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andrewducker- Covid in Scotland: 40-49 next to be vaccinated (including me!)
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- Cairngorms recreated in Minecraft
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- US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
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- Biden administration pauses arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE
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- 10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore
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- Some initial, troubling, thoughts on the Shamima Begum decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
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- Alex Salmond claims he has evidence. Why can't he share it?
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(tags:law Scotland evidence ) - The Metro is printing adverts that you would really struggle to tell aren't news stories.
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- "I'm Working Remotely. Can I Keep Hiding My Secret Baby?"
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Date: 2021-02-27 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-28 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-28 08:49 am (UTC)I once had a Facebook comment liked by him as he's a friend of a friend (about cars that the rich drive). Highlight of the last decade.
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Date: 2021-02-28 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-28 08:58 am (UTC)Understandably, one feels.
Secret baby
Date: 2021-02-27 01:29 pm (UTC)Re: Secret baby
Date: 2021-02-27 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-27 01:42 pm (UTC)\o/
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Date: 2021-02-27 04:20 pm (UTC)Baby
Date: 2021-02-27 11:17 pm (UTC)Project will soon be over, no need to mention because it raises a pile of problematic options: are you mentioning it for pity, are you mentioning it for a gift, are you mentioning it as a power move - and so on. Unless the people are at least work friends, it will feel like a weird move for advantage. No mention, project done, no problem.
Project is now prolonged - how do you mention it without all the above questions coming into play again. Argh.
If the project was known to be longer-term, well, mentioning it would be more easy.
Think of it as surgery - you don't always tell everybody and their colleagues about these things. In remote work they may never know that you spent six weeks on crutches. Unless the project goes on and now they want you to meet the client in a social cautious in-person way during that six weeks.
I also don't think much of the solution. Anyone who is diffident enough to be concerned about the impression mentioning a baby in the first place would make is going to bungle the gaslight - and then they will really look deranged.
Re: Baby
Date: 2021-02-28 08:08 am (UTC)I often think there ought to be a snappy name for that fallacy, because I see it so often. "Success fallacy", or something like that.
The fallacy I'm thinking of, in general, is where you judge whether you (or, as in this case, someone else) should attempt a given course of action by means of assessing the pros and cons of doing it – rather than assessing the pros and cons of trying it, including a realistic idea of the risk and consequences of each likely failure mode.