Totally agree. I’m on restricted duties at the moment so meet all of my clients on teams. I hate it. The audio is terrible so one or both of us is always mishearing, my desk is in front of a window so I have to keep my curtains closed for them to see me. I don’t get to build the same rapport with them and their responses to my questions are more stilted because of it. A large part of my job is judging body language and reading non-verbal cues, which is next to impossible on teams.

And on monday, my computer decided to do a mandatory, 3 hour update, so I missed an appointment and couldn’t access the client’s number to apologise or explain. So I had to text a colleague to run over to the client’s office let them know I wasn’t going to make it

That was a big question during the trial, too

No but we do know the basic function of screws: holding shit together. The absence of screws implies that shit is not held together fully. Is it still sufficient to fly? Maybe. But the presence of screw holes implies that somebody in the development process thought them necessary and now they’re not there.

Sure, it’s likely safe in the same was that the restaurant rat is likely not carrying a plague. But it’s not guaranteed and I’m not willing to be the one to test it

Sure, this is why the passenger raised the issue to make sure someone responsible was aware of it and could make that safety judgement. And clearly they were right to do so if the pilot (or whoever) grounded the plane.

So make a show without police cooperation.

What a great idea! Let’s call it The Final Solution

/s

Why would I mean apologism? They need their worldview reprogramming because their current worldview is misogynistic and false. Reprogramming would include comprehensive challenging of negative attitudes and modelling of correct, non-misogynistic beliefs. It should be done by people with psychological training because they have the skills and knowhow needed to reprogramme someone’s thinking but it doesn’t particularly need mental health professionals or collusive, misplaced sympathy.

No but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need addressing

Non-violent resolutions before resorting to ‘send in the drones’, at the very least

Yes, because more violence is always the answer

Nah, that’s taking it a bit far. The Madagascar Plan is enough, surely.

It would certainly solve all of Israel’s problems, though

Migrating a whole group of people, whatever could possibly go wrong?

Yeah, this wasn’t someone with a grudge against children poisoning their food, this was an willfully negligent decision made by the producers to make the product more profitable

The article said mineral oil

UK - typically 9 - 3:30 for primary and 9-9:30 until 3 - 4 for secondary. I live on a street with 1 primary, 2 secondaries and a college, so they’ve gotten together and agreed to stagger things to cause less disruption during start and end times.

But we also have a public transport system and safe roads that means most kids walk/cycle/bus in.

But mentally incompetent people can hold guns? Wonderful

This was my experience too, though I was in the UK where our religious and conservative nutjobs tend to hide because they secretly know they’re in the wrong. I was homeschooled for several years and found that I was able to thrive in areas that a conventional school structure wouldn’t have allowed.

I’m now a fully-adjusted and emotionally-intelligent adult with a confidence that most people my age are still learning.

Yeah but she’s be black, or poor or queer so it’s okay

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