SecondJon @SecondJon@social.cleverlibre.org

Poll: Majority of Democrats think Republicans are "racist," "bigoted" or "sexist"

Both parties think the other side is ignorant, spiteful and evil.

Both parties are being redefined around the extreme emotions shaping extremely ugly views of each other.

https://www.axios.com/poll-democrats-and-republicans-hate-each-other-racist-ignorant-evil-99ae7afc-5a51-42be-8ee2-3959e43ce320.html

#nobias

@zerohedge
I see Benioff comes out on top, Salesforce having to pay less than other companies one third the size.

Took my kids to see the Newsboys last night. A band I first saw when I was 14. Didn't expect then to take my own kids to see them.

'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates

Half of the world's countries now have too few babies being born to maintain their populations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

@bdunbar
Moving to a historic liturgical tradition, I've learned to appreciate the theological depth in the traditions, symbols, and even architecture.

A building both reflects and drives theology, attitude and purpose... I appreciate the theology built into cathedral architecture. And I am part of a congregation that meets in a school gym.

If I got to choose an architecture it would be one that draws the focus symbolically upward, away from one's self, etc. Yet, there are practical matters and much more primary issues.

We have a very strong stakeholder who ends up creating chaos and those on her team can't contain it, so it just spreads. Here's some examples of the problems I've just inherited :

1. Our PM is now the biggest risk to following any kind of decent project management process because she can't get herself to push back against such a strong persona, so the developers are interrupted every day BY THE PM to rearrange priorities to place new work that is bypassing the standard prioritization process, and delay work the greater business needs done for a major project.

2. While we can't get budget to grow our development team, that stakeholder has somehow got budget to hire consultants as a shadow development team to bypass the greater prioritization process with other stakeholders, despite agreeing not to do this a day earlier. She expects them to do unchecked work in our system, which would destabilize the system for all.

3. Meanwhile that stakeholder has only not controlled all work priorities for 1 two week sprint. The other major business units have been waiting for 18 months while we worked on her big project, so they're all trying to knock down the proverbial door to get their work prioritized.

4. The developers lose time due to all of these, and I'm now going to lose all development time to go try to manage this chaos.

Here's what I think so far:

If we had real project management this wouldn't be an issue. I've been down this road before. If we follow, STRICTLY follow, a framework (like agile scrum) then everyone has clear expectations, we stop slowing down development with interruptions of new priorities and trying to secretly prep work for a shadow developement team.

All development happens the same way, following this process, so if they can find additional temporary (contracted) resources, then they just add to our bandwidth and we get more done FROM THE SAME prioritized backlog.

Politics matters. But you know what matters more? Pretty much everything else in your life. (Ben Shapiro, not exact quote.)

Yet I do enjoy discussing politics here and enjoy understanding where others of different views are coming from.

A lot of the more important things (like info about my kids) are things I wouldn't publish about publicly like I will a discussion about politics.

I'm not actually obsessed with politics, but it is most of what I've tooted. I'm trying to consider those things of more importance that can be tootable.

Here Are the Trailblazing Republican Women Who Made History on Tuesday Night

Republican women made history during the 2018 midterm elections.

(I don't watch the news, but had only heard the diversity and glass ceiling breaking championed on the left.)

https://ijr.com/trailblazing-republican-women-history-tuesday/

Mob at Tucker Carlson's home: Antifa mob gathered at his home where his wife was alone, chant that he must leave town, smash down the door of their home, threaten a bomb.

Clearly the hate is on the right.

(and can I remove the photo auto added to my toots when I share via mastalab?)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/08/mob-tucker-carlsons-home-antifa-break-door-chant-fox-host/1927868002/

Just checked headlines on mastodon, saw that sessions stepped down. First impression:

Democrats who demanded Sessions never be made attorney general now aghast that he isn't anymore and declare that he should have been attorney general for ever.