The vibe shift, end of "wokeness"?

[armyvern]

Just be clear this was not anything medal related but your point still stands.

Oh I get that; just explaining why we women will sometimes question motives or be hesitant to accept praise, H&A or jammie tasks etc. That's because often, when we are recognized it brings the side effects of haters hating for no other reason than because we happen to be female.

Believe it or not, many 'jump' to incompetant and DEI etc etc and we'd rather just not deal with it or give them any more impetus to sprout their garbage.

 

[RangerRay]

A critic of DEI says they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

DEI Must Change

But Donald Trump’s executive order throws the baby out with the bathwater.

www.persuasion.community

 

[YZT580]

A critic of DEI says they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

DEI Must Change

But Donald Trump’s executive order throws the baby out with the bathwater.

www.persuasion.community

justice is often portrayed as a blindfolded Grecian figure holding a balance. It could represent equality just as well. The more rules that you write in the name of freedom or equality the less free you become. DEI should be buried with a stake through its heart and along with it should go many of the new laws that have been written. The authors of the American constitution got it right in the first place. All men are created equal. Full stop. The only addition to that would be a directive pointing towards Webster's definition: the same in number, degree, value, rank or other standard of comparison//without subservience or domination, on equal terms.

 

[armyvern]

A critic of DEI says they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

DEI Must Change

But Donald Trump’s executive order throws the baby out with the bathwater.

www.persuasion.community

My personal spin on that while some cheer the purge (we had one of those already during my career and I watched some excellent male and females, troops and leaders, lose their careers due to it) of DEI that is underway.

Pendulms being what they are.

First female Commander of the Coast Guard, fired and recently evicted. I'm certain the eviction had less to do with her sex and more with the fact that she probably was inhabiting the government-owned residence intended for the Commander to occupy. She is no longer the Commander.

And yet, we have no idea as to her competancy and ability to do her actual job. Her ability to lead. Pitchforks held high to yell "end DEI" (insert loud, resounding cheers across the land here) and so - off she goes. Not because we know she was a "DEI hire" or "incompetant" or a "bad leader"; it is entirely possible that it was only because she is a woman and served a political point for the masses braying. We don't know shit. We don't know her story. We know her sex.

That's the other side of the pendulum. Not giving a shit as to what the facts or actual truth is behind that particular decision being made; yet cheering regardless. That kind of shit will never be right, no matter what party you support, no matter what country you live in, no matter what sex, race or religion you happen to be.

Experiences vary and again YMMV.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Can't work with some inmates as they tease him and now has tennis elbow.

My mind went to a really weird place when I read that.

 

[OldSolduer]

My mind went to a really weird place when I read that.

Every day its the same - a million questions and suggestions on how to run things better. Like they joined at coffee break.

The whole transition thing isn't an issue. Its the incessant yapping for no good reason.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Every day its the same - a million questions and suggestions on how to run things better. Like they joined at coffee break.

The whole transition thing isn't an issue. Its the incessant yapping for no good reason.

It was more about the tennis elbow bit and how you would get that in prison.

 

[OldSolduer]

It was more about the tennis elbow bit and how you would get that in prison.

Oh I figured that out - yes I chuckled.

 

[daftandbarmy]

This is alarming, and sad...

Deal with causes of teacher absenteeism—not just symptoms​

Teachers are more likely to take sick days when they feel unsafe at school. So school boards should do a better job of keeping both teachers and students safe. This means cracking down on student misbehaviour and ensuring that violent students receive significant consequences—including suspensions and permanent expulsions.

Another thing that undoubtedly will help reduce the number of sick days is to stop imposing useless fads on teachers. Teachers want to do their jobs effectively, and this isn’t likely to happen if they are subjected to endless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sessions.

The harm teachers often experience during DEI sessions is real. Last year, former Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto took his own life after experiencing ongoing harassment for daring to challenge his DEI trainer. In addition, recent research shows that far from promoting tolerance and inclusion, mandatory DEI sessions simply create more animosity and division. The TDSB recently called on the Ford government to force all teachers in the province to obtain DEI certification. Hopefully, the government ignores that call.

It would also help if school board trustees and senior administrators tightened their own belts. For example, it’s no secret that Ontario school boards are administratively top-heavy. Few things are more frustrating than seeing administrative departments grow in size while classroom teachers are continually told to do more with less. This leads to teacher burnout, which obviously increases the total number of sick days.

Deal with causes of teacher absenteeism—not just symptoms

School boards should stop subjecting teachers to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sessions.

www.fraserinstitute.org

 

[OldSolduer]

This is alarming, and sad...

Deal with causes of teacher absenteeism—not just symptoms​

Teachers are more likely to take sick days when they feel unsafe at school. So school boards should do a better job of keeping both teachers and students safe. This means cracking down on student misbehaviour and ensuring that violent students receive significant consequences—including suspensions and permanent expulsions.

