Conventional Potato 🥔

embrace the cognitive dissonance; 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@cturnbull1968 Isn’t this actually a sign he probably isn’t insider trading? Like it looks a lot more like direct indexing to me. He does all his corruption elsewhere

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@constans OTOH the work-life balance and general workplace culture in the UK is so much better in my personal experience. And US parental leave policies are depraved.

But you’re absolutely right it’s easier to make friends and money in the US.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@mikesimonsen Honestly things were going fine-ish until he started the Iran War. Causing a global energy crisis is not a great pre midterm move.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

Arguably the right should also support it as it’s great for enabling family life and means fewer people will drop out of the workforce. Higher fertility and life satisfaction plus higher GDP. Republican wet dream but of course they have to be curmudgeonly misanthropes about it

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

Hybrid working is the biggest win for worker rights in a generation, so it makes sense why there is such a big push on social media to dismantle it.

Protecting it should become a key plank in any centre left to left-populist policy platform.

[constans @constans]

It has dawned on me that Washington for decades has been fine about saying these kinds of things about France and saying they’re not an ally and so on, and being performatively hostile to France, but say that about Israel and people have a stroke and say you’re committing treason

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@AaronBastani I think paid parking should require entry and exit barriers. It’s just an extra stress added to your life to have to be constantly aware of the tiny signs explaining the parking charges and regulations every single time you park.

[Reuben Rodriguez @ReubenR80027912]

Hybrid/WFH is objectively the best thing to happen to parents in last 40yrs

You can argue WFH perpetuates the absurd current state where once a quarter parents do some random school thing at 1PM on a Tuesday…but barring a total revolution in parenting, hybrid is obvi a net good

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@Pontus4Pope The other really good thing about capitalism in a similar vein is that you don’t need political power to remain rich. In Russia you get a lot more rich ppl desperately clinging to power because if you lose power you will lose your wealth and probably your life

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Great initiative on a ‘small’ issue that matters: because it’s a microcosm of declining civility in public spaces.

The great thing with policies like this is the resulting negative polarisation. Means opponents say stuff like “I like annoying music on trains, actually!” 🤣

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@amm611_ @caryatis Not if they were told by their employer they could live anywhere and then had some terms changed overnight. I get your view more if they started a new job and then demanded it.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@Lymarh__ They left out the part where he pulled out his iPod to listen to Evanescence

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@jayofeng So many of the pro RTO takes are just like “I need to force everyone to come into the office everyday and not see their kids until the weekend, so I can have pseudo friends and get my steps in”.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@eni_iljazi We’re gonna lose a lot of talent if we make it so people who live in ultra expensive city centre areas without family obligations are the only ones allowed to work corporate jobs.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@stevehind Yes and blowing up the life I’ve built for myself and my family in my community so people like Matt can “get 10k steps a day” seems like a bad trade-off

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@mattyglesias Waiting for the reveal that your office is in your backyard and your commute is 20 steps lol

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@Pontus4Pope Also like the king literally gives an annual speech laying out the policy proposals of the current political government. He is a prop to be used by the PM to some degree.

[Conventional Potato 🥔 @NormalTater]

@constans Do you not end up spending like more than an hour fielding random conversations from your colleagues? Or getting distracted during focus work while people chatter around you?

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.

Wonder what’s changed?