I'm a retail manager and I would love to be a manager for Costco.
Half my stress comes from trying to fight head office on behalf of my staff while being the guy that gets yelled at by both sides.
Managers aren't all on the companies side. We're just stuck in the middle.
Based on what I've heard about Costco, they're literally the only company that I could read this letter and think "yeah, they're probably genuine about their sentiment".
Unionizing is ALWAYS a good idea, just in case, but as far as companies go, Costco has always gone out of its way to make sure their people are taken care of.
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/the-costco-model
The above is a study from the University of Texas. The conclusion seems to be that yes...it's still retail, with all the usual crap that comes with it, but the company actually tries to mitigate it as much as possible.
My kingdom for a "sell all junk" button.
I liked it well enough. I didn't even hate the loading screens all that much.
Flying and docking gets really old, really fast. I'd be willing to bet that most of the people who complain that they have a loading screen for docking probably forget that within a few hours into Elite Dangerous they probably just hit the auto-dock key because repeatedly doing it yourself gets boring as hell.
What disappointed me was that there is simply no reason to replay it post-starborn. Sure...some things "might" be a little different. But it's fundamentally the same experience. So if you've completed most of the questlines before moving to the final mission (like I usually do), there is no reason to keep playing the game.
New Universes is just wasted potential. I wanted my post Starborn life to have the ability to jump between universes, like we were able to in that one mission in the research lab. That was great. And it's a power that should definitely exist.
Imagine you jump into a universe where Sam Coe is somehow the leader of the Crimson Fleet, and in order to accomplish a mission in one universe, you need to steal/get something from the Crimson Fleet, and instead of fighting your way through, you are able to go to the Universe where Sam Coe is the leader and use what you know about him to gain his trust so that he gives it to you and you can take it back with you.
THAT is what I wanted post-starborn; the ability to fundamentally change HOW I complete missions I had already done. What I got was...hey, this person dies instead of this person. So frustrating
An electronic typewriter that my parents bought when I was entering highschool in the early 90s.
While my first works of fiction we're not written on it, my first fiction I ever submitted (it was rejected btw) to a publisher was.
I wouldn't get successfully published until the late 90s/early 00s after I had built my first PC out of scrap parts and a cheap copy of windows 95.
But that typewriter still holds a special place in my heart.
Ah yes, the "If it's not going to stop 100% of the problem, let's not do it at all" bullshit.
That old chestnut.
If random check stops don't stop 100% of drunk drivers, why do them at all. Your just punishing the drivers who AREN'T driving drunk!
If seatbelts don't save 100% of lives, why regulate that we wear them. Muh Freedums!!
It bullshit excuses made by people with literally nothing of any real sense to fall back on.
If your business plan can't make a profit while paying your people a living wage, than it doesn't deserve to be in business.
Expecting people to live paycheque to paycheque in order to subsidize your desire to be a business owner is the Pinnacle of bullshit.
I've believed for a long time that a viable way to do this consistently is the game changing technology that will change the world.
A system where every home has a 3D printer, and beside it, an economical, easy to use recycler that turns your plastic bottles, etc.. into working filament.
Dishes, cutlery, cooking utensils, you name it, could just be recycled in an environmental loop, or used as raw material for a coat hanger or a curtain hook or any other thing made of plastic in our homes.
It would change the world more than 3D printing already has.
Depardouche always gave off that vibe. The only reason it hasn't come out sooner is likely because French culture took a while to catch up with MeToo. No one could possibly be surprised he's a rapist.
What!? Apple took another companies idea and used slick marketing to convince consumers they invented it?!
I'm shocked...dismayed...appalled...all of those things.
My world has been rightly shooketh.
On second thought, no shit...it's Apple. That's kind of their schtick.
Just like they've always done, they'll throw a couple of their own to the wolves to distract the pitchfork weilding townsfolk (that's us) just long enough for us to stick our heads back down into our smartphones and gadgets and forget the entire business.
Just like the sacrificed Weinstein and Spacey to our public ire and then quietly stayed under the radar long enough to forget how many other celebrities are doing the same thing.
The powerful stay powerful by distraction and subterfuge. This will be no different.