Stack Exchange
log in

Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0

 Discussion on answer by undercat: Per…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Mar 18, 2022 23:55
@jcm: Mmm, perhaps. In the original version of the question, it read much more like the alleged concern of the hosts was being reported via local colleagues, and I was taking that pass-through with a few lorries of salt. It's become more sensational since then.
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Mar 18, 2022 23:55
Agreed. For context, Russophobia in the US has reached absurd levels in a very short space of time, mostly without any basis in fact. That's where this question is coming from. OP will be pleasantly surprised to discover that the "bogeyman" is in reality no such thing.
 

 Discussion on answer by LPH: What is …

Imported from a comment discussion on french.stackexchange.com...
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Jan 13, 2020 12:53
@terdon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise
 

 Discussion on answer by Ed Heal: Clea…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Jan 13, 2020 03:02
@StianYttervik You should read that article as well. As long as Charles Dickens can get away with it, I think we can leave Josh alone.
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Jan 13, 2020 03:02
@AaronF "Literally" has been permissively used in this sense for about 300 years, so you don't need to get het up about it.
 

 Discussion on question by Keelhaul: H…

Imported from a comment discussion on worldbuilding.stackexcha...
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Jan 12, 2020 00:19
"Let's say I'm a normal person, in my thirties, having the ability to travel to alternate realities." "normal" 🤣
 

 Discussion on answer by 520 says Rein…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0
Jan 9, 2020 14:57
@Azurry You have a year and a half's experience! And plenty of stories to tell. Don't worry about that.
 

 Discussion on answer by Richard Says …

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Jan 7, 2020 17:11
@RichardSaysReinstateMonica Every raise is a correction.
 

 Discussion on question by Henning: "T…

Imported from a comment discussion on english.stackexchange.co...
Lightness Races with Monica
Jan 7, 2020 14:01
@PeterShor No, but after that, you'd be on first-name terms.
 

 Discussion on answer by Avery: Were t…

Imported from a comment discussion on skeptics.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 24, 2019 12:46
@Chronocidal For what it's worth, I don't entirely disagree, and I think the answer would be better off being reworded to address that distinction. But accusing its author of bias is really a stretch.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 24, 2019 12:46
@Chronocidal Only insomuch as it's premised on the idea that carbon offsets effectively result in not "producing more CO2". You can disagree with that notion if you like, but it's actually fundamentally what carbon offsetting means. Calling this answer "wrong" is unfair, and calling it "biased" is just vindictive.
 

 Discussion on question by Pierre Dulu…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 22, 2019 03:40
@CaptainEmacs Well, you're certainly right that, if there were no grading, this situation would not have arisen.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 22, 2019 03:40
@CaptainEmacs While I agree with you about how the world of Universities has changed (and not necessarily for the better), I think this is a pretty clear conflict of interest irrespective of the setting/environment.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 22, 2019 03:40
I'm absolutely astonished that this is a thing. What was the professor thinking?!
 

 Discussion on question by JonathanRee…

Imported from a comment discussion on outdoors.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 18, 2019 20:42
Why would they not????
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe Strazzere…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 18, 2019 15:06
I agree that the requirement is unfair and ill-thought-out, and the company shouldn't have started this. But: life is not fair. It is full of situations where you're better off doing something that you don't want to do, and frankly crying/raging about it is not going to improve matters. Sometimes you do need to just buck up and get on with it. So it is up to the individual to decide how much they want to resist this; meanwhile it's hard for us to gauge how much resistance might be required.
 

 Discussion on answer by MakorDal: 5yr…

Imported from a comment discussion on parenting.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
"'Bossy' is coded language used to excuse bad behavior, often it is gendered." Oh gees can we please stop trying to bring gender into everything? Please?
 

 Discussion on question by Sandy R: Ca…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 17, 2019 00:23
This is utterly frightening. Finally a kid who gets it and a school of all things is doing everything it can to break that. Ugh. Also you sound like a great mum. Ultimately this may be a case of giving them another great lesson: sometimes you can do everything right, but get punished for it; life isn't fair. What are the consequences of failing this class?
 

 Discussion on question by Paranoid An…

Imported from a comment discussion on security.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 14, 2019 12:30
And, most importantly, how can you trust yourself?
 

 Discussion on question by Adam Reynol…

Imported from a comment discussion on worldbuilding.stackexcha...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 13, 2019 11:18
@JimmyJames mmmmmm tasty radioactive water :D
 

 Discussion on question by Marian Paźd…

Imported from a comment discussion on parenting.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 12, 2019 17:38
@barbecue Not sure how you got that from "The answer is... you can't!" but okay
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 12, 2019 17:38
@Cloud Are you genuinely claiming that the parent is not in charge of their 5-year old child? Even if indirectly? (by suggesting that this needs to be proven)
 

 Discussion on question by jhcoates: H…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 12, 2019 12:27
@Mars Then downvote it and write a competing answer that you feel is better (or upvote such an answer that already exists). You know how answers become "top-voted", right? By voting! So... vote.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 12, 2019 12:27
@Mars I don't know which answers you're referring to ("top" changes over time), or what you mean by "stupid semantic garbage", but the highest-voted answers as of right now look fine to me. And, even if they didn't, that wouldn't be because the OP included an example in the question.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 12, 2019 12:27
Disagree @Eric - it's good context to show that this OP is not imagining the issues at hand. That their need to review these comments critically is real and not made up.
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: N…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 10, 2019 14:38
"BTW. Anyone they try to hire should be informed about the situation." Can you clarify this? Are you suggesting that you should tell candidates for employment at your company about the company's behaviour in this matter? That does not seem like a good idea.
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 10, 2019 14:38
I'm not sure I'd provide the cost of the trip and give the company the option to buy you out. Presumably you want to go on that trip, and getting a refund for it doesn't solve that. You're giving them an out, that you don't want them to take.
 

