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Leftwing Tech Monopoly Amazon Waits Until After Election to Lay Off 10,000 Workers
Wouldn't want to spoil Joe Biden's claim that we're not in a recession.
They'll be laying off 10,000 people starting sometime before Thanksgiving, sources say. They haven't announced/admitted it yet.Almost like a recession.
The layoffs come as the tech industry continues to struggle amid a slowing economy, rising interest rates, and stubborn inflation.
Facebook parent Meta and Twitter also laid off thousands of employees this month. The layoffs will impact Amazon's Alexa business, as well as the company's retail and human resources divisions, according to The Times. Amazon's Alexa group, which produces its Echo hardware and associated software, loses up to $5 billion a year, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing internal documents the paper reviewed. The 10,000 jobs make up some 1% of Amazon's 1.5 million global workforce. The Times reports that the final number of planned layoffs could change between now and when they're announced. Amazon announced a hiring freeze on Nov. 3.A Twitter employee got sassy and disrespectful to Elon Musk on Twitter today.
[T]here is another aspect of the Musk takeover that has little to do with free speech or even ideology--although it has a great deal to do with the class interests of Big Tech censors. As a recession looms, Silicon Valley is shedding the non-essential workers it acquired when unlimited venture funding made turning a profit an afterthought. Musk happens to have taken the helm at Twitter just as this reality is asserting itself. In this sense, the revolt against his leadership is the last stand of a cohort of activist hangers-on who are about to find themselves unemployed. ...YaBoiZach was watching TikToks from laid-off Facebook employees, and he says that almost none of the laid-off people had any technical skills of any kind-- they're all in "soft" stuff like "climate," "human rights," recruiting, "diversity officer," morale boosting. He said one laid off woman was a "Niceness Maestro." Now, that may sound like an exaggeration, and I'm sure it is an exaggeration, but I have heard of positions like "Director of Niceness" or the like at these companies. No, I can't link these TikToks -- TikTok's search function is terrible. I looked for them and failed. He calls these thousands upon thousands of absolutely useless, skill-less profit-vampires "human bloatware." Which was actually Brian Stelter's official job title at CNN, and look what happened to him. Many of which were recruited in the aftermath of #MeToo, and then George Floyd, and of course after Trump's election -- to serve as the #Resistance in tech. But you can't sustain Trump-level Human Bloatware in a Joe Biden Austerity Economy. Congratulations, #Resistance -- you said "You're fired" to yourselves.
Many "unicorn" tech startups began with a few engineers and a product they wanted to sell, but over the past decade-plus, they have accrued a bloated bureaucracy of "equity"-minded h.r. activists, ESG-savvy consultants, affinity-group mavens, climate-change specialists, and many other email-caste hangers-on. Now that times are turning bad, tech companies can no longer afford to sustain a massive "court" of professional-class nobility, paying sinecures to sons and daughters of the good and the great who don't know how to code or crunch numbers, but know how to write emails, hold useless meetings, and talk about diversity and inclusion. ... The people who worked "on climate" at Twitter, now being given the ax by the perfidious Elon Musk, are openly complaining that they won't be able to find jobs anywhere else in this economy. They are, of course, right to worry. One of the biggest and least-talked-about social questions in the West is how to economically provide for our own modern version of France's impecunious nobles: that is, how to prop up high-status people who can't really do much economically productive work.
23 Learn2coal Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillionUpdate: Content warning -- Mark Zuckerberg's getting desperate in his new pitch for Meta.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at November 14, 2022 04:22 PM (GAS4E)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:22 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2022 04:23 PM (yezA1)
there must be at least one "King of Assholes".
Posted by: DaveA at November 14, 2022 04:23 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: GOPe at November 14, 2022 04:23 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (pTb/Z)
They need people they can control and if they can't control you they must destroy you.
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (ZR7kf)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (yezA1)
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (pTb/Z)
well as the rest of the cobs can tell you -- I pay in Hugs.
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (HMTci)
SPLC declares it a hate phrase in 3, 2...
Posted by: turnout man at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (CIcwn)
Nothing of value was lost.
Posted by: The Fool at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (1dzqn)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: DaveA at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (FhXTo)
My guess is that unemployment by next June will be over 6 percent.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (9urq1)
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Good, on balance. Money-losing operations subsidized because "we'll figure out how to monetize it some day" are going to be at high risk as continue through this recession and its higher interest rates. Amazon is often barely profitable and burning billions on Alexa is probably not all that sensible. Burning money on HR is almost always a waste. I dunno what "retail" means.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (C1Zwz)
We have bluebell and Fen.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (2xlV3)
LOL. I think you probably have years of experience being nice, bluebell except to very recalcitrant kids . I think if you get the job you should demand a pay raise and a better title. "Empress of Equanimity"-that sort of thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (C1Zwz)
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Oh good. I can slip you that cookbook I've been trying to offload for FIVE YEARS!!!
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (pTb/Z)
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Robots building robots.
I've seen this movie. It does not end well.
Posted by: The Fool at November 14, 2022 04:26 PM (1dzqn)
I mean... you don't even talk to your boss like that in emails or in person let alone to the world. Upon what possible planet could someone think that's the right approach? I get you hate Elon Musk for spoiling your neoklan leftist party, but good lord.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (pTb/Z)
It's easy. You can finds jobs everywhere. That's what you told us!
Posted by: Keystone Pipeline Workers at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (OvB8Q)
Fuck nice
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (2xlV3)
LOL. Surely you haven't missed my "Queen of Mean" posts
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (uNylN)
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So you're saying that it's creating women.
"Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here."
Posted by: The Fool at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (1dzqn)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (9urq1)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi for Senate at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (LQjwY)
Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2022 04:28 PM (yezA1)
I mean... you don't even talk to your boss like that in emails or in person let alone to the world. Upon what possible planet could someone think that's the right approach? I get you hate Elon Musk for spoiling your neoklan leftist party, but good lord.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:27 PM (Ivdso)
Forget who said it, may have been an MMA fighter, but the quote was basically, "There are a lot of people who need to be taught that the internet is not real life."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (KbCG3)
Of course, you'd probably lose all your readers and commenters.
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Go Get Your Shinebox at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (XbY51)
no dev gives a rats ass about load in The Current Year
but maybe now they do
good Jeebus Christmas it's gotten ridiculous. too many devs with nothing to do but add features users Do Not Want!!!!
/frustrated former-UX designer rant
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: wth at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (nxdel)
My guess is that unemployment by next June will be over 6 percent.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
Announced?
Because it has to be over that in real life now.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (OvB8Q)
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (pAYE7)
Posted by: DaveA at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: m at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (8rTNG)
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (pTb/Z)
Yeah... you're a nicer person that me... I'd last about 10 minutes.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (oHd/0)
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Maybe they should have learned to code.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: fd at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (vH/6k)
and the AI has gotten way, way better
it can do a lot of stuff crap devs used to do
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (yezA1)
Let the nominations begin!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer
AtC.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (OvB8Q)
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I'd guess that they handle a lot of the stuff related to Amazon's storefront but which doesn't involve actual programming.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (9urq1)
But he puts a "recycle me" image on the boxes, so it's coo.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi for Senate at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (LQjwY)
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Okay, fair enough. But let's translate it, shall we?
