lolola

Whatever it was, I forgot what it was today

That's fair. I won't dispute that sometimes they're helpful. If I spend more time typing the message than it'd take to just talk it out, then meeting up is a viable option.

But gosh, the number of meetings I've had where I send the email, we meet anyway, and I simply read the email to them and they go "Ohhhh"... Sigh.

I find it interesting that "attend meetings" is said in the same breath as "walk around" and "take lunch or bathroom breaks".

Meetings are way worse for productivity than breaks and water cooler bullshitting, at least in my experience. There's more of them, they take longer, and they tend to leave me with a vague sense that nothing's really getting done and everybody's sort of okay with that. AND they're treated as an obligation in a way that taking breaks is not.

At least when I get back to my desk after walking around, I feel a bit more refreshed and ready to get back to work. In fact, it's usually meeting burnout that prompts the walk-around in the first place.

>demonizes childless cat ladies
>won't let you get IVF
>makes memes about protecting cats

what do they want from us

I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory -- right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.

Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.

Yeah, outrageous headline, obvious hypocrisy. But if you read to the end, the article is basically in support of it:

But let’s get real: both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers and making things worse. Trump and Vance have their supporters, while the Democrats are no strangers to throwing some fiery jabs themselves.

One side is spreading lies. The other side is calling bullshit -- but that's rude, so BoTh SiDeS aRe aT fAuLt.

It's like an Arrested Development gag. One Ohio Karen overheard her neighbor talking about getting her pussy ate and now we gotta close the entire US border.

The 19 words: "...because democracy basically meaningless..." (pause) "Government by the people, of the people, for the people... but the people are [fools]."

I'm inserting "fools" cuz I don't wanna use outdated insults.

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn't need social media.

I casually bicycle around town and like to see who I can keep up with to test how fast I am. More and more folks have ebikes now and it's getting way less fun.