@mcnees

Feynman lectures are the first one that comes to mind.

@lispi314

True but irrelevant. No one is suggesting a person do 40 hours worth of work in 5 minutes. I'd also be very curious to hear how that would even be possible.

Kinda obsurd we went from "yea a salary worker might occasionally need to do work outside of 9-5" to "oh my god is he working constantly and going to die from lack of sleep and his organs will shut down!"... lets stop being absurd.

@scott_guertin @georgetakei

@georgetakei

Hahaha, if this is an hourly worker and he isnt paying overtime this is a completely valid response :) lol

@scott_guertin

Salaried employees are expected to make a fix amount no matter how much they are paid. That is the bargain.

@georgetakei

@lispi314

They literally get that back in equal measure. While a salaried empl,oyee doesnt have fixed hours or an hourly rate, and may be expected to work extra hours for free, they also get paid time off. When they take a day or even a whole month off they still get their full pay. It works both ways.

@scott_guertin @georgetakei

@Jedigirl

The thing this is missing is that most people want others to suffer not simply because they happened to turn out fine, but because they believe that suffering **is the reason** they turned out fine. They see it as something that builds character.

Not saying their right, just saying you cant fix a problem by misunderstanding it.

@woffs

Perhaps something similar yea... "I dealt with this horribile and significant thing.. I am a good and better person than I was, this horrible and significant thing must make people better people! It is the only thing that gives what was done to me meaning!"

@Jedigirl

@Moon ahhh I see.. that doesnt sound like a very pragmatic approach to me. But I understand now.

@Moon I think there was a typo in your post, or i misunderstood…

Isnt this:

human decency recognizes the absolute right of people to have private conversations without government eavesdropping.

An example of this

rights organizations making pragmatic appeals against internet surveillance

@clacke

Actually just buy less gasoline and non-renewable fuels, the production of plastic will automatically reduce regardless of its demand (the cost to make it as a primary product would be prohibitive and it just wont be made even if there is demand since the price would be enormous).

@FreePietje @Gina

@Gina That is true, but plastics are weird in that they are a secondary product. So by not buying it you dont really reduce the rate they are produced. Even if no one bought plastic the plastic would still be produced and just thrown away never seeing use since its a byproduct of other primary processes.

@FreePietje

The problem is since plastic is a secondary product off nonrenewable sources (natural gas and gasoline) you have no impact on reducing production by reducing consumption of plastics directly. You'd have to stop the production of gasoline and natural gas to have that outcome.

@Gina

@Gina Why do you need a straw to drink coffee, let alone a glass one ?

@Gina plastic is probably fine in coffee, but yea that makes sense :)

@ardaissad What should they be called?

@stux the straight forward, no holding back, super honest to a fault, thing the dutch have going is my favorite :)

@stux yea obviously it cant be out of mallice. Most dutch do it to be constructive. Its so refreshing.

Though to be fair most of the world find you guys a bit too honest :)

@stux Well the dutch will do stuff like "So, why are you so fat?" like they wont mean it to be mean, they are legitimately curious and may even want to help... but obviously random tourists wont handle that well :)

@stux :(

@stux You are dutch, you can barely hold in random commentary, let alone deal with lies :)