Thought for the day:
Law Enforcement is not the same as Policing.
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Thought for the day:
Law Enforcement is not the same as Policing.
If your company builds voting machines you should name it Freedom or Democracy.
Left or Right, Dominion sounds creepy.
Came across this article proposing a 5% tax on people who work from home after the lockdowns. The only justification seems to be that it's a privilege so it should be taxed and since you're saving money though not paying transportation costs, you should give it to the gov't.
It seems to ignore that by working from home you use less resources, don't contribute to the city congestion, etc.
Where you've saved money in some ways, other things are costing you more. Paying for faster internet and possible overages in your usage. Office supplies (pens, paper, printer ink, etc) might now be coming out of your pocket. Electricity, Air condoning and heating costs are increased. Heck you're now paying for coffee and toilet paper.
You've also sacrificed parts of your home. For a while now, I've been saying I'm sick of eating on the couch and would love to have my dining room table back (it's been converted into a work space for Anne). When people selected their homes dedicating a chunk of their space for working 8-10 hours a day wasn't in the equation.
I'm not saying we don't need to help low income workers, but choosing this one segment of the population to do so seems wrong.
As the election is over and we’re coming up on holiday season where we may be spending time with families, to try and break cycle of yelling over politics while we fill our faces with turkey I’d like to suggest that people read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Dr. Jonathan Haidt. The book was written well in advance of The Trump Presidency and doesn’t take his particular brand of populism into account but goes a long way to describe why good people who are R or D vote they way they do from a psychological point of view.
A NYTimes review is linked below. The book is available wherever you normally buy books.
So, the other day on ABC News Rahm Emanuel was discussing layoffs in the retail sector and suggested the Biden Administration, ”Give them the tools [and say] 'Six months, you're going to become a computer coder. We'll pay for it.' And you'll get millions of people to sign up for that. They're not going back to parts of the retail economy and we need to give them a lifeline to what's the next chapter."
This is why I hate the term 'coder'. It takes Application Development and reduces it to its simplest part. Application Development is a craft, like carpentry. Reducing it to just coding would be like reducing carpentry to hammering and telling people that they just need to learn to hammer. The reason we have failures like the first Obamacare* site is this myth that anyone can be taken off the street and be competent in 6 months. I’m 51, been writing code since I was 13 and I’m still learning everyday.
I believe in retraining. I believe that some portion of retail employees might be able to become developers. But the “teach them to code” mantra is downright insulting to me and anyone who takes this craft seriously.
*I mention the Obamacare site not as a knock on the Ex-President, just because it was one of the biggest blunders I could think of.
Thought of the moment:
Are any of my friends passionate enough to move to GA now so they can vote in the runoff?
Didn’t want to post this on Election Day, I wanted things to calm down and didn't want anyone thinking I was trying to make hay about it. Anne and I requested our mail in ballots on the same day. Anne got hers 2 days later, I never received mine. I hand delivered Anne’s to the polling place and voted in person without issue. I got there at 7:00AM and was out by 8.
If I wanted to be conspiracy minded, I'd point out that I am not registered with either of the 2 major parties, but to be honest I just count this as postal incompetence.
Now, we live in NY, so the presidential results here were never in doubt.
Quick observation, ending talks is one of his tactics to get the other side to cave in to his demands.
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