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oldjob was unlimited pto and it was fine currentjob i get three fuckin weeks. turns to four in march, but three weeks is really bad
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yeah the scam in unlimited pto is in the accounting department, not hr. the biggest downside is you don't get that extra paycheck if you leave the company. if the place had lovely managers that haggled you over paid pto then they're going to be assholes with unlimited pto. if management was already chill with pto then they'll be chill with unlimited pto. in my case it's always meant taking one week off every quarter but there's obviously horror stories out there. any place that's a dick about it is almost guaranteed to be a dick about everything else too and you should already be looking for an exit anyways
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Nov 26, 2021 18:54
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my place gives three weeks pto but also has five 'flex holidays' so we effectively have four weeks of pto but only three of them are paid out if we leave. i'm sure the accounting department has some min/maxed excel spreadsheet justifying this setup but whatever. it's kind of nice in a way because you just take your flex holidays first which in theory gives you a larger pto payout should you leave
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Nov 26, 2021 18:57
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I get 4 weeks plus a smattering of holidays, it's pretty good. If you're a team that works closely with one in Germany ( I'm not :| ) there are some more holidays on their end that leads to some slacking time on your end
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Nov 26, 2021 19:15
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zero covid is and will always be the only rational strategy and if this is the variant that proves it through chaotic abrupt mass death then buckle up, but if it isn’t there eventually will be one that does. there has been one disease that magically got less bad on its own, the vast majority don’t do that.
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Nov 26, 2021 19:46
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Stereotype posted:zero covid is and will always be the only rational strategy and if this is the variant that proves it through chaotic abrupt mass death then buckle up, but if it isn’t there eventually will be one that does. there has been one disease that magically got less bad on its own, the vast majority don’t do that. lol remember when someone massacred an elementary school and america didn't give a poo poo? though tbf most of the rest of the world has also hosed up pandemic response big time
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Nov 26, 2021 20:01
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Stereotype posted:zero covid is and will always be the only rational strategy and if this is the variant that proves it through chaotic abrupt mass death then buckle up, but if it isn’t there eventually will be one that does. there has been one disease that magically got less bad on its own, the vast majority don’t do that.  as you can clearly see from the trend, the next peak will be even smaller than the delta peak in the summer.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:02
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol remember when someone massacred an elementary school and america didn't give a poo poo? yeah the west really hosed this one up, only china soldiers on.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:04
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also wait isn't "eventually a variant will emerge that causes mass death" theoretically applicable to every other disease as well?
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Nov 26, 2021 20:04
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:also wait isn't "eventually a variant will emerge that causes mass death" theoretically applicable to every other disease as well? it is but few of them have the same running start at it that this one does.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:05
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Full, mandatory vaccination with legitimate medical exemptions being the only exemptions allowed is about it and won't be done despite being less "extreme" than zero covid. Also approval processing for vaccine updates, which can be done in less than a month as per Pfizer/Moderna. Good luck convincing the same people who won't take it now to take it though.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:06
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:also wait isn't "eventually a variant will emerge that causes mass death" theoretically applicable to every other disease as well? i mean sort of, but historically we also haven't let deadly pandemics get entirely out of control and then decide to let them stay that way because dealing with them is hard. there really aren't that many novel viruses, and the ones we accepted previously were never that bad to start.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:08
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:also wait isn't "eventually a variant will emerge that causes mass death" theoretically applicable to every other disease as well? no, this time it's different from 165, 541, 735, 1346, 1520, 1545, 1576, 1629, 1656, 1772, 1846, 1855, 1889, 1918, 1957, 1968, and 1981. the 2019 pandemic is absolutely the one that is going to kill all humans and plunge civilization into an eternal dark age.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:14
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol remember when someone massacred an elementary school and america didn't give a poo poo? oh we gave a poo poo. a fringe talk show host said that it actually didn't happen and the kids were actually very small crisis actors and then spotify paid joe rogan a hundred million dollars and his first notable guest was said fringe talk show host
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Nov 26, 2021 20:15
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It would be nice if they updated the shots to cover the dominant variant too rather than doing it once against the wuhan original and calling it a day.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:16
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Jonny 290 posted:oh we gave a poo poo. a fringe talk show host said that it actually didn't happen and the kids were actually very small crisis actors and then spotify paid joe rogan a hundred million dollars and his first notable guest was said fringe talk show host
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Nov 26, 2021 20:17
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The immune system is incredible, it has a built-in variant-busting mechanism called somatic hypermutation where it diversifies antibodies by randomly shuffling DNA segments.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:24
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:It would be nice if they updated the shots to cover the dominant variant too rather than doing it once against the wuhan original and calling it a day. Both moderna and Pfizer have said they can spin up and start production of a new vaccine targeting new variants in less than a month. The issue is getting approval
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Nov 26, 2021 20:26
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Sagebrush posted:no, this time it's different from 165, 541, 735, 1346, 1520, 1545, 1576, 1629, 1656, 1772, 1846, 1855, 1889, 1918, 1957, 1968, and 1981. the 2019 pandemic is absolutely the one that is going to kill all humans and plunge civilization into an eternal dark age. i've been hoping but it lets me down every time.