* The app is too big and does too much that isn't related to the user experience because we spent years dumping new features that aren't important into it because Product Management was incompetent or was responding only to a handful of high-dollar or high-status users (that last is an assumption on my part, but I've seen this play out too many times)
* The app is poorly programmed. We have a lot of bugs and we don't fix them.
* The app is synchronous in too many operations, and operations are blocking, despite what I said in the prior message.
In other words: it's poorly-managed trash and the emphasis from product management has been on feature growth rather than stability, speed or code quality and it has become a disastrous user experience as a result because everyone involved is asleep at the switch, incompetent or both.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (nxdel)
I heard they are in fact going to shut it down.
I guess the CIA isn't funneling enough cash into it any longer
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (vH/6k)
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Couldn't be. I have been assured that EVs don't burn fossils.
Posted by: The Fool at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (1dzqn)
Let the nominations begin!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (nxdel)
Well... the Hawty Posts? Pretty nice...
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (oHd/0)
Let the nominations begin!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer
AtC.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (OvB8Q)
Winnah!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (Zzbjj)
Because it has to be over that in real life now.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (OvB8Q)
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Should have clarified, "officially."
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (9urq1)
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It's going to be a rude awakening for anyone under 40. The last time there was a major tech recession was in 2001.
It's gonna be bad for me when it comes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (t0OGg)
I thought you paid in pancakes.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (nxdel)
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I thought he paid in Crocs.
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (pTb/Z)
Its the bravery of being out of range. I'm untouchable by any of you unless you fly to Oregon and hunt down my house (and then, well good luck to you). I can say whatever I want even though I'd never say it to someone in person, because I don't have to worry about being pasted in the snoot for it, nor do I have to see the hurt in your eyes when I fire off my latest Sick Burn.
That's what social media has done more than anything: its destroyed proper, decent human interaction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (Ivdso)
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We need that money for the Hobbit prequels,
- Jeff Bezos
Posted by: Paul Pelosi for Senate at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (LQjwY)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I was in tech since the early 70's. Yeah, yeah - I know "Ancient history Boomer" and "That's so 50 years ago". But wow - tech seemed to avoid the slacker culture for so long I thought it would last forever - that we were immune to it.
Nah.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (LsEU/)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (geVLo)
Who's with me?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Maj. Healey Will Move To Poland at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (pb6ET)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
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"Also, Musk, you're such a dummy."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
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Remove the trackers and explain it again.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi for Senate at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (LQjwY)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (Zzbjj)
also Joe having been a UX designers for years it go to the point where the devs didn't argue with my recommendations anymore they just constantly pushed for no UX practice to even exist, or just let them do it. Many good UX people got the axe a while back (I left in disgust at being a black hat) and were replaced by devs moving into the practice.
and they could not care less about real users, they only understood code monkeys and thought the whole world was like them and interacted with computers like they did.
and here we are.
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (w0NJk)
My dad, husband, priest, kids, and friends are always telling me...."Be nice!"
Obviously a feedback loop.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 14, 2022 04:34 PM (HMTci)
It's gonna be bad for me when it comes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:32 PM (t0OGg)
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I'm really hoping my business is protected. We design financial software for utility companies. Dolley should be fine. She's in cybersecurity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)
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It goes way beyond this. It isn't just the HR waste, the feel-good (unless you're a deplorable) equity waste, the climate waste, etc. - it permeates everything. Outside of the universally-useless teams like those, almost every group could be trimmed by 5% at a minimum. There are also generally way too many layers of management.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 04:34 PM (pAYE7)
Posted by: steevy at November 14, 2022 04:30 PM (yezA1)
It's Leno. It was probably a steam powered penta-cycle fueled by free-range llama dung pellets.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (6FeV1)
Which is the constant result of having too many cooks spoiling the product. And why? Because that's how you justify your phony baloney job that you go to 7 hours a week and get paid 7 figures a year for, when you're not on the Lido Deck getting a massage or climbing the rock wall in the lobby.
If you don't come up with new stuff or pointless redesigns, or features nobody wants but sound techy and impressive, people start to wonder just what it is you do around here, anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (Ivdso)
Needed
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (Qy6XB)
Back in the 80's new a nice Lady who worked for a high level software development company... He Job was basically to be Mom to the guys in the basement.
Make sure they eat. Make sure they shower and have clean clothes. Yes, she literally brought them home cooked meals and did their laundry.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (Qzn2/)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (NJQ2Z)
The only way forward is paper ballots and same day voting, with few if any exceptions.
Posted by: Mookie at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (u+Y3T)
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It would shock me not at all.
About six or seven years ago, our queen of HR got a new job title. She magically transformed from the "Senior Vice President of Human Resources" into the "Chief People Officer."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
.......
ever since she's been refusing to show us her tits.
Posted by: wth at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Since its introduction I believe.
I cannot believe people actually want a live microphone in their homes that's on 24/7. It's insanity.
Posted by: Maj. Healey Will Move To Poland at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (pb6ET)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (8V8B/)
Let them eat cake.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (OvB8Q)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (Qzn2/)
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Careful, there...you may end up uncovering a Mummy that was buried in Massachusetts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (Zzbjj)
That's a very good way of putting it. They are exactly like the courtiers of old. You know, the people our ancestors fought a war to be rid of.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (eOEVl)
Make sure they eat. Make sure they shower and have clean clothes. Yes, she literally brought them home cooked meals and did their laundry.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (oHd/0)
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I hereby retract my application. I want to be a Maestro, not a housemother.
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (pTb/Z)
It's always worse.
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 04:36 PM (BOHPk)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: The Yard at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (9h1Xg)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Romeo13
And you could tell by the smell of the room what part of the world that group was from.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (LsEU/)
To be fair, someone crashed FTX after the election, so now we actually have to make a profit.
Posted by: Amazon at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (BOHPk)
how soon we've forgotten nice president granny, as recorded in the well-known documentary "beverly hillbillies".
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (atmen)
You know damn well that the Canadian government will make good the losses with taxpayer money. Do you think it also won't happen here?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (Qy6XB)
The odds are probably higher on Apple's spy device because Apple users are more fixated on the idea of tech than its value and importance, let alone menace.
But Apple is related in another way. If you went by the portrayal of Apple in popular culture, you'd think that its the industry leader. I mean, if you went by Android designers you'd think so too, because they keep copying Apple stuff onto their phones, no matter how little users want it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)
Didn't like the word "vice" iirc
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (Zzbjj)
Holy hell these are a babied set of individuals.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (5p7BC)
I assumed the title after I did her in.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (w0NJk)
Jesus was *not* "being nice". But He, being Holy, the Son of God, never sinned, was always without sin, and was only Righteous and Holy before The Throne.
