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  1. 9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    I’m actually surprised UT had a WFH option for Staff (and I had no idea UT was doing this). It’s not really a thing in higher ed. 

    The only state I know of that gives the option for WFH for staff and administrators is Maryland (and I think Massachusett) and even that is iffy by campus. 

    What interesting is data has shown that as long as students have access in some way to the student services they need (advising, FA, TRiO, etc.) when they need then, they don’t care if the person is on campus or online. They just want the help.

    My mom runs UTs student services onestop and has been for a few years prior to COVID. She said since their move to virtual they've actually been able to increase call volume that their office handles and they went from being the finaid desk to the front door for all of student services. 

    They moved her office to the tower out of SSB, and Lord knows there ain't enough room for all of the call agents clocking in and out. Having the home work environment combined with a modernized call platform meant her employees and student workers could serve the university from anywhere. It's a meaningful and significant constraint to force everyone back into the office 

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  2. 8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    However, I'm not sure that's going to result in a big payoff or the shutdown of his platforms.  His existing platforms, yes; future platforms, no.  See, e.g. Kevin and shaggybevo.com.

     

    1 minute ago, TexasEd said:

     

    I think it might be a little more pragmatic than that. 

    I think they want to take away his ability to do it to other people.  It might look vindictive, but he lacks remorse and taking away InfoWars and any capital he could use to rebuild another media company goes a long way to keep him from doing this again.

    Listening to the recent episodes of knowledge fight, he's already got an escape hatch set up via his dad's supplement company that's selling all the exact same products that Infowars did. Jones has been drunk on air (joined by luminaries such as flynn and bannon and posobiec roaring through) bitching about his CRO and how he's gonna jump ship and rebuild using another of his available recording studios.

    The interesting thing will be to see how much the bankruptcy takes from jones. If they can get all his studios and remove the veneer of legitimacy it gives his rants, that'll go a long way to shutting him down

  3. 6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    And that is that there is a culture of copying on the internet, why?

    I would argue that it stems from the backbone of the internet being FOSS projects and software. 

     

    7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    the question remains that once creators are successful, will they attempt their own form of rugpulling in resisting the free reproduction and distribution of their work?

    I think the disconnect is that artists aren't business ghouls looking to exploit their audience. There's millions of people who don't have the brain worms of unlimited growth and are happy to do what makes them happy and keeps a roof over their head

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  4. 13 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    ERCOT projects the need to almost double generation capacity in next 6 years... LOL. Not sure how that is going to happen. We are all fukked.. 

    What if we... Pay more Bitcoin miners to come to the state and make that worse so that our markets are put into a critical condition ripe for exploitation by private interests instead?

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  5. 5 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Average new car is more than $40k. Even fender-benders can get to be $5k plus claims in a heartbeat with all the tech in cars now. Add in some distracted drivers and you get what we have now. (And there’s the under/uninsured motorists as well.)

    It's just crazy to me - my 2019 SUV was the top trim level with all the bells and whistles and even with adding on a lifetime bumper to bumper warranty it was under $40k

  6. 10 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    One of the funniest takes I saw: the message of the last episode was not to listen to your parents and just go along with any strangers who tell you what you want to hear. Go ahead and get in that van. 

    Did you see a different episode from me? She literally went and asked her mom for permission lol

  7. 11 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    All I know is I'm really tired of communicating with WFH people with crappy phone connections.  Someone fix this and I'd be more on board with WFH crowd.

    sounds like you work with some bad IT boomers, most VOIP solutions have decent to good echo cancellation and can make most microphones sound halfway decent

  8. 46 minutes ago, 1978horn said:
    Figured this was the best place.  They are going to lose a lot of people.


    Dear UT community,
     
    Beginning this fall semester, the University will require almost all staff members to work on site full time. This will be a significant change for some members of our community, so it is important to take a step back and explain why requiring in-person work best supports our culture and reinforces the teaching and research mission of our University.

    Staff members can most effectively serve our students, faculty, fellow staff members, and other stakeholders when working together in an environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, availability, and reliability. Our vibrant campus community helps distinguish our great University, and as members of our staff, you contribute to that vibrancy each day. We are here because of our students, and your consistent presence will help provide a more complete and engaging learning experience for students throughout campus.

    Leaders of colleges, schools, and units will work through the logistics of these changes and, by early July, will finalize their plans to bring most staff members back to on-site work full time. All plans will be fully implemented by Aug. 19, which is one week before the start of fall classes. Based on the revised guidelines, a small number of roles will continue to be eligible for remote or hybrid work at the discretion of the supervisor and college, school, or unit leader. These roles will be characterized by observable productivity; work that is transactional, internal, or service related; or functions that require high levels of individual time to perform. 

    For all staff members, some occasions may call for irregular schedules or intermittent remote work that does not require formal arrangements. Managers will continue to make those decisions on an as-needed basis.

    Thank you for your work and your profound dedication to our Longhorn community. I look forward to having students, faculty, and staff together on the Forty Acres as we continue to make this the world’s highest-impact public research university. 
    Sincerely yours,
     
     
    Jay Hartzell
    President

    Yikes my mom runs one of the major call hubs for UT Austin and she's been able to do way more without driving in an hour from Pflugerville every day. This is a boneheaded business consultant brain move. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Keef said:

    We also need more judges.  It's crazy that you can have a situation where one judge (RBG) kicks the bucket and so many entrenched civil liberties are threatened.  If you triple the number of judges, you reduce the impact of one person leaving.

    I think it's much cleaner to just increase to 13 seats. We previously increased to 9 justices in order to have a one to one ratio with the various circuit courts, and over time we have grown from 9 to 13 appellate courts.

    That is consistent with past norms and serves to dilute the fascist and/or corrupt justices out of taking away civil liberties

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Flood the zone with so much garbage & misinformation that eventually some of it sticks and people start to believe it or people become numb to the crazy ranting and accept it and stop pushing back. This is done by so many of these guys.

    Nevermind that it takes significantly more words and effort to dispell a lie than it does to spread it. Elmo's rollback of twitter standards and pushing the most extreme shit to the top of the timeline has really done a number on some people's grasp of reality

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