Every tech job I'm applying to is asking if I'll accept being in the office 2-3 days a week. It's not like I can afford to say no, even if I preferred remote.
The Blue Angels and Breitling teams are amazing. Air shows are great! They’re once a year events. Not having an air show isn’t going to stop the thousands of other sources of pollution that run non-stop, 365 days a year, it’ll just be one less fun thing to do in our lives.
Maybe not enough people around the city know about Scarecrow, and what an amazing archive it is. Scarecrow is where you can go when the movie you're looking for isn't streaming, isn't available anywhere else. Access to the history of the movies is what they offer, with maybe more movies in their collection than not.
It's not frickin' Blockbuster, it's important. Anyone who loves movies and has some money should pitch in. SIFF should pitch in; they'd be a good match.
They're trying to raise 1.8 mil to keep a single blockbuster open. Physical media isn't profitable anymore. Though I guess they're trying to preserve that rather than the movies themselves.
Have you been to scarecrow? Every time I go, I get a vivid sense of the scope of cinema as an art form. It's humbling and tantalising, like I'm crawling through a dragons hoard looking for just the right treasure.
You wouldn't call it "a blockbuster" if you'd been there.
I appreciate that it's not literally like a blockbuster, but they're running a giant physical media rental archive. The only ones that can really participate are locals, and it's up to the locals to prop them up. Now if they solicited donations to digitize and make available their collection for archival purposes? That'd turn heads.
I'm not against digitisation and preservation, but their collection is by no means solely in the realm of public domain works. They keep current, and cast a wide net. Getting digital streaming rights to everything they've got would be a legal-logistical nightmare even for a startup with billions in venture capital.
Make coming into the office worth it. Period, end of sentence.
Here, I have my own quiet, private office, a ginormous monitor, a comfortable chair, and zero commute. I can make my own lattes, eat on the cheap, and take care of what I need to take care of while listening to a meeting.
My experience coming into the office is an open, noisy floorplan, a monitor designed for ants, a nice-enough but ancient chair, and 75 minutes each way gone from my life—to say nothing of the $20 gone from my wallet for the privilege. The free coffee is dogshit, the food is expensive, and I can barely get a bathroom break as I’m locked into so many meetings.
I’d happily work from the office if it had literally anything to recommend it over WFH.
I was listening to a business podcast the other day and they were discussing the issue for many police departments across the nation was just finding enough staff.
There are shortages in many large cities and small towns even with low 6 figures of pay.
They discussed the long hours, lack of support, extra scrutiny of the job, the risk of injury and loss of life, combined with the co-worker shortages making it tough to find people.
They didn’t get too much into a lack of justice or too much of it. Depending on the situation. (Many on social media will discuss how they abuse their authority and then at the same time demand more extreme measures against people caught doing things on video. I know I’m guilty of this too.)
At the end of the day like many sectors they aren’t getting the best of the best and certainly not enough staff in general which I suspect makes it even harder to deal with misconduct issues when there is no one to replace the officers in question, especially in small towns that are already short.
GED or not their beggars situation is only going to get worse not better potentially leading to more of the wrong types being employed.
I’m a union guy and I’ve been a union guy my entire life, since my first job in the early 90s. The problem here is the police union. The police union bargains to prevent the dumb bullshit they do from being taken away from them. When you see cops directing traffic after events, that’s because the cops are soaking up overtime and refuse to let another job title handle traffic. When you see cops responding to non emergency events, it’s because the cops are refusing to let another job title handle little shit.
We need more cops, but we would need FAR fewer and could focus their resources FAR better if we could redefine what a police officer does in the year of our lord 2024. It is a job title that is in obvious need of reimagining. What police provide and what the citizens want is not aligned and it’s crazy that the cops are just like, nah, we ain’t changing how bout dat
They just refuse to change but they make sure to complain the entire time.
The guy he’s talking to on the phone about how worthless this woman’s life is that a fellow officer just hit and killed? The head of the police union.
Seattle pd has been under a federal consent degree due to racial policing and unwarranted violence for over a decade for context. They also made the news recently for illegally hanging a trump 2020 flag in the same break room where they had trophies from george Floyd protests displayed. Of course no one was reprimanded.
Not to say there isn’t merit in your argument but there was a video posted on old lemmy where they had a not-a-cop direct traffic because of this reasoning and he got his soul kicked out of him by two huge dudes who apparently didn’t like taking orders
There’s a reason there isn’t a country on earth where this job isn’t done by someone with some authority
SPOG man… like, damn, if a union could be called evil - they’re up there. And afaik SPD never adopted a pay system that allows them to effectively manage overtime, so we’ve got patrol officers out there bringing in $250k with overtime reported after the work, on paper forms that no one could keep track of.
NGL seems like a racket, esp after they were mandated to modernize back in 2013.
I disagree. The school obviously wasn’t taking it seriously and it is creating an atmosphere of anxiety for the women there. Lets assume for a moment you had a daughter who was the target of such harassment. Would you want the school to do something?
I work in the field, and genuinely wonder what you think the solution is? The most visible individuals suffering from chronic mental illness and often chronic homelessness frequently don’t voluntarily engage any kind of help, whether that’s medication, housing, income, etc. When people are brought inpatient involuntarily, they may be legally mandated to take medication, and we often see their level of functioning improve significantly over time, but their insight doesn’t, and they stop meds as soon as they leave and fall back into the same pattern.
I doubt it will be anything more than drugging people to make babysitting them easier.
This is why we don’t lock up “the shirtless man shouting in the street” the first place.
We used to lock that guy up, and the places we put them were horrific. In the 70s, American society collectively decided it was better to let them back out on the street than to risk locking up sane people against their will.
Its a dilemma. We either funnel them into a horrific, underfunded system (our government will not realistically produce anything better), probably also catching a few sane people in the system along the way, or we let “the shirtless man shouting on the street” stay on the street.
While I sympathize with those who don't have houses to sleep in, as a disabled person, I will point out that blocking the sidewalk at all makes it unusable for many disabled people. Not just "completely blocking" the sidewalk, as is mentioned in this article. It does constantly feel that the city and the country care more for the homeless than they do for the disabled. It sure would be nice if they really cared about either.
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