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Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms
  • A person's perception is highly informed by how well or poorly they understand the subject or situation in question.

    Let's say you got stood up by a first date because they got hit by a car on their way to you. Your perception of them is going to vary wildly depending on whether or not you know the facts behind why they didn't show up.

    Similarly, knowing how you actually fit into things at your job - i.e. your importance to your working group, the company, it's customers, society itself, allows you to have a more accurate set of facts to base your perception on.

    So yes, the truth matters.

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    Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms
  • I'm going to have to disagree with you on this.

    People have all sorts of beliefs that can qualitatively be proven as right or wrong. For example, all the wingnuts who believe that the COVID vaccine has trackers from Microsoft. Their beliefs are 100% bereft of reality.

    Now, can they go ahead and act on those mistaken beliefs? Sure. But that doesn't make their beliefs correct in any way.

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    Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel
  • While I get that this is an article geared to laymen/the general public, I do think we should be holding science communication to a higher standard.

    I agree with you 100%.

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    Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms
  • It's worth pointing out that feeling like you work in a pointless, meaningless job doesn't necessarily make it true. This paper is solely about people's perceptions, not facts.

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    Google warns again it will start deleting inactive accounts in December
  • A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.

    But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying "tell me your phone number so we can make sure it's you". They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.

    After that, I said "fuck em", changed to other providers, and haven't look back since.

    Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.

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    Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel
  • You won't find that level of detail in typical articles, because they are intended for the general public and are intended to be an overview that a layman can comprehend.

    However, the paper itself, which the article links to, has more detail including deformation testing.

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    A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district
  • Believe it or not, you're the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.

    You don't hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren't insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.

    Don't make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.

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    11-year-old girl arrested over false report of 'kidnapped' friend in online challenge gone wrong
  • I understand what you're saying completely. I'm not even saying that I disagree with you - to be honest, I'm not quite sure what to think about this circumstance.

    However, I will say that there are limits to being lax on someone just because they are a child. This was a serious offense that could have cost multiple people their lives and a serious response is justifiably warranted.

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    11-year-old girl arrested over false report of 'kidnapped' friend in online challenge gone wrong
  • Your issue is that she's still there? The article implies that this only happened yesterday, so she's only been there for 1 day. That's not unreasonable for a felony.

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    Is monkrus's site no longer trustworthy? My AV blocks it due to a detected trojan.
  • It shows 5 if you scan w14.monkrus.ws.

    And this is Quttera's analysis here:
    https://quttera.com/detailed_report/w14.monkrus.ws

    Whether there is a real problem or not, it might be something the monkrus admins want to look into in order to address it.

    But if anyone else has a better understanding of what's going on with their site, I'd love to hear it and it's probably good information for the rest of this sub.

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  • For the last month or two, my AV blocks their site because it detected a ScrInject.B trojan.

    And yes, it's the correct site (monkrus.ws).

    VirusTotal also shows 4 security vendors register it as malicious.

    Are these all false positives or is monkrus's site no longer trustworthy?

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    France set to allow police to spy through phones
  • JFC, the answer to your question is literally the first sentence of the article. It would have taken you less time to read it then to post your question.

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    Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’
  • The size of a person's household or whether they live in the city are not the sole factors that go into a decision on what car to purchase.

    A person can live alone but regularly car pool with coworkers, get together with multiple friends, go on day trips with family, or make extra income by driving for Uber (larger vehicles can charge more). Heck, sometimes just needing extra leg or head room rules out most regular sedans and makes an SUV more comfortable.

    In addition, if a person's activities require a lot of cargo capacity, that essentially leaves you with either an SUV or a pickup as the primary options. So whether it's for luggage, buying stock for a family store, etc... that could be another reason for purchasing an SUV.

    Sometimes, people feel that having a higher view of the road is safer because they can see more of what's ahead of them.

    So don't fall prey to judging people as only needing an SUV if they have a large household or live in rural areas. It's a lot more involved than that.

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    How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • Who actually gives a fuck?

    A lot of people do.

    What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

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  • The Anti-NSFW measures have gone a bit far...

    So let me start off by saying that I recognize that there was initially a genuine problem with people who didn't want NSFW content being exposed to it.

    Some of this was due to the fact that not all content was being correctly flagged as NSFW, and some of it was because a lot of users didn't realize that individual users can choose to completely block an entire instance - which is not only a very easy and fast solution, but also does not require an all-or-nothing approach of defederating from NSFW instances.

    A number of changes were made, but some of those lingering changes have meant that people who do want to see NSFW content are not because:

    1. Even having subscribed to several NSFW subs, they are effectively completely missing from my feed.

    2. Most NSFW thumbnails are blurred.

    Both of these behaviors should not be occurring if a user has chosen in their settings to NOT hide NSFW content.

    However, I will also say that the blurred state is something that deserves its own user setting (i.e. so that a user can choose to NOT hide NSFW, but still want them blurred or not) - preferably with the granularity to set it for various sub-types of NSFW (e.g. porn, gore, etc...).

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