#Expert power

[omegaphilosophia]

Types of Power

Power can manifest in various forms, each influencing individuals and societies in distinct ways. Here are some different types of power:

Coercive Power: Coercive power involves the ability to force compliance or obedience through threats, punishment, or use of force. It relies on fear of negative consequences and is often associated with authoritarian regimes, law enforcement, or military institutions.

Reward Power: Reward power stems from the ability to provide incentives, rewards, or benefits in exchange for compliance or desired behavior. It can involve material rewards such as money, promotions, or privileges, as well as social rewards like praise or recognition.

Legitimate Power: Legitimate power is based on recognized authority, formal roles, or institutional positions within society. It derives from social norms, traditions, or legal structures that confer authority to certain individuals or institutions, such as elected officials, government leaders, or religious figures.

Referent Power: Referent power arises from the attractiveness, charisma, or perceived likability of an individual or group. It is rooted in admiration, identification, or emotional connection with a person or group, leading others to voluntarily align with their values, beliefs, or goals.

Expert Power: Expert power comes from possessing specialized knowledge, skills, or expertise in a particular domain. Individuals or groups with expert power are perceived as credible, trustworthy, and competent, enabling them to influence others through their expertise and insights.

Informational Power: Informational power derives from controlling access to valuable information or resources. Those who possess information that others need or desire can wield influence by selectively sharing or withholding information, shaping perceptions, or guiding decision-making processes.

Connection Power: Connection power is based on social networks, relationships, or alliances with influential individuals or groups. Those who have extensive social connections, networks, or alliances can leverage their relationships to access resources, opportunities, or support, enhancing their influence and status.

Resource Power: Resource power involves control or ownership of valuable resources, assets, or material wealth. Individuals, organizations, or institutions that possess significant resources, such as financial capital, land, or technology, have the ability to influence others through control over vital resources.

Symbolic Power: Symbolic power arises from the ability to shape meanings, values, or cultural norms within society. It is associated with influential figures, institutions, or ideologies that shape collective beliefs, identities, or symbols, influencing how individuals perceive themselves and their social reality.

Relational Power: Relational power emerges from interpersonal relationships, dynamics, or interactions between individuals or groups. It involves the ability to negotiate, persuade, or influence others through communication, trust-building, or emotional connections within social contexts.

These different types of power interact and intersect in complex ways, shaping social hierarchies, organizational dynamics, and individual behaviors within societies.

[reality-detective]

[faytelumos]

Mech pilot system where there's three pilots???

One for the left hemisphere, one for the right hemisphere, and one for the cerebellum?

Like, you all still have to be drift compatible, you all still have to be in the cockpit together, but there's basically two thinkers and one translator.

Imagine that the mech designers fought this for years. Two humans every time with massive neural network loads on both the machine and the humans. Pilots could only be medically cleared to operate a machine for four years, max, and then their careers were over. Most didn't make it even that long.

And then someone figures out that if you put in another human to translate between the humans and mech, it flows so much smoother.

Two pilots in the front, the ones doing the strategy and the martial arts and the orders and the takedowns. A third in the back, suspended and all but fugue as they relay human-to-mech and mech-to-human, a person turned into a slave drive, but still tangled up into everybody's heads.

Like, imagine the possibilities?!

You walk into the chow hall and the people who are interested in the shiny new pilots want to know if you're a Leftie or a Migi or a Cera.

Lefties and Migis who spent too long in the cockpit that day who feel like they can't think clearly without that little voice in the back of their head whispering the answers.

Ceras who space out when the room gets loud, who accidentally expect someone else to say what they're thinking, who have nerve damage all across their bodies because it takes all they have to sort data.

Mechs who are older than the trio structure who had their cockpits gutted and refitted, who have spaghetti running up to the chunk of metal that is the third pilot's seat, like a spare part slapped into the room and given too much control.

A Cera who hangs out in the mech bay because the humans are too far from them anymore, but the mecha can't talk to them, either.

a Leftie who can't stand being in the same room as their Migi without the Cera to talk between them.

A Migi who barely knows how to be their own person anymore because so much of their brain is just outside of their reach.

A mech that just wants things to go back to the way they were, pain and lag be damned.

[csuitebitches]

How To Make Full Use of Networking Events

Networking events and conferences are great because you get to meet and learn from experts but also connect with peers. I recently attended one and I wanted to share things I wish I had done before and what I learned.

