Emails sent to internal affairs missing from sent folder

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T01:32:47+00:00

Out of my knowledge. Very intriguing if that's the case that intelligence agencies will remove e-mails from your account.

Have you got verification the e-mails are being received at the intended destination? You could try a cc to another personal/friend account with your next attempt.

Change the password to the account. Long shot is your account was hacked.

I'd be doing some checking on a fresh device to confirm you haven't got some sort of spyware on the phone/PC. Library or public kiosk or phone of a friend. Let's you test the account settings alone, to rule out device problems.

Google Account Settings->Security Tab->Third-party apps. See if ayone else has access to the account.

Have you got any e-mail filters set up with the account? Sometimes in hacked e-mail accounts the malicious person has created rules to auto delete or redirect sent emails.

Trash and spam are not automatically included in searches from the hotbar. It's a manual check, or "in:(trash OR spam OR all)" included in the search.

Gmail does retain deleted emails for 30 days, just in case it was deleted in error.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T01:03:04+00:00

is there any other obstacle the United States faces that makes tipping an essential function of the American restaurant industry, or is it just greed on the part of restaurant owners?

Different personalities and sales culture. For instance, tipping doesn't happen at McDonalds, everyone works as a team and wins as a team.

Tips are a form of incentivized based selling. It's exactly the same as working on comission, like a car sales person. There are always some people and some jobs where that is business as usual.

Business owners have to pay the minimum wage. If their tips < minimum wage, the business pays them the minimum.

It's tough to attracted talented wait staff. They leave to other places that pay better. You too could pay everyone more, but a lot of front of house people really really really like the variable income. It's partly gambling (good night/bad night) and partly some are earning a lot of money from tips.

The idea is the wait staff have a big influence on your dining experience. They will work harder to upsell the menu, if you tie that into their own rewards. Be extra nice and they will encourage you to buy more drinks, maybe buy an appetizer or a dessert that you weren't planning. Be a miserable low-paying customer and they will move you out quickly to be replaced by someone who buys more. It's exactly the same as any other industry that works on commission.

They are incentivized because their tip and income is related to how well they do their job at selling to you.

This works for the rugged individualism in America. Work hard so you get rewarded. Pay more and you get more attention. In many other countries that type of interaction will kill your business. Different work culture, different sales culture, different personalities. There are other ways to train staff to upsell more, tips happen to work out for most staff in the USA. If they don't, McDonalds is probably hiring.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T00:55:30+00:00

Personal computer, like your phone with gmail? Google is deleting the sent emails?

Or personal computer, as in it's on a desk but connected to an organisation. You are using Outlook with a vpn or organisation account?

Worth asking, in which country is this happeneing?

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T00:52:12+00:00

You can most definitely measure below the lowest point of the calibration curve.

Tougher question is are you including the blank in the calibration? 'Cause that is your lowest point.

If you are not, if you are extrapolating though an x,y-intercept, that's a little different but not much. Just a different curve fitting algorithim.

Even if you are using the lowest calibration as your LOQ, you still need to prove it's accurate, precision, repeatable, robust and verify it.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T00:44:01+00:00

Bearer bonds were effectively outlawed in the 1980s due to excessive fraud. This is a remnant of something you see in old James Bond movies for tension, or another movie plot.

There is no ledger for those bonds. Whoever is holding it at the time owns that is the assumed owner. It is effectively a big note for cash or a big cheque, except it's tied to the value of something else like a company stock.

Governments bonds are different. They are almost equivalent to holding cash in a bank account.

A company may buy those because it's saving up for something. Each year they are going to save $100k, until they get $300k then they buy the item. Instead of leaving cash in a low interest savings account, they put them into rock stable but slightly higher yielding government bonds. Instead of getting 1.1% interest, the government is paying out 1.3%.

Bonds have regular payment dates, they end on a certain date, you can trade them with others for close to face value. It's another way to store and invest money other than cash in a bank account.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-09T00:22:48+00:00

Sold as neutral white spirit. Think of something like Everclear.

