I used to work for a health care company that just switched to Cerner for EMR from its competitor Epic. My first thought was "oh boy, here come the legal demands..."

Do you ever research *anything* before running your mouth?

https://taxfoundation.org/rese...

Tennessee is a slight downgrade from Texas when it comes to taxes. If their goal was dodging taxes and nothing else, they'd have done far better by just going one state over.

Just because you work for somebody doesn't mean you get to get a say in how the organization is run. It just plain doesn't work unless it's a really small organization. Even if you worked a government job, and it was for the most democratic government in the world, you still don't get to do that. At best you get to vote for politicians that will then dictate how it's run. You and several others here talk about these mythical "very democratic" co-ops but you guys can't ever seem to name any. Every co-op I've ever seen is run just like any other business.

Nevertheless, many of us already do have a say in how our organization is run in various ways. But it's not based on votes, it's not based on how many shares you own, nor is it based on seniority or rank. Any well functioning organization is going to have a well defined mission, and nearly everything they do will somehow be in furtherance of that mission. In fact, many jobs that aren't even leadership positions even reward you for contributing to strategic decision making as long as it's in furtherance of that mission. I myself have seeded more than a few strategic initiatives without being in a leadership position. You know how people like me do that? When we have ideas, we roundtable them in meetings. The manager doesn't make all of the decisions, rather we introduce our ideas, talk about the pros and cons of them, and if we have a consensus that it will advance our mission, we begin working on it. We might even be at odds with the manager on a few implementation details that we make, but we're free to do them anyways if we can prove that they work.

Literally for a project I was working on earlier this year, I proposed adding a feature that the manager was always strictly against, yet when I mentioned it to the team, several were on board, so he let me implement it and see what it would bring. After I was done and deployed it to the field, it ended up resulting in sudden and very widespread user acceptance and adoption of our security tool throughout the organization that we had already been pushing users to switch to for quite a while earlier.

And that kind of thing isn't even remotely a first for me. And when you are such a person, you'll inevitably be more valued and thus better compensated. When I left my last job, my boss literally told me that it was a huge loss to the company and that I was welcome back if my new job didn't work out. Nearly two years later I'm still in regular contact with him and I didn't even know him before working there.

The reason you've never experienced anything like this is because you basically expect everybody around you to understand your perspective, but you never take the time to understand the perspective of those around you, except within your own narrow (and really, quite bonkers) definition of fairness. You don't bother to learn what makes an organization actually work, thus you push democracy as the solution to every problem even in cases where it very obviously will not work. Like Powernctl said once, and I've already observed many times: You never see the bigger picture, instead just putting whatever the hell you want ahead of everything and everyone else. If anything I said here was not true, you'd have already experienced exactly what you're asking for and you wouldn't be here complaining about it.

As for unions...well put it this way: Mafia tainted unions like what we have in the US are what companies end up with when THEY fail to see the bigger picture. The reason fewer people join them now is basically because of RICO.

If only they had the communication skills to write a brief, concise, persuasive email stating their position and what Google could do to remedy the problem. They need only convince the board to change Google's behavior, and even if they failed, they would at least still have their jobs. Now they have not only failed to change Google's behavior, they've lost their jobs as well.

Not necessarily. Never underestimate apple's ego. The homepod was a commercial failure but they kept making more of them for a while.

Besides, you have people like nomoreacs and archiebunker who wear their vision pro headsets even while the battery is dead just they want to make a fashion statement.

Gamecube wasn't will regarded... In fact every Nintendo console after SNES and before Wii was considered a commercial failure.

I expect taking a client list from one company to another is illegal even without a noncompete.

Who thought that the tracking device was not being used to track them?!?

If I had the money to burn on a Mirai, I could likewise hire a few Mechanical/Chemical engineering majors to build me an at-home electrolitic fueling station.

It's not that hard to find hydrogen sources these days. Some people even have it plumbed to their residence.

The honorable thing to do when you don't agree with the ethics of your employer is to resign in protest, rather than be fired for being a nuisance.

The former says that you have uncompromising integrity in how you act in all areas of life, and are willing to make personal sacrifices to do the right thing, while the latter suggests you're a bit unhinged and a potential nightmare employee.

Also not reliable

The geography here doesn't really permit because, unlike say Nevada and Arizona, there aren't any mountain ranges with major rivers that flow all year long. Besides, that would mean building a dam, which I guess the cool kids aren't doing anymore.

Like everything else in this state: Sure, after we finish funding education for residents of Mexico, the high speed rail to nowhere, and free health care for illegal immigrants.

Nope. They've been trying to get rid of that. The restaurant industry has been fighting the state because apparently gas stoves are too polluting, cause cancer, etc.

That's just sad. Palo Verde has its license for all three reactor units going til at least 2045.

Though another note on #3: In Phoenix, it is a thing to register your smart thermostat with either APS or SRP to voluntarily ease up on your AC on-demand by the power company in exchange for a monthly incentive. *Maybe* you're asking for something similar here, but SRP and APS are both pretty tech savvy companies (likely not a coincidence that Phoenix one of if not THE most reliable grid in the US) where my understanding of PG&E (my rents here have always included utilities so I've never had an account with them) is that they're still trying to figure out what a utility company's job is.

Problem is it's not a simple matter of making it a feature of the EV. You have to get permitting, which is expensive as hell in California, not to mention installing the additional appliances and wiring needed. And then of course, there's the whole matter of your car often being on the road or parked somewhere else when other people in the house might need it to be parked in your garage.

It's just not something many consumers will either demand or use.

So then invest into that instead of more solar like the state has been doing.

Why? They don't even need it. California is the only state in the region that can't figure out how to run a power grid. Or anything else for that matter. Bottom line is nobody buys electricity from California, it's always been the other way around in my lifetime. In fact California is highly dependent upon the Palo Verde plant.

They probably do it at that time because that's likely the time both the supply AND demand are the most predictable. It really wouldn't be a good idea to make it in the middle of the day and then have several weeks worth of overcast come unexpectedly. You know, the kind that we have right now.

So what do you do after the sun goes down?