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Well this is just straight up false. Moana was a massive success. Frozen is a monstrous success for them. Star Wars not being a success is objectively false. The Force Awakens is the second best selling Star Wars movie of all time.

I have read this article twice now and I am failing to understand what they are trying to solve with this. They want to essentially punish students who that opt to attend a wealthy university? So they are expanding pell-grants and banning students from getting federal financial aid? What is the overall purpose or problem they are trying to solve?

If you follow the Ruble value it isn't like it fell off a cliff. It was a small dip bringing it down to the same value as at the start of the war. Overall since the start of the war it is definitely down, but from 14 months ago this dip was pretty minor in the grand picture.

It maybe was when you were there. But just look at how almost all aspects of our government work today and how dysfunctional it all is. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see that standards have dropped or people just do not care anymore.

I had not thought of this ins multiple decades at this point, but I used to do this too! What a trip down memory lane.

Renegotiating contracts isn’t an abnormal thing. I’ve seen it 1000 times in the industry I work in. But just refusing to pay your existing bills is someone only a real prick does. You do this in the construction industry and you will be blackballed so hard.

If they want to grow and take on Reddit refugees there is no way they can do that if they are worrying about a $16/month server or $68/month server. They are going to require much more than that and if people are constantly waiting for content to load they will just go somewhere else; which lets be honest that means they will probably go back to Reddit.

I just wanted to tell you I had to google "Halcyon" and I learned a new word thanks to you. :) Thank you.

Kinda ironic that the good deeds of Patagonia were written about on a website that we cannot even read because there is a paywall to access the information. Talk about seeing two sides of a spectrum haha.

Apollo is shutting down too. I will probably continue to use Reddit, but exclusively on browser where I can block their ads and scripts. The moment they shut down old.reddit then I am gone for good.

I've used Bard a few times. it just doe not stack up to what I am getting from ChatGPT or even BingAI. I can take the same request copy it in all three and Bard always gives me code that is wildly inaccurate.

I finance all my phones. But I refuse to have the cost of my phone be more than the monthly plan itself. That is just absurd. I have no problem paying $25-35/month for my phone for 24 months. That seems more or less like a standard phone plan at this point. But $75!? Good lord.

Exactly. I commented to a different person, but I will repeat it here.

Taking credit doesn't look just one way. Very few mid-level management types will delegate work then when the work is completed they go to their direct report and say "Hey look what I created all by myself with no help. Pretty great huh!?" What happens more commonly is that they will delegate a project to team members A & B and have them come up with a solution to a problem. When the project is complete A & B show it to manager I. Manager I then goes to manager II and says "Here is what my team came up with as a solution to our current problem." Manager I had little to no involvement in the work or development of the solution, but they present it as though they had. That happens constantly in the working world. A good manager and leader will always mention, by name, who did the work.

>But that means the culture is also broken. Credit isn’t something you can steal in the dead of night; everyone knows who did the work.

I'm not sure that is true. Plenty of mid level management types will assign work to the people they oversee on their team. Then never make mention of who actually performed the work when they present the completed product to the folks above them. It is incredibly common. One way this also happens is to have a mid-level manager delegate a project to someone. They quite literally do all the work. Then they present it as a team effort later on when it wasn't because as a team effort it gives the appearance of their involvement.

Taking credit by omission of information is still taking credit.

As children many of us were always lead to believe that doing the right thing will always be the right thing to do. That doing the right thing will get you to where you want to be in life. As we grow older we quickly realize that is just not the case. Is it right to be dishonest? Of course not. But it does make it hard to compete in a society when a not insignificant percentage of that society are willing to lie, deceive or commit a fraud to get a leg up.

I still choose to be honest about my education, qualifications and experience in my professional life. But I personally know people around me who have lied. They never admit it outright, but by being perceptive and just listening to people I can hear them give different facts to different people depending on the situation. It happens, a lot.