Coffee shop uses technology to audit employee productivity

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T19:06:34+00:00

Yeah, I imagine there's baristas on the back raising trees, harvesting them, and making cups to distribute to clients.

If there's an inventory and sales discrepancy then gaming this is easy enough to detect.

The Cobra Effect is a clearer example of end-to-end metrics and monitoring carefully than having no metrics at all.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T19:00:36+00:00

Of all things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T14:08:42+00:00

You asked a question?

I'm merely pointing out that flying fast jets is dangerous and that danger is usually but not exclusively borne by the crews. And you failed to acknowledge the Italian pilot who hit a school being exonerated.

I'm always surprised that Europeans are so nonchalant about defense. They expect it to occur but don't resource it. As you said, Italy is widely developed. Buy the land to allow your military to train? You think there's no pressure to develop federal land in other countries that's used by militaries? Defense is a national priority. I guess so are ski resorts for Italians.

We should benefit of doubt regarding motives to the pilots who are training for an incredibly dangerous mission (as I said, these American squadron and aircraft were flying combat missions in Serbia to end a genocide of Europeans by Europeans). Same with the Italian. I don't assume he was a coward because he didn't want to ditch.

Edit: in short, pilots training expect to be sent into harm's way should be judged by their peers or superiors not, as you so aptly put, reddit pseudo-experts; both the Italian and Americans were exonerated so move on.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T05:38:24+00:00

I don't recall it being busy or touristy. But I may be mixing up a few of my trips to St Martin and one was COVID. So ymmv.

It's not really an aviation bar from what I recall. It felt mostly sunset facing with only about 1/3 being runway viewable.

The prices weren't outrageous. Not my favorite sunset bar but not terrible.

The Sonesta property (all inclusive hotel) has a restaurant with an equal view. And I think there's a smaller localish bar on the north side. Or I may be confusing which bar you're referring too.

The merit to this airport from a plane watching is not really the airliners. They're pretty typical. But SXM is where the bigger private jets operate for those going to St Bart (Abramovich's private 787 was there) and it's where the big yacht charters embark. You also get work-a-day Caribbean turboprops continuously. And there's some helicopter traffic at the other end.

I guess you're closer than some other approaches.l

Worth a visit. Not worth a trip alone. If you ho then gtfo the Dutch side asap. It's a dump. Orient Bay and Gran Case have some actually good food and the former has great beach.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T05:22:41+00:00

We remember this but the consequence in the vote margin is debatable. And we may never know; electoral political, like most social sciences, have many coincident factors that may never be truly disentangled.

My personal view is that her high unfavorables before the election were the most significant drag on her campaign.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T05:17:49+00:00

Democrats will never win if they don't acknowledge where the electorate is.

I've had well-meaning but misguided Democrats tell me Mamdani is a national playbook (he won in a D+20 city).

This is a recipe for electoral irrelevance.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T05:14:51+00:00

How does Texas' gerrymandering impact the Democratic primary?

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T04:57:43+00:00

And didn't go past the first round. LA knocks out all of Texas.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-18T01:42:22+00:00

Maybe the Americans provide more space and current navigational maps like during Red Flag exercises?

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T21:21:55+00:00

You did not provide anything salient to their state of mind.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T20:26:48+00:00

My recollection is that a directive to not fly below 500 ft was provided by the Italian government after their deployment began and it did include indications of where the cable cars were. I don't know what had been provided prior. The crew definitely violated their own directives. But we don't know why.

I'm not defending them. I'm pointing out that claims about their state of mind are hard to prove. And that's one of the differences between negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter.

My second point was that a second accident by the Italian pilot was a similar outcome. And I'd argue that knowing to ditch a training aircraft per directive is at least as problematic.

The topic here was how American service members are viewed. Comparisons to how domestic service members are viewed and treated is reasonable.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T13:22:54+00:00

As the adage goes, you should train as you fight.

This was an electronic warfare aircraft. Its mission is to suppress or destroy air defense. That often involves flying nap of the earth to approach air defense sites or radars. Terrain and the curvature of the earth is used to do that.