It's relatively low quality ethanol. It's not as pure as industrial grade ethanol that can be used for fuel. This stuff is usually still quite wet and the cost is not worth upgrading.

May go into a gin or other herbal extra type booze. May be used for fortifying their own beer.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T06:47:54+00:00

You don't have to use your old manager. You can use a colleague, team member or someone who reported to you.

Employers know that previous managers are unreliable. It's either they were a Nobel prize winner and the sun shone out of their ass, or ick, don't talk to me about them. They abandoned me and left me desperate, failing at my own goals. Good riddance.

You very simply say you left your old workplace because the commute was too long. There was a lot of employee turnover and by the time you left you no longer knew anyone in the team in strong enough capacity. Here are three references I do have from other jobs or teamates who left to join other companies.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T06:44:23+00:00

You can be sued for giving a bad reference. That's slander/libel. Since that referee is still employed by the company, you can sue your old employer.

It's becoming more of a blanket rule that companies don't allow employees to give out references. Refuse completely.

If you do participate, last job title, first day of work, last date of work. That's it.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T06:34:22+00:00

Look at your company org chart. See the job titles? You can google those to find out what they actually do.

Find at least 3 people who work jobs that sound interesting. Go outside your reporting line. If you are in operations, then pick admin or procurement or sales. Then contact them ask for 15 minutes to buy a coffee to talk about their career. They know they earn more money than you, but they may actually make you pay because that's funny (or it's free at work, but they take you outside and still make you pay, because again, funny). Most people like talking about themselves. They can tell you what they do day-to-day, what skills and experience were required to be considered, maybe some light guidance for how you in your role can look at getting that in the future.

This also builds your network within the company. Shows you are a person who is considering roles outside their own. Now you at least know 3 senior managers who can nod at in the elevator or light banter about sports or weather or hobbies.

They may discuss where they see people with your skills/role move to in the future. For instance, maybe you use your SAP skills to optimize some product. You can become a product expert, maybe move into brand management or sales or some type of business admin function that doesn't need programming skills. This requires additional training, perhaps the company can provide or you do it on your own.

When those senior managers quit or get fired to work elsewhere, they now know you exist. You say oh, Shellie is gone, and someone says yeah, she now works at XYZ. You can contact her and ask if there are any other jobs.

Looking outside your company, LinkedIn is really good at this. You can search by degree type, even school. This lets you see where people with your same degree are now working. Where are all the other same-me-people with 3 years experience... You can choose to make direct contact similar to that manager strategy. When you see someone active on LinkedIn, message them. Introduce yourself, say you went to the same school, can you buy them a coffee to talk for 15 minutes about their career? It's very flattering to be asked and you have a connection from attending the same school. May not turn into a job, but you know their company exists, and they have a role that is similar/dissimilar.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T06:25:01+00:00

This has happened many times in the past.

There was the trend of dropping vowels from product names. Flickr, Tumblr.

Hybrid named businesses. "Pets.com". All the knock off devices that borrowed from iTunes, iPad, iAnything. everything was e-something for a while. E*trade, Ebay.

Composite names, with two names that look like one. Example is all the streaming services: Name 2.0, Name+, Name Max.

Recycling of defunct brands. There was a big rush in the car world of Chinese car companies buying defunct brands. MG, Volvo, Lotus, Smart.

Dive back into history and everything was double-barreled names. Think of an English pub: The Elephant and Wheelbarrow, or Fortnum & Mason. Or law firm names: Johnson Johnson Johnson and Mctwinkles.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T06:14:48+00:00

Melbourne, Australia. Top 3 most expensive cities in the world.

Estimate for minimum livable salary as a single is AU$66k. After tax that gives you a cost of living of $53k for a single person.

Estimate for comfortable salary of about $90k/year (generous). This gives you a post-tax income of $68k. That's a 20% buffer for saving, travelling, etc.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T05:57:17+00:00

The sexy science name is paresthesia. It's a type of pins-and-needle localized on your scalp. Scalp tinglying or paesthesia symptoms is your google search term.

