Employee salaries in HR; they are both correctly paid(employer perspective often), underpaid (employee perspective often), and overpaid (company and co-worker perspective). Depending on how and how often you open the box, any of these views can be accurate.

Sample bias. Any advertising, campaigning, fawning and celebrating are the exceptions. You are exposed to the “success stories” exponentially more through media thanks to government and corporate forces despite the successes being exponentially rarer than the failures: suicides, mental health disorders, divorces, denied medical care by VA, insufficiency of college fund programs, underemployment, etc. The coverage Success Stories get as the 1% or whatever, dwarfs the failures which are the 99%. This reversed representation explains why they may be perceived as equally likely, which is confusing.

The answer is sample bias; deliberately misleading. After all, who is going to sign up if they could see reality represented? Most would just work fast food–same crappy outcomes, fewer bullets.

Completely walking away from sports you followed with passion hour whole life because you just aren’t interested in learning the next crop of pros. Also, you know the way money and politics and other things force things in sport and it takes the fun out of it…same can be said for music.

Artists, unfortunately, are all too familiar with this arrangement dating back millenia. “Commissioned” works that pay vs. passion projects that may not be economically in demand is the crux of the artist’s dilemma. Artists of any media make this decision regularly, seems like a big “duh”?

Corporate media will be ever more obsequious to get access. Military presence for “safety” in certain cities labeled “dangerous” which all happen to be progressive. Then the self-censorship starts. Then people stop being able speak freely, let alone thinking a rule of law exists. Then it’s “underground” to have an honest conversation about politics. We’ll be in Putin’s Russia level of legal system and political speech within a few years.

The only consolation is that he probably can’t get the (mostly lovely) sounds out of his head either.

“Two small pair…8s and 8s” is still a staple at family card games.

Astrology is such a much of junk, I mean why look so far away at the stars for answers when the truth of your future can easily be read in your palm lines? So crazy the lengths people will go to avoid the truth.

Haven’t heard “gay” as a pejorative in real life since high school in the late 90s.

The music in the original is fantastic.

Bless you, must have hit “+” somehow, “-” fixed it and turned back on the autoframerate skip. Been a rough summer and losing my “zone out” retro gaming time was going to crush me. Thanks for the extra 1UP

Oh look, all the stupid Africans. Jesus, how could anyone not question this?

I mashed the down arrow because it’s probably more strongly correlated with GDPPPP or access to free, high quality education than an inherent measure of intelligence. Crappy correlations to pseudomeasurements and concepts with racist results? What is this, the SATs?

Sure…I mean a play without asides? The temptation and effect can be glorious if used appropriately.

You’re saying he’s a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

Envious!

Does it have a “day off” feature? Nothing speaks to how horrific US culture is fed by these giant companies that neither apple nor Google has the common sense “I’m off tomorrow, don’t do my regular schedule alarm”. Instead you have to disable and then set a reminder to turn your alarms back on, which stresses me out about forgetting.

Seriously man, it’s a good price, and I have a plan setup with Affirm for payments, you can spread it out over at least a year.

“You better hope I can’t get no bullets on layaway…”

Thank you for the syntax, I didn’t know that. Wish that stuff was in a help box in text entry field or something so it would be quickly accessible so we could all learn it faster.

u/logos asked the same thing, I answered in the thread.

If you’re asking in earnest, the last decade has shown for profit corps know no bounds in using technology to extract, poorly protect, and often aggregate and then will make any attempt to monetize possible–often retroactively. While a dishwasher might not have much data in itself to exploit, if your internet connected TV, Car or phone which is constantly scanning for nearby WI-FI items or networks decided to start cataloguing them…well then that would just be a Tuesday for Google, Ford or Sony right?

The more data points, the worse. More breaches, more creepy facts about us floating around in some creepy company or regime’s stockpile of data to be used, unilaterally against me. Or maybe the next company to buy the current company I’m happy with. Or the next regime that decides people like me aren’t full humans. Between your computer and phone, most people’s lives are somewhat laid bare, but add in car tracking which auto companies have stuck their funnel into during the last 5 years, add in appliances, put Wi-Fi if your shower handle…again the people adding Wi-Fi to things like a dishwasher that don’t need it have only one thing to gain, monetizing your data and selling it to someone who wants to control you in some way.