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Q: I haven’t heard anything since my final interview. Who should I contact?

A: Damn, that’s crazy. Wow.

Q: How long will it take to hear back?

A: It will take some time. (If you’re successful.)

Q: And what if I’m unsuccessful?

A: You will know if you’re unsuccessful.

Q: How?

A: You won’t be working here.

Q: Well, yes, but won’t you be telling me that I didn’t get the job?

A: Why would we do that?

Q: Wait. Have I been ghosted?

A: We prefer the term “unworthy of closure.”

Q: What? Why have I been ghosted?

A: It could be that you’re arrogant. It could be that you’re humble. It could be that you’re too boisterous or too quiet. It could be you didn’t ask enough questions or you asked too many. It could be because you brought up working from home too soon. Or too late. It could be your overall personality and dislikability. It could be because you’re obviously pregnant. Ultimately, it’s because you don’t deserve this job, skills-wise or as a human being.

Q: Was there anything I could’ve done?

A: No. But also yes.

Q: That’s confusing. Could you please explain?

The prisons are open, the secret files are unlocked. Now Syrians are trying to figure out how to hold war criminals accountable.

The post Searching for Justice and the Missing in the New Syria appeared first on The Intercept.

Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth

- by Aeon Video

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Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it

- by Eleanor Schille-Hudson

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As the TikTok ban goes up before the Supreme Court on Friday, TikTok creator Pearlmania500, Shawn Musgrave, and Jessica Washington discuss what’s at stake.

The post TikTok SCOTUS Battle appeared first on The Intercept.

There’s a modern belief that talent or effort can carry anyone to the top. It’s a myth that’s especially harmful to men

- by Leo Rogers

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A sinister far-right oligarch seeking to overthrow western governments from his seat in the White House is a story too strange for fiction

Commentators in Europe are understandably agog about Trump’s rumblings that the US might somehow, possibly, annex Greenland at some point in the future. One would think asking Greenlanders how they see their future might have been a better idea. But I’m curious about how we should take these rumblings. Several possibilities suggest themselves, which are […]

At the end of World War 2, the Western nations were beset with paranoia about what the USSR might be planning. The West had essentially relied on the Soviet armed forces to defeat the Nazis through their efforts on the Eastern front, after Hitler had launched – Operation Barbarossa – which effectively ended the –…

California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.

So, reading various Americans who think annexing Canada would be a good idea, it’s clear most of them know nothing about Canada. Let’s educate them. The basic principles here are “Canadians are not Americans and Canada is not just America with fewer people.”

Canada Has Universal Healthcare

If you’re American you don’t know what this really means. Let me start with myself: if I had been born in America, I’d be dead the past thirty-one years. I needed millions of dollars of healthcare in my 20s at a time when I would have had no insurance if American. Since then I’ve needed serious care twice, in both cases when I’d have no insurance as an American.

I am not alone. There are a lot of Canadians who know they’d be dead, or unable to get healthcare if they were American. So, irrespective of any resistance, American annexing Canada means a lot of people will die.

Trumpers whine incessantly about their victimhood. But in the face of actual tragedy that affects people they don’t see as Real Americans or even human. They are using the horror in LA as an excuse to treat the residents and its leaders like garbage: (FYI, everything Watters says is a lie. Of course.) More from the Asshole in Chief-elect, who has been tweeting garbage like this all day long: The idea of secession is sounding better all the time.

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“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist.

The post LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning. appeared first on The Intercept.

Wetlands in film are overwhelmingly associated with discomfort, misery, and death

The post The Trouble with the Swamp appeared first on Nautilus.

The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake

The post These Physicists Want to Ditch Dark Energy appeared first on Nautilus.

Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are being nominated to purge the “Deep State” of all people who have not pledged fealty to Donald Trump. But there’s no reason to believe the DOJ or the FBI will be emptied. There are plenty of Trump loyalists in those agencies and have been from the very beginning. Recall that James Comey revealed the “investigation” into the Anthony Weiner laptop just days before the 2016 election largely because he was aware that the NY FBI field office was full of Trumpers who were planning to leak the information. (He should have just let them and we could have called it the phony dirty trick it was. Instead it became front page news. two weeks before the election.) Now we have more evidence of Trumpers in the woodpile. Philip Bump reports: In early 2020, the coronavirus pandemic reached the United States, leaving state governments and the Trump administration scrambling to respond. Trump pushed for a quick return to normal, with his reelection bid looming. His subsequent disputes with medical experts and the increasing toll from the virus became central elements of the 2020 presidential campaign.

Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s hands up in the air, to despair, to want to shut the cruelty out, to find solace […]

The post What to watch out for in the unfolding Palestinian genocide – a video briefing on 9th Jan 2025 appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.