@hikari *SQLite noises*
LB: I think we need to see the car as a tool, that is useful in particular situations, but that is not the best tool in many situations. (Assuming that you don't live in a car-centric hellscape. Then you don't have the freedom to choose transport)
I bike 20 minutes to work every day, using a car for that would be overkill. During winter I usually take the bus. I don't even have a driver's license, yet... It would be nice to be able to use a car to move big stuff though.
When I was 15 years old, a gay man named Matthew Shepard was brutally tortured and murdered. That was 25 years ago, today, October 6, 1998.
This was not called a hate crime at the time, and it was another 10 years before gender, sexual orientation, and disability were included in federal hate crime legislation.
I'd like to say that the world has changed. In some ways, it has. (Hi! I'm gay! — and I'm an engineering manager at a major global corporation, which I couldn't have imagine would be possible in my lifetime.)
But in many ways, the world hasn't changed. The same intensity and depth of stigma is still there in many parts of the world. We've created little channels of tolerance here and there, but bias and the stigma that powers is are still swirling around us, like an airborne virus barely held back by positive pressure.
Keep it up, and don't let your guard down. I can't.
#MatthewShepard
“Human emotions still collided one against another until the sharp edges were sanded away and there was nothing left to hold onto and halt their Brownian motion.”
One of my conclusions: You can't "hope" that people will "do the right thing". Most of us will follow, not lead, even when we "should know better".
That's why we need leaders in Public Health to have the balls to make those calls that we know will protect the vulnerable and health care workers themselves... 2/?
Hot take: Hoping people will look out for each other is causing deaths and disability.
Story from my hospitals in #BC: last week, maybe 5% of workers were masking. Even though everyone knew that everyone is sick right now. But no one wanted to be the one to stand out. NO ONE.
This week, all it took was for someone in leadership to say that it's mandated that you mask, and now compliance is almost 100% and no one is complaining, NO ONE ...1/?
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess