Please tell us what “essential things” they do.

Ah ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Oh wait, you’re serious!?? ornery_chemist @mander.xyz English On the other hand a manager willing to yell at/stonewall the MBAs when they deliberately lie about misinterpret your recommendations and timelines is a godsend.

I worked as an academic and supported and got funding for my programs for decades. I was a higher level GS employee for the feds and I ran new product development for a couple small to medium biotech firms. The last firm I worked for got bought by a giant multinational company which rhymes with Spargill. They changed the way we did things and suddenly, I had a “Project manager”, who didn’t know anything about the project I developed and managed. Nor did they do anything else I could figure out other than call me on the phone and ask what I was up to and how the projects, which I developed and was PI on were going. I swear to god I have no idea what these people did, but EVERYONE who was a scientist got at least one of these useless managers. And I can bet those “managers” got paid more than we did. Anyway, the only thing I could figure out was that project managers were positions given to people who couldn’t do any real science anymore but had played the game and needed a reward. So their reward was to call up people like me every once in a while and ask me how things were going. Were there EVER a more useless job I can’t imagine what it might be.

“Fox viewers are stupid” should hardly be news to anyone by now.

An excellent analysis. Thank you for a thought and highly plausible explanation of the JKR phenomenon.

Anyone speculate on why JKR is so anti-trans? Did something happen in her past that makes her so hateful on this issue?

Is he also a Russian asset?

That is EXACTLY what they wanted and thought.

Because they are gullible and don’t challenge those lies because those lies include attacks on black and brown people who rural people despise.

Slow strangulation at the end of a rope Iranian style would seem most just in Krasnov’s case.

But didn’t rural people vote for this?

Didn’t the Nazi’s do this too?

I once did some consulting for the IAEA in Vienna. They paid you in CASH at that time. As an American I felt really really uncomfortable walking around Vienna with 3-4k in my pocket. Austrians thought nothing of doing so.

When we needed him more than ever.

But what if it’s evil people or people who willingly and purposefully do evil who are dying? Can’t I be entertained by that?

I’m still friends with a lot of my college classmates. Most are pretty reasonable to progressive. But one has a harridan of a wife who is full bore Trumpster and bullies him politically. I don’t know if she still is but she was last year. Anyway, when we were discussing our concerns with the shit the Trumpistas are pulling, he said to our group (who are all upper middle class professionals with money) “Don’t worry, what ever happens, we’ll be OK.” And I replied, “That’s the problem. Others most assuredly will not be ok.”.

I was a scientist and have tested on the spectrum myself. And I think a whole lot of my colleagues would have too. Except if you’re high functioning and productive, there is little reason to test you. The misery of being on the spectrum and not being able to easily socialize with other people or to detect their emotional states is unimportant to society as long as one meets the performance standards society sets for you. Not that I’m complaining but I might have felt better about myself if I had known why I wasn’t able to do those things until I was an adult. I suffered depression largely because I was “weird” growing up and was bullied until I became an accomplished wrestler and it became dangerous for others to bully me. I truly think sport saved me. And taught me how to act more normally. Not everyone on the spectrum is so fortunate.

What there was was junk food.

You have way more confidence in the American electorate’s memory than recent history would suggest to anyone. After all Krasnov was re-elected.

Gutless treasonous scum. The face of the GOP.