Even in his own state, he's got high disapprovals. Ranking as the third most unpopular governor in the country.
Given how consolidated the market has become? I doubt Clear Channel has any trouble corralling their horses.
Only took them eight years.
Longer, if you count his time as a simple C-List celebrity
Depends what the AM Radio Crowd tells them to do
8 million people was able to stomach watching Faux News
Yeah. Their regular viewer base.
They're an idea that big forums are actually awful and you're better off in smaller communities.
Mostly, it's a pain because it can be hard to find some escoteric bit of knowledge or expertise when you don't have a Reddit sized forum to troll through.
But that's where spaces like Discord excel. Nice, tight communities of hobbyists and specialists who are routinely online and regularly churning out useful content.
This would have garnered a sensible chuckle showing up on my feed 10 years ago.
Now its a reminder of how fucking manufactured and over-promoted whatever the trending meme on X The Everything App ends up being. Reminds me of the "Pieces of Flare" bit from Office Space.
Chilling how effective a deluge of advertising can be on a population of 12-year-olds. Its easy to see how so many Americans were addicted to cigarettes from the 50s to the 70s. Just hammering people's brains with lies and peer pressure.
The SS was composed of a bunch of junior officers and German police already deeply embedded in the Hindenburg government.
This headline makes it sound like Trump is going to deputize a bunch of terminally online cranks, which sounds like more of a SovCit tier grift than a serious policy. Far more disturbing would be Trump doing what we've already seen other state and municipal leaders allow during the BLM marches and the pro-Palestine college protests. Telling the cops, the state troopers, and the national guard to go wild, then blaming the civilians for all the damage that follows.
I could very easily see Trump signing off on an EO that says you can't prosecute the police for... anything, really. Then Red-State Republicans goading their officers to go ham on the blue cities, while the national press treats the general police brutality as some kind of War on Crime. Courts squelch any kind of civil liabilities for the police. Liberals get clubbed into submission. Centrists denounce "both sides" (but so as not to offend conservatives in any way). Conservatives go full sicko-mode because they can.
Its less like The SS and more like Israeli Settler Movement. Some AM Talk Radio guy saying we need to "Squash the Bugs" and you end up with shit like what's happening in The West Bank, as settlers club Palestinian locals in the street and the Israeli police fire on any Palestinian that resists.
The bloody managers are the biggest problem. Most don’t understand code much less the process of making a software product.
So, I've had my eye on management and started doing some management training. The job of management really isn't to do the work itself (or even to understand the work). That's the job of specialists and technical leads. The job of management is to oversee the workforce (hiring, organizing teams, dictating process, allocating project time, planning mid and long term department goals, etc) not to actually get your hands into the work itself.
It's certainly helpful to understand coding broadly speaking. But I'm in an office where we're supporting dozens of apps written and interfaced with at least as many languages. Nevermind all the schemas within those languages. There's no way a manager could actually do my job without months (if not years) of experience in the project itself.
At the same time, the managers should understand the process of coding, particularly if they're at the lower tier and overseeing an actual release cycle. What causes me to pull my hair out is managers who think hand-deploying .dlls and fixing user errors with SQL scripts is normal developer behavior and not desperate shit you do when your normal workflows have failed.
Being in a perpetual state of damage control and thinking that this is normal because you inherited from the last manager is the nightmare.
But at least the bozos at the top get to make the decisions and the cheddar for being ignorant and not listening.
Identifying and integrating new technologies is normal and good managerial behavior.
Getting fleeced by another round of over-hyped fly-by-night con artists time after time after time is not as much.
But AI seems to thread the needle. Its sophisticated and helpful enough to seem useful on superficial analysis. You only really start realizing you've been hoodwinked after you try and integrate it.
Setting aside the absurd executive level pay (every fucking corporate enterprise is just an MLM that's managed to stay cash positive) it does feel like the problem with AI is that each business is forced to learn the lesson the hard way because no business journal or news channel wants to admit that its all shit.
As a tool for forming communities, Lemmy's mechanics work just fine.
But the process of federation - combined with the prickly nature of certain administrators - means you can have a lively and robust community in (hypothetically) the far-left transgender tankie community that pioneered the application. But then that gets abruptly cut off and squelched in a more popular forum by some late adopters who hate their politics more than they enjoy their technical savvy.
Lemmy.world has a bunch of memes and political screeching because that's the kind of user its admins choose to encourage. Other communities have more practical interests. But they don't draw the same kind of crowd, so you won't see them on the front page of this site, particularly if you only browse Local.
Generally think private homes are a giant waste, both in terms of wasted physical space and energy lost due to poor insulation.
Living should be communal. No residential construction should hold less than eight housing units.
After you do this, you can consolidate a bunch of an amenities - washing machines, parking, central heating/AC, pools, gardens, outdoor grills, wet and dry bars, basements, rumpace rooms, home theaters.
It all gets so much nicer when it's a communal living space.