@europesays
Always more apps and digitalization; always less genuine human support. Fuck that. A good education teaches not to be a bystander, to be responsive against cruelty, so kids and other targets won't have to seek recourse in some apps.
#bullying #bullies #digitalisation #disengagement #bystanders #apps #unresponsiveness #software vs #support #genuinesupport #education #teachers #responsibility
@AliceStollmeyer A multi-generational ally (now a hostile elected autocracy!) stabbing Europe in the back is truly something for the history books.
Yet, talking about chasing, most European states are *still* individually seeking to further deepen their economic entanglement with the Chinese dictatorship hostile to *all* of our fundamental values. 
That equation is — and always was — not only absurd and ridiculous, but it is the absolute antithesis to "democratic resilience".
Before we choose to acknowledge and address the truly foundational threats to democracy worldwide, all else is akin to building sandcastles on a beach near a key PRC-operated shipping port... 
Michael Tomasky concurs with Joyce Vance (see /1):
"Folks, it’s time to reengage. …
You can’t tune him out, even if you wanted to. It’s time to reengage."
To those of us longing to opt out and just get on with our lives, ignoring what's going to be happening around us, Joyce Vance says,
"Politics is not some foreign apparatus, separate from our daily lives. Everything is politically adjacent: our families, our livelihoods, our freedoms. Our future world will be the one we are willing to fight for."
#Trump #fascism #disengagement #politics
/1
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-relay-race-of-democracy
A quotation from Antrim, Minna:
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When I learn that husband and wife never quarrel, I know that indifference has set in, and after that — the deluge.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/antrim-minna/73821/
6 - My problems are merely challenges, but yours are 'drama’.
7 - I complain the most about drama and how much I don’t want it in my life because I constantly create it for myself.
8 - I am not looking for a woman but a silent doll who has never any issues whatsoever and never put me to test. Period.
9 - I self-identify as a person who "doesn't do drama" but obviously I do, otherwise the act would have never even crossed my mind.
#unattractive #men #relationship #connecting #dating + #nodrama = #dickheads #disengagement #avoidance to #passion #feelings #efforts #intensity #conditions #deceitful #bossing
India and China have arrived on a patrolling arrangement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas, and it can lead to disengagement and resolution of skirmishes that began in May 2020, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today.
#India #ChinaBreakthrough #LACPatrollingPact #Disengagement #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-china-agree-on-patrolling-agreement-along-lac-leads-to-disengagement-6838489
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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‘Tis for little Souls, that truckle under the Weight of Affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside, and take them up again.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/67661/
#quote #quotes #quotation #business #character #disengagement
#compartmentalization #matters #overwork #personality #work #worklifebalance
#Putin, #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Modhi and other recent authoritarian strongmen (#Orbán, #Erdoğan, #Bolsonaro, etc) have discovered just how effective the #FirehoseOfDisinformation is in an age of deliberate political dysfunction, polarised electorates, microtargeted #disinformation and the general milieu of ecocidal late capitalist societal crumbling ('the Crumbles'). Their supporters generally either never hear about the debunking, reject all evidence that conflicts with their commitments (#IdentityProtectiveCognition), or don't care and openly embrace #authoritarian doublethink (cf #MAGA, widespread #Israeli support for *increased* violence in #Gaza, #Russian troll farmers).
Mainstream journalists reliably get caught up in the #FalseBalance of #BothSides; #centrists fret over #CivilityPolitics; the politically disengaged grow ever more cynical and abandon the search for truth, embracing the very #cynicism, #apathy, #LearnedHelplessness and #disengagement that this strategy of #InformationalWarfare seeks to nurture.
2/4
It’s a #difficult time this #holiday #season. Not just for us but I see it in others.
My cousins are starting to experience more on our mutual side of the family of the degree of fucked up #conspiracy #theories, #Trumpsters, #MAGAts. It’s sad but it’s also something you have to move to a safe distance to mourn.
More directly for me, I have a #parent who is getting absorbed into a new role, quickly, as a parent and a #matriarch of a #family that she’s always wanted and no idea if it’s a good idea or good fit for her. I pray that she is happy and not setting herself or those other participants up for #heartbreak later or even further #physchological and #spiritial #damage.
