The 19 words: “…because democracy basically meaningless…” (pause) “Government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are [fools].”

I’m inserting “fools” cuz I don’t wanna use outdated insults.

That would be called vacation time vs sick time in my org, but there are definitely differences in when/how they’re used.

Sick time is like, “I don’t feel good today, I’m just not working today.”

Vacation time is like, “I’m feeling pretty good today, I’d like to take a feel-good day. But I better schedule schedule it a couple weeks out, check with my manager, make sure there are no deadlines coming up, make sure someone else can cover for me,” and so on.

This is… silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.

I casually bicycle around town and like to see who I can keep up with to test how fast I am. More and more folks have ebikes now and it’s getting way less fun.

I encourage others to seek treatment for mental health issues if ever necessary, and I’ve heard a few success stories of people who got the help they needed from a psychiatric inpatient stay. But I’ll be honest, shit like this really worries me.

I’ve been living with depression for many years now. It terrifies me to imagine what a full-blown crisis would be like – not just because of what I might do, but also because of what the health care system might do to me.

This thread surprises me. Excel is fine, but I’ve seen people do so many silly things with it that it makes me dread having to use it. It’s like they treat every cell as its own special little canvas… Oh, you wanna randomly change the date format from mm/dd/yyyy to dd-Mmm-yy mid-column? With Excel, anything is possible.

Maybe I just don’t work well with others.

We’re already using that on the org chart.

Banned from club: penguins

The answer is still no.

Shout-out to all my homies who are tired all day, avoid screens before bed, read for a bit, journal, do mindful meditation, and take melatonin, but nonetheless lie in bed staring at their eyelids for 2 hours before slipping into a kind of restless unconsciousness that’s too long and groggy to be a nap but too short to be a refreshing night of sleep.

Unhelpful idea: practice as-is until you’re good enough to beat it in one sitting

…maybe…

What if this was just a scheme to get everyone free monitoring

It’s like seeing someone with their pants zipper down.

lol what about at the beginning, or what if i giggle in another way at the end hehe

I feel like I’ve never heard this before, ever.

If only it were so easy

Where article? Am I stupid?