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Nov 26, 2021 20:53
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Fabricated posted:Both moderna and Pfizer have said they can spin up and start production of a new vaccine targeting new variants in less than a month. our bureaucracy has performed so admirably over the last two years i'm sure it won't be a problem then
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Nov 26, 2021 20:57
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spankmeister posted:The immune system is incredible, it has a built-in variant-busting mechanism called somatic hypermutation where it diversifies antibodies by randomly shuffling DNA segments. the problem is this is a slow process and covid could kill you before your immune system finds a solution to it most people are obviously able to fight it off before it gets too bad but sometimes someone rolls snake eyes and your immune system isn't able to find the right shuffle in time so yeah this isn't ever going to become black death levels of bad but it's also never going to reduce down to background noise until the entire globe simultaneously adopts covid zero policies or at least mandates universal vaccines in summary: lol. lmao
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Nov 26, 2021 22:41
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universal vaccination will take place once the unvaccinated people die of supercovid, obviously
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Nov 26, 2021 22:46
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kitten emergency posted:universal vaccination will take place once the unvaccinated people die of supercovid, obviously yeah this is the merek's disease but in people future that i feel is increasingly likely
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Nov 26, 2021 22:53
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well at least the new variant of concern should be just in time to push out return to office plans
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Nov 26, 2021 23:16
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:our bureaucracy has performed so admirably over the last two years i'm sure it won't be a problem then tbh a regulatory exemption or even straight-up new law enabling immediate production of variant-targeted vaccines strikes me as much more likely than most other measures the government might take
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Nov 26, 2021 23:19
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i guess this one is the O M I C R O N variant
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Nov 26, 2021 23:22
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:tbh a regulatory exemption or even straight-up new law enabling immediate production of variant-targeted vaccines strikes me as much more likely than most other measures the government might take Now getting people to take them if they get perma-fasttracked? lol, lmao Moderna already issued a statement that they've been testing two new vaccines for a while (as in, since Delta first dropped) that target most of the worse mutations seen in Omicron (because we identified these mutations as being bad already- they're present in Beta/Delta/Mu/etc), and are testing them against Omicron currently.
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Nov 26, 2021 23:36
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:also wait isn't "eventually a variant will emerge that causes mass death" theoretically applicable to every other disease as well? There's evolutionary pressure to not massively kill off all of your hosts because then you can't continue to reproduce. Viruses and bacteria don't want our species dead, they just want to continue loving and sucking forever, and adaptations are designed to make that more and more efficient.
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Nov 26, 2021 23:54
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"Designed" was a poo poo word there because it's actually the random walk of evolution. But adaptations that cause your host to die and prevent your reproduction are going to reduce overall fitness.
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Nov 26, 2021 23:55
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I'm going to continue living my life as I have all of my previous 33 years. Holed up in my home, in front of a computer screen, talking poo poo at strangers on the internet.
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Nov 26, 2021 23:56
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shoeberto posted:"Designed" was a poo poo word there because it's actually the random walk of evolution. But adaptations that cause your host to die and prevent your reproduction are going to reduce overall fitness. if it increases (or at least doesn't decrease) efficacy of spreading before the host dies then it doesn't really "reduce fitness". or at least not directly. the reason hyperlethal viruses tend to die out in the long term is because they actually massacre so many people that the reduced population density ends up reducing the spread, or people get so concerned that they actively take measures to control it before things get that far. you really really don't want to live in a time where it's the first of those factors that ends up happening
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Nov 27, 2021 02:34
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jabor is right basically don't try to predict what is an evolutionarily stable strategy and what isn't unless you have a model and also that model maps _pretty dang well_ to actual mechanisms of mutation evolution is hosed up, genes are hosed up, and almost all of the lay "x is a good/bad strategy" talk turn out to be just-so stories that while not incorrect on a conceptual level have little to no bearing on how actual mutations in actual organisms occur, and are misleading at best when applied to empirical cases
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Nov 27, 2021 03:45
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reminder for those playing at home: 1. if it makes > 4 grandbabies, it's an ESS 2. sucks to your group selection, defectors will gently caress you
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Nov 27, 2021 03:47
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It really rocks that we didn't nationalize the pharma industry and release all patents for medicines when the pandemic first started.
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Nov 27, 2021 03:53
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Jabor posted:if it increases (or at least doesn't decrease) efficacy of spreading before the host dies then it doesn't really "reduce fitness". hmm no I think I’d like it if the virus got better by itself, so that I don’t have to do anything.
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Nov 27, 2021 04:06
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Stereotype posted:zero covid is and will always be the only rational strategy I live in a place (HK) with that strategy. we have zero cases and have for months. our vaccination rate is 60% and unlikely to improve for a variety of reasons. in exchange for that, if you want to leave and return, you eat a 3-week quarantine in a hotel room that you pay for with windows that do not open. if you run out of amenities like water, you pay for that too. vaccination status does not matter. the wait list for a quarantine hotel booking is several months. if I left today to see my parents for the first time in 3 years the earliest I could be back in my flat is March. it’s achievable, but there’s a cost to it.
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Nov 27, 2021 05:58
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:I live in a place (HK) with that strategy. we have zero cases and have for months. our vaccination rate is 60% and unlikely to improve for a variety of reasons. there's a cost to not doing it that way, and it's much worse. we haven't even seen how much worse it is yet and a million people are dead
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Nov 27, 2021 06:14
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add covid to the list of things that will never ever be even close to solved without a global communist dictatorship marching soldiers into every city on earth
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carry on then posted:add covid to the list of things that will never ever be even close to solved without a global communist dictatorship marching soldiers into every city on earth YJDPOS
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