I can only give my experience and I think mine is a bit unusual but here goes.

Like the Office Space folks, I’m a dev in a large (admittedly, non profit and really good) organization. Since covid, I’ve worked remotely but my day to day hasn’t changed.

We have a help desk where people send questions/issues. Someone on our team generally splits those roughly based on workload, skills, knowledge etc. Our goal is about half our work should be those one off requests.

I also have client units within the organization. They usually come to me with wild, bold ideas that I help make a reality or explain (gently) why what they are asking for is insane. Some of thr projects are based on what folks have heard are best practices in our industry, others are about cutting down manual work/seeing what we can automate.

Any of those projects can take anywhere from a couple hours to a couple of months. Some require buy in from other units, so on those I end up on a lot of meetings and email threads answering questions, hearing suggestions etc. I then (usually) coordinate with my manager to make sure I’m not stepping on any toes or there aren’t considerations which I had yet to consider.

Today for example, I spent about half the day working on help desk tickets, about 1/3 of my time was clarifying “what the hell are you trying to say?” Or pointing out logical gaps etc (much easier to do this upfront than write a bunch of code and have someone realize they meant something else entirely… People are dumb.) The other 2/3 was coding.

On my major projects, I spent an annoying amount of time emailing around to get approvals so a project manager would accept that my clients were fine with something I built, even though it was a bit unorthodox. Then a couple hours actually working on another project.

Plus, y’know, Lemmy time, cat skritching time and a bit of cooking.

Admittedly, my experience is unusual. I’m hihhly skilled but slightly underpaid in a non profit, so folks compensate by giving a lot of leeway. So a nice work environment plus I think what I do makes the world a better place, I’m pretty happy. I understand most office jobs are not quite like that but I don’t think they’re far off.

Ahaha, Verb the Noun is painfully on the nose.

I hope you and 338 are correct. I agree the bastard left but the “4th Liberal government” attack angle does spook me…

Hopefully.

But usually, high turnouts are associated with a “throw the bastards out” mentality, which doesn’t bode well for the Liberals.

Same two party system has been in place since before the civil rights movements.

The last VP’s marriage would’ve been illegal in multiple states and Kamala wouldn’t have been allowed to campaign in any diner she wanted.

Kids got conscripted to die overseas.

Today, we have unfettered capitalism murdering sick people for profit.

You think this got worse since Obamacare? Super curious about how you decided that.

You’re making some pretty wild claims. Yes, there’s a lot to worry about. But to say everything is hopeless and there’s been no progress is just as childish as when conservatives complained that America was now a decadent liberal hellhole because Obama improved healthcare.

The whole plan came from the heritage foundation - the purpose of the affordable care act was to prevent universal healthcare.

This goes against the entire notion of the ratchet effect.

If things got steadily more right wing, this wouldn’t need to be a consideration. But, taking your words as accurate, it means that America went from a less progressive healthcare system to a more progressive one, even if it is imperfect.

On gay marriage, it’s worth reading about. It.was a fairly complex move that was pushed by the administration pretty hard. And of course there’s a bunch of legislation around it and other gay rights now.

This is still not what the meme is saying. Healthcare was even worse pre Obamacare. Gay marriage was not legal 20 years ago.

Both are in a more progressive place than they were twenty years ago, which is completely contrary to the notion of ratcheting.

How does this theory apply to say, gay marriage or healthcare in America? Both of which have gone from a less Left position to a more Left position?

Weird take. Yes, the consumer carbon tax sure. But look at housing, Carney has one of the most ambitious plans in the developed world, the cons’ is more of the same with minor tweaks. Admittedly, Polievre borrowed Carney’s removal of duplicate reviews… But other stuff, like expanding resources East West have been pursued by both parties for years but mostly died against opposition from the provinces.

It’s why Polievre is reduced to cheap stunts like provoking a constitutional battle to extra punish murderers or stupid sound bite policies like 3 strikes which have been repealed in most (if not all) places they’ve been tried.

It was going to be announced at his retirement party on Monday… You know the dev likes surprises.

Honestly, a lot of days make me feel satisfied. I work on the comp side of a fundraising department for a large public university. I’m good at what I do, enjoy it and have earned enough of a reputation that people generally let me tackle whatever comes my way however I want.

So, if I have a good productive day, I feel like maybe more students got scholarships because of my work that day. And I work from home so if I did well at work, found time to do my “old man refuses to stop playing sports with kids in their 20s” exercises AND had a couple good homecooked meals, well yeah, I feel pretty accomplished and satisfied.

But yeah, doing something I like for a cause which I ferverently support, I have more good days than bad. Working from home is a heck of a cherry on top though.

I’ve wondered and never thought to ask. Thanks, the resulting conversation has been awesome.

Hmmmm, do we want to be closer with crazytown or basically reasonable people? I’m torn!

This has been tried and repealed in a lot of other places. If memory serves, it also led to a significant increase in homicides. (If there’s no difference between robbery and murder, there is no incentive to leave witnesses.)

And Trailer Park Boys notwithstanding, it’s not like the usual addict criminal is really thinking “well, I’ll only get a couple years, no biggie” before committing a crime.

I think that’s the ethical answer too.

We can’t know who is right, so I don’t see any ethical way to intervene.

I hate when I see parents giving their kids a screen instead of interacting with them or worse, ignoring their kid im favour of their phone. But again, I don’t feel it is ethical to interfere.

Polievre: Acting like a human with interests?!? That’s not fair!

Their kid, their call up until the point the child’s safety is in danger.

I have no more right to tell them how to raise their kids than they have about my entirely hypothetical and undesired kids. I may not agree with their choices and they may not agree with mine, I may think they are raising their kids to be less moral, they may think the same with the added bonus that I’m condemning mine to an eternity of torment.

That’s life in a pluralistic society.

Weirdly, I don’t really want the tax cuts when we need the revenue but I’d prefer Carney to win regardless. And being the only viable candidate not offering tax cuts makes it a lot harder to be a winning candidate.

Same reason I disagrees with but supported dropping the carbon tax.