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  1. Surely the company is just doing a soft layoff of those long range workers. No other logic makes sense.
  2. I’ll munch some crow in this thread. 2.5 years ago I predicted companies’ calling employees back into the office would suffer and that the backlash against wfh would be temporary. I still think companies doing away with wfh will perform poorly over the long term, but I overestimated workers’ leverage. I underestimated the odds of worsening economic conditions contributing to companies’ motivation to use forcing folks back into the office as a way to reduce headcount without doing layoffs. I also underestimated how quickly companies would lean on AI as a way to reduce headcount (doing away with wfh employees first). I still think that long term, wfh will be common and companies that embrace it will be better off. But in the short term, remote employees seem to be proper fucked.
  3. That’s a shitload of draft risk. Yikes.
  4. I’ve updated my odds for if the Epstein files will result in Trumps demise to 0%.
  5. Fuck off with this disingenuous bullshit. She donated to every politician who she knew would be in favor or legalized casinos. She gave Talarico’s campaign……wait for it….$59,000. The horror.
  6. Trump’s plan is to issue tariff checks to voters just before mid terms next year. It’s probably going to work.
  7. Offensively, there is no realistically available better fit for the Astros lineup than Donovan. Trade Sanchez and Urias for Bart and PTBNL Sign Verlander and McCann Trade Meyers, Brito, and Diaz for Rasmussen and Jax Trade Matthews, Sullivan, and Hicks for Donovan RF Donovan* DH Paredes LF Alvarez 3B Correa 2B Altuve SS Pena 1B Walker CF Cole C Bart* Bench: Dubon, McCann*, Dezenzo, Trammell SP: Brown, Rasmussen*, JV*, Javier, Pearson, Alexander RP: Hader, Abreu, Jax*, King, Sousa, Okert, McCullers Optioned: Arrighetti, Gordon, Murray, VanWey, Salazar, Whitcomb, Smith, Melton, Ullola*, Santa*, Fleury* IL: Wesneski, Walter, Blanco DFA: De Los Santos, France, Ort Traded: Sanchez, Urias, Meyers, Diaz, Matthew
  8. Waymo is going to win the driverless car race. They may not win the driverless semi race, but the race to be the company that owns/sells the most autonomous passenger vehicles is over, Waymo won. Invest accordingly.
  9. I can’t imagine a scenario where Trumps approval rating dips below 35% while he is still in office. The severity and volume of shit that has happened in the last year but especially the last month has had to have eroded any potential approval he was getting from movable people. The 39% who currently approve of him are doing so in spite of a shitty economy, heavy evidence that the president is a pedophile who had sex with underage girls, severe domestic political unrest, and a fragile geopolitical environment. We know they are approving of him because of his efforts to disparage and punish minorities and the poor and because of his polices that exacerbate environmental and societal problems, not in spite of them. A severe economic depression or a war in which the US gets attacked by a foreign country and is losing are the only 2 things I can imagine serving to reduce Trump’s approval rating from where it is, and even then I can’t imagine it getting below 25%. The Democrats had effective messaging/leasership anytime before 2024, he wouldn’t be president. One thing I’m not sure of is if they had gotten effective messaging/leadership at any point this year, how low would Trump’s approval currently be?
  10. McConaughey would fail as a politician, especially in Texas. Trying to think of any celebrity that would actually make a good statewide or national politician. A high Q score is not a good reason to think someone would make a good politician. Taylor Swift seems to have the faculties to make the transition, but she would have to navigate a very fraught path over the next decade in order to be successful, and I don’t see her wanting to do that or being able to do it; but she is an extremely high quality individual. I suspect Stephen Colbert could do it. But he’s already 61 years old.
  11. Shit is so fucked up and crazy that I am starting to actually believe that there is some known pending apocalyptic event that only extremely powerful people know about and Donald Trump was chosen to distract us until it happens.
  12. The more cursewords Pete Buttigieg is quoted as saying, the higher his chances are of being president one day. If he had started his tweet with “This dumb motherfucker right here…” it would have been even more effective.
  13. Dumb, weak motherfuckers. The only way this makes any sense is if the Dems know the Epstein shit is gonna actually fuck shit up so opening back up to get Grijalva in office will be worth it. I don’t buy that for a minute, far more likely is the establishment democrats completely validating all criticism against them and further empowering Trumpism. The stupid, weak, corrupt mothfuckers.
  14. So wait, is the whole redistricting move delayed, or just the redistricting involving those 3 schools? How can they pause it for just those 3 schools???
  15. Please let you be right. But I don’t think I have that kind of luck. Based on the last decade that motherfucker is going to live at least another dozen years and be in office for 8 of them.
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