Another thing that undoubtedly will help reduce the number of sick days is to stop imposing useless fads on teachers. Teachers want to do their jobs effectively, and this isn’t likely to happen if they are subjected to endless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sessions.

The harm teachers often experience during DEI sessions is real. Last year, former Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto took his own life after experiencing ongoing harassment for daring to challenge his DEI trainer. In addition, recent research shows that far from promoting tolerance and inclusion, mandatory DEI sessions simply create more animosity and division. The TDSB recently called on the Ford government to force all teachers in the province to obtain DEI certification. Hopefully, the government ignores that call.

It would also help if school board trustees and senior administrators tightened their own belts. For example, it’s no secret that Ontario school boards are administratively top-heavy. Few things are more frustrating than seeing administrative departments grow in size while classroom teachers are continually told to do more with less. This leads to teacher burnout, which obviously increases the total number of sick days.

Deal with causes of teacher absenteeism—not just symptoms

School boards should stop subjecting teachers to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) sessions.

www.fraserinstitute.org

In my pea brain the current DEI crowd are communists in disguise. There is no diversity of thought, equitable treatment nor inclusivity.
Its an echo chamber - and if you don't go along you're in the gulag.

 

[daftandbarmy]

A culture of too many 'training time outs'...

Fast forward through the gold commercials

Erik Prince - War Will Never Be The Same​

 

[Kirkhill]

Net zero is over, and with it many other luxury beliefs we can no longer afford

It is not just a question of ending the peace dividend, but the damage wreaked by the failures of liberalism

www.telegraph.co.uk

Another article proclaiming the demise of Net Zero.

I will wait to break out the champagne when I see such a headline in The Guardian. The closest I have seen so far is articles of this sort. It bemoans the loss of popular and political support and calls for better messaging. But the goals are unchanged.

Labour warned it risks losing support for net zero if costs not spread fairly

Exclusive: Chief climate adviser calls on Starmer to make ‘strong, confident’ case for green UK that public can buy into

www.theguardian.com

I put Mark Carney on that side of the debate.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Net zero is over, and with it many other luxury beliefs we can no longer afford

It is not just a question of ending the peace dividend, but the damage wreaked by the failures of liberalism

www.telegraph.co.uk

Another article proclaiming the demise of Net Zero.

I will wait to break out the champagne when I see such a headline in The Guardian. The closest I have seen so far is articles of this sort. It bemoans the loss of popular and political support and calls for better messaging. But the goals are unchanged.

Labour warned it risks losing support for net zero if costs not spread fairly

Exclusive: Chief climate adviser calls on Starmer to make ‘strong, confident’ case for green UK that public can buy into

www.theguardian.com

I put Mark Carney on that side of the debate.

The less they focus on productivity, and the more they're distracted by policies that appeal to the emotional masses, the faster the UK's decline will be. They're in the hurt locker now.... same goes for Canada of course:

What explains the UK’s productivity problem?​

The UK has experienced significantly slower productivity growth than comparable countries over the decade and a half since the global financial crisis. Three fundamental challenges need to be tackled urgently: underinvestment, inadequate diffusion and an absence of joined-up policy-making.

The UK faces a tough productivity challenge. Slow productivity growth threatens the much-needed revival of economic growth and improvements in living standards and wellbeing. Slower growth of the population and the workforce make the challenge of improving productivity over the next decade a daunting one. If the current trend in productivity growth continues for the next two decades, it will not be possible to maintain current living standards, let alone deliver sustainability and improved wellbeing.

UK growth​

The UK has performed particularly badly relative to comparable economies in terms of productivity growth. It is in the bottom half of the rankings in the OECD, well below France, Germany and the United States; just below the average for the euro area; and slightly ahead of Italy and Spain. From 2010 to 2022, the annual average growth in UK GDP per hour worked was just 0.5%, with little sign of improvement in recent years.

What explains the UK’s productivity problem? - The Productivity Institute

Three fundamental challenges need to be tackled urgently: underinvestment, inadequate diffusion and an absence of joined-up policy-making.

www.productivity.ac.uk

 

[Cloud Cover]

Hypothesis: wokeness resulted in no one really challenging or calling out non-indigenous people self-identifying at First Nations to recieve financial benefits.

Is wokeness culpable in teachers and staff not challenging the growing number of students seeking accomodations?

[Understanding some are very legitimate, some (many?) are self-diagnoses]


More than a third of Maritime university students report disabilities

When I was teaching at a community college, I once had a student who would only write exams on light blue or yellow paper because white paper was triggering. We accommodated her, she still failed at everything, received her dilemma notwithstanding and is currently serving as a Constable with Peel Region Police.
So even if teachers and professors do their job, they are thwarted by HR, DEI Mullahs and Human Rights adjudicators.

