[looks at work backpack with old battery in it; scrounges for $900]

I call them my brilliant idiots.

for the slamhounds.

It's basically a year to a year and a half off people's life expectancies, from the heat alone.

Although this is not trivial, the antivaxxer movement will likely chop 10-15 years off life expectancies and greatly reduce quality of life for much of the remainder, same again for the expected massive reduction in air quality that will result from modern political movements, and the absurd puritanical movement in the US will likely chop another 10-15 years off the life expectancies of women.

These are, therefore, substantially more significant, although politically impossible to deal with right now.

I fully expect that, if current trends prevail, by 2040, life expectancies will resemble those of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

I'm near DC. My core team partner is in California. My boss and my primary PM are in Ontario. Most of my team is split between two cities in India. Another team I work with has members in India, Ontario, and London. Yet another team has members split between Ontario and Georgia (the state).

Nobody I directly work with in any capacity is in my office building.

So...what's the point?

He quite literally said today, "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator." He's floating that balloon, seeing how much push back he'll get for it.

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Doesn't he know about Apple's shock troops, composed chiefly of corporate Samurai Lawyers and Copy Machine Repair Men?

Maybe a 2 chamber fireproof container, one container above the other, a drop package door in the lower chamber, with several gallons of water in the upper container, a valve to allow the water to flow into the lower chamber.

If I were a health-care worker in an area where Ebola outbreaks happened from time to time, I would want this "4-day vaccine" available. As soon as anyone in my community had a suspected case, I'd take the shot and keep taking it until all local cases were over with.

I'd still do all of the standard Ebola-prevention and -mitigation strategies. This would be just one more layer.

Attending work for 2 days means I pay £190 per week to work, with no recompense from the company. Because there's a decent amount of holiday time, my wages have only dropped £9000 per year from last year. If I needed to attend 5 days a week, I would have to leave the only job that I have ever held that actually made any functional effort to handle my disabilities. In other words, if I lost this job, I would not be capable of functionally working in any job at all, simply because most companes don't give a damn about disabilities. Legally, however, I would be deemed "capable of work". As such, I would have no wages and no benefits. Once my money ran out, I'd be on the streets. There is simply no viable alternative.

If a business guy thinks adding to the homeless is the best way to improve work morale, then maybe he's not a business guy that holds any opinion of value. He may well be listened to, which will cause a LOT of problems for a LOT of people and WILL increase unemployent and, in countries with failing industry, increase the homelessness of people who are far more competent than him, but that does not make his opinion valuable, merely incredibly stupid and sickeningly naive.

Letting a massive subsystem with repeatedly demonstrated minimal guard rails process unvetted content is kinda stupid.

I wouldn't want to be in a constant state of inflammation, but if I were a health-care worker getting a shot every few days for a period of a few weeks during an acute epidemic/pandemic would be very useful.

That's how working in an office is. Our IT department is in an old part of the warehouse. High ceilings, basically a big box that echoes everything. The meeting rooms are just walls with no ceiling on them (They said this was for air filtration after covid - It's more likely due to fire regulations with sprinklers if the room had a ceiling on it). Because of this, the entire department hears everything from every meeting. And one of the older guys is fucking deaf, so anytime he's in a meeting, the phone volume gets turned up to a level that just absolutely breaks through any concentration I could have had.

... of headlines is wrong here.

If you buy Intel, you finance American fascism.

Don't buy Intel.