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[Il Palazzo]

I think you have zero idea about how journalism works in the Netherlands. Volkskrant is a respected newspaper. It's redaction backs the journalist's story. They wouldn't have printed it if they were in doubt.

Eh, I remember at least a couple articles you posted from that newspaper, which had tabloid-grade correspondence with facts.

[Great Order]

Now I'm afraid to click the video, what's on it?

Corrupt rich fucks trying to silence youtuber, going as far as firebombing his home, not to mention the lawsuits.

Well, nothing provable. However, the guy's been engaged in an ongoing media/super suspicious legal war with an Australian politician/businessman who has had a couple of jobs in places with links to organised crime.

And his house got firebombed.

Twice.

So nothing provable but an awful lot of eyebrow wiggling, pointing, and mouthing "over there!"

[Rolan7]

lmao Twitter just broke.  Can't reply to anything.  People say to "schedule tweets".  How do you fuck up a platform this bad, oh right you fire everyone and then make changes without testing.

Edit: It's back

[martinuzz]

I really hope Musk manages to destroy Twitter, at least he'll be doing some good for the world then finally.

[King Zultan]

I to hope he manages to break it as I feel the world is better off with less of that kind of crap.

[EuchreJack]

I really hope Musk manages to destroy Twitter, at least he'll be doing some good for the world then finally.

Apparently, he's absorbed it into Space X.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/04/11/twitter-inc-no-longer-exists-as-elon-musk-inches-closer-to-x-everything-app-ambitions/

...I feel stupid for not seeing this coming. It was inevitable.

[dragdeler]

"x the everything app"?

x
the
everything
app

why not let children draw helicopter rotors on cars and present that to investors?!

[pisskop]

He wants a Super App, but doesnt want to be called a copycat for doing what Chinese apps already do

[McTraveller]

That big explosion and fire in Texas at Southfork Dairy Farms on Monday night, it did involved the barns. Killed 18,000 cows

Apparently that's not a typo... eighteen thousand cows in a single barn complex!?

[Eric Blank]

Yeah. Battery farms pack them tight. Like sardines.

[McTraveller]

Junior Strategy Consultant (all genders)

Since when is it even legal to include a gender restriction in a job posting? Why would you even post it that way?

[Frumple]

It's legal when there's some specific need for one, iirc (e.g. actors, certain doctors, some models, etc.). Generally it's not, but there's exceptions.

So far as posting it that way goes, it's probably trying to get folks with an eye for inclusivity or whatev' -- it's not a terrible filter to use to catch folks that'd get pissy over a company noting they're fine with enby folks or something, as they're probably either going to avoid the posting or act like an ass about it.

Frankly, even though it's explicitly noting it'll consider anyone, it probably tilts their applicants towards female or gender nonconforming folks just due to common biases in most societies... which may be the point.

[Lord Shonus]

Basically any protection can be waived if there's a legitimate workplace need, or if there's no possible Reasonable Accommodation.

[Frumple]

It's one of those things I've kvetched about before, but sometimes it just... there's really stark examples. Recently noticed a new-ish type of bread they're selling ("keto-friendly" nonsense, but like the organic nonsense for some other stuff I buy, that crap isn't the point of why I get it) that has significantly less (~70 mg per slice vs ~110 for 1 in standard bread, with slice size and whatnot about even) salt in it but still tastes fine (There's actually outright near saltless bread I've found, but beyond storage issues it tastes just kinda' foul), and, like.

It's about twice the price of the cheap wheat bread around here. Twice the price, just to get something with ~half the salt.

I get why it happens (less demand, so less scale benefit, fancy horseshit=price gouging, etc.), but it's still a WTF every time for price to go up as material amount goes down. There's a part of me that's persistently insistent it's bullshit to pay more to get less of something

[Sirus]

If the expensive fancy bread has the same weight/mass as the cheap bread but has less salt, you are not actually paying more for less sad to say. In order to have the same mass of bread with less salt, other (presumably more expensive) ingredients have to be added to make up the difference. Remember you're paying for a finished product, not a single ingredient.

Does that justify costing twice as much? No, probably not unless they're adding gold leaf or saffron or whatever. Fancy horseshit will always be fancy horseshit.