99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.
Curiously, no one at my work takes it very well when I tell them a lack of planning on their part does not constitute an emergency on my part, but I am being 100% genuine when I say that. Actual emergencies are things like fires, earthquakes, prison riots, or someone choking on a piece of fish and turning blue. Most so-called "emergencies" are driven by either ego or laziness and I refuse to treat them with anything but annoyance.
I once witnessed a correctional administrator (a glorified prison guard) try to dictate to an architect how to arrange load-bearing walls; the architect used some profanity that was new to me and refused to do it because "when it collapses it's my fucking license they'll pull, not yours!"
Deeply agreed. As a manager, I was trained to prepare for contingencies, but you don't dwell in those contingencies. You try to anticipate possible complications (within reason), determine possible courses of action in response, and then move on with your life until and unless things develop. You don't obsess because that blinds you to other possibilities you might not have thought of.
The first step is training yourself, as a man, not to feel offended when you notice a woman keeping her distance from you or keeping her barriers up. Recognize that she probably has a good reason for that, especially if you're a large or assertive man; her life experience has probably given her cause to be cautious. Don't double-down on your assertiveness, show some respect for her right to be cautious. Everyone has the right to exist free of fear.
I fully expect an opinion that reads: "Bullshit. Bullshit-bullshit-bullshit. Bullshit. COMPLETE BULLSHIT. Go to jail. GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200."
"To this day in 2024, thousands of children are forced into child marriage in the United States—and Republicans seem to want to keep it that way. With several thousand documented child marriages every year—some involving as children as young as 10—we need need legislative solutions and penalties for those who exploit children. But where do we begin? Let’s Address This."
I am loving this entire process so much. I have been out of patience with this guy's endless shenanigans and manipulations for a very long time, and it's nice to see a judge quickly reaching that same level of fed up.
What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?
I was not at all popular for most of my high school years, but I didn't particularly care, either. I thought most of the popular kids were absolute tools anyway, so I just stuck to myself and did my own thing.
All that changed when I joined the ROTC near the end of my junior year. I found a purpose and a role and a group of people I really liked being around, and sometime during my senior year I realized I actually was pretty popular within that group. It was a weird feeling.
Imagine being the guy who has to somehow justify in his own head the idea that kids shouldn't be allowed to eat even when the means are readily available. How does a person like that even sleep at night?
People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.
You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿♂️
Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person
I've often found that the people in America who are the loudest proponents of English becoming the official language of the United States are also deeply uncomfortable with anyone who is actually fluent in it.
So my espresso machine, which had an estimated delivery of April 1 or 2 still hasn't moved. I called them...
Despite SAYING it was in stock in Canada, it's not. It's coming from the southern US. That will take ~15 days, then hit customs, then finally to me. I cannot track it until it hits Canada. And I can't do anything about it.
My nerd may be showing, but in one particular series of #StarTrek novels it was hypothesized that a certain species of people actually required four partners in order to procreate. But then it was hypothesized that, for purposes of biological reproduction, an arrangement like that might be less successful in the long term (more opportunities for something to go wrong).