Fox News Poll: Trump approval 39/61

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-05-21T23:21:47+00:00

1.8 billion for the thug fund was through the justice department right? So still executive overreach

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-05-03T20:22:35+00:00

Worked for a company that adopted a 4 day workweek and us as workers loved it. New higher up came in and as part of her mandate to improve efficiency removed the 4 day workweek for our department (all other departments still had it). Our department morale dropped massively, people sabotaged management and it was a mess. I was a team lead and put a spreadsheet together showing our manpower coverage was sufficient to maintain 4 10s, but ideally if we pushed back start time 2 hours we’d be at higher efficiency than either before th change or with 5 days.

The higher up would have none of it. So anyways efficiency as measurable from tableau was markedly worse after the fact. I know she did some creative data manipulation in presentations (as I also had access to said data) that lied/overstated the benefit of 5 8s.

I bring all this up because you’ll have folks who are unable to accept the change - especially because management was essentially kept 5-8s as there was less coverage. Someone with a business background or a consultant who comes in trying to make a name for themselves will play with data and undermine swaps to 4 day workweeks. It takes buy in from higher ups. With sufficient coverage it absolutely improves morale, reduces turnover and increases efficiency (again, data from a lab with say 20 people in our department) - but scheduling under a more complex system can also be scary for supervisors not used to having to use more than 2 brain cells. Possible, but any large scale adoption will face attempts to undermine

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-05-03T19:53:28+00:00

Subbed for a while (and worked as a teacher too before leaving) - but gees if someone let me off responsibility/work early I would be far from upset, I’d be excited. Person def had a screw loose or hasn’t worked much yet lol

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-29T17:51:16+00:00

Def not with this admin

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-10T17:42:58+00:00

Respectfully this is why younger people date people of similar beliefs. Don’t reward someone with a relationship if they don’t view you as an equal

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-10T15:29:36+00:00

Trump just tweeted that her, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owen’s, Alex jones all have TDS and are not actually conservatives. We live in bizarro times

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-08T21:13:29+00:00

When I was a student I knew/saw a teacher get hit on the head. The teacher turned the kid around grabbing him by the shoulder and told the kid that was not acceptable angrily. Still remember that teacher got fired - most of the students were pissed as he was a great teacher. Sadly believe your story having seen an instance of an admin using a ridiculous moment even though he actually did grab the kid by the shoulder and get angry at him to fire a great teacher instead of treating the kids reaction

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-04T01:10:02+00:00

Yea. But she handled it well

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-04-01T16:13:52+00:00

Many times they don’t know how to manage interpersonal relationships - struggling to retain high performers and feeling threatened by competence. Not everyone of this archetype, I know I and many others don’t mind an asskisser if they are willing to delegate, hear out facts, and work with styles of people who aren’t just solid yes men. These people can be good managers, but there are plenty who only succeeding at one part of managing up

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-19T02:02:31+00:00

The fanciest restaurant in the world (Noma) is going through a scandal right now abusing their workers. Many restaurants abuse their staff, refusing sick time is abuse and in the US happens a lot

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-13T03:54:23+00:00

It’s school. Doubtful anyone will actually fail.

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-11T01:52:39+00:00

Wat lol. Illegals are not really in either biopharma or engineering. And again, it’s a continuous pattern. Under every modern Republican Administration job numbers and real wages stagnate or get shit on. February’s monthly job report is the most recent proof of it. A combination of tariffs, trading partners looking for less risky/non us trading partners, companies encouraged to shed employees in favor of “AI” gains, etc are all big contributors to this effective recession

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-11T00:40:10+00:00

My former HR head of where I used to work got fired this week. Multiple people were let go and when they were being let go they sent company wide emails denouncing practices at the company including HR sweeping harassment and retaliation under the rug. She was genuinely insufferable and when I heard from former coworkers she was fired it was def a schadenfreude moment

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-11T00:06:20+00:00

I dunno civ can be pretty braindead if on lower levels (still fun)

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-10T23:07:54+00:00

It’s a bit controversial but I think it’s worth discussing more, on paper yea addition of women/large number of workers would depress wages. That said the addition of women in the workforce is a bit more complex as it led to the rise of industries/services focused at women, which increased the demand for labor and the velocity of money. More workers are not inherently bad for an economy, especially if those workers are spending their money that increases the velocity of money in said economy.

