TheAlbatross

That seems even more useless, then, because if I wanted to contact someone elsewhere on the planet, I'd still have to check the local working hours vs the local time.

Perhaps the answer is to reform the concept of the meeting to exist in a far less useful way. Meetings should be a series of prerecorded messages sent via email and played like a correspondence game of Chess.

This would be incredibly inefficient and annoying and perhaps be a catalyst to finally make the weekly update calls a goddamn email that just reads "nothing to report this week, still on schedule to meet Q2 goals" and I can finally get back to smoking weed and ignoring my work phone until 11 AM (sorry, 0635 Neo Standard Time) when I feel like making someone else more money than I'll ever own.

It can be, yes, usually people attempt to be accommodating. I have a regular 8 AM meeting to collaborate with foreign colleagues for which it's a 4 PM meeting. Neither of us are happy about it, but that's compromise.

I think a universal timezone would end up exacerbating the issue of some areas deferring to the ideal time of wealthier areas

I think if I had to wake up to the moon to write emails and make spreadsheets until sun up so my boss could read them in sunlight from their balcony I would cause dire problems.

Humans, generally, like to be awake when the sun is visible and asleep when it isn't. The way we structure our thinking about time, morning, noon, evening, night, are based on the position of the sun.

The single time zone thing sounds appealing until Germans have to be up at 2 AM to speak with their bosses in NYC as that's a financial power center and thus gets to dictate the meeting times

Hey, that's hysterical, I'm gonna use that on my boyfriend real soon

Speak for yourself, I'm an absolute treasure.

Thanks for the clarification!

Interesting, this doesn't violate German laws regarding the showing of a swastika?

Yeah, it has the structure to be useful, but the timelines and protocols make me think it could be fairly limp wristed in enforcement. Israel has 45 days to provide a written assurance and should the US decide it violates that (which it hasn't in an official capacity yet) Israel has to provide a plan to remedy that, then failing that plan, these remediation actions can come into effect. I'd also imagine this would start with a modest reduction in aid before a total cut.

It doesn't seem very toothsome with how quickly war and atrocities can be committed.

I hope I'm wrong and this is the start of a way for the US to stop providing aid to monsters, but Israel is but the loudest issue relating to this right now. I doubt this will affect how the US arms right wing groups across the globe to further its hegemony.

Does that mean the US will stop providing weapons and aid to Israel? The Senate is poised to approve another package of billions in aid to Israel, I doubt this will impact that and thus largely be a hollow gesture.

Israel has already violated this, though I suppose the country could argue otherwise, as they have been, and still provide these written assurances.

I dunno. I like this, conceptually, but it seems so wildly opposed to the usual actions of the US, who consistently provides military aid, through official capacities and unofficial, to horrendous monsters on the global stage, that I have huge doubts this EO will have any teeth.

I kinda feel bad for Disco fans. I ain't out there to yuck anyone's yums, but it was such a different kind of show to previous Star Treks, I'm not surprised it didn't land well with many fans. And it's become so commonplace to shit on it (for many valid reasons but also some nasty ones and folks with the latter should fuck right off).

I wore a Star Trek shirt to a wedding and got many compliments, one from a guy who explained his favorite was Discovery, even named his cat after Michael, he felt it was really important to him and asked what I thought about it. I got a battery of polite things to say in this situation, but a more drunken attendee practically lept over to exclaim "Discovery? MAN that one blew chunks!! What were they thinking?? Shoulda been another sci-fi show without the Trek name." and, jeez, read the room!

I guess what I'm saying is, we don't gotta all like it, but Disco fans are Trek fans and we gotta be nice to em, they're here for largely the same reasons we are and, hey, maybe one day they'll go back and learn that the best Trek is Deep Space Nine.