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When your barber assumes you’re a racist too
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Cheating on my parents: My own abusive mother and father were being replaced, and they knew it
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Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir wants to introduce a well-being economy – GDP becomes merely one of thirty-nine indicators of national progress
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What novel things can people do from home?
With the need for social distancing and self-isolation and #Stay(ing)TheFuckHome becoming near global realities, it is looking like many of us, and nearly everyone we know, will be spending large...
With the need for social distancing and self-isolation and #Stay(ing)TheFuckHome becoming near global realities, it is looking like many of us, and nearly everyone we know, will be spending large amounts of time staying in. I like this guide (thanks again, @aphoenix!), which ends with "Treat quarantine as an opportunity to do some of those things you never usually have time for."
Certainly we all have things in our life like that, but I also think it would be neat to try to brainstorm a list of things people can do for new experiences -- things they might not think to do or know are available to them. Everybody knows we can catch up on Netflix and our unread pile of books, but what else is out there? What can I do when I need a change of pace? What novel things can people do from home/online that don't require them to go out for resources/supplies?
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Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Tim Berners-Lee
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Landlord says he won't collect rent because of coronavirus outbreak, urges others to do the same
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Work From Home (WFH) Thread - March 16th, 2020
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives...
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives while self-isolating in order to feel a bit less isolated. If people think this kind of thing is a good idea, perhaps this can be a daily (or weekly o_o) thread.
Feel free to talk about:
- Day to day life at home
- What's on your agenda for work
- Your thoughts on self-isolating and quarantine.
- Casual talk that you might normally have with coworkers .
- Anything else! (Though of course, the rest of the site still exists)
I personally tend to get more work done while working from home as there are less interruptions in the form of meetings and informal breaks. So in a weird way I'm looking forward to this time in order to get quite a bit done. Still, it's hard not to get cabin fever.
How are you all doing?
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Twenty-four video conferencing tips to go from telecommuting zero to hero
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NYC schools will close Monday
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Momentum builds for NYC teacher ‘sickout’ mutiny over de Blasio’s refusal to close schools
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What if the court saw other rights as generously as gun rights?
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Should white supremacists be allowed to practice law?
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Workers at Pacific Grove Hotel on leave without pay due to virus quarantine
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How Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communities – cities are planning mass housing evictions in a 'social experiment' to encourage integration
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Living without a living wage: At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist
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Happy International Women's Day!
From the Wiki: International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on the 8th of March every year around the world. (…) (…) The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and...
From the Wiki:
International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on the 8th of March every year around the world.
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(…) The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations began celebrating the day in 1977.
It is a federal holiday in Russia, at least. (Since it's Sunday this year, the following Monday is made a holiday as well). Do you have any special plans for today?
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"We are not lost causes": How youth in Rochester, New York, are working to save their neighborhood - and themselves - by forging pathways away from violent street crime
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It’s not ‘One Million’ — it’s One Meddling Mom
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How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
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What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
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A growing number of Danes choose cold water swimming as a way to invigorate the senses and combat their winter blues
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The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
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Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
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Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate, and teenage boys are especially vulnerable
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How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms?
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What is Finland's Phenomenon-based Learning (PhenoBL) approach? This approach breaks down subject-based compartmentalisation of knowledge
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“Be yourself” is terrible advice
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Inside the Kyiv fraud factory stealing senior citizens’ savings
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How Norway made a more humane prison
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The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist
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How dating became a market, and the consequences that follow from this
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The greatest human rights violation on the planet is the harm men do to women
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Immigrants from over twenty countries are taking part in a program that will help them develop, set up, and operate a food truck specialising in food from their home countries
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Are you giving up anything for Lent?
I'm finally giving up Reddit and trying to do the traditional catholic "fast" which is 2 small snacks and 1 meal a day during lent. I recently learned about the Black Fast which is a sort of...
I'm finally giving up Reddit and trying to do the traditional catholic "fast" which is 2 small snacks and 1 meal a day during lent. I recently learned about the Black Fast which is a sort of Pescatarian vegan-ish, one meal a day fast which looks interesting. I might try it on Fridays but being coeliacs would make it more challenging.
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Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
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Silicon Valley ruined work culture
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Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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The tears of our mothers
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How doctors die
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Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
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Fundraiser soars past $200,000 for bullying victim Quaden Bayles
News article: Fundraiser soars past $200,000 for bullying victim Quaden Bayles And, he is not 18 years old, despite people claiming he is.
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A nation mourns innocents lost in suburban street
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Four-day workweek's appeal goes global as bosses seek to boost profits and morale
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One woman and thousands of Lego bricks are building much-needed wheelchair ramps for her town
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Talking to your neighbours is mandatory if you live in this block of flats – it's all part of a plan to help tackle loneliness
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Eight things toxic mothers have in common
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Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows
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A photographer has spent twenty years documenting stillbirths. For grieving families, the photos preserve the only memories they have of their child
9 votes