can easily spend $2,000

Do you always do math based on ‘could’? What’s the tax rate on “we could win the lottery”?

We were looking at buying a 115-year-old house. It saw every world war, the smallpox epidemic, the great depression the epidemic caused, etc. While this is North America, this town is one of the oldest here.

We don’t get to vote for the perfect party. We choose the least-worse from those who can win and deliver on their plan.

You mean when plused strings stopped? Because that was tragic as hell

Just because you can perform a job from home, doesn’t mean it’s ideal for performance. With

You’re refuting an assertion made by NO one.

No one said all jobs can be done remotely. When the site consolidated equipment or media somewhere, and there’s no way to manipulate stuff remotely then - of course - it’s not a remote capable job.

We’re ignoring that buses are just big drones and surgery has been performed by servos or volunteers at the direction of a specialist far away. But you make a point, as has been made before, that a lever which cannot yet be pulled by a remote action needs an agile meatbag to do so.

The point that has been made - oh god, thousands of times - is that jobs that can be remote, should be. And that egotistical managers needing to feel better by staring at asses in chairs all day and knowing they were forced there through threat of food insecurity, that’s not really a justification.

Amazon’s demanded its devs come back into the office for no value, despite the personality type of those devs, an objective assessment of the workpace they’re forced into - toxic - and the need to live within commute range to get there, limiting housing options for the workers and severely limiting the talent pool for companies. These are people who can, would, will and did the same work better and happier in an environment of their choosing - be it central office or personal office. Now they have no choice but to bend to the will of their boomer-esque managers who forgot it’s not the 1900s anymore.

For remote-capable jobs, the only reason workers need to take risks and spend more money to physically commute is purely and simply egos of bad managers.

That’s it. The dead weight they need to shed was in the office the whole time.

I also understand IT security is dramatically complicated by user’s working on their private network connection or even private client devices.

As otherwise mentioned, it’s actually straightforward.

I work in the daytime on some pretty well-secured stuff; not “secret squirrel” but “people data” stuff. There’s a LOT of forms to sign, and they want to ensure you’re not working on a shared patio but in a real, dedicated office space that is ergonomically optimal and private, with a few other rules, but the effort that started as a panic on COVID day 1 proved workable and they’re going with it. They sold the offices in the dank ugly building. And this org is actually insanely cautious and works with cautious entities, and even they could work it.

At night I work for a different company on different shipped gear… and a KVM switch to go from one set to the other. They’re all segregated and secure, and the night job I’ve had for 22 years with only two invites to fly down to the office for a visit in that time. Barbecues, actually.

I have a lovely view of the river.

It works. You have to be sensible and secure, and then you’re golden.

… And yet, we isolate the president from the country as if the country did.

That’s. The. Point.

I think that’s half the appeal.

Some kids can only write on the walls.

All of them are studio, 1, or 2 bedrooms. Max seems to be ~900 sqft,

We’re renting a 3.5bd (the half is labeled a den as it’s only 7x9 vs 10x10) built this year.

When you find a good one, jump on it.

Major metros don’t have the extra space for hoarding. This is why people suffer the reduced economies of scale and move into rural areas. There’s gotta be tradeoffs, and what you pay in occasional power failures or road issues you get back in forests and streams.

We moved into a concrete building and then another and then another. The horrible neighbors we had in our last wood frame building - Fire’s Favourite food! - ensured we’re never going back. Now I’m aware I have neighbours but, like bigfoot, you’re never really sure they’re there.

Ever? That’s a lot.

In my region, because our third ancient migrants stayed from the time the second migrants were violently wiped out until the whitey settlers traded with and not of them, we start every official meeting thanking them for the heroes they portrayed in their flawless oral histories.

Why doesn’t the DNC start every congress by mentioning the victims of this cruelty once each, like

Amber Thurman, 28, died when routine care was denied to her because it’s also used in abortion procedures. She leaves behind her own children who will never know her, and I thank Governor Kemp for his concern for Ms Thurman’s family in these trying, tyrannical times.

Hey Andy! Look up “dead sea effect” and tell us who’s gonna comply the most.

And the last three aren’t even an option in the enterprise unless your CTO is 24.

They have to in this country. As we deal with not-secret-but-private stuff at my job, they had to supply us some gear to lock down and we DMZed it.

Vastly different backgrounds, mate. Use that as a visual cue.

KVM gang stand together.

Gary has Calum’s back.

Remember the rules are different outside America and - trends predict - better for the employee.

Gary needs more heckling.