@JohnnyGenX
teachers (you) still diverse better pay for the work they already do. and social programs also need better funding, so that good parents can spend more time with their kids, and bad parents become better through learning and responsibility (i know, sounds idealistic)
As a taxpayer, I really don't want to choose, I still want my money to go to teacher's salary. cause you already diverse it

@corlin John is great. his books are hard to put down.

@beer
oh damn! this is great! I only knew about 2 locations near me. but more than that!! thank you a lot!!! ❤️

@beer I need to find it near me... Two Town Cider is one of my favs. always.
I actually lived in Corvallis)) these were the times!

#books
Just finished Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. I did not expect I'd love it so much. The thing a contemplating reader needs to know - the title is ironic. The book is NOT about "famous geniuses" or "admiration of unusually successful people". If anything, it's the opposite. Highly recommend for anyone who likes do dig deep into the fabric of the society.

@Clavius_42
I should never be allowed near bookstores unsupervised and with money 😂

@Xponent
well, if only I had a PhD in biology and data science... oh wait, I do!
jumping to conclusions about me and then jumping to compare (something?) to qanon is really a bunch of red flags.
you don't know me but you feel entitled to judge me. good luck.

nothing new here. a daily reminder: exercise!

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64790527

some good news. celebrating small victories matters imo
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64814505

@Xponent
this is one of explanations that I agree with. lack of transparency here, tho, paints them in much more sinister way. because this is not their internal matter, we are also influenced by their mistake. and we don't see how this mistake is accounted for.
whatever the origin, I have zero confidence that they will implement any changes reducing the chances of this happening again.

@Xponent
did you read what *I* said?

@LSWellesley I don't believe a single word they say 🤬 and these people want to rule the world. nfw

even if it's not lab leak, the resistance China puts up against investigation of the origin is so suspicious that I can't drop thinking about the matter. There is definitely something bad happened that they don't what the world to know about.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903

I'm glad, tho, that they finally did it.

to be clear. I did have a gov owned device in the past - a laptop. it was my working laptop. I always tried to avoid using ANY non-job related web-sites. taking into account that I'm not on social media (joined CoSo several months ago), that wasn't hard. for personal use I have my phone and my own laptop.

the only question I have is - why was it allowed?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64795548

@jsto never hurts to re-read! ❤️