DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024
If Jeff Bezos was looking for a way to destroy the Washington Post, mission accomplished. Within three days of his decision to quash the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, more than 200,000 people have cancelled their subscriptions, about 8% of the customer base. His lame op ed defending his decision isn’t helping, either. It’s as if all the country’s rich fucks decided together to demonstrate that having had one money-making idea does not make them geniuses, and that the money has turned them into toadies.
I’m taking this as a sign that the Grand Old Fascists know they’re losing: They’re setting ballot drop boxes afire in Democratic areas. Proto-humans harnessed fire 2 million years ago; Republicans have not progressed since.
Slovenly shitheap Steve Bannon was released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress. Now he faces 15 years in prison for bilking morons out of money that was supposedly going to build a border wall; the trial starts Dec. 9, which gives them plenty of time to air out his cell.
Once again, a more enlightened nation than ours has shown that working longer hours is a drain on productivity. Oh, they don’t present it that way, but when Iceland ran a trial cutting workers’ hours from 40 to 35 or 36 per week, that’s what they found.
The trials involved 2,500 people — more than 1% of Iceland’s working population at the time — and were aimed at maintaining or increasing productivity while improving work-life balance. Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance.
I await the study that shows eliminating middle management increases productivity.
The floor’s yours.
Well I’m glad he cleared that up.
I wonder if the MSM decision to finally use the words “fascist” and “Nazi” was motivated by Bezos’s textbook demonstration of how fascism works in the media.
In other news, Herr Trump calls a press conference to deny he is a Nazi. “I’m not a fascist; she’s a fascist.”
Makes me remember that Donald’s father Fred Trump was from a German immigrant family, arrested in Queens after a KKK rally (but not charged). and was very likely to have attended the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
“I await the study that shows eliminating middle management increases productivity.” – so basically you are elon musk wanting to cut 80% of government employees
Never worked in government, but saw how it worked in private industry. Middle managers exist so management doesn’t have to interact with hourly employees.
Like the tiles on the space shuttle, middle management is valuable as a replaceable shield that protects me from the hot gases of upper management.
GOPH
Big line at the Hudson Center in Newark, so I realized I needed to get my car inspected by the end of the month. Zero line at the ShopRite. Took longer at the DMV.
We’re voting on Thursday, my wife, mother-in-law and me (Memo to self: Take shower before Thursday…).
Nixon wasn’t a crook.
Christine O’Donnell wasn’t a witch.
Donald Trump is not a Nazi.
This comment is why DL needs reaction emojis on posts. I was in stitches reading this. Thanks for the laugh El Som!