Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn't their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn't we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?

I don't know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.

15 years of IT experience at medium to large companies but never got any degrees or certs. "Born and raised on tech in the silicon valley" and aced interviews. Looking to add certs to my resume. Which ones are a waste and which ones are beneficial to have on your resume?

I've been thinking of how to go about lobbying institutions to join the fediverse. I think the next step could be to look at the domain of accounts with large followings and approach institutions that share those domains. When they see large followings for their subject matter, they would be more likely to join.

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Whistle by Flo Rida

Meme

I only know this song because I like Tolkien. I hope he didn't just turn in his grave.

Howdy! We just purchased a small house in the Cáceres (Spain) area ... Arroyo de la Luz, to be exact. Are there any other expats, immigrants, foreigners and/or fugitives here? I'm fluent in Spanish, but it would be nice to speak some English every so often!?

I'm making this post on a throwaway anonymous account because I want to ask something about how my mind works that I'm deeply ashamed of, and I want to hear honest opinions of other people's perspective - probably mostly men but ofc anyone is welcome to answer. I'm obviously a man, in my late 20's.

It's about seeing attractive people in public. I'm talking about seeing girls but I guess it applies to anyone you're attracted to.

I know I'm not supposed to stare but I can't help it. Little glances when I think they're not looking, looking at their bum or chest or face or legs. I will change my walking route to innocently walk past them and steal another look. If they're nearby it's like they occupy my mind and I have to keep looking, and I keep thinking about them and picturing them nude and imagining putting my hands on them. Never interacting, never saying anything, never openly staring, but just internally in my head.

tbh it's not even just attractive girls, it's basically all girls. If any girl has walked past me in the street or the store or on a bus, I have almost certainly checked her out. When I'm driving my head will turn away from the road to look at a girl on the sidewalk as I pass. I went to the beach this weekend and I couldn't keep my eyes in front of me because of all of the girls in bikinis, and some of them undoubtedly noticed me looking.

It's like I'm constantly scoping out everyone in my vicinity at all times, and always looking at their boobs and bums semi-consciously, and I can't really stop. I know it's horrible and creepy, and it probably makes them uncomfortable, but I kind of let it happen anyway. And I can't even say why really.. it's not like I get pleasure from looking at them, or that I'm looking for someone who I could approach or anything. There's literally no reason for it. It's just this passive activity that my brain automatically does to all girls at all times. And.. I will pick a different route to walk along a more busy street just because I know there will be more girls to look at.

When a guy walks past I probably couldn't tell you what he was wearing, or his hairstyle, or what he looks like. I don't notice. But when a girl walks past I notice all the details of her appearance, her body shape, her boobs in particular, her hair and face. I'm kinda disgusted by this aspect of my mind.

Obviously I know people find other people attractive and check people out. But.. is it this constant for everyone? Are you unable to keep your eyes and mind away when someone attractive walks past? Does looking at others' bodies constantly occupy your mind when you're in public? Or am I just so starved that it's broken my brain? Is this internal obsession with girls' bodies just what it's like to be a straight guy.. or am I different??

I often see many flaws on the judicial system, but this is definitely not one of them.

I'm glad the human rights became aware enough to say that just MAYBE, maybe a rapist needs help as much as any other mentally ill person.

Why is nobody questioning what is behind the reasons of a rapist? Does he just want to feel some short pleasure and leave? He just want to do evil things because... He wants? Why? Why is nobody considering possible sexual disorders a mind can have? Why is everybody so sure that it's pure evil and must be punished with more evil?

I recently was on a forum and a guy was feeling guilty about his sexual ideation towards women and he called himself a rapist, even tho he didn't end up doing anything at all, I carefully read his whole long post while most of people read only the title and condemned him saying he should die and kill himself.

I think people overestimate human free-will, I can't see how a mind with sexual deviation is less valid than a mind with social deviation that commit crimes against the others.

Our brain is a complex mechanism and not even science understands it very well, how can we be so sure we have absolute control over our decisions?

Before some retarded brainwashed moralist say it, I'm NOT defending rape or rapist, but I sympathize with an ill mind that MAYBE, just maybe isn't accountable for its behaviors, and punishing him with death, as every moralist proudly agree, is just resolving injustice with more injustice. You'll just make the balance of justice weight more on the injustice side.

I don't understand why people are so sure that every single rape crime should be punished with death or even worse, torture. While an overwhelming complex biological system is in control of our decisions.

I'm not minimizing rape or its impact, I'm just aknowleding that endless cycle of violence and agression might not be the solution.