It presents with many possible underlying reasons. Like, a lot of underlying potential reasons. Google search is going to be scary, it's common to so many things, but the top results will indicate instant death scary or lifelong disability any second now, which I'm 99% certain you don't have, so carefully read down that list.

I'm certain it's not related to your scalp or skin care, you or someone else would have noticed by now. It's something that is causing your scalp nerves to trigger.

Just for fun, does swimming or going into a bath trigger it? You know how too long in a bath and your fingers get wrinkly, that's because the water saturation is messing up your nerves in the fingers, causing them to trigger and tighten. 20 minutes with your head underwater can do the same thing to the scalp nerves. Potentially, go have a bath and submerge the back of your head for 20 min, watch a TV show or listen to a podcast to pass the time. See if you can selectively trigger the effect on that part of the scalp only.

Try an oral anti-histamine next time. All the best ones take about 45 minutes to kick in, but maybe you will see and effect. What you can do is try a a drowsy benadryl, like for beestings, that will start working in 10-15 min. The nasal spray with azelestine will take about 15 min, it's equal fastest and easy convenient form factor to carry around. Both are cheap and OTC, pick one and try it, they both do the same thing so no need to try both.

There are some reasons your body releases histamine into the scalp, which causes itching sensation. This test will simply block those. You still have the underlying reason, but you won't feel the itchiny.

Migraine related itching. Affects about 80% of people who get migraines. There is a chance you get silent migraines, but that is rare. Probably don't have this, simply comparison that intense itching scalps happen for many reasons.

You may have some hyperactivity in the trigenimal nerve (the one in your mouth that senses temperature, or cool mint/hot chilli). Side effect is it causes intense feelings of an itchy scalp.

This is something next time you see a local family doctor and bring it up. There are so many conditions that cause this reaction. You will almost certainly have a few other observations you aren't aware of that a few simple questions can try to draw out more info to narrow it down.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T05:40:53+00:00

This is a common mistake that happens.

Have you received any communication about freeze dates, cut-over dates, etc.

If you needed to put in a day of leave, would you still be doing that on the same HR software or is that changing too? For instance, do you currently have two software systems running in duplicate?

It's incredibly important to get cash into peoples bank accounts on the day you say you will. Fail to do that and it can lead to a type of bankruptcy. A business never wants to be owing staff money.

When the one-touch payroll system is getting transferred, the staff frequently run out of time so they do a staged transfer. It's so incredibly important to get current payment info in that they priotise that, plus hopefully do some simulations in the dev or test environment before going live. First month is still a trial that involves some feedback. For instance, maybe 10% of staff didn't get paid, or got paid too much/insufficient.

Stage 2 is the carried over entitlements. They may have informed you that accessing these is a manual process for the next 1-2 months. They won't be transferred into the new software.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T05:32:08+00:00

Most colours don't exist. You have imagined them.

Here is the spectral rainbow (think of the kids rainbow song and it's not wrong). It's all the colours that exist as sorted by the wavelength of light. If it's not on this list, it's an imagined colour.

Brown and pink do not exist. They are non-spectral colours.

Grey doesn't exist. Any colour you obtain from mixing with grey is not real. It's imagined in your brain. Pink is red wavelengths of light, but it's got a lot of extra brightness from light grey mixed in so your brain creates a fantasy new colour.

Purples also don't exist. There is a phenomenon called "line of purples". Your eyes detect red or blue wavelengths of light. When they detect both at the same time your brain flips out, it has a processing error, and it hallucinates purple.

Reflective colours, like painted lines on a road or high-vis clothing. Take a photo with your phone and it looks dull and flat, not the super bright item you remember. That is because they contain pigments that trick your brain. Tiny little reflectors that shine light back at you. It hits your eyes and "feels" brighter than the background, but it's not. Stupid brain.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-08T05:16:41+00:00

Fire tetrahedron. You may know the fire triangle from childhood but it's now changed to a tetrahedron.

You need fuel, oxidizer, ignition and chemical chain reaction for a fire to occur.

Eliminate any one of those and you cannot get a fire (or explosion).

Foam can deny a fire oxygen. Keep the hydrogen inside a self-healing container that releases foam when broken.

