Any doctor recommending The Secret and its pseudoscientific nonsense?
Yea well, thats bootlicking at best.
Theres self gratitude, self-compassion, and then theres passive, agency-annihilating fealty.
"In 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich published Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America as a reaction to self-help books such as The Secret, claiming that they promote political complacency and a failure to engage with reality."
By Keith @keetmuise
The first billboard is up in St John’s Newfoundland!!!
Long Covid Ruins Lives, Mask Up!!
#Covid19 #MaskUp #christmas #LongCovid #CovidIsAirborne @auscovid19
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/keetmuise/status/1732912278125641944
"We were told to get back out there for the economy, but how can the economy withstand endless cuts to our human capital? What price will we pay for allowing this much illness, this much long-term health damage, year after year? Two per cent of the adult population unable to function at work? Five per cent? Ten per cent? Shouldn’t we hit the brakes now?"
Yes, we fucking should.
“It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course.” > Prioritizing the economy over health will sink both https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-this-is-a-pandemic-of-attrition #CovidIsNotOver @[email protected]
Those who follow me on The Bad Place have heard me repeat this a thousand times, but once more won't hurt.
Election security is incredibly complex, full of seemingly impossible tradeoffs. But disinformation about supposed "rigged" elections is perhaps the most serious threat to election integrity today.
The best defense is to learn how elections actualy work! Becoming a poll worker is a great way to do that
Also, this National Academies study is a terrific resource:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy
If you require candidates to have 5+ years of experience at anything, then the job you are hiring for is by definition NOT "entry level."
#hiring #FairPay #JobDescriptions
EDIT: I'm getting some pushback on this, so let me make the following clarification:
If you require candidates to have 5+ years of experience at anything, then the job you are hiring for is by definition NOT "entry level," YOU STUPID ASSHOLE.