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soon after Claire who I dont follow and she doesn’t follow me message me asking how ive been,I said I …

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now ex I get another message from Claire who isn’t following me nor am I felling her. Asking how I am and what I was upto but I think I either ignored it or kept it short.

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Current day, Claire pops up on tinder distance 3 miles, I swipe and match, let it cook and she soon after messages me, supper friendly like always and we idlely chat get her number and she wants to know why I matched

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How should I processed I feel its unfair on her talking to her

I’m very confused. Your title suggests that you do not what her in your life after the bar/crying incident. Yet you keep letting her in your life when she reaches out, and now most recently YOU are the one reaching out to her.

I’m not going to assume you keep bringing her back in because she’s someone that has shown you affection and that validates you. Your words suggest you are not interested in a romantic relationship or friendship with her.

Do you want her in your life or not?

This likely varies by industry, but I always advise instead of focusing on what your current role is giving you, examine what your next rung up the ladder looks like.

So for your case you have two “next rung up the ladder” jobs. The one from the new employer, and a promotion at your current employer. Which one offers you the most benefit not just in pay, but total comp (which you’re looking), but also career training and career advancement? What does your path for advancement look like at your current job? What would the total comp be for THAT job? Thats what you should be comparing the new employer against.

Management has been screwing us by making us work a ton of overtime because production is ramping back up. I’m supposed to go back to a regular 40 hr week “soon.”

How long ago did they say “soon”? Since you have the new employer offer in hand, ask for a meeting with your boss (don’t mention your new offer elsewhere) and ask the questions you want answers to:

• “I’ve heard ‘soon’ for X weeks/months. I’d like a more concrete answer to how long I should expect to keep working at this pace. What info can you give me boss?”
• “I’m interested in advancing. What objective measurable skills and/or milestones are you looking for that I need to hit to achieve a position for promotion?”
• “You’ve seen my performance for 5 months and how I’ve trained 3 new employees. What is the promotion path for this position, and with the many new bodies we’re hiring, how does that affect my path for advancement? I understand its not going to be tomorrow, but when does this company usually promote, and should I expect that same timeline for myself?”

This will tell you where you are at your current employer. Then compare that against the new employers offer.

I would also have more opportunities for advancement at this place and the work would be more engaging to me and likely more opportunities to improve my career as my current job is a major step back for me.

With this alone, it sounds like new employer is a better path. More money, more advancement, less forced overtime.

“Distractions from other members of the audience: 19%”

This is #1 for me. The worse part about going to a cinema today is the other people that go. I don’t know why you need to turn your phone on and browse tiktok for 15 minutes during the movie. I don’t know why you feel the need to converse with your seatmates at full volume during the show. Why are you bringing a screaming baby to a movie with loud explosions? Can you please have your small uninterested children not running back and forth in front of the screen laughing while the movie is going on?

I feel old, but I’m old at home watching on streaming with the other 2/3rds of adults I guess.

They can at least argue partial ignorance regarding climate change, we have no such luck.

I’m not sure they will. Aging Boomers are largely those still in power in the government blocking preventing meaningful climate change legislation.

though I do believe HG wells was at the center of some controversy

Are we talking about H.G. Wells the scifi author that was born in 1866?

They’re not available… Anywhere! I even tried to bid on one on E-bay.

We just sold a Tivo Premiere (ATSC 1.0 OTA Tivo) last month on ebay, so they are out there.

What I Think its adding is additional broadcast streams over the internet but integrated into the TV experience. This also means that all ATSC 3.0 TVs require a live internet connection, I think. So think the worst invasive monitoring and control of smart TVs forced on you just to watch broadcast television.

I have zero interest in ATSC 3.0.

They got subsidies and were recently denied some.

The DID NOT get the subsidy.

Don’t pretend they never got any thank you.

What SpaceX won in 2020 was a bid to receive the $866 million. They did not receive the money at that time. The FCC process after winning a bid is to do extra work showing your product meets program requirements:

“SpaceX’s winning share was one of the largest among the auction’s 180 successful bidders [in 2020], and covered nearly 643,000 homes and businesses in 35 states.”

“Auction winners were required to submit paperwork to the FCC to show how they planned to deploy services that meet RDOF conditions to receive the funds over 10 years.”"

“The Federal Communications Commission said Aug. 10 [2022] that SpaceX had failed to show it could meet requirements for unlocking the funds, which aim to incentivize expanding broadband services to unserved areas across the United States.”

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…and in 2022 SpaceX’s bid was denied for not meeting the product performance rules the FCC had placed on the program.

To make you feel comfortable, I’ll adopt your level of snark for the conclusion.

So, no, SpaceX did NOT receive this money, and don’t pretend they did, thank you.

Right, I linked that in my post. So where is the taxpayer subsidy?

“The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week, the FCC wrote: “SpaceX may not deploy any satellites designed for operational altitudes below the International Space Station,” whose orbit can range as low as 370 kilometers. Starlink currently has nearly 6000 satellites orbiting at around 550 kilometers”

Fun fact: Tiāngōng, the Chinese Space Station currently in orbit, operates as high as 450km up (its currently at 360km). So its even closer to the Starlink constellation that the ISS is.

It requires an infinite amount of rockets sent into low earth orbit forever

True.

at a heavy subsidised cost paid for by American taxpayers.