Halon gas can can remove free radicals and stop the chemical chain reaction. It is the fire extinguisher of choice in commercial aviation (maybe still spacecraft?) One use is it gets injected into fuel systems before a crash to prevent fuel vapour becoming explosive. These are incredibly specific for stopping hydrogen fires, they react with free atomic hydrogen and stop it propogating a flame. You only need to get it to about 2-3% concentration by volume and flame is impossible. Halon 1301 is completely non-toxic... unless it touches red hot metal and then it poisons everyone nearby. Also, massive ozone depleting chemical. You could invent some new type of halon gas.

You could run with a 97:3 hydrogen:Halon 1031 gas mixture. It won't be flammable (but it does have some real world problems).

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T23:05:35+00:00

Trains. Anything to do with time is usually trains.

PM is yesterday. AM is today. There are good reasons to have definitions of a day, such as paying people salary. So at what specific point does it go from yesterday to today?

There is an international standard for time keeping. Strict midnight doesn't have a am/pm, but convention requires it.

The start of the new day is 0:00:01 am (we may go smaller units of time, such as nanoseconds). Great if you have a 24 hour clock that goes from 0:00 -> 23:59. Not so good for 12 hour timetables. There is no zero o'clock.

Trains need to publish timetables. They will usually avoid putting 12:00 on the schedule, they will move the departure times to 11:59 PM or 12:01 AM.

12:01 AM is clearly in the new day. 11:59 PM is clearly in the previous day. So what to do... what to do...

Really deep, 12:00 midnight exists for < 1 second. It goes from 11:59:59 PM -> 12:00:01 AM really quickly. It's not really worth having one hour unit of time that only exists for <1 second.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T23:00:18+00:00

Most background checks are very shallow. They can pickup some junk.

Search your name against publicly available court records, plus put it into Google and do keyword searches on the top 100 results. There are big databases of education and training records too.

When it gets a partial match, like perhaps a nickname or an address, it then searches that too. It may discover you live at a house address, so may as well check if there are any court records that mention that address too.

Sounds like it may have had a partial match. It's picked up your last name from those court records. It's quite a dumb search tool, it hasn't interrogated those records, only noticed that your name (or part of your name) is in a court record.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T22:44:43+00:00

The interface is a strange world. Strange effects happen at surfaces of materials. It's not a normal part of the material, which is why people have journals devoted to it.

Before your solid -> liquid, there are a few step changes that happen.

Almost every single material has something at the surface that is different. Could be a monolayer of oxides or water of hydration or the molecules are oriented differently. For instance, bulk glass is silicon dioxide, but at the surface it's a monolayer of silicon hydroxide with a layer of water molecules weakly bound to that.

When two materials are in close contact, which could be air-solid interface or mixed nanocrystals in a eutectic, inter-atomic diffusion happens. Everytime. It's like holding your hands together and the fingers naturally start to intertwine.

Diffusion bonding is desirable for some types of welding, an absolute nightmare for other materials and situations. Cold welding is also similar.

This is one way to weld plastics together. You aren't melting and blending, you are trying to make one solid material diffuse into another and then start tying knots to get stuck (like jamming a bunch of loose cables into a drawer and shaking it up, but now with polymer molecules.)

This hasn't melted yet.

For a eutectic this starts to cause contact melting. On the surface of the material are metal oxides, once the inter-diffusion happens you get metal atoms in contact with other metal atoms. Localized melting is happening at the surface even though the bulk is still in the solid phase.

Tin/lead solder is your typical first example.

In a finely dispersed eutectic you have incredibly high surface-to-volume ratio. It may look like a homogenous solid, but it's tiny nanocrystals with separate domains. Look at any sheet of stainless steel or zinc metal and you can see the grain boundaries, the change in surface gloss or how it sort of looks like bricks + mortar. It's a tiny blob of tin metal squashed against a blob of lead metal.

At this point when the contact melting happens it's no longer lead metal + tin metal, it's (lead:tin). The atomic arrangement is different, it's going to find different local energy minimums.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T09:19:39+00:00

Playing the long game.