 

[YZT580]

When I was teaching at a community college, I once had a student who would only write exams on light blue or yellow paper because white paper was triggering. We accommodated her, she still failed at everything, received her dilemma notwithstanding and is currently serving as a Constable with Peel Region Police.
So even if teachers and professors do their job, they are thwarted by HR, DEI Mullahs and Human Rights adjudicators.

must be a real joy having her watching your back

 

[Kirkhill]

The less they focus on productivity, and the more they're distracted by policies that appeal to the emotional masses, the faster the UK's decline will be. They're in the hurt locker now.... same goes for Canada of course:

What explains the UK’s productivity problem?​

The UK has experienced significantly slower productivity growth than comparable countries over the decade and a half since the global financial crisis. Three fundamental challenges need to be tackled urgently: underinvestment, inadequate diffusion and an absence of joined-up policy-making.

The UK faces a tough productivity challenge. Slow productivity growth threatens the much-needed revival of economic growth and improvements in living standards and wellbeing. Slower growth of the population and the workforce make the challenge of improving productivity over the next decade a daunting one. If the current trend in productivity growth continues for the next two decades, it will not be possible to maintain current living standards, let alone deliver sustainability and improved wellbeing.

UK growth​

The UK has performed particularly badly relative to comparable economies in terms of productivity growth. It is in the bottom half of the rankings in the OECD, well below France, Germany and the United States; just below the average for the euro area; and slightly ahead of Italy and Spain. From 2010 to 2022, the annual average growth in UK GDP per hour worked was just 0.5%, with little sign of improvement in recent years.

What explains the UK’s productivity problem? - The Productivity Institute

Three fundamental challenges need to be tackled urgently: underinvestment, inadequate diffusion and an absence of joined-up policy-making.

www.productivity.ac.uk

Canada's big advantage is, of course in resources. We should be able to literally dig our way out of our hole.

Peculiarly Britain could do pretty much the same. It still has coal. It still has North Sea hydrocarbons of various types. All of which can be converted into LNG if so desired, or just used as is.

An abiding feature of the coal fired landscape of Britain was the Gasometer, a massive storage tank found in every small town for storing gas made from coal and used to heat homes like natural gas. There are better processes today. Some of which don't require mining the coal in the first place. The gas can be created in situ.

 

[Furniture]

Canada's big advantage is, of course in resources. We should be able to literally dig our way out of our hole.

Peculiarly Britain could do pretty much the same. It still has coal. It still has North Sea hydrocarbons of various types. All of which can be converted into LNG if so desired, or just used as is.

An abiding feature of the coal fired landscape of Britain was the Gasometer, a massive storage tank found in every small town for storing gas made from coal and used to heat homes like natural gas. There are better processes today. Some of which don't require mining the coal in the first place. The gas can be created in situ.

We have spent the last 50 years indoctrinating children into believing the world is going to end because of fossil fuels, even as we ramped up their use to make modern living more comfortable.

You don't overcome that sort of indoctrination until people start freezing in the dark because they can't afford or can't get power.

It's the same issue we have in Canada. Most Canadians live their entire lives in large urban areas, hearing about how endangered our wilderness space is. They have no concept of how vast our wilderness is, and how easily we can extract resources, while still leaving more pristine wild land than most countries even have.

 

[Kirkhill]

We have spent the last 50 years indoctrinating children into believing the world is going to end because of fossil fuels, even as we ramped up their use to make modern living more comfortable.

You don't overcome that sort of indoctrination until people start freezing in the dark because they can't afford or can't get power.

It's the same issue we have in Canada. Most Canadians live their entire lives in large urban areas, hearing about how endangered our wilderness space is. They have no concept of how vast our wilderness is, and how easily we can extract resources, while still leaving more pristine wild land than most countries even have.

And we can afford to clean up God's messes.

How it all began — A brief history of the Canadian oil sands | Oil Sands Magazine

Canada is home to the world's third largest oil reserves, and almost all of those barrels are contained within the oil sands. The story of Canada’s oil sands begins a very long time ago — 170 million years, to be more exact, when Western Canada was believed to have been mostly under water.

www.oilsandsmagazine.com

 

[OldSolduer]

When I was teaching at a community college, I once had a student who would only write exams on light blue or yellow paper because white paper was triggering. We accommodated her, she still failed at everything, received her dilemma notwithstanding and is currently serving as a Constable with Peel Region Police.
So even if teachers and professors do their job, they are thwarted by HR, DEI Mullahs and Human Rights adjudicators.

 

[Jarnhamar]

would only write exams on light blue or yellow paper because white paper was triggering.

On the bright side she probably doesn't write very many tickets.