Lol I wonder if he got phished and actually believed the email. Which one might be inclined do if one actually downloaded kp. hmmmm
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Krugman: Oh wait, I don’t have a computer security service. That’s odd.
I haven’t read it yet, but damn. Micro daughter published something in Teen Vogue.
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- In some way, small or great, the world is better because of the work I do at my job
- My work has no impact or a negative impact on the world
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Should really have 3 options. I have no impact now. I make it slightly easier for people to give money to a giant university that charges students and arm and a leg and probably employs 10x more employees than they really need. Actually maybe that is a negative impact.
But I still go home feeling a lot better than when I worked on the side of big auto and big tobacco in multi-$billion lawsuits.
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Just for shits and giggles, here’s every job I’ve ever had that I can remember:
- Amusement park - impact positive I guess, makes people happy
- Public library - gotta be positive
- Car dealership - meh
- Junk mail company - soooooo negative
- City bus company - would be positive except we had nothing to do on taxpayer dime
- Coca Cola warehouse(s) - pretty negative
- Popcorn factory - meh?
- Convenience store - neutral
- Landscaper - positive I guess
- Sprint mailroom - neutral
- Wausau Insurance mailroom - probably negative since denying claims to people who lost a child happened there
- Various restaurants - Red Lobster, Macaroni Grill, McCormick and Schmicks, a resort and local place - probably the last two positive but the corporate places evil
- Delivery driver - neutral except for burning carbon, delivered drugs to semi-rural KS so I guess that’s good
- Statistical consulting firm defending big tobacco and big auto - soooo bad
- Side job creating website for medical rehab supply company - decent
- Clinical trials division of big lab company - ok I guess, save some lives eventually
- Small search engine - neutral
- Pro poker player - biiiig net negative lol
- Consultancy - decent
- Big entertainment company - ok I guess - at least people enjoyed the service
- Side job creating dropbox thing with a twist - neutral
- Big university soliciting donations - probably negative
In contrast my friend (who was kind of a mess) has had a job for a couple years now where she helps kids fix eyesight problems through vision therapy. They love her so much, and write her the most amazing notes. I can’t imagine how good that feels going home every day.
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If I remember right, you work at a public university in CA? If so I would respond to a couple parts of your post:
This isn’t the university’s fault though, is it? At least here in WA the universities have had to raise tuition because the state legislature has drastically defunded higher ed.
This is hyperbole, but even if there are some inefficiencies (I grant there are), at least they’re in the form of people having livable wage jobs with decent benefits, including healthcare, instead of rock bottom wages with the excess profits funneling up to some private industry jerkoffs.
Sounding energized and speaking animatedly, she told CNN on Tuesday that her year was off to a fine start: “I’m cancer free. That’s good.”
Some of the cost increase is due to decreased funding - but a lot is just due to administrative bloat.
Also the CA pension system was kinda crazy before the 2016 reform. It seems more sensible now, but everyone who started work before 2016 is grandfathered in to the old pensions - which is going to take a long long time to work through the system.
One example: accrued sick days get paid out under the old plan when you retire - straight cash. You get 12 sick days a year and there’s no limit on how many you can accrue. So no one ever takes a sick day. They take vacation days instead which cap out at 220 hours or whatever. I took the 401k instead of the pension (I’d need to stay 5 years to get anything and 10 for it to be worth it). But even if I took the pension I wouldn’t get the sick day deal. They fixed that.
As far as employing people - sure that’s better than vulture capitalism. But I’m still not a huge fan of paying people to dig holes then fill them back in (as I sit here bored to tears). Especially if said hole diggers cause kids to incur a lifetime of debt or parents to have to work until they’re 70 to pay off their kids’ college. But on the plus side I guess we’re soaking rich Chinese families for a TON.
FWIW - at my previous job the entertainment company got bought out by one of the biggest companies in the world. I worked at home full time and had literally nothing to do. I complained to my boss that I had nothing to do. He told me I need to create my own job. So I got a side job and basically got paid for 2 full time jobs for a year. I suspect most of my department (an architecture group) similarly had little to do. So bloat certainly isn’t unique to public institutions.
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Demi Burton, 20, who boarded the May 9, 2019, flight while already sloshed, continued to drink wine until the flight attendants told her she could no longer order alcohol, according to the Mirror.
By then, she had already gotten so drunk that she propositioned several men to get frisky in the lavatory while cruising at 30,000 feet.
But when told that she could no longer drink booze, the unhinged woman kicked, bit and head-butted the crew during her four-hour blowout, according to the report.
Standard Brit holiday
On the Brit theme. Andrew Yang welcomed to the show with some Goat Brit Mark Morrison music, music
Soon, yous \ / \ /
Could somebody please do a walrus reveal? I’m going through withdrawal.
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Anyone want an Unstuck Politics T-Shirt?
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I just listened to a Python podcast which was a bit sad and had me thinking of @JohnnyTruant. The guest was an obviously pretty brilliant software developer talking about Baysian inference and machine learning and linear regressions and fancy algorithms and other smarty pants cutting edge stuff. He was very excited about it. Aside from a couple trivial examples, every use case was about how to sell crap. Everything this guy has ever done professionally has been stuff like how to have computers understand the sentiment behind short online reviews, or how to predict whether or not an ad will make someone more likely to buy something or how to use map data to figure out when someone is likely to go to some store. And he was enthusiastically looking forward to a future where these predictions will be even better. I’m glad he likes his work, but still kind of sad.
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When it rains it pours. Lots of bad stuff has been happening lately but it has only gotten worse.
Justin Bieber has been diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Hopefully they will rename it Bieber Disease and it will draw more attention to those who suffer from it.
Twitter is one messed up place allowing this stuff.
https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1214656599702159365
https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1215133243449589760
About right…Maybe him and Aubrey can run in 2024.
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