Empathy building. Take your boys to see Captain Marvel so they don’t turn into the sad little shits that throw a fit when a movie like Captain Marvel is made.
Some people are commenting by saying that when an employee is fired, it’s because the employee did something wrong.
But the same is true when someone quits. Usually an employee quits because their boss did something wrong. For example, if the boss doesn’t pay a living wage, then the boss has been doing something wrong for literally every second that the employee was there.
I was fired because I was wrong for the job, plain and simple. The way the position was described in the job posting and explained to me in the interview and in “training” was misleading, which caused me to be a bad fit for the job. I did everything “right,” but they were looking for a copyeditor and I am a writer and curriculum designer. A bad fit with a bad company.
I was fired for this after four months, with absolutely no warning. The managers I had been working with didn’t even tell me–I got a call from someone in HR I had never spoken to, informing me that I was being terminated immediately. Literally up until the moment I answered that phone call, the managers I had been working with since day one were acting as if everything was fine. I was locked out of my work laptop/email minutes after the phone call.
The next day when I started job hunting again, lo and behold, I see the job posting to hire my replacement. It had been posted more than 3 weeks earlier. For AT LEAST 3 weeks, they had been planning to fire me, had been searching for and interviewing my replacement, had been planning to cut me loose at a moment’s notice, and I had no idea. I was anxious because I knew I was struggling to do what they wanted, but I foolishly assumed a professional organization would at least have basic integrity and respect for its employees.
I could have started looking for a replacement job at least 3 weeks earlier, could have possibly shortened the incredibly stressful and terrifying experience of being unemployed…but since my employer lacked basic respect for me as a person, they didn’t.
So yeah, it’s fucked up that employers can treat employees like garbage and capitalism has conditioned us/forces us to not only accept it, but go out of our way to enable it. Fuck that shit.
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On Aug. 21, all of North America will experience a solar eclipse.
If skies are clear, eclipse-watchers will be able to see a partial solar eclipse over several hours, and some people – within the narrow path of totality – will see a total solar eclipse for a few moments.
How to Watch
It’s never safe to look at the Sun, and an eclipse is no exception. During a partial eclipse (or on any regular day) you must use special solar filters or an indirect viewing method to watch the Sun.
If you have solar viewing glasses, check to make sure they’re safe and undamaged before using them to look at the Sun. Make sure you put them on before looking up at the Sun, and look away before removing them. Eclipse glasses can be used over your regular eyeglasses, but they should never be used when looking through telescopes, binoculars, camera viewfinders, or any other optical device.
If you don’t have eclipse glasses, you can still watch the eclipse indirectly! You can make a pinhole projector out of a box, or use any other object with tiny holes – like a piece of cardstock with a hole, or your outstretched, interlaced fingers – to project an image of the partially eclipsed Sun onto the ground.
Of course, if it’s cloudy (or you’d just rather stay inside), you can watch the whole thing online with us at nasa.gov/eclipselive. Tune in starting at noon ET.
If you’re in the path of totality, there will be a few brief moments when it is safe to look directly at the eclipse. Only once the Moon has completely covered the Sun and there is no light shining through is it safe to look at the eclipse. Make sure you put your eclipse glasses back on or return to indirect viewing before the first flash of sunlight appears around the Moon’s edge.
Why do eclipses happen?
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow down on Earth’s surface. The path of totality – where the Moon completely covers the Sun – is traced out by the Moon’s inner shadow, the umbra. People within the Moon’s outer shadow, the penumbra, can see a partial eclipse.
The Moon’s orbit around Earth is tilted by about five degrees, meaning that its shadow usually doesn’t fall on Earth. Only when the Moon lines up exactly between the Sun and Earth do we see an eclipse.
Though the Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon, it is also about 400 times farther away, making their apparent sizes match up almost exactly. This is what allows the Moon to block out the Sun’s bright face, while revealing the comparatively faint, pearly-white corona.
The Science of Eclipses
Eclipses are a beautiful sight to see, and they’re also helpful for our scientists, so we’re funding eleven ground-based science investigations to learn more about the Sun and Earth.
Total solar eclipses reveal the innermost regions of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. Though it’s thought to house the processes that kick-start much of the space weather that can influence Earth, as well as heating the whole corona to extraordinarily high temperatures, we can’t study this region at any other time. This is because coronagraphs – the instruments we use to study the Sun’s atmosphere by creating artificial eclipses – must cover up much of the corona, as well as the Sun’s face in order to produce clear images.
Eclipses also give us the chance to study Earth’s atmosphere under uncommon conditions: the sudden loss of solar radiation from within the Moon’s shadow. We’ll be studying the responses of both Earth’s ionosphere – the region of charged particles in the upper atmosphere – and the lower atmosphere.
Issue 9 of Stronghold is donezo! Like, really really really donezo! It’s one of if not our best issue yet and certainly some of my best art yet. Sean Marks came on as my new writer and did a bangup job his first go ‘round! We’re gonna make sweet comic book love together. Look forward to it. It’ll all be on Comixology eventually and on my gumroad page much sooner than that! After I spend the weekend, possibly the next week congratulating myself on a job well done, work begins on R!DE #2! Let’s get it!
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