So that we feel vindicated in actually owning your productive time. So that management can show they add value by watching you work.

I'm constantly preaching that "we don't work in a widget factory, there is only the work there is to do, and if it's all done, wtf are you complaining about? Asses in seats does not correlate to work completed. As long as we're available to complete tasks, you're getting what you're paying for."

My management prizes my ability to write complex things ina professional and easily digestible manner. However part of that process might look like I'm doing nothing at all, while I've got a half a draft written and I'm just sitting there for an hour and a half doing sudoku puzzles while what I've written vs what I need to say percolates in my brain. And yet I have to be cautious about it because some of them are convinced we work in a widget factory, where ass in seat and hands on keyboard equals work produced.

Right? Shocker, I'm able to listen to a thing actively and vocally contribute while doing something mindless like doing/folding laundry or making food because they use different parts of my brain.

The meat mech is capable of doing something physical with no thought, while engaging language processing for something else.

The human car wash method

This. I'm not actually opposed to the requirement for needing ID or proof of citizenship to vote. What I am opposed to is anything creating a barrier to voting that's more substantial than an extremely mild inconvenience like registering.

Imo we need a national ID system anyway, so we can stop using SSN data for that purpose because it's stupidly insecure. In the modern digital age it would be trivial to just assign a "user is licensed to drive x" flag in a digital database in your home state to your ID. Pair it with some kind of 2FA and switch government services to digital.

Easy, cheap to administer, make it free, and auto register people to vote when they turn 18. Have highschools participate in the ID issuing process, since that covers the vast majority of people.

Nah this is perfect

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

Every time I look at Matt Gaetz, all I can see is if Butthead (from Beavis and Butthead) were a real person and grew up rich.

I'm just trying to pay for housing with my meager allotment of 80 hash browns per week

My wife has an iPad and one of the things I hate the most is that you can't install adblock extensions into Firefox on it like you can on Android. Which is a thing that has made using the browser on the phone wayyyy more enjoyable.

Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.