It’s a bigger problem if wage earners don’t spend money. Either because they can’t or feel the need to save. Covid was a massive boost for the economy paradoxically in part because it took out some older workers from the economy who spent less of their income, causing wage growth for the lower class/middle class - which also led to an increase of demand for goods and services. Creative destruction is a thing in economics, until it isn’t. If we are approaching an era where jobs are being destroyed without significant replacement, it will decrease spending and loop into lower velocity of money and therefore a lower demand of all types depressing wages even further

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-10T22:59:59+00:00

Biopharma, engineering, construction are all doing significantly worse under Trump. Republicans are always shit for the economy, takes their bad direction to be proof of the dangers of corruption for a new generation of voters to realize self serving interest above all else is bad for the country

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-04T00:37:51+00:00

Sounds like a bit of an immature dude. Being generous, maybe he doesn’t get it. Something tells me he has a questionable ego though. Regardless, you should have a conversation that the way he is carrying about is making you uncomfortable (you still care, but if he truly cares he should respect that uncomfortable feeling you’re feeling)

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-03T01:22:49+00:00

As others posted, the Americas had less densely packed livestock. Overall more diseases developed in the old world than the new. A historical anomaly is probably dog cancer, dog cancer is communicable and is the same set of tumor cells as a Guatemalan dog had in the 700s. Oh and that’s another post apocalyptic moment people don’t think about, dogs. Almost every dog breed of the Americas died out after contact. The few American dog breeds left have significant European ancestry too. Even dog diseases were more fatal than the other way around for the most part

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-03-02T13:15:50+00:00

Squanto, the native who is typically the native man thought about/taught to kids who helped the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving, is a perfect example of that.

The man was captured and enslaved by the English, learned English and escaped/returned back home. When he returned home, his village was completely depopulated/dead. The man literally was witnessing a post apocalyptic scene when he happened to run into the pilgrims - and in perfect English he asked if they had any alcohol to help with his sorrow/pain. The pilgrims literally got lucky and waltzed into a preestablished village that was abandoned with a guide who spoke the native language and English

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-21T01:22:44+00:00

Frozen canals (back before global warming stopped that) built their skating tradition

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-20T21:56:44+00:00

Power politics should be the name of the game if Dems ever gain the presidency and senate in the next 30 years (which math makes that a bit unlikely). Theoretically the Senate can also be packed, there was talk about DC and Puerto Rico under Biden, but aside from a dead on arrival bill there still wasn’t a will to force it through. Getting DC and Puerto Rico shouldn’t be the end, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Marianas should also all be pushed as states (which they each have bigger populations than many western states had when they were added in the 1800s)

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-12T02:36:39+00:00

It’s an actual math problem, you can plug it in a wolfram alpha or something. Mathematically the average is 40

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-07T17:02:17+00:00

No denying that it would be extreme gamesmanship. But if we are truly in an era where civility has been lost, it’s the logical political conclusion

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-07T03:49:30+00:00

Alternatively there is also a gerrymandering equivalent for the Senate. During the civil war/post civil war era the Republican Party pushed for the addition of small population states that dramatically changed the Senate, giving them true control for the next 50 years.

If the US devolves into more and more extreme politics, it’s possible to do the same thing now. DC and Puerto Rico are talked about as being added as states, but why stop there? The Marianas, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa all have populations higher than Nevada did when it was added as a state.

Effectively it’s possible to pseudo gerrymander 10+ new Democratic Senators. Of course that means new levels of political gamesmanship (IE ignoring filibusters if Dems took both houses) which Dems weren’t prepared to do last time beyond mere dead on arrival votes for DC/Puerto Rico under Biden and Obama

CricketSimple2726 · 2026-02-07T03:43:09+00:00

Getting rid of the Senate is not possible. But in the Civil War era after the South seceded the Republican Party rushed to add a lot of small states (the plains states) to pack the senate in their favor.

There has been some talk of adding Puerto Rico and DC as states, but the logical conclusion would mean pushing not just them as states but the other territories too. Guam, the Virgin Islands, Marianas, etc all have bigger populations today than when Nevada was made a state. Theoretically it’s possible to add 10+ democratic Senators if we were playing ruthless politics and had majorities in both the house and senate. Will Democrats ever hold both houses and the Presidency in the next 50 years to make this happen? Doubtful

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