If you have a skill set someone is offering $500k for, someone less shitty is going to be offering at least $400k. So you’re not giving up $500k, you’re giving up $100k or 20%. I’ve taken bigger pay cuts than that in exchange for increased job satisfaction.
I’d say the only difference is that when you “have a filter” you may reword the statement before uttering it, but when you self censor you omit the statement altogether.
It certainly doesn’t need to be incriminating. A lot of discourse about self censorship discusses how young people often don’t express their opinions online, because they don’t want to get into some drawn-out discussion which ultimately results in everyone still maintaining the same opinions. It’s a waste of time and not good for your mental health. In that scenario the self-censorship is not about avoiding incriminating yourself, but about not triggering some situation you don’t want to be in.
Everyone does, often unconsciously. You know nothing good will come out of mentioning something in present company, so you don’t.
You don’t bring up politics while that weird uncle is visiting for Thanksgiving. You don’t bring up stuff you know will upset your friend. You answer “I don’t know” when a cop asks you if you know why you got pulled over. There’s endless situations where you know it’s best not to say anything, and a few where you quickly learn not to say anything next time.
Life would be very difficult and cumbersome if you didn’t self-censor to at least some extent.
I get your point, although I’m not sure that’s a good example. I’d be very wary of anyone promising not to stab me out of the blue :-)
That being said, I’d be very surprised if Lego isn’t still doing largely the same things they did before, except they’re no longer publishing what they’re doing. For the Danish part of their operations I’m guessing most of it is mandated by local law anyway.
OK, I haven’t tried those. I am currently building the Pikachu from Mega Bloks with my young children, and they are having a noticeably harder time putting the pieces together than with similar complexity Lego sets. That being said, I love the design of the set, and the assembly instructions are arguably at least as good as Lego.
I have a hard time reading this thread as anything other than suggestions for boycotting Lego based on them having removed their DEI policy, while suggesting alternatives which never had one.
And they still deserve credit for having invented the concept and designed the bulk of the bricks. I don’t see how that changes at all based on whether they have a DEI policy. They obviously should lose any benefit from having a better DEI policy, since they no longer have one, but that doesn’t change anything else.
Do those companies have DEI policies, or are we just indirectly dinging Lego for having had one in the first place?
Which ones? Mega Bloks make really nice designs, but the Lego bricks feel better to build with.
The official bricks have a better feel than any of the off-brand versions I’ve encountered, though. Every other brand is usually too tight, or sometimes too loose. Lego spent a lot of time perfecting the clasping power, and it shows.
I would certainly check before purchasing, in the age of ad-financed TVs.
Never threaten legal action to a callcenter. If they take it seriously (or just don’t want to talk to you) they’ll hang up immediately and demand all further communication goes through lawyers.
They might nag you about connecting.
The shoe in the screenshotted video looks sized for an older kid, though.
Depends on the age. For a 3-5 year old prone to sneaking out on adventures it could be useful.
Just one problem: Mine tended to attempt their escape barefoot.
He won the prize before even entering office. At the time, most Norwegians believed that Thorbjørn Jagland, head of the committee, was infatuated with Obama and his campaign and just orchestrated a win for him so they could meet. Officially he won because his campaign had been so unifying or some nonsense like that.
I’m pretty sure Obama hated it, because it put him in a very awkward spot. Both he and everyone else knew it was premature to receive it before having done anything, but it wouldn’t look good to decline it either.
You’re just saying that because you know you’re going to do it on accident anyway, and you’re trying to get ahead of it
Adding fluoride to water is not US specific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
I’m not the one you asked, but adding fluoride to tap water was a revolution in dental health, so yeah.
Just like most things, concentration matters. A little fluoride is very good for you. A lot of fluoride is bad for you. They put a “very good for you” amount in the water, and if you don’t get it from the water you should take supplements.
You may have seen conspiracy theories about fluoride addition which have existed since the 70s, but those have about as much credibility as chemtrails.
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I’m not particularly interested in an exercise which is completely irrelevant to real-world scenarios. In the real world your choice would look more similar to my example, so that is the more relevant hypothetical.