https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-write-thank-you-email-after-job-interview-2019-4
Interesting.
«we look to hire “good eggs.” The thank-you email is a mark for the good-egg column.»
https://twitter.com/C_doc_911/status/1114126734486659072?s=17
I see we’re moving on to dehumanizing the people we don’t like.
𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕖☤ (@C_doc_911) Tweeted:
One of the worst criminals to ever inhabit the White House says illegals aren’t people, “they’re animals”. https://t.co/jG9fFJ11A1
http://genocidewatch.org/genocide/tenstagesofgenocide.html
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/7/14456154/dehumanization-psychology-explained
Good article. There are solutions, I’m sure (e.g., regulation), and we should pursue them, but also: we humans have individual responsibilities in what we do, on and off the web.
Just “solving” the problem is not enough.
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/
This is really a nicely-written article, and I recommend the whole thing, which I couldn’t stop reading. Excerpts:
«I will now add as a very truthful disclaimer that the horrible parents constituted at most 25 percent of the total, that the rest weren’t just unobjectionable, but many—perhaps most—were lovely people who were so wise about parenting that when I had children of my own, I often remembered things they had told me. But that 25 percent was a lesson that a lifetime of reading novels hadn’t yet taught me. In the classroom I was Jane Eyre, strong and tranquil in the truth of my gifts; in the college-counseling office, I was the nameless heroine of Rebecca, running up and down the servant stairs at the Hôtel d’Azur as Mrs. Van Hopper barked at me.
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Anyone can understand a parent’s disappointment if he had thought for 17 years that his child would go to Yale one day, only to learn that it’s not in the cards. But what accounted for the intensity of emotion these parents expressed, their sense of a profound loss, of rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs? They were experiencing the same response to a changing America that ultimately brought Donald Trump to office: white displacement and a revised social contract. The collapse of manufacturing jobs has been to poor whites what the elite college-admissions crunch has been to wealthy ones: a smaller and smaller slice of pie for people who were used to having the fattest piece of all.
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These parents—many of them avowed Trump haters—are furious that what once belonged to them has been taken away, and they are driven mad with the need to reclaim it for their children. The changed admissions landscape at the elite colleges is the aspect of American life that doesn’t feel right to them; it’s the lost thing, the arcadia that disappeared so slowly they didn’t even realize it was happening until it was gone. They can’t believe it—they truly can’t believe it—when they realize that even the colleges they had assumed would be their child’s back-up, emergency plan probably won’t accept them. They pay thousands and thousands of dollars for untimed testing and private counselors; they scour lists of board members at colleges, looking for any possible connections; they pay for enhancing summer programs that only underscore their children’s privilege. And—as poor whites did in the years leading up to 2016—they complain about it endlessly. At every parent coffee, silent auction, dinner party, Clippers game, book club, and wine tasting, someone is bitching about admissions. And some of these parents, it turns out, haven’t just been bitching; some of them decided to go MAGA.»
We have our own Torquemada, righteous and cruel. No surprise from the “frozen trucker” judge.
«Gorsuch brushed aside this claim as “foreclosed by precedent”; the words “all Eighth Amendment claims” in Glossip, he wrote, mean that no “as applied” appeal can ever be heard. Such an aggressive reading of one word—”all”—is at best sloppy judging. Glossip didn’t decide the “as applied” question or even, really, refer to it. Bucklew’s claims might be wrong, but they were not “foreclosed.”
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For at least 60 years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the ban on “cruel and unusual punishments” is not limited to the ideas prevalent in the 18th century (when crimes were sometimes punished by hanging, whipping, branding, and even mutilation). Instead, in a 1958 case called Trop v. Dulles, the Court said that “the words of the Amendment are not precise, and … their scope is not static”; instead, it “must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” This is a hugely important precedent, invoked dozens of times since then. …. It is nothing less than vital to protecting American society from the growing clamor for barbaric treatment of the powerless. But the majority opinion pretended that Trop did not exist, instead turning to a repellent discussion of how much it hurt to be hanged in the 18th century (rather a lot, apparently) and whether drowning in your own blood is really all that much worse.
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“There are higher values than ensuring that executions run on time,” she wrote.
One might expect the author of Gorsuch’s book to agree with that. That Gorsuch was big on human values. “All persons innately have dignity and are worthy of respect without regard to some perceived value based on some instrumental scale of usefulness or merit,” that Gorsuch wrote.
That Gorsuch was not on the bench Monday.»
https://twitter.com/briantashman/status/1113118042186285059
So, this is how we roll now. Pay attention.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1113102143341424642.html
«1) My husband and I were at the @BetoORourke rally and I want to tell you what really happened. It was a packed house when these two men pushed their way in. They were together as a group and talking about where to hold the poster when they pushed by us.2) A few of us were irritated because they were being very pushy and rough. Then they moved a few people up from us and held this poster up. “Beto is Christ” and we noticed his friend was pushing further up in the crowd. My husband remarked to keep an eye on those two.3) Sure enough. The 2nd guy suddenly held up his camera tripod contraption and took a photo. The guy holding up a sign held it for less than 2 mins. Then the 2nd guy came back and the men left on the left on the west side.4) the people closest to us were joking that that sign and picture was going to be all over Twitter in less than a minute. And sure enough it was. But it was all staged and we saw it. Those folks weren’t like the rest of us at the Rally waiting to hear Beto talk.They got there and left a full 30+ minutes before Beto even talked. I thought you may want to know the truth. From someone standing just being this guy holding this sign. It was staged to enrage and obviously it did just that. The trolls are now good at producing their own news.»
https://twitter.com/_ElizabethMay/status/1113761353125253121
Yup.
«I actually love it when rich republican dudes try to insult
@AOC by dismissing her as a “bartender” or “waitress”, because it puts their contempt for the working class on full, repulsive display. For a party claiming to be “anti-elitist”, it’s the ultimate self-own.Like, it really says a lot when the worst insult a republican can think of is just labeling you by your previous occupation. “Be quiet, BARTENDER.” These are 100% the kind of dudes who snap their fingers at food service staff.»
Exciting!
«The bill has support among Democratic and Republican legislators in Oregon.»
Here, Read This 