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And this is NOT self evident boilerplate. It's quite the opposite, and I do not believe any company would get a product out without reviewing the T&C.

So, the terms were at least approved by some, and are now being revised because somebody pointed the problems out in a public forum.

The best people will leave though

Eh, this means that most people work for a company they are either indifferent to or for a company that they actively despise. My preference is actually 3 when I do meaningful work, 4 occasionally.

Fully remote setups only work if they are truly fully remote, and if the seniors have the decency to research how to better handle the thing.

Onboarding can be done remote, but the best is to schedule extensive meetings / pair programming, or even just a virtual room where the newbie can work independently but ask the senior "as in the office". Or even very clear directions on when to reach out if nothing else is possible.

What happens instead that the newbie is expected to handle all the responsibility of reaching out, and when that inevitably fails the conclusion that's reached is that wfh is not for onboarding.

I can work from home, usually. I did so effectively before covid and I had tons of fun and productivity. My former company, though, was horrible in their handling or WFH, a terrible combination of strict daily meetings but with zero follow-up/help and negative socialization (as in the interactions were all strictly work related and tended on the negative side, with one employer constantly talking badly about somebody else). Apparently I thrive in socialization, and that difference between good interactions in my first remote job and negative in the second made it night and day on my productivity. I had to change job because it was severely affecting my health. Just to say that sometimes the cause is not strictly "not being able to handle wfh".

Salt kills most plants. Bringing it inland would basically stop agriculture for hundreds of meters surrounding the canal. If it goes into the aquifer it's even worse.

Also, inland is usually higher than sea level (where it's lower you get lakes / ponds / swamps, unless it's actively managed), so you would be creating ditches a hundred meters deep if not more.

I'm also not sure that local water would increase rainfall, any amount of wind would sweep moisture off immediately. The most it can do is to increase the humidity of the surrounding area when windless.

"1. Learn some games relevant skills after hours to show that you are prepared and not expecting us to train you from scratch (unity or unreal are most common). [..] This will show the initiative you took on your own and what skills you’ve developed."

Are you evaluating also how much time it took to complete the after hour project? What if I complete a clone game in 2 years? This might be excluding anybody that cannot work after hours, for a reason or another.

i never heard of this, can you link the gdpr article on this?

My domain is 26 per year. This is cheap af and I'm reconsidering ditching my domain in favour of this.

parents ARE charged with a crime when they crush / axphyxiate the baby to death.

SIDS happens also when baby is alone in bed. You relating it to parents rolling on baby tell me you don't know much about the argument.

but the effect is that companies have to be slower to hire when firing is that much harder.

Which is good. Nobody wants a work environment that changes every five minutes.

This might be the comment that helps me get back on my zim install. I abandoned it for "life stuff" and I was meaning to "find something similar, or pick zim back" for some months.

re: "if the once a week banners bother you that much, it suggests you are using the site very, very frequently":

no.

the banners never bothered me when I used the website daily, multiple times a day. They bother me immensely now that I use wikipedia once / twice a month. Now, every time I open it there is the banner asking me to donate (every time more invasive).

Poses seem correct too, so even if they are models they know yoga too. Certain yoga poses are sensual even when you don't want to be sensual, I find the idea of naked yoga actually genius

I watched a trailer from the website. It may fill a niche, but to my female eye the website doesn't scream "exaggerated sexuality". It's more akin to nude art than to pornography.

"the talk" given to me was mostly focused on drugs, gambling addiction and really hardcore internet addictions (as in not being able to do anything else). Nobody talked to me about mild ones, or the slow creep that an internet addiction can have.

As a consequence I steered clear of all physical addiction and never gambled, but spent countless hours on the net without it creating a problem, until years later (earlier this year) where it all compounded into a nice pile of "not being able to do much beside scrolling social media".

Maybe you showed early signs and wanted to remove the problem

I got the opposite, unlimited access while being a kid and difficulty moderating it now.

All of regulations and moderation go to shit the moment one (as an adult) realizes that there is no "real consequence" for unlimited use. The "real consequence" is only what one puts one's mind to be.

(Losing job because of internet addiction? Nvm, find a different one. Getting overweight? It's a silent killer and the effects are years away, plus you get to shop for new clothes. )

I never got limits but I got quite addicted to the internet. In my case it was caused by other factors (depression), but I wouldn't discount the possibility in general.

I would set the limit at "you have to do something other than school and tv/internet/gaming in your day, on most days."

just a random thing: girls are more "responsible" because the societal bias is to teach women to be responsible from a young age.

from the perspective of a woman, I missed the possibility to make dumb mistakes because "responsibility" (and not even because my parents taught or encpuraged it, but from friends and family's pressure). Let your kids make dumb stuff and dumb mistakes, please.

tbh that can be a correct answer (crescent numbers, not necessarily consecutive)

Yes, I do take it every day. I was a complete mess before medications and skipping days makes me a mess all over again (albeit less so than before diagnosis). My medicated self is "my self" of the best days while unmedicated, so I don't see why not. It's not like my personality changes on meds

I also switched to decaf! It's nice not feeling tied to caffeine so much :)

I'm three months in with medications, and if I have to be completely honest focusing is not the "best part" of them for me.

Along with ADHD I had a pretty strong depression (mainly secondary, as in created by ADHD, but with some elements that might seem primary). Stimulants, on the lower dose manifactured, lifted that from basically the first days. I still have bad days but they are not as crippling as before.

After a month or so I started to realize that I was much more relaxed in general, and that I was "finally" starting to lose track of appointments (like a normal person does, instead of remembering them all like my life depends on that). I think I had a good deal of anxiety that was completely making up for ADHD's forgetfulness. I think it freed a lot of "computational power" that before was used to make me a human agenda.

I also became much less strict with times and habits - it used to be very difficult for me to create and to break habits, while now it feels much more fluid. I used to not be able to go to bed before my last bedtime, which is incredibly frustrating (if my normal bedtime is midnight and I went to bed once at two, the next day I would habe to go to bed at 2).

I'd also advise against taking meds only "as needed", or skipping the weekends, at least for the first months. Even stimulants, which feel like hava an immediate effect, take 2/3 days to be active and from recent studies seem to be fully active only after some weeks. For me skipping a day is terribly limiting and I still feel the effects after a few days.

this 100 times. Meds help tremendously in being able to design and using coping mechanisms and good habits. For me in particular, meds are keeping at bay my secondary depression and anxiety. Before I was spending so much energy on managing my mood that I had no energy left for managing my tasks.

how long did you try the meds? in my first weeks I was definitely more confrontational and aggressive, but after two months I went back to baseline, or even less, while getting significant benefits on almost every other aspect of my life.

I always wondered why the aggression - for me it was mainly directed to situations where I needed to advocate for myself (and would "slip" before medications) while being less aggressive overall

Yes, and you should be very worried about it. If you have it you will not be able to change your behavior and you will have to rob banks all your life to thrive /s

And why is it that you can deliberately and measurably and - to some degree - reproducibly modify your behavior over the course of time? How is it that I am a vastly different person from 5 years ago, and I know that if I want I can become a completely different one in ~ 1 or 2 years? Which one is my "true" behavior and which ones are my "fake" ones? All feel natural to me...