â¦confusing evolution with natural selection.

- astronomers could be as arrogant as programmers?

They also have orders of magnitude lower population. Soâ¦

Iâ(TM)ve read a lot of comments here that claim single mothers in parts of Canada get magic âoebill bulletsâ and a phone call is all it takes to get the government to pay your back bills. Iâ(TM)m curious, what prevents women from using kids as âoeincome weapons of mass destructionâ?

Iâ(TM)ve seen welfare used like this in the U.S. (1st hand) and all itâ(TM)s done is create entire generations of unimpressive, social parasites looking for the latest scam to keep from working a job. Or lifting a single finger to better their situation.

Lifting yourself out of those situations is hard. Damn hard. Iâ(TM)ve had to decide between food and electricity before. Two income family with a child. But itâ(TM)s not impossible. And thereâ(TM)s more help out there now than ever before for someone that will work hard and actually try.

Nobody owes you anything in this life. Being grateful is possibly one of the greatest traits anyone could have.

Itâ(TM)s the next logical step in preventing election fraud.

Now do voting.

What if they're getting the things done you're paying them to do AND taking naps during normal "office" hours? What if they're actually getting MORE done because they're happier and literally have more hours in the day to do it? What if managers stopped thinking like Neanderthals and took the hint? There are usually three primary reasons companies want to see butts in chairs:

1) That's the way it's always been done and it's worked fine. (Here's a clue: it hasn't been fine. They're just to idiotic to notice or even care. If it was fine we wouldn't be having this debate now. We'd have people clamoring to return to the daily grind.)

2) They're on a power trip and want their thumb on you.

3) They're directionless and have no real clue what their employees are doing or even what needs to be done. And no good way to measure what has been done in the end.

Point being, if it matters more to you that your employees wear silk ties and poke their perfectly manicured heads into your office every day to complement you on your new luxury SUV than the quality and quantity of work they produce while being happier for it, then I submit that you are either a clueless relic or power-mongering idiot.

The humans on the other end of the speaker box canâ(TM)t get orders right 50% of the time where Iâ(TM)m from. Not 10 years ago. Right now. Iâ(TM)ve labeled them the working dead. Bring on the robots and AI. It can only get better.

Pissed-on⦠Really?

Isnâ(TM)t Evolution the name of that new bar in town?

You're referring Switzerland as nobody? Interesting.

Minor point. There are LOTS of apple trees in the south. Maybe not the deep south, idk. But here in Arkansas we have apples. In fact the apple blossom is the state flower. Economics killed the once thriving apple orchards of Arkansas.

The US Navy went through a software audit several years ago and realized they didn't even know what scores of software was for. By scores, I believe the number came to tens of thousands but I can't put my finger on the source.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

You realize there's no such thing as "the government pays for it" right? As it is now my great-great grandchildren will be paying for this pandemic and a whole slew of other under-funded and just plain unfunded liabilities we currently are buried under. If we're lucky a loaf of bread won't cost $57.99 by the end of this decade since money doesn't seem to be worth much if it can just be given out like Halloween candy.