Digitalprimate

There are days…

Shipping and petroleum - got an old Ikea Mercator map behind me for quick looks and estimations.

Shipping and petroleum - got an old Ikea Mercator map behind me for quick looks and estimations.

I’m in the one and only line of work where Mercator makes sense, and even I hate Mercator.

Not withstanding what @boddhisatva wrote in reply and in no way a defense of the meat industry, you’re missing the point.

The point is the woman demonstrably lacks any empathy and in fact appears to be a sociopath. She should never have been in any position of power over others, far less the position she holds now.

It’s about her, not the animals (as horrible as it was for these, and is for other, animals).

Years ago we had a hedgehog wander into garden just at dusk. My cat, who was always very curious, followed the hedgehog around for about 45 minutes as it rooted around for things. The hedgehog did not care at all when my cat sniffed him and (gently) touched him/her with his paws. They do not care.

Doing the lord’s work here.

FWIW, I have multiple things I should go to in the USA coming up, and neither I nor my family are willing to risk it. My two (young adult) children and I have dual USA - EU country citizenship. My wife had a green card when she lived with me in NYC for over a decade, but turned it in when we moved back long ago. These facts (let alone what my posting history is like) are just too much for us. We won’t risk it.

It’s kind of like a plane crash: very unlikely to happen but you are equally unlikely to walk away unhurt.

That’s enough internet for today.

Yeah I saw this over on Mastodon, and there were a lot of stats folks questioning the methodology. I’m not qualified to do that, but my sons are Zoomers as are all their male friends, and they are all good feminists. This is in NW Europe, so might be a bit biased.

The team I manage are Millennials and Gen Z (I’m a slightly older Xer, born a couple of weeks before Kurt Cobain).

Here is a problem some folks might not have considered that doesn’t really have anything to do with the “nature” of the younger generations. I fight very hard for flexible hours, better compensation, scheduling flexibility, etc. I do not tell my folks how to do something, I leave that to them, and they’ll generally find a better way than the way I initially imagined. Someone needs a day off or to come in/leave at a different time or to WFH, I never ask why.

And generally our CEO has given me what I want, and I can give my people what they want. Admittedly, this is in part due to the nature of what my team does and the visible quality of our work (not IT, btw). So far so good.

The problem is other managers. Other Xers and a couple of Boomers. They see my department getting all this stuff, and they start getting paranoid their departments (or other companies; we are a conglomerate) will start demanding the same. And they do not understand WFH, worse they are afraid of it. Likewise with all the QoL and work/life balance stuff. And if their people found out about the raises my people got, oh boy would that be a problem for the other managers.

That’s often where the real fight inside companies is, between managers vying with each to determine which way the company will go, or to, at least, to keep their part of it a nice ecosystem to work in. Fear of change is a big factor.

“If you saw someone stealing food, no you didn’t.”

Broadcasting “no contact Israel” or similar is novel. Broadcasting “armed guards aboard” has been going on for at least a decade.

Totally agree about Obama’s well intentioned but ultimately disastrous attempt to reach across the aisle. He had two miraculous years to change it all, and blew it on trying to reconcile two utterly incompatible views of what America should be. Noble, but in the end foolish.

If you are right, it won’t really matter who takes the blame. Part of me thinks you are right, but the better part of me is still fighting.

Long story short, I don’t know that I consider Biden a pragmatic alternative at this point.

I get you, and you’re not wrong with the rest of what you wrote. The R’s have had a coherent game plan since Nixon and executed on it well enough (and had enough lucky accidents) to engineer exactly this kind of election.

The choice is whether or not the US continues as a representative democracy. This time it’s no hyperbole; it’s a truly binary decision for the future. And I’m afraid unless the D’s grow a real backbone, every election for the foreseeable future is going to be a response to an existential threat.

But the R’s cannot win. On this we can all agree.

I forgave his sins and allowed myself to miss him. The magpies in my back garden agreed with this.

Me either but as a CIS Het dude, I may be unlikely to notice it. Can anyone tell me more? Serious question, want to be part of the solution here.

The author is on Mastodon, and I just sent her a message about this Lemmy post. So, I suppose we’ll see.

I personally think you are wrong since the original source is reputable. BUT I too find it a bit odd no one else seems to have picked up on this sensational piece.

If nothing else, perhaps we can use your doubt to raise awareness of this story.

Very helpful, saved me time while at work, thanks!

I’m curious for a friend (really!) I see we can get this OTC in a cream or other topical application format, but the article references a pill.

Generally speaking one molecule is not efficacious a both topical and oral routes - any idea about this one?