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A company will never be loyal to you.
Once worked at a Big Data analytics startup. Made a domain specific language for them to do very big batch jobs. It wasn't on traditional databases so couldn't just do queries.
Late one day at work, people came up, "Ed, you have that way to automate big jobs on data sets. We need you to do something."
They were processing records on people for a potential big client. The meeting to show what we could do was the next day. They had records on millions of people.
They needed help because they marked millions of people in their records as deceased.
So stayed late, ran them through how to use the language. Things were working, so left when it was after midnight.
Some time later was the first annual review, got a glowing review. That same day was then escorted by a manager to HR. Got fired.
Said literally just now got a glowing review. Asked what exactly was the reason for firing. HR person made something up about wasn't a culture fit.
So you can save a company's ass by bringing millions of people back from the dead, and they'll still toss you aside.
I think I've asked here before but I'll ask again, does anyone know of a union that would be suitable for a self-employed internet service provider with no employees to join? Also, any idea what kind of help they would be able to provide to such a member?
Did you know that porn addiction isn't a thing?
"If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.
Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict."
TL;DR: Porn addiction isn't a thing, and if you feel harmed by it, you can get help but you're not addicted to porn, you just have something else going on.
Enjoy being horny and enjoying yourself, just know that porn isn't inherently addictive like heroin.
EDIT: I don't know how to say that I'm using heroin as a *metaphor* for how *prudes and conservatives* use view both drugs and pornography. That they are both the same in their eyes, not mine. They don't rally around gambling being a vice as much as natural existence.
Research finds that porn-related problems are predominantly caused by religious conflict. Clinically, this means people need help, but not necessarily with the porn.David J. Ley Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
A4 grey scale marker Commission of Assoluto the Ibizan hound. 🐕
I used white ink on the explosion debris
https://catscomics.com/a4-commission/
#furry #furryart #scifi #TraditionalArt #copicmarkers #MastoArt #art #creativetoots
"Oil giant Shell beats first-quarter profit estimates, launches $3.5 billion share buyback"
Were you cold last winter? I think I know of a couple of people who were. Just putting this out there. No bothers..
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/shell-q1-earnings-2024.html
British oil giant Shell on Thursday reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit, boosted by higher refining margins and robust oil trading.Sam Meredith (CNBC)
"The market will efficiently allocate resources where they're most needed!"
Meanwhile, the market: we're putting this "AI" thing that doesn't seem to work and everyone hates into everything you use including your mouse. We're sure this will make us rich somehow. Do you like this? [Yes / Ask me again later]
Let's teach computers how to feel pain so they can tell they're being punched.
March Cain - Animation and MIDAS DevelopmentZach Goertzen - Art and MusicVisit our website: https://laserslightsandmusic.com/Support us on Patreon: https://w...YouTube
Watch, as the artist gradually loses his goddamn mind.
Sketches of many, many critter recent thoughts. This isn't even all of them.
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate changeLisa Rathke (The Independent)
Content warning: Something I finally learned after way too many years of shame in my art
Content warning: Something I finally learned after way too many years of shame in my art
Content warning: Something I finally learned after way too many years of shame in my art
More drawings done at Texas Furry Fiesta.
This one was during an art jam for Kaos.
Referenced directly of his plushie that may see a little part of it on this picture, I like his character a lot, he's so cool!
In today's blog post for @kentikinc, I team up with @jobsnijders of Fastly to review the latest RPKI ROV adoption metrics in light of a major milestone:
For the first time in the history of RPKI, the majority of IPv4 routes in the global routing table are now covered by ROAs. #BGP
https://www.kentik.com/blog/rpki-rov-deployment-reaches-major-milestone/
In this blog post, BGP experts Doug Madory of Kentik and Job Snijders of Fastly review the latest RPKI ROV deployment metrics in light of a major milestone.Kentik Blog
Normal thoughts like "it's a good thing I'm a millennial trans woman so I know how to configure nginx for a reverse proxy with ssl so my friends and I can play RPGs on my digital ocean droplet."
I could add that (at least some) gen X cis men are also capable of configuring nginx, but we're so tired all the time we never get round to it. 🙃 😝 🤗
Trans girls get stuff done. 💪
The evolution of intelligent AI continues apace, with the latest milestone in its continued development achieved after it was discovered that no AI chatbot would be willing to vote for Reform UK.NewsThump
Nothing warms my heart more than another website picking up the idea "Detect Missing Ad-blocker" of https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/ (after seeing it on mine in action).
It's made for WordPress but the idea is so dead simple that it can be integrated in almost anything with some work (if nobody else did that work already :D)
Edith says: This is blowing up. I have no Soundcloud (:P) but @stefan has a Support My Work page at https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ suggesting organizations to donate to 🫡
If you find any of my work useful, please consider donating to some of these organizations and causes: Thank you!Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)
Snow birds!
An impromptu corvid photoshoot in the snow during Midwest FurFest 2016.
They were all cosy and snug in their fursuits, meanwhile I was freezing my giblets off.
Signs you live in 2024
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son's phone to let him know it's time to eat, he emails you back from his bedroom.
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout cookies via her website.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbour yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 4-months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid for it.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 10-40 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get thi! s awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. [:)]
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else!!! Yep...
It must be wild to be a student right now.
School shootings? You’re on your own. Thoughts and prayers.
Peaceful protest? That’s going too far. Send in the riot gear.
That America feels empowered to intervene in one but not the other tells you everything you need to know.
Never forget how differently police carry themselves when the person on the other end cannot harm them.
The cops are excited to LARP with their military-grade toys, until the other side is armed. Then they’re gonna cower outside the classroom because they might get a boo-boo.
I think that comes under the Communication Workers Union
https://www.cwu.org/owner-drivers-self-employed-your-rights/
Owner Drivers/Self-employed - Your Rights
CWU