I own a small business and have had great luck hiring people from small liberal arts colleges with degrees like philosophy, history, humanities, etc. These folks are smart and with the right training can do anything. Even better if they have worked fast food in the past (weird, right?). MBA graduates are expensive but require the same training and support - so I personally won’t hire from that pool. Although I have an MBA because it was a box I had to check for a previous role. I got the cheapest one possible and have no regrets.

Yes, but I’m lazy as shit and often need pressure to do anything beyond scrolling through Lemmy. 😉

Your experience as a tall person and mine as a short person makes me wonder if these clothing makers have ever met a woman in real life. It’s like they are designing based a description of a woman they heard 5 years ago.

I wish! There is a difference in size, shape and style (I have to be able to go to work).

I’m short, so regular pants are always like 9" too long and the waist of dresses always hit in the wrong spot. I’d wear petite clothes, but the selection is aimed at women in their 70s. It sux.

Poems also count, right?

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

French deep house from 2016.

I was just coming in here to say walking in nature or hiking. 🙂

Although I do also get some benefit in driving through nature too.

Im going to get skewered for this… I just assumed that the dislike of least-biases media was a reflection of how people (generally) don’t like their world view challenged. It is easy to see that on the right - because I’m an outsider. It may be less easy for me (and others) to see from the inside.

A small but important distinction.

I feel like this is a good read of the situation. Chalk it up to a missed social cue and file it away as a learning. For what it’s worth, lots of people (autistic and not) have difficulty navigating this type of situation, particularly when in their teen years.

This sounds kinda lame, but I create a list of things that absolutely must be done that day to stay on track with my projects. I leave when I’m done (early if I’m fast, late if I’m slow). It creates motivation to do my work efficiently and effectively (don’t want to have to redo anything tomorrow!).

Oh, that’s interesting. Could be a family thing. Could also be just a good host thing.

Is that even an option? I do not currently, but it seems like a good n thing to enable on your spouse’s phone…

Kudos for weaving in the toxic trait of infantilizing women.

I think the first trait is worse than the second. Waiting to do a chore knowing (1) it needs to be done, and (2) the other person will do it if you hold out long enough is such a jerk move. Although the second isn’t awesome either. I think it is safe to say, don’t do either of these things.

Agree about it not always being explicitly thought about. Weaponed also seemed to imply some sort of thought to me, but I couldn’t land on a good word.

“Guys don’t give a fuck.”

That’s it. That’s the toxic trait right there.

Not a guy, but the one that really gets me is willfully incompetence - particularly around household or family chores (and the mental load associated with them).

So I know it is just semantics, but for some reason I don’t label your description as a “woke mob” but rather just decent humans.

Yet, I do have an image of “woke mob” that is full of college-aged people who haven’t experienced any adversity, but have a desire to make a mark on the world and have chosen a really irritating way to do it. And unfortunately that very small segment of the population gives the right something to latch onto that demonstrates how unhinged the left is (even though the left is how you describe it).