What we saw was Christ's Righteous Anger, and the literal fist of an angry God, in action. NOT "sin" or a losing of temper, etc.
"Nice" ain't all it's cracked up to be, and often, it's just camo for some deeper sin.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (9miN6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
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They way I read it, it came across more as jumping to conclusions and entitled, neckbeardy snark.
Musk said there are over a thousand batched procedure calls that have to process before using the app. The developer than said, essentially, "no, there are only about 20 operations to load the home page, and they can happen asynchronously."
And then went on to talk about all of the other shit the app does, and how a lot of it has to wait on the network to complete (e.g., it is synchronous, not asynchronous). The comment wasn't about the feed running slowly, it was about the app running slowly. The developer misread that, assumed it was about the feed (which is what he probably works on), clapped back about it, defeated his own argument, and then got fired for being a prick. I doubt he even realizes that he tore down his own argument in the subsequent tweets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (vH/6k)
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Ha!!!
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (w0NJk)
I DEMAND your newsletter.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (PiwSw)
Fortunately, we have Starbucks and McDonalds for that.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
Next year, she will finally get the title she really wanted...
People's Commissar.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (oHd/0)
Yeah its spectacularly un-selfaware.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (eOEVl)
I don't know that, as Justin says he wants to spend taxes on foreign climate aid and not the Canadians.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I'd do it for $100,000 a year. I don't need millions.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (d2bW3)
mild content warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coAIyRGYSTE
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (HMTci)
someone I know (not me!) wrote to her in prison. they became pen pals and friends for years. this person was not rich at all, just kind.
I don't think Leona was that terrible I guess. I never met her myself! lol
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (KLPy8)
So I left. They fired the heads of development 2 weeks after I left.
Posted by: blaster at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: wth at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:38 PM (Ivdso)
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I'm in the opposite minority. If a product has an "Alexa" tie-in that is not explicitly opt-in (e.g., I have to go through the effort of turning it on), I do not buy it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (6FeV1)
Dayum, I'm putting my kids through school selling that stuff to him!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (906pl)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (tQL7r)
Here's where we have an advantage over France: we have a 2000-mile border that needs a canal. You can't do that with the Pyrenees in the way.
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (yZlY6)
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I wish he would have described these people as "self described 'high status'" as in no way, shape, or form are the women who majored in gender studies working at a tech company bombarding Slack with buzz words "high status."
Posted by: Jay in PA at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)
They won't.
Posted by: XTC at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: wth at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (v0R5T)
Cruel to be Kind.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (HMTci)
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These people have been coddled little children their entire lives, and they have the attitude of entitlement that comes with it.
My prediction: The Burning Times will be challenging for them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (Qzn2/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
LOL. Do people come up with these titles after imbibing a few alcoholic beverages?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing!
With a lackey following her with After The Fire with Der Komissar up to eleven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (d2bW3)
Holy hell these are a babied set of individuals.
I notice that there is no Department of bootlickers, toadies, and lickspittles. It's fine to tell the boss what you think, but you do it offline, and respectfully. One gets the feeling these people believe their own BS and sniff their own farts.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:42 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (w0NJk)
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If his assertion is correct that the only priority has been niche features most don't use and that there was no emphasis on code quality or bug avoidance and remediation, then my immediate guess would be that PM has most of the culpability.
But you still don't do what he did.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
Yeah but this is misused a lot. Jesus didn't do that because He was a shredded badass with his shirt off beating up on nameless bad guys for a Marvel movie. He wasn't doing it because He was teaching that's how we should handle our opponents or enemies.
He was doing that because it was blasphemy, it was a violation of His Father's House, and the glory of God is the ultimate, primary purpose of all reality. It is the ONLY time in the entire four gospels that Jesus was angry and violent. Because that is how much God's name and glory meant to Him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Hammer Fetish Saved Democracy at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (bm04m)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)
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I doubt he'll be laying off the fulfillment people right before the busiest time of year. I suspect he's going after my fellow Niceness Maestros.
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: wth at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (v0R5T)
I nominate Genghis Khan.
Posted by: XTC at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Romeo13
And you could tell by the smell of the room what part of the world that group was from.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2022 04:37 PM (LsEU/)
Actually a bunch of White Kids back then... They just moved from Mom's basement... to the Company basement with a new Mom looking out for them.
Produced good code though.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The crying Indian would like a word with her.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (d2bW3)
AWS was, for a while anyway haven't looked recently, the biggest money making division of Amazon by far.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (ZLI7S)
Holy hell these are a babied set of individuals.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 14, 2022 04:39 PM (5p7BC)
Not babied exactly. But in this guy's mind, he has Twitter, Elon has Twitter, therefore they're equal.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (Oka5v)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (UcpmB)
The layoffs will impact Amazon's Alexa business, as well as the company's retail and human resources divisions, according to The Times.
___________
Alexa's voice choices are now limited to "mother-in-law".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 14, 2022 04:43 PM (yQpMk)
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Amazon is Big Tech. Yes, they are also Big Logistics and Big Retail, but the Big Tech part is responsible for most of the profits and gives them tremendous infrastructure reach. A non-trivial amount of the internet runs on AWS, and Amazon isn't afraid to throw its weight around.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: fd at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (CQ3Qb)
Posted by: wth
Nurse could be Vmoms consort.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (ykeLU)
Hell, not only do i not know where Hoefer is, i've never even heard of the place!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (6FeV1)
not just AWS but that is of course the largest thing
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
Who the hell names their kid Eric Frohmhoefer?
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM (ykeLU)
___________
Adolf and Eva Frohnhoefer
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 04:
My College's President said colleges everywhere are getting rid of libraries.
So all the stacks got moved to an unheated 50 year old temporary building for storage. There's a catalog search available in the library but no books. America
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (Qy6XB)
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And something that is often overlooked is that he slept on it. It wasn't a spur of the moment thing. It was deliberate, and I'm certain he prayed about it.
There's a lot to learn from that.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Hammer Prostitute Fetish Saved Democracy at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (bm04m)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (Zzbjj)
So I left. They fired the heads of development 2 weeks after I left.
Posted by: blaster
My old job kept me on (doing nothing) for 9 months before I retired as my separation agreement called for it. One of the Grand Poohbah's called me in a couple of weeks before I was out the door and said, in effect, "You're so short you have to reach up to tie your shoes. No one can hurt you. Please tell me, just what the f*ck is going on in your old section?"
I told her. She had the juice and cut like a hammer. It was glorious.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (LsEU/)
A more perfect description of the human potato Stelter, I have yet to see.
Has he landed a spot at Russia Times yet?
Or scattered and smothered at Waffle House?
Time will tell.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (JOtiF)
There's no particular innovation here, just "I want this to work like the Enterprise"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (Ivdso)
Gosh, and he's so valuable. Where, oh where, is Elon Musk going to find another Android programmer in Silicon Valley?
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (yZlY6)
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They have already moved past that title and are going with "Head of the Future of Work"
These people have nothing to do all day except worry about their titles and claim importance.
