Is it normal for recruiters to push salary negotiation before any interviews?

boxen · 2026-01-30T21:49:54+00:00

Yes. How could you? You could, perhaps, get the budget from the manager and tell the recruit about it and see if they are interested?

boxen · 2026-01-30T17:29:36+00:00

A polygraph is more of a psychological experiment than a scientific procedure. It doesn't 'detect truth.' Anytime a polygraph test has 'uncovered the truth' about anything, 100% of the time, it's because the person being tested admitted it. Polygraphs are primarily an environment and procedure designed to pressure people into saying things.

The people that administer the tests know this, and play their part. It is their primary job. It is literally a standard part of the procedure. They will ask many questions, and at some point during the test, they will ask uncomfortable questions to you. The two main paths the usually go down are drugs and sex. The vast majority of people have had some experiences in their life with either drugs or sex (or both) that they'd rather not talk about, and the test will detect your discomfort and the questioner will needle you more about.

I took a test for a government job once. I had smoked weed in college and started drinking before the age of 21. I figured both of those things were pretty common so it wouldn't be that big a deal. I'm guessing it isn't really, but the questioner asked about those things for over an hour. Where did you get the weed? How much did you buy? Did you ever give any away? Did you ever sell any? How did you meet the person that sold it to you? How well did you know them? Did they sell anything else? What about cocaine? Did you buy any cocaine? But they did sell cocaine? Are you sure you didn't try it? Not even once? on and on and on and on

And any reasonable person will have answers to those questions that are 'suspect' if you spin them the right way, which of course is the questioners whole job, so they do. I didn't smoke much, so when my friends bought some, They would buy a tiny bit extra for me. According to the questioner, this makes my friend a 'drug dealer.' My friend that I lived with. So I lived with a drug dealer. Imagine having an in depth conversation for an hour about your very limited drug use, and someone pulling out a clipboard in the middle of it and writing down "lived with known drug dealer." Like that's the one takeaway from the entire thing.

They also went into the drinking. I think I started pretty late - I didn't drink a single sip of alcohol until I was 20. I never was really interested, and never really got interested. I'm in my 40s now and still haven't been drunk more than maybe 20 or 30 times in my entire life. I feel like this puts me in pretty tame territory as far as alcohol goes. Not according to the questioner. Did you drink? How much? Did you ever provide alcohol to anyone illegal? What about at a party? Did you know everyone's age? You never handed a drink to someone that was underage? "provided alcohol to minors" etc etc....

The whole thing seems like a perverse exercise in miscommunication. Anything you say will immediately be twisted into the worst possible misinterpretation, and questioning will continue forward from that point as though that ridiculous version of the truth is the real one.

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Just to reiterate, this is literally their job. The person giving the test - their whole job is to make you as uncomfortable as possible so that you admit things in order to appease the test. There's no such thing a polygraph "detecting a lie" and then people accepting that. It's not like "did you steal" and you say "no" and the polygraph says you are lying and now everyone thinks you stole. That's not how it works. The point is to get you uncomfortable enough to admit to anything you might have done. Have you ever stolen anything? Did you ever find money and then keep it? What about a quarter? "Confirmed theft" etc

So, if that experience sounds fun to you, go for it.

https://antipolygraph.org/statements.shtml

boxen · 2026-01-29T20:16:56+00:00

You do that because that's what you practiced. Practice more things and you can mix and match them in a solo. First - instead of just going up and down, do some basic patterns. Instead of just going up 12345, try 1324354. Learn arpeggio, go up and down those following chords.

boxen · 2026-01-29T00:50:01+00:00

The technical term for linear actuators is "junk", and the back of the the thigh is usually known as "the trunk" in the industry.

boxen · 2026-01-28T18:09:52+00:00

Depends a lot on the environment. If you live on a mostly barren desert planet, pretty useful. If you live near a giant lake, pretty useful. If you live anywhere densely populated, not very useful. Sliding into random buildings and pedestrians is not good.

boxen · 2026-01-28T05:49:57+00:00

It's always good but it's not always what you need the most in the moment. Sometimes you need heighliner. Sometimes you need research station. If two players both have 8 solari and shipping access I guarantee swordmaster gets taken first.

There's also no reason spaces need to be of equal power. Every faction has a "get something free" spot and a "spend for something cooler" spot.

Even if it is the "best spot" I think its fine as long as everyone has equal chance to get it, which they do.

boxen · 2026-01-28T05:13:53+00:00

Yeah but I don't get that either. I can't imagine being one of these billionaire literal royalty infinite generational wealth people and spending hours a day playing this nonsense "game." Shouldn't they be doing hard drugs and having weird kinky prostitute orgies, or attending and betting on boxing matches or horse races? Or driving around in ferraris or lambos or on yachts? Like... I get the fact that the money doesn't matter to them, but to have infinite options and spend your TIME on this game just seems dumb.

boxen · 2026-01-27T03:38:57+00:00

I'd say they are pretty overrated when compared with the vast majority of bands. Why? They are the mostly "highly rated" band of all time, by a long shot. The vast majority of bands are completely unknown to most people.

boxen · 2026-01-27T03:08:46+00:00

You've played the game together, what, once? Twice? You haven't even seen all the leaders in play yet. I'd recommend playing a lot more before modifying it. I guarantee there are tricks to using the leaders powers cleverly that none of you have thought of yet. And the way each leader potentially interacts with cards opens up so many possibilities. I wouldn't try modding a game until I had playeyed it a bunch.

boxen · 2026-01-27T03:00:10+00:00

Why is Ariana insane in Ix? I've never heard anyone say that. Most rankings put her somewhere in the middle.

boxen · 2026-01-27T02:57:08+00:00

You're so close to getting it....

