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adityazero | on: Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
> sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.”

so true. i have attended meetings to decide on meeting topics for the next half.

imglorp | parent | next
At $work, r&d once had a retreat with a consultant to discuss why our productivity was too low per some spreadsheet. The consultant was told how everyone is in meetings all day so we all stole time from our families at night to get any work done at all. :(
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atmosx | parent | next
That’s how the Brussels bureaucracy works. There is even a TV series about it.
Bendy | parent
Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister:

"But he's the Prime Minister!"

"Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a pension for life. What more does he want?"

"I think he wants to govern Britain."

"Well stop him, Bernard!"

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rob74 | root | parent
This is indeed what the current US administration is failing at: keeping Trump from governing the US...
galangalalgol | root | parent | next
I would not have chosen the word governing for that sentence but I'm not sure what fits best. Plundering, pillaging, gutting, ransacking, Rick rolling, despoilng, or perhaps molesting.
sysguest | root | parent | next
...molesting? a country? ...how?
MyHonestOpinon | root | parent
"If you are famous they let you do anything!"
shevy-java | root | parent
Trump is indeed effective at pillaging. The interesting thing is that Yuri explained and predicted (!) this in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw