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Half of the participants don't contribute anything, but need to look busy so they have to lengthen the call with inane banter.

Most of my emails have nothing to do with me, but everyone is CCing me on stuff, just in case I might be relevant somehow. Particularly and they made a convenient distribution list that includes 300 people and people send to it all the time. Someone I've never heard of on the other side of the world was going to be unavailable because they were sick and I get an email. The automated test for some project I have nothing to do with failed again last night and I get an email. Every morning I am greeted with about 100 emails that happened overnight. Even the handful of threads where I have some relevance, it goes off topic and I have no idea if I'm relevant to the new message or not until I read it.

Corporate communication is just screwed.

I'm with you on a lot of even most developers at a company making things worse rather than better.

However if for some reason a webinar is only going to be "live" with no recording to be provided, and further it may be a pointless session you don't need but work mandates, then I would be firing off whatever recording/transcription/summarization they allow me. Like my employer has manated every employee regardless of job attending 60 hours of AI webinars in the year, to give the illusion of being in tune with AI without bothering to actually have a plan. Mostly it's been people rambling without any actionable stuff trying to sound smart, absolutely every bit of it has been superficial, the speakers at best have toyed with prompts and read articles saying Nvidia gpus are useful. Not one of them have so much as even run a local model. There's nothing in these 60 mandated hours that will do anything but waste time.

Even for mandatory "all hands" where we can't all questions but at least I want to know what they are thinking, I'll get a recording and watch it at 2x speed.

If that concern were actually relevant and not merely an excuse, mob justice would fail to consider innocence. That's seen repeatedly. Merely an excuse seems likely, but...

The thing I could imagine is that the list being something like a contact list, and Epstein treated celebrity contact information as a status symbol. If the list is a ledger of otherwise off book transactions, or a lost of people complete with blackmail material, then I can't see how they could even try to make the argument about innocent caught up in the list.

Either way if they have a district list, put aside releasing the list for a moment, where's the legal system enforcement actions?

Using your daily moves in Tradewars 2002...

Weird, my 286 had a 2400 baud modem

No doubt, but a cardiac event will have the best possible imaginable intervention. Might not be enough, but if anyone can pull through on the back of medical capability, it's him

Not sure about that.

It's how they acquired the office, but depending on how much they dismantle democracy, they don't need the popular cult as much.

JD extending his term under some emergency context after a trump assassination may be the thing that we don't come back from.

Further I think Trump is now the least of our problems with the Trump administration. I fear JD would be even worse.

During the Biden term, the worst people built plans around a trump return to office and the relatively more strong execution this time versus last time is from those around him, not himself so much.

Nah, it needs to be supremely conspiracy proof. Too many people will believe it was assassination of it could have possibly been assassination.

He's an old unhealthy man, albeit with the best possible health care. His passing is moderately likely in an average day from health issues.

True enough, there are some rich people that aren't onboard with it, but there's just room for some other rich people to suceed even as their business suffers.

And then double dip on a recovery.

But certainly, there's room for both, so that's why it's not quite as mind numbingly stupid that some of the billionaires are on board.

Bad for business, but perhaps not as bad for the rich business owners that can capitalize on the market chaos a bit without even pretending to contribute to actual productivity.

Yeah it's essentially letting China win by default..