nexus6 posted:

To what end? To stop low-income people having kids? Or to rake in more off people who do?

quote:

“Sustainable tourism is sort of a low bar. At the end of the day, it’s just not making a mess of the place,” said Jonathon Day, an associate professor focused on sustainable tourism at Purdue University. “Regenerative tourism says, let’s make it better for future generations.”

“Travel is an important vote of your principles,” said Mr. Baker of OneSeed. “When you decide to put your time and resources into a trip, you’re affirming that’s the type of business you want out there.”

TastyAvocado posted:

This stuff doesn't usually bother me really but that article is infuriating, I'm flushed.

T-man posted:

yelling "generic body model" as my mom walks in and does a deepfake of a child she could have been proud of

Kreeblah posted:

Bullshit. They're pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Capital wants to know how to most efficiently exploit labor, so they latch onto any psuedo-scientific sounding crap that promises to give them numbers to look at. Agile methodology is that. The idea is that you have sprints (defined chunks of time like two weeks or whatever) that your team does stuff in, and the team has a certain amount it's possible to do in that time. Theoretically, that's measured in points, so you estimate how much stuff you'll be able to fit in the sprint by how many points your team has available, and how many each thing will be to do.

However, you get into a few problems here. First, nobody knows what a point is. Is it a measurement of time? If so, how much time per point? Or is it a measure of difficulty or effort? Who knows? But you'd better get the number right. Which brings me to the second problem: everybody sucks at estimating. Sometimes you get things right, based on whichever definition of a "point" you're using (which is hopefully in the same universe as the definitions used by other people where you are). But sometimes you're laughably off, like the three-days-turning-into-three-months thing (or the opposite). And then you have people making timelines off of what are effectively guesses pulled out of somebody's rear end that get set in stone as The Delivery Date Which Shall Be Met.

In case you can't tell, I'm not much of a fan. Maybe it works somewhere, but I've never seen it.

T-man posted:

love a good brand mythology, i like to imagine the pepsi logo loving a duck just like zeus

Forceholy posted:

Is it? I thought it would be more. There are plenty of women who managed to make thousands or even millions off of onlyfans.

Shame Boy posted:

Also this lmao:


We can't make poor people starve to death, think of the loss of profits that would cause for Kraft Foods!!!

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Yeah, we're all going to die.

Greg12 posted:

It was loving embarrassing to read my colleagues in government and academia whose job is regulating and researching this poo poo go on about rebuilding our cities around robocabs.

indigi posted:

I know a guy who went out to be a firefighter in LA and one of the questions is "what if you see a fellow firefighter steal something from the location of a fire?" you think the answer would be "I'd turn them in," but apparently, according to their HR psychologists, even acknowledging the idea that someone might steal makes a candidate much more likely to steal themselves. you're supposed to say "that would never happen"

The Nastier Nate posted:

is that....a gutted burger king?

where are you supposed to shower? in the utility sink?

boar guy posted:

just get install this shower-sharing app that lets you take a shower in random people's houses, try a blastpass for up to 5 free showers a month restrictions apply

boar guy posted:

you joke but it already exists for swimming pools

Len posted:

I've been joking about an app all week where people post their animals and then someone pays to hang out with them. It started exclusively as an app for getting to hang out with cool dogs but then turned into all animals are welcome

Len posted:

the way i have it pictured is that you can rate the animal you just hung out with and anyone who rates less than 5 stars is blacklisted

all pets are 5 star pets even if snakes are icky and birds are scary

ekuNNN posted:

ekuNNN posted:

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1351716263823867904

BonHair posted:

I'm assuming that's margin after management salary, dividends and reinvestment.

Ensign Expendable posted:

All of this stuff sounds hard, why not piggyback onto an existing society and just bribe lobby the government to change the laws you don't like?

bob dobbs is dead posted:

peeps hanged but the domestic baby food market sorta collapsed for a while too lol

even now peeps pick up western baby food whenever they go, if theyre rich enough to go

Shame Boy posted:

Gonna go ahead and guess that the punchline is it's exactly the same gear in exactly the same amount, maybe with "Mod.2" tacked on to the end of things to ensure we threw everything out and bought it again.

Shame Boy posted:

Oh and they take non-rechargeable proprietary batteries that are $15,000 each.

Facebook Aunt posted:

If you make everyone join the military the public may be less supportive of pointless meatgrinders. Defend the homeland, sure. Send kids your kids halfway around the world to fight for oil profits? Nah.

BonHair posted:

I thought Usa actually had way better traffic mentality than most other countries? Like actually driving safely and mostly respecting other drivers and following the rules? Obviously with exceptions, but in general.

Nitevision posted:

Uh I wish I had this problem. In Seattle I've been honked/yelled/revved at for crossing streets at unmarked intersections (which legally acts like a crosswalk and gives me the right of way) and almost killed because a fella in a big ol swingin dick F-250 right by Pike Place tried to gun his left turn to beat me through the crosswalk while I was crossing lol. I used to have to regularly cross at one of the crosswalks painted right at the entrance of a 99 onramp (such a sick design) and the only drivers who would reliably stop to let me cross were semi-truckers.

Basically I agree with Thanatosian that it seems like 60-70% of drivers don't really know traffic laws whatsoever here

human garbage bag posted:

Eh, I never considered the Sonderkommando to be evil, so I won't consider this guy to be evil. Just another victim of the system.

human garbage bag posted:

Yes, being a frontline border guard isn't pleasant work.

Shame Boy posted:

During every hurricane we get some cato institute fuckwad blathering about how price gouging laws are so unfair and counterproductive because if we just let gas go to infinity dollars during an emergency it would incentivize people to buy armored trucks and drive gas into the disaster zones (presumably during the hurricane). So presumably in this case once the price goes high enough someone will be incentivized to load a bunch of electricity up into a truck and drive it into the blackout areas and plug it into the grid.