[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 2 months ago

Do you remember growing up and asking "how was it even possible that someone as monstrous as Hitler was put in power? He wasn't shy about his intents!"?

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 124 points 4 months ago

The "is a hot dog a sandwich" and similar discussions are solved with the mighty sword of language and not some rigid taxonomy about fillings and bread.

Imagine a set of food items on a table, hot dog amongst them, but not other pseudo-sandwiches. I ask you to "Please pass me that sandwich." If there is but a moment's pause in your mind before you reach for the hot dog, even if it's as you surmise I must be speaking about the hot dog as there are no other sandwich-like items available, then it is not a sandwich.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 133 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sec scenes are common in modern games?

Y'all I've been big into Armored Core 6, Stardew Valley and Factorio lately what have you been up to?

Edit: I'm being flippant, the idea that an actor could have such a thing sprung on them is awful and I hope they get the protections they deserve.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 4 months ago

Saved you a click, Harris polls better with Latinos, says the article.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As someone who's had to do cold calls as part of a sales pipeline,

  1. it's spam,
  2. I wouldn't say it's spam on LinkedIn, that's where I tell lies to get better jobs,
  3. if it's B2B, I do not feel any shame, every business is a fuck

Edit: I'll also add that B2B cold calls do work. If you have a good product or service and approach it the right way, you can generate plenty of business this way. That said, it's wholly a numbers game. When I was training sales agents, they'd ask me "how do I get sales like you do?" and I'd tell em simply "Make more calls." As I said elsewhere, I'm good at this. I had a roughly 2-3% conversation rate. Understand that means if I made a hundred calls, I made two to three sales. And that's pretty damn good. Before we were more established and could drop that model, we found that cold calling generally had around a 1.4% conversion rate. It relies on you being chipper and persistent to the point of annoyance. Some people literally do break at one point and say stuff like "Well, I need to get something, and if I sign with you, will you stop calling me?"

It was always far more enjoyable to call established leads, people who already expressed and interest and just needed help making up their mind. Better on the customer, better on the agent, a better process overall.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 96 points 6 months ago

I sent emails for 8 months to a person named Chris that started "Hi Chairs," and they never noticed.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 124 points 10 months ago

Now do American companies and institutions

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 108 points 10 months ago

It's news when the democrats say there's no appropriate time to critique democrats

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 120 points 10 months ago

Don't really matter until he stops sending them bombs and billions tho innit

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 108 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Converting to Judaism isn't as simple as it is to convert to Christianity.

It will take years of study and effort.

That aside, the govt of Israel will not "offer" you a chance for a Birthright trip. You have to apply for it and demonstrate you meet the requirements. I don't see why you wouldn't qualify, but the Israeli govt is rather close minded about these things. (EDIT: Someone else in the thread has said Birthright Israel accepts converts explicitly, so you should be good here)

THAT aside, don't go to Israel, don't give them any money. What they're doing right now is absolutely monstrous and it's morally inexcusable to support them.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 100 points 11 months ago

I'm easily fooled into productivity with a median wage that adjusts with inflation and quantified growth goals.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 1 year ago

"Security", haha yeah right

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