Depends on what the boss does, but if I’m the most senior person, and especially if it’s a conference or lunch meeting with someone I know well, and the itemized bill isn’t required for reimbursement, sure thing. Have many times.

Some older companies have policies in place that define appropriate circumstances under which staff can have 1 drink during duty hours and it not be an actionable offense.

Not really. In my experience it’s that the last authoritarian was the same ethnic group as a legacy group often in power, and so there worst effects didn’t hit most people from that group. It was also a period of respect for the authoritarian, so fear alone wasn’t what drove compliance with laws. So people conflate what amounts to a homoginized ethnocentric power structure to the benefits alone. It’s really not too dissimilar from the MAGA ethos that things were better “back then” and it just so happens that “back then” was before the Civil Rights Movement.

Not really. You have the domain for it too be the domain. Just sign up for a Tuta account and have it auto-forward to you.

Also, don’t get a domain that directly links to your name. Just an overall best practice.

Most, not all.

I would guess that of you polled the average American or European, they would expect the political leanings of most of the developing world to be far more to the left than reality.

I just did this a few months ago. Totally worth it.

Ensure that whoever you use for web hosting allows for the creation of multiple addresses, with one as a catchall. The real power you’re paying for is beyond an alias that shows your real address, you can use an address like March2025@yourdomain.net to sign up for things you expect to be spammy or whatever, and delete the address in 4 weeks and just vanish from their records. Also helpful, if you do need that account back in a year or two, you can create it again in about 30 seconds.

Seriously though, this is the tech layer we all really need and I fear no one is developing. I don’t mean the obvious “scan your digital government ID to start the call” but just the equivalent of a CAPCHA. Probably a hand mirror is all you really need.

Short of doing a demo with rolls of change or MnMs or something, asking people to conceptualize math that is not just simple addition is often asking too much. Especially when people’s financial literacy is learned at home from people who retired in 1996.

Most westerners would be shocked at how common a very similar sentiment can be globally. Especially in low income developing countries, the appeal of a “benevolent dictator” is open topic of conversation. Mostly based on recollection of some leader like that in the 70s or 80s with a sense of societal discipline (and often ignorance of ethic cleansing that didn’t apply to the prison taking).

A recession is defined as 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP. So, by definition, you are repeatedly wrong, and we all know it.

Uhhhh- Blamo! Boring conversation anyway. Luke, we’re gonna have company!

It’s not actual cost cutting. Stop calling it that.

Uh, uh, negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak… very dangerous.

Paying a deposit is common when making a reservation at Michelin restaurants in Europe.

This isn’t rocket science or even new. Only the BS part of it is new.

Uh, everything is under control. Situation normal.

I’m still so mad at the Skoot Corp CEO for that ridiculous re-skeet where they memed the javalina charrp boys on doop.

Am I having the stroke? Or is everyone else?

On the Xennial side - hard agree.

But we all know that Boomers are the scourge of the earth and may very well kill us all before they shuffle of this mortal coil… Right?

What you missed here is that the underappreciated aspect is energy density plus portability. That’s it.

If you’ve never been in a taxi in Africa where some guy has 20 gallons of gas in plastic bags and old cooking oil bottles to drive out to a moto driver 100 miles from any sort of infrastructure at all, then I can see how you might not understand viscerally understand this.

There is nothing else to replace fossil fuels at that level of both portability and energy density. We need more work, more innovation, and more development not for people on the grid, but to get the people OFF the grid away from fossil fuels.

My understanding was nearly everything that wasn’t digitized internally by around 2013ish was with the Archives and in their remit to digitize as of was already with them anyway. Everything after that is all electronic so it can fill out the Development Clearinghouse (DEC). It’s a whole lofty academic library aspiration, except that the DEC is a black hole because the search function sucks. Sucked. It’s gone now.

Also, let’s not divulge too much personal info in public by asking the right questions, OK? It’ll be worth it.

Is USAID large enough that, being co-located with another large agency in 99% of its overseas locations, and working closely with that agency which manages numerous annexes with scifs around DC, that it should warrant its OWN classified system? Can you find any documents supporting that?

Is there already a well-established practice and policies of formal reporting from USAID using that other agency’s system for unclassified documents?

Hint: https://fam.state.gov/fam/05fah02/05fah020440.html

What is the name of the classified system that other large agency, large enough to be a department, uses? Hint: it’s a basic portmanteau in the document above.

Is that the same name as is found in this public document as showing that a small agency with only a few hundred or maaaaybe a thousand staff with S or higher clearances, producing very few classified documents per year per this same document, might be using? https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/9-000-16-001-p_0.pdf

Anyone who knows about this stuff in detail has zero feelings about shredding documents because they had to do that anyway to clean out their desks over the last month.

On top of a mountain. And there’s going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance 'til the sun rises.

Oh, wait, you said plan the new government? Sorry, thought you said get married. Sorry, my bad.

My favorite one so far.