Posted by: Jay in PA at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (i7Q7S)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story or Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
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Walk Hard, by a wide margin. I've seen and enjoyed both, but Walk Hard was a masterpiece of satire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Supporting Endangered Boobies And Gainzzz at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (gmxXe)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (t0OGg)
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Walk Hard is much more pointed, for sure.
"It's a particularly bad case of being cut in half."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (r6pxn)
Nothing of value was lost.
Posted by: The Fool at November 14, 2022 04:25 PM (1dzqn)
For a long time Alexa 'worked' by listening you all the time and feeding it to people to translate the question. possibly it never got beyond that.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (3ImbR)
>>He was doing that because it was blasphemy, it was a violation of His Father's House, and the glory of God is the ultimate, primary purpose of all reality. It is the ONLY time in the entire four gospels that Jesus was angry and violent. Because that is how much God's name and glory meant to Him.
Like Dalton, be nice until it's time to stop being nice.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (ZLI7S)
These people have nothing to do all day except worry about their titles and claim importance.
Posted by: Jay in PA at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (i7Q7S)
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I suspect that will die. We'll see.
"The Future of Work" means "having a highly-distributed remote workforce." That is either going to end (a lot of companies are back in the office) or the people running it now know how to manage it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (atmen)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM
Just speculating here, but assuming his pronouns and that his parents are married, Mr. & Mrs. Fromhoefer?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (9h1Xg)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 04:41 PM (tQL7r)
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Who gets paid to come to with these crazy titles? Maybe I should abandon my dream of becoming a Niceness Maestro and focus on becoming the Minister of Silly Titles.
Posted by: bluebell at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (pTb/Z)
What retailer lays people off right before the holiday season?
Things must be really bad.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (KCOCK)
__________
This time of year isn't called "hunting season" for nothing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (KCOCK
The alexa and other tech employees could drive delivery vans, or work in the endless warehouses.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
Can't we just deem her She-Wolf?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (d2bW3)
mild content warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coAIyRGYSTE
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:40 PM (C1Zwz)
Zuckerberg/Meta are so weird that I can't tell if that is serious or a spoof.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 14, 2022 04:45 PM (CQ3Qb)
Who do they have writing the jokes? Trever Noah ?
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (pAYE7)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (C1Zwz)
I miss Nice Deb being a regular here.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (yQpMk)
So all the stacks got moved to an unheated 50 year old temporary building for storage. There's a catalog search available in the library but no books. America
Will nobody think of the hoboes and vagrants? Where are they to sleep and masturbate?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (eOEVl)
Uh-oh. That means dampness and then, oops, we've got to get rid of these moldy books due to health concerns.
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (Sv58p)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM
Just speculating here, but assuming his pronouns and that his parents are married, Mr. & Mrs. Fromhoefer?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (9h1Xg)
Not Fromhoefer, Eric! What kind of monster names their kid Eric?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (eYoxG)
Well when you have a ballcrap job that never should have existed in the first place, better hope you are married to the next president of the USA, because ain't nobody gonna hire you for that again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Supporting Endangered Boobies And Gainzzz at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (VTu1l)
Maestro is MASTER in multiple Euro languages...
So clearly it is a RAAAAACISTY Title!
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (oHd/0)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story or Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
Walk Hard. No contest. A lot A. Lot. more laughs.
Though I did like Weird it was more "smile humor" than laugh.
I particularly liked Weird Al's Jim Morrison meltdown.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (KLPy8)
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I may have to change my nic to "Assness Maestro at some point ... if Jonah Goldberg isn't already using it.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (CQY7u)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: JackStraw
I hate you so much... because I'm still laughing.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (d2bW3)
Thus, reinforcing my point:
God ain't always NICE. God IS, always GOOD! (i.e; Holy, Righteous, Supreme, our Creator and all the etc.s' you might imagine.)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM
YOU'RE TREADING ON THIN ICE, MISTER.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER'S PARENTS at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (AiZBA)
Is his voice really so weird? Gates has a bizarre voice, but Zuck, too?
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (Zzbjj)
Some days I just want to suck-start a shotgun
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (eYoxG)
Assholes.
Posted by: Eric's Brothers Keith and Todd. at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Supporting Endangered Boobies And Gainzzz at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (3ImbR)
Ronald McDonald > Ronna Romney McDaniel
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (NJQ2Z)
Things must be really bad.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (KCOCK)
They should have moved them into the warehouse, worked them 80 hours a week, and then laid them off on Christmass Eve.
The overtime would have helped with their transition.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (yQpMk)
Playgrounds everywhere
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: bluebell
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You'd have a daily stabbing deficit that would build up and then you'd have to go on a spree on the San Francisco waterfront. Hmm, wait, that might actually solve some problems.
Posted by: G. Newsome at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (sEIo1)
Sigh. Because of course she did.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself
But who would make the gantt charts and powerpoints?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (2xlV3)
>>Ronna Romney McDaniel has decided to run for another term as head of the RNC.
Phwew, wouldn't want somebody competent in that position, not quite our tempo.
--
Cocaine Mitch and his CCP paymasters.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Synova at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (BD/yx)
The overtime would have helped with their transition.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (yQpMk)
They're trannies, too? This gets crazier
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (Zzbjj)
So all the stacks got moved to an unheated 50 year old temporary building for storage. There's a catalog search available in the library but no books. America
Will nobody think of the hoboes and vagrants? Where are they to sleep and masturbate?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (eOEVl)
So, they scan the volumes in, but then the search engines only give you the same 15 hits, for 25 pages...
Why does this remind me of the original 'Rollerball'? I've lost the 15th Century...
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot in good standing! at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (Qy6XB)
I worked near a declining shopping mall, and February every year was when more stores closed permanently. They never closed in November.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (KCOCK)
It looks Dutch, but it might be German. Dutch usually has more vowels like "Froohmhoefeer"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (Ivdso)
Expect to see some very conservative business-person elected governor in 2028 or 2030 - long after the placed has been cleared out by corrupt politicos and everyone who invested in retirement and business in metro areas have long since lost all their money. Then, and only then, will some review of the earlier elections of 2020's happen and it will be "yeah, har har, they were all corrupt, of course! What can you do?"
Posted by: Boswell at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (3ImbR)
Ronald McDonald > Ronna Romney McDaniel
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (NJQ2Z)
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I will not have you disparaging this titan of strategery, who so cleverly blunted the blue wave and produced massive victories in Florida and Texas.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Romeo13
Fantastic film, IMO.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Romeo13
Fantastic film, IMO.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (d2bW3)
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4K UHD releases in 8 days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: dr. zoidberg at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 14, 2022 04:47 PM (3ImbR)
Because this election was SOOOO successful! Exactly what Mitch said to do!
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (atmen)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 04:48 PM (Zzbjj)
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They could, but they won't, for two reasons.
First, they're above it.