#undealt with old family #wrongs. This people refuse to #acknowledge or #apologize for. It’s #difficult. It’s #messy. It’s downright fucking #insane sometimes and #catastrophically #costly to #mental #health and #wellbeing.
Find someone around you that you can #unpack with. Go only if you feel you’re confident you can #endure or have a solid #escape #route or #disengagement #strategy.
Find your #allies.
Merry #Xmas and #holiday tide people.
Dear friends of #unsocial media,
Not only is media madly addictive, it is often a #substitute for #reality. The phone zombie syndrome, soon to be slavishly followed by #augmental unreality.
Fortunately we have opinions:
#Meanwhile …
Had a #delicious home made platted #bread and #vegetable and fish soup, with real water for supper. Thinking #Diwali is a good plan. #Planning my next podcast (Invasion of the Body Snatchers FREE)
#Stray Well everyone … (slip on your Freudians)
To me, the concept of quiet quitting is very similar to the concept of languishing. When things aren't quite right and you're not flourishing, but you're staying in it.
At work, this is sometimes a conscious choice, while I think in life, we often just don't realise that things aren't right - we simply got used to a dull version of existing or languishing.
And often, I think we don't realise that we have a choice to change things.
#ABlackLadySketchShow creator and star #RobinThede is developing a new half-hour scripted comedy series for #HBO titled #Disengagement, which centers on the prestigious Cole family after a very public and embarrassing business implosion shatters their perfect Midwest image. Per the logline, it was just an image, because behind closed doors, even their dysfunction has dysfunction, proving family is the ultimate pyramid scheme.
Today is the official start of the MLB season. I am curious to see the changes the new rules make in the excitement of the game and in the length of the game. If you are unaware of the new rules, here are the four main ones I know about.
1, The pitcher will now have a pitch clock. The pitcher will have 15 seconds to realease his pitch with bases empty, 20 seconds with players on base. If the pitcher does not release the pitch on time, the pitch will automatically count as a ball. The batter must be in the batters box by the 8th second, or the pitch is an automatic strike. there will be 30 seconds between batters.
2, Restrictions on the infield defensive shifts. No more infield player shifts. At the time of each pitch, there has to be a minimum of 4 infield players, two on each side of second base. All infield players must be on the dirt of the infield.
3, Bigger bases. Bases are now 18 square inches, up from 15. This will make bases closer together encouraging more steals.
4, PITCHER Disengagement. The pitcher is only allowed 2 disengagements per batter. This can include, stepping off the mound, faking or throwing to another base drawing back a runner, plus more. Disengagements slow down the game, so now they are limited 2 per batter.
These rules were but in place to help speed up the game, and to possibly allow batters a chance to get more base hits, putting more action and excitement into the game.
#MLB #Rules #Pitcher #clock #Infield #Bases #Disengagement
60% of people feel emotionally detached from work, and 19% report feeling miserable (Gallup).
Do you think that a motivational speech or some thrilling innovation project will lift your people?
employee #disengagement is costing the global economy $7.8 trillion total
@_L1vY_ might it also be that #marginalization does not "kill" off people so much as it encourages apathy and #disengagement from the conversation? I suspect those most invested tend to stay engaged, e.g. the more liberal and more conservative, and many of those get louder, so various echo chambers (including the well-intentioned responses to this post) proportionately lose any true correlation with age - which is what is being reported as causation?
Come to C-REX! #C_REX is announcing a #PhD_position on the topic "#Deradicalisation, #Disengagement and #Reintegration: Approaches of security agencies, social service agencies and civil society". This is part of the doctoral network "Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism" (VORTEX). The project’s overarching aim is to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to counter and prevent ideological and behavioural radicalisation.
எல்லை விவகாரம் தொடர்பாக இந்தியா - சீனா இடையே நாளை 10ம் கட்டப் பேச்சுவார்த்தை…!
https://www.patrikai.com/india-china-complete-disengagement-in-pangong-tso-next-round-talks-on-saturday/ #IndiaChinaBorderTension #IndiaChinaFaceOff #IndiaChinaBorder #PangongTso #Disengagement
