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Careers stall due to laziness, a lack of new job skills, or a refusal to remove that therapy mushroom farm you’ve been growing at your desk. Working harder or going back to school are fine for people with grit or wealthy parents. But this odd obsession with fungi has become a metaphor for your career. You’ve attached yourself to a host workspace. You’re growing out of this company. And at some point, we’ll need to extricate you so we can have that desk back.
Emulate Young People
Getting to know young colleagues can be intimidating to those suffering through late-stage career malaise, with their perkiness and ideals and odor-free nuance. They smell like success instead of mildew and earthworm. They have fancy vests and have not been warned repeatedly by the Ergonomics Division about toxic molds infesting the air ducts. Young people have one thing in common. None of them spend the day going desk to desk, hawking oddly shaped spores to fellow employees. Just stop it and get back to work.
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Professional athlete Ricardo Dos Santos recalls his experience of discriminatory policing last year in London
By Mondoweiss On January 26, 2023 the Israeli army conducted a deadly invasion into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. In the span of a few hours, the army shot and killed 9 Palestinians. A 10th Palestinian succumbed days later to wounds sustained during the raid. It was one of the deadliest […]
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Russell Brand’s grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th March 2023 In 2014, the Guardian asked me to nominate my hero of the year. To some people’s surprise, I chose Russell Brand. I loved the way he energised young people who had been alienated from politics. […]
Most patients have no means of avoiding the burdensome process that has become a defining feature of American health care. But even those who have the time and energy to fight back may not get the outcome they hoped for.
Legions of European businesses are succumbing to the final straw of Europe's largely self-inflicted energy crisis.
How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison.
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Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, there is an unconscionable push to bring back child labor.
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Undersheriff April Tardy says her ankle imprint shows allegiance to her former station. Deputies say it represents a deputy gang.
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An over-zealous Fed pushed a few banks, including the big and super connected Silicon Valley Bank, over the edge. A bailout was a given.
. I had learned to do integrals by various methods shown in a book that my high school physics teacher Mr. Bader had given me. [It] showed how to differentiate parameters under the integral sign – it’s a certain operation. It turns out that’s not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it. […]
We're going to need a bigger jail.
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March 13th, 2023: I saw a movie the other night and it wasn't a stinke  The mainstream media has failed to hold the Liberal Party to account for inciting the Robodebt scheme that ruined the lives of thousands. read now...Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The end of this war, like most proxy wars, will be ugly. The post Chris Hedges: Ukraine’s Death by Proxy appeared first on scheerpost.com. Last Friday (March 10, 2023), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – February 2023 – which revealed a slight dip in the number of net payroll jobs created and a slight increase in the unemployment rate. It is too early to say whether this marks a turning point in the US labour market after several months of interest rate increases. We will know more about that next month. January’s result was very strong, so a slight dip on that is no cause for concern. Most of the aggregates are steady and in terms of the pre-pandemic period, February’s net employment change was still relatively strong. William Mitchell — Modern Monetary Theory
US labour market slows a bit but no sign of a major contraction yet | ||