mgrthrow

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by mgrthrow 4y ago
We built downtowns like deserts, rather than mixing housing, commercial, and office space holistically. Chicken coming home to roost.
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
I mean, most socialism (but especially Anarcho socialism as proposed by Kropotkin) starts with a foundation of people's right to life. We produce enough to give everyone in the US a comfortable existence. Almost twice as much food is p
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
It's performance art with no child inappropriate content? It is no different than "why is it so important to you for characters at Disneyland to be able to perform for kids." Drag is not inherently an inappropriate performanc
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
Last night, there was an attack on several power stations by armed right wing groups in North Carolina to shut down drag shows.
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
This cannot happen infinitely. It's a problem with the way we approach the world moving past occupations. Like, coal miners aren't useful anymore, but just telling the miners to "learn a new trade" is not solving the sys
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
The Luddites were not anti technology, they were extensively educated people whose jobs were threatened when factory owners tried to replace them with cheap workers and auto looms. The Luddites said first, "this tech will make the whol
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
But your director has a mandate, and they will pass that down and force everyone to at least consider who on their team could be NI.
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
I mean, you've called out what happened exactly. Managers got aggressive in firing folks, they dumped them to other teams, or they'd play rating roulette and give others a needs improvement ratings.
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by mgrthrow 4y ago
I was a manager at Amazon for teams of 5-15 engineers. The smallest percentage for "needs improvement" ratings I was expected to hit was 5%, the largest was 15%. Anyone who was needs improvement would be added to the "dev lis