Five years in and the highest paid, most pampered workforce on the planet, hired specifically for their high intelligence, still can't find a way to stand up together against brazen disrespect by management.
When fewer than two Googlers in a thousand announced they were forming a union (with no bargaining power or official standing), it was front page news nationwide. Yet the almost comical amount of leverage they enjoy has gone unused. Googlers won't have much longer to squander it.
The face of a man who understands his employees well
Pinboard, always so mean to Googlers! I know—It's easy to talk when I haven't had to sit in the aisle seat of the nerdbus when I wanted a window, or get camel case shamed on my code review, or suffer the tax hit when my options vested on a record day. I don't know the struggle.
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It seems a lifetime ago, but in 2018 Justice Democrats were trying to win contested elections. That was such a fiasco that in 2020 they switched up to trying to beat other Democrats in primaries. That turned out to be pretty hard, too, but what's not hard is record fundraising.
I'm fascinated by the self-sabotage dynamic in progressive fundraising. To the extent it moves Democratic elite opinion to the left, it perpetuates a status quo where we can't achieve any policy goal. That failure in turn makes for every more compelling stories to fundraise with
Looking forward to another riveting penalty shootout to decide a championship in the world's greatest sport. The day penalty shootouts are somehow introduced to cricket, humanity will have conquered insomnia forever.
Just add a soccer ball every 5 minutes until someone scores. Why is this hard.
There should be a world championship in free kicking where, if the score is tied after three rounds, they have to play a soccer game.
Climate journalism slapstick of the day is finding a guy who says it's getting harder to live in DEATH VALLEY. Yes, I bet it is! nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/…
In the American desert west you occasionally come across little pockets of mobile homes in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and I always want to know their stories. One irony of poverty in the US is that mobile homes aren't. The people who can move live in RVs.
Two places like this that particularly struck me are Atomic City, Idaho, and the stretch of US 56/412 in the Oklahoma panhandle where every 15 miles there's a wheat silo, two dozen derelict mobile homes, and sometimes a closed school. And of course anywhere in Nevada
It's been obvious for weeks that all of Afghanistan including Kabul is going to fall now that American troops are leaving, but there continues to be no urgency about evacuating Afghans marked for death to US territory in the rapidly deteriorating situation theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
This is a replay of what happened in Vietnam in 1975. All the same pieces are there—lies about how long the government could hold out without government support, indifference to the fate of people who took our promises at face value, abhorrence at the idea of opening our borders
Even if you don't care about the moral case for letting a large number of Afghans evacuate to the US, do you think that foreigners are stupid and don't see the same pattern repeat from war to war? And then we have the audacity to complain we're not greeted as liberators anymore.
Poll finds public remains unaware of the Biden administration's achievements, possibly because there are none. Only the Covid relief handout at the start of the administration made it through Congress, everything else is just sweet, sweet promises. politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
A few weeks ago in Maine I asked an appliance store guy whether people were spending their "Biden bonus" buying stuff, since I saw a lot of "sold" tags. He got furious and told me "that's OUR money. Biden's just giving some of it back." Trump was better at taking credit for this
By my count, it's now Infrastructure Week #25 of the new administration. Just 19 Infrastructure Weeks to go if Biden wants to stick to his campaign promise.
Every single takedown of the lab origins of covid seems to use this photo, which shows a level-four facility with full precautions in force. But a far more likely lab escape scenario is the non-bunny-suit area where live bats were kept. newrepublic.com/article/162689…
Bats being bats is a perfectly plausible explanation for where we got covid, but were they first brought to a Wuhan lab, or did they expose someone elsewhere who just happened to come to the one city in Asia with a world-class coronavirus laboratory?
The endless confusion over "natural origin" vs. "lab origin" is a false dichotomy, since all the sane scenarios involving the latter also imply the former. We really need more details and not more J-school probabilistic reasoning to get closer to an answer here.