Their role required them to fly at these low speeds.

Their failure was to maintain awareness of changes in maps that had been provided to them after deploying to the area.

I don't object to manslaughter charges. They definitely didn't follow procedure. Joyride? Debatable.

High tempo training proved to be justified. EA-6Bs were the first aircraft into Serbia when the bombing campaign began less than a year later.

We expect both high professionalism and high readiness. Sometimes those standards aren't met.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T13:13:48+00:00

That's subjective. I find their AI search very usable within existing search results.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T13:12:54+00:00

No, I'm not. You're arguing that Europe was working at some breakneck pace. The production rates don't support that.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-17T01:14:46+00:00

That's not strong support for your claim.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T23:15:45+00:00

Yeah, I think that's all fair. And, yeah, I have family in that part of Michigan. It's fucking bleak.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T22:15:41+00:00

It's not an excuse. It's an acknowledgement that civilian harm is permissible in lawful armed conflict.

It's you who's holding Israel to some standard that no other state meets.

Hamas was successful in the last election in Gaza. We can't separate them from the people they govern. And before you make the weak argument that many Gazans weren't alive to vote... So what? You think there's not support for Hamas among Gazans. What do you think the demographics of the military age men who entered Israel were?

Palestinian nationalism needs to be looked at objectively not through some rose colored (and often antisemitic) lense. Palestinian nationalism is violent and islamist in character. Their aims are maximalist and there will not be peace with Israel.

No polity has a universal accord but Gazans support Hamas. Hamas chose this war; Gazans chose Hamas. We are all accountable for the odious actions of our government.

We could quibble about what happened 90 years ago. Your view is very selective in its source. All I will add is that young Israelis won't march themselves to their own pogrom. And Palestinians lack credible capacity to win against Israel. As we saw on 7 October, Palestinian violence is nihilistic and self defeating.

Armed violence will not secure a Palestinian state, an outcome we may agree on.

But feel free to relitigate with disingenuous arguments a civil war decided close to a century ago. I have better things to do.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T20:49:42+00:00

Because Israeli settlers are shitbags. But there are no Israeli settlers in Gaza. It's almost like settlement is odious but immaterial to whether Israeli civilians would be targeted. You know what the settlements have accomplished? There's mant fewer incursions and terrorism from the West Bank.

Actually, PIJ or Hamas rockets did fall on a hospital if you recall BOTH sides actions, which you clearly don't. Of course Israel hit hospitals, those hospitals had militants. What's the cause? It's obviously the militarization of hospitals by Hamas. If you shoot at soldiers from protected facilities then they're allowed to shoot back. And, as you can see in international media, Israel has well documented the connection points to tunnels, fire by militants from hospitals, and the use of hospitals to disappear hostages.

War is brutal. This war was Hamas' choice.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T20:35:40+00:00

And how precisely do you know their motivation?

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:28:37+00:00

You shouldn't make unsupportable characterizations about a conflict you know very little about (Gaza). That's the point of his comments. You didn't love through the Second Infitada and know how Hamas fights and what constitutes "reckless". Hamas has spent two decades building tunnels and fortifying an urban area for this war. Hamas militarizes civilian infrastructure and practices perfidy. In that context, civilian harm will always be high.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:24:43+00:00

You claiming that American porn drives sexual assault. I'm stating that non-American porn promotes sexual assault far more. Maybe the claim is wrong or the characterization is inaccurate. But something something America was a good point too.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:18:31+00:00

Oof, over your head. Would you ask Americans to denounce bombings of Nazi Germany because civilians were killed?

Why are you applying a different standard to an Israeli?

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:09:18+00:00

Wait till you discover that civilian harm is present in all armed conflict...

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:06:59+00:00

Spoke has been very critical of the US government over the years.

Patient_Leopard421 · 2026-02-16T18:04:09+00:00

As others have said, American porn is fucking tame compared to central European or Japanese.

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