Random News (not Politics) Thoughts

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My heroes!!

 

[ceecee]

My heroes!!

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As far as players and former players, including Canadian ones, simping for Trump - lol. You could have just said (or typed) nothing. Now you get to deal with people throwing shit at you and calling you traître. I approve and congratulations Canada.

 

[Totenkindly]

Return to office: CEOs are ignoring the math. Shareholders will ultimately pay

...Many of the companies ordering staff back to offices full-time are among the most data-driven and technologically sophisticated in the world, he explained. And don’t forget, he added, we’re “in the era of analytics guiding business decisions.”

Yet what are we seeing? Mostly, it’s memos and announcements that use anecdotes and observations rather than factual evidence to justify decisions. “Business leaders certainly have the right to fly in the face of employee sentiment and published evidence. That’s their prerogative,” said Klotz. “But if they want to do so and still retain the trust of their employees, they have to offer a compelling ‘why?’ And no one is doing that when it comes to RTO.”

To be clear, if CEOs were paying attention to the body of evidence on this topic that’s available and growing, they’d be hard pressed to ignore one recurring conclusion. “Hybrid work is a win-win-win for employee productivity, performance and retention,” wrote Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist and one of the leading researchers on work-from-home policies, in commenting on a paper published in June last year.

“If managed right, letting employees work from home two or three days a week still gets you the level of mentoring, culture-building and innovation that you want,” Bloom added. “From an economic policymaking standpoint, hybrid work is one of the few instances where there aren’t major trade-offs with clear winners and clear losers. There are almost only winners..."

 

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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

www.propublica.org

 

[Totenkindly]

Well, it's kind of political....

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. “We’re asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community,” Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent Atlanta-area megachurch pastor who started the boycott, said in an interview with CNN.

The boycott, which begins during the start of Lent, comes more than a month after Target made changes to its DEI programs and at a difficult period for the company as it faces an onslaught of tariffs in the middle of a challenging economy.

On January 24, days into Donald Trump’s presidency, Target announced it was eliminating hiring goals for minority employees, ending an executive committee focused on racial justice and making other changes to its diversity initiatives. Target said it had a new strategy called “Belonging at the Bullseye,” which it first introduced last year, and the company remained committed to “creating a sense of belonging for our team, guests and communities.” Target also stressed the need for “staying in step with the evolving external landscape.”

Target is one of dozens of Fortune 500 companies that have backtracked on DEI in response to conservative court decisions, pressure from activists and right-wing legal groups, and, more recently, the Trump administration’s threats to investigate what it characterizes as “illegal DEI,” including potential criminal cases against companies. Companies are caught between pursuing efforts to increase diversity and avoiding a conservative legal crackdown.

But no company has faced as fierce a blowback from DEI supporters as Target. Customers online have protested the decision and Anne and Lucy Dayton, the daughters of one of Target’s co-founders, called the company’s actions “a betrayal...”

No sympathy for them either.

I used to go there once a month.
Now it's been about once a year.

 

[ceecee]

Well, it's kind of political....

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company



No sympathy for them either.

I used to go there once a month.
Now it's been about once a year.

Considering they also manufactured the "shoplifting" bullshit just to close stores and lock shit up....fuck em.

Sure Enough, Shoplifting Was Not the Reason For the Closure of Target at Folsom and 13th Streets

When Target announced they were closing an SF store in SoMa, they blamed “theft and organized retail crime.” Uhh, turns out that Target had the least reported crime of any Target store in the entire Bay Area.

sfist.com

Retail Group Retracts Startling Claim About ‘Organized’ Shoplifting (Published 2023)

The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 billion in missing merchandise in 2021 was the result of organized theft. It was likely closer to 5 percent, experts say.

www.nytimes.com

Maybe the National Retail Federation needs to have the shit sued out of them by the employees they made unemployed because vibes.

 

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Wth? I just lost a good 65 lbs and greatly improved my blood pressure with this since August but can't really justify a boost in the cost out of pocket (probably an additional $400/month, if they don't just jack it higher just because they can) over this.

https://www.abc27.com/national/federal-judge-stops-compounded-copies-of-eli-lilly-weight-loss-diabetes-drugs/

 

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Wonderful.

Pages - Release: One Case of Measles Confirmed in Maryland Resident with Recent International Travel

An official website of the State of Maryland.

health.maryland.gov

International airport traveller (Dulles). Brace yourselves, here we go.

 

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What a disaster.

https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/doges-ai-app-replacing-fired-federal-workers-proves-about-as-good-as-an-intern/91158894

 

[The Cat]

The Sheriff of Nottingham is gonna be pissed.
"The poor sir, they love him."
I wonder when they're gonna cancel the scraps and call off Christmas....​