I don't know if that will happen. A lot of the cloud heavy offices moved to shared desks for engineers, so there's only a desk for 2 days/week, so they don't have enough space available for everyone to return full time.
It's still possible, but I don't think would be as easy as an annoucement.
My experience (at least in the US and UK) is the opposite. A pumpkin is a very particular (usually round and orange) type of squash. Squash is the generic term for most of the vegetables (both winter and summer variety) that are eaten.
I've really only seen "Pumpkin" used more commonly in Australia, where I was surprised to see someone refer to what I knew as a butternut squash as a pumpkin.
When you think of a pumpkin you'll likely envision a particular type of squash, but if you buy canned pumpkin or eat a randomly purchased "pumpkin" pie you're unlikely to be eating the type of squash that you envision.
I have to say I haven't spent a lot of time grocery shopping in English-speaking countries, so my impression is probably skewed by Halloween pumpkins...
From my time with Amazon's payments team, they do. However they do like not depending on any one particular provider, and being able to spread the payments to different providers does give them leverage to negotiate rates from a stronger position.
But Pathfinder depends on the SRDs under the 1.0 OGL - these changes would require Paizo to accept the new terms to publish anything new for 2e (or create a 3e that doesn't build off the D20 SRDs)
I think also what happens is that some people feel that the comparison is between doing everything from scratch and taking a couple shortcuts. Sure - not using jarred garlic or some other timesaver won't taste as good as starting with the original ingredients.
But really, it's more often between taking shortcuts and not cooking at all. When I have time, I love doing everything myself. But after a long work day, I often don't have the energy. But if there's something like a meal kit that I know I can cook, that'll stop me from having dinner delivered.
I've been at only one company where "unlimited PTO" was really treated close to that way. There were offices in San Francisco and Paris, and the CEO was French (and based in the US).
The US office had untracked PTO, and from the get-go he would let the Americans know that the French office had around 7 weeks time off, and that they'd use it, so they should as well.
He took essentially the month of August off, which did help establish that 4 week vacations were "normal".
> help establish that 4 week vacations were "normal".
I (an European) always took this as granter yet considered it crazy people have as little as just a single month of vacation a year. It's been just recently I found out this isn't even the case in the USA where people normally have just 2 weeks. This scared the heck out of me. Why even live at all if all you have to live is 2 weeks a year and you have to sell the remaining 50 weeks of your life time yearly? I would rather commit suicide.
In America, our government and media are all controlled by corporations, so there's a massive propaganda machine that tells the population they need to be workaholics if they want a chance to be wealthy.
Also, employees have no leverage. You can't decline a job because they only offer 2 weeks PTO when everyone else also only offers 2 weeks.
People that push for a culture shift for more PTO are shouted down as being lazy, and the propaganda machine screams about how bad small businesses would be hurt. The machine LOVES to talk about small businesses, and people fall for it.
Interesting -- I got quite a bit up until 3 or 4 years ago, but it's essentially vanished for me. Not sure which cases they've cleaned up, and which ones they haven't I guess.
You also run into the situation where banks check your credit/banking history and may deny you an account based on that. My partner couldn't open a bank account for years because they forgot to stop an auto payment after they closed the account and moved.
Those payments bounced, leading to fees, which kept compounding and even after taking care of that, it took a long time to figure out how to clear the mark on the report (I don't know if we did, or it just eventually fell off due to time)
The EU solution for this was legislation that mandates that banks can not refuse a basic payment account. Being able to participate in electronic settlement is necessary to participate in modern society, so even a bankrupt person convicted of felony fraud should have a right to a bank account somewhere, and it's the duty of the society/government to ensure that they can obtain one.
It also expands the USPS Postal Banking capabilities and mandate.
Edit: The Federal Reserve's FedNow instant payment system going live in 2023 should also eliminate the need for check cashing in its entirety: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28393576
Those are not the same thing. Banks will deny you an account based on your history with bank accounts, sure. But not “credit history”, which is entirely separate.
If it's a regular checking account, with no overdraft, the bank loses nothing from having a person like that as a customer. The only money they can use is their own that they deposited there.
In US banking, many customers are relatively costly, with low balances, requiring branches with expensive people to service them. Overdraft happens often with them, and is a cost to the bank. They cannot be given credit, and are not otherwise candidates for other services by which banks make money. So fees- overdraft, deposit, withdrawal, desk usage, account- it is.
It is an optional service, one that is highly profitable ($billions per year for each of the large banks), and one also that arguably best serves the customer's interest, as not making a payment in most cases is far worse for many reasons for the user than making the payment and getting charged a service fee.
It's still possible, but I don't think would be as easy as an annoucement.