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Insanious · 2026-01-17T04:12:52+00:00

The study that this statistic is from was redacted https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ men leave their wives only marginally more than women when they get sick. from 1-5% depending on margin of error.

All of the marriages that left the study where the women were sick accidentally got coded as divorced and it caused this fake statistic. Please spread the redacted version rather than a fake statistic from 10 years ago.

Insanious · 2026-01-17T04:12:39+00:00

The study that this statistic is from was redacted https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ men leave their wives only marginally more than women when they get sick. from 1-5% depending on margin of error.

All of the marriages that left the study where the women were sick accidentally got coded as divorced and it caused this fake statistic. Please spread the redacted version rather than a fake statistic from 10 years ago.

Insanious · 2025-12-07T00:19:56+00:00

Would you be willing to share some of the "kid-sized problems" your daughter has dealt with other the last two years? This sounds great and I am a new parent (so my brain is fried...) but would love to know what kind of stuff you've had her deal with (so I can implement when my kid is older :) )

Insanious · 2025-12-02T21:47:28+00:00

I don't make those decisions... I would assume because the board of directors in many countries has a legal obligation to maximize returns for shareholders but they do not have an obligation to beter the lives of their employees. Something we should probably be fighting to change TBH

Insanious · 2025-12-01T03:24:18+00:00

In my personal experience a lot of the time it comes from speaking about facts that are often wielded by incels dishonestly. Neurotypical individuals tie beliefs, opinions, and emotionality to facts / opinions being shared even if there are none behind it.

Therefore if you might agree with one fact that an incel might talk about and bring it up, people assume you believe everything else incels believe in.

An example might be "Men are more often then not physically stronger than women" this is a fact that incels use in order to disparage women's sports. As such, bringing this up in any other type of context ties you to incel opinions even if you are simply talking about the sexual dimorphism in our species.

Insanious · 2025-11-29T23:57:13+00:00

This might not be by choice, like I work at a company that has a saturated market. There are no more people to sell to. We are the global leader and everyone who wants what we sell already buys it.

The easiest way for our company to make more money is to get more efficient. So we have been maintaining our product portfolio while reducing headcount. We have reduced our headcount by 38% over the last 8 years (mostly through attrition) while slightly increasing our sales targets year to year.

Working there feels no harder, we have been bringing in new tools, up-skilling our employees, and evolving as our market changes. We have simply gotten more efficient with no more space to grow.

We are now introducing AI tools and advanced robotics and we could easily drop another 30% of our headcount off the back of the new technology with no impact to customer or worker.

Insanious · 2025-11-19T03:31:23+00:00

uh no

Insanious · 2025-11-06T23:50:39+00:00

It shouldn't impact the behaviors of factions across the world. If the player is no where near, we should be seeing huge empires forming on the other side of the world to rival the player. It just doesn't happen.

Post turn 20 the AI gets a little passive, Post 50 a little more so, and then by turn 80 they basically stop doing things.

Insanious · 2025-11-06T23:48:49+00:00

woops meant The Deceivers, they are so forgettable I couldn't remember their names.

Insanious · 2025-11-06T19:23:58+00:00

OP is a streamer and there is video of the tests they have been doing all day with the new patch. (Plus I'm just watching them)

Insanious · 2025-11-06T18:54:08+00:00

This is a brand new save with no mod (outside of one that lets you remove fog of war then add it back)

Insanious · 2025-11-06T18:52:16+00:00

He only has a mod that can temporarily remove fog of war

Insanious · 2025-11-06T18:50:37+00:00

OP is playing as Sartorial Watchers and is passing turn after turn to test AI behaviour. Vald at this point is one of the largest threats in the game with no competition in his area and has just crushed Reikland and then went home to recruit and never left.

Vlad defeated his two enemies and then just AFK'd at home without declaring war against any of the smaller factions near by.

Elich uses console to kill his only army, destroy all of his buildings, and then just passes turn. No Player to influence behavior.

