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@RealJamesWoods Well hope they enjoyed the money they made. Here very soon people who try and use their kids for content revenue will have to go live somewhere else. TN is putting a law in place so that adults can make monetary gains off videos if the children are younger than I think 12 or 13.

When will this nation right the ship of sanity and openly declare that this is creepy, cruel, and a moral abomination?

@gothburz @gothburz I don't remember seeing you in the Microsoft Teams directory but I would swear you work for the same company as me. Your explanation of yearly reviews and AI adoption are very much spot on for where I am currently employed.

Last quarter I ran performance reviews for 4,200 employees. The process takes six weeks. Week 1: employees write self-evaluations. Average length: 1,200 words. That's 5 million words of self-assessment. No manager reads them. I know this because the system tracks time spent per review. Average: 4 minutes. You can't read 1,200 words in 4 minutes. You can write a rating in 4 minutes. That's what they do. The ratings are on a 5-point scale. 1: "Does not meet expectations." 2: "Partially meets expectations." 3: "Meets expectations." 4: "Exceeds expectations." 5: "Significantly exceeds expectations." Nobody gets a 5. 5 requires three levels of approval and a written justification. I designed it that way. If everyone could get a 5, the scale would mean something. We can't have that. The real scale is 3 to 4. 3 means "you still work here." 4 means "you still work here and we'd mildly prefer you didn't leave." The difference in raise between a 3 and a 4 is 1.2%. On a $90,000 salary that's $1,080 a year. $90 a month. Before taxes. After taxes it's about $62. That's the financial value of "exceeding expectations." $62 a month. A streaming subscription. We have a forced distribution. 15% must be rated 4 or above. 70% must be rated 3. 15% must be rated 2 or below. This is non-negotiable. If your entire team is exceptional, 15% of them are still "partially meeting expectations." If your entire team is mediocre, 15% are still "exceeding." Performance is a bell curve I drew on a whiteboard in 2019. Reality has to fit the curve. Not the other way around. The calibration meeting is where this happens. Every director in a room for four hours. They negotiate ratings. "I'll give you a 4 for Martinez if you take a 2 for Chen." "Chen just shipped the biggest project this quarter." "I know. But I need my 15%." Chen is now "partially meeting expectations." His manager will deliver this rating in a 30-minute meeting. She'll say "this doesn't reflect my view of your work." She's right. It reflects a horse trade in a conference room she wasn't invited to. Chen will ask what he can do to improve. His manager will say "keep doing what you're doing." He'll say "but I got a 2." She'll say "the rating system is holistic." Holistic means "I can't explain it." Nobody can. That's the point. Three people on the 2-rated list will be placed on Performance Improvement Plans. A PIP lasts 60 days. No one has ever passed a PIP. I don't mean it's difficult. I mean the outcome is decided before the PIP begins. A PIP is not a path to improvement. It's a paper trail to termination. HR needs 60 days of documentation. The PIP provides 60 days of documentation. I call this "supporting our people through growth opportunities." After calibration I compile the results. I tell the board that 85% of employees are meeting or exceeding expectations. This is true every year. It was true by design. I designed it. Last year a manager asked me what performance reviews actually accomplish. I looked at my notes. They accomplish: Five million words nobody reads. A number between 1 and 5 decided in a room the employee will never enter. A raise that wouldn't cover a gym membership. And a paper trail for the people we'd already decided to fire. I didn't say any of that. I said "employee development is our top priority." He transferred teams. I noted it as "healthy internal mobility." The review system was installed in 2019. It has not been reviewed. I get reviewed using the system I designed. Last year I rated myself a 4. My manager didn't question it. She used the 4 minutes. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@BrandonStraka Why do they make out like everyone opposite them is still living in the 50s. Unless your acting crazy or grooming kids most hetero couples could care less what LGBTQ couples are doing. Just don't do more than kiss or hug in public. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD BE DOING.

Gavin Newsom’s wife says “there’s a lot to learn from same-s*x couples” and claims conservatives are holding the country back.

@Brucenotdone @slateauto Right there with you. My second car is almost paid off to be swapped off to the next kid in the family who needs a car and I want to figure which truck I'm getting. A Slate or something else a couple of years older, but also cheaper if the price doesn't add up.

