"Oookay, who fat-fingered the EBGP peering table this time?"
Welp, everyone needs a DR/BCP plan for national and regional disasters of natural and human kinds that also involve cellular, network, fuel, and power outages at different areas.
For example, perhaps the they need multiple cell carriers with independent backbones run by different companies.
It depends if they're deficient in terms of:
- Not protecting the team from unreasonable demands and/or blame from the organization
- Doesn't ensure the work environment stays civilized for all
- Doesn't lead or set an example where necessary
There are genuinely nice, civilized, respectable managers who aren't "trying too hard".
1, 2, and 5 are essentially the same sort of Cluster B issues. Related: The No *sshole Rule is a good book to read on how a single jerk can ruin a team, manager or not.
3 is treating others with contempt instead of equal humans.
4 is a lack of ability to delegate/trust/verify that ruins morale.
It solves a specific and practical need without being too grandiose.
In the long term, an independent, non-profit, social enterprise, government-sponsored entity would be a better vehicle for this because whichever states, federal (Medicare, Medicaid, VA), pension funds, AARP, and/or insurance companies could back it in order to reduce their costs. It's far better to pool the risks, minimize duplicated effort, and reap the rewards using scale.
This is how pharmaceuticals and healthcare should be delivered for nonelective care.
The leading US industry lobby, PhRMA, will do everything in its power to kill it in some manner whether through the legal system, traditional advertising, and/or social media.
I love how it's pay money for the privilege to temporarily license a beta, unfinished feature, but only if you jump through a million hoops. Some gotcha capitalism right there.
Perhaps King Musk could go to a feature-enabled forever model of IR cameras, LIDAR, MMW RADAR, and similar AND disengage FSD when it's too complicated for AI control... nawh, that would be too sensible and unprofitable.
I don't care about ascetics much at an airport except decorating around functionality.
Around 2005, the newer Shanghai airport had information boards that didn't contain information except various permutations of Windows' BSODs. IIRC, it was that terrible, inefficient design of long and narrow.
In general, DFW is a better layout: almost circles of gates globbed almost contiguous to each other as lettered terminals relatively close together connected by a bidirectional tram, many security screening entrances and exits, and people moving devices (i.e., moving walkways, "golf carts", etc.)
1. Vehicle marketing and 2. personal information and demographics collection for resale preying on the magical thinking of people who play the lottery as wishful
thinking in order to better their circumstances.
Ah, good ol' insecure attachment styles, emotional unavailability, and/or fear of abandonment.
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BTW: If you want to be immensely unpopular with most people, get good ones tagging along with other good ones of their preferred general demographics. It's absolutely revolting when people consider others besides themselves without ulterior motive but to be cool. :peace:
My grandparents were both from extremely broken homes and married young (15 and 21). They were together until they passed, for 70+ years. Even so, they split for about 6 months at one point but came back together.
They:
Chose their battles.
Didn't hold grudges regarding resolving disagreements with compromises and solutions.
Worked together in things as simple as cleaning up the dishes (~6 minutes usually).
Spent a great deal of time together.
Never forgot love meant showing respect, kindness, and tenderness towards each other.
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In my opinion, a keeper is found by gradually intuiting answers to the extreme fundamental questions in life:
1. Is the vibe approaching effortless, real, natural, and safe? This alone isn't enough but it's a good sign.
2. Do they tick most of the ideal adjectives of a sense of humor, honest, reliable, respectable, fascinating, wise, and not a liability?
3. Who would you (and they) prefer to be stuck on a proverbial deserted island with them?
3. Would you'd trust them implicitly with decisions about your life and everything else if you were away or incapacitated?
4. Have you seen their reactions to not getting their way, under pressure, and with people not in positions of power?
5. Would you die and/or kill (if absolutely essential) for them, and vice-versa again?
6. Are both of you better together than apart overall?
There are numerous holistic and historical factors that throw more people into the jaws of the unforgiving US criminal justice system:
1. School-to-prison pipeline [i]
2. For-profit prisons
3. Mandatory minimums
4. Three-strikes laws
5. Over-policing minority and poor areas
6. Racial profiling [ii]
7. Lack of adequate universal mental healthcare
8. The War on Drugs
9. Lack of opportunities + crimes of desperation and despair
10. Poverty leads to inadequate defense and conviction or pleading out to something they didn't do because overworked public defenders are a cruel joke
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world except Seychelles.
Furthermore, the US is generally unconcerned with rehabilitation, prisoner welfare, and is most concerned with locking up as many people as possible in for-profit prisons and throwing away the key.
There is no consideration of "Hey, this person in prison should be genuinely rehabilitated because they may become my neighbor after they're released."
America doesn't care about people who enter the criminal justice system, homelessness, mental healthcare, universal healthcare, or livable wages. In reality, Americans, imprisoned or not, who aren't rich (95% or so) don't know how bad they have it compared to the rest of the world.
Welp, everyone needs a DR/BCP plan for national and regional disasters of natural and human kinds that also involve cellular, network, fuel, and power outages at different areas.
For example, perhaps the they need multiple cell carriers with independent backbones run by different companies.