1. Define an Objective

You have to determine why exactly you want to go to the event. Are you looking for a career change? A job? Advice on how to be better at your current job? How to tackle some issues in your start up? Networking? Make a list of the reasons.

2. Research

You need to research the speakers extensively. Go over their Wikipedias, LinkedIns and other social medias. Read their company websites from top to bottom. If they’ve released a book, take a look at the summary and read the reviews. Read some of their published articles.

Take this time to prepare at least 3 questions per speaker. Try to make at unique and interesting as possible, don’t ask the usual generic ones.

3. Business Cards

Definitely carry business cards. Make sure that your email, LinkedIn is mentioned clearly. Even if you work at a different company, that doesn’t matter- show your job title on the business card. Better yet, ask your HR if they can give you business cards as you would be promoting their company through your event. If you’re a student, I’d recommend you make a portfolio website of your internships/ project/ past work/ volunteer work/ hobbies/ interests.

4. Actually Talking

During the event, don’t be shy to ask questions. It doesn’t matter whether the rest of the audience thinks they’re stupid. You have spent your money to come there for your gain. Make full use of it. Ask questions. Meet the speaker after the event. Thank them for the insight, introduce yourself, ask them questions related to your objective of coming to the conference. Exchange business cards.

5. Utilising Coffee Breaks

Coffee and lunch breaks are a great way to talk to people. You may feel shy or awkward to talk to new people, but there’s very high chances that they feel the same way. You can start off by asking someone how they heard about the event, what they thought of the speaker, or pass a remark on the question they asked the speaker. Keep in mind that if the event has multiple speakers, there could be a chance that you’re talking to a speaker, even if you don’t recognise them… so be on your best behaviour.

6. Questions

Ask questions that are beneficial to you. During my conference, we had a women-leaders panel. An audience member asked the speakers how they divided their work between family and work. The speakers looked visibly annoyed at the question - because how generic is that?

Ask questions that could help you grow. If you’re in marketing, ask about their tried and tested marketing strategies. If you’re an early stage founder, ask them how they sourced their VC. If you’re struggling with time management, ask the speakers how they manage. Ask the questions for YOUR own benefit.

You can ask difficult questions but make sure you do it respectfully and tactfully. Best to start with a compliment and then ease into the question.

7. Dressing

Business casual, unless mentioned otherwise. What this means: blazer/ jackets/ trousers/ pencil skirts/ shirt/ co-ord sets/ no sneakers.

It doesn’t matter what other people wear. The way you present yourself is your brand. It also shows the respect you have for the other person - you respect them enough to not come shabbily dressed.

[lauranthalasah]

I know a lot of people are angry or hurt on Dorian's name because what the Spider Queen did and the way the group has reacted to all of that. Some think of how hurt he must feel seeing the Wildmother reacting to Orym and doing nothing for the Crown Keepers (although she did before, she tried to help them). On one hand... yeah, I think Dorian is acting this way, he is clearly angry at the gods, to the point, if I didn't hear wrong, that he would not even try to bring back Cyrus because it would involved gods. Which sounds a reasoning born of anger, but little intellect, to put it in an example more mundane: if another human been tries to kill me, I still go to other humans for healing, doctors ideally. So yeah, one god killed his brother, another didn't help at the moment, doesn't mean another couldn't bring him back, and it is short-sided to renounce to the possibility because suddenly he is putting every god in the same bag. On the other hand (this hand has many fingers). There are two reasons why Loth had a presence that allow her to kill Cyrus, and to take Opal. One of them is because the Crown Keepers stole that Crown, probably intended for a very particular person, and knowing what it was, they decided to keep it! Even when they saw what it was doing to them. And I'll give you one guess about who started the "I don't trust other people with it"... yes, it was Dorian. How do you all think this fact is affecting him? Is he blaming himself deep down or is he blaming every god because he doesn't dare to pick at this fact? And let me be clear here, I'm not blaming Dorian for Cyrus death, but there are consequences to ones actions, and Cyrus death can be traced back to a single decision. I bet that there's a part of Dorian that is thinking this way. Do you know what the other reason for Loth's presence was? The original one? The reason why she is looking for a champion? The reason for why every god is looking for champions and going a bit out of the deep end? FUCKING LUDINUS!

