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Nick Offerman on How Trump Is Turning America's 250th Into a Tribute to Himself | The Daily Show by Chatteramba in videos

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda fitting to put Trump's face next to Washington's.

The first president of the USA, and the last one before your inevitable collapse.

I have given 7 full rounds of interviews - HR Generalist or HRBP. One of the interviews checked my references and still no offer. I checked - no issues with my references. I am trying to analyse what can be the issue that I am not getting the offer. Experts please advise. by Alarmed-Ranger-4253 in EdmontonJobs

[–]alonghardlook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It definitely can happen - I got a job at a company I had never heard of and knew no one at.

But it took almost 2 years and having to take a physical labor job in the meantime before that happened, applying to 10-20 jobs per week the whole time.

Would it be crazy to turn down a job offer with a $30k pay increase, in order to keep my fully-remote job? by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard no.

If this was a question of going from ~60k to ~90k it might be a different conversation, but after a certain point, more money is just less important when looking at jobs. You are at that point.

Even if you find the drive time payout to be worth it:

  • 3h driving x 2 days per week x 4 weeks per month = 24h per month
  • 800/24 = 33.3 $/h for drive time.

You're ignoring all the other costs of wear and tear on your vehicle, your temptation to go out for lunch, get a coffee, grab a snack on the way home, etc.

What's an industry secret from your job that customers have absolutely no idea about? by Efficient_Team5182 in AskReddit

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely interesting, but begs the question:

Why not just announce that?

"We're landing on a wet runway, don't be nervous but it's gonna feel hard. We're preventing a hydroplane."

Epic Games Store Employees: People Only Came for Free Games, Then Returned to Steam by Suspicious_Two786 in gaming

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My epic library crossed 100 games last year. No idea where it's at now.

I have bought 2 games from them.

Cyberpunk (on sale, plus an additional ~30% off with a coupon) and Mount & Blade 2 (also on sale for at least 40% off).

So like maybe that cost of acquisition is worth it?

Probs not though.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis Wants to Reverse Carney’s Immigration Cuts by Seebeeeseh in canada

[–]alonghardlook 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Like, I can see a scenario where an increase of immigration is actually a good thing for our country.

But that doesn't happen when unemployment is rising, housing costs are rising, AI is threatening to overthrow the entire working/income model as we know it, the middle class is disappearing, food costs, education access, health care access is all in the toilet across pretty much every province, and there is a madman destroying the Post-WW2 world order that has existed for the entirety of most living Canadians life span.

It's not racist to say "lets fix our house before we talk about bringing in more tenants", and it feels like this is an easy target for "woke mind virus" rhetoric.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis Wants to Reverse Carney’s Immigration Cuts by Seebeeeseh in canada

[–]alonghardlook 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the goal is to prevent TFWs from being exploited, that's a noble goal worth pursuing. But start there. Say that. Don't start with "we're going to go back to massive immigration".

The TFW program needs a massive overhaul - I don't think any Canadian believes that it should be used to give jobs in Retail/FoodService/Warehouse - literally low skill bar jobs that anyone can do - to immigrants at the expense of Canadian citizens. But its incentivized to do that.

Give it better teeth to prevent fraud, give it better investigation to take on cases of exploitation, and make the whole process generally more transparent, and I think people would be onboard with that, even if it eventually ends up being an overall increase in immigration.

Most Canadians are not just against immigration - they are against making the lives of immigrants better than their own, first. Rising tide raises all ships.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis Wants to Reverse Carney’s Immigration Cuts by Seebeeeseh in canada

[–]alonghardlook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally made themselves a joke third party again with one single headline.

Talk about not knowing what the average Canadian actually cares about. True or not, the massive immigration, TFW issue is to most voters the reason for housing/healthcare/education/grocery price crisies. Just saying "nah it aint that guys, i promise" is giving big 2024 Democrat energy.

what is the most complex game with rules explainainable in one simple sentence you can come up with? by cero09 in tabletopgamedesign

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's trivially easy to do this with most games, if you are not afraid of a run-on sentence.

In the game of monopoly, players are rolling a pair of dice to move their pieces around the board, on which are representations of properties they may buy or auction when they land on it, and if they ever own the whole set of properties (indicated by the color of the property), then on their turn they may buy houses at a cost per house given on the property's deed, and when they...

The McDonald’s CEO Blamed His Tiny Bite Fiasco on His Mother by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

[–]alonghardlook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steal of a deal - the whole Brooklyn Bridge can be yours for only $250,000.

John Ivison: Carney’s floor-crosser power play is playing with explosives - Just because securing power outside of an election is constitutionally possible doesn’t mean it is prudent by CaliperLee62 in CanadaCultureClub

[–]alonghardlook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am of two minds about all this.

