MattsAlt
joined 3 years ago
The guy getting his haircut has dreads and the barber is holding just a comb. What is going on.
Depends on who you're talking to, some consider it as part due to cultural similarities. The ambiguity of what is 'the middle east' is part of the racism towards the area according to some of the middle east history classes I've had
Practically means you're voting for her too with his chances of dying in office or being debilitated are high. Hell, he may get COVID with this new wave and all the people he interacts with traveling due to worldwide conflicts hitting fever pitches
Just used to that authentic ground roach flavor you can't get anywhere else
There's certainly a reason hardcore activists in the environmentalist and animal rights movements were targeted so heavily. I'm partial to the belief that it's something way too many people might empathize with or even worse, copy. It's also a pipeline into real leftism and anti-capitalism that can't be countered with muh 100 gorgiollion dead from cummunism
Do some research about the company, find a recent news story that relates to the role you're interviewing for or some press release they did, form one of your "Do you have any questions for us?" to involve that. Makes higher ups feel important and like normal people care about the company.
Another I used with decent success was to ask at the end if anything brought up during the interview or on your resume was something they had reservations about that way you have an opportunity to answer rather than it just lingering in their head.
Depends on your role, if it's technical this doesn't work as well, but if it's more people oriented I usually end by asking about their dream vacation. It leaves them feeling happy thinking about it because higher ups usually want to flaunt some vacation they just took and get to reminisce then they invariably ask you and you have a chance to humanize yourself because they rarely ask about your hobbies or interests in my experience. Saving it til the end means you're a bit more memorable with the good experience they now associate and makes any concerns stick out less
I'm conflicted, as I do believe that action for the sake of the climate is morally correct, but that these actions aren't accomplishing much of anything at this point.
Andreas Malm has done a few talks about XR, Just Stop Oil, or Insulate Brittain vs groups like Tyre Extinguishers, Ende Gelända, or Les Soulèvements de la Terre: his conclusion is that the former groups have done some amount of good with consciousness raising but at this point those who are going to be moved or sympathetic have been 'activated' and further nuisance activities alone will not advance the cause further and could instead harden people against the movement because it is action that is seemingly targeting 'regular people' and not the ones responsible for the situation we are in. He commends the groups for targeting banks and other institutions but doesn't believe actions like blocking roads for the sake of doing so (obstruction of access to specific targets is another story) or throwing powder on a game advance the cause.
He goes on to say that arrests should never been seen as some kind of virtuous thing and instead should be seen as failures because it is taking people out of the movement and making their further contributions more difficult and potentially dangerous for their continued freedom.
I generally defend blocking roads as an act of protest, but I also understand the idea that there needs to be further escalation targeting the actual polluters because you will never turn all of the western public to your side.
Here are a couple of the talks I'm referring to, interesting to listen to the perspectives:
Actually that's part of the bus, we no longer have drivers, part of kids working now is fusing them to heavy machinery
The example used in Bullshit Jobs is nurses vs doctors. Nurses do much more work but are paid significantly less. I'm sure there are areas where doctors are more specialized, however I've heard plenty of stories of nurses catching potentially lethal mistakes by doctors. Either way, the medical field needs more people so the end of overworking can stop these mistakes and improve patient care
I'm making a career move from bullshit tech sales to engineering. My prospects with a sought after degree from a highly ranked program pay what I made in my first year of tech sales without a degree or requirements to get licensed to eventually stamp plans that make me legally responsible for failures. End of career pay is about a quarter of what end of career pay in tech sales was. It's absurd
He uses striking bankers vs trash collectors in the book as an example. Banker strike went on for weeks and people were trading checks like paper currency while the sanitation worker strike lasted 5 days after the city was swimming in garbage