Bruce LeSourd
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“The CEO of Ford doesn’t go down and attach doors” is why Ford has been plagued with quality and cost problems for a long time now. The current CEO is actually decent, but this example is way out of touch with what’s really going on in the auto industry right now. More broadly, we’re seeing the end of the era of the MBA managerial class financializing manufacturing and service businesses. See also Boeing, which is the poster child for moving management away from manufacturing and destroying the company.
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1950s retrofitted was off the hook
In 1959 Disney produced this short film that was presented at many High Schools as part of an educational division. I have 1000s of films like this in my collection of discarded media I have recused from dumpsters. I had this one for years and finally had time to play it:
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RT @mercoglianos: USS Harry S Truman In Collision with MV Besiktas-M north of Suez Canal, February 12, 2025 What we know about the #Truman…
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The consistent response I’ve gotten from Democrat friends on this is: Elon has a responsibility as CEO to be the “adult in the room” and just take his licks and support the party that isn’t awful, even if they hate him and are doing stupid things. They won’t acknowledge that the Democratic Party’s ONLY job is to be adults and win elections, even if that means tweaking their anti-billionaire propaganda campaign so they don’t alienate the guy who’s already on their side, whom you most want to keep on your side. Like the Democrats, many of my friends have always seen Elon as childish. I’m guessing because their lucrative tech and consulting jobs depend on fitting in to BigCo politics and they naturally dislike people who don’t have to do that. This makes them predisposed to accept anti-Elon propaganda,to dislike his actual foibles, and to be unforgiving about his mistakes. I’ve asked many people to watch just one, long-form Elon interview (Lex Fridman #3 is particularly good), but AFAIK none of them have ever bothered. The irony is Democrats are now talking about aligning with “good billionaires”… dudes, that ship has sailed!
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The consistent response I’ve gotten from Democrat friends on this is: Elon has a responsibility as CEO to be the “adult in the room” and just take his licks and support the party that isn’t awful, even if they hate him and are doing stupid things. They won’t acknowledge that the Democratic Party’s ONLY job is to be adults and win elections, even if that means tweaking their anti-billionaire propaganda campaign so they don’t alienate the guy who’s already on their side, whom you most want to keep on your side. Like the Democrats, many of my friends have always seen Elon as childish. I’m guessing because their lucrative tech and consulting jobs depend on fitting in to BigCo politics and they naturally dislike people who don’t have to do that. This makes them predisposed to accept anti-Elon propaganda,to dislike his actual foibles, and to be unforgiving about his mistakes. I’ve asked many people to watch just one, long-form Elon interview (Lex Fridman #3 is particularly good), but AFAIK none of them have ever bothered. The irony is Democrats are now talking about aligning with “good billionaires”… dudes, that ship has sailed!
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@FSDdreams Waiting for a train the other day with latest version of HW3 FSD… rendered as ghostly, intermittent, stretched passenger cars.
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Yup. But it goes beyond coordination problems. If you really know the industry, you know there are a lot of ghost jobs out there that top management, at the board level, have ordered to remain unfilled. HR is just a tool to implement this policy, but it has to be kept secret from hiring managers, who think they’ve been given an open req when in fact there’s a de facto hiring freeze. A lot of what looks like HR incompetence or malfeasance is just secret board-level policy. So if you’re an industry “rockstar”, you probably know this is a sign of bad leadership.
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Misanthropic degrowth doomers: humans are a virus Humans:
Incredible concerto for cat, instruments and voice. [🎼 Sherzod Ergashev -> sebtheoptimist]
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@leashless You need to provide the newbs the historical context that Communists hated Anarcho-Syndicalists and tried to eradicate them, which was a big reason fascists won the Spanish Civil War.
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RT @esrtweet: My wacky theory about the em-dash debate: Pro writers use em-dashes a lot because many of them, possibly without consciousl…
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My absolute favorite way of dealing with both foaming at the mouth progressives and racist, “tough-on-crime” MAGAs is to ask them if they know who signed the First Step Act of 2018, and who authored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Those two data points pretty much upend the whole spectrum of contemporary, ideologically reductivist political party-related propaganda.
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RT @ZelenskyyUa: I had a long and detailed conversation with President Trump. I appreciate his genuine interest in our shared opportunities…
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RT @SawyerMerritt: Tonight, Rachel Maddow led her show with a hit piece against the Cybertruck & Elon, suggesting the proposed $400M for ar…
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“For he is the Kwisatz Haderach.”
MAGA/Q folks, sincere question for you: When X Æ A-Xii Musk says, “You’re not the President and you need to go away”, where do you think he got that idea?
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Wake me up when Gemini threatens a trade war.
It's like the AI gained sentience and decided that it wouldn't work for free🤔
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The word “manufacture” isn’t sexist It has nothing to do with “man” It comes from the Latin words “manus” (hand) and “facere” (to make), and simply means “made by hand” The term has came to encompass the production of goods by machine or other means—not just by hand
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RT @gregisenberg: This chart is nuts. Software developer jobs down 70% from peak. People will blame the end of free money. But something w…
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