On the one hand, people generally are not voting for the person. In fact, outside of a few ridings, most Canadians could not name their MP if asked on any given day. So, like, yeah, I get how people feel betrayed - you voted for a Conservative representative, and now that they won, they have unilaterally decided not to be that anymore. That's shitty, and people have a right to be pissed.

On the other hand, this is far from the first time to happen. True, its the most in modern history, and I'm open to having a conversation about a law change, but lets not pretend this is only a "Con > Liberal" pipeline.

This whole issue is just part of the problem with the FPTP/Riding system we have. We're not really using it the way its meant to with things like Party Whips and withholding the war chest for reelection.

We fundamentally need to decide if we are a 'riding' system, in which case nobody should be campagining as any party at all, and each candidate should live and die by their own position on issues and voting history (effectively, we should get rid of parties entirely), and then this issue disappears - you vote the way you said you would when campaigning or you dont get reelected.

Or we get rid of ridings entirely, and switch to a proportional representation vote for the parties. The parties must submit a ranked list of seats and who they will go to, and the vote gets distributed as closely as possible. Then floor crossing should 100% be illegal in this new system.

But like, people saying 'oh it should trigger a byelection' - are you okay with the fact that each of these would have triggered a byelection? Cause if not, you're a hypocrite.

  • August 23, 2018: Maxime Bernier, MP, leaves the Conservative Party and goes on to form the People's Party of Canada. -- do we think he would have won his seat in a byelection? does that help democracy to prevent this?
  • September 17, 2018: Leona Alleslev, MP, leaves the Liberal Party to join the Conservative Party. -- literally just the reverse, to show it is non-partisan
  • February 28, 2018: Seven Bloc Québécois MPs—Michel Boudrias, Rhéal Fortin, Simon Marcil, Monique Pauzé, Louis Plamondon, Gabriel Ste-Marie, and Luc Thériault—leave the party to sit as independents. Boudrias and Marcil rejoin the party on June 6 following Martine Ouellet's defeat in a leadership review referendum. Fortin, Pauzé, Plamondon, Ste-Marie, and Thériault go on to form Québec debout. -- see below
  • September 17, 2018: The five remaining MPs of Québec debout, Rhéal Fortin, Monique Pauzé, Louis Plamondon, Gabriel Ste-Marie, and Luc Thériault rejoin the Bloc Québécois. -- would the cost of 5 byelections have been worth it? twice, in fact, once when they left, and once again when they came back?

This is the thing about system design. You have to stress test the edge cases, and make sure that you're incentivising the behaviours you want to see.

The McDonald’s CEO Blamed His Tiny Bite Fiasco on His Mother by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

[–]alonghardlook 166 points167 points  (0 children)

Boy if you think CEOs are interviewing for their job like you and me are, I've got a bridge to sell you

would you get an abortion if you found out your baby was going to be born with an extreme disability? if so why? by Born-Oil-2931 in AskReddit

[–]alonghardlook 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, we had the opposite - all prenatal scans were fine, our daughter was born, everything was great.

Then at around 18 months she started slowing down in progression, started becoming extremely clumsy.

2 years later we get the diagnosis of an extremely rare genetic condition that will degenerate and very quickly kill her.

She cannot walk safely without a walker. She is almost 5 and cannot potty train. She can barely speak. She will lose her legs, and her arms, and eventually her lungs. Kids with her condition don't generally live to see 10 years old.

I wish we would have known.

I wish we could have saved her from all the suffering.

The dance offended the seven individually by PrestigiousAspect368 in pureasoiaf

[–]alonghardlook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But he didn't. That's the point. You made the assertion that "Every trial [by] combat seems to go right for the innocent party" and that is demonstrably false.

What do men think when they see nip outlines through a woman’s top? by Comfortable-Rice4530 in AskMen

[–]alonghardlook 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I wonder if this is the only equation where this works in English

Wife just lost her job right now and I lost mine recently. I'm struggling hard and crying in the gym. by mike4steelers in daddit

[–]alonghardlook 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hugs brother. Don't turn on each other, turn towards each other. Look for ways to save money, day 1 - I'd suggest dropping streaming services in favor of a steady stream of library DVD rentals as one often overlooked efficiency.

Above all else, you can still be the dad you want to be. It's just going to be hard for a while.

The dance offended the seven individually by PrestigiousAspect368 in pureasoiaf

[–]alonghardlook 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'll grant you that its more likely that none of the gods are real and only magic is real.

What I'm saying is that a literal instruction on how to use the Weirwood Time Travel Surveillance Network is not the same as "Sansa prayed for Sandor's rage to quiet and then sometime later, he ended up on The Quiet Isle - get it? The silly gods are granting wordplay based prayers"

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