All these corporate spinsters trying resolve issues of their own making. For many, working from home makes fiscal sense for all. There is no definitive proof that commuting, sitting in an office, and then having to again clog freeways, pollute the air and ruin our own work-life balance, has any positive effect on productivity. In fact, many of us have proven exactly the opposite argument; many of us are MORE productive working from home.

Facilities managers were warned (anecdotally by me to our Facilities Managers, and) en masse, for multitudes of workers, management, senior management and even CEOs, that if they did not plan for increased vacancies, they would be left holding bag on poorly negotiated contracts, commercial real estate mortgages and more often, leasing, of office space.

“Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”.

The rest, like the authors of these puff pieces, are merely shills for property managers who are losing out to those who DID plan well enough to expect a reduction of the in-person workforce. Enough! of these puff pieces… they’re just lies, contorted stories and innuendo designed to reset us all back into our Kafka-esque cubicle spaces.

Do not fall for this bullshit.

*Understand, this is not to say that many, many “jobs” are not only fit, but are better suited for in-person office work, but that should not preclude the millions and millions of jobs that have no reason to be forced back into cubicles.

Hey, the more vegans there are the more piggies and moo cows I get to eat instead! We need to encourage veganism, and bug eating, cuz that’s not going to be me!

Correction… via your own source, “a” study found…. This is the error of thinking in todays glut of information from anywhere and everywhere. Curation is actually a good thing as it would have weeded out this article to obscurity. I’m not outright refuting the veracity of this , one, study. But, it didn’t also look long term about the efficacy of showing teens that it is an option and in their later years may be more receptive. If you ask a bunch of kids, “What’s better? We spend an hour talking about Tiktok? Or we do some mindfulness exercises?” Of course they’re going to say “it’s boring”. They’re teenagers. Quite literally their brains are still developing but to throw the baby out for the bath water is a very bad conclusion made by this, one, study.

What I’d rather see is a meta-analysis study across many ages, survey/data collection methods, pooled mental health data, etc. and who knows… maybe it will confirm this, one, study. But to go find, one, study to back your assumptions is a slippery slope to follow.

No criticism, Im not attacking you

Ok, I have a science background in medicine so, not astrophysics or chem, so wondering if anyone can ELI5+ me…

We’ve been studying in detail, the Moon, and even brought back soil, new LiDAR-esque water discovery types of missions, other countries contributing and it is certainly not obvious that there is appreciable water there. Even if “locked” into other forms and or molecules.

At this point, are we barking up the wrong tree? Is there confirmed amounts of water that would even be any benefit, at scale <<<<< key concept <<<< to make any type of industry feasible?

Mars, does appear to have had, historically, an ecosystem of water in appreciable amounts, but my opinion based on all discoveries is that all feasibly useful amounts of water were blown/evaporated into space along with their prior atmosphere.

Do we have any astrophysics type of folks out there able to say, there is definitely enough water or sources of minerals that can beget copious amounts without destroying yet another heavenly body? Else, “we will” become a “planet killing” aliens species, not altruists as Musk would have you believe.

Well, we’ve got the idgits… it’s not really a “look at me” platform though, as everyone else would ridicule 🤪

Also, it is the current playground of the idiotic and vapid. Just like Insta, Vine (which TikTok basically “is”, just with newer features), Facebook, MySpace, etc etc.

The question should be… WHY TF is this still necessary? Not to go full Steve Forbes, but a standard VAT tax + a progressive curve flat tax eliminates not only the issue at hand here, but also

• no more “filing taxes”. Mother fuckers, you (IRS) already know every cent I’ve ever made, just make the withholding tax, “the tax”
• no more April 15th
• eliminates loopholes and personal vs business tax bs
• no more “forms” and allowances for billionaires to pay nothing while I have an effective rate of over 40%

Yes, I know there are many arguments against scrapping our tax code but they pale in comparison to the advantages

Oh I forgot, also… no private company then has any access to YOUR information