It’s usually nonsense. I remember some carbon offsets being a guy owning a forest and essentially selling his inaction as a carbon offset. Give me a million dollars so I don’t chop all those trees down which I totally would’ve done otherwise. It’s just pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.

In this case I can imagine their calculations being wildly off. How much CO2/methane does a ton of poop actually release? How much CO2 is released to transport that ton and build the facilities that hold it?

Microsoft burying the steaming pile of poop that is teams will be enough to “offset” all their data centers.

It’s not just the left bar but also the entitlement of the others. Recently we had a reduction of parking spots at our workplace. The remaining ones are no longer free but cost a hefty price.

One of my coworkers send an email to all employees with a long rant about this. He said if they’d do this he’d be forced to ride to work on his horse. So this guy has a big ranch outside the city with horses simply as his hobby and he’s upset about having to pay for the space his truck is taking because he considers all of those things his right.

He’s there when you really don’t want him to be but when you want him he’ll be lying in his own vomit on that burger king parking lot.

Step 1: Feed the rich with fancy vertically farmed strawberries till they’re fat and juicy

Step 2: eat the rich.

It’s a simple plan. It’s a good plan.

But the donations are only necessary because of inflated salaries. It’s like saying we have to pay this pastry chef because the pastry chef loves to eat their own cake. They’re just feeding themselves.

The cost of server infrastructure is comparatively tiny so if they’d run it lean it’d have enough cash to last ages already. Also posting a banner on their site with massive reach isn’t exactly rocket surgery.

I know there are worse things but I strongly dislike nonprofits wasting donation money.

on the one hand they make some valid points on the other hand it’s a little disgusting how much wikipedia execs get payed and how sweaty they get when they worry about having to pay content moderators. currently they just pocket most of the donations they get but with increased running costs that would get harder.

don’t get me wrong, wikipedia is an important project and they deserve fair compensation but grabbing $700k per year for managing it seems a bit steep eh? it’s not like they’re forging new business strategies and conquering markets. they have a very simple concept and just keep it running. a post it note on the ceo door with “keep going lads” on it might outperform them and save some money.

Keep seeing teachers saying that kids in school can’t read anymore so this seems unnecessary.

Put mercenaries on the list. They get hired to guard some excavation. A chill job the recruiter told them.

Lara overhears them talk about going home to their families as she sneaks up and brutally murders them with her ice axe one by one until the ruins are flooded with blood. It’s all self defense.

Many short distance flights are business related but as someone who was working in an international corporation I can tell you there’s plenty of business monkeys who fly simply for the prestige of it. They fly to attend meetings that could’ve been an email or a call just so they can pretend they’re hot shit.

Massively disappointing.

Move fast and break things is a motto that works fine when you’re a silicon valley fuckboi talking about shitty apps. Less so when it’s kids that are being broken. Then again it’ll work well for an angry mob going from billionaire door to billionaire door.

Record dryness in my area this spring and the majority is like WHAT A NICE WEATHER WE’RE HAVING! LOVING THIS SUN!

Next gen kids better be learning a new song.

Rain, baby, please come back

forest burning, harvest gone

mass extinction is on track

please we beg you

you have won

It makes sense to a certain degree. Even lawyers are specialized and don’t know all the entirety of the law.

This means that police has to be trained and supervised more because they essentially don’t know what they’re doing.

I mean the comparison used to be Wikipedia vs finding the right literature in a library. Now it’s mostly Wikipedia vs AI that sometimes makes things up including sources. The real degradation happens over time though. People using AI to write papers which then get fed into AI as a source. It already is but will become increasingly hard to verify how reliable the information is that you find.

This all happens in the background of short video clips dominating the engagement of young people. We have students at our school who aren’t even capable of using AI to cheat and they don’t care either. They saw some tiktoks telling them once they’re 18 they can get rich with betting or real estate (despite having no capital) so why do homework? I’d rather they trust wikipedia blindly than what they currently do.

My wife’s eyes rolls are my life elixir.

What was that post I kept seeing about vampires? If you’ve been living for centuries and you’re still broke just walk into the sunlight.

First aid is some random person that did a short class 10 years ago.

Second aid is a doc that studied for years but still doesn’t have all the answers.

Third aid is when you call the dev. They won’t pick up.

inb4 American refugees on mobility scooters are roaming our European streets and complaining about the lack of parking spots

STAY AWAY FROM SAND