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Now I’m walking with feet, she keeps her young in a bag.
Wow, he just made smoke. And she’s tamed a stag.
Now they invented a cure for when my stomach is sick.
And there’s math in my head, and she’s discovered the Higgs.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto AI Generated Images@sh.itjust.works•Skateboarder Witch Hovering above the cityscapeEnglish1·5 days agoDon’t sit on grip tape, it ruins your clothes.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•France: 10% pay cut for pregnant civil servants: “unacceptable sexist discrimination” for trade unions [pay cut during sick leave starting earlier for pregnant women than other civil servants]English4·5 days agoI think I was wrong originally. My current understanding is that they did deliberately disadvantage pregnant woman: https://lemmy.world/comment/17597987
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•France: 10% pay cut for pregnant civil servants: “unacceptable sexist discrimination” for trade unions [pay cut during sick leave starting earlier for pregnant women than other civil servants]English5·5 days agoOh so I didn’t understand it correctly. Thank you for pointing it out. The difference between pregnant woman and everyone else is when the 90% pay kicks in.
So in general, people get 100% pay the first day of sick leave and 90% every day following.
They made a special carve-out for pregnant women so they get 90% on the first day.
Yeah that’s shitty to go out of your way to hurt pregnant woman.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•France: 10% pay cut for pregnant civil servants: “unacceptable sexist discrimination” for trade unions [pay cut during sick leave starting earlier for pregnant women than other civil servants]English3·5 days agoIf I understand correctly (I didn’t),
everyone got the cut to 90% except woman on maternity leave and pathological pregnancy. They are upset that if a pregnant woman otherwise takes sick time, they will see the 90% pay like everyone else.The headline made it sound like women were getting 90% pay for the entire pregnancy.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•It's June 2025. What are you looking forward to in the next 6 months?2·6 days agoHanging with my family and my partner’s family for a few weeks.
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications6·8 days agoNot that power input and light output are exactly the same but the Las Vegas sphere is 28MW
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits.1·8 days agoGood point, the lights on a boat or airplane (probably not a train) are red on the left and green on the right. Not sure how international that is.
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits.4·8 days agoMy favorite mnemonic: “We have some red port left”
Left if you are facing direction of travel = port = the red light
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"?1·10 days agoSo “here” is close enough for your needs. “There” is too far away to be useful.
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"?1·10 days agoArguably you are touching, or nearly touching, both of those things.
Not a lot of places where silencers are legal, right?
It’s kind of nice that some things have carried over from red-it, like the same memes popping up repeatedly, and people in the comments (me) complaining about it.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•French dock workers block shipment of military material for IsraelEnglish131·11 days agoWay to go.
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult.7·11 days agoYeah, some people want to be seen as different to stand out from the crowd, but if you identify someone as being different it can be considered “othering”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Othering
I don’t have a good idea where the line is.
Goose
It seems like federation largely allows you both to have it your own way. Some instances are growth focused and others are culture focused (beehaw comes to mind).
My goal is to chip in where I can to make Lemmy a nice place. Eventually there will be another exodus of corpo socials and we will see a sudden influx.