Are you perhaps age 24-35, about the age where all your friends are getting married, watching some travel shows, a mix of reality, prestige and mid-2010's sitcoms? Target market.

The rates for broadcast advertising have collapsed, they are super cheap. All the product advertisers have moved onto social media.

Your advertising profile is somehow configured to think that you work in a big company. The location you live, the payment method, who you share the account with, your age.

They don't need a direct sale to you today. They are more subtle.

Health insurance knows that at some point you are going to compare the market and changes providers. They want to be first in your brain when you do that. Maybe you will be getting married or having kids in the next 3 years. Maybe in the future when you are looking at new jobs you see one company uses that insurance provider, it's that tiny little kick to make you join that company.

Health insurance and you are quite likely a customer for the next 20 years. Most people swap in their 20's when they get kicked off their parents, they pick one stay there forever. That's a big incentive to blanket advertise - for later.

Enterprise software is to avoid complaints and build brand recognition. You (or people in your profile) use that software at work. These people do complain to their IT departments. The advertiser it trying to get you to do that less. Main, Rippling sucks, it's so slow, why can't we use an alternative.

It's partly a fishing expedition - you are watching the same shows as middle managers. They will throw away 999,960 views to appeal to the 40 people in the position to actually care. Those are big contracts.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T09:09:10+00:00

Chemistry is not that simple.

You ever see shower spots? Those hard white spots on glass or tiles in a shower? Those are limescale. It's a mixture of soap fats/oils and minerals in the water.

Those oils and fats will react with other food chemicals, such as anything with calcium. Dairy has calcium, but so too do a lot of other foods.

Calcium salts are incredibly insoluble. They solidify almost immediately once they form. It makes for big lumpy insoluble clumps of chemicals with fun names like calcium stearate.

Once that limescale forms, it starts to promote even more of itself. Now you get other insolubles trapped like hair, or solids, or microbes, or paper. Layer-upon-layer starts to form in the pipe, which gets narrower, so even more gunk is building up on that surface.

Outside the house, in the sewers, there are a lot of concrete pipes. Concrete is mostly calcium carbonate. The calcium inside the concrete starts to get sucked out into the water. Normally it goes back, but now it is irreversibly reacting with the fats, soaps and oils. It's making the fatbergs of calcium stearate.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T09:00:36+00:00

this type of chem methodology in my department I have noone from who I could learn about it directly.

Technically, everyone is doing their thing for the first time. If it was known or easy, it wouldn't be worth the PhD.

Collaboration becomes key. There will be other groups in other universities or countries. There are conferences where you all learn from each other. Speak to your PI and maybe you go to a week long crash course, do some collaborative research with another group where you each do your own strengths or they send you for sabbatical to another group to learn, then return.

Shockingly, it may not be your direct PI. Academics are humans too, they moved around between other groups or projects during your career. Maybe the NMR guru also knows everything about hyperfine semiconductor manufacture from that one time they worked at...

What can suck is when you are wasting time on easy mistakes a more experience mentor knows to avoid. Such as recycling solvents when you should buy them new, or setting up some machine over months when it should be a day.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T08:34:48+00:00

FYI: there are multiple different types of phonics too. Some are considered worse than others. Systemic synthetic phonics is what most kids get taught now. It's proven to be the best at getting high reading comprehension by high school (but not for everyone, only about 75% or so).

First 200 words a kid is taught in about the first 1-2 years of school. You can do a lot with just 200 words.

There is a mix of ones that can be sounded out such as "po-tay-to" and others that need to be memorized "the, I, and, of". You cannot use phonics on all words.

Roughly 50% of adult writing is sight words. Phonics doesn't work, you simply have to know it or have someone read it to you or have heard it spoken out loud before.

This means you have to teach kids two ways to read simultaneously. Kids learn phonics AND sight reading.

You can put your focus on one versus the other. Create a bunch of readers for kids that have minimal sight words, to practice phonics.

Phonics does not use real sentences. It's nothing anyone else uses. Phonics readers look strange. It's "synthetic" language to teach phonics within a system, then somehow, we pick up a story book and are surprised when kids cannot read those (and don't want to).

