It seems off and on, I routinely have one downvote show up on every thing, including totally benign “hahah cute cat” type comments, or comments that are otherwise well received.
It started happening after I criticized Israel for genocide. (Specifically around the time that there was that giant missile barrage right at the start of the Israeli response.)
Checking my recent comments it seems to be off at the moment.
You…. Are a saint.
can’t be worse than the current pres. prolly.
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how is that even close to pronounced the same as Anna? most half the word would have to be silent.
It won’t hurt, and dehydration can cause drowsiness or fatigue.
There’s also significant precedent saying children don’t have the mental awareness to make those kinds of decisions and therefore removing it to… the parents.
sorry, but getting that done, whether or not it’s right or wrong, is basically impossible. you would be overturning a couple centuries of precedent.
Using a password generator to name your kid should be treated as child neglect. Just saying.
regardless of if it should be legal or not, anything restricting names is going to run pretty hard up against first amendment rights.
the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.
so we agree. because that’s my point. They’re not breaking up google or meta because it’s good to break up monopolies. They’re breaking them up because the oligarchs told them to.
remember, the google and meta things are about advertisng tech.
It’s hurting walmart, kroger, and several others who are- basically- monopolies on their own. (and have many, many in congress paid off.)
I’m not saying any corpo is somehow magically benevolent. No, I’m saying if you stick your hand in a tank full of hungry sharks… yer gonna get bit.
even inside co-ops, employee compensation is not set by popular vote. Generally, the Co-Op members will vote on a board that controls the business.
Google and Meta started hurting other giant corporations though. That’s a big no no.
functionally, it wouldn’t work for anything more than a very small start up. just on the practical side.
it’s not just a question of unfair advantage. It’s a bald faced stupid way to run a company. you cannot make everyone happy, and a good manager isn’t going to be the most liked person in the room.
Human nature means most people won’t be invested in making a sound business decision. they’re going to invest as much thought into it as voting in a poll about what soup is their favorite. maybe considerably less.
You might want to edit the title to include the actual question.
but as for the question itself… Ahm. just on a pragmatic side… “the rest of the company…” might be something that could be reasonably done on a small company (less than a 250 people. Probably less than 50 people, actually,) but in any large company, you may as well send out a poll asking what kind of soup they prefer- Chicken or Pea Soup- and which ever manager backing the losing soup gets the axe.
The only people who might be aware of how hard any given person works are going to be the team members alongside them and the direct reports above and below them.
And to be perfectly blunt, working hard doesn’t necessarily translate to work getting done. if the manager is just spinning their wheels and not getting the core stuff done, it’s a problem. If the manager is spending too much time on things that simply don’t matter… it’s a problem.
Ultimately, even if you can have a reasonable belief that every one knows what every one else does and doesn’t do (that sounds like hell, actually.) it turns into a popularity contest and the manager whose actually keeping things running might not get recognized by it, where the manager throwing parties and blowing cash does. One might say I’m being a stick in the mud, but the reality is, if the managers stop facilitating the work their people do… then the company fails. No parties. no jobs. no company.
Russia wasn’t tarrif’d
That’s the problem with averages.
That’s not how the markets necessarily work. A bad year this year doesn’t necessarily mean an extra special year next year.
I guess the problem I’m pointing out is that it’s unlikely to fully regain the lost value fast enough to make up for the compound value that would have existed.
For people just starting out, it puts a significant cramp on their ability to gain capital. There may not be any better options, but it hurts people and in ways that won’t necessarily be made whole.
it kind of depends on what you did with that money. There is an opportunity cost there.
I used my 401k to start a company. so far that’s performing well above the market (and continuing to. It’s a second job so I’m reinvesting that with annual contribution caps, etc.)
correct me if I’m wrong here, but that 11%, to roll with your example, would need to be recovered immediately for that math. Like every month it doesn’t go back up… that’s compounding the lost opportunity. And if 2008 is anything to go by… it’s not just going to go back up, it’s going to take time.
like, if you expect a certain amount of growth, it’s unlikely you’ll get the 11% plus that “normal” growth back.
Usually friends-with-benefits types don’t necessarily involve involuntary 3rd parties in their role play, even if they’re open with their friend groups about their shenanigans.
there’s a lot of ‘might be’ here, but none of it is particularly ‘normal’ behavior. I’m just gonna assume they’re weird trolls (or just one weird troll.)
off the internet, too.
but, uhm, this isn’t normal behavior for friends, no.
depends on what you mean by “very bright skin”? It also depends very much on where in America you’re talking about.
Remember, geographically, the US is more on par with the whole of the EU than any single country in the EU; and similarly with population size as well. You’re going to have a different experience going to CA than NY, or texas or Iowa. Or even Austin, Texas and some rural small town full of nothing but inbred rednecks in Texas. (same also for some parts of CA, if we’re being honest. There are some very republican strongholds in CA.)