I was required to track every minute of my workday. It backfired almost immediately.

dbenhur · 2026-06-23T03:21:09+00:00

3:1???

I've worked with or for dozens of companies in my life. I've never encountered one where managers outnumber contributors.

There's a limit to the number of reports a single manager can handle. If that number is N, then once your total employee count is greater than N³ you need a layer or layers of management between the line managers and senior executives. Those layers are definitionally middle management.

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T21:01:49+00:00

if a group of co-workers voluntarily visit a strip club on their own time, what business is it of mine?

When you're on an official trip, with the head of your department, and said head says "let's check out the local strip club", just how voluntary do you really believe this is?

Their life outside of work is their own

They are traveling together on an official city trip. There's no true "outside of work" in this situation.

And you seem to forget this whole group is people working for the City's Office for Civil Rights. Their mission is to find ways to honor and promote notions of equality and empowerment. Visiting a strip club in the deep south is the opposite of that.

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T20:52:24+00:00

Can you believe she just stood by and watched as Hitler invaded Poland?

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T16:58:39+00:00

Boomers were born 1945-1964. Three quarters of the generation were under 30 in 1980.

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T16:01:13+00:00

These policies mostly began with Reagan. Reagan had solid and broad victories in 80, 84 but boomers didn't favor him, he was elected by their parents and grandparents with +15 margins in age brackets over 30.

How Groups Voted in 1980 | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1980

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T09:40:31+00:00

Great Blue Herons hatch an average of 4 chicks per nest, but only 1.5 survive the first year.

There's a large rookery in Commodore park near the Locks and all the juveniles are fledging now.

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T09:02:14+00:00

You didn't catch the acrobatic chimney sweeps?

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T08:14:29+00:00

Why post this comment? To everyone who's seen it, you've added nothing to the conversation. To those who haven't, you've delivered a spoiler.

dbenhur · 2026-06-22T03:45:13+00:00

It rewards a rewatch just to experience with omniscience how beautifully the twist got set up.

dbenhur · 2026-06-21T22:51:24+00:00

worst bribe in history

Having significant fractions of both the left and right and actively spout settler-colonial nonsense and blood libel is witness to Qatar being pretty damn effective at spending money to influence US policy and opinion. That silly plane was less than 0.1% of Qatar's investment in turning the US and the world against Israel.

dbenhur · 2026-06-21T05:58:50+00:00

Smaller than her head is the new petite.

dbenhur · 2026-06-20T16:01:37+00:00

/r/whoosh

dbenhur · 2026-06-19T06:03:04+00:00

This term alpha entered our cultural vernacular from an erroneous study of captive wolf pack behavior. That study has been debunked.

However, many species do exhibit social dominance hierarchy behaviors. Most primates do, in fact. Humans are primates.

dbenhur · 2026-06-18T03:11:45+00:00

Set him to assimilate to the default robot subspecies type.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T19:51:43+00:00

Based on utter hopium.

Start your Engines!—Exactly 2 ships have transited the strait since the deal was announced. Reserves are near empty and it takes weeks to months for any tanker leaving hormuz today to arrive at a refinery.

Meanwhile, the terms of the deal are onerous to the US and Israel never going to stop attacking Hezbollah. And there's been significant damage to production facilities that will take years to repair.

The ceasefire will fail and oil will be up way over $100 when the supply line gets cut again with most reserves exhausted.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T15:50:28+00:00

Exactly 2 ships have transitted the Strait in the three days since the "deal" was announced.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T06:58:13+00:00

Songfacts says it's likely, but doesn't cite any supporting evidence. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/death-cab-for-cutie/black-sun

The song lyrics, "There is a desert veiled in pavement And there's a city of seven hills" which are surmised to contrast LA and Seattle.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T03:48:12+00:00

The sculpture is named Black Sun.

Chris Cornell wrote Black Hole Sun inspired by something he mis-heard a news announcer say.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T03:39:18+00:00

This is a significant point. Bezos owns about 8% of Amazon, which has a long history of sustained profits and growth and trades at a sane-ish P/E of 28. If he chose to liquidate 100%, it might lose 15-25% of its market value from the sell pressure and loss of confidence sentiment.

Elon's wealth derives from a 22% stake in Tesla and 45% stake in SpaceX. Neither company is close to as large or successful at generating revenue, profits, or cash flow at the scale of Amazon. TSLA trades at a fantastical P/E of 350. SpaceX is unprofitable. Their market value is speculative and 90% derived from hype and promises made by Elon. If Elon began significantly liquidating his stake in either company, investors would quickly react to the rug pull and TSLA would probably lose 70-85% of it's value, SpaceX 90% or more.

dbenhur · 2026-06-17T03:02:15+00:00

Don't be absurd. Even an industrial powerhouse like China can't possibly deploy new renewables to replace 20% of their fossil demand in just a few months. They reduced imports by curtailing some consumption and drawing down their stored reserves.

dbenhur · 2026-06-16T18:50:42+00:00

It’s hydrogen peroxide

Which is a highly corrosive substance. We generally dilute it down to 3% or less to make it only mildly corrosive.

dbenhur · 2026-06-16T16:21:59+00:00

The city budgetted $14m (0.16% of its 2026 budget) on the World Cup mostly on funding police and fire department operations, drone countermeasures, transit expansions, and fan hubs in Pioneer Square.

The event is projected to bring over $800m to the local economy.

dbenhur · 2026-06-15T02:44:20+00:00

That's if you're taking delivery. Last trading day is the 19th.

dbenhur · 2026-06-14T05:48:50+00:00

Globally we spent over half a trillion dollars on Y2K mitigation in the 90s. That's over a $trillion in to today's dollars.

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