Phone posted:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/in-open-offices-workers-chat-70-less-are-less-productive-and-email-more/

the tl;dr is that a lot of office jobs are moving to a more open floorplan in order to make it absolutely crystal clear to the employees that they're more temporary than the furniture

further research also suggests that it is actively damaging peoples' memories, but this is the succ zone and not the dystopian cyberpunk future zone

docbeard posted:

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1002295140172664832

SKULL.GIF posted:

some anti from reddit of all places. from r/politics of all subs

quote:

The current [Congressional Progressive Caucus], made up of 78 members, is too amorphous to act as a united bloc, which saps it of its strength, Ocasio-Cortez argued. It’s the same rationale that conservatives who built the powerful Freedom Caucus three years ago used when they broke away from the larger Republican Study Committee, the GOP equivalent of the progressive caucus.

“The thing that gives the caucus power is that you can operate as a bloc vote in order to get things done,” Ocasio-Cortez told Daniel Denvir, host of Jacobin’s “The Dig.” “Even if you can carve out a sub-portion, a sub-caucus of the progressive caucus, even if you could carve out that, even a smaller bloc, but one that operates as a bloc, then you could generate real power.”

If Democrats wind up holding a slim majority in future Congresses, a progressive sub-caucus wouldn’t need many members to tip the balance, since leadership would need all of them on board to move forward. “If you can even carve out a caucus of 10, 30 people it does not take a lot, if you operate as a bloc vote, to really make strong demands on things,” she said.

What Ocasio-Cortez is floating — a progressive mirroring of the Freedom Caucus — has been flirted with in the past in Congress. Congressional Black Caucus members have at times voted as a bloc and extracted concessions, but the CPC has been much quicker to blink.

The problem — if it can be called one — is that progressives, even those at the edge of the party’s spectrum, are much less willing to shoot the hostage than ultra-conservatives [...]

In 2009, for example, several dozen Democrats signed a letter saying that they wouldn’t support any version of health care reform that didn’t include a “robust” public health insurance option. By drawing a line in the sand, they drew the attention of leadership and the White House and were able to extract concessions (such as the legal ability for a state to move forward with a single-payer system if it chose). But the final version of the Affordable Care Act did not include a public option, and every member who had signed the letter voted for it anyway. Given a binary choice between voting “no” and voting to expand Medicaid, expand coverage broadly, and implement the other reforms of the Affordable Care Act, it would have taken a rare progressive to vote “no.” Leadership knows that, which makes progressive threats fundamentally less credible than conservative ones.

But that’s not reason not to try, especially if the process moves negotiations over legislation in a more progressive direction. “I like to think that I’m persuasive. So I usually am able to make the pragmatic case for doing really ambitious things,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the podcast. “Not to say that I can carry a caucus on my back or anything, but I think that there’s a willingness right now — we’ll see if that willingness is still there in January, because, you know, these cycles change and sentiments change so much.”

The number of Democrats who might be willing to take a firm stand and credibly threaten to oppose legislation if it’s not strong enough is small, likely fewer than 10 at the moment, including progressives such as Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna, or Jamie Raskin. But more Democrats will be arriving next year who may take a more aggressive tact.

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1018893198058573824?s=19

Raskolnikov38 posted:

if russia was ever going to be an effective line of attack against the republicans then why didn't the revelation of the chennault affair after the '68 election end nixon

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Why do people hate Snowden?

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

ukraine is a conflict mostly between rightwing hypernationalists and fascists vs russian oligarch puppets. neither side is particularly good. we definitely should not have intervened more.

Jazerus posted:

isn't the whole point of socialists running as dems to get access to their communications infrastructure and then advocate socialist policy, tho

totally avoiding centrist outlets would just predispose them to treat her as an enemy even more so

Shear Modulus posted:

lol that the libs have forgiven warren after she was public enemy number one for not endorsing hillary until the primary was over

Jazerus posted:

yes that's why you go on their podcasts and subvert their followers

loquacius posted:

Man why the hell are there so many goddamn monarchists on the Internet

Tsar Nick lost his empire because he was incompetent, sic semper tyrannis

prefect posted:

If they didn't want their children killed, maybe they shouldn't have had a hereditary system of power.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

cenotaph posted:

This sounds far too simple for a liberal.

Matt Zerella posted:

has ny ever had a good senator? even bobby Kennedy was succ

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

ok this is good use of “welcome to the resistance”

https://twitter.com/samknight_one/status/1019274598754471938?s=21

Guy Goodbody posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1019726007006199809

Calibanibal posted:

this thread may be nice to you, but they harrass me everbtime i post, and often even when im not posting

Hostess Snack Cake posted:

there is no such thing, as a 'good poster anime'

Al! posted:

i think what happens to grassroots canididates like ironstache or occasio is that they get surrounded by the ccs of the world who put forward arguments that "oh well you're not very experienced, heh, u are supposed to run campaigns like THIS and if you don't btw we're not going to give you any money" and as first time candidates or first time anything politics they don't feel like they have much of a choice

navyjack posted:

Tiegen/Milano 2020 “I’m With THEM!”

Modus Pwnens posted:

I actuslly like the Boomer Corps, but model it after the Peace Corps instead and ship them all off to some country we hate

GalacticAcid posted:

...are you contending that stalin was a liberal

GalacticAcid posted:

this take has been around for a long time and i get why it has contrarian appeal

it obfuscates historical realities & context though