I'm not saying they're justified in this, because frankly if someone is getting their work done, what they do outside of work hours isnt their boss's business, but I can kinda imagine why a company might not like their employees to have a second job; people only have so much effort to give (consider all those stats people bring up whenever people talk about shortening the workweek, to the effect that working more hours diminishes productivity per hour and gives diminishing or even negative returns compared to fewer hours in many cases) and so a company might decide that an employee with a second job might not be as productive for them as they would be otherwise, due to being exhausted. Though really, if they do it's honestly the company's fault for paying so little as for someone to need a second job in the first place.
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Money is (a very imperfect proxy for) value, be it the value of energy, human labor and time, limited resources, etc. It's somewhat arbitrary, but not completely.
The news communities outside of lemmy.ml are probably a better bet than the ones on lemmy.ml, because the lemmy devs themselves seem to hold that kind of view, and they run that instance.
I mean, the most obvious sinister application for this tech I can think of would be military dones that precisely drop small bombs on targets, but based on the ongoing war in Ukraine, that technology already has been developed, so Amazon of all companies developing it again would be pointless.
EDIT: come to think of it though, while the technology for that military application already exists, having a delivery drone industry might be a benefit to a country in wartime anyway, because the factories to build those drones could be repurposed to make military drones, and the drone fleet itself could be requisitioned, sort of like how navies have often throughout history pressed civilian ships into service in various roles, and with probably minimal modifications be used to gain a sizable fleet of bombing drones very quickly without having to have the military maintain that fleet idle in peacetime. Not sure this actually benefits the company much though, just the country that has a sizable network of these drones and/or factories to build them within it's control.
Speed limits are a not a good analogy to language rules, partly because they are generally intentionally designed rather than a product of an evolutionary pattern, partly because there is a clear and accepted authority that sets and enforces them with actual penalty, and partly because the consequences for not having them are often deadly.
By contrast, there is no clear authority that "owns" a language and can enforce it's rules. Some government or academic body might in some cases declare that it has that authority, but they don't really have any ability to set more than guidelines for how people working for them or producing documents on their behalf must write. Unlike speed limits, which simply would stop existing in a meaningful sense if governments stopped existing, languages existed before any such "authorities" did and would continue to exist if those organizations ceased. As such, I'd argue that linguistic rules aren't really rules at all in the normal sense, there's no-one with actual accepted authority to create, repeal, impose or enforce them, they're just guidelines, loose ones at that, that one should follow if one's intent is to be understood by someone else using the same or sufficiently similar guidelines. If you understand what someone is saying, which in cases like "should of", people calling it against the rules clearly do, then they have succeeded in that goal, so it cannot really be a failure at being literate.
I reject any notion that this will eventually overcomplicate language to the point of it being too difficult to learn or use, because ultimately, people are not born knowing it, they must all learn, so any language too complex to learn wont be learned and therefore won't be used, and similarly, any language too complicated and unclear to be used to communicate, can't be used, and so won't be. The complexity of language is inherently self-limiting at a level that prevents it from becoming useless.
Or for a TLDR: we don't have to change the rules to accommodate people breaking them, because there aren't really any rules at all.
I mean, we kinda already do speak however we want, people saying such speaking breaks the rules doesn't really stop people from doing it anyway
Whatever happens, the raccoon has got, The Maxim Gun, and you have not.
Mine has a window actually. Its a smaller countertop dishwasher tho so maybe that has something to do with it.
If you still want to use your subscriptions and such, and are okay with an extra click, right click the video instead of opening it and hit open in new private window (in Firefox, but Id assume similar features in other browsers also work, since we're just trying to quickly open it in a tab where you aren't logged in). For some reason, the anti-adblock seems to be account based currently, so you can keep using adblockers like ublock origin just as before if you aren't logged in. At the time of writing at least.
Both seeing this question, and seeing how many people apparently have cleaning robots, is making me realize I live in more futuristic times than I thought. I remember people getting exited about Roombas when I was very young, but not having heard much about them for years apart from the occasional video of cats messing with one, I sorta must've assumed they weren't really good enough yet to be common and had never thought to look into them
By definition, something offensive must be something that can cause someone to take offense. Saying "haha, people get offended when I say offensive things" is rather redundant.
Frankly I don't imagine CEOs and executives take a whole lot of effort, at least for sufficiently large companies (small business are a whole different animal of course). I can't speak to how complicated it is to do those jobs, or how easy or difficult they are, but the mere fact that people who are so rich as to not need to work at all to live a lavish life, will often still take on jobs like that, speaks volumes I think.