It's been repeatedly shown to decrease company profits. As people work longer hours they amount of stuff they get done declines rapidly as they get tired. Their error rate also dramatically increases. This causes a rapid decline in overall productivity.
The issue is people believe that working longer hours is more productive in those cultures. Sadly people usually make decisions based upon unfounded beliefs not provable facts.
I have a strict, "do I give a fuck" policy when it comes to security.
I keep the harder to crack passwords for critical things like banking, etc... since there's only a few I can remember them. I also always use MFA.
For all the other shit that I don't give a fuck if it's hacked it's the good old *Banana$1234" type password that I reuse for decades and save to firefox's password manager.
I have priced out Airbnb vs. hotels quite a few times over the past few years at my spouses request. I have never stayed at any of them as they have always been much more expensive for shittier accomodations. It simply doesn't make any sense to me.
This past christmas, renting 2 hotel rooms at a nice hotel was cheaper than the worst dive of an Airbnb near my in-laws.
Legalization with regulation, education, and free accessible healthcare including mental health.
It decreases overall usage of all drugs and the decreases the crime rate. Addressing the reason people take drugs seems to work better than punishing them for using them. Go figure.
What most people think of as being "really smart" is polymaths. These are people that suck up knowledge from many fields and make novel connections. It is believed that they are extremely rare. Some even argue they don't exist
Modern academia focuses on a high degree of specialization which excludes most polymaths. So we have specialists that are highly intelligent in their narrow field of expertise but ignorant in most everything else. The bulk of the "smart" 1% are these types of people.
I met one who was just barely 30 once when I was over in England and it was not a fun story.
She had her daughter at 16 after being high on heroine. She had no idea who the father was. Her daughter had a baby girl after being raped by a cousin at 11.
Honestly I think it's their quest for maximizing profit that bit them in the ass. They have been trying to sell discount store quality at midrange prices.
When I was a teenager and working, I bought from Sears, JcPenny and Macy's when I could because they had nice quality stuff that lasted. I HATED shopping so I saved up and looked for better quality. They had it and if you timed it right you could get them at a reasonable prices (not cheap but reasonable).
Now they have the same crap as the discount stores with higher prices.
In order to get midrange quality anymore you have to order online, if you can find it at all. Many of the former quality brands "Levi's, etc" are absolute shit now.
Been around a lot of Medical Dr's (have a few friends from university).
Your average Medical Dr's is not a scientist. They are mostly diagnosticians. The follow the methods and guidelines developed by research scientist. As such they often have large holes in their understanding of how things work.
"When you were a kid..." No they fucking did not. Some kids have always been little shits and some "parents" only qualifications were functional gonads. It's always been that way and always will.
Just like many other distractions before them, phones take kids attention away from school activities. Kids have always looked to avoid classwork. Pre-cell phones, teachers were collecting comic books, different popular toys, friendship bracelets etc... it's just the lastest issue on constant battle: Teachers try to get kids to learn, kids do everything they can to avoid it.
Most schools around here have implemented a no phone policy during class. If the phone is out, it's sent to the office for them to collect at the end of the day.
Because of this policy, in my kids middle school some very talented kids are creatively bypassing school controls on their Chromebooks to play games. It's an ongoing battle between a loosely organized group of 50 kids and the schools IT department. By my count the IT has squashed 9 different versions each more sophisticated than the last. The kids are hands down winning right now with a truly elegant and devious solution.
I have a hard time doubting Ukraines estimated Russian casualties.
They have posted video after video of Russia assaults with 5-8 APC's with a tank or two being absolutely demolished.
I wonder what the life expectancy of fresh troops are now. I doubt they can get experienced troops to leave their trenches and rear positions. So you know it's some conscript from a remote impoverished town being sent in meat waves to the front.
I am waiting for the same thing. The amount of shit you have to disable, block, or unistall on android is getting ridiculous. It's getting really old.
Most of the new "features" that either apple or google add anymore are absolute trash. I am constantly having to go through the settings and disable shit.
The stock android is so full of non-romovable crap that a launcher is required anymore.
It's the same for windows, win11 is only usable with a launcher like startallback.
If you are not a neat person it's hard to change to one when you have kids. A few tricks that my wife and I learned.
Have smaller places for everything to go. We used the cube storage units, small bins etc. Young children's find things by doing the toy dump. The smaller the bin the less toys are dumped. It's amazing how much this helps. To contain the mess.
Make picking up the entire house part of the bedtime routine. It's pointless to do it in the mornings or during the day. 10 minutes later and it's a mess everywhere. While they pickup, you lightly clean, run the vacuum, sweep, run the dishwasher etc.
The largest issue is the deep clean. Getting all those jobs done that you just can't get do easily with young kids underfoot. We made enough money to afford to hire a college student to deep clean once a week. It was 4 hours once a week on Saturday morning. One of us would clean with the college student while the other took the kids out to do things away from the house. We had no family nearby otherwise we would have done what my Sister-in-law did. Drop the kids off at the grandparents for a few hours while she and her husband cleaned.
The partial payment wasn't large enough if it left you wrecked at the end. Generally the partial payment should pre-pay to cover all of your expenses and labor. The final payment is the profit margin. That way you are never on the hook for a potential loss and will always break even.
So for the bakery, they should have had a full prepay policy on all special orders. Even if "customers" walked away because of the policy.
It's been repeatedly shown to decrease company profits. As people work longer hours they amount of stuff they get done declines rapidly as they get tired. Their error rate also dramatically increases. This causes a rapid decline in overall productivity.
The issue is people believe that working longer hours is more productive in those cultures. Sadly people usually make decisions based upon unfounded beliefs not provable facts.