What’s worse is when the top is your self image, that you imagine others see, and the bottom being picture or mirror or whatever that shows the reality.

One of my measures of how good a manager is would be how they come into a room. A good manager (I’ve had a few) will come in and silently assess how things are running (because they’ve already looked up info themselves) or ask specific questions that show they understand the state of things and are there to help if needed.

Pull the “how are things looking” crap, and the rating drops quickly. And the funny thing is, the ones who do that didn’t actually want to hear the bad news I will eagerly pull up to drown them in. The look on their faces is worth it.

Basically, I can glean how much a manager knows about an operation by what first comes out of their mouth, and way too often it’s not much that’s useful.

Don’t look up.

“Bananas have always cost $10, Michael.”

“Nobody knew trade was this complex.” - Trump

I’m pretty sure he said that last time.

Yep, and the important thing about keeping a Democrat governor is their veto power against one of the worst state congresses ever. I actually haven’t looked into what changed at that level, but I don’t have much hope that the GOP stranglehold was broken.

Living paycheck to paycheck, limited if any sick time to take. Not a great excuse, I agree the common sense thing is to contain and recover, but that doesn’t help with the bills or keep the job. Blame the system, not the people in it.

There’s C-Span videos online of him doing interviews before he became a US senator, and it’s interesting how the problems then are still relatable now. We’ve gotten better at kicking cans down roads and blaming each other instead of tackling the issues head on.

In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It’s all about the price point. And the marketing.

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don’t need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

Every vote is important.

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

If you’re doing more than just voting and forgetting, then the message wasn’t about you. I won’t stop asking people what else they’ve done, because how else is awareness of the need of democracy and public involvement supposed to be spread?

If someone tells me they voted third party, I just tell them that’s great and ask what they’re going to do now. Never get much of an answer.

It’s unAmerican to not want everyone to have their chance to vote. Another example of how the Republican party hates people in general. It gets in their way of power.

A quote attributed to a few people, Heinlein and Pournelle for two, “If you can get your ship into orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere.” Both space and planets have shared and their separate problems to solve. In my head I prefer the image of most populations moving into habitats in space, customized to their preferences, with smaller settlements on various bodies for their own purposes. In my realistic view I don’t see us getting that far before we get bogged down with all the problems we’ve created on this planet. The window to a permanent space civilization might have already shut. A sad thing, as a 70s kid I grew up convinced we were full speed into some version of what scifi had sold to me.

Elsewhere GOP supporters are doing lots of things to more than a single ballot. But clearly this is the problem. Where’s the one representative that suggested just giving the state to Trump without counting anything? Someone is panicking.

I bet if they found out the person voted Republican they’d bounce right into blaming Democrats for a witch hunt in prosecuting this case.

Just because “mainland USA” wasn’t used doesn’t mean it’s racist. Would it have been perceived the same way if Hawaii was substituted?

I just rewatched some Hawkeye episodes. I’m down with this. brb got to make some more special arrows.

The first one? Some parts perhaps. The sequel? We’re definitely trying to get there full speed. One difference, there’s no off world areas, we’re all here.