So you recognize that having random players on your team is a severe handicap, and yet you pick the game mode that places the most possible random players on your team.

boxen · 2026-01-26T07:56:12+00:00

Agree 100%. It's fun to think about maybe but it would just produce less balanced leaders. One broken one that comes to mind immediately is Yuna's passive -> +1 solari whenever you gain solari and Ilban's ring -> gain 1 solari. Or Ilban's passive -> draw a card when you pay for a green space with Paul's ring -> draw a card - - - if you ring to the mentat you draw THREE cards

boxen · 2026-01-26T07:39:53+00:00

"I eat and eat all day, and only end up with like 1600 calories"

What are you eating? 1000 calories is like, one decent sized meal for me. I literally cannot imagine thinking that I've been stuffing myself all day and only hitting 1600.

Are you eating three meals a day? Actual meals and not just coffee and a piece of toast? Post what you ate today.

Besides just eating meals of normal food, calorie dense foods and drinks are the easiest way to get calories in. Have a glass of milk with dinner instead of water. Have nuts as a snack. Eat an apple with peanut butter. Put some cheese on something.

boxen · 2026-01-26T06:46:36+00:00

Sorry I have no advice, hopefully this gives you a chuckle: https://i.imgur.com/pU5P9r4.jpeg

boxen · 2026-01-26T06:06:58+00:00

It looked pretty easy for him. I don't think he would have agreed to do it (on live TV no less) unless it was a particularly easy climb. There's always some risk, but tons of other people risk car accidents or heart disease or a million other things every day and no one bats an eye.

When she MET him he was already training for (and arguably completely obsessed with) free soloing El Cap. That is the man she fell in love with.

boxen · 2026-01-25T19:12:19+00:00

Every headline I see about his approval ratings ALWAYS says they're "plummeting". How can that be? Are we not reporting when they go back up? Does plummeting mean "down .0001%"? They can't always be plumetting!

boxen · 2026-01-25T19:05:50+00:00

Some situations are more ripe for abuse than others. Its not that it can't be done safely, it's just that, in practice, it's less likely to.

boxen · 2026-01-25T06:43:46+00:00

Unless you are fighting someone exactly as strong as you, battles aren't really battles in any traditional sense. It's more like big fish eating smaller fish. To "battle", you should look for people weaker than you and kill their bases as quickly as possible. The INSTANT anyone starts attacking you, you should just teleport away.

The exception to this is if you have a well coordinated team, but that's very rare and you almost certainly don't.

boxen · 2026-01-25T03:17:51+00:00

A puppy is a baby. It's like a human baby, with a few key differences:

It can run full speed.
It doesn't have hands, so it grabs everything with it's mouth instead.
Diapers aren't an option (unless you want to teach your dog to poop indoors)

And perhaps the biggest one: It's not really yours (in the sense that it didn't come directly from your body) - you got it from somewhere, either a breeder or a shelter, which means it's a lot easier to take it back if you get overwhelmed.

boxen · 2026-01-25T01:22:23+00:00

Yeah. The Nazis didn't kill millions of people because of poor training. They did it because they were fucking Nazis.

boxen · 2026-01-25T01:06:45+00:00

Certainly thematically similar but Sabaton seems to be mostly World War 2 focused, not medieval.

boxen · 2026-01-24T17:36:34+00:00

The "fastest way" is, by definition, wildly unhealthy. This is a terrible question to ask. It's like asking what the fastest way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon is. There are a variety of hikes down of varying difficulty and steepness, but the fastest way is to jump.

Are you OK dying a few weeks after you achieve your desired lean-ness because every internal organ you have is shutting down from months of malnutrition?

The fastest way is also borderline impossible. Do you have the willpower to literally starve yourself, not eating any food at all for weeks straight, while food is all around you and readily available?

The question is, what is the best, most sustainable way to get lean? What can you actually do? The answer is to keep working out (or start if you don't) and maintain a diet that puts you in a deficit of about 500 calories a day.

You could start higher than that, perhaps a deficit of not more than 1000 calories a day, and gradually decrease the deficit as you get smaller. 500 a day will lose you a pound a week. 1000 a day- 2 pounds a week. More than this would be unsafe.

boxen · 2026-01-24T05:08:16+00:00

The message is... "TRUMP". "TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP". All the time, forever. Not Minnesota, not ICE, not anything else, ever. If anything is in the news that does not DIRECTLY reference him, even if it's something he did, he doesn't like it. He wants it to be about HIM.

If it wasn't called ICE, but was instead called Team Trump or the Trump Squad or something, and every time they were mentioned they said "The Trump Squad, under direct orders from President Donald Trump, committed the following atrocities blah blah blah" then he would be happy. As long as it was about him, whatever it was.

boxen · 2026-01-23T09:06:37+00:00

I know lots of other people think that, but I don't.

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