I don’t have kids but if I did, there is absolutely no fucking way I’d allow my kids to go to school in August. Sorry but school year of 2020-2021 just wouldn’t exist for my kids.
Mine bottling to me to see people in the grocery store checkout line leaning on their carts and scrolling their phones. Like every last person in line!
Touching the community bag dispenser thing for produce, touching the dirty carts, touching 5 different avocados to find the ripe one. And then 10 minutes waiting to get through checkout = time to scroll Insta and god knows what else is critical to check up on.
Like maybe it’s just my misconception that this is super dirty? I don’t even bring my phone in with me. How can you interact with all those dirty grocery store touchpoints and not conclude that then immediately touching your phone is not a good idea?
No one’s that smart when it comes to working out how to handle low-probablity high-impact events.
Was the sister-in-law who wanted to bring over boba your wife’s sister or your sibling’s wife? If the former, why doesn’t she feel the same way despite also, presumably, being from Vietnam?
I only buy enough to fill three bags so I can still use the self-checkout.
Trolly where did you get/create that graph?
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I just get the data from United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer and then graph it with OpenOffice.
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We just get takeout and put it in the oven for 3-5 minutes of 450+ or boil. It’s what Kenji says to do.
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Yeah, I was already leaning this way, but I sent a lengthy e-mail today turning down the classes. I just don’t trust boss to look out for us.
The gambit that I may have failed, though, is in California they might not have been allowed to run anyways, and by the time they are allowed to run the restrictions and covid situation may be such that I’d be willing to teach. And now I may have lost my seniority/respect.
This could have some real negative future consequences but honestly I’ve been thinking of moving abroad anyways. I had it too good in the US to leave. Of course now getting even a meager English teaching salary abroad is likely tougher as the world deals with Covid plus an influx of prospective employees.
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Yeah but I bet the cardboard box produces a lot of smoke.
If the virus does what everyone here thinks it’s gonna do, it will be obvious to your bosses that you made the correct choice in the first place. I wouldn’t sweat it. Like Riverman always says, working for a shitty boss isn’t worth it.
Well ok, but there is no way you or I or anyone else is going to get through to most of those people. It’s really not worth getting upset over. I’ve made my peace with the fact that pain is coming and there is nothing I can do to stop it.
I think the people here understand they are taking a risk. And the risk can be increased or decreased based on their actions. And then they act accordingly.
I think the people here getting take-out are accepting the risk and it’s no different than you accepting the risk to go get weed and booze. I struggle to understand why would you think otherwise.
So we can’t take ANY risks, no matter how small or large, unless we value the reward as much as sex? That just doesn’t seem like a reasonable position to me. Especially considering that none of this is going to matter soon unless you are willing and able to be a hermit for the next several years. I cannot, so I’ll do the best I can and hope for a positive outcome while accepting that we are probably fucking fucked.
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To literally think less? Or to think more accurately and efficiently? I am transparent in that you can guess I would say the latter. Reality assessment, separating fact from opinion, we’re increasingly both not taught these skills or provided an environment in which to develop them.
So I guess less thinking might be preferable if better thinking isn’t possible, but my focus would be on contributing to circumstances where we can and are teaching these thinking, emotional management, and behavioral skills.
We’ll never be able to get people to think the exact things we want, but if we at least share beliefs about epistemology–
Best of luck to you. I know that could not be an easy decision to make.
Hoping it works out for the best. For me some of my best life choices came after having my hand forced out of the comfortable status quo.
Two concierges in my building have the COVID. So turns out it was correct for me to go do outdoor activities and pick-up my own contactless carryout as staying in the building and coming down to pickup delivered groceries was like having even more risky unprotected sex.
Actually, salaries might become higher in East Asia as teachers become hesitant to teach overseas given the perceived risk. It really depends on whether or not there’s a shortage of teachers.
Of course, academies will likely go out of business which reduces the vacancies.
Results orientation
Took a semiconductor course from this dude. Smart but kind of full of himself. Good luck to him.
I did similar research in grad school. It was overambitious back then. Unlikely there will be anything like described here available to help in this pandemic. Maybe the next one.
Lol, I live in an apt in the city in USA #1. I’m 110% getting this no matter what.
No surprise at all that COVID is in my building and I am getting this any day now, if I don’t already have it. Wife still hasn’t accepted this so awaiting the freak out over the news.
Your friend’s dad probably listens to Alex Jones.
For more about his insanity, check out “Knowledge Fight” a podcast that follows Alex so you don’t have to.
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