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I'm retired now, but twice in my career I had a manager who demanded daily meetings. Both were absolute wastes of time. The second was particularly egregious. We'd have a "quick, 10 minute" meeting at 9 that usually stretched to an hour, after which several of us would gather in an office, shut the door, and bitch about the manager until lunch.

Weekly status meetings were no better. I could never understand why people felt the need to use the entire hour they'd booked the room for. When I ran them, when the meeting was over it was over, even if it was just a 5 minute "any issues?". Took my folks a couple weeks to realize they shouldn't plan on my status meetings lasting the full hour.

First time I had to do something like this I learned how to do it. Second time I was paying attention to what might change. Third time I wrote a script. Subsequent times were just running and maintaining said script. I may or may not have let management know I had a script.

That said, the labels can pound sand.

Population growth on top of climate change is going to make the next several years lots of fun.

The new Verizon CEO will get a $1000 bonus for every employee that gets laid off.

I'm trying to read the comments and this damned thing keeps popping up obscuring the view.

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Any country that respects these conditions will soon fall behind those who don't.

And skip that Exit 11b crap. In my neck of the woods we get big signs saying "Main St 3 miles", "Main St 2 miles", "Main St next exit". It's only once you've taken the exit you see that little sign that says "exit 11b".

Your car won't run without computers. Take your catalytic converter (CC) as an example. When your engine runs lean the exhaust has extra oxygen, the CC captures those atoms. When the engine runs rich the exhaust has extra carbon. The CC uses it's stored oxygen to turn the exhaust into CO2 and H2O. Your engine constantly moves from rich to lean and back again. If they do that for smog control, what do you think they can do with ignition timing, variable valve timing, and all the other doo dads they can control based on data from sensors all over the vehicle.

One reason is the number of ads they throw my way. Before starting a video I always think "is this gonna be worth the ads?". Another reason I've noticed is the people I follow aren't posting as often. Some have even quit YouTube. I suspect the ads are also the root cause of this.

Let them do that route for a few years, then we can talk about letting them on roads in my neck of the woods.

Wonder what it's like in a Chinese Wal-Mart? "Hey! I made that yesterday!"

is modern American innovation.

That's why the first thing I do with anything electrical is check for power.

Disclaimer: I spent 3 years as a hardware tech. The first things checked are power and clocks.