Bertuccio

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[–] Bertuccio 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The two things I can think of are the company may try to tag you for inappropriately handling what they consider confidential information -- and if something goes to court and the email ends up in the discovery process, opposing council may be allowed access to your entire personal email account.

It's probably better to copy everything as an attachment to a dedicated portable drive so it's less likely to be called out by the company, and if it ends up it court you only need to release the information on that drive.

[–] Bertuccio -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Suppose you use a constant schedule year round"

It took a full paragraph to get to saying you didn't read them comment and then four more to elaborate on that?

[–] Bertuccio 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

In a sane world they would just get to school earlier and leave earlier - that's all DST effectively does while adding a heaping helping of absolute insanity.

[–] Bertuccio 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A cylinder would allow all geodesics, but then it would still have two 90 degree angles and two 270 degree angles so still not a square. I think it would be a trapezoid/trapezium, and might be a parallelogram depending on what definition you use.

There might be some crazy custom shape that makes the angles on the more complete circle segment actually 90 degrees but I don't think there's a common easy-to-conceive shape that works.

[–] Bertuccio 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Spheres and hyperbolas. EDIT: oh they mean this specific shape not just any non-Euclidean square, so those won't work.

I haven't thought about a cone much but I think no.

The definition of a square is a polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles (nothing about 90 degrees and nothing about internal vs external angles since people love to get hung up on that)

A cone is half a hyperbola but I think without the symmetry of a hyperbola you can only get two angles equal at a time or two sides equal at a time.

[–] Bertuccio 4 points 4 months ago

Corn flakes were famously invented to discourage fucking one's self.

[–] Bertuccio 79 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Squares are defined as polygons which are defined as having all straight lines.

[–] Bertuccio 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just want pile onto this yeah

Gender was originally used to describe words.

At some point it was also used as a (probably less common than it is now) synonym for sex.

It was chosen to describe the non-physical concept we now call gender exactly because the original use to describe words doesn't have anything to do with genitalia -- and the intent was that "gender" would refer only to what's between one's ears and "sex" only to what's between one's legs.

[–] Bertuccio 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They've already been trounced for pulling up a 6 year old article using 8 year old data.

Then they doggedly refused to do the math for recent years that there's literally a school shooting every week in the US.

And that doesn't even touch mass shootings in general.

The really sad part is they do eventually make a point that a lot of the problem is mental health and America's obsession with gun violence. But simply refusing to even admit to the actual frequency of the shootings or that the availability of guns is part of the issue means they'll continue to be ignored.

[–] Bertuccio 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

In the US basically anything paved is pavement.

Asphalt road: Pavement

Concrete sidewalk: Pavement

Giant parking lot: Pavement

Gravel road: Believe it or not - paveme.. well that one's debatable.

[–] Bertuccio 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Worst indictments

I dunno. English...

[–] Bertuccio 3 points 4 months ago

Tone is nearly always a bullshit argument used to dismiss the content of what's said without addressing it.

Good communicators don't worry about it too much because there are lots of reasons someone can take a certain tone - for example if they're tired or stressed! So they just make sure they understand what the person is conveying without worrying about how it's conveyed.

Someone who focuses much on tone is likely a poor communicator themselves, or frequently just trying to be manipulative.

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