Second, the pay scale for Amazon seasonal employees is $18/ with a bonus that can bring the total to $21/hr (based on some cursory web searching). So at standard workload of 40 hours per week, that comes out to $720 - $840 per week. If the people being fired were earning $30,000 or more per quarter (which is $120k per year) - which most of them probably were - Washington State unemployment benefits are $999 per week, or 19% higher than the higher pay scale and 38.75% higher than the lower pay scale. The math on that is easy, and it totals to "take the unemployment and look for something that pays more."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Romeo13
Fantastic film, IMO.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (d2bW3)
Been arguing with my father for the past couple of weeks about how awful that movie is, haha.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Fuck that. Don't ever think that, Christopher.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 14, 2022 04:53 PM (2xlV3)
Posted by: illiniwek
Then: the Westinghouses and the Carnegies who developed useful skills the hard way endowed useful things.
Now: the Zuckerbergs who got rich from their Harvard contacts endow frauds.
Oh, and just 'cause:
https://youtu.be/1xcSDYy3Dl4
Posted by: JEM Brie at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (63Dwl)
or not move there now (me)
I'm still sad. I really really hate humidity
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Sploosh! Definitely getting it. Plus, Maud Adams.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (ykeLU)
>>But who would make the gantt charts and powerpoints?
The Assistant Project Managers, ask me how I know.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (up/3i)
Then they wander off after their government guaranteed student loan gets spent on dope.
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:50 PM (Ivdso)
Please don't do that. People would miss you.
On the other hand, getting rid of libraries is awful, isn't it?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 04:44 PM
Wasn't that Colonel Klink's commanding General?
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (pAYE7)
Here is how 18-29 yo voted in each state, Dems won everywhere but the margins varied by a lot. This is CNN data.
AZ: 70-26
NV: 64-31
FL: 57-41
OH: 59-41
And this is 30-44 yo
AZ: 58-37 Dems
NV: 60-36 Dems
FL: 50-48 Dems
OH: 50-49 Reps
Florida and Ohio did substantially better with young voters than Nevada and Arizona. My guess is because NV and AZ young voters are more Hispanic than in FL and OH. But whatever the reason, that’s a good part of the reason why FL/OH went deep red and NV/AZ went blue.
Saying it’s all fraud ignores data like this.
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (r6pxn)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:52 PM (d2bW3)
Two types of people on the Earth.
People who like Rollerball, and Godless, Spineless Commies who can't take a punch to the face.
Posted by: XTC at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (UnA8+)
‘A sobering assessment’: Large parts of US at risk of outages during extreme weather this winter: NERC
NERC is the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which is the organization that tracks whether the lights can stay on or not.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (KCOCK)
Just in the Woke Division... so... good thing.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (atmen)
Posted by: bluebell
Are you implying that its possible for you to NOT be nice ?
I don't believe it !
Posted by: JT at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Roy at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (hSmo9)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
I saw it when I was in grade school. Some of it was boring, but the matches were great. At least I thought so.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (hS8+x)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (AiZBA)
Are you listening Bezos?
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:49 PM (Qy6XB)
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Especially when the only place left to buy fresh, live bugs to eat will be Amazon.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (CQY7u)
Especially for someone trying to make a living as an author. Its like being a clock maker today. People don't even know how to READ an old clock let alone want one in their house.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: XTC
Wisdom. ^
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (d2bW3)
Also, lots of good technical people are assholes. Sometimes it is worth learning to work with them. But working for one is rough.
Posted by: goodluckduck at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (pCXlW)
https://is.gd/Kk4Isx
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (t0OGg)
To my shame I just couldn't do it. True story.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (VdGjU)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
I saw it when I was in grade school. Some of it was boring, but the matches were great. At least I thought so.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (d2bW3)
It just doesn't make any sense! The movie revolves around a game that is more or less ignored by its participants at will. Why even bother pretending about scores and such when they could've just done pit fighting or something?!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (PWI4f)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Fuck that. Don't ever think that, Christopher.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion
We need a Wednesday morning telecon to remind ourselves how badly things have gone the past week, and why we should hang around for the NEXT week's evils.
Nasty, brutish, and short...we're still doing better than it used to be.
Posted by: JEM Brie at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (Q4IgG)
I swear there is a movie that couldn't be made today.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, thanks vets at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: ace at November 14, 2022 04:24 PM (C1Zwz)
I volunteer garrett.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (JOtiF)
Especially for someone trying to make a living as an author. Its like being a clock maker today. People don't even know how to READ an old clock let alone want one in their house.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (Ivdso)
We are blessed to have a antique clock repairer just a short drive away. But he's not getting any younger.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (Cw0fX)
>>Taking exit polls with a grain of salt of course
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Owing to deeper, wider support across all demographic groups and increased vote totals, as GOP becomes more popular, their victories are becoming more selective.
...
Historian Hugh Du Stank Opined: If the GOP becomes any more popular, they'll be in the political wilderness for a genertion or more.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (up/3i)
To my shame I just couldn't do it. True story.
C'mon, you were one of those guys who slipped in the charge for the undercoating right before the deal closed, weren't you?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (Ivdso)
They do... every Weds and Sun here one of our good theatres (with stadium seats and selling wine and beer) does classic movies.
Money makers... Older crowds...
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (oHd/0)
https://tinyurl.com/mpa44w6f
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (atmen)
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (pAYE7)
Posted by: Roy at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (hSmo9)
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They will then be replaced by our future drone overlords. #Soon.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (CQY7u)
To my shame I just couldn't do it. True story.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at November 14, 2022 04:56 PM (VdGjU)
REFUND? REFUND?! REFUND?!?!
Posted by: NLurker's Dad at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (AiZBA)
Playgrounds everywhere
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 04:51 PM (Qy6XB)
"Earache? Earache, my eye! Howd'ya like a buttache!"
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (906pl)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (hS8+x)
https://is.gd/Kk4Isx"
I'm hip.
Posted by: fd at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: REDACTED at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (PWI4f)
they need to learn to code apparently....
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 14, 2022 04:59 PM (G/v5P)
Fired tech workers can all just go get a Green Job.
Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at November 14, 2022 04:57 PM (PWI4f)
___________
Smelting plant for battery recycling
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Cus5s)
OMG THANK YOU!
thank you Christopher!!!
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: polynikes
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Aren't you special.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (wHazn)
Posted by: Skip at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (ykeLU)
I love how people act like inflation is an anthropomorphic thing, that just has a mind of its own, and wants to be stubborn about it.
Inflation is a DIRECT effect of economic policy. Government creates it, we all suffer from it. Nothing stubborn about it. No more stubborn than a ball pean hammer to the head causing brain damage.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (YV6PJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Software Engineer at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Dm0bX)
Just in the Woke Division... so... good thing.
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (oHd/0)
ESG, DEI, Woketardism are all huge money burners. The CEOs and Boards who allow this BS need to have their pants sued off.
But, once again this just proves the contention that ESG, DEI, whatever are Social Luxury Items only made possible by a booming economy full of well-off people with money to spend.
Welp, Woketards your dream came true.
