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We use it at work for it's actual intended purpose: as a small database that isn't customer facing. It's used and maintained by nontechnical staff to keep data about equipment (slot machines).
It would be too much info for excel, but it's not enough to really need anything more.
…don’t you think this is a little dismissive? Maybe I’m wrong but most people are catholic because they were raised that way.
It sure would suck if something I had no control over excluded me from my own culture/religion/family. In fact, if I found myself in that situation, the right thing to do would be to make changes, if I could, for other people like me and those people’s families.
By the way, I do think religion as an institution sucks. But, I don’t think these people are supporting face-eating leopards. These people live in the jungle already, their choice is to leave or fight leopards.
Oh… he’s just doing an exponential growth model?? I have trouble understanding how this got traction at all then, he should be embarrassed. Maybe the delivery was tongue-in-cheek?
I assumed there was more interesting happening in that paper. How disappointing.
I assumed there was more behind that graph (I assumed he calculated the coefficient from something more interesting and just slapped it on a graph with like y = exp(\beta_0 x) for his news article)
Ah, damn. I wish I could read their paper (article doesn’t mention a translation). That’s incredibly interesting!
From the article, it is because 1.83% of the population in Japan has a last name of Sato (and also I assume probably because of their low immigration). A law in Japan forces married women to take their husband’s name.
I wonder if there is a number like that for the US? Like if 10% of the population had a last name of Smith, would we all become Mr/Ms Smith after x years? Do all countries converge to a single name after a finite amount of years?
Will the whole world be Wang after x million years?
If you give your ss number out, you should assume the company will save it forever and misuse it.
We have ss numbers from customers dating back at least 15 years. It saves us time if they come back, that’s the only reason they’re kept that long (to my knowledge). It’s a casino, we need ss if you win enough to pay taxes. So, we do need to keep them for some length of time.
But, ss are visible to most customer service staff that handle reward cards (starting pay is the defacto minimum wage for the area for some of those roles, btw).
Project 2025 is the 50 year accumulation of ‘lesser evil’ voting.
Agree. But I must point out, 'lesser evil' voting is a natural consequence of the way our voting system works. I only see one path forward: our voting system must be changed to some sort of ranked-choice system. Personally I think trying to convince fascists (republicans) of this fact is pretty impossible, less so for democrats. I could be wrong here.
All that is irrelevant I guess. No matter which party wins, both are totally open to listening to leftist policies. If Trump does something obviously bad we all saw coming, I won't need to feel bad if I don't vote. Even if it was something he said he was going to do. I mean, I guess Biden could also do something bad, it's pretty likely, but I haven't found his project 2025 manifesto yet. Regardless, everything will suck and people will look around and go, "Wow, I guess all those people who didn't vote, they we right! They all were rejecting the two-party system in unison. They all think the same way, and they express that through not voting."
Then we'll all join hands and immediately form a socialist utopia.
It only scares white liberals now because its finally something that will impact them directly.
You're right but you're going to make someone whine very loudly typing that out.
For right now they will oppose it, but when it gets rebranded as something positive in a few years and offered up by a democrat they will laud it as progress.
I would totally let a democrat run my socialist utopia, as long as they ran it as a socialist utopia (they are not capable of doing this, they would no longer be dems). They can call it New Dems, I don't care, I want healthcare, basic guaranteed standards of living, more rights at work, etc etc.
There will be so much damage done before the dems get their shit together, if they ever do. Trump (or whoever takes over after him when he dies of stroke/heart attack) may not let us have a normal 2028 election.
As far as damage, check out “project 2025” if you don’t believe me. Many parts of federal government will be hogtied at best, and that includes ones that people like, like the EPA. I, for one, like environmental protections.
Even if the damage stops after one term, you can’t unfuck the thanksgiving turkey.
Edit: by the way, I’m no democrat, I just recognize we’re playing with fire here.
Fine, let's run with this analogy:
This is like watching a bunch of people with Stockholm Syndrom trying to convince each other than one of the people keeping them imprisioned is a good guy and it’s the other that’s a bad guy.
We're all in prison, both dudes will keep us there. One dude wants to murder your gay cell mate and give smaller cells to Hispanic prisoners. Voting, not voting, neither will win you your freedom. Your vote might make your friend's life easier.
There is no solution to the problems of the US via the traditional political parties, only via civil society movements and even those given the almost-dictatorship-level of civil society surveillance in the US, are under surveillance and are often subverted.
Which political party is restricting the speech of LGBTQ+ people right now? Which party wants to put them all on a list? Which party is visibly anti-labor instead of just pretending not to be?
If you want change, fight for it. If Trump wins you activate hard mode.
You can also get a dishonorable discharge as a marine for doing it (edit: it’s not related to this article, I just thought you’d also find it surprising)
A friend of mine was threatened with this while he was a marine, despite being separated from his wife and going through a divorce (still legally married though). Fortunately somebody saw reason and the “investigation” went no where. I remember being interviewed during this farce.
Hmm, I’m not sure how your opinion differs from /u/[email protected] then, that’s more or less what they were saying, no? They never stated they thought lemmy was completely free from control, the contrary in fact: community effort
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I filed my taxes 5 hrs ago