Well, I guess at least you’re just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)”

https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-does-bible-say-about-refugees#:~:text=Foreigners%20or%20refugees%20are%20not%20to%20be%20oppressed.&text=Israelites%20were%20to%20call%20on,of%20them%20in%20any%20way.

I hope you don’t call yourself a Christian.

We’ll get there in our time, friend.

If by “quitting” you mean we all die, I think you just might be right.

As I literally sit here in the cafeteria on my day off rallying for our upcoming union vote 💪

Oof, yeah. It’ll be time to break out my N95s again

Anticipation of surge? We’re already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Most map projections dramatically underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-nemo

We’re just not used to seeing this half of the planet depicted, and the Pacific IS almost half of the entire planet.

Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I’ve ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.

I don’t know that it’s better; just pointing out that it is kind of how the country works right now. Around 10% of their entire population works overseas at any given time. And those higher paid workers like nurses can bring a lot of value to their families back home.

Is it right? Is it a good idea? I can’t speak to that. But the country has developed an entire administration to deal with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipinos#:~:text=This%20number%20constitutes%20about%2011,be%20young%20and%20gender%2Dbalanced.

(I work with a lot of Filipino nurses who have explained some of this mentality to me.)

Almost 10% of the entire GDP of the Philippines is the money those overseas workers send home:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Philippines/remittances_percent_GDP/#:~:text=Remittances%20as%20percent%20of%20GDP&text=For%20that%20indicator%2C%20we%20provide,from%202021%20is%209.31%20percent.

You’re not wrong about the fact that we underinvest in training our own population to do this work though.

Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

I don’t understand what you mean. We solved sexism and racism, didn’t you hear? These are no longer problems that actually exist in the world and we’re all just whining about nothing.

That’s about the median, correct

And they can buy a decent restaurant meal for around $3. I’m not sure what you think your point is here.

We need to end the habit of prioritizing things based on whether or not they are “productive.” It’s ok to be unproductive. It’s ok to be lazy and fuck around and socialize and just generally hang out helping people.

Sorry, this is a particularly sensitive issue for me right now where our Chief Nursing Officer acts like if we have time to have any conversation with our colleagues, then that means we have enough time to manage one more patient. When the fuck did being able to have a little downtime at work become such a terrible offense?

(Yes, we’re unionizing. Because absolutely fuck this mentality.)

“Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media.”

Maybe you should try reading sometime.

“We need to see pain in the economy”

“There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them”

“claimed that shift is hitting productivity in the sector”

This attitude is an actual mental illness. Productivity is killing us, killing our climate. What we need is LESS PRODUCTIVITY and more leisure, more time to care for one another, focus on food production, distribution, healthcare, and education, things that involve taking care of other humans. Why should everyone everywhere forever have to live on the razor’s edge of their ability to keep up with life?

Yeah I have no idea how this was arranged, but it’s a very cool thing to have happened. God bless Mo and his family.

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