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  • Former supervisor here.

    For fun, watch an old war movie "The Dirty Dozen." Besides killing lots of Nazis it's a great study of how middle management actually works. The Major is given a job even his boss thinks is crazy, and all his troops are criminals and/or psychopaths.

    https://youtu.be/ff1V6ywnWcY

  • This is a favorite tactic of the GOP. They know that people are going to send money to PBS; the hope is that those folks will donate money that would have gone to other causes, like political campaigns.

    Every dime they take from the Dems is a victory.

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  • It gets even worse.

    He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner's book, "Stand On Zanzibar' won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It's set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t

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  • Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. "Future shock" was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn't/wouldn't deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.

  • It isn't impossible that he didn't know.

    Many people don't listen to the radio or watch TV. No smart phones.

    edit = I saw the story [comment above] and the guy was just trying to be normal. I can respect his choice.