I'm sure it's not... but luckily there's probably only another month or so of it.
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Oddly enough, on (rare) occasions, I have found LinkedIn to be useful, but, not in the way that LinkedIn markets itself as useful.
Nevertheless, it does have its uses in a professional context, and you won't find any of the trolling nonsense that proliferates on so many social media platforms.
Still, they're only a step and a half above Facebook in trustworthiness.
Amen to that.
Not defending them, merely observing that they have some (limited) utility in a professional context.
Coming back to this area near Silicon Valley, I've been surprised to find the San Francisco Bay Area a much different place than we exited. Yes, the prices have risen, but it was always expensive.
My parents paid US$12,500 for our 3 bedroom, 1000+ square foot house in East Side San Jose in 1960. The development had previously been a Sugar Beet field. In 2008, when prices had dropped to the lowest levels, houses in the neighbourhood were around US$140,000, but quickly rebounded to US$400,000 before I could sell my house in Florida.
After checking Zillow, they're probably around US$1 million now.
I remember in 1966, our real estate agent had written a letter about the prices of everything being so expensive that she wanted to move out this way.
It's interesting to me that California has the world's 4th or 5th largest economy, yet they can't make it affordable to live here.
I don't know if they are still doing it but the Mormons were posthumously converting Jews who had been killed in the Holocaust. Anne Frank, for one.
A Twist on Posthumous Baptisms Leaves Jews Miffed at Mormon Rite (Published 2012)
The Mormon practice of baptizing dead relatives offends some Jews, especially when the subjects are Holocaust victims, even though that is against church policy.www.nytimes.com
At least they were waiting for them to die.
Going to a good Catholic High School, we had regular religion lessons.
In one of them, we were told that if a Jewish man had a heart attack in the street, after rendering first aid, we had a duty to baptise them (while they were unconscious). If they survived, they were then obligated to follow the Catholic faith, otherwise they would go to hell. Nowhere were we told to ask permission.
This was the start of my extricating myself from that religion.
They certainly do.
My daughter met the creative director at her college. She reached out to him on LinkedIn and had a job with his company 2 months later. Had she not been able to make contact with him, she probably wouldn't have the job she has.
Huh. Guess it just depends on the profession, and the person! And you're right about the (supposed) lack of trolls.
It mostly hinges on the quality of the underlying social network, which is a limitation I am more than willing to work with. Those working with marginal social capital and lackluster social skill might have another experience.
EDIT: Given the "professional" nature of the network, the nature of the "sponsored" content tends in itself to be more dignified, YMMV.
Entitled people who think it’s okay to yell and start an argument when they don’t get what they want (hint: it’s not). Good god! Yes, I'm saying that because that did happen just now. They were so much in the wrong, I can't even begin to explain.
I really do question—who raised people like this??? I'm sorry, and it's very unlike me to say this, but that's like behaving like a 5-year-old, not a 19-20-year-old.
I really do question—who raised people like this??? I'm sorry, and it's very unlike me to say this, but that's like behaving like a 5-year-old, not a 19-20-year-old.
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The local weather forecast suggests (threatens?) continuous rain from Sunday through Wednesday. The amount of rain falling at any given moment will vary, but there will be rain constantly falling for several days.
But then weather forecasting is always a "maybe" situation
But then weather forecasting is always a "maybe" situation
This is a good example of the difference in religious outlook. The "Golden Rule" is different in Jewish philosophy. Instead of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" it is "That which is hateful to you, do NOT do unto others". So a Christian might think they were doing a good deed by converting the heart attack victim but a Jew would not because forcing someone (without permission) to change religion is hateful to them.
Years ago, a study was done at my hospital on infection transmission within the hospital (nosocomial infection). They found that when the (male) doctors would lean over the patient, their tie would brush against the patient. This turned out to be a significant source of transmission. So the docs had to take off their ties or put them in their shirt. Infections went down. Amazing.
"Cautiously predicts"?
Unpleasant.
Nevertheless, in my experience, in recent years, it has become increasingly accurate.
Moreover, the closer the actual forecast is to the anticipated event (rain, snow, gales, storms, etc), the more accurate it is likely to be.
Amazing how a simple change makes a big difference - as when surgeons were told to wash their hands in the 19th century.
Just spent the past hour and a half chatting with Decent Brother; very pleasant, and actually, quite lovely.
How strange (and sometimes) misleading the street names here are.
There's one called E. S. River Street ("East South River Street") which seems very weird to me. Then, the one that's incredibly misleading is the fact that Division Street actually does NOT separate "East" and "West" streets - it's actually a couple blocks to the east that defines East and West. Unless Division Street divides something else, but I certainly haven't figured out what that is.
Anyway, just weird city geography things.
There's one called E. S. River Street ("East South River Street") which seems very weird to me. Then, the one that's incredibly misleading is the fact that Division Street actually does NOT separate "East" and "West" streets - it's actually a couple blocks to the east that defines East and West. Unless Division Street divides something else, but I certainly haven't figured out what that is.
Anyway, just weird city geography things.
Well at least you have street names! The village I live in has no street names or house numbers. You either know where a house is or you don’t.
There are about 50 houses although.
Not a bit of "caution" in these forecasts. Clearly there's been a sense of urgency in making sure the public is aware of the potential for flooding and mud slides if the storm is as bad as it might be.
I still remember 1987.
My mother - with complete confidence and a cheerful and utterly disarming insouciance - flew into Heathrow right in the middle of it.