How are American taxpayers subsidizing Starlink? The gov certainly isn’t paying for Starlink launches or satellites . Starlink was also denied the $866 billion for government funded rural broadband/

Where is the tax money you’re saying come from?

Iranian state media, meanwhile, reported that the exercise’s goal is to strengthen “the security of international maritime trade, combating piracy and maritime terrorism”, among others.

Isn’t Iran the nation that is giving intelligence and missiles to Houthi rebels that are causing the current danger to shipping in the Red Sea? A karmic response would be if an Iranian ship was hit by an Iranian missile in the Red Sea fired by the Houthis.

You do yourself a disservice when you lend your voice without vetting the cause. I worry you’ll get lumped in with them when they see your strong defense for their bad behavior.

I really wanted to like DDG, but its results returned are so horribly unusable, I had to give up.

I’m usually searching for something obscure, but add in general terms for general refinement. DDG will ignore my obscure term (the thing I’m actually looking for) and give me pages of results of the general terms. Using special operators doesn’t help. Whereas Google will give me at least a few relevant results using the same search terms.

Even Raccoons are avoiding Timmys now?

This is a very interesting development. Besides the headline the article explains some of the traditional limitations and complications of PV solar manufacturing today with extreme temperatures and vacuum conditions, performed in specific batches.

This new technology seems to do for PV solar what Henry Ford did for automobile manufacturing. Instead of each cell and panel being a bespoke manufacturing event with drastically different phases for it to move through, this makes a process where you dump raw materials in the front and continuous rolls of fairly cheap solar PV ready for use come out the other side.

So far there is a cost to the performance of these “roll” produced solar PV, and its in solar efficiency. Current consumer installable technology using the expensive process produces a panel of about 22%. This means of 100% of the energy the panel is exposed to under perfect light and temperature conditions, 22% of it becomes electricity coming out of the panel. This “roll” technique produces panels with only about 15% of the performance. In my mind that isn’t a dealbreaker. There are places you have way more space than money, and a lower performance, but much cheaper panel would be ideal.

“Somebody didn’t do the research on that,” Tyson told the talk show host, making the case that if you pound your fist into a sand dune, it wouldn’t actually produce a thumping sound the way it does in the film. “You can’t thump sand.”

Oh, this is easy. Neil, the thumping isn’t for the sand its for the spice in the sand which is a near-magical substance that is tied biologically to the sandworms and when consumed by humans in large quantities lets you see into the future. Are you going to try and tell me a substance which clearly grants its user the ability to see through space-time can’t be excited mechanically with thumping it on the ground?

You’re attributing a lot of things to perfect execution without acknowledging the missteps and shortcomings of their approach.

The biggest in my mind is the domestic economic speedrun they’re ending too quickly. China has gone from cheap low tech manufacturing for the world markets to high tech affordable partner to the world markets (which is the sweet spot), to now contracting to serve only a domestic market.

They blew through the sweet spot in about 15 years where other countries sit there for 50 to 100 years. During those 50 to 100 years, you raise the standard of living for your populace, bring literacy and education levels to modern levels, stabilize your population replacement rate, and most importantly let your populace generate generational wealth. What this means is they robbed multiple generations of the benefits in a speedrun to late stage capitalism. They skipped social reforms, worker protections, environmental protections, and banking regulations. They didn’t have a long run of the good years in the sweet spot to absorb the turmoil that comes from learning these lessons an enacting reforms that the populace accept.

We’re seeing the results of this already with China’s 996 working hour system…

“The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced illegally by some companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week; i.e. 72 hours per week, 12 hours per day.” source

…the “lying flat” demotivated youth because they don’t see a path to getting ahead…

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“Tang ping means choosing to “lie down flat and get over the beatings” via a low-desire, more indifferent attitude towards life.”

…and China’s dangerous population decline

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“China’s population drops for second year, with record low birth rate”

Obviously the next step is to throw out the westerners now that they served their purpose and their economies depend on China. This allows them to build upon the acquired technological know-how and the secured assets, giving them eventual technological dominance over the rest of the world.

Students of history, specifically China’s history have seen this before. Historically China was regional power that thought they had everything they needed from the outside world and saw the outside as a negative not worth interacting with. They built the Great Wall to keep out the rest of the world emerging years later to find they were passed by as the world evolved without them.

If your narrative is correct, I’m shocked to that China seems to be making the same mistake again. The repeated success of large nations has been engagement with the outside world with trade. If you’re right, China doesn’t agree with that to their detriment.

Gotcha, so when presented with your own actions that don’t match your present narrative, you deflect. I hope your life improves.

Have a nice day!

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It’s what happens when you tell people the truth.

Clearly we’re not worthy of your wisdom.

Specially here, but you can think whatever you want, I couldn’t care less (:

Yeah, that’s looks to be part of your problem. You’re talking “at” people, not to them. Further, you mix in unnecessary insulting language in whatever point you’re trying to make which immediately alienates your audience.

So you’re not changing minds. Which raises the question, why do you bother? Do you get some kind of personal value out of your martyrdom? Does it allow you some kind of comfort that you’ve convinced yourself you’re right which lets you double down on your edgy takes? Are you angry in life and can’t vent to those you interact with in real life, so you dump on strangers on the internet? If so, I don’t think that is healthy for you.