To answer at least part of this: Iâve heard that high school teachers in failing schools were put under enormous pressure by administrators (who themselves were pressured by state level policies) to pass a large fraction of their students.
The question of whether youâre paid extra would depend on if the job is salaried or paid hourly.
When I was in grad school for chemistry in the U.S. some people would work very late or even all night, but I think we all pretty quickly realized that their work quality suffered a lot when they did that, and it was more of a mess to pick up the pieces later than if theyâd just rushed the work for two days on a normal sleep schedule. There were some unavoidable situations like running a very slow reaction that requires hourly measurements for 24 hours, but people who tried to continue working the day after that were generally really grumpy and mistake prone.
Some professors talked a big game about sleeping in the office but I donât know anyone in my generation who seriously does that. Now that Iâm older I think they either had trouble with their home life, a really bad commute, or were on their way to burn out.
Just about everyone with retirement savings or a pension is a shareholder, usually via index funds. Iâm not sure if you can access your voting rights for those shares, or if theyâre handled by the index fund manager (who for sure is voting for profit at all costs)
I think I remember flying Norwegian from the US to Europe once (~a decade ago), and it was budget but still had meals included. However I believe theyâve since gone bankrupt, and thereâs a new airline called Norse Atlantic that is ultra budget and wonât feed you unless you purchase meals beforehand.
But with a little bit of homework the ultra budget flights can be nice. I did a Paris to Los Angeles flight on French Bee a few years ago and the base fare was under $300, so I didnât sweat pre-buying seat selection and meals for another 50 or $60.
These are cute and funny, but a few of these look like really terrible enclosure design. Especially the one with the pandaâs head stuck between the two boards đŹ
There may also be some energy released from the battery materials themselves burning (like, an uncharged battery might have a significant amount of energy to release when combusting)
A few months ago I made a list of cases of ICE misconduct along with original/unedited (when possible) videos of the event for my family members who arenât exposed to this stuff in their news consumption. It was a bunch of work and I was surprised that I couldnât find a simple spreadsheet of events and original footage. It looks like thatâs also the case here. Does anyone know of a good source for these? Maybe I just wasnât looking in the right places.
It seems like the structural properties of the foam could be tricky to get right. If itâs not strong enough it could fail under drag forces or turbulence in the atmosphere, but if itâs too strong then the astronaut would be unable to free themselves once they landed.
Iâm curious about the use of the word âlaserâ here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldnât be invented until the 1960s. And the word âlaserâ is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesnât seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).
It's so tragic that we have no records of Washington, Tesla, da Vinci, Newton, Faraday, or Kant. If only they'd thought to have kids they might have left a mark on the world.
The thing that gets me is that these people are all really smart. If someone is willing to lie and do math, why not work at an unscrupulous pharma/finance company? They'd make way more money and do way less work. I'd even argue that fraud in the private sector is less unethical - if investors give money to a fraud they deserve to lose it, and regulators take an adversarial stance and have whole orgs (in theory) policing fraud like the SEC and FDA.
It takes a really particular kind of scumbag to seek a position of public trust, make a bunch of trainees financially and professionally dependent on them, accept taxpayer money intended to help cancer patients, then commit fraud.
Yeah Iâm a useless yuppie and I love how genuinely helpful the workers at Ace are.
To answer at least part of this: Iâve heard that high school teachers in failing schools were put under enormous pressure by administrators (who themselves were pressured by state level policies) to pass a large fraction of their students.
The question of whether youâre paid extra would depend on if the job is salaried or paid hourly.
When I was in grad school for chemistry in the U.S. some people would work very late or even all night, but I think we all pretty quickly realized that their work quality suffered a lot when they did that, and it was more of a mess to pick up the pieces later than if theyâd just rushed the work for two days on a normal sleep schedule. There were some unavoidable situations like running a very slow reaction that requires hourly measurements for 24 hours, but people who tried to continue working the day after that were generally really grumpy and mistake prone.
Some professors talked a big game about sleeping in the office but I donât know anyone in my generation who seriously does that. Now that Iâm older I think they either had trouble with their home life, a really bad commute, or were on their way to burn out.
Just about everyone with retirement savings or a pension is a shareholder, usually via index funds. Iâm not sure if you can access your voting rights for those shares, or if theyâre handled by the index fund manager (who for sure is voting for profit at all costs)
I think I remember flying Norwegian from the US to Europe once (~a decade ago), and it was budget but still had meals included. However I believe theyâve since gone bankrupt, and thereâs a new airline called Norse Atlantic that is ultra budget and wonât feed you unless you purchase meals beforehand.
But with a little bit of homework the ultra budget flights can be nice. I did a Paris to Los Angeles flight on French Bee a few years ago and the base fare was under $300, so I didnât sweat pre-buying seat selection and meals for another 50 or $60.
These are cute and funny, but a few of these look like really terrible enclosure design. Especially the one with the pandaâs head stuck between the two boards đŹ
There may also be some energy released from the battery materials themselves burning (like, an uncharged battery might have a significant amount of energy to release when combusting)
Whatâs the y axis here? I love public transit but 10k riders a month would not be an impressive figure.
A few months ago I made a list of cases of ICE misconduct along with original/unedited (when possible) videos of the event for my family members who arenât exposed to this stuff in their news consumption. It was a bunch of work and I was surprised that I couldnât find a simple spreadsheet of events and original footage. It looks like thatâs also the case here. Does anyone know of a good source for these? Maybe I just wasnât looking in the right places.
It seems like the structural properties of the foam could be tricky to get right. If itâs not strong enough it could fail under drag forces or turbulence in the atmosphere, but if itâs too strong then the astronaut would be unable to free themselves once they landed.
Maybe itâs a sign of how the times have changed but the bedroom TV strikes me as an outlier in an otherwise wholesome scene.
Does Las Vegas still have an Amtrak station that can be served by trains? When I search for it I just get a bus stop,
I think the order is forced so that Aquilo is the last planet, but the player can do Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Gleba in any order.
Piecing together that featureless sky must have been brutal.
I used to love this game. Such a unique concept, and the soundtrack still gets stuck in my head sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPwjPFg6DA&list=PLC642184314A6EBDF&index=3
Iâm curious about the use of the word âlaserâ here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldnât be invented until the 1960s. And the word âlaserâ is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesnât seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).
It's so tragic that we have no records of Washington, Tesla, da Vinci, Newton, Faraday, or Kant. If only they'd thought to have kids they might have left a mark on the world.
The beginning areas of the video game The Secret World are in New England, and it unironically nails this vibe really well.
The thing that gets me is that these people are all really smart. If someone is willing to lie and do math, why not work at an unscrupulous pharma/finance company? They'd make way more money and do way less work. I'd even argue that fraud in the private sector is less unethical - if investors give money to a fraud they deserve to lose it, and regulators take an adversarial stance and have whole orgs (in theory) policing fraud like the SEC and FDA.
It takes a really particular kind of scumbag to seek a position of public trust, make a bunch of trainees financially and professionally dependent on them, accept taxpayer money intended to help cancer patients, then commit fraud.