Surely the revenue the report from your donation counteracts the loss they get from their donation to charity?
Unless there is some accounting magic I am missing?
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I bought a Henson razor and that has been relatively good, everything else in sponsored segments that I have been tempted by seems to be poorly reviewed elsewher however.
I like the black knight from the same work.
None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me.”
“You asked me what I want,” Black said. “This once, just this once, I want us to win.”
The smile across his face was a cutting, vicious thing.
“To spit in the eyes of the Hashmallim. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done.”
There was something his eyes burning like coals and embers.
“So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. That even victories ordained by the Heavens can broken by the will of men.”
Grey is already out of the situation by message 3, everything after that is just lashing out due to a bruised ego.
I don't think it's unreasonable, but it may come a doss as unusual as it's a small amount of extra work that most people don't feel the need to do or at least not to the same extent; they are much more comfortable being reactive and only planning for contingencies after the primary plan fails.
So this is pure conjecture and makes far too many assumptions about ASD and NT people; but I have two theories:
I suspect NT have an easier time with these situations since they have an easier time reading the emotions of others, which means they have a more accurate understanding of the consequences. ASD people are less confident in understanding how others may react so they catastrophize (X will be upset with me because I didn't do exactly Y)
NT people know that the person on the counter isn't mad that they don't have correct change, they know that their parents are happy about the effort and the will to help ileven if the outcome isn't the same.
Theory 2 which is related: A reliance on rules, scripts patterns and rituals to navigate the world makes uncontrollable deviations from these highly unpleasant, and empathy suggests that things you find unpleasant are probably unpleasant for others too.
This is compounded by the way people react negatively to atypical social reactions (this looks a lot like you have broken someone's social interaction script and they are unhappy)
This then loops into itself and causes recursive problems; if you are forced off script you have atypical social interactions (I don't have enough money for this, can I go home and get more) Vs the normal interactions the chaser has. This means you can perceive yourself as propagating your troubles to everyone else. E.g. if you bring home the wrong fish will your parents still be able to cook dinner or will they have to gasp improvise on the recipe.
By contrast NT people can see that the cashier experiencing unusual circumstances isn't a problem, they don't care and are just happy that the weird customer isn't demanding to speak to the manager because something was out of stock.
All of this means that NT people have a reduced (and more accurate) perception of the stakes involved and therefore less stress and less need to over-plan.
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Because companies have been talking up how their adoption of AI is going to make them faster and more able to capitalise on opportunities in order to prop up their valuations for a while now and it seems to work as far as share price goes.
Being able back up this talk with metrics showing that their employees are all in on AI reinforces this, since the share price is the metric the business optimises for over product development employee reviews will index on this over cost effectiveness, and at most big tech companies engineers are very much making every decision with an eye to performance review optimisation (i.e. how it will affect their next review rather than the product they are building)
There is also some lesser incentives in that meta employees care directly about the meta share price since a lot of their compensation is in the form of RSUs.
I'm not condonig this as a desirable state of affairs, just explaining the incentive curve that the actors are following.
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But like... Why does it matter? Why does violet provoke so many people to "investigate" her gender and sexual orientation while others get to hornypost freely?
Lmao, would blowing up an effigy of Hitler be racist towards Germans?
Conflating disgust towards and individual with disgust towards the race/religion/nationality that individual belongs to is such a transparent attempt to shed well aimed criticism.
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This post seems merely borderline imo, but lemmy in general seems to be a lot more relaxed around misogyny than the progressive atmosphere would lead you to believe.
The silver lining is that while misogynistic posts get a positive balance of a few hundred upvotes; there are actually only a handful of people posting them.
I was considering playing hogwarts legacy a while back, I decided if I bought it I would donate double what I paid for the game to mermaids.
Whatever fraction of a share of the cost goes to Rowling and whatever fraction of that she uses to push her hateful agenda probably does less harm than mermaids does good.
Conceptually I view it as similar to putting sin taxes on things which are harmful to society but difficult to prohibit (alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food etc.)
I wound up not buying it because there are other games to play from better franchises and my HP nostalgia isn't all that strong, but I think this is a reasonable approach.
There is (used to be?) a subreddit /r/theycanalwaystell about idiots transvestigating cis people, or pointing out how unfeminine ftm trans people looked.
Some people are unhinged in their need to find a victim to project all of their pent up transphobia onto, going as far as to manufacture them.
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I don't think there is much of a thought process. Or at least his actions are emotionally consistent but not intellectual consistent.
Being broken up with is painful, either as a sense of loss or as ego pain.
In order to make both disappear he needs to get back with you, but if he only cares about making the ego pain disappear he just needs to convince himself he is better off without you, and the easy way to convince yourself of something is to convince others.
So both actions are just him responding to (what I assume is) ego pain, neither of them are necessarily informed by his true perception of who you are.
Edit: none of this excuses his actions btw, it's meant as a way to understand why he is saying cruel things and to understand that the things he is saying have no basis in reality.
How did your boyfriend talk about you to third parties while you were together?
The post asserts that the women pictured are so unattractive that it has turned their republican husband's gay.
The implication being that women are to be valued primarily by their physical appearance and a man is to be judged by the appearance of his wife.
Lemmy lets this slide because they are republicans and therefore acceptable targets, but they are bad people not because they are unattractive or they married someone unattractive/low-status, or because they use Grindr, they are bad people because they voted for an administration which has done enormous harm to minorities, LGBTQ folks and anyone who drowned indirectly on USAID.
That's not even getting into the problems with the conversation therapy-esque idea of being able to intentionally change an adults sexuality
On the assumption phevs have the combustion engine off unless they are in hybrid or performance mode:
I think it's decisive because the article's focus is fuel consumption but fuel consumption in phevs is actually just a proxy for driver behaviour. (Once you factor out differences between models)
So while the study does show that phevs technically have worse fuel economy in real world usage, it doesn't show they use more fuel in either electric mode or in hybrid mode than previously believed.
The conclusion is useful for understanding the overall impact of phevs on petroleum consumption, air quality and global warming, but it's misleading when evaluating what kind of car you should buy.
Since you know how you drive, learning new information about average driver behaviour doesn't factor into your decision on what kind of car you buy.
The environmentally conscious answer is still no car if possible, electric if you need a car but most journeys fall within the range limit and phev if you need a car for frequent long range usage.
Tldr; it's contentious because the article reports information useful for policy decisions to a general public who are making individual consumer decisions where the information is misleading.
Like most taxes it's possible to do a progressive property tax, where the more your properties are collectively worth the higher rate of tax you pay. This doesn't sound like what is being proposed here, but it is very-much possible and hopefully it gets changed before it's passed.
Done right this will leave owner/occupiers in the same state they are in now, mildly reduce the profitability of small time landlords and make large scale landlords financial nonsense viable forcing them to sell.
The actual risk is that because it lowers house prices by artificially reducing the demand it won't encourage housebuilding which is the only real solution when more people want or need to live in a place than there is housing.
That said, I am optimistic this increases supply enough by forcing sales of under occupied properties to offset the reduction in built supply.
United Kingdom @feddit.uk I Exposed Racists in London
UK Politics @feddit.uk British medical association issues condemnation of the recent supreme court anti-trans ruling.
I'm not convinced it does, corporation tax is charged on gross profit, usually if a corporation makes a charitable donation this reduces their profit and therefore their tax liability (but not more than the cost of the donation)
If you round up 20c then the cooperation makes 20c revenue and loses 20c when they donate leaving their profit unaffected and therefore their cooperation tax is unaffected.
There might be some financial magic I am missing but nothing I have seen in this thread explains exactly how this is could be advantageous tax wise.