Worst part about that scenario is we wouldn’t know how good we had it. We couldn’t have imagined this shit storm clusterfuck timeline.

They. Are. All. The. Same.

I didn’t realize how shitty MSM reporting was until they reported on something I actually know a lot about. The half truths and ridiculous misrepresentations belie a lack of intellectual rigor bordering on unethical.

And someone is going to say, “But that’s not their role. They’re appealing to the masses and need to generalize.” I agree in our current system that’s probably the best they can do, but it is not what a free press should or could be.

But, but… How do we extract value from it? No micro transactions? No ad revenue? Can we sell it? Write it off as a loss? Is there at least a credit card reader so aliens can sign up for recurring payments?

Meet cute?

You paint a beautiful, utopian picture of how life could be.

Evidence shows performance holds or climbs when people choose flexible setups with solid support from managers and peers.

That’s the part these chuckle-head RTO folks willfully ignore. In a virtual environment you have to lead differently, and since they’re never the ones who are wrong it must be everyone else who is broken.

With the right leadership and support mechanisms virtual work absolutely can raise all boats. But that means you have to be willing to change. And open-mindedness is not typically an attribute selected for in corporate senior leaders.

Does anyone have an angle on the strategy here? Obviously Paxton, et al. know this is complete bullshit. Is it extortion of some sort? Get another above board bribe from a corpo?

I’m not buying it is purely optics. These fuckers don’t have to care about convincing anyone anymore so there’s gotta be a grift in there somewhere.

Additional conspiracy theory elements from this thread:

• J&J spun off Tylenol last year. Did they know this was coming? Are they complicit in the grift or did Kennedy know about evidence that actually indicated a link between autism and acet… aceta… what is it… Tylenol?

• Discovery is a part of the judicial process so will they discover there is no evidence that J&J knew anything? What then? Lie, of course, but to what end?

• Release the Epstein files.

Honestly surprised it is so low.

Magnificent comment top to bottom, but this:

He looks like a penis made a wish at a Zoltar machine.

chef’s kiss

Looks like a DIY opportunity.

I’ve never felt more seen and attacked at the same time.

I’d still have wires IF MY PHONE HAD A PLACE TO PLUG THEM IN.

Don’t think so… Found the HISHE video [here].(https://youtu.be/WG3_gnKSDh4)

Did see that scene in the video. Any other guesses?

This is it. I’ve never been able to learn a new programming language looking at tutorials. I always start with a problem (use case) and build from there. A basic knowledge of concepts like loops, conditionals, and passing/returning values in a function are the building blocks. Eventually you start to get tired of copy/pasting code so you find things like abstraction and inheritance. Then you’ll find ways to optimize or use someone’s library of premade functionality instead of starting from scratch.

And if you get really, really good you start writing things from scratch again in unique and highly optimized ways. Those are the really fun projects, imo, but not the ones that pay.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

She’s not fucking around. Put a ring on it.

The theme song is a banger.

Anyone who didn’t see this as the pre-Nobel publicity stunt it was is an absolute nut sack of a human being.

Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.