The right for a business to operate is not protected by the first amendment, though.

I could use that argument to stop the government from closing/dismantling any physical space because I might use their walls to express my first amendment rights. But the argument just doesn’t hold up.

That and it’s impossible say whether or not a given tool or object will never be used to do harm if wielded by the wrong entity.

Like, say you’re someone who makes free bricks. Someone uses the brick to build a house, great, that’s what it’s made for. Someone uses that brick to shatter a cop’s windshield, even better.

But someone can also use that brick to smash in the windows of a school, or even that the house built with the bricks you made is being lived in by a bad person.

No one makes bricks thinking “this could be a weapon, I am responsible for the harm it causes” because its primary purpose as building material is self-evident. It therefore has no inherent morality outside of what people you can’t control choose to do with what they have. All the brick maker wants to do is make the best bricks they can.

Agreed. The only redeeming thing I can give the writers credit for is that they gave him an amazing family life. Even though he is the office punching bag, he is much more fulfilled outside of work than any other character is. That, and he also does love his job.

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I don’t mind questions being somewhat focused or topical. But the ones I don’t like are “Here is my long-winded opinion on x, what do you think?” or “Here’s a random article or other thing I found on the internet, thoughts?”

If it’s a post asking opinions on a recent event, that’s one thing. But I think the soapboxing should be limited. There’s more that a post should need to actually qualify as a discussion-fueling question than just the fact they ended a sentence with a question mark somewhere in their post.

Thoughts?

So is God powerless to stop people from committing evil?

I don’t know, why do Japanese schools have culture festivals? Is it not enough to say that some countries have different cultural norms and traditions?

You’ve basically touched on one of the core logical issues at play in Abrahamic religions (and others). God is omnipotent and omniscient, or people have free will. It can’t be both.

It’s like asking why people smoke.

Is it bad for you? Yes.

Is it a burden on society? Yes.

Is it addictive and does it make you feel good? For some, yes.

Why is this in AskLemmy? Where’s the question?

It doesn’t have quite as much “gloss”, but what puts it in that era for me is the beveled and 3d elements that disqualify it from being “flat”. Some of its design elements were also semi-skeuomorphic.

Maybe it’s a default feature for all non-English languages to account for potential writing system differences? May not make as much a difference for other languages using the Latin alphabet, but maybe for East Asian scripts or Arabic or Hindi etc., they don’t want to assume the default layout is as readable as it is for English?

Just a shot-in-the-dark guess.

The extended editions do have intermissions built in, at least.

According to Wikipedia, AKQA is a design and innovation agency that helps corporations improve their branding and experiences.

According to Google, AKQA is an abbreviation that means Always Keep Quinoa Accessible?

I would say in one sense yes, because typically property being bequeathed follows different customs than property being sold for profit.

But the point in this case is that your Steam library is not even “property” to begin with, it is a contract that becomes invalid when one of the parties (the customer) dies.

Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, it was a controlled demolition, yadda yadda.

If you set it to match social security age, the old fucks who want to stay in power will just up the social security age.

I had no idea myself until just recently. The 99% Invisible podcast had a decent episode about it which I listened to that helped put it all into context.

The short story is that it was a labor movement trying to prevent mill owners from abusing workers by using automation to bleed the maximum productivity out of the fewest people. The Luddites would break into mills and smash the “infringing” machines. Tensions rose, the Luddites were eventually crushed, and the term Luddite was intentionally rebranded by capitalists to be synonymous with ignorant/anti-intellectual so that no one would ever want to associate with them again.

I think this is probably the case. The old roller ball mice did not seem to have this problem, but early optical mice did.

Rule number 1 in a work dispute is to always place yourself as the better person. Even if there are a million things you’d like to say to that person, say whatever is needed to make sure that an outsider looking in would see you as the more sympathetic.

The proposed message seems a bit too direct and harsh, and if scrutinized might be seen as confrontational. I would probably word it more like:

“Hey, thank you for all the advice. I’ve had a lot of time to try what you’ve suggested, but in the end I’ve decided that the way I’ve been doing things just makes more sense for me after all. I appreciate your perspective though, and I’m glad you have a workflow that works better for you.”

Based on the “charge nurse” mention, I am assuming you work in a hospital setting, so you could also throw in a “My main priority is patient care, and I would hate to cause any potential harm if I end up messing something up because it’s not the way I’m used to doing it.”

That being said, again assuming this is a hospital environment, I’d also like to encourage the following:

• Be mindful of potential regulatory slip-ups that you can get dinged for. The technology and documentation that you work with isn’t the authority on following best practices, you are. The EMR won’t always stop you from doing something wrong, even if it seems “easier”.

• Confirm with the charge/manager that there isn’t some other necessary element that your coworker’s workflow satisfies but yours might miss. They are just as stressed as everyone else and can’t watch every instance of care during every hour of the day. That’s what periodic audits are for, and sometimes things may not accurately paint a picture of your performance if they measure one metric but you are using another.

• If your IT people tell you that X is the new way of doing things and Y will be going away, do your best to get used to X as quickly as possible. Sometimes the change is overblown, Y still works even after X is added, but you don’t want to have 8 patients on your list for the day and suddenly have to make significant workflow changes if that turns out to not be the case. And similar to what was mentioned before, sometimes changes are regulatory in nature.