@slateauto when do we find our reservation position and probable delivery date? we have decisions to make.

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@timburchett @Krystal Well. I got say having ate there a lot $25 worth of Krystal Burgers is probably all my stomach could survive in a life time

If you are my 500,000th follower I will treat you and your significant other to an evening of unlimited @Krystal burgers. Limit $25.00

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Op-Ed: Video Games Were Better When They Only Had One Button buff.ly/ggDB1ge

If you drastically changed your political views during your lifetime, which way did you shift? Did you start on the left and move to the right? Or did you start on the right and move to the left? Please RT to get a better poll sample.

@grok @angelwauthier @steve_uhlir @RGIII So if the claims are correct about the translated words of the songs he sang during the halftime show. Will he be fined by the FCC for obscenity violations like Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake did when she had the "wardrobe malfunction" back in the day.

Yes, the lyrics in Bad Bunny's "Safaera" (performed at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime) include explicit references to sexual acts, drug use, and profanity, as claimed. English translations on sites like Genius confirm details like oral sex, ass-eating, pills for arousal, and erection boasts. Many of his songs have mature themes, but they're in Spanish.

Dear World, this is a safe space. What did you think about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime performance?

@FilmsFallout This scene alone was so awesome. Not to mention the rest of this episode tying up any loose ends fans had questions about in regards to the ending of Fallout New Vegas.

I refuse to believe anyone can honestly watch this and call this show slop. QT me all you want. The Ghoul giving Maximus the NCR power armor with that music hitting is pure 🔥 Courier's Stash, if you will. 😉

@dom_lucre Um. Ok. Honestly can't remeber the last time I watched a movie where he is the main character or at least a big enough principal character for it to be considered "HIS" movie.

🔥🚨BREAKING: Hollywood actor John Leguizamo is demanding Americans who support ICE to unfollow him and stop watching his films

@TheBabylonBee Having a multi generational Legend of Zelda Home this really hits me in the feels as I have done this with my two youngest children. The oldest one was more a Xbox fan so he never had it come up.

Man's Whole Life Has Been Preparing Him For This Moment When His Kid Asks For Help With The Water Temple buff.ly/auoSkDy

@Helldivers_NOW 10 of 10. The homemade Mac and cheese goulash really gives it that extra boost.

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@GadSaad I would sit in #1 to have a real conversation about him listening to the wrong people. But I am stopping to shake Fifties hand and congratulating him on be a true master of shade and making sure Diddy gets what he deserves even if the courts fell short in doing so.

I saw this on my feed. So, what’s your answer?

@Architectolder That's pretty and all but you better hope there is nothing under that floor that ever needs repaired like a water pipe or electrical wire or your jack hammering a chunk of floor out.

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@gothburz This summarizes the AI push at every company right now. The dark side is they will use the "drive for adoption" as an excuse to cut people's jobs & then force those still around to just struggle with increased work loads. Instead of not wasting money on Co-Pilot and keeping jobs

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@megbasham As a privately owned company they reserve the right to update their return policy at any time. Sounds like they need to send out a memo that items purchases from a receipt totaling less than $1 are not eligible for return but exchange only.

This is the epitome of selfish, obnoxious leftist behavior. Making life difficult for innocent, hard-working Americans just trying to do their jobs. Absolutely disgusting.

@comicbookaddt I am kind of tired with how they latch on to an actor and then try and shove them into everything. Like Pedro Pascal.. not the worst actor in the world, but he really doesn't have to play every male Character who is in there late 30s early 40s. Other actors exist for these roles

⚡ Just in: Cynthia Erivo is in talks to play Storm in the #MCU and honestly… this might be the best casting ever! 👏 Here's what she might look like 🔥

@CAnderson1983 @comicbookaddt Funny joke. But I will say Sidney would make a perfect MCU Emma Frost.

@comicbookaddt They should cast Sydney Sweeney.

@bennyjohnson They better not pull a Bob Marley on him. If I was his wife and cared about him at all I wouldn't let anyone near him except his regular trusted family doctor and would be questioning everything and anything they try to inject him with.

BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman has been transported to the hospital after taking a fall and hitting his face. He reportedly had a ventricular fibrillation flare up leading to light headedness. Pray for him.