Don't be thick. A handful of oligarchs seizing all the wealth created by Soviet "slave" labor and sharing very little did destroy Ukraine long before the loonies in Lviv decided to overthrow the shameless crook from the Donbas.
> By the next morning, soldiers in unmarked uniforms had taken the Crimean parliament and raised the Russian flag. Throughout the day, the little green men—as the irregular Russian soldiers came to be known—fanned out across the city, capturing government buildings. Soon, behind closed doors and under Russian guns, the autonomous region’s parliament voted to request Russian security assistance.
The logical implication of saying "Facebook saying they did not know something is always a lie" is that facebook knows literally everything at all times.
That's like some bizarre self hating facebook worship at that point.
mainly because of drug and substance abuse and suicide. Highlights the need for mental health treatment and perhaps more education around the perils of self medicating.
What's driving drug and substance abuse and suicide in the United States? Why is our mental health so poor? I think there's root causes to these questions and I think they point to our extreme income inequalities.
Just like the top-level issue (overall mortality), this is likely multi-faceted and caused by several sub-issues. ODs can largely be traced to drug policies (overperscription, non-treatment, economic incentives to tamper with drugs, ect)
We have a pretty substantial "loser class". People that have jobs that don't pay well and aren't held in esteem. Many within this group don't feel they have a chance at upward mobility (and may be right). This has been especially hard on middle-aged people who've seen a tremendous growth in suicidality (which is still less than younger folks, but has seen explosive growth).
We don't treat mental illness and heavily stigmatize it. We engage in a number of habits that likely result in poor mental health. There's less face to face interaction. We spend large amounts of time sitting perfectly still in the same exact spaces, and have poor diets.
There's likely a ton of things that are contributing. I'm not sure there's a silver bullet, singular "cause" that's driving this.
> The death rate among African Americans is up 4 percent, Hispanics 7 percent, whites 12 percent and Native Americans 18 percent. The rate for Asian Americans also has increased, but at a level that is not statistically significant.
I wonder about the racial differences too. Why are Asian Americans and African Americans much lower? Don't they deal with the same income inequalities?
> Why were they using company resources for personal meetings?
Probably because it represents time that are unavailable for work and, in many cases, because their are people at work (including their boss) entitled to know the reason, and who probably established that as the workflow for sharing the information.
Yeah, and that's why you put full details in your personal calendar and into the work one "Doctor's appointment" or something without expanding on that any further.
If I have a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day, I might add it to my personal calendar with full details, but I still need to add an entry to my work calendar to show I'll be out of the office, possibly with a generic title like "Medical Appt".
It’s normal in a lot of companies. I typically have my bosses and my team lead’s calendar up throughout the day. Helps to fill in the gaps and get a feel for questions I’ll ask later
A time ago I used to not put anything onto my work calender because "it didn't matter" and "no one cared". Meeting at 2pm? That's a postit note and that was good enough for me.
Somewhere along the line, people started scheduling me for events in conflict with other events. Why? My online visible calender was free and clear into eternity so obviously I have nothing going on at 2pm. Explaining not being able to be in three places at once got old fast.
So now I have an eye toward using the calendar "defensively". Here's when I usually come in, here's when I usually clock out, here's when I usually take lunch, here's that weekly meeting I have to attend for someone else's giggles, here's when I'm helping Jimmy with this thing, here's when Samantha is helping me with the other thing. You want a meeting? Now the calendar begins a negotiation.
I may or may not like it, but the tipping point has come and gone for me.
A public calendar is public. No different than how my Outlook calendar is setup organizationally. If you want items to be private, mark them as private. Otherwise if someone setup a blanket alert in my calendar, they’ll get alerted for what I want made public.
I suspect the difference here is that Google alleges thar screenshots of the calendar were taken and distributed outside the company. Viewing a shared calendar that happens to include private events that haven’t been marked private is one thing, but sharing screenshots of the same seems to be something different.
That’s why it’s ill advised to use company email for personal communication. Do it over telegram on your personal devices.