Even if I did choose the company I applied to for work, I didn't choose my coworkers, nor did I get to meet them until after I was hired. And, I certainly don't get to choose the customers I have to interact with during my work.
So, this image was made with a scanning electron microscope - actually several arranged in a grid somewhat similar to a digital camera sensor. Basically the way this works is that a beam of electrons (kind of like a laser, but electrons instead of photons) is fired at the material being scanned. The electrons bounce off of anything heavier than they are, such as the protons and neutrons in the nucleus (electrons are about 1/2000 of the mass of a proton). Some of the electrons bounce back into the detection grid of the microscope.
So the bright spots are where the electrons bounced off of the nuclei back into the detection grid. You can't really get an image of an electron cloud with an electron microscope because electrons are all the same mass, so if you hit one with another one they both move away in random directions (hitting one billiard ball with another). Comparatively hitting a proton with an electron isn't strong enough to move the proton very much (hitting a house with a billiard ball).
The upshot of all that is that the bright spots in the image show where the protons and neutrons of the atoms were most likely to be during the scanning (it's really difficult to talk about anything absolute at this scale, everything is probabilistic).
Also yes, this image is a very tiny area, literally a few atoms across. It's very impressive, and it basically amounts to visual proof that what we believe to be true about molecular bonding is true because the picture actually shows what the theory predicts.
The brighter spots are the nuclei of the Pr, Sc, and O atoms, which are reflecting the electrons of the scanning beams (because they're comparatively much heavier).
The space in between the nuclei is where the electrons from all of the atoms are. Because the atoms are bound as PrScO3, the electrons are shared and not really part of any one particular atom or other.
Technically all of it is "the atoms" because the electrons are part of the structure as much as the protons and neutrons.
The drawing in the lower right shows how the atoms are arranged. The double spots are the nuclei of two Pr atoms very close together. The slightly fainter, elongated spots are actually ScO2 that is arranged as O-Sc-O. The fainter single spots are the other O nuclei that fill out the PrScO3 structure.
The people who want to work somewhere else actually have other jobs opportunities that they’re qualified for which offer similar pay - which may not be all that likely in Kansas.
The companies won’t all change their break policies at the same time - which is unlikely in this corporate race to the bottom.
The companies will care about losing employees - most of them don’t.
In 2022 the US spent an equivalent amount on Medicare as it did on defense ($747 billion vs $751 billion), and another $592 billion on Medicaid. US defense spending represents only 3% of GDP, and about 14% of the total federal budget.
The largest budget item is Social Security at $1.2 trillion.
Social program spending in the US massively outstrips military spending.
If the drive you want to put the platter in has a faster RPM… would it even work?
No, and also if the drive has a different control board it probably won’t work. Some drives are shingled. Even the same drive make and model from a different generation might structure the data on the actual disk differently due to changes in the control board hardware or firmware.
Also… the read/write heads are, and must be, only nanometers above the disk surfaces… if you didn’t get the separation distance exactly right, I doubt it would work because the magnetic field at the tip of the head is tiny, and you’d run the risk of the drive heads crashing into the disk surface… the disks also would have to be perfectly level when you remount them… and also most dust particles are bigger than the distance between the read/write head and the disk surface, so if you don’t do this in a clean room you’ll probably get random errors if you actually get the thing reassembled…
This is a ridiculous long shot that only makes sense to try to rescue some data from a dead drive, which would have to be super valuable to be worth bothering, and it could only maybe work if you had an exact same year/make/model drive to use as a donor.