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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • How do you accidentally sack someone?

    You have to specifically choose a person, presumably with an actual reason for sacking them, then reach out to them specifically to inform them of their sacking.

    In my country you also require a valid reason for doing so, you can’t just randomly sack someone, I imagine in this case it would be being made redundant.

    So, you decide your staff are no longer required and if their contract allows you to let them go (or you just pay the big severance or whatever), okay cool.

    Then you… change your mind? What?

    That’d be a deeply incompetent employer. Like, buffoon levels. I wouldn’t go back to working for someone like that. If nothing else, they’ve shown how little they care about their staff. Not worth it.



  • There is no point, we don’t exist for a reason, we’re just a thing that happened in the universe by random chance.

    That’s not an inherently bad thing though, heck, the concept of “bad” isn’t even “real”, it’s just an invention we came up with.

    But I digress. We must find out own purpose and meaning in life, it won’t be handed to us. Think of the journey as a fun ride with no rules, there are no gods, the universe doesn’t judge you, you are unique and weird and amazing and can interact with the universe in ways no gigantic star or powerful black hole ever could.






  • The BBC, for all it’s issues, still follows basic rules of journalistic integrity with regards to facts.

    If the BBC can’t independently verify something through their own trusted channels (and multiple at that), they won’t state something as fact, they’ll just state the claim and say who made the claim.

    It’s not disrespectful, or suggesting that party is lying, it’s just how good journalism is carried out.

    As for why discussing how deadly the effects of the disaster have been, I imagine that’s because people reading the article are concerned about the potential deadly effects of damage to the current radiation shield, and so some background is useful here.

    Again, the BBC can’t truly verify how many died, we only have our own nation’s educated guesses coupled with the likely intentionally inaccurate numbers released by the USSR, and it’s difficult to pin exact causes on some long term effects on an individual basis, like an increased cancer rate.

    I would be surprised if these numbers weren’t disputed, and so as it’s relevant to bring up the deadly effects of the disaster, the responsible thing to do is to also mention that the actual number of casualties is disputed.

    Good journalism isn’t telling us what to think, feel or believe, good journalism is attempting to give us the unvarnished facts, claims, or what information we do have, which are pertinent to understanding the situation ourselves.


  • Tap water is perfectly safe to drink everywhere in the UK (except when there’s some temporary incident that gets fixed) regardless of who the consumers are, there are very strict regulations to follow regardless.

    Surely it’s the same in any developed country, clean, safe water is a very important basic right that the populace would quickly riot over if it weren’t available. It’s water, after all.




  • I use the Boost app for Lemmy so it basically feels exactly like the ideal Reddit experience felt back then, which is fantastic.

    As for being put off, the only thing that really bothers me is the extreme hatred for Windows and the deepthroating of Linux. It’s creepy.

    Like, I love Linux and use it for many things alongside Windows, but I don’t get obsessively weird about it to the point of creating memes or going out of my way to tell people why they’re wrong for using one over the other, you know?

    If that were toned down I’d certainly feel a little more relaxed, but on the whole the Lemmy experience has been lovely <3




  • …You want their security to be bad enough that they get hacked, so that they’d have to face repercussions for having bad security? What?

    How about they just don’t have bad security and people don’t risk having their private data stolen?

    Nice to know you’d sit there with popcorn watching people who just want to play video games suffer, a small price to pay for you to hurt Sony it seems, who I guess you hate for some reason.



  • Kinda ruined by having website branding slapped in the middle of it, especially as the majority of the poster is, if we want to talk creative property and such, ripped off from an old WWII poster.

    But yeah, regardless of the why, it is very poorly placed and draws the eye far too much. There’s a reason such copyright statements are in small text in a corner, not plastered in the literal middle of an image.