IDriveWhileTired

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised how much people actually just don’t care how their work computers are monitored nowadays. We disclose everything, even showed our monitoring tool to employees, and they just don’t care. I guess people know by now that personal stuff should be handled on personal devices, such as phones, tablets and computers. And the things they use their work computers for, they don’t care if we’re looking at it or not,

  Funny enough, we never used those tools working in the office, even though they would work. But the fact that people are inside a controlled environment makes companies more lenient about IT security, funny enough. Having a badge seems to make computer monitoring tools redundant (even though they aren’t, of course).

  But again, I do think this “back to work” movement has more to do with financial losses in real estate than real team work or control over the team. To some degree, banks, insurers and funds own us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More about real estate than anything else, to be honest. You have far more control over remote work than in the office. I know how many minutes each member of my team spends on any and all websites, can log keyboards, to the point I don’t recommend to anyone working remotely to access bank accounts on their work computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never voted for one politician I liked. I have voted for a lot of politicians that were less bad than the alternative. But never once I said “yeah, that IS a good person”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You make it sound like our lawmakers are wise and would make an informed decision and not just write an exception for companies that -lobby- pay their greedy asses for said exemption.

  There, FTFY.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was about to say, did politicians now invest in VPN providers?

  Plus, the hypocrisy of it all, since most scandals involving infidelity, abuse and other stuff comes from their side of the aisle (not that the other side is composed of saints, but still).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any statistics about the total number of miles driven by cars every day vs. miles flown by planes daily? Somehow, just based on the amount of cars worldwide, I’d bet that there are far more miles driven by cars daily than miles flown by planes, so accidents per mile would still be a significant statistic. Because even though planes fligh thousands of miles per trip, cars are numbered in millions, in the US alone. So I’d bet that if every car trip was one mile, which is very conservative, you’d still have more miles driven daily than flown in the US. Which makes deaths per mile a lot more scary.

  Accidents per trip would be relevant as well, but how many commercial airliners crash every day vs. how many cars crash every day? How many people die a year from commercial airline crashes vs. from car crashes? I’d bet that even per trip cars are less safe than planes.

  I live in a mostly rural area, and we have had 4 deaths on the motorway nearby over the past 3 or 4 months. And that is just in one region,with low to moderate traffic and low population density (lots of farms and woods around here). Also, never knew anyone who died in a plane crash, in over 40 years, but have had 2 close friends die in car crashes, never mind acquaintances or friends of friends. And I bet everyone, in developing or developed countries, knows someone who died in a car crash, whereas I’d bet that most people don’t have even acquaintances or friend of friends that died in plane crashes.

  So I’d really like to see numbers on that claim that, per trip, cars are safer, because in 2021, with no deaths from commercial planes in the US, that claim does not stand, because you could have an infinite number of car trips that year, and still be less safe than commercial planes with one single dead person.