Too bad your dream Murdered Your Social Luxury Item Job.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (KLPy8)
Smelting plant for battery recycling
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (MoZTd)
There ya go! Or they could help the poor African kids mine cobalt, or something.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Zzbjj)
Yeah that golden calf thing didn't turn out so well last time. Moses had to beg God to not wipe them all out and reboot with Moses.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (hS8+x)
Don't mythologize them. Not all ditch diggers dig quality ditches.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Qzn2/)
Posted by: cn
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What about SBF's voice? How did he manage to get through HS? Or did he start out as a girl??
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (tQL7r)
Also, lots of good technical people are assholes. Sometimes it is worth learning to work with them. But working for one is rough.
Posted by: goodluckduck
Elon is a chaos agent. He stirs the shit to build up a nice wave to surf on. Worked for him many years ago.
All his faves went to SpaceX.
I wasn't one of his anointed, but we have a Tesla. I respect the hell out of the guy for taking his money ($16M from Zip2 into PayPal then those billions) and doing SERIOUS BIG HARDWARE.
Hardware is hard. He has redefined industries.
Posted by: JEM at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (8erNz)
I remember when my old lab transitioned to Web of Science. Prior to that, you went to the library, and spend the day looking up references in Chem Abstracts, and xeroxing the articles out of paper journals. Doing it all electronically saved me hundreds and hundreds of hours a year, and gave me better results.
I didn't visit the library once in about the last 15 years of my career. The former bookshelves were also warehoused, or the journals were just tossed (they've all been scanned in now).
I'm willing to embrace new tech, although I suppose it might be different for other fields.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (r6pxn)
Unless Mom is filling out their mail in ballots.
But truly, so many young people have been convinced that the world is going to end and they have no future if they don't vote Dem and end hydrocarbons that not a single one of them are wondering what they'll be left with if the world ISN'T destroyed.
Priorities, right? Doesn't matter how much of a hell-hole the country becomes if the world survives.
Posted by: Synova at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (BD/yx)
I guess the election is over.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (r6pxn)
You chuck it out the window so a homeless guy picks it up. Why? To get the recycling deposit. What did your relatives ever do for the Earth and the homeless?
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (yZlY6)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Zzbjj)
The ultimate green job
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (2xlV3)
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 04:54 PM (w0NJk)
There are only so many liberals from NY who want to leave their 5 borough digs to live in a desert that is 100 degrees during the day and 45 degrees at night - its basically the climate of Mercury.
The only way for these businesses and property developers in AZ to enjoy returns was to make it profitable for seniors and business convention goers to take up stakes in retirement communities or go in droves to high end Scottsdale conventions, and high taxes and killing grandma at the Tuscon Walmart for her car, or shivin' Jimmy Convention Goer in a Scottsdale eatery for his wallet isn't going to make that fucking happen.
Posted by: Boswell at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (Cw0fX)
Yeah that golden calf thing didn't turn out so well last time. Moses had to beg God to not wipe them all out and reboot with Moses.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Ivdso)
Aaron got off easy. "The people came to me with their gold and I threw it in the fire, and out came this calf!"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (PiwSw)
same with high schools - must have library or libraries. Episcopal is the best HS/MS around here and it has three beautiful libraries.
no libraries = no parental tuition help
that said my kids love libraries and my collegiate kid always takes me to one theirs when we visit campus. it's beautiful and well-used. there are still colleges that love their libraries.
Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (w0NJk)
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Seems like an awful lot of effort just to Larp. None of them will get laid. Ever.
Posted by: The truth hurts at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (sEIo1)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, thanks vets at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Software Engineer at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Dm0bX)
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That's an assumption. We don't know whether he was pushing for bug resolution and performance enhancement rather than feature development or not. I've seen many times (and been in the position myself) where someone makes the "we need to retire some of this technical debt and stabilize things" argument repeatedly but Product Management says, "fuck you, we're pursuing more features because of X" (where X is "we're not at feature parity with the competition" or "we need support this next-gen technology" or "key customers demand this feature and will walk if we don't produce it" or similar).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (tQL7r)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (Qy6XB)
It's about damn time this started happening. Hope it spreads to all the tech companies.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (24fqN)
I gotta say, she doesn't look particularly busy in that picture.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (vH/6k)
sorry
Posted by: gourmand du jour, thanks vets at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: polynikes
I saw two unicorns off I-64 in Waddy Kentucky at the truck stop, the one with the Denny's on the north side of the highway. They were standing in a field plain as day across from the truck stop and I would have pictures of them but I forgot my phone at home that day.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (uNylN)
Posted by: Prime Sister at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (tQL7r)
I think SBF is indifferent to how he presents in public. Zuck and Gates could both benefit from a speech therapist.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (Cw0fX)
To debate is to accept the frame. Better to ask them who was foolish enough to invite them.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (r6pxn)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (hS8+x)
I'm not shocked that colleges would get rid of libraries. Research material is largely on the internet. Before my hospital got rid of our librarians, we could call down a topic, and within an hour a pile of articles would be delivered to your desk. They figured we could hunt for our own articles and click print more cheaply than having 3 librarians on duty.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (Zzbjj)
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And how did that work? Likely badly. I did document acquisition and literature searching. I kept my job as long as I did by doing it more efficiently than researchers could. I'd tell people, "If it takes you more than 10 minutes, call me."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (1Nxff)
RMoney is right. My sons and I will take your money and make it RMoney
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (Zzbjj)
Yeah that golden calf thing didn't turn out so well last time. Moses had to beg God to not wipe them all out and reboot with Moses.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:01 PM (Ivdso)
The scene is similar to Abraham's with Sodom and Gomorrah. Helps set them apart as individuals, it's what makes them worthy of the role.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (eYoxG)
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Naw. This is the endgame. The Feds are going to send yoz all to the camps out here. Gonna be servicing the Feds needs for a while.
Posted by: Jimmy "the Chin" Gigante Real Estate Professional in AZ at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (VJDtT)
Posted by: polynikes
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Aren't you special.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (wHazn)
Don't understand the snark but it's not because I'm taking a stand against Amazon. It's that I just don't make purchases over the internet.
Posted by: polynikes at November 14, 2022 05:06 PM (pAYE7)
Money makers... Older crowds...
Posted by: Romeo13, Bot or Droid? at November 14, 2022 04:58 PM (oHd/0)
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Brings back good memories ... the old MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas used to show old classic movies with beverage service in a theater. Was a great, romantic place to take a girl on a date in the 70s & 80s when we were kids and young adults.
One young lady I took there to see To Kill A Mockingbird, who later became a close friend, always related to others how that was her favorite movie ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 14, 2022 05:06 PM (CQY7u)
...baton the other hand...
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (ykeLU)
Armed societies are polite societies.. thus nicer...
Swords....
Posted by: Ridolfo Capo Fera at November 14, 2022 05:06 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 05:06 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 05:00 PM (vH/6k)
It is.
It's a literal brain cage for the constant streaming of propaganda by Zuckerberg disguised as
a digital theme park and play land.
Where your presence can be monitized every millisecond of the day.
