SecondJon @SecondJon@social.cleverlibre.org

In October, the number of employed men age 20 and up -- 80,405,000 -- set the 12th record since Trump took office; and likewise, for the 12th time, the number of employed women age 20 and up set a record, reaching 70,909,000 in October.

The unemployment rate held at 3.7 percent, the same as September, which is the lowest it's been in decades -- since the end of 1969. And the Hispanic unemployment rate, 4.4 percent, has never been lower.

The unemployment rate for African-Americans, 6.2 percent, remained near the all-time low of 5.9 percent set in May.

On top of those numbers, the economy added a whopping 250,000 jobs last month.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/156562000-record-employment-12th-time-under-trump

Heard an argument today that we should ask live in GMT or some other agreed upon time, ditching not only daylight savings but also fine zones. Not a bad idea, the sun may rise for me at 1400 or 0200 either way we'd get used to it fairly quickly I suspect. And scheduling international phone calls would be simple too.

As a developer I've always preferred designing and building new software solutions rather than putting my time into:
- tracking
- documentation
- QA

These things still need to be done.

I've run my own consulting business before and hated the billing and collections side of things. Meanwhile I've also led billing and collections departments before. I think it's de-prioritzing what isn't my *primary* responsibility.

The last 2 days I've taken on no development work (aside from rapid prototyping and testing out ideas as I work through the architecture design has been fun), in favor of leading a new process for how we document requirements and functional designs.

It's been strangely... fulfilling, discovering that that this forces me to work through issues well in advance of when we'd find them without the formal spec writing process; it helps to get the business and the technical team on the same page and having more in depth and meaningful conversations.

Led by Jim Look-At-Me-I'm-Jim-Acosta Acosta , a caravan of activists wearing press badges has begun their march to America's southern border to flee from the tinpot dictator who has led us through multiple Armageddons, deaths of millions, and has democracy on the brink, offering to trade places with the caravan of central Americans that are marching north.

Trump is bad for saying he's a nationalist not a globalist, because that implies that he believes his country is better than others.

Meanwhile, a caravan of folks is marching through several countries to get to his country because they evident think that his country is better than others, and they're good for believing that.

#doublethink is dumb in #uspol and elsewhere

Snopes is biased as are all fact checkers. Be careful out there with how your news is presented to you, and your fact checking too.

https://www.sadanduseless.com/news-manipulations/

I have been incredibly active on diaspora.

2 new notifications. 1 from an hour ago, one from 7 years ago.

“So, I turn to all of our elected leaders, because hate doesn’t know a political party. I turn to them to say tone down the hate. Speak words of love. Speak words of decency and of respect.”

https://www.faithwire.com/2018/10/30/rabbi-who-survived-synagogue-shooting-received-hate-mail-for-saying-hed-welcome-trump/

They caught him.

Utah man charged for sending toxic letters to Trump, other admin officials - CNNPolitics

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/utah-ricin-letters-william-clyde-allen/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fflagandcross.com%2Fman-charged-for-sending-ricin-to-trump-mattis-media-ignores%2F

Earlier this month, before the suspicious packages sent to democrats, suspicious packages were sent to Republicans, some testing positive for ricin, one grain of which is lethal and has no known antidote.

1. The media asserted that Trump's rhetoric and his alone was the cause of the suspicious packages sent to democrats. Certainly we can find media giving equal blame to his opponents rhetoric from earlier this month for the packages sent to republicans.

2. Media dubbed the second unknown mailer the MAGA bomber, certainly they must have dubbed the first three Love Trumps Hate bomber.

3. CNN ran the ticker blaming Trump as news was just breaking about the second mailer, they must have run the ticker blaming democrats for the first.

Or none of the above is true and media bias seems glaring.

Source : Suspicious letters addressed to Trump, Ted Cruz office, Pentagon

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ricin-suspected-least-2-envelopes-sent-pentagon-mail-center-n915891

Democrats are to blame for the packages sent to Republicans in equal amount to the blame resting on Republicans for packages sent to democrats.

Maybe this stuff isn't restricted to one side, but we just assume it is because the media gets viewership by polarizing so they present it that way. (Or media outlets are more just active as an arm of a political party and we'd do well to acknowledge that.)

Maybe we can rise above the constant us VS them mentality and get away from the one sided outrage for a minute to think clearly.

#uspol

Is it true that the deadly poison ricin (can be deadly on skin contact) was sent to President Trump, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson earlier this month?