I knew a bunch of people that were teachers, but left for tech jobs because the pay was twice as high and the work half as much. This is bad for society.
Quality education for children pays tremendous dividends for the future. Having another “we’re AI on the blockchain” startup does not.
All this venture capitalism bullshit needs to go. Minimum wage needs to be way higher, and universal basic income would help, too.
The “twist” should be foreshadowed. On a second read, a reader will probably be like “oh dang that’s so obvious”.
From fight club the movie, when Norton beats himself up at his work, he says “for some reason I was reminded of my first fight with Tyler”. Most viewers won’t think much on that. But when you know the twist, it makes perfect sense and seems obvious.
Conservatives dont care about facts or truth. They use words for feelings. That’s it. Salt of the earth. The common clay. You know. Morons.
I was a little surprised a disney show went so hard on “cops fucking suck” and “the justice system is a farce”
Unknown Armies is kind of like this. Most magic requires obsession, and you don’t get a lot of well adjusted, friendly, people who also, say, collects all many of coin and money (money is power) but won’t spend any (that’s giving away your power!)
There’s a bunch of schools of magic but they’re all built on an obsession and paradox. The book is really well written, too. (At least 2e is. I didn’t spend much time with 3e)
despite a decade of experience, I can’t even get to the first round of interviews.
I’ve had several places reject me without even a phone screen. My last job was the same role, the same tech stack, and I achieved the things they wrote about in the blurb. I just get back “we’re looking for someone more aligned with our needs”.
What needs?? I check every box you put on the post!
My friend thinks the jobs don’t exist, and they’re just posted so the company looks good. Or they’re some other fraud.
I think that happens, but also there’s incompetence in the funnel. Recruiters can’t read, ai sucks, blah blah blah.
I don’t understand how anyone could be a “swing voter” at this point in history. You’d have to be living under a rock in a faraday cage on mars or something
It would be kind of funny if one of the teachers that had a gun because of conservative “arm the teachers to stop shootings!” shot a kidnapper that was trying to take students.
I don’t think “every single problem … must be reduced down to an individual failing” is super common, but sure, some people refuse to recognize systemic problems. There are loads of people who say racism isn’t a problem, for example, and that’s bad. Kind of off topic from childhood development and people who refuse to admit fault when it is plausibly their fault. (And saying you’re late because there was traffic because the city refuses to build effective mass transit may be technically true in a sense, but it’s also kind of useless, maybe even counter productive, in the moment where everyone else is waiting for you. Leave earlier. Use the agency you have.)
I got 2 (two) pieces of anti-zohran, pro-cuomo, mail when I checked today. They’re playing Zohran up as a scary risk and Cuomo as the safe, experienced, candidate.
According to the fine print, one of them was from “Fix the City, Inc”, where DoorDash is a top donor. Gross.
A lot of people here seem stuck on the details of the metaphor instead of focusing on how some adults refuse to ever consider they are wrong or at fault, and that’s a real problem in the world. You probably know someone who never admits fault for anything. If they’re late, it’s because of traffic. If they lose in mario kart, it’s because the controller is bad. If they get lost, it’s because the GPS is hard to understand. Never their fault.
Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
And this implies she was just coincidentally hit and the police had no involvement in what could have been a fatal shooting. This kind of passive voice helps the villain.
That guy’s probably drinking with his bros bragging about what he did. Maybe karma will catch up with him, but it seems like assholes are reigning supreme nowadays.
I really dislike the passive voice in news coverage about this kind of thing. “Reporter hit by rubber bullet”? Fuck that. “Police shoot reporter.”
$9.4 million could be used for a lot of good things instead of giving the police more toys they’ll use for evil.
I hope this billionaire meets a karmic end. Head cut off by a drone or something.
Cast it into the fire. Destroy it!
Nothing good can come of Musk
Some other games use other terms. Like wod uses “storyteller”.
GM is the generic term
Sometimes I ask them to give me a summary of the problem before the call, so I can have some context.
Sometimes if I’m lucky they’ll rubber duck themselves into a solution.
But sometimes it just helps me context switch to whatever they’re going to talk about.
People should keep right except to pass, typically.
Over short distances, the difference between going 40 and 30 or even 20 are miniscule. I’ve still had people lose their shit when I wouldn’t blaze through a school zone. Just chill out bro, the fast food will be there all day.
But I live somewhere I don’t need to drive anymore, and I’m happy with it.