JOBSEARCH: Always remeber your roots are as deep as your paycheck

Friday, October 4, 2024

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/04/159-employees-are-leaving-automattic-as-ceos-fight-with-wp-engine-escalates/

159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch

Ivan Mehta

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-10-04>>

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress and his handling of the tussle with web hosting provider WP Engine.

In a blog post, Mullenweg said the package offered $30,000 or six months of salary, whichever is higher, but the employees who took it would not be eligible to be re-hired by Automattic.

Nearly 80% of people who took the offer worked in the company’s Ecosystem / WordPress division, and the rest were in Automattic’s Cosmos businesses, consisting of apps like Pocket Casts, Day One, Tumblr and Cloudup.

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Once again, wage slaves must always be looking for their next job or gig.  Unless they have their FU money in a safe store like an annuity, they must be ready when their CEO, organization, or a regulatory agency loses their mind and commits suicide or murder.

When this happens it is NOT the time to begin to think about your resume.  Back when I was first fired  —  and I was 4½ times  — I was only surprised the FIRST time.  Thanks to that employers’ outplacement, I learned a valuable lesson.  I am the Captain of My Own Ship, the CEO, CFO, CTO, Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Person, and Product De Jour.  I even had a “VP of Product Development” reporting to the CFO!  From that day forward, until the day I retired, I had a monthly “meeting” on the First Sunday of every month early in the morning.  First thing, without fail, although I did serve coffee, I would put on each of my metaphorical hats and review my work in that role.  Was I always happy as I reviewed my “subordinate personality’s” accomplishments?  No, but I was never “surprised” again.  

When presented with a “surprise”, I immediately shifted gears seamlessly into “active job search” from “passive job search”.  Was I stressed by the “surprise”?  Yes, but my first action after filing for unemployment (Have to “steal” back as much as possible from what the various Gooferments “stole” from me!), was to take a week of vacation.  Calms the soul and refreshes the spirit.

YMMV but be ever vigilant. 

“You, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know when the master of the household will return—in the evening, at midnight, before dawn, or at daybreak.”  — Mark 13:35

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HEALTH: Where’s the warning label for high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers?

Friday, October 4, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13890137/doctor-colon-cancer-crisis-food-ingredients.html

EXCLUSIVE I’m a doctor on the frontlines of America’s colon cancer crisis – I believe two ingredients found in ‘healthy’ foods are to blame

By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 07:45 EDT, 26 September 2024 | Updated: 08:45 EDT, 26 September 2024

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She notes the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers in the 1970s and 80s could explain why so many adults in their 40s are getting colon cancer at record rates. 

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Not that I expect much from the FDA, CDC, NIH, or any of the politicians and bureaucrats, but how about a skull and crossbones for all products containing these?

Argh!

Yeah, not until Pelosi sells all here stocks in these companies!

Argh!

RFKjr has made the “obesity epidemic” an election issue.  This could be added to that!

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ConspiracyTheories: Is there a Geoterrorist CHEMTRAIL operation against Florida?

Thursday, October 3, 2024

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/09/26/operation-hurricane-helene-nwo-cabal-launches-vicious-geoterrorist-attack-against-florida-why-now/

OPERATION HURRICANE HELENE: NWO Cabal Launches Vicious Geoterrorist Attack Against Florida—Why now?
Via State of the Nation

  • Massive CHEMTRAIL operation conducted right over the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida

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AN OPEN LETTER TO

GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS

Dear Governor DeSantis,

This is one of several open letters that we have written to you about the extremely dire predicament known as weaponized weather attacks, which the state of Florida is again facing in the form of the geoengineered Hurricane Helene.

Here is a previous open letter that was sent to you two years ago just before the highly weaponized Hurricane Ian ravaged the state of Florida quite deliberately before Election Day.

In point of fact, every single member of the Florida Legislature has been made aware of the stark reality that the once ‘Sunshine State’ has been unrelentingly geoegineered via various chemical geoengineering technologies into the “Chemcloud Cover State”.

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This is an “interesting” Conspiracy Theory.

I have no evidence to put before the Court of Public Opinion.

On a prima facie basis, I think this should be “investigated” by some trustworthy entity other than the Gooferment. If such a thing exists.

On my Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity), I’d grade it as:

* Governmental

and

5. Possible

YMMV!

