It takes six months from “we need a new person with these skills” to “ok here’s the job posting,” ??? And if in those six months the required skills change a bit, you can’t just tweak the job posting and instead have to start over from scratch???

Your company has serious issues that are wasting everyone’s time and need to be addressed. Stop making excuses for wasting people’s time.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am convinced that was Russia!s proof-of-concept for what would become their information warfare against democracy.

I find myself increasingly having to consider this possibility when I interact with people online. Are they well meaning, or are they actively trying to sabotage progress. Maybe they’re well meaning but have succumbed to the arguments of others actively trying to sabotage progress. 🤷

RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of much better.

Edit: And honestly, I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be applauding every city, county and state that switches to any of them.

Trying to demonize one because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless.

A finger waggle, perhaps.

It shows that there is bipartisan support for it among rank and file voters. It’s really just the politicians that know that they wouldn’t stand a chance of winning under such a system that are against it.

Sadly, there are people that would completely agree with this statement, and not detect an ounce of sarcasm.

Yeah, but… Where is that? /s

It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.

In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄

Tangent: Whenever the news reports a major earthquake somewhere, I like to remind people that Plate Tectonic Theory is “just a theory” and that some religious leaders confidently assure us that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.

How Lewis cleans up this mammoth of a mess that he has created for himself remains to be seen. Can he do it? One wonders what Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Post, who must be growing quite tired of constantly seeing his newspaper ensnared in controversy, thinks of the situation. Inside the newsroom, though, the sentiment is plain as day.

“He’s really losing the newsroom on a large scale,” a staffer said, sizing up the state of affairs. “People don’t trust him, don’t believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.”

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

That attitude/idea can lead to blaming the marginalized group for their own victimhood.

Probably a dumb question, but how so?

I just see it as beating the bully with their own stick. I can’t imagine how anyone would see that and conclude that the bully’s victims are somehow to blame. Probably lack of imagination on my part, so help me out.

Looks like a prime example of Godwin’s Law

https://xkcd.com/1053/

My first thought in situations like this is that maybe he secretly wishes he were a she. It’s true just often enough that I think it’s worth considering as an option.

And honestly, I don’t care if it’s true or not. If, whenever a public figure publicly tries to humiliate or demonize some minority group, public discourse immediately starts talking about whether said public figure secretly is, or wants to be, a member of said minority group, then it serves as a deterrent for others wanting to humiliate or demonize minority groups.

A) You’re in the closet and don’t want people to know? Then don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

B) Oh, you’re not in the closet and don’t want people to think you are? What a coincidence. Also, don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

… that made any such interference a criminal offence. If the conduct continued, he added, “my office will not hesitate to act”.

If they’ve already committed a crime… then what’s with the fucking warning? This is why the rich and powerful think that they’re above the law. It’s because, apparently, they are.

Yeah, I want to see the TST’s tenets up there next to the commandments. That ought to stimulate some interesting discussions.

For those not familiar,

One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.

Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.

People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

Source

I feel like I’ve been down voting a lot of posts linking to garbage articles on sciencealert. Starting to think it’s not a very reputable source of information.