Posts by Hollerithevo 1266 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2016
Yep, that evil old corrupt 'owned by the banks' style of politician who has an effective vaccine plan rolling out even as I type, compared to the maverick 'I'm a business man and will bring market know-how' who has just left.
There are always games. That's part of politics. But I see the same thing in the C-suite, among vendors, etc. I would rather work for a smart, cadgy player who is doing the right things than someone who is all talk but can't deliver.
Thanks to many, many people being able to take photos in an instant, we have thousands of mages of animals being friends with, or simply kind to, other animals. Clearly captive animals reach out to each other for companionship and comfort in the face of incarceration.
Once we take humans out of the picture, we can see animals more clearly. Most animals do NOT want to be our friends (why would they, given what we do to them?), but they are able to socialise with other animals, even the animals they might them predate (we have all seen animals around a water hole, lions next to antelope -- there seem to be rules about sharing and not taking advantage).
I too signed up for a subscription, innocently thinking that I would be free of adverts and thus tracking.
But no! It turns out that I as a subscriber was of even more interest and I was tracked both by the paper and by the trackers they let their 'trusted affiliates' run. So I now never log in, let all my shielding apps protect me (uBlock Origin etc etc) and treat them like the enemy. And of course I won't renew my subscription.
They didn't do enough research to understand why some people would subscribe, and what would make them hopping angry.
I was thinking that this was very much like the 1890s/early 1900s, when muckrakers got busy exposing huge abuses by big corporations and trusts began to be busted. Monopolies are not a wholly American thing, but they are strangely dominant throughout its history, from the upper classes making sure that the lower classes were cut from access to land* (see the gentlemen vs farmers in early Tennessee) to now. Adam Smith pointed out that all capitalism tends naturally to clump into monopolies, and that only government regulation can force them to compete on a level playing field. It is the triumph of American corporate interests that they have convinced their victims that their own freedom to create monopolies serves their victims best.
*I am aware that the land wasn't empty and no there for the taking.
I expect HR, when it was briefly activated in my company, were seeking to remove the burden of pointless meetings from my shoulders, and were hoping I would reduce my email traffic to allow me to do my work in an uninterrupted way.
Hahahahahahahaha nope
Thank goodness my contract ends soon, because although it 'seems' to have been turned off, it either hasn't been, or won't be for long.
Finally our time of world domination has come. Laughing to scorn the feeble mental resources of our pack-animal "brethren" we stride ahead in lock-down adversity, sloughing off stress and anxiety with a merry quip, able to climb our won mountains and eat our own pizzas without a support group.
We knew it was only a matter of waiting long enough. But we have the last laugh hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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I had a nice box under my desk, and every evening I obeyed the clean desk policy by picking up my wire storage rack and my day-book and popping both in the box. The pen went on top. Every morning, opened it and restored. We also had to walk miles to a recycling point with paper, as we weren't allowed trash-cans by our desks. A day's worth went into the box and the next morning, on my way to the coffee station, I passed a manager's desk. He had his very own recycling box (because he couldn't be arsked, So important, etc) and popped my trash in there.
Poetry in motion.
Being escorted off the White House property is not a good look for a winner. I think the Republicans have got what they want, which is SCOTUS, and they can rest for two years under a Biden/Dem government before they come in again (at least in the Senate) and, having cleared out some space, the old duffers in the Party having been kicked out in 2020, they can bring in energetic new blood. Guys like Cotton. So I don't think the Republicans are going to support any attempt by Trump to over-stay their welcome.
Give me an example of dementia as exhibited by Biden. Such as rambling, not being able to remember, confusion, and so on. I'm not saying he's at the top of his game, but people keep saying 'senile' and I keep watching his speeches and interviews and that clip where he was cycling with his team, and that doesn't add up to a guy drifting into dementia. At least not yet.
Harris is bonkers? In what way? She's centrist/slightly to the right in everything she's ever done, slightly more pro-police, and obviously, having been a prosecutor, pretty tough on crime. She seems organised and articulate, even if you don't like what she is saying. Give some examples of where she showed herself to be deranged. Otherwise it's as if you grabbed some one-size-fits-all and tried to wrap her up in it and throw her away, which means your comment is valueless.
With "The Swamp" in more positions of power than ever before (check out the head of many Fed departments -- all directly from lobbyist orgs), no Wall built, the rural economy in tatters, with the financial market jittery, with the USA less safe, having walked away from treaties, with North Korea enabled and having given up nothing (to the point where it gave a spurning, mocking reply to Trump's "let's do a deal"), with his family and cronies corrupting the Administration to fill their pockets, with no new healthcare package, no resurgence of coal...just what greatness did Trump bring?
Or a tragic mis-spelling for 'I am totally under attack and a victim here and the great society I want, which happens to require the subjugation of all non-white and non-Christian people, is also under attack and we all all going to hell in a handbasket, as happened under Obama, Clinton, and FDR"
I actually know Ms Evaristo. I can't speak for her, but I am sure she is more than aware of the tension between being, and wanting to be named and seen as, an activist Black woman, and also having her colour mentioned where, sometimes, it isn't relevant. But generally, as the commentards above have noted, she is very much wanting to bring Black women into the public eye.
The main thing is not to be indignant about someone's apparent treatment when you have no authority to be.
If your attitude is that these dumb-asses aren't important and their comment boards are stupid and their sites are pointless, then I guess you are an enterprise-level guy nd the ordinary bloke and blokette do not matter. But this is why WP, Wix exist. Because they need this sort of thing.
We have to register to vote, although not in the same way, and we are regularly asked if our details are still current. And we can opt out of our names being sold on to marketers. A UK person can't just waltz in and vote; they have to show their bit of card.
I worked in a 360 degree appraisal/get rid of bottom 10/20% (it changed) and I got very good at making a criticism that wasn't exactly a bad thing (he works to hard and I feel he should be giving more attention to work/life balance, that sort of thing). Someone said of me that I was too smart. Oooo, that stung.
The usual argument trotted out to ridicule any sort of gesture toward diversity. Could it be that ethnically diverse people (I think you are trying to say 'non white) could be just as smart as you? And smart enough for the job? I have been in teams in companies where they bent over backward to increase diversity and the team remained, through the changes, good and effective. I never noticed a drop-off. Of course, getting rid of the old white guy always getting as close as he possible could to gay jokes and 'fat girl' jokes etc*. was a pleasure, and his mate left thereafter, and then we were not only equally effective, we had better morale.
* also, he was running a little side business in work time and was always on the phone in a meeting room. Swell guy!
That is the job of HR: to protect the company. They are management's devil hounds. The fun thing is, they are often not good at this, as many commentards' stories on being let go with inadequate reasons or control. Twice I have played hard ball: they threatened me with criminal court (really?) and I said 'bring it on' and I was either able to walk free on no notice or with a small but nice chunk of cash. Those are warm memories. Once I understood that HR was NOT about the well-being of the 'human assets', it was easy to treat everything like a hostile confrontation.
You can edit the transcript of your own video when you post it, but I know a lot of YouTubers who let the automatic service just do it and figure that it's good enough.
I work in financial services, and a missing or garbled word in an automatically-generate transcript could see us being sued, so you bet that we upload, check the transcript, and then publish.
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