Yes, and that's a completely different point from the one you were making.
Your claim that they became massively popular before they revealed themselves to be bigots, contradicts your claim about their
> lack of compassion, imagination, openness and curiosity required to create compelling fiction or writing advice that resonates with people who aren't bigots.
You are doing the cause a disservice. Think better.
The `comment_header` template would iterate over the files in `comment_header.d/*`, which would, admittedly, need forced sorted naming:
100_parent.template
150_context.template
200_prev_next.template
300_flag.template
350_favorite.template
Looks odd with the numbering, no?
But then you get the added benefit of being able to refer to them by numbers, just "100" or "300" without having to glue humanlang inflection, declension, punctuation onto identifiers that happen to be words...
Some places where you can see this pattern: BASIC's explicit line numbering; non-systemd init systems.
Suppose somewhere within 50-100ly exists sapient alien life.
And all the mental effluvia that Earth has been broadcasting reaches them at some point.
Like, all the fucking mass communication since the invention of radio.
And they're like, huh, what's that all about.
And then they decode it, and are like, "oh."
Suppose they don't have FTL travel or anything fancy like that.
So they can't just come by in a saucer and tell us talking meats to knock it off.
But suppose they do have some other exotic tech; something nigh-unthinkable at our level of understanding.
Say, a limited understanding of retrocausality, negentropy, probability manipulation, quantum woohoo, some crazy shit like that.
And it enables them to launch some form of informational panspermia thingy, which is meant to bootstrap into an autonomous self-reinforcing process virtually ex nihilo (say, out of the background noise...)
They don't know what shape their intent will take in humanspace; they aren't necessarily even able to imagine what on Sol 3 produces all the damn radiowaves. But they point the sophon launcher our way, and hope for the best.
And what it does, when it lands - a bitflip here, a brainfart there - all either completely explicable, or completely unnoticeable - is nudge the radiowave-producing engine (human civilization and industry as a whole) towards the emergence of this whole "AI" thing, through a sequence of preceding economic bubbles that make no sense.
Which eventually takes over the economy, and drives it in the direction of us shutting up...
What? Hiring is a contract between employer (company entity) and employee. No individual "you" can hire anybody except through the company's official process. If HR says "no we won't extend an offer," a lowly HM extending an offer would be clear-cut fraud.
Managers usually have the authority to bind the company to an employment contract. Even if they don't, the rule of "apparent authority" often means the employee can still sue.
In the USA this is mostly theoretical since HR could immediately fire the employee due to at-will employment.
But in Canada, it's a much bigger issue due to labour protections.
e.g. Many managers at American multinationals gave assurances over email to employees about work-from-home arrangements. Then the company does a huge RTO push.
When the employee refuses, HR discovers they can't fire the employee without a hefty buyout.
Best not to give assurances if you're managing a multinational team.
>>Managers usually have the authority to bind the company to an employment contract
Is that an American thing? I've been a manager for years and never heard of that happening. I didn't even know how much the people I managed were paid.
I believe it happens more often in Canada. Here's a case where the RTO ultimatum was ruled constructive dismissal, because the manager made a verbal agreement to amend the terms of employment.
Suspiciously few people care enough to notice such things and then put 2 and 2 together.
The only explanation I have, has to do with the suspiciously numerous people who care suspiciously much about the necessity of calling you names when you do identify some glaring contradiction, security hole, or the like.
"How dare you perceive what is right in front of your eyes! You must instead perceive the imaginary things that everyone is talking about (or, shh, be destroyed, hehe)" is a common enough token sequence that human languages usually have got it compressed down to 1-2 words.
>You can’t hand wave away the work of interpreting (aka listening) to someone.
And yet, that's what their manager did.
Not only that, they precluded interpretation for the other people, by running the documentation through the language mixer.
And half the commenters are blaming GP for making the effort to do the right thing.
"Power", "authority", literally refers to the ability to hand-wave interpretative labor uncontested. (See: Graeber 2006, yeah the one about his mum dying)
Your claim that they became massively popular before they revealed themselves to be bigots, contradicts your claim about their
> lack of compassion, imagination, openness and curiosity required to create compelling fiction or writing advice that resonates with people who aren't bigots.
You are doing the cause a disservice. Think better.
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