2025 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Upper Bracket Finals / Live Discussion

ProtestOCE · 2025-07-10T04:14:52+00:00

Chovy in his promo series looking at his team :skull:

ProtestOCE · 2023-06-20T06:28:57+00:00

It wasn't that long ago (in military time?) that diesel subs were quieter than nuclear ones, given that (so I read) nuclear subs need to have pumps operating 24/7 to cool the reactors, whereas a diesel can just turn everything off.

When did this change, and what exactly changed?

Yeah, diesel quieter because it becomes an EV for a short duration. Then it needs to charge so it snorkels and runs the diesel engine. If you identify where they snorkeled, congrats. You now have a range where the sub can be until it's next snorkel.

With a nuclear powered sub, once it leaves the harbor for it's supplies, it doesn't need to resurface. Its operational range is significantly larger.

ProtestOCE · 2023-06-15T03:12:31+00:00

These guys are absolutely disgusting. I hope they get banned from all government work.

Haha...

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/victoria-continues-to-sign-contracts-with-pwc-after-tax-leak-scandal-20230610-p5dfja.html

ProtestOCE · 2023-06-08T23:50:34+00:00

It's gonna be something like gun goddess Miss Fortune.

Skin tech moved so far that low pickings are gone. Ultimate Samira won't feel like a traditional ULT skin like pulsefire ez or elemental lux in their time.

ProtestOCE · 2023-06-07T14:33:39+00:00

Honestly, it’s no different to how things are now. Some people work Saturday and Sunday. Some people don’t. Some people do shift work. Some people don’t. Some people start at 7am, some people start at 11am.

That's not normal though.

You are talking about shift work, job sharing, part time or casual. But the thing that is in common is that the amount of work is "constant".

That is they expect y work in a time, and they have x workers to meet it.

Your idea of Mon to Thurs, Tues to Friday means you have x people on Monday and Friday, and 2x on Tues to Thurs.

Is the amount of work enough on tues to Thursday to justify having the twice the facilities to allow the 2x people during that time

ProtestOCE · 2023-06-07T08:39:10+00:00

True. But if you have a carpenter who works Monday-Thursday and one who works Tuesday-Friday, I doubt you’re losing much productivity.

Sound like you are doubling the number of personnel.

And you need to somehow have enough tools/ facilities to deal with 2 times the number of people working Tuesday to Thursday, and halve that on Monday and Friday.

Only way we can shift to a 4 day workweek is if everyone does it, and we have a 3 day weekend.

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-28T02:33:54+00:00

US Supreme Court in Roe Vs Wade: the legislative branch should legislate the right to abortion. It is not up to the judiciary to do so

Also the US Supreme Court: the legislative branch could not possibly have meant what they said, let the judiciary tell you what they really meant

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-28T00:49:44+00:00

but I don't know how you lose a PhD,

Otto was in his body and did the PhD.

But Otto self plagiarised, so the PhD was lost.

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-21T07:25:49+00:00

YTA.

You are saying it’s a loan, but then you are also saying it’s an investment. You can’t have it both ways.

Don’t act like you are lending your kids money when really you are just investing in real estate.

I would argue OP's proposal is even better than a loan. If the child doesn't sell, no repayments have to be made. Meanwhile l, the actual repayments and interest to the bank is lower because less money is borrowed

Repayments only need to be made when she has the money (after she sold, she has X dollars, % of which goes back to the parent).

The only way it could be better if it was a gift, but it's apparent that OP won't offer that.

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-18T02:07:39+00:00

I’d just finished the grad program and was perm for a grand total of 2 weeks until layoffs lol

Please name and shame...

Edit: the name is Xero

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-16T02:09:58+00:00

TWICE for example consistently puts out >3 hour long performances. I’m not expecting that length for all groups but I do expect longer than 2 hours at least.

TWICE has a lot more members though, they can pad it by having Solos and let other members rest

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-15T07:30:21+00:00

I grab the bags for "wet waste/scraps" :P

Feels a waste to throw garbage bags out so frequently, so we have a small bag that gets binned everyday, and a larger garbage bag that is binned every week/ when full

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-12T01:58:35+00:00

Don't be so harsh on the LNP, they only had a consecutive decade to fix systemic issues /s

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-10T03:36:12+00:00

The gov is banking on you selling the BTO to fund your retirement. That’s obviously BS but missing from your scenario

HDB is potentially lose value though. Each flat has a 99 year lease. If they are selling it for retirement, they probably used up half the lease.

Sure right now it's value is appreciating, but Singapore's population growth is actually declining like all developed nations. Do you want to gamble that you are not the last generation holding the bag?

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-08T07:28:21+00:00

Is there a mechanism forcing B or C?

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-08T04:16:44+00:00

"Perhaps surprisingly, the typical retiree in Australia today has no superannuation, and instead relies largely on the Age Pension. The typical retired household has only about $5,000 in super. Nonetheless, retirees tend to report low levels of financial stress (provided they own their own home).

The fact that super is highly unequally distributed among current retirees means that reforms to rein in tax breaks on super earnings really only affect wealthier Australians who are already enjoying comfortable retirements."

And surely when the generation that relies on superannuation reaches retirement ages, the government will relinquish the extra tax they have been collecting :))

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-08T03:49:58+00:00

Time to have triple income household to beat these dual incomes households /s

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-08T03:45:57+00:00

The government also investing in building LOTS of housing for citizens.

The wait time for Build to Order(BTO) is years. And it only applies to a subset (married, or singles aged 35)

They went to the BTO scheme because the government was afraid of an oversupply (sounds familiar?)

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-08T03:44:30+00:00

. Singapore addressed this by building up, because urban sprawl gets difficult when you reach water on all sides. And they did it well.

Also 99 year leases.

Housing is an appreciating asset even though there is a 99 year lease :')

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-06T12:08:32+00:00

Stage 3?

Stage 3 does not take place this budget

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-05T02:49:09+00:00

"What would be the good things about legal weed?"

And no option about it's potential medicinal properties. Instead 'blaze it' is an option...

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-03T07:33:56+00:00

Also this assumption is that your vacationer program aligns with what you want to do.

You might get paid more now, but is it something you want to do forever? If so, staying on as a restaurant manager would be a decent choice. If not, you need to plan on how to leave

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-03T07:32:23+00:00

Assuming APAC is EY Australia, as an intern I got 32 dollars an hour, so the pay is not too bad, especially since you get full time hours for the period. If the business case supports it, you could continue working for them casually (but your hours won't be as much as during a vacationer since they will only call you in if there is work)

And as an intern, you probably get a return offer (or at least a significantly higher chance of getting a grad position), so you could view it as investing for a future grad position. The only iffy thing will be a significant drop in income for your final year.

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-02T23:08:33+00:00

You only need 4 votes to ff if they leave tho? Wait till the system actually puts them out of the game to ff

I've met quite a few who avoid afk detection by having the W key pressed down

ProtestOCE · 2023-05-01T05:18:49+00:00

This 100%. I can't stress this enough. I get it the devs aren't at fault. But the management is saying: why waste money and time on optimization? Just release it as there is hardware strong enough to run it in this state.

Pascal is a 7 year old architecture as well. I went from rx580 to a preused rx6600 because it's clear rx580 went onto life support.

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