I know someone who just got hired at an unfinished Meta data center, ostensibly to do some low-level hardware monitoring and maintenance. His boss admitted that he accidentally hired people a couple months too early, so the first couple weeks have consisted of sitting around, eating free food and playing mobile games. Next week they're being flown to an active data center out of state, but they won't have much of their own work to do for another 4-6 weeks.
So these guys are being paid $25/hr, 40hrs a week, with a free lunch, and making no money for the company. I would expect any other company to find this unacceptable, but it's just a drop in the bucket for Meta.
This is the closest to my philosophy. I keep a few $1 bills in my car and hand them out to anyone who asks. I'm not interested in judging whether they look like they need it, or what I think they'll spend it on. I just want them to know they're not invisible.
To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for "did Biden drop out" but it didn't mention that this would have included searches like "when did Biden drop out" and "why did Biden drop out." So it was a half true and half clickbait.
I also wonder if they'll make sure the red states aren't hit as hard. I know the way the bill is written, we assume it'll be enforced equally, and since red states receive more federal assistance they'll be hit the worst. But what's stopping them from selectively fucking blue states?
I won't try to change your mind, but I rewatch all of Succession like every 6 months. As soon as I finish I have to stop myself from starting over right away. God it's so good.
Thank you for expanding on that point. I meant it to be a "here's how we got here" before the rest of my "this is where we are today."
You're totally right, and any conversation about men's behavior at large should include the experiences you just described. Even though we didn't get ourselves into this situation - in that we didn't raise ourselves - we're the ones who will get us out.
I'm a therapist who works almost exclusively with men. Here one pattern I've seen often:
Man is conditioned from a young age not to identify, process or express his feelings
Man doesn't share his feelings with anyone - friends, family, partners - for years
Man sees woman as safe, caring and validating
Man confides in woman only and continues not sharing feelings with others
Woman becomes overwhelmed, resentful, dismissive
Man gets the message that he never should have opened up in the first place
It can be true both that men need to open up more and should not treat their partners as therapists. We all need support systems because no one person can always be available to give us everything we need. It's not wrong to confide in a partner, but if that partner is the only confidant it's precarious for both. And I want to emphasize this is not the fault of a man, or men as a community. This is the result of generations of conditioning from both men and women, and both men and women play a part in the solution. I also want to recognize that many of us don't have a network of people we could open up to even if we wanted to, and many more can't afford therapy.
If anyone reading this can afford therapy, I highly recommend it. It's a place to undo some of that conditioning, to sit with someone who's committed to listening, caring, and not judging.
young people feeling depressed and isolated is the least of your problems.
Children are the future of EVERY country. The future is looking bleak for young people in the US. Where do you live? Are young people unaffected by social media or what?
Out here in actual civilization though, tik tok youth drama is not representative of reality whatsoever.
That's the thing though. It's hard for me to wrap my head around sometimes, but for lots of young people, social media IS their reality. This became even more true during the pandemic. We asked young people to go to school on a screen and pretend it was the same as doing it in person. Why wouldn't they have the same mindset about chatting, hanging out, flirting, dating, etc.? They don't see it as simulated socializing, it's just how they socialize.
Looks like he and Zuck have the same stylist. Anyone know what this look is called, with the oversized tee and chain around his neck?