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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Student enrollment and class sizes will meanwhile continue to increase, with the ATA’s data indicating 26,000 additional students are expected to enroll next year compared to last year.

    “Public education just doesn’t work, we need agile, market-based solutions run by our donors and not using union labour. Here’s block grants for private schools that just coincidentally are run by our friends and/or right-wing religious groups we’re using at patsies. They’re agile and market based, and don’t have to worry about pesky things like standards or equality. But don’t worry, we’ll keep the overstressed, underfunded public system for you losers that can’t afford anything better.”













  • How some federal employees are pretending to work using ‘mouse jigglers’.

    FTFY.

    This happens everywhere that managers are more interested in warming chairs than actually being productive:

    • If you measure your employees by their work done, this isn’t an issue; if they’re getting what you think should be eight hours of work done in four, you promote them, pay them more and/or give them more responsibilities.
    • If you measure them by the percentage of hours they spend warming a chair, they’ll…warm the chair.




  • While I agree with you, there were very few USDM two-row tall-roof cars, and I think the only one that sold even remotely well was the Chrysler Magic Wagon, because the others (the Civic Wagovan, whatever Nissan sold) were gutless.

    The cars that really sell well are compact and mid-size crossovers like the CRV and RAV/4. Minivans aren’t quite the same thing, and the US never really got MPVs that crossovers basically are.

    I do agree that minivans are almost always better than large crossovers, but they’re not as popular, cost more to make and retail for lower margins, which is why OEMs don’t push them.