"Advice articles on the subject have evolved from 'Never work during a vacation' to 'Here’s how to work during a vacation without ruining the trip for your family.'” https://www.computerworld.com/article/3695742/how-remote-work-is-changing-american-culture.html
It is stunning to me that taking the kids to school across town either uses one gallon of gas or the electricity provided by 2 100-watt solar panels on my patio roof.
In college, I took a class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:
1. I was (and am) named Paul.
2. The prof, Cal Roetzel, was (and is) cool.
I didn’t figure it was an especially practical course. It was for fun, for the challenge, for the cultural knowledge, for the pleasure of doing it.
WHAT LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IS FOR: A THREAD
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If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
Large numbers of people don't understand what a billionaire is.
If you, like most of us, ONLY make $1 million a year, it would take you 1,000 years to make $1 billion.
Or, if REALLY lie most of us, you make $50,000 a year, it would take you 20,000 years.
TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS!
If you tax someone who makes a billion a year at a 90% top rate, they would "only" take home $100 million a year.
"One of my daughter's teachers has had #COVID 4 times, she's totally convinced that he is experiencing cognitive decline. He went from being super competent to being very forgetful & struggling to function with tasks that he used to be proficient with. I wonder if #teachers are going to be the canary in the coal mine."
#OntED #schools #kids #CovidIsNotOver #topoli #yyc via @DcrInYYC
A gentle reminder that any time you use an app to access a service that was formerly done by a local business, you are taking money from your community & giving it to oligarchs.
Uber, DoorDash, TaskRabbit, Instacart, AirBnB - not to mention Amazon!
We all have compelling individual exceptions where there is no other choice, & of course it’s not possible to be pure when living under Capitalism.
But whenever possible, I avoid giving money to these corporations & try to find a local workaround.
#ebikes, #parenting, #DIY, History MA - Figuring it all out one day at a time.