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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
Having conflicting thoughts on the subject in my own life and would like some validation or advice. | ||
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Poland9296 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
Follow-up: if one speaks out and receives vitriol or nothing changes, is it still complicity to thereafter not say anything as it has been shown not to accomplish anything? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23905 Posts
On February 02 2019 05:53 Fecalfeast wrote: More often than not it's only around other white guys but not always. The issue also is that as far as I can tell I'm the only one that doesn't appreciate the jokes, including management. It's construction and i know that's no excuse but it seems to permeate the culture of the job. Follow-up: if one speaks out and receives vitriol or nothing changes, is it still complicity to thereafter not say anything as it has been shown not to accomplish anything? Yes. But lots of jobs are have complicity in as a job requirement. Like it's pretty hard to be a top boss until you've fired a quality employee with a family that depends on them for costing the company too much money because they've worked there too long and been too loyal. So ignoring some racism is far from the worst stuff people do to make sure their paycheck keeps coming, but it's also appropriate to feel complicit if you don't stop it/stop working there. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18278 Posts
On February 02 2019 05:53 Fecalfeast wrote: More often than not it's only around other white guys but not always. The issue also is that as far as I can tell I'm the only one that doesn't appreciate the jokes, including management. It's construction and i know that's no excuse but it seems to permeate the culture of the job. Follow-up: if one speaks out and receives vitriol or nothing changes, is it still complicity to thereafter not say anything as it has been shown not to accomplish anything? Does your company have some way of logging complaints with HR? Most companies do, and larger companies take it very seriously. You don't necessarily need to confront him directly, if you're afraid that will negatively impact your own situation. | ||
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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
On February 02 2019 17:02 Acrofales wrote: Does your company have some way of logging complaints with HR? Most companies do, and larger companies take it very seriously. You don't necessarily need to confront him directly, if you're afraid that will negatively impact your own situation. No HR department it's a small company. Obviously I could stop working there or file some sort of complaint to the government but the financial and opportunity cost of doing so would set me back a great deal. The owner of the company is arguably more toxic than the initial person I referenced, I just hardly interact with him. I guess I just have to deal with it on a personal level, accept the deal with the devil I made in silence, or find myself back at square one career-wise. | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
Oh and don't accept that it is because it is the culture of "construction". It is not. When I was younger I worked in a few manual labour jobs and in any of them anybody making regularily making racist slurs would soon find that their behaviour is considered unacceptable. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
Hippos weigh ~1600kg. Orcas weigh ~4500kg. Orcas can take out Walruses, which are a bit less heavy than Hippos, but it still gives us an idea about what they're capable of. Hippos and Walruses both rely on their bulk for protection against foes (though Hippos are generally more aggressive and less reliant on packs than Walruses). Hippos are able to retaliate against and kill both lions and crocodiles, but both of these predators pale in comparison to Killer Whales. They've been known to prey on Southern Elephant Seals (~3000kg), far bigger than hippos. Hippos are also far less mobile than these animals, and their attacks aren't nearly as damaging underwater as they are on land. Despite the numbers advantage, I'd say the Orca wins hands down. | ||
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Atreides
United States2393 Posts
In reference to above, marine mammals (be they walruses, stellar sea lions, elephant seals, etc) are far far more at home and agile actually swimming than a hippo and they still have essentially no chance beyond escape. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11813 Posts
And it made me mad, and got me thinking: Mad, because what kind of shitty unit of measurement is "metric ton of force". We already have a perfectly good unit for force in the metric (SI) system. It is called the Newton. It is very well defined. One Newton is the Force needed to accelerate 1 kg of mass at an acceleration of 1m/s². Why would you feel the need to bring the horrible system that uses the same unit for mass and force into a system that doesn't do something as monumentally stupid? I get it that that is advertisement talk aimed at americans, and to a lot of americans "Metric ton" simply means "very heavy" or "a lot". But still. It is such a bad idea to use the same units for force and mass, and even more stupid is to base a unit of measurment on something as un-universal as surface gravity of earth. A nice quote from wikipedia with regards to this: "Kilogram-force is a non-standard unit and is classified in SI