So Dorian should be angry and hate Loth, not doubt about being angry at the Wildmother, maybe he is also angry at himself, but he also should be angry at Ludinus, because Ludinus' actions are what is activating the gods. Gods that even in their desperation do not have the control they once had because they ostracized themselves as punishment for their own actions on Exandria. Gods that put themselves behind a gate so they would have less power of the mortal realm. The gods did try to keep themselves at bay, is Ludinus who is stirring up the hornet's nest. The gods were never white and black, that's why alignment is a thing in the game, but Ludinus is who started all this debacle.

[falconfate]

Hello ranger’s apprentice fandom can we talk real quick about the stupidest thing Flanagan ever wrote

It’s about the bows. Yanno, the rangers’ Iconique™️ main weapon. That one. You know the one.

Flanagan. Flanagan why are your rangers using longbows.

“uh well recurve arrows drop faster” BUT DO THEY. FLANAGAN. DO THEY.

the answer is no they don’t. Compared to a MODERN, COMPOUND (aka cheating) bow, yes, but compared to a longbow? Y’know, what the rangers use in canon? Yeah no a recurve actually has a FLATTER trajectory. It drops LATER.

This from an article comparing the two:

“Both a longbow and a recurve bow, when equipped with the right arrow and broadhead combination, are capable of taking down big game animals. Afterall, hunters have been doing it for centuries with both types of bows.

However, generally speaking and all things equal, a recurve bow will offer more arrow speed, creating a flatter flight trajectory and retain more kinetic energy at impact.

The archers draw length, along with the weight of the arrow also affect speed and kinetic energy. However, the curved design of the limbs on a recurve adds to its output of force.”

It doesn’t actually mention ANY distance in range! And this is from a resource for bow hunting, which, presumably, WOULD CARE ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING!

Okay so that’s just. That’s just the first thing.

The MAIN thing is that even accounting for “hur dur recurves drop faster” LONGBOWS ARE STILL THE STUPID OPTION.

Longbows, particularly and especially ENGLISH longbows, are—as their name suggests—very long. English longbows in particular are often as tall or taller than their wielder even while strung, but especially when unstrung. An unstrung longbow is a very long and expensive stick, one that will GLADLY entangle itself in nearby trees, other people’s clothes, and any doorway you’re passing through.

And yes, there are shorter longbows, but at that point if you’re shortening your longbow, just get a goddamn recurve. And Flanagan makes a point to compare his rangers’ bows to the Very Long English Longbow.

Oh, do you know how the Very Long English Longbow was mostly historically militarily used? BY ON-FOOT ARCHER UNITS. Do you know what they’re TERRIBLE for? MOUNTED ARCHERY.

Trust me. Go look up right now “mounted archery longbow.” You’ll find MAYBE one or two pictures of some guy on a horse struggling with a big stick; mostly you will actually see either mounted archers with RECURVES, or comparisons of Roman longbow archers to Mongolian horse archers (which are neat, can’t lie, I love comparing archery styles like that).

Anyway. Why are longbows terrible for mounted archery? Because they’re so damn long. Think about it: imagine you’re on a horse. You’re straddling a beast that can think for itself and moves at your command, but ultimately independently of you; if you’re both well-trained enough, you’re barely paying attention to your horse except to give it commands. And you have a bow in your hands. If your target is close enough to you that you know, from years of shooting experience, you will need to actually angle your bow down to hit it because of your equine height advantage, guess what? If you have a longbow, YOU CAN’T! YOUR HORSE IS IN THE WAY BECAUSE YOUR BOW IS TOO LONG! Worse, it’s probably going to get in the general area of your horse’s shoulder or legs, aka moving parts, which WILL injure your horse AND your bow and leave you fresh out of both a getaway vehicle and a ranged weapon. It’s stupid. Don’t do it.

A recurve, on the other hand, is short. It was literally made for horse archers. You have SO much range of motion with a recurve on horseback; and if you’re REALLY good, you know how to give yourself even more, with techniques like Jamarkee, a Turkish technique where you LITERALLY CAN AIM BACKWARDS.

For your viewing enjoyment, Serena Lynn of Texas demonstrating Jamarkee:

Yes, that’s real! This type of draw style is INCREDIBLY versatile: you can shoot backwards on horseback, straight down from a parapet or sally port without exposing yourself as a target, or from low to the ground to keep stealthy without banging your bow against the ground. And, while I’m sure you could attempt it with a longbow, I wouldn’t recommend it: a recurve’s smaller size makes it far more maneuverable up and over your head to actually get it into position for a Jamarkee shot.

