"clutch back pieces of your own freedom"

LOL. I wish I could invest in hyperbole stocks.

You know what? The middle class has - more or less since there was one - gone "to a place to work" and then gone home. Let's remember this has been normal for CENTURIES.

When covid hit, and we'd all suspected for a few years that working remotely was POSSIBLE, there was suddenly a high demand for it. Companies spent PILES of $$ on mostlyshitty remote systems that have by and large gotten better up to "ok". And we worked from home because companies had no choice. Now that the emergency is over, the elite workers (let's remember the real peons in service industries, food service, etc NEVER got the choice, so fuck them, right?) "don't want to go back" - even though almost certainly most of them over 30 originally signed employment agreements that presupposed working in an office every day. (It was so obvious, and so assumed, that no, in fact, most of such agreements didn't mention it explicitly.)

Now it's "freedom", is it? You guys need to work on your narrative, between your therapy sessions.

My favorite bit is that companies - who are on supposedly universally seething with unadulterated greed, mind you, are now somehow uninterested in the $millions per year they could save on commercial real estate letting people work from home, using their own kitchens and offices (for free) rather than the $140 persqft downtown office space?
And this is because, let me see, they somehow get off on flexing on the peons who (supposedly) are just as effective from home?

Maybe roll through that narrative in your head again, see if it makes sense this time:
- allegedly workers are really JUST AS EFFECTIVE from home (according to them)
- they could work entirely from home, easily saving businesses $millions/year
- and yet the pointy-heads don't want this just so ... they can wander around the office with a stale cup of coffee, ogle the secretary's tits, and force the peons to genuflect?

Of course. Makes perfect sense. This is why we can't ever have nice things. Someone always tries to take advantage.

The one thing I can assert confidently is the next time circumstances require companies to loosen the norms a squidgen for workers' sake, COVID showed them "just don't do it, because everyone will start insisting that (whatever it is) is an ESSENTIAL FREEDOM now". Nice precedent.

FWIW, I have 6 employees, all who are completely free to work from home (they were before covid, in fact). I go into the office every day, but I just don't get that thrill without peons to flex on.

In all honesty, he was hardly even aware of it.

RE the divorces comment, that's a feature not a bug when you realize that what's being uncovered is 100% deeply dishonest behavior.

Personally I don't know why DNA testing at birth isn't mandatory even if it was only to confirm paternity and then disposed.

I've been reading a lot about this and for the last 20 years largely the agw global warming advocates have INSISTED that food crops wouldn't flourish in higher CO2 environs (despite obvious logical and ample evidence - cf greenhouses commonly run at higher co2 concentrations for just this reason).

www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2017/Q1/rising-co2-due-to-climate-change-may-not-improve-agriculture,-model-shows.html
Rising CO2 due to climate change may not improve agriculture, model shows

https://yaleclimateconnections...
"A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. "

https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
"Carbon dioxide could reduce crop yields" Are we conceding that now? "OK yes it will help them grow but they won't be as nutritious" is th new line?
Just want to be sure I'm current where the argument's at.

What's wrong with you?

Hey, we're going to have a room set up just for breastfeeding.

Should I put in a webcam connected to the internet?

Of course!

"everyone that disagrees with me is stupid!" .... actually explains more.

Maybe assume that reasonable people can look at facts and disagree, and that's normal, with out assuming you have a magically-endowed monopoly on truth or morality?

Just saying.

What have the Romans ever done for us? ... He said, posting on a phone or computer invented by the free market, on an Internet developed by the free market, on a free website whose operations are funded by the free market, probably having driven a car invented by the free market earlier this morning, sitting in a room climate controlled by free market developed equipment.
Should I continue or are you so mired in "I hate the free market" double-speak that you are beyond reason?

Fwiw, You know the EPA completely lied about ddt?

Geez if we could only go back to living in caves and 40y life span socialist paradise.

.. it technically IS part of the executive branch.
And it's still funded by fees, not congressional appropriations, yes?
And the commissioners nominated by the president, approved by the Senate, yeah?

So nothing changes.

But please: feel free to resume your fetal position if you like.

IIRC it was Buffet who suggested a 100% tax on gains from any stock traded less than 1 year from purchase.

Hell, even if they put a 1 month buffer, I think it would help.

Says "the voice of Satan".
Perhaps you forgot your sig?

Europe "we have free speech as long as what you say is approved, obviously"
US fell into that 2021-2024, I get it. You need to snap out of it. I hope you do.

I do find it ... curious ... that suddenly this aggressively pacifist bunch of milquetoasts who scurried like cockroaches when called out on their 2% defense budget "promises" (not just by Trump, but by Obama before him - WHO ALSO warned against EU's excessive RU-snuggling over NatGas as well...) are all marching in war-drum lockstep INSISTING that war is imminent? (And it's hard to tell if they'd rather fight Russia or Trump personally - their TDS is as bad as slashdot).
Germany ROARING that they're remilitarizing and Mertz pounding the podium very Kruschevian...sure. As if everyone will just *forget* that Germany a) did NOTHING since UKR was invaded in 2014. I think they sent some helmets when Trump was (the first) sending actual military weapons to UKR? b) Germany couldn't be dragged away from being all snuggled up to Nordstream 2 until that was ... no longer an option. (Let's watch the $43 BN in payments from EU to RU after the 2022 invasion... https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPo...)

The idea that "after Ukraine Russia will certainly attack Europe" might be politically useful but is breathtakingly stupid from anyone not in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, or Lithuania (who all have legitimate reasons to be nervous). To invent that Putin is somehow cracking his knuckles over the opportunity to conquer Europe as soon as possible couldn't be more laughable...unless it happens to now be coming from the EXACT PEOPLE who insisted in their younger days that the Russians would never do such a thing.

HILARIOUS.

You seem to forget, as the slashdot ideologues will certainly remind you, that "hating Elon and everything he does" is likewise the 'fad of the day'.

The Sahara has turned a lush green wildland 230 times in the last 8 million years, as recently as 9000 years ago.

I 1000% guarantee you, if there were leftists then, they absolutely INSISTED this was humans' fault.

https://theconversation.com/th...

Hint: The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases significantly (logarithmically) as its concentration increases. This is scientific fact. There was no "runaway greenhouse effect" on earth even when CO2 was MULTIPLES of where it is today.

For years they adamantly insisted they didn't need to upgrade their room making and navigation tech while Asian companies hungrily iterated improvements.
When other companies integrated vacuum AND mopping tech, Roomba refused because they'd rather try to sell you 2x separate $200 devices.

This is simply a case where an early leader got it's head so far up it's own ass it didn't realize it was being left behind. Or rather, it saw all the signs and insisted they were wrong.

Oh well. Evolution requires death of the unfit.

"Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century," with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050," says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain.

Well.
As recently as 2018 widespread studies showed that only 3 of 20 wild population groups were decreasing, and the overall number of polar bears was increasing steadily.

Now the propaganda engines have gotten going, the litany is "well we didn't know the data very precisely before so we were guessing, making it appear that populations were growing when they weren't"

Funny how data is only considered precise when it validates that the sky is falling.