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  • It's insane how much time I lose to my job

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  • have to wait some time for a bus one way or the other

    [waiting about 30 minutes]

    ...and...

    Comute is about an hour each way,

    [where you are not having to pay attention to driving]

    but I have mandatory one hour lunch,

    This is 3.5 approximately hours a day that have no responsibilities to your job that you can put your attention on other subjects. lets even allow a subtraction of 30 minutes for having to change buses/trains or set up of lunch and clean up. This leaves about 3 hours a day. This is your resource for personal/professional improvement and change.

    This is a huge untapped value that you can use to change your situation! Have you thought how you could use this time to move yourself forward?

  • It's insane how much time I lose to my job

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  • I don't know about your age or situation, but if you're old enough that you're taking care of your parents in a reasonable capacity, then you're no longer living with your parents, your parents are living with you.

  • Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs

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  • IBM got out of the retail desktop/laptop market in 2005 when they sold their product lines (like Thinkpad) to a company in China called Lenovo.

  • We don't need to schedule anything. It won't take long.

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  • I addressed how you can get more pay with this in other posts in this thread.

  • Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 33% of Americans approve of US strike on Venezuela

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  • You're right, its not in the Constitution as I had thought. Its a combination of Executive Orders from the Ford administration as well as an interpretation of the 1973 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, of which the USA is a signatory.

  • US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals

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  • "Rules for thee but not for me"

    or more focused, the Wilhoit's law:

    "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

  • ‘Super flu’ variant is circulating and raising concern. Here’s what to know about it

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  • We don't need to schedule anything. It won't take long.

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  • I don’t even get to the point where I ask ask my manager about priorities, I just tell people that my plate is full and they need to go talk to my manager and have them let me know if I’m to work on your problem.

    The danger here is you're letting someone else frame the situation and present their own narrative. They could just as easily go to your boss and say "Passerby6497 wouldn't help me when I needed it". Sure, your boss can and should shield you, but you're creating more work for your boss.

  • Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 33% of Americans approve of US strike on Venezuela

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  • And most of his inner circle… are similar nutbags. Very little of what they do has any rational thought, it’s just pure egotistical posturing.

    Its important to call these things out certainly not in defense of trump, but also not to defend Maduro. Maduro is a scumbag, but he's still the leader of a nation and our Constitution specifically prevents the USA from casually kidnapping the leaders of other nations. All of the other justification trump and his cronies are trying to use is equally wrong in this. I want to let people know that there is no "broken clock right twice a day" situation here. trump is still wrong.

  • Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 33% of Americans approve of US strike on Venezuela

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  • I was listening to Bloomberg radio today, which is very much business focused. They aren't buying the trump administration's story. In fact their reporting added a couple important points I hadn't heard elsewhere:

    • Oil prices down are currently way down globally. trump talks about oil companies investing billions, but with the current price of oil, there's no profit in it for oil companies so they don't have a reason to. There is currently a global oversupply. Estimates show that it will be anywhere from 8 to 10 years before the oil market will recover enough for Venezuelan oil investments to be worth doing from a business point of view.
    • A number of American companies previously had huge infrastructure investments in Venezuela before all those assets were nationalized by Chavez. So most American oil companies are reluctant to have any further investment right now in the country
    • Bringing additional Venezuelan oil to market will actually hurt American producers. To me this sounds like the same thing trump did to American beef producers by giving money to Argentina, then promising to import Argentinian beef into US markets.
    • The type of oil Venezuela (Orinco Belt) produces is high sulfur (aka "heavy sour" crude). There are only a few refineries in the world that are best suited for this type of oil. The USA has some, but most are in Saudi Arabia.
    • What narcotics (Cocaine) come out of Venezuela don't come to the USA. They go to Europe. So the USA doesn't have legal standing on the drug argument because the USA isn't the recipient of anything Venezuela traffics.

    Lastly, the reporters specifically brought up that this invasion to Venezuela is timed exactly when additional Epstein documents were supposed to be released and that the Venezuela story is consuming new cycles when it would have been Epstein news.

    I was kind of shocked at the clarity of this level of reporting from a main stream source that is business focused.

  • U.S. drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child

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  • How many children will die or be permanently disabled by horrible, but completely preventable, diseases just to avoid whatever so-called risky ingredients in vaccines?

  • Cannot Be Stopped

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  • That doesn't come in the default protection service, no.

    You'd need to add the amphibian rider. Note, this would not include penguin coverage either. You'd need to add the avian rider for that. You're in luck though, we're offering a "buy one, get one half off" discount if you subscribe to both in addition to the base coverage.

  • U.S. drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child

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  • The CDC or US Government are no longer good sources of information for health care. I recommend Health Canada or UK's NHS.

  • Removed

    For the People, By the People — Or By the Wealthy?

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  • This isn't news. This is an opinion piece.

    I have no problem with the author nor do I disagree with their position, but this isn't a news piece.

  • Cannot Be Stopped

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  • Take this to the next level. Adopt the classic "protection racket" business model. Offer a paid monthly subscription service to protect the homophobe from "being turned gay".

  • Renewables are the biggest energy investment class now

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  • China (and a smaller part, India) is cause of that huge amount of not only existing, but new coal plants.

    source (note: from 2024 data so that "under construction" is now operational in 2025)

    China is frequently citied for all its new green energy project (for which it deserves credit), but realistically China is just in need of electricity in whatever form it can get it.

  • Solar Panels and Heat Pumps to Be More Expensive in US in 2026 | Here’s what you need to know about electrifying your home as US green tax credits expire.

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  • Sadly even with the fall of cell prices and panels, the overall installations will likely still be much more expensive.

    For solar, panel prices are actually a much smaller part of the overall cost of having an array installed. The other parts are the labor to install along with the design and permitting work. Labor costs continue to rise as well as inflation making the costs of both product and labor incrementally more expensive.

    For heat pumps there's also a double whammy of a new replacement refridgerant over the R-410a. This means buying a new unit that all the old R-410a will be difficult as the EPA rules say that complete systems can no longer be manufatured as of Jan 1 2026. Environmentally its a good move, but the cost of the new systems will be higher than the older ones.

    I, personally, was able to take advantage of both the solar tax credit as well as the heat pump credit. This allowed us permanently shut off the natural gas at our house significantly lowering our household carbon impact. I wish more Americans could do the same, but the US government has stopped these credits.

  • We don't need to schedule anything. It won't take long.

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  • I can mean pay increase, but its rarely a direct consequence. If nothing else, you can usually use this as a pivot to doing less work you don't like and more work you do like.

    If you're getting enough of these "jump on a quick call" situations, you can reach out to your boss and say "I'm getting reached out too often and its taking more time away from the tasks you want me doing. Which thing do you want me focusing on, these important tasks you've communicated already, or some rando phone call/teams chat? Are you okay with me telling them I'm busy?". Alternatively say "I'm getting reached out to on this important work, and I think $TASK1 and $TASK2 that I'm currently responsible for should be handed off to someone else. I'm fully prepared to do a info handover to get them up to speed".

  • We don't need to schedule anything. It won't take long.

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  • I think this is actually a sign that you've achieved a certain level of value to the organization. If you're constantly being reached out to to "jump on a quick call" it means your interaction is important (and possibly pivotal) to keeping the work going.

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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

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