In the tech industry there is a belief that there are "technical" and "non-technical" roles, and that legitimacy in the non-technical roles is dependent on being technical enough. So all these folk in essential roles are meant to be technical but have chosen the non-technical (and typically therefore lower paying) roles because they have some personal passion for whatever the non-technical role is.
@grimalkina@sue
In some professions the answer is "licensed". Having borrowed titles like "engineer" and "architect" without defining terms, education, or testing competence, how does anyone in the tech business really know?
So many people - including journalists - don't realize that American Republicans/conservative Christians have been waging a low-key religious war across the planet for decades. The only thing that's changed is they now feel comfortable talking about it out loud more often, and openly acting on it. The sides of this war are them vs everyone who might oppose them.
Book review#15 for 2024 C. Raymond Calhoun's Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945. The writer was an officer aboard the Sterett from its commissioning in 1939 until a combat wound required him to leave the ship in 1943. The emotional bond the crew had with one another is something that came out in the writing.
☕☕☕☕+ #navalhistory#ww2#memoir#books#bookreview@bookstodon@books
@glitzersachen@pattykimura@BrianJopek
It was probably a 1970 edition, not sure of the author. I gave mine away in the 80's. I kept a "Parker's Simplified Engineering".
@flexghost
Sick since March 3, not Covid. A cold that became bronchitis. The worst is over, but the voice takes a while to recover. I'm still a soprano after all these years, but currently sound like an alto or tenor.
@vt52 @toxy@RickiTarr
More Fugazi, NIN, Tool...
and hard bop to Bitches Brew. The girl in black did a lot of performing for many years - choral, solo, quartet, jazz piano and jazz bass.
Y'all I realized that I have a really bad tendency of not looking people in the face especially strangers, it feels really intimate for some reason, does anyone else do this or have suggestions for being better about it?
@RickiTarr
Think about the elevator speech/greeting. You have about 30 seconds. That's it. If you are looking at their face when you introduce yourselves, you have a better chance of remembering their face.
This chart is really interesting to me, because it's something I've been thinking about lately. People of all ages have different kinds of intelligence, and perspectives to offer no matter the age.