Buying a META headset is like buying a ticket to dystopia.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (wHazn)
Posted by: fd at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (sn5EN)
A wave of fear is spreading through all the Ivy League "studies" majors, who always figured they could get a job at a fancy tech firm, even if they were otherwise unemployable.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (r6pxn)
In my area, working parents use the library as a babysitting service. Years ago the system insisted on an age limit and sent out a mailing that the would call the authorities.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (wHazn)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, thanks vets at November 14, 2022 05:03 PM (jTmQV
//
Could use their fictional illegitimate spawn to deliver a load of ballots to the Cook County registrar's office before the deadline in a stolen undercover cop car Prius.
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (Qy6XB)
i blame agile.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (oY6Yp)
I gotta say, she doesn't look particularly busy in that picture.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (vH/6k)
She works for me just fine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (6FeV1)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (gISKS)
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Too bad.
So sad.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (wHazn)
Posted by: mrp at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (6eRlp)
I sense a disturbance in the farce.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (eOEVl)
Where your presence can be monitized every millisecond of the day.
Buying a META headset is like buying a ticket to dystopia.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (KLPy
++++
It's a consequence of dystopia, not a cause.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (t0OGg)
Don't take it personal.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (wHazn)
If everyone took it personally when I got snarky, I would be uniquely hated on the blog.
*looks around*
*pauses*
You guys know it's snark, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (dNqv+)
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The only reason lefty's get together with family is so they can look down upon them.
Posted by: Judge not lest ye be MAGA at November 14, 2022 05:09 PM (FhK07)
Posted by: Fox2! at November 14, 2022 05:09 PM (0kjWS)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi for Senate at November 14, 2022 05:09 PM (FuN7p)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 05:09 PM (r6pxn)
Posted by: naturalfake at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (KLPy
****
Morons want to know if there are boobies in the Metaverse.
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 05:09 PM (Qy6XB)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)
That was just the most childish of all excuses I mean, he was really up against it. Moses came stomping down the mountain with fury in his eyes, and this is a guy who literally beat someone to death in his past.
"WHAT THE LIVING F**K IS GOING ON HERE???"
So Aaron panics and pulls that out of his posterior.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (Ivdso)
I prefer the shorter "Karen".
Posted by: Archimedes at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 05:07 PM (KCOCK)
++++
Not just the Tech Firms. These people are embedded *everywhere* in corporate America. They are most visible in Big Tech, but no place is without them. They're the political officers - the commissars. I hope that this culling is both wide and deep.
Time will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (t0OGg)
Too bad.
So sad.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 14, 2022 05:08 PM (wHazn)
Agreed. The idea of them taking menial titles and shit work is very appealing. Before big tech, our hospital hired some Princetonians as nurses' aides. Then they got jobs at tech employers.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (Zzbjj)
Yeah... Casablanca? was not that much better on the Big Screen... but Sound of Music? much better. Kind of depends on the Movie...
But would love to see 'Paint your Wagon' on the Big Screen again... last movie Dad got to pick as the family go out to movie night... I was 10.... after that it got split up into Girls movies and Guys movies (yeah, Dad took us to a lot of Bond Movies).
Posted by: RomeoBot13 at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: fd at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (sn5EN)
So sad.
The big tech firms always have been very snobby at who they would hire.
You could always get a job as a gender studies/Africana studies major, so long as you had that Haaarvad degree.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (KCOCK)
couldn't go fetch your phone, because the sasquatches riding them were making them move along?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (ppBhU)
==
The only reason lefty's get together with family is so they can look down upon them.
Posted by: Judge not lest ye be MAGA at November 14,
****
It's sad but I gave it up almost 10 years ago.
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (Qy6XB)
It's for folx who aren't satisfied with the simulation we all already live IRL. Soon there will be a meta-squared that the meta-jaded can escape to, a sim in a sim in a sim.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (24fqN)
Nice name for NHS Death Panels.
Posted by: Miklos, veddy niiice at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (DkhtU)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (AiZBA)
Once 'Personnel' department morphed in Human Resources? They went from making sure people got their damn check, to decision makes on who was hired... HUGE mistake.
Posted by: RomeoBot13 at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (h49Nh)
Bouncer. You don't have to be personally nice to enforce niceness on others.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
That's about it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)
Flavored Soylent Green.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: No more bullshit please at November 14, 2022 05:04 PM (r6pxn)
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Back in the 90s, my teenages stepdaughter and many of her friends would immediately go to the library after school and study, where we parents who worked knew they'd be safe and hopefully stay out of trouble -- and then we'd pick them up on our ways home from work.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (3/4dv)
They weren't worshipping an idol, they were worshipping Jehovah. They just were using the statue because they were used to having statues to worship and were scared. Aaron probably thought he was losing control and the Israelites would wander off, probably try to get back to Egypt where at least they had food and shelter and it was predictable.
Its a tale of false worship, to appease the masses, in our own shape, rather than what God demands. The kind of worship with mass appeal that is easy and comfortable in our culture.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (Ivdso)
Well, presuming that you hire people on occasion you do need some recruiters. Past that, the rest of those are completely unnecessary.
The trick is that when you hire a recruiter you make sure that they don't have a degree that includes the word "Studies" in it's title, like "Gender Studies".
Posted by: RonF at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (TzAHL)
Sure, they tricked millions into giving away personal data due free. But, a buyer for that data needs marks with cash.
Turns out, in an early depression, folks get a bit stingy with their money.
Big tech never had a product that sold anything but luxury items--toys, games and fun. Folks in a depression are more into food, houses and heat.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 14, 2022 05:13 PM (5szjk)
Posted by: torabora at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (Qy6XB)
Me too. Lefties were disinvited. Actually, they called and just assumed an invitation was annual. I said it wasn't.
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:13 PM (Zzbjj)
It's for folx who aren't satisfied with the simulation we all already live IRL. Soon there will be a meta-squared that the meta-jaded can escape to, a sim in a sim in a sim.
way ahead of you
Posted by: daniel galouye at November 14, 2022 05:13 PM (oY6Yp)
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I don't think Elon is gonna have any trouble selling new or used Teslas. What he needs to figure out is why the credit rating services are crapping on a company that is rolling in cash, while propping up legacy companies like GM and Ford that can't seem to make decent EVs. Something stinks!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 14, 2022 05:13 PM (hRbjX)
I guess the election is over.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)
Let's not bicker and argue about who raided who, this is supposed to be a HAPPY occasion!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (YV6PJ)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: JT at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: RomeoBot13 at November 14, 2022 05:11 PM (oHd/0)
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Yup. The key problem - and it is also common on finance teams in various companies - making a support function into an executive function. Personnel/HR is a support function, as are finance, IT and various other groups. They are there to support the business by getting paychecks out or selecting benefits options or keeping the computers working or organizing the budget, etc. - not make decisions about corporate policy or direction. Letting them move into executive function is a tremendous mistake.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (t0OGg)
What entity has more cash than any other entity in the US? Almost like they printed money.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (ZLI7S)
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So you're sayin' I need Kraft Mac & Cheese in the Metaverse?!?!! On it!
