The definition of what “good coffee” is vary from place to place. The northeast has absolutely phenomenal American style coffee (focus on drip coffee and long pours), a lot of Europeans are after a really good espresso for €1.5.

Am an executive… agree with you on all fronts

It’s potentially worse than useful and actively confusing.

Welcome to philosophy! I’d recommend reading Spinoza, he lays it out very intelligently.

It’s simultaneously a way of disproving the existence of God (he was kicked out of his Jewish community and hounded around Europe by the Catholics for his atheism), and a way of replacing it with the concept of the infinite / of the universe. Lends itself to meditation and contemplation, but not to any kind of religious dogma.

I have a more complicated answer these days than I used to… the short answer is “no,” but the caveats make it longer.

I don’t believe in a god in the sense of an all knowing human type being that has thoughts and wishes and passes down commandments – basically, not the religious kind of God.

At the same time, I appreciate a lot of the Jewish traditions I grew up with, and Judaism has a lot more lassitude around what “God” means to you. To me, it’s Baruch Spinoza’s conception of God … basically, just “the universe,” of which each person is an integral part.

So in a “college freshman on acid feeling one with the universe,” kind of way, sure I believe in God. In a, “He got upset I masturbated way,” then no, not at all.

It doesn’t really have all the communities I’m interested in … but for most of my looking-at-memes and commenting-on-things needs, it works great. I use lemmy exclusively on mobile and haven’t touched reddit on my phone since sync went away, but I still engage with reddit periodically on desktop.

These bills are intended to make it harder for anyone to look at porn online. There are plenty of tools parents can employ to make it harder for their own kids to see porn – that’s where the responsibility belongs.

Folks who are recommending a blanket % without knowing your situation have probably not been a hiring manager before. Getting the best outcome relies on you having a good sense for what you’re worth, knowing how much you’ll accept, and gauging what they’re willing to pay.

• How much you are worth: if people are trying to poach you, you’re probably pretty good. How does your current pay compare to the market? Are you earning more than the median for your job and experience? Less?

• How much you’re willing to take: sounds like you’d jump ship over to the competitors even without a pay raise. That’s good (it means all outcomes are positive), but unless you are way above market right now, you can probably do better.

• How much are they willing to pay? If they’re trying to poach you, odds are they’re willing to offer you the high end of the market – they know they are getting someone good.

Use a site like glassdoor, etc to gauge your current compensation vs. the market. Below the executive level they’re usually pretty accurate.

If you’re way below market right now, going for 20% may be shooting way too low (this often happens if you developed all these skills while staying in the same role at the same employer). If you’re way above the market, asking for 20% more might look pretty unreasonable.

From the moment they decided to milk it for three movies I knew it was going to suck. It’s a simple little adventure story ffs.

This movie was an unmitigated disaster. Awful, but not bad enough to enjoy because of it being bad. Too tone deaf to enjoy watching, not tone deaf enough to enjoy lampooning.

Don’t worry, PwC will make a ton of money when they’re asked to help cut costs after this crashes and burns.