Today I saw an old man on a walk, who would stop to make faces at jack-o-lanterns that haven’t been taken down. When he came closer, it was clear he was talking to them too. That set the tone of the day for me. How’s everybody?
Yo! Good nurses are in short supply. It's been a while since we talked, but in my own re-entry to education, I've felt some similar stuff and for my part, I wasn't able to hold it all together until graduation. But, I'm feeling better after a break. Not the point! What I will say is, I had a meeting with my advisor where I was talking about my chosen discipline (conflict resolution) and parallels to music. You are a musician. What I was saying is that I feel like sometimes in dicey situations, I have to fall back on lessons that I learned from music; I know the changes, the progressions, my own capabilities, etc. and a lot of it is dealing with the emergent as it comes. And as you know, in live music playing with other people, that means fucking up and then bending it around so that it isn't so much a fuck up. If you know your shit in nursing like you know your shit in music, are these fuckups things that will totally derail the flow? I have no idea, but you probably do. It might be hell right now, but if qualified experts said that you were cool to drop in, maybe there's something to that. On the other hand, given that you know yourself, are there things that need to happen so that you can take care of yourself and thereby be better situated to help your patients? Anyway, I hope that things work out man. Send sweet jams when you can.
Quit one job, starting another while deciding which school to go to in the fall. I have the opportunity to go to a really amazing conflict resolution program that's really interested in me, or an organizational psych program at an Ivy League that seems to want me. Not really sure what to do. I kind of feel like I could have gotten away with applying to an MFA program as well, but why make my life complicated?
It's not a debate when one side decides that they've already "won" and that all other perspectives are less informed or are invalid.
Why do so many redditors come to hubski with a laundry list of suggestions to make hubski more reddit-like? It's like traveling to another country and bitching about how it's not like the country one came from. No offense to you, but if you stick around, perhaps its a trend you too, may notice.
Don't forget that racism in higher education doesn't only affect Black people, but all "minorities". For example, some schools have an unwritten cap on how many Asians will be allowed into institutions, essentially claiming that if all students who merited entrance were allowed to go, such institutions might be populated mostly by Asians. It would be great if students of any race who met or exceeded the standards set by institutions of higher learning would not only be welcomed there, but encouraged or even invited to apply and to attend upon acceptance. Furthermore, it bothers me that a lot of the racism in America is still seen as mostly a "white vs. black" issue, but in reality a great deal of racism exists between non-Euro ethnicities as well. Classism might be seen as separate from racism, but the two are firm friends and influence society much more than people are willing to admit. "Soft" racism is everywhere, in every class of people and from what I can see, as prevalent as ever.
Good. Does anyone here know how to make Hünkar Beğendi or how to cook Turkish food in general? My dad wants me to try making this and I've never had it before, so I need some consultation on how this is gonna go. I'm looking at these three recipes and trying to figure out what the "essence" of this dish is (as far as spices go).
I think a lot of people come here without understanding the difference between discussion, discourse and debate. To me, this site is mostly for discussion, that is, we talk about things in a fairly casual manner for the most part. There is also a lot of discourse, which is generally speaking, talking to each other intelligently and earnestly about various articles and issues that concern us. For example, I would say that this thread invites discourse more specifically than discussion. Debate is much more in line with taking a position, defending it, modifying it, exploring other angles with the intent of winning. Personally, I am not looking for a site where I have to deal with people making comments such as "source?" or even to bother explaining myself. I do that at work all day. It's not what I want to do in my leisure time. What I do want to do is chat with other people who know about stuff I don't. To finally answer your question, I don't think that hubski is an echo chamber. There are many documented instances of sharing information and the exploration of topics that interest individual users. Yes, there are also documented instances of users coming in, fists balled, looking to pick a fight over some ism or another or whatever the flavor of outrage is that day. From my experience, I don't think that we really need to worry about an "echo chamber" because hubski is not the kind of community where we generally look to reinforce any one particular point of view and certainly not with an intent to get others to think in that way.
Eat mushrooms!
Internet fueled social justice gets trivialized because it's often taken too far, too fast. I'm all for equality, representation and empathy, but whenever I see the term "rape culture" or the word "privilege" used on the internet, I immediately think that whatever is going to be talked about will be done so in the whiniest, dumbest way possible. I'll admit that that is unfair, but that bias didn't come out of nothing.
Overt racism is like a formal declaration of war whereas passive or ingrained racism is like fighting the War on Terror. Overt racism has a face and can be attributed to that one person's or small group's upbringing and life experience. It's something you can lash out at and break the teeth of, or report to the police or the community at large. Passive racism has no face. You can try to fight it, but if no one else sees it then suddenly you're crazy, or overly sensitive, or making mountains out of molehills. For me, one clear example is the difference in the way people of color are treated if they speak with an accent vs. how white people are treated if they speak with an accent. On some level, it's a psychological trigger that lets the listener know that the speaker is not from wherever "here" is. The almost automatic assumption for most people would be that the white with an accent must be intelligent, because they speak more than one language. The automatic assumption for the person of color is that they don't speak English correctly.
I get where 8bit is coming from and I see your point too. It's hard to make it clear to people that passive racism cuts a lot deeper for some than overt racism. Talking about it won't change the fact that things are the way they are. Discomfort is sometimes a sign of growth. Just as often, that growth is a cancer. Well-meaning people have told me that they forget I'm not white in the same tones they've used to tell me they forget I wear glasses. Even if a lot of people say they don't see color, that they're "colorblind", some of us can't un-see it. Living abroad, I got to see some of my friends experience that for the first time and be utterly shocked by it. All I could do was shrug and say "now you've had a taste. How is it?"