

So correct. The time to chill out is after we have all talked to each other instead of solving it all on our own.
A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.
So correct. The time to chill out is after we have all talked to each other instead of solving it all on our own.
Way too complex!
Stop stewing.
Seek comfort in the counsel of friends!
Oh that’s the point though. Even people who don’t think they are “well-connected” are just a few hops from Kevin Bacon. Or a person who works at a bank during a banking crisis. Lots of folks know people who work at a bank.
The point is to stop stewing and start asking. Ask anyone who might know even a bit more than you on a particular thing.
Doesn’t that seem healthy?
Horse feathers, he has always been a Nazi. It’s not something you suddenly catch like the flu. There is no period in his adult life where he has not had these filthy ideas.
He is about as ‘controversial’ as his Nazi salutes.
Let’s clarify. It is perfectly acceptable to vandalize Elon Musk. We are here discussing the morality of defacing vehicles he did not invent, but somehow manages to get paid for anyway.
Elsevier and Nature Group are for-profit. That is the problem. Once profit is involved, morals and ideals go out the window
Now that’s what I call fun!
Nonetheless it is in no way a phage. What might it be, do you think?
I know it’s a joke meme, but I did not achieve my grand success in life by being ‘fun’. It’s just not my thing ;)
Yeah looks like a diatom skeleton. And the scale is quite wrong
It’s probably partly generational. I mean the old guard got pensions and we get wtevs.
People who aren’t in leadership often have no idea how to judge actual merit anyway. Especially among engineers who often develop very myopic views informed by their tech specialties. I am often gob-smacked by the incredibly stupid ideas otherwise brilliant engineers have about how the world works.
So sadly folks like your brother are probably feeling validated for their racist feelings right now.
Thank you.
Yes, I agree black and white categories aren’t the ideal way to describe people.
But there comes a time when nuance is used against the compassionate to normalize reprehensible actions. We are in that time now.
It is for these reasons that I cannot stand listening to NPR anymore. The ineffectual hand wringing and disingenuous ’liberal self-reflection’ is tiresome and we are well past the time for thoughtful think-pieces.
The way it is playing out in my family has led me to have to totally reevaluate my perception of my own father.
He is a generally kind man. He stayed with my mom for two decades as she declined with Parkinson’s. He took good care of her when so many people might have ghosted.
But based on his inability to see the danger here to things he himself values, I can no longer think of him as a good man. He has always valued knowledge and reason yet he swallowed the cat-eating crap out of Ohio in spite of the clear bullshit of it.
He is Mormon and very faithful. So I don’t know what he gets out of this all, except that it has required me to grieve him before his passing.
He is not actually a good person I am afraid, but he is very obedient. Learning that distinction is very painful. He does not possess the moral clarity to know the difference between what is legal/popular and what is right.
I always idolized my dad as a child because he was in so many ways a good father. We will probably never speak again.
Because we like blaming victims. It keeps them easy to victimize if you can convince them it’s their failure.
I’m sticking with “cult”. I just apply it liberally to include the old-money cults like the 31 flavors of Christianity. Cults BITE and you can find at least some of that kind of control in many widespread and socially acceptable groups.
Yes ‘cult’ is pejorative and that’s exactly the meaning I intend to convey when I use it.
The wife-swappin’, land-speculatin’, rootin’-tootin’ rascals we know and love, The Mormons™️!
I think it would depend on our previous interactions.  Think of texting. When you barely know someone and you text them, it’s usually straight forward ’who, what, when, where, how’ sorts of info. But when you text an old friend you may allude to old inside jokes or other ’insider’ references that would be ambiguous to a stranger. You ‘hallucinate’ to fill in the meaning from previous context.
Thus a text from a good friend entails more ‘hallucination’ than a text from a new work colleague.
No problem! Say hi to the rabbits!
I was born into North America’s Own Original Real Estate Sex Cult. I coped by learning about all the other cool cults out there. Turns out they are all really about getting locals to pay for real estate owned by the inner circle.
My Trump supporting relatives can swim in their own cesspool. If they show even a hint of self-awareness then I may be moved to care or offer support.
However while they cling to that belief system, they are on their own. Karma is a bitch, ain’t she?
Could easily be SGI too, they have some very culty elements to their practices. And they are all over with many convenient locations, like all the best cults.
Scruffy the janitor knows more than you about toilets, boilers and boilng toilets. Think to ask him when the bowl is steaming.
I’m just saying maybe we should all get out more?