Posted by: Zuckernerd at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (n1Jkp)
*******
And skittle marks on the asphalt...
Posted by: Muldoon at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (Qzn2/)
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:14 PM (Zzbjj)
They weren't worshipping an idol, they were worshipping Jehovah. They just were using the statue because they were used to having statues to worship and were scared. Aaron probably thought he was losing control and the Israelites would wander off, probably try to get back to Egypt where at least they had food and shelter and it was predictable.
Its a tale of false worship, to appease the masses, in our own shape, rather than what God demands. The kind of worship with mass appeal that is easy and comfortable in our culture.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (Ivdso)
Not strictly correct:
He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
Iow, they took the object as God. Frequently confused by Protestants, but the potential thing that would be idolatrous in Catholicism would be the Eucharist, not a picture or movie or artwork.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
M4-toting Carrie Fisher
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (PiwSw)
in the '70s i hung out in the library so much that the librarian put me to work.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Jimmy "the Chin" Gigante Real Estate Professional in AZ at November 14, 2022 05:05 PM (VJDtT)
Actually - it will be the mob that turns on Dems first - losing their pigeons and the cash flow they represent in these Western areas like Scottsdale casinos and convention resorts - once local businesses flee and the cartels and local gangs take over under wacky Soros DA rules approved by Hobbs - is going to make the rank and file union mob bosses start whacking people right and left.
The left out in NV has played ball with the mob ran Unions, Gov Lombardo will, too. Katie Hobbs team is going to find itself buried in unmarked mounds out in the Tuscon desert if they pursue some sort of Abortion Mouse agenda.
Posted by: Boswell at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (eYoxG)
Once, working for a big company, my boss and I decided we wanted to hire someone. We had ignored HR, of course, so we told him to go down to the public-facing HR office on the first floor and fill out the application forms so we could hire him.
We get a phone call five minutes later: "They said they're not hiring, and won't give me the forms."
I called down: "Yes we are hiring. Give him the forms."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (PiwSw)
Vegan meat=meat of vegans
Posted by: cn at November 14, 2022 05:15 PM (Zzbjj)
Once 'Personnel' department morphed in Human Resources? They went from making sure people got their damn check, to decision makes on who was hired... HUGE mistake.
Posted by: RomeoBot13
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Company I contracted to Personnel office; small room, big enough for a desk, some file cabinets, the ubiquitous electric heater for the legs and a phone.
When it changed to HR the room became a suite.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at November 14, 2022 05:16 PM (gmxXe)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, thanks vets at November 14, 2022 05:17 PM (jTmQV)
Elon saw the omen, and left the dump
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:17 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 14, 2022 05:18 PM (38jud)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:19 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at November 14, 2022 05:10 PM
My phone was 50 miles away. No way they would have stayed there for me to take a 100 mile round trip to fetch my phone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 14, 2022 05:19 PM (uNylN)
SpaceX engineers land rockets from outer space on boats, automatically. And this pixel-pusher thinks he's hot stuff for displaying 140 chars on a phone.
Posted by: t-bird at November 14, 2022 05:19 PM (Sv58p)
Posted by: cn
Obama's entire career can be rung up to his history as a smoker. I do not recommend it, but there's definitely a historicallyu masculine timbre to the vocal cords that is trainable, but most easily attainable with the coffin nails.
Posted by: JEM at November 14, 2022 05:20 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
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Matt "Guitar" Murphy
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 14, 2022 05:21 PM (VoNp6)
They are driven all around London and Paris also
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:21 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Paladin at November 14, 2022 05:21 PM (7hzzD)
Posted by: Jonah
Republicans just want Jenny Agutter.
Posted by: JEM at November 14, 2022 05:21 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:21 PM (Cw0fX)
They are driven all around London and Paris also
Posted by: Jonah
The first Tesla taxicab I saw was in Paris.
Posted by: JEM at November 14, 2022 05:22 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:23 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
I saw it when I was in grade school. Some of it was boring, but the matches were great. At least I thought so.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 14, 2022 04:55 PM (d2bW3)
It just doesn't make any sense! The movie revolves around a game that is more or less ignored by its participants at will. Why even bother pretending about scores and such when they could've just done pit fighting or something?!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
The 'game' was devolving, as was the society around it.
The scene with the well dressed party goers using a torch to destroy trees for laughs.
Ralph Richardson kicking a computer after it 'lost' the 15th (?) century.
Great film. Hunger Games wanted to be it.
Posted by: Blue Hen at November 14, 2022 05:23 PM (JTRqZ)
Once 'Personnel' department morphed in Human Resources? They went from making sure people got their damn check, to decision makes on who was hired... HUGE mistake.
Posted by: RomeoBot13
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When Lew Sarrett was research director at Merck, he'd call someone in, give them the Rickover treatment, then ask when they could start.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 14, 2022 05:24 PM (buzIE)
Posted by: Monica White at November 14, 2022 05:24 PM (IRcm3)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 14, 2022 05:25 PM (38jud)
And mandatory Anabolic Steroids until they grow a damn beard and their voice deepens.
Posted by: XTC at November 14, 2022 05:25 PM (UnA8+)
6 out 9 Congressman are GOP.
Posted by: Jonah at November 14, 2022 05:25 PM (Cw0fX)
So I'm indifferent. And it highlights why the neurodiverse need to be strictly gate kept, kept in their lane and order them back to work whenever they propose ideas conflictling with reality.
Posted by: Xavier Basora at November 14, 2022 05:26 PM (HZCl6)
I have it on good authority that Niceness is racist.
Really.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jan.15407
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 14, 2022 05:30 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Go Get Your Shinebox at November 14, 2022 04:29 PM (XbY51)
FVCK YOU!!
Posted by: Tony Soprano the 3d at November 14, 2022 05:35 PM (Zvtjl)
The only way for these businesses and property developers in AZ to enjoy returns was to make it profitable for seniors and business convention goers to take up stakes in retirement communities or go in droves to high end Scottsdale conventions, and high taxes and killing grandma at the Tuscon Walmart for her car, or shivin' Jimmy Convention Goer in a Scottsdale eatery for his wallet isn't going to make that fucking happen.
Posted by: Boswell
Odd rant.
You're obviously not a meteorologist and your social science, business skills seem to be nonexistent.
Your car, shiv, and wallet being stolen sounds, in all fairness, like Xiden.
Yet, I've seen your posts before and never noted you being so unhinged.
Bad day?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 14, 2022 05:37 PM (/xJPt)
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 14, 2022 05:43 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 14, 2022 05:45 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Boswell
Seems like the 1st rule of holes is being ignored.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 14, 2022 05:45 PM (/xJPt)
Just a few days ago I got pinged for a contract QA job at Seattle Amazon. They are hiring but not FTE, it seems. (And I have a much nicer job I can do purely remote so not interested)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 14, 2022 06:00 PM (S3ur0)
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Meaning almost all of them are "people with vaginas."
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