Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
I would posit that social media is the fertilizer for that particular plant.
SWA announces COVID vaccination required by Dec 8 to maintain employment
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I would posit that social media is the fertilizer for that particular plant.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
I always thought that general AI was what would destroy our species. Instead, it’s going to be something as pedantic as social media.
roundout
VNAV monitor
I pressed the wrong key and had to go edit, but yeah. A lot of the stuff written recently was targeted straight at 2016, Trump 45 voters, Q, and all the stuff that half the country is trying to repress in to their collective memories. It's important to note that Trump didn't cause any of that. He was just an acute symptom of a festering low-grade infection which is actively cultivated by the Kochs (well, Koch now) and Fox News.
roundout
VNAV monitor
It's another sofa on the dumpster fire, without doubt.
GypsyPilot
Mohawk Town
It isn't a recent phenomenon.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Revised) a book by Richard Hofstadter
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and...bookshop.org
I don't write very well; I'll let someone like @Derg or @Boris Badenov throw in a little prose if they want. They probably already have, elsewhere. There are hundreds of articles and books with thousands of hours of reading on this subject.
Thanks, looks like a great book. I just bought the ebook version of it.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
You might be on to something. Throughout human history, knowledge has always been slow and relatively controlled.
I wonder if the powers that were back at the dawn of the printing press had similar concerns.
Old Pete
Cockpit Authoritarian
Say, “Uncle”
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
It cuts both ways.
My alma matter just fired a professor, two time Pulitzer finalist, because... wait for it.... he showed a 1965 movie called Othello which had an actor with black face paint. In a movie. Filmed in 1965. Freshman raised the alarm, went all over social media, trashed him, felt like there was no trigger warning, and that there was no safe space for what was just seen.
Professor removed.
A freakin movie filmed in 1965.
We've been sliding backwards intellectually for a long time, and accelerated with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
JetU?
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
what’s next? Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder?
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
I mean...if you believe in money like an moran!
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jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
The problem is that the 2020 furloughs didn't happen. These no talent ass clowns sat at home, collecting min guarantee instead of being on furlough, and to them it was nothing but a vacation because of some overblown fake news.
I firmly believe if pilots had to suffer like the rest of the country they'd be clamoring for a vaccine.
Autothrust Blue
"Well, on the Brasilia..."
As I've opined to you, elsewhere, I think it is hi-frigging-larious that your MEC has engaged outside legal counsel for this.
Probably because they didn't like the answer they got from their actual counsel, and are now going shopping.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
They ain’t alone. Ours doing the same. It is beyond ridiculous.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Correction: DALPA leadership is doing that. Captain DePete sure doesn’t seem on that crazy train.
We’re so recall-happy, they’re probably trying to quell a boomer insurrection.
Abject stupidity
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Recall. Everyone.
