#Europe#USA#Work#WorkingHours#QualityOfLife: "In short, most Americans would probably prefer European working hours. It is just that their employers, and the cost of health insurance, get in the way. The US offers big prizes for finishing top, and big punishments for finishing bottom. That is partly why Europe exports its most ambitious strivers there.
But few Americans win the big prizes. Many others end up overworked and unhappy, albeit in big houses and cars. In the latest World Happiness Report — a partnership between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and the UN — the US finished 23rd for self-reported happiness. Nordic countries took the top spots. As the Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein observed: “It is now clear that, from the many societal models that have been tried since the breakthrough of industrialism, social research can point to a winner in terms of human wellbeing and this is the Nordic model.”
Even Tangen seems to like it. He has taken enough leisure time to build up the world’s largest collection of Nordic modernist art (the sort of activity the typical New York hedge-funder would not do alone), and enjoys holidays in his summerhouse."
Is there a term for the concept of switching all (or as much) of your digital life to old school text based interfaces for the purpose of reducing sensory input, convenience and dopamine traps? Is there a community for that and how many useful tools are there for that? #computers#digitallife#qualityoflife#add#adhd#linux
But the bar steward (who apparently ‘reads’ his briefs) would rather stoke anger amid misinformation in order to maintain his sh*t excuse for a maladministration.
I lived in places with higher taxes and higher community services, and places with lower taxes and lower community services — the latter locations suffer profoundly. #QualityOfLife
It breaks my heart but I just decided that Friday’s appointment is too long a wait for #FridaTheBasset given her increasing difficulties eating, so I’ve moved up the #Euthanasia to late Wednesday. This is so painful for me. But I try to imagine what she’s going through and I think it’s the right, generous, humane thing to do. #Dignity#QualityOfLife
When my time comes, if only it could be this easy, for a human too.
Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.
Please folks, it is important that you go post your comments to the CDC, everyone needs this vaccine, not just immunocompromised and people over 75! https://newsie.social/
But it's not old farts (I'm one) being hospitalized or dying that I worry about.
It's the impacts of #LongCovid which hit not just the infected person, but their family, their friends, their coworkers - and especially their children, who might have a hard time dealing with the reality that this wonderful parent has changed in a major way
There's death, and also #qualityoflife. Some of us value the latter.