumpster fire, but now it’s also a legal dumpster fire.

Looks like USA is spiraling towards some sort of dictatorship/anarchy/chaos/idunno. Some queer people are also giving the advice to go back in the closet before it’s too late, which is something I was not expecting to hear.

I wonder if some Americans could seek political asylum in Germany. You know, historical symmetry and all that?

Now I know how those villains feel when their plans fall apart due to grossly incompetent henchmen screwing everything up.

“I specifically told you not to store the disarm codes right next to the warhead! HOW HARD CAN IT BE!!! Did you think I wouldn’t notice the distinct lack of a mushroom cloud in the horizon?”

I recall people threatening to move to Canada during the first Trump elections. You know it’s bad when people are actually trying to get to France.

Depends on your criteria. As long as your calculations are simple, it doesn’t matter which tool you use.

For slightly more demanding calculations, Calc just can’t handle it like Excel does. Then again, using spreadsheets for demanding calculations is just asking for trouble.

“It’s not what it looks like! I can assure you, our relationship is entirely sexual.”

They thought of that. It has to be a video and you have to move your head around as if you’re setting up face ID. Not creepy at all. Then again, this is Meta we’re talking about, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

The person who taught me chess was constantly perplexed by my bizarre tactics. He found it refreshing and interesting. Obviously, I had no idea what I was doing, and I got nuked to oblivion on a regular basis. Maybe he was expecting to see some popular moves, but was only faced with whatever sketchy tactics I could come up with.

For a brief moment, I had a a FB/Instagram account for testing purposes. After about a week, Meta started asking to see my face on camera. Needless to say, that experiment hit a brick wall.

I was just following and liking stuff here and there. Didn’t even post anything, but apparently that was suspicious enough for Meta.

That’s not as problem if Russia grants him asylum. Worked just fine for Bashar Al-Assad.

We could call it the BFT 9000.

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I’ve seen a bunch of articles, each with just the latest number and a date. In order to make a nice graph out of all of them, I would need to set up some sort of webscraping project to pool the numbers together. I’ve also seen a bunch of articles that have other types of graphs and tables that don’t really answer my question. The data is out there, but it’s scattered all over the place.

These numbers are absolutely wild. Has anyone made a site for tracking this madness?

Next stop: trade embargo

Better yet, I’ve seen some light switches made of the same glow in the dark material.