I vividly remember my old man telling me - when I applied for jobs after university - to part two streets further away and walk the rest of the way because I was not driving a ‘representative car’ twenty years ago. That was Germany and my car was by no means a clunker.
The way you show yourself and present yourself impacts hiring - and later - promotion decisions. That includes your mode of transport.
Firstly the at least according to the article the car was not even part of her "presentation" of herself. She was rejected because she ticked a box online saying her car is too old.
Also even if she did show up in something you would consider a bad mode of transport not sure I understand how could that impact her ability to be a property manager in any way?
As per the article: she was supposed to drive to places for work with her own vehicle. Old vehicles have a higher rate of having mechanical issues, making it less likely for her to be able to reliably do the job. I can see the logic that an old car impacts her ability to be a property manager in that situation.
Of course, I would argue that if the boss wants me to be places, he better provides a company car. I guess a place that is so dingy to make someone use their own ride for official business is not a place I would want to work for in the first place.
In the US, lawyers may generally work on a contingency basis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee), and many lawyers and law firms also do pro bono work. That is, almost certainly no-one has paid for the lawyers, though if they manage to recover anything the lawyers may be due a cut.
I think it is in almost everyone's interest to ensure that people cannot be abused in such a fashion. Maybe people who wish to destroy society would condone this kind of abuse.
It's also possible for lawyers to take on cases on the understanding that they only get paid if they win.
Occam’s razor would suggest that it’s the same group of active natalists who subsidise the teenagers’ housing, education and healthcare – none of which are any cheaper than lawyers.
> As so often, following the money will reveal who actually has an interest here.
Do you mean to imply that the teens are a tool used by some secret cabal to attack Musk? Most likely their parents are paying for the lawyers in an attempt to get some justice from a billionaire that enabled a fucked up case of CSAM.
More than just enabling a fucked up case of CSAM, it's more like an energy intensive, environment destroying factory that produces CSAM.
Once again, I'm asking when we can start the Butlerian Jihad?
Incidentally, is the USA now becoming a safe haven for pedophiles? It just seems odd how other countries are investigating high profile people with ties to Epstein, but the USA celebrates them and even votes the biggest offender into the highest office.
The optimist in me wants to believe the lack of a quarterly report requirement will increase decision-making timeframes and will give industry leaders more time to plan long-term.
But I also like to believe that Santa is, in fact, real.
> My experience is that people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones now "most excited" to "create" with a LLM.
I consider myself to have been a 'pretty good' programmer in my heyday. Think 'assembly for speed improvements' good.
Then came the time of 'a new framework for everything, relearn a new paradigm every other week. No need to understand the x % 2 == 0 if we can just npm an .iseven()' era ... which completely destroyed my motivation to even start a new project.
LLMs cut the boilerplate away for me. I've been back building software again. And that's good.
I would not call telecommunications privatization in Germany a success story.
Yes, we can use more devices now. Prices have stayed more or less the same (or have risen, corrected by inflation. Service quality has collapsed, though.
In all fairness, being both an avid Deutsche Bahn victim (with the Gold victim status), and knowing the German court system ... that was perfectly plausible, if a bit optimistic. I'd do many, many things if I got a 50% chance of arriving on time.
No joke: 15 years ago, when I was riding DB trains regularly, I got whole packs of refund forms. Took a while to find someone who would not refuse this request. I built a rudimentary transparent template in latex that had my name, address, etc. Pushed a whole pack into a printer to fill out most of the forms, leaving only the date and train to be manually inserted. My trains were always delayed, so this saved a lot of time.
If you actually took a train in the last 3 years you would know that the process is know online via the App/Website, and everything is already filled out for you
If you are in America, that 'empty land' was not 'empty land'. It was Native land. Displacement of Native Americans was genocidal and destroyed communities and cultures.
Also, the article touches Moses, right, but it is about communities as a concept, with a heavy emphasis on online communities, where 'new things to buy' do not come at the expense of 'tearing down the old' - and where, when you tear down the old, behaviour patterns change. Take, for instance, the reddit re-design, which changed the page's culture. Or usage patterns of RSS post Google-Reader-shutdown.
You will be pleased to know that I’m not from America, nor have I ever lived there.
My point stands: there are a million excuses not to build more. And when we make that choice not to build, the costs are invisible but they definitely exist. But hypothetical benefits are not as easy to point to as the costs of building.
I've seen people live with their parents till 40 while waiting for a tiny room that will cost 2 or 3 times what their parents pay for their large villa with large garden.
Its quite simple to me. We the grown ups (together) are to facilitate housing for the kids. If we can't do that anymore we should ask ourselves why we don't want to do that anymore?
Quite interesting is how the (now proverbial) 40 year old isn't really attacking the problem.
I won't be around but I'm curious how their kids in turn will share the tiny room till 40.
The word summon comes from Anglo-French somundre and Old French somondre (or semondre), meaning "to call, send for, or notify". It derives from the Latin summonere, meaning "to remind privately, warn, or hint to".
To summon is the correct word in this case. The fantasy meaning comes from thee power politics between one that summons (usually: a king) and the one being summoned (usually the serf).
I sincerely doubt that if someone hears 'summon' today, they think about Dungeons and Dragons-style summoning of fantasy beings. They more likely hear 'to be made to appear in front of [a state power / a court / ...]"
As such, current understanding is closely aligned to the etymological meaning.
Even summoning in fantasy tends to imply the entity being summoned has no choice in the matter. If anything, summoning in fantasy is usually stronger, in that there is a tendency for it to imply the entity is powerless to resist.
I vividly remember my old man telling me - when I applied for jobs after university - to part two streets further away and walk the rest of the way because I was not driving a ‘representative car’ twenty years ago. That was Germany and my car was by no means a clunker.
The way you show yourself and present yourself impacts hiring - and later - promotion decisions. That includes your mode of transport.