I'm really beginning to hate people who want to have a meeting but don't plan with an agenda.

Don't expect me to fill the time, man. This is your show and I have my own work to do.

Rewards at work based in the form of lunch parties from corporate chain restaurants is not really a reward. I'm grateful for free lunch, don't get me wrong. But I'd rather take an hour of PTO if we had the luxury of choice.

As the federal workers return, all of us are experiencing longer commutes. On days when I have to be in the office, I have to get up an hour earlier and spend 2 hours a day just on the road just so I can sit at a desk and do the same thing I do at home.
#work
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/federal-employee-remote-worker-commute-BLBCLQMZIVD57GT7E42USUUEDY/?schk=YES&rchk=YES&utm_source=The+Baltimore+Banner&utm_campaign=4c50ecaa58-NL_AMSC_20250408_0700&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4c50ecaa58-617596466&mc_cid=4c50ecaa58&mc_eid=45f281755a

How you can try to fix this world, realistically.

Maybe you can start it first per tribe, then expand globally.

Goal: humans should not have to trade in order to survive in this society. Since this creates a tsunami of problems for people and the rest of this planet. (source)

Plan:

Basic needs trade-free.

Make the most basic needs services trade-free. Healthcare, transportation, shelter, basic food, access to Internet (information and communication). You can do that through taxes, through volunteers, through all sort of means. Many tribes already provide some of these as trade-free, like in Europe a lot of the healthcare systems are like that. Not difficult!

Basic Income.

Since this world still relies on trades (money), and people may have different sort of needs and definitely wants, give everyone a basic income (say 1.000 dollars a month) with no strings attached. You can do it again through taxes, via the removal of so many institutions and resources dedicated to track people and check if they are eligible for benefits, and all of the paperwork nonsense that has been created around this. No more "benefits", no more "pensions". Forget about labeling people as employed or unemployed in regards to who should be helped.

That is it!

Now you will have a bunch of humans who KNOW they are taken care of. They KNOW that if they get sick they should only worry about that health problem and not a financial problem. They KNOW that they wont starve or end up on the street. They know they are SAFE.

On top of this, with the money you give them monthly, they can have some power and focus on doing some useful things in this society. At least some will, if not many.

This can grow up over time into a saner society of humans who can refuse to work for bullshit companies, or do any bullshit jobs. A world in which humans have the time to decide what to focus on, who to "vote" for, stay informed and properly inform others.

A world where scientists or journalists should not worry about their livelihood. So they can do their "jobs" properly.

We deserve and need this world. Else there is no intelligent species on this planet.

#ADVICE -

"should I check if my #boss is OK when she’s late to #work?"
"#coworker is using parts of my #resume as their own"
...and more

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/04/should-i-check-if-my-boss-is-ok-when-shes-late-to-work-coworker-is-using-parts-of-my-resume-as-their-own-and-more.html

Typical day: I wake up with an idea and next thing I know I spent the whole day applying #infomatics to resolve #darkmatter #darkenergy and the #BigBang (still very much a #research #work in progress but I'm a fan of an #opendoor... https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Infomatics/Infomatics

Teaching this morning, it was awesome but now I need a long break before getting back into writing. Do neurotypicals get depleted after teaching for three hours, is this a neurodivergent thing? #work #teaching

https://www.europesays.com/1976946/ Elon Musk Wealth Drops Below $300 Billion Amid Tariffs, Tesla Backlash #administration #BloombergBillionairesIndex #CEO #company #ElonMusk #ElonMuskWealth #LastYear #monday #Musk #NetWorth #tariff #tesla #TeslaBacklash #wealth #WhiteHouse #work

2025/4/8 Media Summary #crosspost
Day 1: Standard Deviation Puzzles #1

celenity/BadBlock

Codeberg-Infrastructure/ci-status-pings

ENF/pages

magpiekids/magpiekids.com

jankasi/KITTY

zenin1504/vendor_xiaomi_duchamp-miuicamera

jpya/lista1

#五菱造人民的电智神车

Meirl

A toilet in Estonia had a glass floor to show the underlying carved out rock

Justice Gone Wrong!!!

SP — LARRY ROMANOFF: Cit
https://blog.wuyuansheng.com/2025/04/08/2025-4-8-media-summary-crosspost/
#Work

A 38-year-old 7-11 manager's death was ruled a case of overwork after he worked six months w/o a break. The case has some saying it's time to end 24-hour combini culture in Japan - and to crack down harder on companies that cross the so-called "karōshi line."

https://unseen-japan.com/7-11-manager-overwork-death/

A quotation from Longfellow

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing,
   Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
   Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
   Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/longfellow-henry-wad…

https://www.europesays.com/1975641/ Elon Musk’s Tariff Rift With Peter Navarro Is Getting Ugly #DogeLane #ElonMusk #europe #FoxNews #FreeTrade #Musk #PeterNavarro #PublicAdministration #ReciprocalTariff #SundayInterview #TariffRift #trump #us.navarro #WhiteHouseDogeOffice #work

I work with a presumed Allistic individual as part of a two person team and there are times when it drives me nuts because he and I don't always meet eye-to-eye.

However we both have a drive to get things done right and take care of our customer base and we do a damn good job at it because I have bottom-up thinking and he has top-down thinking and he catches my tone and I catch his details.

It makes a really, really strong case for neurodiversity in the workplace and the output shows well. Really great to experience this and I hope more workplaces open up to this mindset. Diversity is power.

The Age Of Abundance - Tom Blomfield
https://tomblomfield.com/post/1743528547367/the-age-of-abundance

The phone signal is so shit at this year's 3Camp venue that I've had to climb a hill to take a call from a lawyer (whom I'm speaking to about my recent redundancy). Nice to be outdoors, though!

#note #work #walking

Via: https://danq.me/2025/04/07/26262/

Your #boss is #overwhelmed—here’s how to #work with them, not against them

https://www.fastcompany.com/91311314/your-boss-is-overwhelmed-heres-how-to-work-with-them-not-against-them

Me : "No excuses, today is a productive day!"

A hoopoe literally 10 seconds after I sat on my desk : "hoop hoop hoop! hoop hoop hoop!"

Me : *instantly grab my camera and look for the bird on the neighbourhood roofs*

#Work #Birds #Adhd