Accept the pain but don't accept that you deserved it.
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Jan 17 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
🧵I see, and have seen for years and years and years, all the comments about how employees are entitled and they don't want to work and they expect everything handed to them and no one is entitled to a job. Well. An employer isn't entitled to an employee either.
There is, and has been for as long as I can remember and I'm upper end Gen X, this undercurrent in discussions about employment that employers are entitled to employees, that when a company is hiring, potential employees should be grateful that is even occurring.
Jan 16 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🧵To build on the first principles discussion, let us have a chat about how people refuse (or are unable) to articulate the specifics of their position. I will focus on the Americans must compete globally for jobs discussion (and I am being gracious calling it so). Let's get it.
The purported discussion is that this is a global economy and Americans should be prepared to and expect to compete against those from other countries for jobs. Okay. Fine. Before we have that discussion, let us define what is being discussed.
Jan 15 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Nearly all of our current discussions are pointless because people do not articulate, let alone understand, the first principles from which they are arguing, to say nothing of understanding the first princples of those with different views. This is a major problem.
What are first principles? First principles are the principles which provide the foundation for all other positions that flow from them. In other words, the fundamental way a topic is viewed determines how and what each side is arguing.
Jan 13 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on how decisions are only as good as the information on which they are based and the pernicious effects of bad, if not outright falsified, information. This is going to spring off a discussion of ghost jobs. Get your caffeine conveyance beverage of choice and let's get it.
There is an ever growing problem with the posting of ghost jobs. What is a ghost job? A ghost job is a job posting for a job that does not actually exist. The company that posts that job is not hiring for that position. The company is using the job listing for other reasons.
Jan 10 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Thread will contain the following: a link to the 2022 Jay report; screenshot of the summary list of recommendations; screenshots of each recommendation. I will make no comments on any of the recommendations. My only comments are in the next two tweets as to why I'm doing this.
There is multiple statements that there is no need for an additional inquiry in the UK as the Jay report was issued in 2022 and all that is needed is to implement the recommendations. What is not included is a link to the Jay report and what those recommendations are.
Jan 2 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
🧵There is, and has been for decades, an utter crisis of accountability in nearly all kinds of institutions on every level of society. The dangers of this should be obvious. Yet, those who are in positions of authority act as if that scent wafting up from their actions is roses.
My absolutely DNA level loathing of the administrative state stems, nearly wholly, from the accountability issue. When matters are determined by legislation, at least the public can look and see how their elected representative voted and respond accordingly.
Dec 30, 2024 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 No one wants to work hard and no one is loyal to their employers is going around again and, since I am who I am as a person, let me see if I can break down how people are defining those terms. Go, fetch a snack and a drink, and then let's get it.
No one wants to work hard. Okay, what is meant here by work hard? Look the 80/20 rule has been around probably as long as people have been (you don't think don't work don't eat is in the Bible for funsies, do you?). That doesn't appear to be the issue.
Dec 26, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 The H1B argument contains within it a fundamental dispute that is not apparent yet very important, namely, that the de facto manner in which it is applied violates the compromises made to pass the legislation de jure. This applies to many matters *koff* Motor Voter *koff*
Laws represent the compromises made to pass the law. In the H1B case, the compromise was between those who wanted an easier way to hire foreign workers legally and those who were concerned about the effect on domestic work force.
Dec 19, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 On the actual threat to democracy: the de facto repeal of laws.
This is 2 USC 17A - the US Code section that governs Congressional Budget and Fiscal Operations - this was originally passed in 1974.
This was originally passed in 1982. The debt limit has been raised or suspended every time it has been reached.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31…
Nov 21, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🧵On immigration, original sources, de facto repeal, and the inability to even begin reaching conclusions if people will not accept the legitimacy of previously negotiated compromises. Get your caffeine conveyance of choice, you're going to need it.
And. Here. We. Go.
I decided to find the source of there are 1.2 million people in the US with final orders of deportation that are not in custody. I've seen this number thrown around and, per usual, the articles saying this provide no cite, let alone a link, to the original source of that number.
Nov 7, 2024 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
🧵The Tyranny of the Emotionally Incontinent is of a species with the Tyranny of the Least Able User and the Tyranny of the Least Of Your Brethren. Everyone get your caffeine conveyance of choice and a nice nosh. Let the nattering begin!
