riemannsummers.bsky.social
Math nerd, social justice bard, will talk your ear off about the effects of capitalism in a post-scarcity economy. Not sure what I’ll use this account for yet. Possibly math. You have been warned.
Any pronouns.
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My mouth just DROPPED.
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I was a Dodgers fan for over 30 years, and they managed to turn me off in one day.
Meanwhile, the Giants went viral for having a therapy Flemish Giant rabbit at their games.
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Not my stupid ass reading “it same Wario” 😭
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If manufacturing made items to last and be efficient, we wouldn’t need so much manufacturing.
But then how would companies make more profit?
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I thought most people at least understood that my statement was about how I would be terrible at a factory job, no disability disclosure needed.
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I benefit the commune more sitting down, seeing as how I’m disabled and break my spine very easily and can’t stand up for long periods of time or bend. I’d be a liability in any physical job.
So I work in an office preserving natural resources instead.
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“So you’ve got a car…that don’t impress—WAIT, HOLD UP.”
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…while also believing that the work they *currently* do is extremely important, and America could be worse off if they switched.
For example, my work benefits the environment. America is much better off with me in my current job than me in a factory job, for sure.
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Also—are those properly comparable?
There could be other jobs in manufacturing, not just strictly factory work. Jobs like designing machines that will improve manufacturing.
And someone could believe America would be better off with more people in manufacturing…
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To be fair, America would be worse off if *I* worked in a factory.
All that said…is it really better to push off labor to sweatshops outside of the USA? Really, we should be moving toward better technology that allows people to work in safer, more humane environments for livable wages.
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Which is why they move them to other countries. “Oh, *we’re* not the ones committing these atrocities!” …if you hire a hit man, you’re still guilty of murder.
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Unless that criminal record is due to things like smoking marijuana or “resisting arrest!” when their crime was their skin color.
People like that will have a better understanding of where the system fails.
But DJT is the polar opposite—less of a criminal record than he deserves for his crimes.
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Uhhhh.
Apparently, *this* is peak performance.
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It’s spraying a shower of gold over all of us!
Urine for a treat.
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Thank you for continuing to speak out against human rights violations. There is very real and sickening antisemitism in America. But it’s much less antisemitic to be Jewish and fight genocide than to say that Jews should all, as a monolith, support genocide.
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The scary part to me is how blatantly Trump admitted to rigging the election, which means they absolutely can do it again. We need them to win in a greater landslide than the amount of rigging that can take place.
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This is something that we shouldn’t need to specify in contracts because it should just happen…yet the fact that they took the effort to remove it is proof that we do need it.
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To be fair, how many members of Congress are actually doing their job?
Al Green, AOC, and Jasmine Crockett…am I missing anyone?
I know my own reps are not doing their job at all—and I’m Californian.
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We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee.
Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.
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In a pinch, AI could a great way to get accessibility fast to people who need it.
But this book is a great example of how AI taking over the arts rips out the humanity from arts, which is the point of art.
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“Illegal” protests.
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The point is, RTO four days a week has no benefits to the state whatsoever and will increase the budget deficit severely, and I guarantee will lead to *worse* employee collaboration and relationships.
It also doesn’t benefit Newsom…
…unless someone is threatening him into it.
12/12, done…for now.
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I was going to go on a tangent of why RTO harms me personally, but honestly, it’s not relevant. I’ll tell you all in a later post, but Newsom doesn’t care about one state worker—even when that one worker is so efficient they do the work of five.
That’s not an exaggeration. Tell you later.
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Some people say that only those with bad attitudes will hate RTO.
I can only speak for myself, but:
I am the only extrovert in my office.
I received the Spirit award for my department.
I am extremely good at what I do—managing people and finances.
And I hate RTO more than most.
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Will it increase worker morale? Absolutely not. For those who are truly social, two days a week is enough, or they can choose to be in the office more. But whose morale improves in sitting in worse traffic, wasting two extra hours of their day, not seeing their kids, bringing diseases home?
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We also simply do not have the space. We will need to get new space to fit everyone in the office, because they shrank our space since WFH started. Funny how Newsom released this EO after Budget Change Proposals were due, so we cannot request the money necessary to implement this plan.
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Will it help the state save money? Quite the reverse.
Four years ago, I almost single-handedly completed my department’s 5% reduction drill. BL 20-37 permanently reduced state budgets by finding efficiencies to save us money—efficiencies that existed due to WFH. We are about to lose those.
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Will it help workers be productive? Absolutely not. Every study conducted showed there was no loss of productivity with WFH. I can name a million ways in which being in the office just two days has been less productive, but we’ve at least made one day a week worth it. Four days will be harmful.
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Collab cont’d
I’ve been conducting confidential meetings at home, but it is *possible* in the office when there are fewer people there and rooms are free. Add in more people, and nope.
5) My office specifically has to have meetings with people hundreds of miles away. It’s much easier at home.
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Collab cont’d:
3) We won’t even be able to do Teams meetings or call people without disturbing those around us. So being on the other side of the building will be a waste.
4) Confidential meetings will be impossible, due to the lack of meeting rooms. I have four confidential meetings a week.
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Will collaboration be improved? Absolutely not, despite him claiming that’s one of the main purposes.
A few issues:
1) Not enough meeting rooms
2) Not enough cubicles, so we’ll have to switch up and send people to the other side of the floor. It’s huge. It’s a five minute walk.
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Are there benefits to his rumored run for President? No. If he thinks GOP or undecided voters will vote for him due to this move, he is wrong—they will always say he’s “too far left” even when he moves to the right to appease him. Now he is losing the Dem vote as well.
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I can’t even look him up on BlueSky. Does he actually have an account? Can anyone see it? I was going to see if he posted anything super right-wing and that was the reason.
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I do it so I can cut out clips, pin them to my evidence board, and make connections with string.
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I was just listening to an audiobook in which they were trying to convince someone to drop charges. It took place in England, though, so I don’t know if the laws differ there.
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I’m safer in a bathroom with a trans person than I am with any of Trump’s cabinet picks *being all the way across the country.* They don’t even need to be in the bathroom with me to make me fear for my life.
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