Metric System as a unit that is unacceptable for use with SI." Digging deeper into wikipedia seems to suggest that that unit is for inexplicable reasons actually used by a bunch of space programs, and i can't figure out why one would do that when a perfectly fine and well defined unit exists to describe the same thing. Now, to my question: Does anyone have experience teaching physics to high school children in the US? Specifically, introductory stuff that deals with force and mass. As someone who is in the process of becoming a physics teacher here in Germany, I know that it is already hard enough to convince children here that force and mass are not the same thing, especially since you usually mostly talk about the force of gravity when you introduce forces. It sounds like that would be made a lot harder if you actually used the same units for both things. And it seems like explaining that something with a mass of 1 pound doesn't have the weight-force of one pound on the surface of the moon is incredibly confusing. If anyone knows about how this is dealt with, i would be interested. And i would also be interested in more general stuff on how physics teachers in the US deal with that horrible system of units that you use over there. Do you introduce SI units which are only used during physics class, or do you try to calculate stuff with all the horrible conversion factors that you need to use in the US system? It seems to me as if that both ways would make it even harder for students to understand (and thus for teachers to teach) this stuff. | ||
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kidcrash
United States623 Posts
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tw!tch
United States563 Posts
Calm vs Mini, ASL S7, Calm has 1800+ minerals in the bank, and in one second goes down under 100. Game time is 9:59. youtu.be How does that even happen? They show his hatcheries, he doesn't have any larva making, and its too fast to select a bunch of upgrades. What gives? *edit* Yeah this really was a stupid question. They talk about it on stream but I wasn't originally watching with sound. Doh. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium5112 Posts
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Oshuy
Netherlands529 Posts
On February 13 2019 05:46 kidcrash wrote: What is the most extreme re-entry scenario a person could survive without a parachute given that the capsule was built to both withstand the impact/heat and help the person survive inside? How would the interior be built to allow the person to survive that absolute insane whiplash and decelerate them safely? Not sure I get the question. If we chose (by design) not to have a parachute, then we can get a safe deceleration and landing using wings or thrusters. If there is a malfunction on the parachute on a lander that was designed to use one, you will (of course) get a crash at terminal velocity for the lander. Usually, would be far easier to build redundancy on the parachutes than to try and get a safe landing both with and without the parachutes. If the goal is to build a scenario where the passengers survive impact at terminal velocity based on current capsule designs:
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tw!tch
United States563 Posts
On February 25 2019 21:19 Uldridge wrote: I'm quite certain the spectator view was bugged. Tasteless mentioned it several times and both Artosis and Tasteless had differences in their spectator screen, like they were watching a different game. At some point it was switched out to which I assume was the correct one, but I'm not sure on the exact thing that went down at that moment. Ah, ok, fair enough. Thanks man | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7162 Posts
On February 13 2019 05:25 Simberto wrote: So, i just went into the space thread, and read this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1093424663269523456 And it made me mad, and got me thinking: Mad, because what kind of shitty unit of measurement is "metric ton of force". We already have a perfectly good unit for force in the metric (SI) system. It is called the Newton. It is very well defined. One Newton is the Force needed to accelerate 1 kg of mass at an acceleration of 1m/s². Why would you feel the need to bring the horrible system that uses the same unit for mass and force into a system that doesn't do something as monumentally stupid? I get it that that is advertisement talk aimed at americans, and to a lot of americans "Metric ton" simply means "very heavy" or "a lot". But still. It is such a bad idea to use the same units for force and mass, and even more stupid is to base a unit of measurment on something as un-universal as surface gravity of earth. A nice quote from wikipedia with regards to this: "Kilogram-force is a non-standard unit and is classified in SI Metric System as a unit that is unacceptable for use with SI." Digging deeper into wikipedia seems to suggest that that unit is for inexplicable reasons actually used by a bunch of space programs, and i can't figure out why one would do that when a perfectly fine and well defined unit exists to describe the same thing. I'm just happy they use the metric system at all to be honest. ~ 1700 kN is quite awesome. Normal plane engines do about 500 kN afaik | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
Not sure about metric ton as a unit of force, though maybe that's peculiar to rocketry, but for a unit of thrust, lb is pretty common. I don't know why the Americans use weight as a measurement of force. I blame the British. | ||
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