Edit: while I’m at it, does anyone know what I should do when I’m waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can’t really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don’t know what I’m looking for.
I am a UC employee, our union informed us that we’re currently not allowed to do a sympathy strike and that they are going to be fighting this contract clause so we could.
I mentioned to someone how I think there should be more hands-on learning in schools and he told me to look up Waldorf schools. Very interesting to say the least. Rudolf Steiner had very unique philosophies, some very weird or outright morally questionable, but some that I think were an appropriate reaction to the “thinking in...
The con for me is that each individual school interprets the concept in their own way with no oversight. The one I was looking into for my kid many years ago was so strict with their rules it was scary. We did a trial day with my kid and we were instructed to not eat anything in the morning because breakfast is a very important part of the start of the day.
Breakfast prep with all the serving, singing and saying gratitudes took almost an hour, for a bunch of very small kids some of which had to get up at 5 am so that they could make it to school on time. It was excruciating to watch and they were clearly very hungry.
This ceremony approach continued through the rest of the day, with every little thing taking a lot of time and every kid was expected to religiously play along. It was enough for me to nope out and I didn’t look into it anymore.
If being run over counts as an accident I’ve had a heavy truck blast past me a foot away from my face because the guy decided that all the other cars that stopped in front of the crossing to let me go were just slow idiots.
More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....
I mean not only it doesn’t do anything for UCLA and others, they’re also striking for the union that screwed them with their contract. I really don’t understand any of this.
I feel like NYT just wants Trump back so they can continue with their righteous bullshit about Gaza. Their recent questionable “polls” are very reassuring about that.
If I were one of these people slated to take the flight I would nope the fuck out. This is what they found, how many more issues are they going to “find”(because they kept quiet about it like they always do) once this thing takes off?
I dream every night and it is always some kind of a crazy bizarre acid trip that may morph into a nightmare on occasion if I had a bad day or something is weighing on my mind. I’ve had this all my life and sometimes when I don’t dream (which is extremely rare for me) it feels weird waking up.
But that’s the regular stuff, the insane stuff is that I have dreams that reoccur and evolve for decades, and it’s like getting a new season of a show that you watched two years ago, but with new characters and plot lines.
That’s exactly what the consultants are for and hiring them is an easy, low-cost (in the grand scheme of things) way of shifting responsibility aka “I don’t want to do any decision making that may and will be detrimental to the company so I will hire an “expert” to do it for me”.
I comment a lot on stories having to do with state governments and legislation or regions of the country. It got me wondering how many people I’m accidentally disparaging when I don’t mean everyone in said state or region is terrible. So… Please be as specific or obtuse as your privacy filter requires. I’ll start:...
Yeah, way too expensive for us as well so we’re actually planning on moving to the other side of the bay. We are not renting, thankfully, but we’re pretty squeezed and moving elsewhere in Santa Cruz requires paying ridiculous amounts of money I cannot justify.
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
When I moved to USA it blew my mind that there’s no hedgehogs here naturally, I was so used to having them around I kinda thought they’re everywhere. I miss them. Hedgehogs are cool.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned (www.theverge.com)
What is a quote that captures something you've learnt through living your life?
Edit: while I’m at it, does anyone know what I should do when I’m waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can’t really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don’t know what I’m looking for.
University of California Union’s Gaza Solidarity Strike Spreads Across Campuses (truthout.org)
Blue had round two of antibiotics today. (lemmy.world)
Teeth due to be pulled in July. 😔...
TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS (www.bbc.com)
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TIL of Waldorf schools (en.m.wikipedia.org)
I mentioned to someone how I think there should be more hands-on learning in schools and he told me to look up Waldorf schools. Very interesting to say the least. Rudolf Steiner had very unique philosophies, some very weird or outright morally questionable, but some that I think were an appropriate reaction to the “thinking in...
What's the closest you've come to having a car accident?
What do you wear for work?
Why UC grad students are going out on strike (calmatters.org)
More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....
They Supported Biden in 2020. What Made Them Change Their Minds in 2024? (www.nytimes.com)
Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross....
Helium leak delays Boeing’s historic Starliner mission at least another week (www.cnn.com)
Do you dream? How often?
I saw another thread talking about dreams, I’ve had less than a handful of dreams throughout my life....
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/0KvTq
USA Lemmies: Where do you live?
I comment a lot on stories having to do with state governments and legislation or regions of the country. It got me wondering how many people I’m accidentally disparaging when I don’t mean everyone in said state or region is terrible. So… Please be as specific or obtuse as your privacy filter requires. I’ll start:...
In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
Sam Bankman-Fried has a new currency to trade in prison: rice (www.businessinsider.com)
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