Both of you are writers. You can bring to life entire worlds that don’t exist. You’re experts in seeing life from a point of view that isn’t your own. If you guys aren’t able to listen to one another and see where the other person is coming from, then there’s no hope left for the rest of the world.
… untouched by these things will have had an easier ride than those who didn’t. This is the nature of the world we live in—it doesn’t matter whether you’re a farmer, or have an office job: two people can have the same “job title”, and yet, have different but valid experiences.
… that weren’t suited to the local ecosystem and needed more water or maintenance. Deforestation triggered soil erosion and messed up local rainfall cycles, while irrigation systems diverted water from local communities. Subsistence farmers who have remained relatively…
… and farming calendars were dismissed as “primitive”, with western farming practices (e.g., monoculture) replacing the more holistic ones that had worked for centuries. Indigenous crops that were better adapted to the land (and often more nutritious) were pushed out in favour of crops…
… it’s “pray to every deity and do a rain dance” levels of stress. And if you then also grow crops that aren’t suitable to the local climate and/or soil, then your life will get harder still—and that’s what often happened after colonisation. Indigenous agricultural rituals, seed systems,…
Subsistence farmers can’t feed their cows the way commercial farmers do, so they’re largely fed on a mixture of grazing on natural pasture, crop residue, kitchen scraps, and to a lesser extent, homegrown forage. In rainy seasons, it’s a dream. In dry seasons,…
But when you put livestock into the mix, your work increases tenfold. Not only do you need to feed your family now, you must feed the animals, too. A cow drinks 30-50 gallons of water a day, and eats 2-3% of its body weight. So, a cow weighing 1,400 lbs needs 28-42 pounds of dry matter a day.
Guys—you’re both right. The “ease” of subsistence farming is highly dependent on location and WHAT you farm. If you live on fertile land, grow crops that would naturally flourish in your climate, and are happy living a simple life, then subsistence farming can be less stressful than an office job.
Something I try to explain to tech peeps/investors is the danger of seeing yourself as the outcome, rather than the enabler.
It leads to creating 'value' that isn't valuable to the user. It just complicates their journey to the outcome you are meant to deliver.
Facebook is speed-running that. /1
I feel this in my bones! 🥰
#WritingCommunity #goodkarma #bethelight
Well, I think the initial poster must have blocked me now. Never thought that would happen so soon on Bluesky!
Thank you! Read the description in your bio, laughed out loud, and had to follow.
This makes me want to go and join Costco. I had a membership once, but since the closest one is nearly 40 minutes away by car, I let it lapse. Well done! 👏🏼
Now, I watched other interviews with Blake Lively, and I actually like the fact that she doesn’t do the ‘sweet girl’ thing—she’s often sarcastic, challenges the interviewer, etc. And when I look at the comments and people say she was rude, or throwing a tantrum… all I could see was sarcasm. 🤷🏻♀️ (3/3)
But it seems that cringey/awkward interviews are also the interviewer’s USP—when so many of your interviews fall into that category, then you’re either the worst interviewer on the planet, or you intend to have those kind of interviews because, hey, they’re clickbait. (2/3)
If the journalist thought THAT was bullying, then she would have had an even worse time going through your average high school. She isn’t great at creating rapport, and she behaved like someone who didn’t really watch/think about the movie, and she seemed unprepared. (1/3)
A friend of mine and I discussed the same thing a few weeks ago. She felt that a lot of women just don’t stick up for other women, or worse, even sabotage them. It’s just so, so sad. And I feel like things won’t change at all in my lifetime. I mean… what would it take for that to happen?
Unfortunately, many women are prone to see other women as ‘competition’, and have some underlying urge to take them down at the first available opportunity. They consciously (or subconsciously!) know that they can do that by siding with men. Sadly, I’ve met too many of them in my life.
To put it bluntly: men can push the boundaries of sarcasm further and be seen as “naughty boys”, while women can’t—unless they’re with people who know them well. So, I can only imagine how this may then be perceived by Americans, who are generally not known for understanding sarcasm. (4/4)
… and that’s pretty much Ryan Reynolds’ type of humor. Where I live, sarcasm is part of everyday life. What I learned rather late is that it works differently for men than it does for women—probably because of internalised misogyny that most people aren’t even aware of. (3/4)
I also watched some videos created by people who hate her, and were trying to prove how “unlikable” she was—I never saw what they saw. Maybe the fact that I’m not American helps, because many of the things people from the US seem to think of as “rude” comes across as sarcasm to me… (2/4)
None of us are perfect—we’ve all been rude to someone at some point in our lives. I can be ‘abrupt’, if I’m in a hurry, I think someone is being unhelpful, or I get asked the same question repeatedly. It’s frustration. Luckily for us, most of these moments aren’t recorded. (1/4)
… because that made them less ‘replaceable’. I heard that to this day, that woman is being protected by the men she reports to. No one really understands why they do so—maybe because she’s a sycophant who boosts their ego?!? Still waiting for karma to hit back, but it ain’t happening. (5/5)
The woman also always chose a man as her “Number 2” even though there were far more women qualified to do that job. In the corporate world, one strategy often used by ‘insecure’ senior people (the ones who do a lot of blagging) is to appoint a much weaker candidate as their second in command… (4/5)
Turns out she bullied other women who reported to her at the time—I was close to some of them, but they never shared that information with me because they thought no one would believe them. They had gone and told HR, but nothing was done. (3/5)
I was a little surprised, because at the time, I didn’t really know her beyond sitting in meetings with her. And so, I said ‘no’. With hindsight, the fact that she asked that question in the first place was probably a red flag. Did she see herself described in the post I wrote? (2/5)
Totally agree. Worked in a male-dominated industry and met far too many women who always chose men as their allies, while viewing other women as competition. I wrote a post about this a few years ago, and a female colleague called me up straightaway and asked whether I saw that pattern in her. (1/5)
Totally agree. Karma has left the world we’re living in.
I avoided much of social media this year, and very rarely read the tabloids. It’s telling that I had ZERO awareness of people suddenly hating her until I looked around when this came out. It’s easy to see that people were being manipulated through very specific sources.
That’s what really stunned me. At first, I thought, “Surely, no one can be that dim.” But then, I saw articles about the guy that strongly suggested he’s a narcissist, and realised any sense of logic he may have had was probably overridden by his over-inflated sense of self.
