my coworkers who I get along with great at work don’t really want to keep in touch at all outside of work
This could be a time-of-life kind of thing. Before I had kids, I had all kinds of time for socialising, once I had kids pretty much all my spare time was for my wife and daughters. If your coworkers have kids, they’re prioritising their family time above other things.
Reality has a left-leaning bias
It sure does, and the BBC used to have a good reputation worldwide for telling the truth and they used to flatly contradict liars during interviews. Now they just tell the truth about what opposing politicians say, which is very much not the same thing. Unsurprisingly this got a lot worse when the Conservative government appointed a Conservative political advisor in charge of the news division, but the rot started before that.
Two jobs ago, we got an email out of the blue from our “new payroll provider” telling us to log in and provide our banking details. It was so obviously a phishing attempt I thought no one would fall for it.
Except it was correct and finance emailed us all a day later to tell us to click the link in the email and follow the instructions. Heads up, guys, heads up.
Nah, I’ve worked in places where one colleague takes work done by others and claims credit for it in meetings, also badmouthing them for being unproductive and getting away with it for years because their boss took their word as gospel. Unfortunately in some workplaces, playing office politics well wins over doing your job well.
On the other hand, my brother and sister are two of the best people in the world, and we get together as a big family with all the kids absolutely every school holiday. Some families are close. We don’t always agree on everything, but we always get along well.
You see something other than evil in Palantir? Huh.
The BBC is not good at what it calls “balance” - it “balances” climate scientists with far right nut jobs, especially Nigel Farage, and “balances” people who claim you ought to be nice to people irrespective of who they are and what they’re like, (race, sexuality, gender, religion, legally protected characteristics in the equalities act), with far right nut jobs, especially Nigel Farage. They balance people saying that onshore wind power is the cheapest form of energy in the UK (it is) with far right nut jobs, especially Nigel Farage, and they balance people saying that immigrants to the UK boost public sector finances by an average of a few thousand pounds (they do) with far right nut jobs, especially Nigel Farage.
US Energy Secretary: “I’m thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”
Celebrating America’s independence from rational thought, America’s independence from cheap energy sources, and America’s independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.
The Onion has got me so regularly because Republicans are so willing to do crazy shit that’s obviously a Very Bad Idea Indeed and completely bonkers, just to “own the libs” that the Onion can write batshit crazy nonsense and not sound any different from trump.