Uh yeah… Some did say things to that effect.
And there are other behaviours that can demonstrate that mindset.
But thank you for mansplaining my lived experience, champ. Couldn’t have navigated that one with my pea sized, woman’s brain.
I go through life making snap judgements of people I hire and don’t at all try to find common ground or empathise with their position, because I love pissing money up the wall and endless recruitment processes. Just floats my boat, you know
Used to work in digital design. By pure happenstance the foundational initial team on a major project was all women and we recognised that wasn’t a good balance in terms of external perception but also in terms of getting different perspectives on design approaches.
We managed to recruit some great blokes, but they were hard to find. So many of the new dudes didn’t work out because it was so obvious how inferior they perceived us women to be. Very few of them had the skills to warrant any level of arrogance, let alone full blown superiority complex.
It was disappointing.
In the, admittedly terrible, movie Moonfall (2022) they use his tech and one of the main characters keeps saying things like “God I love Elon”. I guess it was under development in years previous but we long knew that he was a babyish edgelord (see behaviour over the rescue of the Thai soccer team in 2018).
Seems shortsighted to make him such a focus.
They were huddled in groups, so clearly friends. Not just kids going to the same school.
Driving past a school the other day this is what I saw re the kids waiting for the bus/to be picked up
None of them were talking to each other. Just staring at their phones. Just seemed sad.
Went to the movies the other day. Two women in their 60s were regularly lighting up the row by reading text messages and their message tones kept going off throughout. When the movie ended and me and my friend were discussing what we thought of it, those two just sat silently playing with their phones.
I’m regularly almost side swiped driving by soccer mums my age (late 30s) looking at their phones rather than the road, with a bunch of kids in the back, all on their phones.
They’re important devices and critical for the world we live in. But it’s not healthy to be indifferent to the world around you while you stare at these rectangles, all the time.
It’s not just one generation. The boomers are shocking. But we’re letting down alpha.
Same? I’m really confused which ads they’re taking about
What am I missing with the toadstool?
We have a couple of bikes in our garage. In Australian summers it gets to a minimum of 50°c in there. No explosions to date.
Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog lobs low blow
Australian.
Vegemite and cheese sandwiches/on toast. Or Devon and tomato sauce sandwiches. Pretty standard in most houses for young kids.
Omg I loved this game!!! Such a cathartic thing to do after a shitty day at work.
Endless dog shit and women coerced to mount a geriatric?
The fuckwit who clearly abandoned them aside, this is just so so sad. I hope they just felt sleepy before they went.
Australia has a few but the main one is. Lifeline https://www.lifeline.org.au/
It’s manned by volunteers. You can call, text or chat online.
Ergh I’m guilty of repeating this bullshit when I was younger. It had been sold to me as a fact, not in what I perceived was a racist context per se - more a ‘oh cool, lucky them, that makes sense gestures at basketball’ way. Believe me, I get it now. Also, my mum’s black… Where did I get this bullshit from? White men can’t jump?
Mm dunno if you ever read the qanon casualties posts on Reddit. There’s no discussing or reasoning with the people who have fallen prey to believing this shit. And if often leads to financial ruin. Blocking access to those sites is, for many, like taking the car keys away from an elderly parent who will only hurt themselves and others if you don’t intervene.
In this example the word ‘and’ could convey:
The comma in this example provides a list effect, it’s naming two groups but not implying that they’re the only ones affected.
‘inherent value’?
Don’t be gross
Half the emails in my junk inbox are ‘class action settlement’ emails, so it’s definitely an angle they’re trying (presumably with some success)
This was great, thanks for posting!