Cyyris

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State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News ( www.chilkatvalleynews.com )

An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....

Cyyris ,

Alaskan here - this is what I'm most afraid of.
I can't tell you how many coworkers (who are conservative) have bitched and moaned about how "That's the only reason Peltola [D] won!"

It's extremely evident that they simply don't understand the system, nor do they want to. They've latched onto it as "the thing that made their pick lose" and so it must die.

Cyyris ,

I feel you fellow IT brother/sister!

The IT world is chock-full of this garbage, and all it really forces people to do is A. Provide lesser service so that it "takes longer", inflating their time metrics, and B. Causes people to make shit up, or submit their own BS tickets to make it look like they're doing stuff to justify their existence.

Ultimately holding people to a metric-based system like this leads to worse service, and make people hate their jobs.

The job I had before my current one, I was site lead for Field Services. Luckily we were sort of a start up/experimental program, so the technician metrics weren't tracked at all. MAN it was nice. Nobody felt stressed out needing to justify every second of their day, they wound up doing the work in an appropriate amount of time because it didn't matter how long an individual took (be that long, or short).
We only had an SLA to meet for the customer, which was easily hit.

I even took it a step further and didn't really pay much heed to the corporate timekeeping rules...
If someone needed to run an errand or "telework" for a day; fine by me. The company didn't give anyone sick time, or enough time in general, OR a big enough salary, so they can eat my whole ass.
Lo and behold, our section had the lowest MTTR, and highest amount of tickets closed, all with 100% SLA met. Crazy what you can achieve when you treat people like adults and actual human beings instead of soulless automatons.

Cyyris , (edited )

It's definitely not short, but The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey is absolutely top notch.

The attention to detail that goes into a sci-fi series that lives within a realistic world, with actual physics is incredible - i.e:

  • Ships need to calculate when to flip around midway through their journey to decelerate by burning the opposite direction.

  • Torpedoes and tungsten slugs have travel time.

  • Making hard accelerations or evasive maneuvers can and will crush you into your flight seat due to the intense G forces and the only way to not black out is a cocktail of stimulants, adrenaline, and blood thinners

  • Communications take place at actual light speed, which means when you're dealing with distances up to several hundred million kilometers, it can take anywhere from minutes to hours for your message to be received.

But fear not! This is truly a traditional sci-fi novel, packed full with ancient alien substances that seem to reprogram human cells for their own use - but to what end?
Ancient feuds between those born in space, and those born on a planet.
And the answer to the age old question: why not just use asteroids as weapons?

The main characters are an extremely close knit group, who it seems at times get by on sheer willpower and a touch of luck (with some excellent planning).

The story takes turns being told from different characters' perspectives, which really helps you get to know each character intimately - how they think, and feel about the events unfolding - how their morality affects their choices.

If you're looking for a more "realistic" take on sci-fi, this series is absolutely up your alley.

The first novel is called "Leviathan's Wake" and there are 9 main books in the series, with a smattering of novellas between that expand on the world.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes

Cyyris ,

The more things change, the more they stay the same, I suppose.

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