bus_factor

joined 2 years ago
[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Depends. Employees can be forced to sell their shares. There are also other scenarios where shareholders are forced to sell for other reasons.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I fear you'll instead learn how selectively those laws are applied...

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.

I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:

"Good things come to good people" -> "If good things didn't come to you, you're not a good person" -> "Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them" -> "It's okay to help billionaires, they wouldn't be rich if they weren't good people"

A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it's okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they'll be one soon!

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The article doesn't mention ages, but another article says she groomed them from age 15.

However, I have to remind you that language is under constant development, and "paedophile" has long lost its original meaning. It now covers a much wider age range, although counting adolescents is a stretch.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says," he added.

Way to give him ideas...

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

I guess they could have been making some interpretations of their hand gestures, deliberately ignoring that Venezuelan ~~fishermen~~ drug smugglers are unlikely to know the hand signals of American military?

When American photographer Carl McCunn was stranded in Alaska, he was discovered by a state trooper plane. He cheerfully raised his fist in celebration. The plane left and never came back. Between this incident and perishing there he read up on hand signals, and learned that he had inadvertently signaled "all is well".

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

No ally of the US would look at them the same way ever again. To be fair, they already don't, but this would propel the US from "bad ally" to "second cold war enemy".

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (15 children)

He may have done stuff, but even if he did he knows it's not in the files. If it was in the files Trump would have released it by now.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but they did create React, as well as some other contributions.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The key to becoming bilingual is consistency. Kids quickly settle on one language if they catch on that everyone in their sphere speak it. Therefore it helps a lot to have certain people in their lives exclusively speak the minority language around them. Otherwise they'll soon stop speaking the other language.

Also, it's important that kids overhear adults conversing in both languages. If all conversation only happens between adults and children, they are in my experience a lot less likely to want to speak that language, and they also miss out on a lot of vocabulary. Reading books helps with the latter, but not the former.

If this kid is growing up in Poland, they will inevitably learn Polish. The parents don't need to, and also shouldn't, be the ones teaching the child polish. That job is best left to native Polish speakers. This will ensure that the child learns both languages well. There's no point in the child learning how to speak polish with a heavy Ukrainian accent.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, I see now that they brought it back after a couple weeks.

view more: next ›