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ENGINEERING: Building hurricane proof housing developments

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13907567/hurricane-helene-storm-proofed-florida-neighborhood.html

Miracle Florida neighborhood that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch
By Sonya Gugliara For Dailymail.Com
Published: 07:30 EDT, 2 October 2024 | Updated: 08:40 EDT, 2 October 2024

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In the midst of crumbled homes and flooded communities stands a single Florida development that survived Hurricane Helene without a scratch. 

Hunters Point, a housing development in Cortez, Florida, avoided flooding and kept electricity while nearby streets were filled waist-deep with water and houses lost power. 

The community’s first residents arrived in 2022 and have since experienced three devastating hurricanes – Ian, Idalia and Helene – without serious damage. 

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So it is possible to build housing that can withstand a hurricane!

When the Gooferment “approves” site plans, why don’t they insist on some, if not all, these “lessons learned”.

Federal and State flood insurance should be the big cheerleaders for these type of actions.

Swales, raised roads, beefed up studs, solar panels  —  all seem to be very cost effective.

I don’t understand why Gooferment seems to always be in the way,

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MONEY: Why are “savings” taxed at all?

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

https://www.cato.org/blog/penalty-american-savers-how-usas-fix-it

September 26, 2024 9:44AM
The Penalty on American Savers and How USAs Fix It
By Adam N. Michel and Joshua Loucks

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For many young and low-income Americans, the limits discourage them from using the accounts at all. Americans who use these accounts and then have to access their money early for a family emergency or job loss face new layers of taxes. Many low-income workers are automatically enrolled in these programs by their employers, following government incentives or mandates.

Money deposited in qualified accounts cannot be used flexibly based on an individual’s or their family’s immediate needs. If someone cannot confidently commit to leaving their savings untouched until the government-designated time, it may be wiser for them to avoid using a qualified account altogether.

IRS data show that for the lowest-income taxpayers, penalties for improper use of retirement savings make up a significant portion of their tax liability. Using an average from tax years 2017–2019, Figure 1 shows that 43 percent of all taxes paid by taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) below $5,000 went to penalties for accessing their own money. About 19 percent of income taxes paid by taxpayers with AGI less than $25,000 went to penalties on qualified accounts.

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Why not let Walmart offer “banking services”?  Why not allow Credit Unions offer tax free savings?  Why aren’t Treasuries (i.e., Bills, Notes, Bonds) tax free like Municipal Bonds?

It doesn’t take a degree in Economics to figure out that America has a “savings problem”.  “We, The Sheeple”, responding to incentives, is deeply in debt.  No taxes on debt; taxes galore on any kind of savings/

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Pirate library hides in plain sight?

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-must-pay-publishers-30m-but-no-one-knows-who-runs-it/#p3

“This site can’t be reached” —
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

Ashley Belanger – 9/26/2024, 1:25 PM

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Because Libgen’s admins remain anonymous and elusive—and previously avoided paying a different set of publishers $15 million in 2017—McMahon granted publishers’ request for an uncommonly broad injunction that may empower publishers to go further than ever to destroy the shadow library.

Under the injunction, not only is Libgen banned from sharing copyrighted content, but so are “all those in active concert or participation with” anyone connected to Libgen. The order forbids anyone from hosting Libgen, registering Libgen domains, or providing cloud storage, file-sharing, or advertising services, among other restrictions. Even using tools to display links or enabling browser extensions linking to Libgen is forbidden under the order.

But even under such a broad injunction, the question remains whether publishers can succeed in taking down Libgen—which openly informs users that using its platform violates copyright laws and encourages them to pirate books anyway.

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This raises a bunch of questions.  How are they able to hide so effectively?

I wonder if a rogue nation like North Korea, Afghanistan, or such would host a website like this for “free” access to all the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) that Users could upload.

Hmm!

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ConspiracyTheories: We’re in a “simulation” like the movie the Matrix?

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13894491/living-simulation-world-scientist-proof-BIBLE.html

Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we’re simply characters in an advanced AI world – and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE

  •     Passages from the Bible support the simulation hypothesis, physicist claims
  •     READ MORE: These everyday clues seem to suggest we’re living in a simulation 

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline
Published: 02:30 EDT, 30 September 2024 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 30 September 2024 

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If you feel like you’re living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right.

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation. 

And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible.

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Well, we could also be a creation of the Pastatarian’s Flying Spaghetti Monster.  (I always admired their willingness to have their DMV photos taken with a pasta strainer on their heads!)

