That seems at odds with the amount of corporate pushback we've seen against the work-from-home trend.
The Boomers in middle to upper management want to go back to having affairs and they can only do that if they force everyone back into the office.
LK
I live a little closer than you to my work. And it is a tad more expensive than if I wanted to live, say 40 miles away. But it is worth it for me.
I'm a 5-15 minute drive from 95% of the things I want and/or need. It's ridiculous how much more affordable housing is, away from the city. Houses like mine, on as much land as I have go for over a million dollars in the city. I'd never be able to afford one.
It's when people want Silicon Valley pay and Detroit slum housing costs that they might check their priorities.
If I was 22, childless, newly graduated from college and making the kind of money that I make now, I would almost certainly have different priorities but as things stand, I like where I am.
I don't do it often, maybe 2-3 times per year but sometimes, I just want to drink some bourbon and listen to loud music. If I was closer to my neighbors, it would make me an asshole to do it.
That's almost always the result of government zoning decisions. If you want it to change, you need to change who you vote for.
I can't afford to live in the fucking city in a house as big as the one I have in the suburbs 14 miles away. I'm not renting a cracker jack box apartment just to have a chance to vote in a new zoning commission in a city where I don't want to live in the first place.
LK
Same here.
I have to get up earlier, so I have to go to sleep earlier and I spend an hour traveling to the office. When I'm done, I spend an hour traveling home.
It's really like dedicating 6 days a week to the job when I'm only being paid for 5.
My company is forcing limited return to the office but if they try to bring us back full-time, I'm looking for a new job.
LK
In theory it sounds like an absolute nightmare. In practice, will it be any worse than FB and old Twitter's "Fact Checking"?
I doubt it.
LK
Only the uninformed users. Most companies big enough to use Teams disclose that all company communications can be monitored.
LK
Well, no, not really, because you never have any privacy in any of those situations. You never feel safe and secure because there's people at the next table or in the bus. In a teams chat, it's just you and your buddy. Or, rather, that's how it feels.
Teams conversations are subject to inspection. I have a coworker that I call her personal cell phone when I have something to say that I don't want to say over Teams.
LK
I'm still convinced that the reason for this push to "Return To The Office" is fueled by boomers in middle to upper management who want to be able to go back to having affairs with the cover of "I had to work late".
LK
I haven't gotten a DMCA nasty gram since I started running all of my torrents over a VPN...
LK
The current court seems poised to revisit that logic.
They can't simultaneously claim the right to censor content and also take no responsibility for the content that they refuse to censor.
LK
This is the way.
In a state that already can't meet electrical demand?
Are they trying to put the state back into the Stone Age?
LK
I currently pay for a subscription AND I pirate content.
If Netflix keeps raising their prices, I won't be paying them anymore.
My VPN subscription is paid up for the next two years. That's a sunk cost and I'll get every dollar's worth out of it.
LK
but learning to program doesn't make you better at math.
You have to understand the fundamentals before a tool like a computer will do you any good.
LK
Old mail has arrived.
