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[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 minutes ago

So it's your fault!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh yeah, because the first one did so well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'll be honest, I doubt it will. At least, not in the mainstream.

Alternatives to Salesforce already exist, and there's a reason why they're not more commonplace: most companies that use Salesforce or similar CRM platforms do so because somebody else maintains it (which is why Salesforce/Zendesk/etc are more expensive than a lot of their counterparts that don't offer such services). If they have a problem with the tools, they're paying for somebody at Salesforce to fix it for them. They don't have to pay somebody in their own company to manage the servers or learn the software, they just let Salesforce manage that.

That level of support very likely wouldn't be the case with Twenty, and companies would be expected to pay somebody internally to learn and maintain their instance of the software. There's also liability issues; if your company's customer data gets breached somehow, it's Salesforce's responsibility and not yours, so you have to take on those sorts of burdens, as well. All of this starts to get very pricey (and very risky) if a company isn't already structured in a way to handle those sorts of tasks, which is why I doubt there'll be any big shift.

I'd love to be wrong, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

If so, there's nothing preventing him from doing that.

Deportations have to be negotiated with the receiving nation, regardless of whether we have a declared emergency or not. You can't just send somebody back without approval (otherwise you're facilitating an invasion), so each individual case has to be processed by both the US's immigration departments as well as whichever country you're trying to deport that person to. It doesn't happen often, but there are situations where a receiving country could outright refuse a deportee, or may be otherwise unable to receive them (perhaps the person isn't a recognized citizen of that country, either).

Deportation isn't as swift of a process as a lot of people think. Many deportees spend weeks or months in detainment before they're ever released. The system would be immediately backlogged if they were to move at rates Trump is suggesting.

There's also the issue of sending civilians into active warzones. Many immigrants are refugees, escaping from countries that are at war. Take Haiti for instance: They're in the process of being taken over by gangs, and their government is in shambles trying to combat them. Their president was assassinated a few years ago, and kidnappings of civilians are on the rise. Civilians are not safe in Haiti right now, and sending people into an active conflict like that could be seen as a crime against humanity.

There will be deportations. Hundreds, maybe thousands. But definitely not millions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trump's picks are really starting to sound like the setup to a 4-year long Aristocrats joke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

They have no plan. We know this because it's already mathematically impossible to do what they're wanting to do. There literally aren't enough places to detain all the immigrants they want to deport, nor are there enough ICE employees to even process them. You can't just snatch people up and stuff 'em on an airplane and be done with it, there's a whole process involved that our system does not have the capacity to even begin to support.

Don't get me wrong, they're 100% going to do some deportations, and they'll make sure that it's national news when they do it. They'll make sure that FOX tells you about their criminal histories, and they'll make sure CNN tells you about their children locked in cages hundreds of miles away from their parents.

It's not about actually deporting immigrants. It's about making the immigrants that are already here feel unsafe. It's about making them feel insecure, worrying about whether they'll be eating dinner tomorrow at home, or behind bars. It's about making everybody live in fear; citizens are to fear their criminal neighbors, and immigrants are to fear the neighbors that would rat them out to ICE. Everything Trump and his team do are about making people turn against each other. And it works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why is Netflix so bad about making trailers for their original shows? This tells me nothing about the world or story, it's just a scene from the show without any context that would inform a viewer about what they're looking at. All this trailer conveys is that some people ride motorcycles, and I guess some other people don't like that.

I'm sure it's a fine series, but damn is Netflix not doing it any favors with this trailer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Headline should end at "news".

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

How is "make sure she has a backup plan" anything at all like what you said?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

OP said that money is the "main reason" for their relationship. It's not really that much of a leap at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's important to remember who he is and what he stands for.

 

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There is a quaint belief that in the 10th month the gods of Japan congregate for a great gathering to discuss matchmaking at Izumo-taisha (出雲大社) in Shimane Prefecture.

Only hard-of-hearing Ebisu and the Sun Goddess miss this annual pilgrimage.

Further reading:

In the tenth month of the traditional lunar calendar, a festival is held to welcome all the gods to Izumo Grand Shrine. It is believed that the gods convene at Izumo Shrine in October to discuss the coming year's marriages, deaths, and births. For this reason, people around the Izumo area call October kamiarizuki ("the month with gods"), but the rest of Japan calls October Kannazuki ("the month without gods").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-taisha

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I hope we're in agreement that Heilung falls under the metal genre.

 

Hey, was wondering if anybody might have any tips for me! I've been using a Worksharp Knife & Tool Sharpener MK2, and have this weird issue where my knives are coming out sharper on one side than the other.

I know that shouldn't really make any sense, but I've got a knife right now that I have no problem shaving hairs off my arm with, but only with one side. If I flip it over, no matter what angle I approach with, I can't knock away a single hair. The bevel is also significantly wider on one side, which I also can't figure out how to correct but I'm sure is related.

I can't tell if this has anything to do with the fact that the belt rubs against the steel in different directions when sharpening each side (up and into the blade on the left side, down and away from the blade on the right), or if perhaps this might be an error in technique on my part. As far as I can tell, I'm keeping the blade in line with the guides properly and not deviating significantly.

For what it's worth, I'm working with a hawkbill blade. Meaning that I have to lower the knife as I draw it through the sharpener, to keep contact with the belt. I know this allows for a lot of room for error; I've been making an effort to ensure that I'm keeping the alignment correct the whole time, but it's wholly possible that this may be where I'm messing something up.

Any ideas if I might be doing something wrong or something I could try to get a more even edge on both sides?

 

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This 16 year old video randomly showed up in my recommendations tonight. This is one of the coolest juggling routines I've ever seen.

 

Hey guys! I've just recently gotten into collecting pocket knives, and I wanna make sure I'm taking proper care of them. My last two purchases have been karambits, both with fairly steep recurved blades, whose edges I'd like to be able to maintain.

I know that normal sharpening stones aren't going to allow me enough contact with the blade to actually put an edge on it, so I've picked up a Smith's DRET sharpener and have been practicing on an old dull knife with a stiletto blade, just to try to get some basics down. I'm getting better with it, but I'm struggling to get an even, consistent edge. Even without any special optics, I can see with my own eyes that I've got wildly uneven angles.

Granted, I'm practicing with a very low-quality knife that was already in pretty rough shape. I've managed to get the edge from "literally unable to break the skin with 20 pounds of pressure and aggressive sawing motions on my forearm" to "can cut through paper with about half of the blade before bunching up", though it's come at a cost of scratching the absolute hell out of the rest of the blade (which is just me being sloppy).

I figure that once I'm able to get competent enough with sharpening a normal blade shape that I'll move on to testing with a donor karambit. I picked up a super cheap, mall-ninja-ass karambit on Amazon because the reviews were all poor and said that the knife arrived completely dull, so I figured this would be perfect to practice sharpening. Unfortunately, it arrived with a surprisingly sharp edge, so I'm gonna have to abuse this knife for a bit before I can even practice anything on it.

Just curious what sort of tools y'all recommend for dealing with recurved blades, or any techniques I could try to incorporate into my practicing. Thanks!

 

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