Same with Mouser, Zoro, and Grainger

Indeed. Most of the ultra wealthy I’ve met you’d have no clue they had money unless you went to their houses (I used to do top end residential AV for 1%ers and up, absolutely mental these folks). They dress down in public and drive hondas. They do everything they can to stay out of the public eye as a matter of security.

It really depends, and in my world of electrical parts they want ridiculous shipping prices for a quick turnaround often enough, to the point where it’s either cheaper and faster to drive the hour or so to the closest larger city, or just bite the bullet and use Amazon.

“How many hydraulic levers you need?”

“All of them”

“How many hydraulic-driven pieces of equipment does your rig have?”

“Mind your own business”

I’m doing my damndest to boycott Amazon outright out of principle. I still have to order work-related items occasionally (small remote town, options are limited for speed of delivery), but other than that they haven’t really been getting much out ofe the past few weeks.

I dunno, I think Lex Luthor (Bezos) is up there with him

Eh I don’t see that happening, the sheer amount of data Google has on the US population is probably quite useful to the admin, for, uh, reasons.

So that when the oligarchs assume full unchecked control of the US, no one will lift a finger to help the rest of us.

It certainly has. I have almost zero work in my forecast as of now, and everyone in my area is hanging tight on doing any projects.

Of course not, the bias is strong.

Believe it or not, also jail.

Every right leaning person I’ve talked with about this claims “unparalleled transparency” with these guys. What, a bunch of self written social media posts? Full transparency would be detailed reporting that would also we’d have the ability to verify via a third party. What these guys are doing is the equivalent of, “trust me, bro.”

I dunno, BB was an outlier for me in that it kept getting better. We’re there some crap filler episodes? Of course. Did the story wander a bit? Sure. But I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.

It’s also worth noting that many of these shows from the traditional TV days were a once a week affair and weren’t intended to be binged. It was a different way of watching back then.

Eh the idea behind it is benevolent, and it’s certainly a good attempt. I think the problem lies in when administrators try to measure effectiveness of any given program, which they do via metrics, which inevitably become quotas for something so subjective to quantify, and then the entire intent behind the program(s) become a required number to hit. It’s such a difficult thing to measure, and eventually you will have overzealous managers making boneheaded hiring/promotion decisions to show their “inclusiveness,” ultimately to further their own careers. But, again, it is necessary to promote these ideals within the government, at least so people just look at each other as people, so I dunno. It’s a sticky topic.

I mean, I guess? Every argument I’ve heard against DEI, and affirmative action for that matter, is that it promotes hand picking and placing people that aren’t white/straight into positions of leadership only for the sheer fact that they aren’t white and straight, ignoring merit and qualification. Yeah, much of the salt is them seeing someone they perceived as being lesser than them given special advantage for promotion. I absolutely believe we need some way to help ensure everyone is given an equal shot at fulfilling upper level roles. That said, promoting a person for an important role to “fill the quota” (as it were) as opposed to the best person for the job regardless of race/sex/orientation/etc is how we build the strongest teams for important departments in both government and business, but how to counteract systemic racism and bigotry is another story.

TL:DR: I dunno. And I’m a straight white guy, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask.

Um, I don’t think Bart was anything close to resembling a DEI hire or even affirmative action. Bart was chosen because he was seen as an almost guaranteed failure as the town would unanimously reject him for being black and decide to leave town, allowing Hedley Lamarr and his goons to scoop up Rock Ridge for pennies on the dollar for their railroad (due to the quicksand they encountered at the very beginning of the movie). They nearly did reject him in the beginning, only to start warming up to him once he showed an effective prowess at dealing with all the curveballs Lamarr threw at him (ie Mongo). They promoted the idea of Bart as a progressive choice on the surface (dare I say, a cabinet post!), but the underlying reason was to play on the citizens of Rock Ridge’s racism and coerce them to leave town.

So I’d say that maybe it was meant to be seen as an inclusive and progressive choice (in modern parlance), but the underlying reason was anything but (in the context of the movie).

You’re probably just better going with a fork of FF that has all that nonsense stripped out.

Or 10 hour days 6 days a week, only so the “responsible” employees can go to church.

This is anecdotal, but most every labdoo I’ve met has been absolutely neurotic, though there may be a correlation with off tilt owners as well.

The ones who this the world is flat, take a wild guess.