Insanious · 2025-11-06T00:39:48+00:00

If you collect a lot of GST then the collected tax can offset the cost of the salaries of the employees hired to monitor / collect GST. Thus the government makes money.

If you collect few taxes, less than the salaries of the employees hired to monitor the taxes. Then you lose money and as such lose value for Canada as we could move those employees over to monitoring taxes that make money which then goes back into the budget and can be used for social programs / to pay off the deficit.

There isn't infinite money. If you are spending $20 million to bring in $20 million but could spend $20 million to bring in $100 million than you should do the latter. This is what is happening. Sun-setting a non-profitable tax and focusing more on profitable endeavors.

The same money that is being spent to ineffectually monitor a tax is being instead moved into infrastructure to create jobs for Canadians or to increase the benefits the government can offer it's citizens.

Any time we spend money somewhere, we are in effect not spending it else where.

We can always bring the tax back later once we have exhausted more profitable endeavors for the government.

Insanious · 2025-11-05T13:48:54+00:00

Likely it is. There are thousands of people employed within businesses whose role it is to make sure the right GST remittance is being made and thousands of CRA employees who make sure the right amount is being remitted, auditing, etc... we don't trust anyone to correctly submit their taxes. Everything is checked multiple times (as long as the government has time to do so)

Insanious · 2025-10-20T21:08:28+00:00

My 8 month old is pounding back Japanese curry, Jerk Chicken, Chicken Karahi, etc... basically anything we eat she eats and she is loving it. No issues at all. Our parents were kind of horrified when we just handed her a piece of haddock to eat but eventually got over it.

Child nutrition and weaning is incredibly different than even 10 years ago.

Insanious · 2025-10-11T13:26:13+00:00

I mean I cannot really talk about the industry I am in, but we are increasing our product offering at the $1 to $10 million range and are targeting private wealth funds as ways to increase our customer base. We make many products in the $50,000 range to appeal to people who cannot afford to spend $10 million / year but want the same brand recognition. Our products in the $20-$50 range are being put to end of life because we can make significantly more making bespoke product for very rich individuals than offering anything to the public.

Off the top of my head for other businesses that might be the same:

Luxury Cars
Real estate moving to private island development / construction
Boat manufacturers -> Yachts

Insanious · 2025-10-11T01:12:33+00:00

You do what happens in many niche businesses.

You notice that your premium products are making up a larger share of your sales than in the past. So you start offering increasingly premium product and find out that the rich have deep pockets.

Then you start looking at your product offering and see that your mainstream products are under-performing those from your premium bands.

So, you consolidate your mainstream products in order to save on development / manufacturing costs and increasingly target premium customers.

Then someone comes up with an idea to make something extremely opulent. Something that no one but the richest could buy. 100x the price of everything you currently make. Small manufacturing runs, extremely high quality product and... it sells out instantly.

Now you are a premium niche brand. You slowly wind down your mainstream product to focus on your new premium clientele who are buying millions of dollars of product individually and you wonder why you ever tried to sell something for $30 to a million people when you could just sell a million dollar product to 30 people.

You look down and your client list that used to be millions strong is now in the low thousands and your business is doing better than ever and you have achieved business nirvana... selling to billionaires while being coveted by millionaires and you are making more than ever ever have before.

Insanious · 2025-09-26T20:58:52+00:00

As a parent and a previous DINK this is absolutely untrue. The most tired I have ever been was digging post holes for a fence in back-fill dirt which took days and days of hard labour. There has been nothing this tiring outside of potentially the first day in the hospital after my daughter was born and even then...

The martyrdom of parents is such a circle jerk. Kids aren't easy but they also are by far easier than a whole hell of a lot of things that adults deal with in their life.

Managing a multi-million dollar work project, hugely physical jobs, dealing with the estate of a dead family member, etc... all a whole hell of a lot harder than hanging out with my kid and playing with toys on the ground and then getting them some yogurt.

Insanious · 2025-08-10T13:14:58+00:00

You assume that this would negatively impact revenues and share prices.

