Reasons being a designer for a university is maddening #3942:
Everyone thinks an "info sheet" is an engaging piece of content that will drive participation in their program
So during orientation the plan is to hand freshmen folders full of "info sheets" so they're "aware" of your programs and the benefits and they can "make an informed decision", and in theory this is supposed to boost program attendance
Do my fellow sales and marketing professionals see what's wrong with this concept?
They're aware only that this is something they should do
Which is what haunts them as they proceed to not do it, because your program is now just one of a hundred "info sheets" they were told would be really valuable on their first day, and in their desperation to figure out what's really important they concluded none of it was important
Most of you went to school here and have worked here a long time, you already know what they're going to do with your "info sheet"
yes, disrespecting the experienced marketer and micromanaging your content to your own demise is not really all that crazy: it's normal levels of crazy
What's over the top is watching shit not work and deciding it should stay that way: that you would like to contribute more broken shit and call it a day
You do not need to condemn Hamas to condemn Israel. Israel's actions against the Palestinian people are crimes regardless. It is not antisemitism to hold Israel accountable for Israel's actions
Did Hamas also do something condemnable? Certainly, but don't change the subject.
Lookin at you Daniel Kurtzer of Haaretz, who wants to know why Palestinians won't condemn US student protestors who support Hamas, as if a couple extreme quote pulls can compare to a literal active genocide
Even if we take up the (deliberately false, propagandistic, purposefully twisted) assumption that phrases like "palestine will be free" are intended to be calls for the genocide of Jews,
Such rhetoric in that capacity still would not justify literal genocide as a response: genocide is not in any way a form of self-defense, justice, or accountability
Be very skeptical of recommendations that you build your process around stakeholders contributing work
This generally signals that there was insufficient buy-in to start the process and the extra time and effort required from your stakeholders doesn't earn you a lot of gratitude like it's supposed to
They'd rather have been included in the decision to build or not to build something, than be asked to help build something they might not even want
an essential part of the history and ideology of the Soviet Union is that the partisan dictatorship tasked itself with acting in order to bring about Communism
Like, it's not that Stalin was viewed by anyone as a good guy revolutionary, it's that the negative outcomes were viewed as the byproduct of technical-political solutions intended to eventually create Communism
So when you point to that stuff like "Communism is bad" what you're really observing is "they never had it"
So, like, this is not a heart-warming story of poverty don't read it that way, everyone would be better off if everyone had been paid better for the last 40 years
That said something I really admired my mom for doing once or twice was taking PTO to work at a Christmas tree farm, so she got paid double those days while making wreaths by the fire and listening to dulcimers and watching revolutionary war reenactors encamp
Apparently there are Islamic lodges of freemasonry and I should have known that but wow
Having flashbacks to 6 weeks ago when teach was casually glossing over a discussion of whether God is subordinate to Justice or if Justice is subordinate to God and wow
Not sure if he accidentally coincidentally threw out what should have been an obvious clue or if he's secretly a massive nerd for western esoteric philosophy and was dropping references on purpose, but either way
The Masonic answer, by the way, is very specifically "neither": for Masons, justice is a byproduct of wisdom. God's limit is his own perfect wisdom: He's way too smart to make an imperfect (i.e., unjust) command. The fingerprint of divinity on Earth is that humans can occasionally be wise, too