macrocarpa

Orrrr…hear me out here

This is a news article about a set of social media posts and has absolutely no link or relevance to the voting register.

you know the cool thing about people voting? You know who has voted and in what age group they are. Then you can look at the age group and say things like hmmm wow thats weird there are like 34 million people in the US between 18 and 24, but only 7 million of them voted, I wonder if the other 27 million would have swayed the margin on an election decided by hundreds of thousands of votes

Young people aren’t participating yet they have the most skin in the game. It’s daft.

Imo Implement compulsory voting, introduce third parties that can act as a protest vote, watch what the fuck happens. Suddenly the major parties have to be accountable outside their base.

2010 through 2020 was pretty golden financially. It’s why there were so many rorts.

Disagree on one point - independent research. Higher ed should be the venue where research that’s not directly attached to a commercial body can sit. I’m supportive of running a small surplus on fees as long as it’s directed to research, otherwise you’re stuck with governmental and commercial grants which frequently come with strings attached.

Yes. VC for ANU has done 10% voluntarily and asked senior leads to do similar or opt out of annual salary increase.

Melbourne, Monash, UniNSW who knows.

Edited to add - she was on about 1.2 million per year so doing a 10% reduction in salary is probably a role saved.

If memory serves me correctly it’s named for the sound it makes

Kiiiiii wiiiiiiii

Reminds me of that 20th century philosopher, C.G.L. Wallace, who quipped “mo money, mo problems”

Shift work has been a thing forever

Not sure why retail is any different.

tbh we are all just snapshots of ourselves at different stage of the same cycle. The Simpsons did a whole thing about lolapalooza which starts with homer looking for his favourite artists in a record store, and the record store dude, and being directed to the oldies section.

The bands that feature in that episode are the smashing pumpkins, soundgarden , cypress Hill and Peter Frampton, all of whom appear in Spotify old school lists

Wooosh

*"Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy,” said Granny, glaring at the sky. “But you can’t make ‘em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin’ their heads off as soon as they say ‘I do’, yes? You can’t make happiness…” Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city.

Anything that you can think of has already been thought of, modelled, and done by international actors who have more resources, technical capability and time than you, and have far fewer morals.

You want a specific outcome to this election? So do Russia and China. They’re a lot better at this than you are and are orders of magnitude more invested in it.

Call a spade a spade, society doesn’t give a rats arse about vulnerable men of any age or in any demographic.

It’s over the top exaggeration to highlight plot points.

I didn’t find the purported themes really resonated with me tbh.

The sets and costumes were amazing and there were some funny bits tho.

Yay, something I can talk to.

I’m a middle manager in tech delivery. Started in a different industry, moved into the saas world at the right time, became a dev, became a contractor, made lots of money, had a family, needed more regular hours so went the management route, less money, more stress. About a year ago I took on a new role which has me across approx 10 directs each who have their own squads of 6 to 10 people.

I don’t hate it but it is hard work. And yes it is objectively harder and more stressful than being a developer, simply because of the level of accountability that I personally take.

In terms of expertise. I know a deep amount about one platform, a moderate amount about three others and I have no fucking clue about the rest. Integration, for instance. Yet I’m accountable for delivery and eye watering budgets. I’m sure the devs have a similar opinion of me as to what’s posted elsewhere in the thread, that I don’t understand the specific technology hence shouldn’t be directing the work stream, but the thing is - thats not the role.

The role is to manage money and people. The array of brilliant technologists who i’ve seen step into leadership roles then slowly drown and fail is distressing. So when I’m looking for leads to bring into positions, a lot of the time I’m looking for people who naturally want to step forward and want to lead. Most of the time they do well even without the full depth of tech.

I think this is the link back to your question. Like, can you go back to being a dev? If your promotion to management was as a result of being the most experienced dev, then yes absolutely, you should fit back in fine. If you were promoted because you were the voice in the team that said why or how or what if or let’s do this, then I’m sorry. Leadership will seek you out once again.