How to help Ukraine right now, a thread. One easy task for everyone and four more to chose from.
1. Share cont content about Ukraine instead of just liking it. This is the simplest way to amplify the message and build support. Start with this thread.
@MBonvoyAssist I booked a stay through https://t.co/uzVQBUshuG. They didn't provide me with a Marriott confirmation number. I called the hotel about 20 minutes after the order and they didn't have my reservation in their system. How can I can locate it?
@XfinitySupport I'm moving to a new building, which has both Xfinity and @astoundconnects. They are offering me a much better deal. Which team can provide me a competing offer: here, retention by phone, or in-store?
@danberger Wealth has always been an indicator of success. We love to be inspired by wealth but we never question the special circumstances that helped these people.
@levie Just because you can produce more code, contracts, or other knowledge work in a unit of time, it doesn't mean that your company becomes more productive. Downstream bottlenecks still exist and block you from actualizing the gains despite tokens spent: https://t.co/NRlMBwerG9
America’s political landscape is more complicated than it used to be. Here’s my attempt to depict what I see as the seven broad camps today. Most people I know fall pretty cleanly into one of these circles (each of which has some common ground with the two adjacent circles).
Some additional points:
- The top two circles (green/yellow) are concerned first and foremost with the rise of illiberalism—disregard for the constitution, cancel culture, mob behavior, political violence. They see liberal vs illiberal as more critical right now than left vs right. In 2020, they agreed that wokeness was bad but today they’re divided on whether Trump or Harris/Biden are the lesser of two evils.
- For the middle two circles (blue/red), left vs right is the main thing. They’re not illiberal themselves but tend to focus on illiberalism from the other side while ignoring or condoning illiberalism from their own team. Both skew older and are the main consumers of traditional media, whether it be cable news or newspapers.
- The two lower circles (pink/orange) share a strong sense of grievance, place utmost importance on identity, tend to view identity groups (race, religion, sex, etc.) as monoliths, and are prone to believing conspiracy theories that fit with their worldview. Both skew younger, with woke skewing feminine and upper class and groyper skewing masculine and lower class. Both use revolutionary rhetoric, seeing the establishment as rotten to the core, and readily employ illiberal tactics under the belief that desperate times call for desperate measures.
Thoughts?
@Ms_EmmeEmme@AlexCTaliadoros@DCDPW In addition, salting snow prior to plowing breaks down the crust. Yes, it's more vehicles and time, but it solves problems. DPW doesn't explain how ice caused delays (speed, equipment failures, driver availability). They just shift all responsibility to weather conditions.
@Ms_EmmeEmme@AlexCTaliadoros@DCDPW Even fresh fluffy snow gets compacted into hard ice. Intact snow drifts in parks are barely 5" deep, of which ice isn't even 2". That's manageable. Digging cars out of compacted ice by hand is different than running a multi-ton vehicle through it.