A recurve just makes so much more SENSE. It’s not a baby bow! It’s not the longbow’s lesser cousin! It’s a COMPLETELY different instrument made to be used in a completely different context! For the rangers of Araluen, who put soooo much stock in being stealthy and their strong bonds with their horses, a recurve is the perfect fit! It’s small and easily transportable, it’s more maneuverable in combat and especially on horseback, it offers more power than a longbow of the same draw weight—really, truly, the only advantage in this case that a longbow has over the recurve is that longbows are quicker and easier to make. But we KNOW the rangers don’t care about that, their KNIVES use a forging technique (folding) that takes several times as long as standard Araluen forging practices at the time!

Okay.

Okay I think I’m done. For now.

[helenvader]

Do we have a name for Mairon's Caesar moment? I call it The Ides of Whatever Month It Was, but maybe somebody has come up with something better?

[sciderman]

spider-man and the fantastic four #4

[robinsceramics]

Bulbasaur!

image descriptions: a little ceramic Bulbasaur in wintery blue with a green bulb and red eyes. It has a friendly smile.

[zorosroronoas]

i know ppl are not paying attention to what's going on in the rings of power, when even with a fucking recap where adar states he killed sauron, ppl are still confused over what's happening in the very 1st scene of season 2. like at this point, full offense, but that's a you problem.

[myfanfictiongarden]

You know what? I usually completely ignore any form of mindless negativity towards Rings of Power- we all know it is based on half truths and ignorance of both the show and Tolkien’s actual novels. But today when I opened YT and was greeted by at least four videos about how this show is “a disgrace to Tolkien”, how “tv is bad for Tolkien”, “orcs with families shouldn’t exist” or even how “Galadriel is the real villain here”… guys, I GOT MAD!!!!

Disgrace to Tolkien? This show covers topics he very much wrote about. Tv is a bad format to adapt his stories? Have you ever even read the Appendices or The Silmarillion? How the heck else would you adapt them? In a Movie that cuts away 60% like Jackson did with LOTR? Orcs breed just like Men and Elves, of course they have families!!!! EVERYONE AND THEIR GRANDMA SAW THAT GALADRIEL ADMITTED HER FAULT AND WEAKNESSES AND ASKED FOR HELP!!!!!! If you dislike her character the way she was before meeting Frodo 3000 years later you have to complain to Tolkien directly because he is the one who wrote her.

What is it that Gil-Galad said in ep1?

Argh!!!!

[reality-detective]

Dr. David E. Martin: On Coercion in Medical Practices and Protecting Our Rights 📽

🔍 Who is Dr. David E. Martin?

Dr. David E. Martin is a prominent figure in the fields of intellectual property and finance, known for his advocacy on issues involving patents, corporate integrity, and human rights. His expertise has led him to scrutinize medical practices and the pressure they exert on individuals. 🤔

The document link: 👇

Serve those with notices who are using coercion against humanity 🤔

[smashstappen]

Max not only manifested Charles' wins, but also their son's Oscar's proper and not the look we don't have any nr 1 nr 2 driver going on so we are better than y'all, but we have to humiliate one of our drivers so he doesn't think he is better and would settle for 2nd when the time comes by gifting him a win that was his in the first place but we prioritised his teammate so now we have to resort to bulling our other driver to give up the win when he wouldn't even have been in this position if we hadn't prioritised him at the pitstop in order to create this mess or most likely because we prioritised him out of habit and not because he is the nr 1 since look we don't have any nr 1 nr 2 driver going on shit show McLaren fabricated win

[boilingheart]

Been watching Breaking Bad little by little lately. Why do Walter White and Gale Boetticher read as the most dramatic slowburn ever with the little screen time they have together. wtf. was that just me seeing that? this is my destiel.

[lxikoniko]

Going off my last post about Jay's lightning powers having the potential to be broken, I was looking into what lightning/electricity powers could entail, and I stopped to consider whether that could involve electromagnetism since it is technically involving electricity but ultimately decided against it since that felt like too much of a stretch

But then I looked at the list of lightning abilities on the Ninjago wiki and umm

IS THIS IMPLYING THAT THE MASTERS OF LIGHTNING CAN POTENTIALLY MANIPULATE THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD?

I'm not an expert on this sort of thing but... isn't electromagnetism the second strongest force to exist? Like it's insanely more powerful than the force of gravity and is responsible for a bunch of stuff like light waves/x-rays/gamma rays? Isn't it responsible for electrons binding to protons/neutrons via whatever form of like static electricity?