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mandown

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Westy said:
WTF is a Vegan Stripclub? Who the hell would eat anything at a stripclub?

www.seattletimes.com

DJ at Portland vegan strip club stabbed; dancer arrested

Duncan Allen, the DJ at Casa Diablo, remains in the hospital with damage to his lungs after he was stabbed, allegedly by a dancer at the vegan strip club.
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There was a club by a client of mine (years ago). They got sandwiches from the shop across the street, so I risked it once or twice. Tuesday sub at the club was not as interesting as it sounds.
 
mykel

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Come back to the office or you will not be up for any promotion/ raise.

I think I will stay remote.

No parking, no gas, no 2++ hour commute every day, no vehicle wear and tear, lower vehicle insurance, no lunch expense, no extra clothing expense, less stress, and I'm more productive both at work assignments as well as homelife.

You add all of that up and that raise would have to be bloody huge to make up for the above and some things it just can not.

Ask Dell how that worked out for them.

As I have mentioned before and @Jm_ just reiterated, can't have all of that very expensive real estate sitting empty and costing the billionaire class money.
 
mandown

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mykel said:
As I have mentioned before and @Jm_ just reiterated, can't have all of that very expensive real estate sitting empty and costing the billionaire class money.
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It is a essentially a sunk cost :shakefist:

fortune.com

Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks

One in ten of those firms admitted that they plan to scrap the mandates entirely after their leases expire.
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It turns out that long inescapable office leases—rather than work output—might be the most powerful force in the return to office (RTO) push so many companies have been making or threatening to make.

One-third of companies surveyed in a recent report from Resume.org said that their company’s lease agreements are the anchoring force behind their return-to-office policies.
 
jimmydean

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mykel said:
Come back to the office or you will not be up for any promotion/ raise.

I think I will stay remote.

No parking, no gas, no 2++ hour commute every day, no vehicle wear and tear, lower vehicle insurance, no lunch expense, no extra clothing expense, less stress, and I'm more productive both at work assignments as well as homelife.

You add all of that up and that raise would have to be bloody huge to make up for the above and some things it just can not.

Ask Dell how that worked out for them.

As I have mentioned before and @Jm_ just reiterated, can't have all of that very expensive real estate sitting empty and costing the billionaire class money.
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In the case of my wife (healthcare) and bank employees, RTO means they don't actually have to inspect WFH offices for compliance. It's way easier to just make folks come in than to make a single home visit.

They moved the wife's team out of the downtown skyscraper and into a building in the burbs that is 20 minutes farther than it was to downtown. But it isn't $225 a month for parking, so it almost works out.
 
mandown

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www.bbc.com

New Orleans: What we know about attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar

The man who drove into a large crowd in the French Quarter was identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, a US citizen and Army veteran.
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"This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could", said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.
Jabbar was also armed and fired on law enforcement, injuring two officers. He was then killed by police gunfire.
The FBI has named the assailant as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Army veteran and US citizen from Texas.
 
boostindoubles

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mandown said:
www.bbc.com

New Orleans: What we know about attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar

The man who drove into a large crowd in the French Quarter was identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, a US citizen and Army veteran.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
"This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could", said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.
Jabbar was also armed and fired on law enforcement, injuring two officers. He was then killed by police gunfire.
The FBI has named the assailant as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Army veteran and US citizen from Texas.
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From what I can tell he was using a F-150 Lightning - making that two attacks in 24 hours with electric vehicles. Wtf
 
eric strt6

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BINGO!! I sucked in classes where it was overly structured with rote memorization or busy work with no thought or reason. Science and Philosophy classes which challenged my mind I excelled at. My mom was a because I say so type. My dad challenged me to explore the outside world and written works. I try to follow his path.

 
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johnbryanpeters

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slyfink

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johnbryanpeters said:
Agreed, even if paywall and sold out publication.
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there's a measure of forecasting [or is that foreshadowing] of that article in this one: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

"More independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world
Many parents are afraid to give their children the level of independence and responsibility they themselves enjoyed when they were young, even though rates of homicide, drunk driving, and other physical threats to children are way down in recent decades. Part of the fear comes from the fact that parents look at each other to determine what is normal and therefore safe, and they see few examples of families acting as if a 9-year-old can be trusted to walk to a store without a chaperone. But if many parents started sending their children out to play or run errands, then the norms of what is safe and accepted would change quickly. So would ideas about what constitutes “good parenting.” And if more parents trusted their children with more responsibility––for example, by asking their kids to do more to help out, or to care for others––then the pervasive sense of uselessness now found in surveys of high-school students might begin to dissipate.

It would be a mistake to overlook this fourth norm. If parents don’t replace screen time with real-world experiences involving friends and independent activity, then banning devices will feel like deprivation, not the opening up of a world of opportunities.

The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age."



I read it over the holidays as my kids were in deep in their screens... never has an article been so on-point with my immediate situation. This is going to require way more discipline on our part. It's hard to unlearn these behaviours as an adult, let alone as an early teen...

I just asked my 11 year old if he wanted to go to the pastry shop 2 blocks away on his own. He said he was too scared. sigh. granted it's in an industrial park and he'd have to cross a ocean of a parking lot, but still... we used to walk by there every day when he went to his old school. He should be fine.
 
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