My issue is with the 40% of the US who have continued to vote Republican for the last 60 years. These horrible policies aren't new. Yeah swing voters notice the issues but the base continues to vote for harm to others.

Regardless of how valid her claim is, what always gets me is how anyone can vote Republican when every single bill has this exclusivity or demoralizing action at it's heart. When was the last time a bill was authored and passed by Reps that was purely benevolent without some secrete tax cut for the rich or killing some other social programs?

It feels like the Mitchell and Webb skit "Are we the baddies?" How can you vote red when their entire agenda is to never make life better for everyone? Do no voters see this issue or do 100% not care?

Yes, I know. I'm just saying Minnesota "Midwest" is not the same as the rest of the Midwest most of the rest of the Midwest is very similar.

I'm from Wisconsin, family from Michigan as well and traveled there a lot. Went to college in Iowa and dated girls in college who all were from Illinois. Now i live in Minnesota.

One thing i find odd is that Minnesotans don't do a lot of the Midwest stuff. No midwest goodbyes, no chatting up strangers as if they were your BFF, doing all the obligation events we never want to do but say "o yah we should get together", etc. The whole Minnesota Nice, aka being passive aggressive, isn't really that Midwest. Of all the Midwest I've lived in, the highest ranking one is definitely the least Midwest in my eyes.

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Nope not so far. It's always in a meeting with other people, make it a little awkward and everyone remembers so no one denied it as they know others won't deny it.

As for jogging people's memories...

So whenever i have to get approval from higher ups that i know they will forget and get annoyed about it i ask that they all stand up and state "i agree / approve to XYZ." People will laugh and say "really?!?".

At my last job one of my bosses decided on something that went against what all us in engineering said. So i told him to stand up in front of everyone and say "i acknowledge that this goes against the suggestions by engineering but I would like the team to implement.... whatever the feature was." Two months later he came to a meeting all pissed about how this feature wasn't working and when he saw me enter the meeting he said "fuck, this is my fault isn't it?"

A friend from college does software dev for a place that does 4x10-4 and he said the way the fixed issues was by asking for ROI on everything you do. Need to schedule a meeting? Is it worth the cost of people's time? If so make sure you get the right people, habe everything planned out before calling it so you get your work done promptly.

At first everyone was like fuck, more crap you have to do. But eventually they figured out that much of their time was wasted on crap no one needed to do. Some people stuck around for an hour or two after work to hang out and others took back their lives. Productivity actually increased because people were not as burned out.

Sure but that's always going to be sub par experience.

I'm a lead software developer. Finally working a place where we do reasonable schedules with a good amount of padding for problems popping up.

If i wasnt in pointless meetings and focused on actual productive time thats about what most of my team does and we hit all our schedules.

When i worked at Samsung they were doing 4 day weeks and no one was doing 8hr days

A few things that would help:

A 4 day work week with both ends of the day brought in to maybe 10-4 (sorry didnt mean 10-3). Things like going to the bank require me to either run during my lunch break or do it on a day off. 4x10-4 means i have a day and edges of days to do tasks i can't do on the weekend.

Unlimited PTO. If my tasks are done and I'm paid a salary there is no reason i need to sit around doing nothing. If more work is expected then I'd expect more compensation.

And lastly mandatory cost of living connected to inflation every year. My last job started during the pandemic. In 2 years the effective inflation rate was 15% and yet i was only given 3% over that time while getting good marks on my reviews. That means in that time i was paid a crazy amount less my last day than my first. I dont care about the actual number of dollars I'm paid but I'd like to buy the same number of eggs mext year as this year if I'm expected to do the same amount of work. This shouldn't be thought of as a bonus, but rather keeping my level of compensation matched woth my level of expectations for my job.

The issue is a lack of an app ecosystem with actual AAA apps.

The part I don't get is why wrap it up to look like it was ok? We're they going to hand the baby to the parents and then claim it was ok when they handed it over? No take backs? Seriously wtf?!?

I always have written my dates this way. It's one of those things that always seemed weird to me and then when I realize that only in America do we write our dates MM-DD-YYYY /facepalm

In high school usb drives werent yet a thing so we had a SneakerNet using an Iomega Zip Disk.

I was on Digg but never much more than a super casual lurker. Like maybe hitting it up at work a few times a month. I was still on USENET most of the time so there wasn't much of a need.

From what I've observed it has to do with the fact most people do not know how to party, something California knoes how to do very well.

Ugh.

I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm