While your theories are good, they presuppose staff competence not in evidence. I expect that he hires his personal staff exactly like he hires is regular staff — qualifications include being a cute young blonde, a slavish devotee who wrote their own loyalty oath, someone he knows from somewhere unrelated, or…

It looks like this movie has the most Wes Andersonism that any movie has had so far. I’m afraid. But excited.

This is 100% it.  So many companies are tied into 5-10 year leases and office space in major metropolitan areas is very expensive.  They want you back in the office to justify the cost to their board and shareholders.  But I don’t give a fuck about that.  I work in IT, I’m remote 4-5 days a week depending and my job…

My company drastically changed how we handle performance reviews because we were all talking a lot more with our managers after we went remote.

The irony is every company with remote work consistently has shown dramatic increases in productivity. The terror is coming from middle managers who can’t justify their existence without the dog and pony show of people at the office, even though they have no idea what those workers actually do and couldn’t put names…

It’s not that they ‘like’ looking over your shoulder, that’s simply their job.

Fascinating.  It does look a bit tipsy though.

I’m sure he works a lot more than that. Every geosynchronous commsat up there has the same problem, after all, and when he’s not doing consulting work on a specific spacecraft, he’s probably doing research and design work. This is very challenging stuff. I mean, it’s actually not as simple as it seems to measure fuel…

Shut up liar. SVB failed because years ago they played their investments like a WallStreetBets degenerate on high risk contracts and had been carrying huge unrealized losses. This “mOrE fOcUsEd oN LgBt” is from central casting of fascist liars.

Gosh it’s almost like the federal government has more than enough money to raise the debt ceiling and make a college education free (and also tax firearms which would bring in a hell of a lot of money), but we only see it when the oligarchs might lose their fortunes.

Jesus... I’m not speaking of any one single authority. Look up the word authoritarianism in any dictionary. And no, it has nothing to do with the ‘illuminati’... *facepalm*

The TSA is the same way.

That’s the obvious thing(s) to do, but to actually do so requires having humanity. Authoritarianism is much more fun, then you get to club everyone in the head with draconian rules and lord over them laughing maniacally, while your victims groan in pain and agony (and with children screaming), sitting on a cramped…

Fort Lauderdale to Miami is about 30 miles.

I mean I’ve always said the best way to drop a nuke exactly where you want it is to just launch it into the jet stream and let Jesus take the wheel.

To be scrupulously fair, nobody wanted it shot down over land. Some Republicans were just bored and wanted an excuse to yell at Biden.

100%. I don’t think you could ever PAY me to vote for a Republican, but Democrats absolutely fucked up here. Biden broke the strike, which would have pushed for more regulations that were directly aimed at shit like this.

Why should Buttigieg be involved with this? Republicans in a Republican state supported a Republican who cut the regulations, but the Congress remains responsible for the laws. Even had the braking rule been in effect, it applied to trains with 70+ cars of hazardous material - this train had 10 and so would not have…

This is what happens when, as a Democrat, your party and leader breaks a strike. When an incident happens that is at least partially based on what the strike was about, especially so soon after breaking it, it completely destroys your ability to respond to it in any meaningful way. I hope Biden and all the other…

It’s straight out of the conservative ideology - people are innately good or bad regardless of whether their actions are or not. Which is why white male rapists get off because “we wouldn’t want to ruin a good man’s life” but innocent minorities get sent up the river. Trump is good, Biden is evil, no matter how much…