The Tyranny of the Emotionally Incontinent is when everyone else is forced to curb their behavior and actions to cater to the delicate sensibilities of a person who either incapable or unwilling (it's usually incapable because of unwilling) to handle reality in a mature manner.
Oct 21, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Random Psychopaths story: Once upon a time, the managing partner decided that people were taking off too much time to go to doctor's appointments. Yes, doctor's appointments. She kicked up a fuss so the office manager sent around a new official office policy on it.
The policy said that while of course the firm wanted people to take care of their health, these appointments should not disrupt the work day and so should be scheduled for first thing in the morning or at the very end of the afternoon.
Oct 11, 2024 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 The threatened Kids Today Don't Want To Work rant.
Let me define what I mean here. I'm not talking about the 80/20 rule or kids getting out of college who think they will be paid six figures. I'm talking The Childen (30 and under) who want work/life balance.
I'll put the tl;dr at the start for once: From my perspective, significant parts of the complaints about The Children not wanting to work are really about The Children not allowing themselves to be taken advantage of at work. Those are not the same thing.
Oct 9, 2024 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
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I will be the first to admit that this doesn't track exactly, this is more an observation about attitude than anything else. I was raised very conservative Evangelical Christian. I was also raised with my father working on the administrative side for religious organizations.
Thus, I grew up surrounded by pastors' kids, missionaries' kids, admin staffs' kids, as well as the kids of those for whom ministry was an avocation, not vocation. Think deacons' kids, the women who ran the Sunday School programs and VBS, the volunteers who keep a church running.
Sep 18, 2024 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 I believe I have found a differentiation that is far more useful than NeverTrump vs Trumper or neocon vs populist.
Do you consider the Bush years, meaning George W. Bush, to be successful for advancing conversative goals or not?
The way a person answers that is telling.
Over the last few weeks, I have seen several in the NeverTrump camp pushing a variant of it will be good for the GOP if Trump loses so we can go back to the successes of the Bush era. My response to that is what drugs are you on? The successes of the Bush era? What successes?
Aug 16, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Good morning and welcome to Twitter Law School! Today's topic is something so fundamental to those in the profession that we forget that normies do not know it even exists: dollar amounts pled in complaints to show proper jurisdiction AND COME BACK HERE IT'S ONLY MAINLY BORING!
There are two parts to determining if a court has the ability to hear a matter. The first is venue. Venue is whether a case can be heard in that physical location. There has to be some kind of connection between the location and the events that gave rise to the suit.
Aug 14, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
🧵There will be a point to this other than my loving the sound of my own typing, I promise. I've spent since Saturday morning trying to fix an issue wherein my father's entire health care plan was destroyed by the actions of one person at a company that was supposed to help.
As you can imagine, I took that with the calm and equanimity you would expect. Yesterday, I was on the phone with a supervisor at that place who was trying to use her best placating the ticked off person voice. That also was received as well as you may imagine. It got heated.
Jul 18, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
🧵I wonder, as I have for many years now, how much of what is deemed as philosophical differences are, in reality, differences in personality. I'll use me, since I'm a difficult person, as an example of this. Grab caffeine conveyance beverage of choice and a nosh and let's chat.
I want to be left alone. Mommy says that, even a baby, I did not want to be fussed over. I wanted someone to come see that I was okay, give me some attention, and then leave me alone. Wanting to be left alone has some profound implications as to how I approach government action.
Jul 17, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Yesterday I was in a position where I could overhear three women, all in their early to mid 20s, discussing the assassination attempt against Trump. I was trying to ignore it out of simple politeness. Then they started trying to remember which President won like all the states.
They couldn't remember and one said Kennedy and that's when I snapped and said excuse me I don't mean to interrupt but I have a history background and you're causing me pain from that and from my teenage years being your history: it was Reagan in 1984 and well after he was shot.
Jun 24, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
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Let me clamp down as hard as possible on the third rail. Let me monologue, because this is in no possible way a conversation, about the fact that there are, in fact, currently enacted immigration laws and regulations. Grab caffeine conveyance of choice and a snack. Let's go.
This is a link to the Immigration and Nationality Act - these are the duly enacted immigration statutes.
These are the duly promulgated regulations pertaining to immigration.
