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A project is undertaken:
Years of “working through” one’s state of heftiness obviously being preferable to actual, you know, weight loss. Which, one suspects, might have taken less time. But hey, we mustn’t reach for the stars.
Fearlessly, heroically, said garment was duly rocked. The result, needless to say, is “cool-girl style vibes” – a “body-baring sheer look,” complete with what I’m assured are a corset and “strappy, rhinestone heels.”
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When not “pushing boundaries” and invoking the feminism of taking up space “unapologetically,” the author, Ms Margie Plus, is a “confidence activist” and a musician. Those with a taste for pitch correction and overstretched PVC can behold her creativity here.
Via Mr Worstall.
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Some wise observations on engineering by Tim Newman for those…
I’d like to think that Tim is having us on.
1] LinkedIn is probably not a proxy for the whole population of engineers.
2] Engineers (and MDs) overrepresented in Mohammedan terrorism? Might very well be because daddy wasn’t going to bankroll a degree in Intersectional Poetry Studies. Ergo, the Mohammedan terrorists are in STEM, because they’re not anywhere else.
%#*^^&%
That first line should have been italicized.
Is NOT italicizing a first in this fine establishment?
Nor the AMA or the various medical journals a proxy for the “whole body” of doctors but there they are. Engineers are no different from other smart people. For years it would puzzle me when I would encounter people who had a negative reaction to engineers. I remember a certain encounter with a butcher about a simple fact and the person caught me off guard when he replied derisively that I must be an engineer. But the more I saw STEM schools, especially MIT, sliding down the slippery slope I began to realize that engineers were no more immune to their own arrogance and especially hubris than any other “smart people” profession.
Added: Also #2 is some rather tortured logic. As I was saying…
I was reading about that back in the 90’s. I have forgotten what the reasons were supposed to be, but it may have had to do with more university graduates than jobs.
It took awhile, but I noticed it too. They may know that mistakes cause bridges to fall down and airplanes to crash, but they fail to understand that the same applies to societies.
A much more likely explanation and one I have some personal experience with. I worked for a small startup that failed mostly because the Mathematician PhD data scientist they had hired was lying to them. Somewhat similar to Elizabeth Holmes but with more gravitas. At the time I joined they were looking to hire another data scientist. The owner of the company was an Iranian ex-pat (Christian) who was on very good terms with quite a few very wealthy people from Egypt and the other more advanced areas of the Islamic ME. He was quite confident that he could hire someone relatively cheaply from over there. He told us that the culture was overflowing with high quality mathematicians who would be willing to work cheap just for the opportunity. Mostly because there were no opportunities over there for such people. We never did get anyone but much of that had to do with immigration issues.
I’d like to think that Tim is having us on.
I assure you he’s not.