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@Jolly said in The Empowered Employee:

Money ain't everything...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/josiecox/2025/01/21/pay-vs-work-life-balance-study/?

The problem with these sort of “studies” is that they don’t show you the cash value of “work-life balance.”

Take the “no working from home, must work in office” policy for example, may be a worker will quit when that job pays $X, but that worker will not quit when you raise the pay to $(X+∂).

May be it really is hard to translate “work-life balance” into cash-value, but more likely, I suspect the people who commission or indirectly fund such studies really don’t want to see any study results that say “your employees will be happier when you pay them x% more.” So all the MBAs and the professors that teach these would-be MBAs just don’t publish any result along this line.

My responses in [square brackets].

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Which had you heard of before he picked them?

Scott Bessent - no [no]
Pam Bondi - name rang a bell [yes]
Doug Burgham - yes because he ran for POTUS [yes]
Lori Chavez-DeRemer - no [no]
Doug Collins - no [no]
Sean Duffy - no [no]
Gabbard - yes [yes]
Greer - no [no]
Hegseth - no [no]
RFK - of course [yes]
Kelly Loeffler - yes, met her husband back in the day [no]
Howard Lutnick - met him back in the day [no]
Linda McMahon - rings a bell. DJT first term maybe? [yes]
Noem - Yes, dog killer [yes]
Patel - no [no]
Ratcliff - no [no]
Rollins - no [no]
Rubio - yes [yes]
Stefanik - yes, local pol [yes]
Turner - no [no]
Vaught - no [no]
Wright - no [no]
Zeldin- yes local pol ran for governor [no]

My response in [square brackets]

@LuFins-Dad said in Speaking of Trumps Cabinet Level Picks:

Biden -

Agriculture - Tom Vilsack (nope for me) [yes]
AG - Garland (yep) [yes]
Commerce - Gina Raimondo (nope) [no]
Defense - Lloyd Austin (vaguely) [yes]
Education - Cardona (not at that time) [no]
Energy - Granholm (nope, but I feel like I should have) [no]
HHS - Becerra (nope) [yes]
Homeland Security - Mayorkas (I think so?) [yes]
HUD - Marcia Fudge (nope) [no]
Interior - Deb Haaland (nope) [no]
Labor - Marty Walsh (yes) [no]
State - Blinken (Y) [yes]
Transportation- Buttigieg (unfortunately) [yes]
Treasury - Yellen (y) [yes]
Veteran Affairs - Denis McDonough (N) [no]

Ice cream, chocolate.

Eh ... maybe it's just a ploy to move everything to crypto.

@Mik said in Who thinks this is a good idea?:

It's a starting position.

"Starting position" is the new "4D chess."

@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:

Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin.

I have seen no evidence to support the above. Feel free to point me to such evidence if you wish.

@Horace said in This article on Costco kind of hit home.:

@Axtremus said in This article on Costco kind of hit home.:

In a pinch, you can put a baby in the diaper box too so the baby won't roll too far from where you left the baby.

You need to stop storing your babies on hills. Babies should be stored on flat ground, it's standard practice.

You overlooked the fact that babies can rollover on their own when rested on flat ground.

Was Larry part of the Lumbee tribe, or you just assuming Larry will be happy with the federal government recognizing more native American tribes in general?

@Jolly said in Who thinks this is a good idea?:

I think he's going to facilitate a sale. Not by the above means, though.

You say that based on what?

@89th said in The Never-ending Grift:

Also, do you think Barron was named after the Robber Baron? Sure would make sense.

More likely there was a copy of Barron's on the nightstand or coffee table when the naming took place.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/swaths-of-u-s-government-grind-to-halt-after-trump-shock-therapy-42a6b000

Swaths of U.S. Government Grind to a Halt After Trump Shock Therapy

... Health agencies stopped virtually all external communications in a directive that risked silencing timely updates on infectious diseases. ...

CDC trackers on seasonal flu and bird flu had not been updated, and the agency’s flagship weekly report, which has communicated public health information for decades, wasn’t issued as normal on Thursday.

The administration paused the communications in part to make sure that new missives aligned with Trump’s executive order declaring only two genders, people familiar with the matter said. The aim was to nix references to “pregnant people,” for example, rather than pregnant women. Such language, aimed at being inclusive, grew pervasive across healthcare in recent years and has drawn criticism from conservative activists.

Old video, pretty sure I've seen that posted in TNCR years ago.

@George-K said in That water got gators in it?:

Never tasted gator.

What's it like?

Had gator tail meat in corn dusted, fried nugget from.
Tasted like chicken nugget, slightly more chewy.

Single-payer universal healthcare FTW!!!

Costco is good when you have to buy lots of disposable diapers for babies/toddlers. Toddlers like to play with those bigger diaper boxes too. (In a pinch, you can put a baby in the diaper box too so the baby won't roll too far from where you left the baby. But you can do that with the bigger Amazon boxes too.)

Gasoline is also cheaper at Costco.

Some popular electrics, when you don't need the newest version and don't need to customize, are usually cheaper at Costco.

Just call it Trump Gulf and be done with it.

Has this been verified?
Saw news reports of Spanish webpages got removed from White House website, but no news report of sign language videos getting removed.

The Worst Nazi Ever

Maybe just a Reformed Nazi?

"Chellengers" is the one I thought would win some major awards but it's not even nominated for anything.

I typically do not enjoy that genre, still I say this is an outstanding movie. I highly recommend this movie.

@George-K said in Oscar Nominations:

@89th said in Oscar Nominations:

I read that Demi Moore might win Best Actress, too.

From what I've read, "The Substance" is kind of a weird movie.

Watched it. Weird, but also very good.
Not outstanding or stellar, but still very good.
Got really weird only at the end.
If you don't mind Moore and the other female lead showing full frontal nudity or the gore of blood and guts deformed bodies in a few scenes, it would be a good movie to watch.