Day: December 25, 2024, 11:33 PM

Gazelle

Chill Clowns, Rant

That article below is one of the few that’s actually made me angry lately. It’s such a profound misunderstanding of the problem, what’s occurring, why it’s occurring, what effect it has and how it all has played out over time in the US. Why bother writing something like that if you’re so clueless? What’s the point? I think it’s just a bit of stotting to demonstrate how sophisticated the writer is.

In fact, I am quite certain of that.

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Chill Clowns

Public Transportation and Crime are not About Each Other.

Extremely wrong. Absurd to think this, to the extent this piece even has some sort of cogent point. And this set of beliefs is exactly why the liberals lose and will keep doing so.

This is the sophisticated eurotrash version of the, “Let the barking mad bindlestiff have some assault, as a treat. Listen to your music and don’t make eye contact as he sets you on fire and burns you alive.”

The last 2/3 of the article has nearly nothing to do with the first 1/3. I am not certain the point he’s trying to make, and he doesn’t ever address what Noah is actually talking about in his piece. “Europe is not America” seems to be the main focus of the linked article. Got it, buddy. And your thesis beyond that is what, exactly?

If this were a college essay it’d be tossed back for revision as it rambles on about inconsequential details while supporting vague claims with irrelevant non-evidence.

What happens in arrondisements in Paris has absolutely nothing to do with American mass transit or the American experience of crime and risk on said mass transit. The two are not comparable — not in the way this clown believes, and not in most ways that matter.

Big words and inapplicable statistics can conceal a lot of bad thinking.

Bye to Best

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

We find that these firms experience abnormally high employee turnover following RTO mandates. The increase in turnover rates is more pronounced for female employees, more senior employees, and more skilled employees.

It’s no surprise that the best and more capable employees leave when RTO mandates occur. I would quit immediately if I were forced back into any office and will never work for a company that requires office attendance again. It is so insanely unproductive. And to be perfectly frank, compared to my peers I am somewhere between 3-20x as productive as the average employee in my career field. Lose me and you’re going to have a hire a lot more people1.

Good to see some research around this.

  1. I am currently working on a major project alone that in most firms would be done by 8-10 people, for instance, all while still doing my main job.

Chill Links

More than 1,000 North Korean military casualties in Ukraine war, says South Korea.

‘Security through obscurity’: the Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war.

Canoo employees on “mandatory unpaid break”, while CEO Tony Aquila pockets $1.7 million for private jet use. Let Luigi out. He has work to do.

Luigi Mangione is an anti-hero. He is defending people like myself and others with chronic illnesses and medical conditions. I have been fired from 3 jobs now due to being denied medication and being forced to miss work.

Our Loud World Is Making Us Sick. I hate human-made noise so, so much.

Germany Hands Over Latest Counter Drone Air Defense Systems to Ukraine.

Asia’s 2025 Will Be a Year of Upheaval and Uncertainty. Things could get very heated, very quickly.

Russia’s threat to Europe ‘much wider than we imagine,’ Italian PM warns. Whatever you think of her politically, she is absolutely correct.

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy. Probably not, though expectations do matter.

The Big Companies Funding Trump’s Inauguration Despite Denouncing Jan. 6.