Not saying the woman didn't die, but I'm finding it hard to believe that a healthy, conscious woman fell into knee-to-waist deep water, didn't stand up to save herself, and drowned. There's a photo in the link below which shows just how shallow British canals actually are. The water is knee-height, and two men are easily standing. In the middle of a canal, the water is waist-deep.

British canals also do not have currents and the water is still. I find it odd how they're focusing on barriers (to stop people from falling into knee-to-waist deep water you can easily stand up in?) rather than the possibility of her being held down. The narrative just isn't plausible at all. Any healthy, conscious adult, upon falling into waist-deep water at most, would simply stand up. If you ask me, something smells about this story (and all of the other "healthy, conscious adult fell into a shallow canal, didn't stand up to save themselves with no explanation as to why not, and drowned" stories).

Them pointing out she couldn't swim is a red herring. You don't even need to swim in knee-to-waist depth water.

There's no safety barriers because falling into a canal isn't something that's typically life-threatening to any healthy, conscious person. They don't put safety barriers around paddling pools for the same reason.

As in, you have what is considered “alien” technology that’s 100,000 years newer than anything invented or available today. By then, most humans around today are deceased before that’s even invented due to it being beyond our own lifetime. First, it would be studied if anything of that sort is available now or an equivalent but nothing comes close. People may ask questions as to how you acquired such advanced tech.

Governments may force you to mass produce that against your will if the demand is high, but again comes with its own issues: the materials it’s produced from are beyond what we already acknowledge (not yet known until later) but, they may just coerce you to extract such materials and resources. The futuristic technology will look nothing that’s depicted in science fiction, since it’s something we don’t even understand yet.

I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.

Its been a long week and I hope you are doing well.

Flying Cars

I know many, many people want flying cars to be a real thing. But, what is always going to prevent us from having true flying cars is, look at how people normally are with the cars on the ground. Drunk driving is tenfold going to be worse with flying cars, people are going to totally fly their vehicles into buildings, for sure. I think the closest we're going to get to flying cars, is the hover cars we see in Back to the Future II that are more ground level, but hover. Even then, I don't know if we're ever going to be ready for them.

True AI

What I mean with True AI is an AI that can actually be a little more sentient and living than what we got now. When AI first rolled out, it really put a damper on everyone in so many ways that I don't think we're ever going to see it. There's just too much at stake to trust an AI with the capability to think on its own and do things on its own. We're just going to be stuck with Semi-AI that only talk back to you in text form and maybe help you code. And that alone already has ruffled the feathers of millions who are hating AI which is another thing to consider.

Some stories, either in form of a book or a movie, seem so immersive that I feel as if I've transported directly into its universe. Other stories have some flaw that ruins the entire immersion and makes the story seem like a fictional piece of content. However I'm not able to pinpoint what the reason behind making a story immersive is. What do you think?

Edit: changed title

To reiterate: if given a summons by the court, in person attendance is mandatory (applies to all 50 states). After voir dire, if either the lawyer or judge has selected you as the juror and being presented with evidence relevant to the case: what types of cases were you assigned whilst being a part of the jury?

Also, what happens if the individual fails to willingly show up (non-excusals) in court on the appointed date when they've been handed a summons in the US? For reference, in my country where Jury Duty also exists: the offense for failing to show up in person incurs the equivalent of an ~800 USD fine.

I'm thinking even for cases of like shrinkflation.

I saw an article about potentially cheaper RAM here, so it got me curious if things ever really get better on occasion.

Doing research into online cults has been a bit difficult, with 764 and children of the waning star being the biggest examples that overshadow smaller accounts (the former not being religious at all), as well as spawnism. So, people of Lemmy, what are your experiences with online cults?
Edit for clarification: I am looking for cults in the traditional sense of the word: a closed off community with a distinct power structure and leader that is revered, with some sort of ideology (preferably spiritual but am open to all stories.)

I think it would be really cool, don't you think the same?

Like, using Iroh + INS for a fully descentralized, uncensorable, undeletable, non-redundant, fast, secure, private, efficient, directionable CAS, then binding that to ActivityPub —or even better, ActivityPods—, so you can register to the instances that are archiving what is more interesting to you and subscribe to the archivists and topics you prefer.

Wouldn't be cool? Or do you think it's not as good as it seems to me?

Edit: I mean, archiving the Web, like Wayback Machine (with a similar UX) but descentralized and 100% FLOSS.

I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don't think I've seen a movie so far this year, and I'm looking for suggestions. What's a movie that you really love?