Yup, we get lowballed with the paid vacation :( And the US abominable corporations are pushing more and more “freelancers”, “gig workers” etc to suck us dry and remove those benefits.

Btw - last time I was in the UK I was honestly surprised how many immigrants I can see. You are like 20% of foreign born. Very new yorker of you :)

working at a chinese company would be fucking awful

I got floored when I was told they get 5 days of paid vacation (10 if you worked for 10-20 years and 15 days if you worked for 20+ years) , and no vacation for the first year in a new company, and they have like ~7 days of public holidays.

Oh, and no paid sick leave (for a flue etc - you will get it for operations and similar but they must be dona via public hospitals).

Meanwhile here in Poland we get 5 weeks + 13 public holidays, and if they happen to be during weekend you get an extra day free later, and it’s considered rather low for the EU. And unlimited paid sick leave, including for fatigue etc.

I don’t know to what extent causation has been established here though

I am familiar with the research. We don’t know the reason for nearsightedness. There is no known proven causation. It is likely there are different causes for it.

Being from a sunny country lowers the chance of it (so you’re less likely to be nearsighted if you’re from Spain compared to Norway), even when controlled for hours spent outdoors.

Depression is a bit of catch-all term. Considering that some forms are immune to certain drugs, but not the other, or that for some kinds therapy works better (or worse) - it is very likely that when we learn more about depression, we will type it like diabetes (depression type 1, type 2 etc).

Thus it is theoretically possible that there is a type of what we currently call depression that can get better with mental effort.

I personally haven’t seen it, but I also haven’t seen Thailand and it still exists :-)

Lol, Fujimoto-sensei seems to be in a love triangle with two older gentleman penguins.

I love this chart.

Germany (English article citing German minister presenting the data; I don’t speak German didn’t check the raw source) https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-rise-in-sexual-violence-and-youth-offenses/a-72116932#%3A~%3Atext=How+do+Germany’s+crime+figures%2C%2C+were+non-German+suspects.

Poland: article citing Interior minister: https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/kraj/artykuly/9843984,ile-zabojstw-i-gwaltow-dokonuja-cudzoziemcy-w-polsce-sa-najnowsze-dan.html in Polish

Please note it’s a bit higher than I wrote, its 5%. 2% was a decade ago.

5% in Poland, 40% in Germany. However the moment they get citizenship in Germany they get classified as German suspects, and you get citizenship after 5 years of living there.

The word and system you’re looking for is the ancient Greek democracy, especially from Athens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Ancient Greeks believed that government and positions of power must be randomly selected by a machine from a pool of candidates, and that elections are NOT democratic. That elections are always going to be corrupted by the oligarchy.

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It definitely would transform to chwiństwa, as that’s how polish words morph. But I see your point.

So far any technical blog that Antrophic made regarding their new capabilities was a marketing lie (e.g. agents clean room implementing c compiler without human intervention - turns out the only true part of that was that the agents did burn tokens, but it was neither clean room, nor without human intervention, it didn’t compile and it needed to use the actual compiler to copy paste working code [sic!]). I am not convinced the Mythos one is different.

Well, non-self hosted LLM are a security risk. They actively send your codebase to the 3rd party proprietary systems, who can then reassemble it, discover and use potential vulnerabilities for your detriment.

They would, all diacritics is alt + letter.

China is fucking huge, maybe Rimu was in like a shitty part of it, while you visited somewhere awesome?

I believe China tries to somehow argue its not imperialistic, its multipolar, which honestly is just a spit in the face.

(A very good critique of multipolarism from a far, far far left source can be found here: https://spectrejournal.com/against-multipolar-imperialism/)

And how can I possibly answer on behalf of the Pirate2377? I’m not their attorney.

Russian sources - bad, Polish statistics from FWP bad, if a source does not agree with your opinion then it must be invalid.

Sure. Blocked.

Wczasy Pracownicze w PRLu były dofinasowywane przez zakłady pracy przez Fundusz Wczasów Pracowniczych.

W szczytowym okresie FWP finansował (w tym: częściowo) około 4 miliony dorosłych rocznie. Większość częściowych dofinansowań FWP wynosiła 30-40%.

W dużych zakladach pracy były też ośrodki zakładowe, a ich finansowanie było różne, niemniej wrzucam je do worka FWP, bo to FWP tym zarządzało.

Czego tu nie rozumiesz? Jak pamiętasz inaczej to rusz dupę i zobacz sobie statystyki FWP, zamiast wymyślać?

Teraz koszt.

Wycieczka do Bułgari nad Morze Czarne na tydzień, dane Orbisu, początek lat 80: 4000 złotych, czyli około 14 000 pln dzisiejszych (tu, przyjmuję, można się kłócić czy dobrze koszyk przeliczam siły nabywczej)

Wczasy wagonowe pamiętasz? Pod namiotem też? Ile kepingów było pamiętasz? Barakowozy wakacyjne pamiętasz? Wiesz czemu były popularne? Bo nie każdy miał tak tanie wczasy z pracy jak najwyraźniej Ty.

Jak miałeś udany zakład pracy, to bywało w latach 80 tak, że za wakacje placiłeś piosenkowy jeden uśmiech.

Jest też opcja, że pamiętasz wczasy wojskowe.

FWP is Fundusz Wczasów Pracowniczych. Wczasy pod gruszą były z FWP. You can very easily fact check me that at the peak of it about 4m Poles yearly were able to use FWP, and that includes partial refunds.

Coop dachas for the whole family

=/=

Kolonie za PRL only for children

FWP peaked at 4m adults yearly (including partial refinancing) in the early 80s.

It is true to almost every kid during PRL was able to participate in some form of vacation. Please note that most were at the level lower than coop dachas, mostly tents, schools etc, and it was only partially refinanced.