who drives a Maserati to his yacht.
My Maserati does one-eighty-five
I lost my license, now I don’t drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I’m attacked
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We already have 8 weeks paid leave here in California, so this provision, included or not, won’t change much for us. How many states don’t have paid leave? Why is the federal government even having to address this?
Paid leave seems like a no brainer to retain good employees. Then again that makes sense and is cost effective, so …
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Issues
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She’s like my sister. I think she’s afraid to get the vaccine because she’s been antivax for so long and is now afraid of looking like a traitor to the cause, whatever the fuck that is. Her boss told her last Friday December 8th would be her last day.
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Yeah. I noticed Green Bay lost to KC yesterday without their star QB Qaaron. He should be banned for the rest of the season for lying about his immunization status. GB may notice a sharp decline in team merchandise sales now.
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OK, please, do not listen to Mark Penn under any circumstances…
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Ugh… the study’s got flaws, and the presentation by The Art of Improvement there is… skewed.
The study didn’t show a ‘negativity bias’. Instead, the study showed ‘prevalence-induced concept change’. Basically, it showed that when told to look for something, the brain will find it, and if the incidence of the thing you’re expecting goes down, your brain works harder to find it, so finds more of it.
The flaw here (and what allows the ‘negativity bias’ interpretation despite that not being inherent to the study) is that the researchers only used negative criteria in their determinations. No experiment was performed, for example, where the participants were told to look for positive indicators, which were then decreased. According to the actual report published, the researchers would have expected the incidence of positive response to have gone up, too.
ETA: when I say ‘flaws’, I don’t mean that there’s a real problem in their method, only that the lack of a positivity-inducing set of experiments lends itself to misinterpretation like this.
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Richmond also said, however, that
White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond on Sunday maintained that the Biden administration is still “going to the mat” to have paid leave included in the Build Back Better plan, despite the provision’s omission from the White House’s reconciliation framework amid centrist Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) opposition.
I may be slow on the uptake about this, but how do we have all 50 Dems if Manchin opposes it?
That’s just it, right now, they don’t have 50 senators who support this and that’s why Smith mentioned expanding the majorities.
Now if expansion happens and they still ‘cock up’ (don’t do family leave, etc.), that’s on them.