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No contact off hours? Good luck getting management not to contact IT staff during off hours/IT staff having to do emergency stuff/maintainence/deployments after hours.

Good. Now do it here.

Workers in Belgium will soon be able to choose a four-day week under a series of labour market reforms announced on Tuesday.
The reform package agreed by the country's multi-party coalition government will also give workers the right to turn off work devices and ignore work-related messages after hours without fear of reprisal.
"We have experienced two difficult years. With this agreement, we set a beacon for an economy that is more innovative, sustainable and digital. The aim is to be able to make people and businesses stronger," Belgian prime minister Alexander de Croo told a press conference announcing the reform package.

91. FF7

Bet Shinji smells her while she sleeps

The biggest ship in the Russian Pacific Fleet is a cruiser that's currently deployed to the Mediterranean.

How the fuck Russia gonna block sea access to literally anywhere

People that work supply chain and logistics realized they get treated like complete shit and are not compensated enough to deal with the bullshit demands of the world's rapidly evolving "need it now" culture.

Logistics and Supply Chains are turning record profits and making steady efforts to make their work environment more appealing to people, but they've burned so many people throughout the years that they're having a hell of a time finding employees

1. supply chain workers quit cause not paid enough
2. supply chains get record profit

Its not Wednesday yet.

1. corp wants more money
2. corp raises price of item
3. people complain
4. corp goes "no no no, it is inflation. not my fault."
5. people go ok, all good, sorry for the misunderstanding I need to make more money

Tell me there is not an entire worldwide industry devoted to killing these pests en masse...

Sup

A friend who is a PhD biologist said its not all the petroleum used to plant, water, harvest and deliver, the energy needed to distill...

It's that corn is a grass that needs a high nitrogen fertilizer, to make the anhydrous ammonia they use the Koch bros have to process several acre feet of natural gas to make a pound of it.

Fertilizer shot up through the roof causing world wide starvation in poor 3rd world area, fomenting the Arab spring, the violence of still reverberating in the middle east.

eb 14 (Reuters) - Corn-based ethanol, which for years has been mixed in huge quantities into gasoline sold at U.S. pumps, is likely a much bigger contributor to global warming than straight gasoline, according to a study published Monday.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contradicts previous research commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) showing ethanol and other biofuels to be relatively green.
President Joe Biden's administration is reviewing policies on biofuels as part of a broader effort to decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050 to fight climate change.
Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel, said Dr. Tyler Lark, assistant scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment and lead author of the study.
The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy, found that ethanol is likely at least 24% more carbon-intensive than gasoline due to emissions resulting from land use changes to grow corn, along with processing and combustion.
Geoff Cooper, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, the ethanol trade lobby, called the study "completely fictional and erroneous," arguing the authors used "worst-case assumptions [and] cherry-picked data."
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a law enacted in 2005, the nation's oil refiners are required to mix some 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol into the nation's gasoline annually. The policy was intended to reduce emissions, support farmers, and cut U.S. dependence on energy imports.
As a result of the mandate, corn cultivation grew 8.7% and expanded into 6.9 million additional acres of land between 2008 and 2016, the study found. That led to widespread changes in land use, including the tilling of cropland that would otherwise have been retired or enrolled in conservation programs and the planting of existing cropland with more corn, the study found.
Tilling fields releases carbon stored in soil, while other farming activities, like applying nitrogen fertilizers, also produce emissions.
A 2019 study from the USDA, which has been broadly cited by the biofuel industry, found that ethanols carbon intensity was 39% lower than gasoline, in part because of carbon sequestration associated with planting new cropland.
But that research underestimated the emissions impact of land conversion, Lark said.
USDA did not respond to a request for comment.

The point of the monkey writing hamlet analogy has gone entirely and completely over your head. The monkeys being monkeys, or having typewriters, is not at all the point. They're just the happenstance example that got famous.

Could it just be the case that people are still in relationships, but don't want to be tied down by either living together or being married? Yes, but the statistics suggest something else is cooking.

The General Social Survey has, on and off since 1986, asked participants whether they had a steady partner. This past year, 30% of adults ages 25 to 54 (the same age bracket as the Pew study) indicated that they did not have a steady partner. In 1986, it was 20%. In fact, the percentage of 25- to 54-year-olds who said they didn't have a steady partner never topped 23% prior to the 2010s. It's been 25% or above in every survey since.

Interestingly, as the population ages and more Baby Boomers have gotten above the age of 55, the percentage of older folks in a relationship has stayed fairly steady -- in the mid-to-high 60s on average.

Twenty-six percent of Americans ages 18 and up didn't have sex once over the past 12 months, according to the 2021 General Social Survey. You might think this is just a pandemic effect, but it's part of a long-term trend. The two years with next-highest percentage of adults saying they didn't have sex once in the past year were 2016 (23%) and 2018 (23%) -- the last two times the survey was conducted. Before 2004, the highest percentage of Americans who said they hadn't had sex in the past year was 19%.

Last year's survey was also the first time that the percentage of Americans who had sex once a month or less topped 50%. In 1989, 35% of American adults had sex once a month or less.
Some of this has to do with fewer people getting married and an aging population, but that doesn't explain all of it. Among married couples under the age of 60, 26% had sex once a month or less in 2021. In 1989, it was 12%. The 1980s really were better for sex.

It's not just about sex. Some 62% of Americans ages 25 to 54 lived with a partner or were married, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center study of 2019 US Census Bureau data. This included 53% who were married and 9% who were cohabitating. That's well below the 71% of couples who lived together in 1990, with 67% married and 4% cohabitating.

You might think the growing share of unmarried people living without a spouse is due to rising educational levels among women who don't need the financial support of a man. The statistics tell a different story, though. Better educated people and higher wage earners are the most likely to live with a partner or be married. A lot of people won't get married if they don't think it's financially feasible, according to Pew polling.

There's also been a higher increase in unmarried men living alone (10 points) than women (7 points) compared to the 1990 baseline.

People act cool about shit they dont care about all the time. Not caring is cool.

please go away

So what's the solution to this? Just yell at the greedy corporations to fuck off and put prices back to normal? Pay them off?

Joe Biden is a failure of a president.

But what you do with your time on Earth still bears fruit for generations to come, even if your not famous. Being the best person you can be is your legacy.

Owned.

Even Jeff Bezos will face the same fate as the rest of us.

I'd go as far as to say capitalism is inherently antidemocratic.

What is this? 1950s?