A smaller but still significant number — including a quarter of Global Hawk sensor operators — had what the Air Force called “clinical distress,” which was defined as anxiety, depression or stress severe enough to affect an operator’s job performance or family life.
Consider that or, third word from end of sentence, why isn't it an and and what that might and not mean.
- More awful youtubes!
- Drone piloting is stressful!
- Drone piloting is stressful!
- Render, render.
- Natural Defecation Authorization.
- Lumpenproleprecariat.
- Dreading POTUS 12, the reality show.
- Folks closing up shop in Blegsylvania for Giftmas - links as I find them interesting, though probably fewer than normal. Also, the threatened blogroll reorg from a month ago hasn't been forgotten, might finally happen this weekend - I use the blogroll as bookmarks and want to make my cruising easier. No one will be purged, few will be moved - I mostly want to pull out those blogs that don't provide update feeds so I remember to look at them. As always, if you're Kinding me and me not you, let me know.
- Knowing things.
- Rashomon.
- Silliman's best books of poetry 2011.
- Rick Nielsen is 65 today:
ANIMALS
Frank O'Hara
Have you forgotten what we were like then
when we were still first rate
and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth
it's no use worrying about Time
but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves
and turned some sharp corners
the whole pasture looked like our meal
we didn't need speedometers
we could manage cocktails out of ice and water
I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if your were with me O you
were the best of all my days
Thank you for the link.
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You'd think these foreign kids would have learned by now to duck and cover. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteAuf wiedersehen.
I don't get a person who supports Occupy saying 'boofuckinghoo' about other sorts of exploited workers. I really don't get it.
ReplyDeleteYeh, Landru gave me friendly grief too. I'll either get into it more soon or not onblog.
ReplyDeleteShort: My initial reaction was the NYT making victims the model airplaners who sit safe and remote and kill people. It's more complex than that of course, especially regarding the families those model airplaners go home too, so more later, probably.
I have in the course of time had reason to meet folks who sit in bunkers and wait to push the button. Think for a minute what that does to their heads. Just give it a chance.
ReplyDeleteAnd we ask them to do it.