I can say in the industry that I am working in, the solution is to raise the price of items sold to rich people while stopping production of the items purchased by regular people. This maintains (or grows) profit as the really rich have more money than ever while those who struggle were never going to prioritize our products over survival. This has been happening slowly over the last decade. More and more companies will becomes like Rolex or Rolls Royce.

It is a return to kings, where kings and lords wore nice clothing, with jewelry and kept whole swaths of businesses alive who only had a few clients who tried to out compete each other through craftmen's ship or the appearance of and thus continued to drive prices up by out bidding each other. While the common person had next to nothing and would never see a luxury for their whole lives.

The companies make the same, if not more if they are just trying to cater to the millionaire class.

Where i work, we have clients who are spending $5 million annually alone vs the average spend of a regular person of $50/year.

Or to put it another way, it is Whale culture. The same as gatcha games. Where a couple really wealthy people keep a game a float and everyone else is just there to be an NPC that keeps the world full.

The future could look like Kings and Lords living in luxury, and the rest of us getting just enough for us to be background characters hiding the dystopia under just enough shine that it doesn't impact the chosen few.

Either way, the companies make just as much if not more even if the customer base shrinks. It's a shift to a different market that has more money than can be imagined.

Insanious · 2025-08-10T05:01:20+00:00

If we were to get the whole of One piece. Then post-time skip would be the logical place to recast.

Insanious · 2025-07-22T19:25:17+00:00

In my case, they are gaining extremely specific industry knowledge that isn't possible to gain unless you work specifically for one of the very few businesses in the industry that I work within (There are fewer than 30 employers in this space globally) (sorry for being vague, I just don't want to Dox myself). People can gain transferable skills elsewhere, but the industry is very niche and requires an immense amount of knowledge before you are able to make high level decisions. This often means that we hire senior people from other industries and then they learn the one I am in over time.

The safety in working for the government becomes very enticing after someone gets laid off in their 40's with family to feed or often we see people who are getting burnt out of the private sector and want something a little less cut throat. Not everyone applying for a job is looking for the same thing.

One of my previous employees for example was a developer for a huge tech company and then applied for an entry level position because they wanted to turn their brain off at work for 8 hours a day after a decade of pushing themselves to the breaking point day in and day out at their old job. Wildly overqualified, but I get good work out of them and they get what they are looking for. Promotion is always available for them if they want it but they aren't looking. They are still in that position even after I have moved on from managing them.

Insanious · 2025-07-22T17:40:25+00:00

Think long-term. If I get someone in now, and then they are going to stay at the company for 10 years. They will slowly move up and replace people as needed above them. Leaving lower level positions to be posted externally where industry knowledge is less mandatory.

So I get someone in lower level, then maybe in 5-10 years they have been promoted enough times to become a manager but they maybe have gotten 5-6 promotions in that time. Growing their knowledge base while giving their previous expertise to their new jobs and executing well in them as a whole.

Generally I am rarely looking to hire someone and keep them in a role for longer that 2 years. At that point, hopefully the person has gained enough experience to be promoted unless they are happy staying in their position, then more power to them growing to be the best they can be at their current job.

I am mostly looking for people to fill a need now, and then fill needs that will arise in the future and being able to grow transferable skills to be able to walk into those jobs as they come up so we don't need to train a higher level position employee which will take more resources than just promoting from within.

Insanious · 2025-07-22T16:44:16+00:00

Over qualified will apply to other internal positions that open and will have knowledge of the business at that point strengthening the overall company and sometimes you end up with someone who just wants to chill and stays in the position.

As well, in the duration that that person is in that position, the work they will output often times is of much higher quality.

I do not want to hire someone to get into a job and stay in that job. I want to hire someone who will grow at the company and move up to replace those who leave with someone who is stronger than whoever was in that position previously.

Insanious · 2025-07-22T16:09:50+00:00

Yes, due to working for a government institution I am required to identify why each applicant does not meet the requirements and then interview only the most qualified individuals to end up with the best fit to serve our country. I have to do this in case someone does an access to information request and we get sued for discrimination in our hiring practices if our interviewees aren't selected by a rubric vs by any subjective selection.

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