Stochastic terrorism is spreading hatred and fear that is likely to make someone, somewhere, commit a violent act against the targets (or individuals within the targeted demographic). In this case, specific eBay employees were told to target this specific couple to shut them up. I don’t know how precise the instructions were but the targets, and the people told to target them, were not random.
If he were said to be omnipotent, this would be an interesting conundrum. But he isn’t so it doesn’t really work?
Why could that possibly be?
(Hint: The answer is in the article you didn’t continue reading the moment you found an excuse for inaction.)
I’m not sure it’s ever legit for the job-hunter to be paying the recruiters. It would normally be the employer.
A % commission doesn’t give that much incentive to find you the very best job as opposed to the first one that will do. You’re paying them a percentage but they’re looking at the return per hour of work they put in. You’ll come under a lot of pressure to accept the first job on offer simply because that job gives them the best return even if it is a smaller cash amount than the best job they could possibly find (if they put the time in).
Their incentives do not align well with your incentives. So best avoided, IMO.
Using the wrong picture is almost as ridiculous as reducing his career to Dumbledore. For shame.
“90% of content moderators are foreigners. What we have experienced during the process is very hard… spending three months without receiving a salary, in a country that isn’t yours. You cannot pay the rent, you cannot buy food,” Nkuzimana explains. Cori Crider – co-director of Foxglove, a British organization that is supporting the workers in this process – adds that this situation “forces [the content moderators] to continue accepting insecure jobs to remain in [Kenya], despite the serious risk to their mental health.” Moderators have resorted to crowdfunding, so that they can support their families as the legal fight unfolds.
Just highlighting the exploitation of migrant workers here, like much of Twitter’s remaining workforce, apparently. It also reminded me of this story: The fishermen:
On November 22, Joanne circulated a letter among the migrant crew. “I have been made aware the crew members are contacting an outside representative,” it read, possibly referencing a call Quezon made to Stella Maris seeking help for Susada. “I am also aware that crew members have been leaving their port without permission or making our office aware. Sadly the actions by these crew members are beginning to ruin the trust and faith we have placed in our Filipino crew.” It concluded by noting they would make reports to local police and UK immigration authorities “if necessary”.
These people are fucking sick. The whole system that denies people the legal right to work just so they can be more easily exploited is fucking sick.
I’m going to go and punch some walls. Laters.
There’s only so much time in the day. And far too easy to waste it arguing pointless things with random strangers on the internet.
In this case, their motive does not matter. They did you a favour shutting it down before you wasted any more time thinking about something that does not matter at all.
For those who boycott, Sodastream are an Israeli company. I believe Drinkmate has its origins in wanting an alternative to that. Just so everyone can choose their side.
If you’re going to drink that much sparkling water (as I do), invest in a Drinkmate or similar. It’s about as cheap as the very cheapest sparkling water but you end up with much, much less plastic to pretend to recycle.
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Without a pass, you’d need a passport to prove eligibility. Not everyone owns a passport.
Yes. It’s happened to me and it is a head fuck. The email was from a business with a perfectly legit email address.
Not if you’re USian. But apparently ‘politics’ only exists for USians. Confusing, I know. Probably best not to worry about it. If you’re not interested, just scroll on by.
There are loads of examples, that’s a very good one (fibre burns in calorimeters so can throw calorie counts off a lot).
Raw food delivers fewer (usable) calories than cooked food, whether it’s vegetables or steak.
Highly processed foods, especially carbohydrates, deliver their calories fast, spiking blood sugar and stimulating insulin production to lay the excess energy down as fat. If you’re hibernating for winter, you want the fat. But if you’re running a marathon you want slow (protein and fat) and slower (complex carbohydrates) release foods.
Chill your potatoes/rice/pasta for 24 hours and it will have more complex carbohydrates than it did when freshly cooked. Reheat them and they’ll have even more. Jury still out on whether this means frozen chips (fries) are a healthy food…
Even the amount you chew affects the number of calories available (analogous to the amount of pre-processing being important).
International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review
I suppose it depends on whether you’re interested in the amount of energy contained in a food or the amount of energy a human being can obtain from the food. We’re typically only interested in the latter.
Calories are not interchangeable if you’re interested in nutrition (as opposed to burning things).
The paper isn’t paywalled:
Purported direct mechanisms to explain the association between new-onset diabetes and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection include evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 entry receptor ACE2 is expressed on insulin-producing β cells, SARS-CoV-2 infection contributes to dysregulation of glucose metabolism, and individuals who have an increased susceptibility to diabetes are especially vulnerable following SARS-CoV-2 infection because dysregulated glucose metabolism and direct viral damage to β cells impairs their compensatory mechanisms, leading to β-cell exhaustion. 7 However, there is no clear underlying mechanism explaining the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent increased risk of incident diabetes. 7,8 While there are reports of an association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent increased risk of incident type 1 diabetes in children using routinely collected health record data, 5,6,67 there are concerns about the validity of such studies because the data sets used did not capture asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in children. Population-based studies that reported an increased incidence rate of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents during the pandemic did not find an increase in the frequency of autoantibody-negative type 1 diabetes 12,23,68 ; this suggests that the increase in incidence may be due to an immune-mediated mechanism.
Proposed indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and containment measures that may be associated with diabetes incidence include changes in lifestyle, change in the pattern of pediatric non–COVID-19 infections, and increased stress and social isolation. 12,69-71 It has been proposed that frequent respiratory or enteric infections in children are potential triggers for islet autoimmunity, promote progression to overt type 1 diabetes, or are precipitating stressors. 72 Pandemic containment measures were associated with a decrease in viral respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections among children. 69 Given this finding, the observed increased incidence rate of type 1 diabetes during the pandemic is contrary to what would be expected based on the decrease in viral infections among children during the pandemic.
There may have initially been a catch-up effect caused by lower incidence rates of pediatric diabetes early in the pandemic, possibly due to delays in diagnoses associated with hesitancy to seek care or barriers to access care.12-14 However, the reported incidence of diabetes remained increased in studies that included data from beyond the first year of the pandemic. 23,32,49,52,53,58-60,63 Furthermore, there appears to have been a disruption to the historic seasonal pattern of autoantibody-positive diabetes incidence in children. 23,24 The reasons for this remain uncertain but may be related to the effects of COVID-19 containment strategies, such as lockdowns, both at the beginning of the pandemic and at subsequent times in different countries. 73
Unsolved cases don’t typically get closed. And when they eventually get solved, it hits the news. You’ve read many stories like it, for sure.
In this case, it sounds like there is new evidence. No big mystery.
Jewish fascism, not Nazism.
Nazism is, in part, defined by its anti-semitism and, while many of Israel’s supporters are anti-semitic (notably Christian Zionists but also those who insist that ‘real’ Jews support Israel regardless) it’s just not appropriate to identify Nazism as the form of fascism practiced by Israel. It is authoritarian and supremacist but it is not specifically Nazi.
Ur-Fascism is a good read.