Dang some people really hate when others try to get and stay fit. Really hate it.

That’s ok, I revel in your tears!

Simple proof that corporations do not care about efficiency or productivity: the widespread RTO demands lately, mostly from large companies. For most people working from home is demonstrably more efficient partially (but not only) because they work more hours.* If companies actually cared about productivity and making the most profit possible, they’d allow work from home as much as is practical.** That they do not encourage this is obvious proof that what they claim to value is not what they really care about.

For most companies — especially very large ones — profit and productivity is maybe fourth or fifth on the list of organizational and executive priorities. Actual priorities are:

1) Wielding power
2) Being a live player
3) Advancing the interests of the upper class
4) Profit
5) Productivity

That said, I have worked for companies where “profit” and “productivity” were de facto as low as 10th and 11th on the list of org priorities. It’s not uncommon at all. Thus, RTO is mainly about wielding power and being a live player. That it’ll harm productivity and profit is not even a consideration for most of the MBA types who are forcing this.

But I already knew all this because I usually know what’s going to happen before it does. I wrote this on April 23, 2020, over three years ago now:

Did I nail it or what? Of course I knew I would. You know a swish is a swish right when the ball leaves your hands. As an aside, it used to bother me that people didn’t listen to me even though I am consistently right. Then I realized they didn’t listen because I was right while going against the herd. Then I loved it. Now I really enjoy people not listening to me and failing and flailing because of it. Wallow in your dumbassness, motherfuckers!

* This has been shown by study after study. Do your own damn research.

** Anyone who believes capitalism is particularly efficient is fucking insane.

I know it bothers more than a few people, but I just don’t care about Covid. If I’m sick I won’t go out and infect others. I’m not an asshole. And if someone wants me to mask, I will. But the harms have been overblown (like most new things) and the effects are similar to other viruses like it.

That doesn’t mean they are nothing, mind. Covid really harms some people both physically and psychologically. But I’m just not going to upend civilization to deal with a relatively mild virus. The world has bigger problems and we aren’t even upending civilization for those. Why should we for Covid?

If the Covid true believers had not said crazy shit like Long Covid would be world-ending, perhaps more people would be on their side. But it’s clear they are just butt-hurt that Covid didn’t end capitalism or something. Word to the wise: that was never gonna happen.

as a Seattle resident I genuinely sympathize, I do, but it's hard to not notice how wildfire smoke is suddenly very important now that new york city residents are experiencing it

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) June 7, 2023

New York City residents firmly believe that their city is the most important on the planet, and only things that happen there matter. It’s a disease.

The real most important city in the world at the moment is either Taipei or Mumbai, though. NYC used to be in the top three even as of a few years ago, but now I wouldn’t rank it even in the top 10 except for financial services.

And that's fine. But Europeans should also realize that in the event the U.S. goes to war with China, or even a proxy war, Europe will suddenly be on its own against Russia. So Europeans need to be able to resist Russia without major U.S. aid.

— Noah "Rabbit = Good Friend" Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 7, 2023

Agreed. There is no way the US can fight a two-front war against China and Russia. Europe has to stand up here because it might have to fight Russia alone.

OH MY GOD I'd heard about Windows 11 calling a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English because of really lazy translating but it's ACTUALLY HERE ON MY PC like not even in beta this is actually happening right now in publicly available Windows pic.twitter.com/SeWPUxQIDu

— Jym (@JymFox) June 5, 2023

Since most software companies have eliminated QA departments now, developers and users end up doing all the testing. And that works about as well as you’d expect. This is yet another (hilarious) example of that.