Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell

I think Putin’s very glad to see the West tearing itself apart by litteraly covering up a genocide and aiding a war of agression

I work for a retailer and have been loosely involved in a project like that a few years ago.

Basically, it felt like it was mostly a very inexpensive way for the company to get everyone involved feel good about themselves. The free advertising was definitely an argument to get the higher-ups on board, but my impression was that it was kinda secondary compared to the kinda fake good conscience it gave everyone.

There was definitely no tax breaks for that initiative though, so at least in my country that is indeed a myth

EDIT: You also get to say in your annual report to the shareholders that the company helped raise x millions euros to charities at no cos, which in turn makes them feel good about themselves without impacting their profits.

Wait, when they say “Bob SquarePants” they mean it as an answer to that question? Honestly that seems a bit far fetch, you’re reading into the lyrics too much

Honestly I don’t think it’s that complicated. I’m convinced he just threw a temper tantrum because his ego couldn’t handle being let go of his position has head of DOGE, and since Trump’s ego is just as big as his things just escalated from there

Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It’s certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

Just so you know: GDPR has (mostly) nothing to do with those cookie banners. It’s a very broad text that doesn’t go into specifics like that.

What you’re seeing is a result of the 2002 E-Privacy directive that has been reinterpreted by data privacy authorities in light of the new definition of consent brought by the GDPR.

Basically, since 2002, websites are required to ask users for consent before depositing cookies. The issue was that there was no definition of what this consent meant. What the GDPR did is simply to define the concept of consent as a free expression of will that must come from a positive act (i.e. it must be explicit rather than implicit).

The GDPR was supposed to come out with a sister regulation called the E-Privacy regulation, but due to intense lobbying that text was buried. Local data protection authorities in Europe then decided to reinterpret that old directive in light of the GDPR to fill the gap.

All in all, blame the lobbyists, not the GDPR

From the looks of it, what they’re calculating is a net promoter score. The idea is that, in some context, what you actually want to know is whether your target audience would be willing to actually promote your business to their friends and family or not.

It’s very common in retail and other competitive markets, because a customer that had an “okay” experience could still go to a competitor, so only customers who had a great experience (7+ out of ten) are actually loyal, returning clients.

Don’t know if that’s the best method to gather impressions on workplace environment though, I don’t think many people would consider their workplace “amazing”

Hey, I’ll let you know that I’m a judgmental asshole and I happen to be french, but I don’t hate the world, only the parts that aren’t french

So it’s more like “female cat, I farted”

I remember the “They hate us for our freedom” line from the bush-era. I was still a kid at the time and I clearly remember asking my parents about it because it seemed like such a weird thing to say.

Of course, as a french kid, this was also the time when I kept seeing Americans on TV pouring wine in the sewers and calling us surrender monkeys because we refused to join the Irak war, so that might have influenced me a bit

And yet Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is both super fun and breathtakingly beautiful

Very true in YouTube’s comment section

Our form of capitalism is just what happens when capitalists try to placate the working class by giving them just barely enough breathing room that they stop actually revolting and keep to grumbling. And even that is under attack nowadays, under the pretext that their’s suddenly not enough money to sustain it even though the rich keep getting richer

So what’s the issue about that again?

I can’t see any context where those two sentences wouldn’t be awful

I just use one of these bad boys

“Why should we solve the world’s problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!”

The Chevalier d’Eon disagrees with your timeline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalière_d’%C3%89on

I don’t know, I might intellectually understand that morals are relative to a culture and that even our concept of universal human rights is an heritage of our colonial past and, on some level, trying to push our own values as the only morality that can exist. On a gut level though, I am entirely unable to consider that LGBT rights, gender equality or non-discrimination aren’t inherently moral.

I don’t think holding these two beliefs is weird, it’s a natural contradiction worth debating and that’s what I would expect from an ethics teacher