Moscow agreed to discharge Indian nationals who were illegally inducted into the Russian Armed Forces during a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in July.

The way this is written, the dangling modifier makes it sound like the Indian nationals were illegally inducted into the Russian Armed Forces during the meeting. Like Modi met with Putin, and the Indian staff members and security detail that came along were corralled into a bus and shipped to the front lines. Then Modi comes out of the meeting looking like the Vincent Vega meme, and turns to Putin who is like the Fidel Castro Simpsons meme.

Moscow agreed during the meeting to discharge the illegally inducted Indian nationals.

Can’t see his name without thinking A. Blinken.

In other words, it’s absolutely mandatory in all situations except for all the time everywhere.

4 ten hour days can more easily become 4 eight hour days. Working 10 hours means more breaks, more downtime, more slack during each day, and people are going to need to leave work more often to handle personal matters. If you can get everyone on board with being half-staffed on Mondays and Fridays (assuming that not everyone works the same 4 days) then you can make the argument that the additional 2 hours a day are unnecessary.

That seems to be the main thrust of the interview. Employees leaving the building is bad for productivity, therefore I provide a variety of services, food, and support inside the building. Employees don’t have to ever leave, which boost productivity.

Whether or not that is true, that’s another matter. In fact, I would hazard a guess that the CEO’s statements are all “I want” statements precisely because he isn’t interested in debating the actual effect on employees. Is it more productive? Does the data support the expense? Doesn’t matter, he wants it.

I find it helps me be more creative to leave my working space for a change of scenery, but it also helps me focus on mundane tasks to have things at my fingertips to avoid leaving my workspace. I doubt there’s one universal answer, but a workplace that provides coffee and food isn’t preventing employees from leaving the building, it’s encouraging them to stay.

But I also work from home. I wouldn’t work for a company with a strict in-office policy, even if they provided coffee and daycare.

Perplexica? What sort of sauce goes with that?

For a minute I legit thought Italy had dropped a new pasta shape.

Yeah, the mistake was allowing the donor to be in the child’s life. I can understand him bonding with a baby girl in that scenario. He was babysitting and watching her grow up to look and act like him. This is exactly why professional donor services keep things anonymous. I agree with you that he shouldn’t have parental rights, as he gave those up as part of the donation. But I also understand how an unreasonable person reaches the conclusion that he should sue for parental rights.

Shares stupid opinion.

Everyone points out how stupid it is.

“This place is a liberal echo chamber!”

Imagine a hammer. This is a special hammer. It has the latest technology, which allows it to assist you hitting the nail. It can zero in on the nail, and nudge your swing to precisely strike on the optimal nail head.

But it’s still a hammer. You don’t always aim to strike a nail. Sometimes it’s removing a nail, sometimes it’s hammering something else.

That would be incredibly frustrating if every time you tried to use it, the hammer would jostle about in your hand looking for a nail head.

Now imagine that the nail manufacturers have started paying the hammer manufacturer to “prefer” their nails. Maybe those are the nails you need, maybe they aren’t, but the hammer jitters and jostles in your hand unless you’re using the brand that is paying for preferential treatment.

Somewhere along this path, the hammer has stopped being useful for even its most fundamental purpose. “Improvements” on the tool have created inefficiencies for the user. The underlying technology is good, and can improve the function of the tool, but it is being implemented poorly and the developers are prioritizing profits over functionality.

This anti-pattern repeats frequently across all industries. It has come to search engines and social media now.

Yeah, but the drill bit would need to be 140 million miles long just to reach Mars.

Colonizing Mars exposed the colonists to mutagenic radiation, causing people born on Mars to have birth defects (and psychic abilities). They weren’t native Martians, so the three booby lady won’t exist until we send people there.

Fun fact, the Earth has a magnetosphere that protects us from radiation, and Mars does not. So it is very likely that Martian colonists would experience higher rates of cancer, birth defects, and sterility even with physical shielding.

But also, even if a human were to grow a third booby, it would probably be above or below one of the normal boobies, along a vertical line called the “milk line.” A third medial booby is, medically speaking, unlikely.

I mean, invading Russia in the winter months doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.

I am not a military strategist, but I would guess that the territory will be used as leverage in negotiations for a cease fire. They probably cannot hold the region indefinitely, but they can push the boundaries and make Putin look weaker. They can also force Russia to move invasion forces to defend.

And that’s without factoring in the geographic and political implications in occupying the region.

They have 1 minute to register a challenge. They submitted the challenge in 1 minute, 4 seconds.

So 4 seconds. That’s like the amount of time it takes for someone to say “write down the time.”

How much boiled grass would you have to eat?

Yeah, and is the cost of disposal a recycling process, or dumping the leftovers in the local river? Because you know that if they can make it $35 by doing the latter, those rivers are fucked.

There is something inherently wrong with them. It’s liquefied nutrition that’s been designed to create an addiction and provide nothing but calories. It’s marketed as a companion to meals, or as sports drinks, or as a convenient “pick me up”. It’s marketed to children, to poor people without alternatives. They are inherently predatory and harmful to your health.

Philadelphia has a “soda tax” that is effective, but the sugary beverage lobby has spent millions in attack ads and disinformation campaigns. I can’t imagine the shit fit they would throw if it were attempted federally.

You’re right, but moisannite can be distinguished without a loupe by a colorful flash. But also anyone knowledgeable enough to spot that at a distance probably does not have the same prejudices against lab-made diamonds. I mean, unless they work for Debeers.