 Discussion on question by schrodinger…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 5, 2019 10:12
"Location is the EU" not specific enough. The EU is huge with lots of different countries.
 

 Discussion on answer by Richard Says …

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 4, 2019 08:40
@Borgh Funny, I hear that a lot. People ask me whether I really got any work done when I was WFH four days per week, and why I'd want to do it again now that I'm WFH zero days per week. The answer is yes, absolutely tons. My output was easily five, six, seven times what it is now, and my stress levels were easily five, six, seven times lower, because (a) my brain had no problem programming at home, and (b) it was silent with no commotion. I never really got the "distractions at home" thing; there are far more distractions in the workplace. So I guess everybody really is different.
 

 Discussion on question by user3024069…

Imported from a comment discussion on academia.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 2, 2019 00:08
@Greg What sort of experience?
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 2, 2019 00:08
@QuoraFeans You're right but I stopped reading ;)
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 2, 2019 00:08
@Greg "though I have a feeling that you are work somewhere else" Why's that?
Lightness Races with Monica
Dec 2, 2019 00:08
You had me at "he gets me to draft his emails". What??? Are you a secretary now?!
 

 Discussion on question by gabt: Sendi…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 29, 2019 19:19
Instead of guessing let's just let the OP tell us for sure
 

 Discussion on question by crass_sandw…

Imported from a comment discussion on worldbuilding.stackexcha...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 28, 2019 12:30
@kadu (a) Not a multi-hundred mile wrong turn, no - that would take quite the skill. (b) Still doesn't explain the connection between the two things
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 28, 2019 12:30
Also, Hitchhiker's Guide is not "super obscure"!
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 28, 2019 12:30
"Their system of FTL travel requires nearly perfect accuracy in terms of coordinates, so they're running simulations to be absolutely certain the next planet they reach is habitable before using up expensive resources to get there." This is a bit tangential to your question, but I didn't understand the link between "FTL travel system needs precise calculations" and "FTL takes resources so we need to ensure the destination is worthwhile". Are the human-powered computations for precisely calculating the FTL jump, or for determining viability of the destination planet?
 

 Discussion on question by anon: Not r…

Imported from a comment discussion on law.stackexchange.com/qu...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 27, 2019 04:50
@JonathanReezSupportsMonica I think you overstate how awesome it is to work in a country with some of the worst worker protections in the world.
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe: Why, in …

Imported from a comment discussion on politics.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 24, 2019 23:39
@reirab I know what he means, and he's not substantively wrong, but I'm saying the wording is off.
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 24, 2019 23:39
@Joe That second sentence is true. The first one is not - it needlessly constrains the meaning of the word "guilt" beyond what anybody else has done.
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 24, 2019 23:39
You keep saying that "nobody is voting on guilt", but that's not really true, because a decision that the President should be removed from office is a decision that he's done something to deserve that action, and I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that such a "thing" would always be inherently negative (and thus something you deem one to be "guilty of").
 

 Discussion on question by gaazkam: Ho…

Imported from a comment discussion on security.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 24, 2019 14:24
"only replaced if repairs were no longer possible" Seems to cover it
 

 Discussion on question by Frustrated:…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 22, 2019 12:46
Is it just a couple of pull requests, or 50 pull requests? You've said both but they're quite different things.
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper - Rein…

Imported from a comment discussion on travel.stackexchange.com...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 18, 2019 16:24
A good notion but I got the impression that was not feasible, hence the question
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 18, 2019 16:24
But she is going to do that
 

 Discussion on question by D344z: "Sta…

Imported from a comment discussion on workplace.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 18, 2019 13:07
@Erik Yes, I do.
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 18, 2019 13:07
"How the hell are developers productive after 3 pm?" Really? I'm not productive until 3pm! Don't forget that everybody is different.
 

 Discussion on answer by DavePhD: Did …

Imported from a comment discussion on skeptics.stackexchange.c...
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 16, 2019 15:11
@plasticinsect I agree -- while the intent of the law itself seems sound, the actual wording seems wide open to "abuse" and if this does become law I can imagine all sorts of frivolous/spurious nonsense to pass as a result.
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 16, 2019 15:11
Please add a conclusion or summary, so as to answer the question.
 

 Discussion on answer by pela: Does th…

Imported from a comment discussion on astronomy.stackexchange....
Lightness Races with Monica
Nov 16, 2019 03:27
youtube.com/watch?v=C8BHLgfFx7I is good too