I’d need some more and solid “evidence” other than the Bible says it.

Maybe some testimony from a modern day Neo or an Oracle.

Til then, I regard this as possible as the Scientologists or the Amish having “the Truth”.

Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer”  — my personal gauge  — 

Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity)

* Miscellaneous

8. Generally Accepted As False

But I’d be happy to test again should some new evidence warrant it.

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ECONOMICS: A new form of shrinkflation

Monday, September 30, 2024

Target reduced the number of baby wipes in a case from 12 to 8.  That’s a ⅓ reduction.  At a “new lower price”!  Which, of course, is more than ⅔ of the old price.  I guess they think we are stupid or math challenged! Argh!

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ENGINEERING: “Lifetime” is not forever!

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/09/25/how-long-is-a-lifetime-2/

How Long is a “Lifetime”?
By Eric – September 25, 2024

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One of the great scams perpetrated on car buyers is selling them on the idea of “lifetime” fluids – such as transmission fluid, for instance. And coolant. Also oil changes that don’t require doing but once every 7,500 (or even more) miles.

It’s sold this way to sell them on “low maintenance costs” – and that’s true. You just pay for it later, in the form of expensive repair costs caused or hastened by those “low maintenance costs.”

The trick works like this:

Advertise “lifetime” fluids – which leads the mark to believe that means forever. As in the fluid never needs to be changed. What it actually means is for the lifetime . . . of the warranty coverage. And that’s probably true. Those numbers – ten years, 100,000 miles as an example – are not picked out of a hat. They are arrived at after extensive durability studies that accurately foretell how long a component such as a transmission will probably last before it fails if it isn’t serviced during its “lifetime.”

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It’s not so much that the fluids – such as the hydraulic fluid in an automatic transmission (or the gear oil in a manual transmission or engine oil) go bad. It is that they get contaminated with the byproducts of mechanical components meshing and unmeshing in an environment of high heat and pressure. Inevitably, the contaminants build up, inevitable reducing the anti-friction properties of the fluid. Fine particles accrue, like plaque inside our arteries, with the same inevitable result. A filter will filter out a lot of these small bits but what happens when the filter can no longer filter – because it’s full of those small bits and pieces?

It stops filtering.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need an “illegal alien” plan!

Sunday, September 29, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/10_million_illegal_aliens_what_is_to_be_done.html

americanthinker.com
10 Million Illegal Aliens: What Is to Be Done?
By Randall Childs
<<  2024-09Sep-25 Wed >>

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After the economy, illegal immigration ranks highest among voters’ concerns. President Trump has spoken of “mass deportations” of the more than ten million illegal aliens who have flooded our country under Biden-Harris. That’s appealing political rhetoric to the base, but he needs to build policy muscle upon the rhetorical bones.

First, the optics. We’re talking ten million people, and then some. Men, women, children, oldsters, families. Some are the “hardworking people seeking a better life,” as they claim; others are gangsters and terrorists, plus lots in between. Rounding them up and arranging transport of a population equal to Michigan will be no small feat. Prepare for nightmarish images of armed agents descending upon “immigrant” motels and shelters; rounding up families and frog-walking them onto buses, trucks, trains, and planes; and shipping them out. We can expect horrific portrayals of “children in cages” revisited, oldsters with ailments, detention centers portrayed as internment camps, all that. Wouldn’t the anti-Trump media have a field day? Families torn apart! Lives disrupted! Local economies hit hard. And what if their nations of origin refused their re-entry? More ugly media attention.

Candidate Trump needs to present a credible plan to repatriate these people in an orderly, efficient, humane, and politically palatable way. This can be done by arranging deportations in cohorts according to immigrants’ harm and costs to our nation.

We start with the criminal elements: murderers, rapists, drunk drivers, drug-dealers, and professional shoplifters. By legal and administrative means, illegals who have been involved in criminal activity will be prioritized in “grab” lists and subject to arrest and detention. Being flight risks, they must be denied bail, then given a simple choice: be prosecuted, or be deported with the understanding that re-entry will be a mandatory five-year felony. The point is to get bad actors out of the country.

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Well, it seems like a no brainer to start with the high priority criminals.  

I’m sure that would make a huge difference in “the problem”.

I like the idea of having a plan for the “sanctuary cities and states”.  Cut off the federal funds  seem like a way to get “cooperation”.

Argh!

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