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My mental picture reading this press release was a child's book of dinosaurs, immense, roaming the earth, unaware of their impending doom.

RIP. One of the great spiritual thinkers of our lifetimes.

In March of 2020 when pretty much everything in North America closed and they reopened in May of that year. I didn't notice at first that the ticket was issued at that time. The understanding of covid was significantly less then and some of the measures were unnecessary in retrospect. This all has little to do with an essay penned this year about schools.

While the pandemic has certain gone on far too long my experience with teenagers is that none of them has forgotten what a human face looks like, most go unmasked around family and close friends and they're still meeting in small groups on a regular basis. I don't think regular mask wearing in school is going to result in stunted social development. And most kids are not very eager to catch covid or spread it to their teachers or parents.

My kids are out of high school so I don't know as many Canadian teenagers as I once did. They know stuff. Nice to hear you had a pleasant childhood.

I'm married to a public (high) school teacher and while I don't have the same level of risk as she does with regards to direct exposure, I get a lot of detail about how kids are reacting to the pandemic. The kids are upset about a lot of stuff. Mask wearing is not one of those things. They're upset about friends and family being infected, they're upset about their parents who work hourly jobs being out of work due to illness. Some smaller number are upset about it being harder to get a 4.0 on all their AP courses.

My point, such as it is, is that there seem to be a lot of people who think that kids are stressed out by disease control measures. My belief is that the kids are stressed out by the disease itself and they're actually pretty happy to try to help in controlling the spread of the disease. Of course not everyone is the same, etc.

Wearing a mask and not meeting in large groups is not stopping socialization. Acknowledging that certain behaviours spread an already virulent disease isn't callous, it's realistic and it's why the pandemic is depressing. Ignoring covid doesn't make most people feel any better, they know it exists.

"overzealous municipal bylaw officer" isn't exactly some sort of mass oppression. I'm pretty sure bylaw officers writing dumb tickets existed before covid.

Just spread some disease and you'll feel better.

"I just want my children to have a relatively care-free existence in their formative years, much like I had. Children and young people are not without their own low-stake drama but they should not have this weight of forced upon them at that age."

Kids read newspapers. They know what's happening. Even high school kids are depressed by things like climate change, income inequality and the broken Canadian real estate market. I don't think encouraging the spread of disease is likely to cheer them up much.

Don't congregate indoors in large groups. That's it.

Amateur hockey teams are still playing hockey in Canada. Most sports are fine, just without spectators. Prom wearing a mask isn't exactly a burden.

Again, kids are depressed because the disease exists, not because they're being asked to deal with it. Telling kids to go wild isn't going to make covid less depressing. That would probably kill a few teachers in outbreaks.

Yes, it sucks. Spreading an extremely virulent disease also sucks. Schools have a responsibility to not encourage the spread of covid.

There have been articles about truck driver shortages running for years, decades even.

https://money.cnn.com/2010/06/09/news/economy/truck_driver_s...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6769594 - "A 1997 study by the American Trucking Association concluded that 82,000 new truckers were needed ... This shortage is making it more difficult for trucking companies to grow and contributing to higher costs for shippers."

Maybe it's not about trucker supply.

"My students can’t concentrate and they aren’t doing the work that I assign to them. They have way less motivation compared to before the pandemic began. "

Yes, that's because there's a pandemic going on that has killed 32,000 Canadians and significantly impacted a much larger number. It's pretty upsetting. The notion that people are only upset because of government restrictions is pretty silly.

"she is much more likely to kill someone driving a car? "

Yeah, we should tell high school students a lot more forcefully that cars kill people. Making cars the backbone of Canadian society is terrible.

"Our children need life on the highest volume. And they need it now."

Wear a mask in school to try to minimize the transmission of the disease, take it off outside, get tested if you have symptoms and then isolate if you're infected. Get vaccinated. This is not difficult. I'm not sure why we need a hand-wringing essay.

You can be interested in fixing bad behaviour on the part of companies with a lot of power and leverage even if you're not the victim of it.

Sure, you can also do nothing.

Apparently if you go on maternity leave or extended sick/disability leave the relationship can also go bad. I think there are a significant number of cases where the relationship goes bad because of reasons other than just straight poor performance. But certainly, sure, straight poor performance is a frequent reason.

I don't think that unions like AWU are particularly concerned with the general performance review process.

Everyone has a good relationship with their employer _until they don't._

And when the relationship goes bad it also becomes very, very one-sided.

So the bulk numbers say it's up apparently, I'm getting roofing quotes currently and roofers say it's back down to pre-pandemic levels, at least where I am. There are a lot of different wood products out there I guess.

It's a little subtler than that: peers don't just influence to do things, they influence you to want things.

Each one has to be manually approved by the recipient's manager, so this can't happen. It's a joke.

Certain schools will get your resume past the "HR drones" when other schools will not, even within the same field of study.

We can debate whether top schools actually teach any better or whether they're just skimming off top students out of high school, but there's a significant difference in groups outcomes between schools.

Americans write articles for an American audience and don't ever acknowledge the existence of other countries.

Not knowing what post-secondary school you went to it's worth saying that not all universities and colleges are equal. Don't go to a bad school. Don't go to a mediocre school even.

No one in Google uses this as an expression. It's close to something people actually do reference, but it's not described like this.

This. Being a sales engineer can be just as technically demanding as any job shuffling protobufs in a big tech company. But there's a lot more 1:1 interaction talking to people and gathering information about the problem they're trying to solve.

Jobs like devrel can also have a good combination of being technical and talking to people and giving presentations.

Finally roles like "Technical Account Manager" can vary really widely across companies - in some cases these are basically glorified support jobs or sales jobs where you're dealing with existing customers instead of new customers. In other places it can be more like a solutions engineer where you're implementing a customer-specific solution using your company's platform. Again, a lot of 1:1 communication with customers.

I'm excited to hear why the EUA for this drug is good when anti-vaxers have said they didn't trust the EUA for the vaccines.

Look at $GOOG's one-year performance versus its peers and I think you'll have the answer why shareholder aren't complaining.

Yes, while it is true that Jeffery Epstein had a rape island, he also gave a lot of money to charity! Can't people just be happy when good things happen?

Yeah, suburbs of Santa Rosa burned down in the Tubbs Fire of 2017. It burned down suburban neighbourhoods. This isn't people out in the middle of nowhere.

Although that said, this article goes into how they defended the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort buildings: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sierra-at-Tahoe-...

Spoiler: it turns out that if you have a multi-million dollar insurance policy, the insurance company sends over guys to spray everything with fire retardant gel.

I'm not sure there's an appropriate design for something to survive a major forest fire.