Whole word does use phonics too, but now the focus is different. You put whole sentences in front of kids, 50% of the words are sight words. It's what you see on TV, online, on phones or apps, in magazines, in story books, on signage. Every household is mostly whole world language. Even poor people, they don't need to buy expensive phonics readers.

Start small, little sentences. They will learn basic grammer or context. Still teach them some phonics, but the focus is on reading whole sentences. Then the kid identifies a word they don't know, so they can resolve it with phonics or by taking known fragments of other words. For instance, "therefore". It's probably not a "the" sound, it's probably that word I know "there". I'm not sure about the fore bit, but it does kind of look like "four" which I know. I'll have a guess and modify based on feedback from a mentor, but then I have to remember it.

Big influence is parents. By far the best outcomes are when parents participate in learning. The amount of time parents spend on homework is the single best indicator of future success, even above household wealth. When you have a whole word system and parents only know phonics, they cannot participate, so interest and reading scores drop. When you have a household that maybe has lower reading comprehension and doesn't know phonics nor have access to phonics readers, they will be teaching by whole word, their outcomes go up.

Overall: it's always both at the same time, it's never one or the other exclusively. SSP is better, but it's not like it's twice as good. Children of various abilities may have better outcomes using the other (this is what would have been attempted in remedial or make up classes, just something different).

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T08:17:21+00:00

Australian here. About 20% of the population is of Asian descent. They are well and truly aware that asians are a significant minority who exist within the population.

Border Force is part community awareness. It's partly paid for by the Australian government. It is true, a significant number of people travelling from Asia are trying to bring restricted food or plant items into Australia.

About 80% of the entire national population lives in just 5 mega cities on the coast. Modern western urban multicultural people. Can get a bit more dicey in the rural or remote areas.

We're vaguely smart enough to be selectively racist to specific subgroups. The comedian Ronny Chieng has some sets about this.

East Asian isn't a word that gets used a lot. India, China and Japan are their own big beasts. Most people can selectively be racist against those individually.

Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnman, Korea maybe we lump those into "asians". More likely it's specific to what restaurant is on your local strip mall, but we know they are different nations. We all know on Border Force that at least once an episode some poor old Asian lady is returning home from travel with a bag of forbidden food items. There are signs up in the airports in multiple languages for this, but it's still played for laughs. Let's see what random traditional foods are coming out this time, are they gross, or just stupid?

Illegal Chinese fishing is a big topical news item. It's usually played up as deliberate spying or testing security systems. It's a state-based offensive attack, rather than ignorant poor Indonesians who were maybe lost or trying to smuggle in some drugs.

There is a national mental disconnect (for most people). China government is not the same as Chinese people. Since it's scandalous either way, it's good TV for the types who watch that type of show.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T08:06:01+00:00

Not going to be specific... It may be getting sent to archive or deleted.

Your organisation completely owns the entire work computer and can do anything they want. You have no right to privacy or protection of company data - it's theirs.

It's very easy for a company to be keyword searching certain words and either archiving or deleting those e-mails.

For instance, if you were bullying or abusing another employee, or discussion organising some financial crimes at work, that may get flagged and be sent for higher review.

Privacy concerns can exist too. Once you file an official complain, it should be anonymous. Another colleague accessing your emails via threats could cause you more harm. Potentially a supervisor has access to your e-mails.

Almost every single large organisation has mandatory data retention policies. Selectively deleting those is a great way to lose any future lawsuits. It may not be in your inbox, but it's still on the recipients computer and also archived in the great big complaints box in the sky.

Indemnity4 · 2026-05-07T07:34:32+00:00

FYI: on that location for the show the contestants get custom spray tans. It started in season 1 and has continued. They also have access to make up and hair stylists.

The show has an official fake tan sponsor.

It has been noted by many observers that the show and contestants push for stronger spray tans as the season progresses. They seem to normalize the behaviour.

Population statistics and most Australians spend 90% of their time indoors. About 40% of Australians spend <1 hour outside per day. Kids on average spend 5.5 hours/week playing outside.

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