Coba Weel

What I see is that management wants to have their cake and eat it too. To change goals and values at will, and to confine discussion, but also to get the special degree of enthusiasm and commitment that came from elaborating genuinely shared goals and values.

“Some would say the changes have simply aligned tech workers with the rest of corporate America, where employees are accustomed to fulfilling corporate priorities.”

That doesn’t entirely sit right with me…

not so long ago it was ping pong in the army, if i recall. and soldiers shaving correctly regardless of skin conditions is of course a major strategic priority…

i dunno what’s weirder about this… letting the mightiest navy in the world be micromanaged by culture warriors, or the way the secretary of defense again just fundamentally doesn’t get he’s in charge of a Standing Army and a Fleet in Being that do a lot of sitting around

Sailor by day, performer by night — meet the Navy’s drag queen, ‘Harpy Daniels’ Years before he became a yeoman 3rd class, Joshua Kelley was entertaining raucous crowds under his drag name.

as for the guy in question, the navy times did a perfectly normal human interest story about him back in 2018

Hegseth revokes promotion for Navy admiral who approved drag shows Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly was commanding officer of the USS Ronald Reagan in 2018 when several drag show performances took place.

hegseth went after an admiral for having allowed drag. you know, that thing sailors do when peace has broken out again and they’re stuck on a big war boat that can only be repainted so many times. and apparently ben shapiro is the naval genius behind the whole thing.

Why the attack on NABU will have long-term consequences and how to fix the situation Five years ago, the New Europe Center published a comprehensive study that recognised democracy as Ukraine’s main strength.

I really like this style of analysis. It cuts through the wishy washy nonsense straight to the logical consequences of what happened. Just how likely the slope is to be quite so slippery… not very, but that’s in part because this is how people react.

“people”

meaning him, i guess

i’m concerned about trans teenagers (and for that matter ultimately trans adults including myself) having their healthcare depend on the whims of “just asking questions” types

i mean, sorry, people are concerned about it. people.

Didn’t the Scottish Greens get mad at the English ones about trans rights at some point? I don’t know how that shook out in the end but I get the impression they’re not the same.

does england have any non transphobic political parties left at this point? like even small ones?

wtf i take it you don’t have a lot of pharmacy competition where you are?

and while it’s conceivable that somebody might be good on that and bad on other shit, it’s undeniably the actions of somebody who actually gives a shit. nobody protects trans kids for clout.

that’s getting into the territory of post-ww2 german legal philosophy… you’re not wrong, i think, but boy it would be messy to just consider everything ultra vires

to be fair stoves over washing machines is something i’ve definitely seen in old dutch apartments

they’re both “koken”

the older word “zieden” means “boiling” specifically but nobody uses it anymore except metaphorically, like, “ziedend” means “very angry”

they’re having a good old democrats-leave-the-state texas legislative standoff

lol fwiw it amuses val to no end that the same dutch word that means generically “cooking” also means specifically “boiling”

and don’t forget governor bathroom bill of utah is a keynote speaker

they are taking a pro-housing movement built largely by queer people and selling it for parts

cook?

but also yes

pg wodehouse lied to us about the fash liking bicycles send bleet

did he accidentally a UBI?

lol

(also, the original puritan churches are, far as i know, the institutional predecessors to UU and UCC, two _extremely_ liberal denominations)

Yeah, I don’t get it. I’m an atheist UU myself. I can get pretty militant when it comes to people using religious doctrine to justify bigotry or abuse, but when it’s just a philosophical disagreement, come one, we have real problems in the world, ya know?

And may I add that that’s not an uncommon position. Many denominations out there that are either properly universalist or so close to it as to make little difference in terms of
the social functions that fire and brimstone talk has in conservative churches.

Too many apartments here are designed to make it maximally inconvenient if not everyone goes to bed at the exact same time…

I like how that apartment on the left has two bedrooms that are really meant as bedrooms, tucked away behind closets to reduce noise, and a third room that could work as bedroom but also as a study/office/studio or just part of the daytime space (take the door off the hinges if need be).

ah guess we already established they’re stupid

No no I agree with you.

they can just buy index funds why don’t people who are wealthy and stupid just buy index funds

The bigotry is there either which way but it is sufficiently different in kind that asking “which is worse” is kind of reductive and beside the point. There’s different mechanisms of violence and discipline and different social contexts being most repressive and so on.