I long for who I used to be. I remember them in fleeting moments when life thrusts nostalgia upon me. They weren’t happy either, but they still hoped they could be. I miss that.She/her 26
“No one came to Google to work on offensive military technology”
- Vidana Abdel Khalek wrote in her mail resigning from Google on March 25 addressing to company leaders, including CEO Sundar Pichai, announcing her decision to quit in protest over Project Nimbus.
Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:
“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”
You can cut a child’s “why” phase in half if you just give them the most elongated and exhaustive answer you can muster, like if you aren’t wishing you had a white board you need to dig deeper
They will then get incredibly get bored, wander away/fall asleep, and *Maybe* learn something.
But most importantly they will regret asking and after repeating this a few times they will know enough not to ask you
I’m unclear if it’s because they’re heads so stuffed with knowledge they no longer need to or they just don’t want a repeat of falling asleep to having the earths tilted rotation around the sun effecting the season explained to them, because I went into as much detail on the definition of tilt and gravity of the solar system as I could muster
Which wasn’t a lot, but it was enough to knock a five yo unconscious and scare off at least 2 adults
On days this doesn’t work they have to pick up and put away at least 3 things for every answer they seek