I've been working with people who appear to shun critical thinking skills and have noticed there are at least two advantages to this practice: 1) It allows them to be nonaccountable when something turns sideways. Things don't improve, but that's not their problem either. 2) If things don't work out at all, they're the ones that point fingers, saying they knew it wasn't going to work out. If asked why they didn't say something, they say so-and-so was handling it. With good administrative leadership, this doesn't happen. When the supervisors do the same thing to avoid becoming accountable, the ones that exercise their critical thinking skills become targets.

Which is why my best friends a my animals.

So rare! To the point whenever I see a tortie or calico I automatically think she’s a girl. I’ve heard/read that the very few males are sterile. Yes, I’m a cat person.

I've visited the Carpathian Mountains with my SO this summer. Up there were moments of absolute silence. No car sounds, no planes, no other people, no whatsoever. Just one glorious view after the other. I cannot express how much I loved this! Aug-09-83-...aaf064.jpg

This dawned on me recently. I never thought about how so many people take all the trees out of their living areas cuz they're messy or a pain to mow around. It is now my mission to start plating trees any and everywhere I can. Especially fruit and nut trees!!

I love all my fellow Pandas but big shout out to all my fellas out there. Much love.

Wait, Flint STILL can't drink their water??

I've worked in an assisted living facility for people with multiple disabilities (developmental and physical combined). It was the best job ever. But we were severely understaffed, and constantly working overtime and covering shifts impacted my physical and mental health, so I had to quit. But I still considered it the coolest job I've ever had. Most of the residents were just fun and cool people and always down for any shenanigans. :D

"They start at 23:09 tonight, we just received a mail from the northern lights administrator in the Sun" 🥬♻️🐍🤑

We live at Loch Ness, and seen them 3 times this year, 2 evenings this week, and 1 evening in March. We are on the southern end of regularly being able to see them, and it is very weather dependent. 9n phone, so can't upload a picture, sorry.

Oh yes this is a Disney light show w a start time!?

Maybe they think it's like sunrise or sunset, that it has specific times. Be thankful you're lucky enough to be familiar with them. It's a dream of mine to see them and I probably never will.

I feel so honored to have seen them.

I've seen them 3 times in my life. I live in upstate NY. The year that we had an ice storm that shut the power down for a week, my family and I stood in the snow of our freezing backyard and watched an amazing lightshow. Since there was no power, the lights showed clearly. I never knew that they could be different colors. It was beautiful and well worth the cold!

An Icelandic friend of mine says winter is the bst time to see them. But yeah, can you imagine? “Have you tried rebooting?”

Amazing that people so ignorant of what they are would travel great distances to see them.

I had to really stop myself from facepalming and head desking after reading this.

Those tourists think someone flips a switch and it's showtime.

This is a beautiful picture. Change of subject: too many people are now asking stupid questions like when do the northern lights turn on, are those bears real? Oh, you mean it's not scheduled to erupt while I'm here? Where are the whales? and so on. People seem to not have any sense of nature, or care about it. Hopefully, the pre-teens and teenagers coming up will be more responsible and smarter.

Growing up, I saw them fairly frequently, at least a couple of times a year. I learned recently that the 80s and 90s was a period of higher solar activity so they were more common. It wasn’t until I moved out of Canada that I realized how cool it was to see the Lights so much - don’t get me wrong, I always liked seeing them but it was also a normal part of my life as a kid and teen.

Ok, I thought they were a every night thing :S

They have been seen as far as Pennsylvania in the past few months more and more often which is even more rare, just last week they were seen here in PA

Won't be that rare in 2025 and/or 2026, the end of the 11 year solar cycle when the sun's poles flip again.

We used to have the "aurora watch" in Scotland. I have not yet seen the northern lights, but it is my dream to see them one day.

My daughter went to Iceland and took a night boat tour to see them. They didn't happen. Got a coupon for a free boat tour next time she is in Iceland. We live in the USA. Might not get to redeem that coupon anytime soon. 😂

We booked a Northern Lights tour in Iceland for June, 2022. It is cancelled as the Northern Lights usually start in October. So why let us book it for June in the foist place?

My husband and I have green eyes. So does my father. Statistically rare maybe, but in some places more common than others

Oh boy, is this a big one these days. Goes hand in hand with the other entry about critical thinking.

Thing is, if not for the sacrifice of a few insanely brave men at the Chernobyl site, nuclear power would have most certainly caused much more damage from that site. That said, coal power.. well, look what happened to Centralia, PA. Underground coal fires that have been burning since 1962, and releasing toxic smoke into the air.

That is almost an oxymoron. I think some go into politics to try and help make a difference. But the rest are only in it for themselves, for money, for power, to become famous—-or infamous—-but not at all for their constituents. They could care less if their constituents are starving, as long as they can order steak in DC.

So rare that you couldn't come up with a picture of one?

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Some days you are the bug, some days the windshield.

This should be wayyyyyyyy higher than it is. Here in my town, they keep building all these new apartments talking about affordable housing. Affordable for who?! when their studios cost $1600 to start!! GTFOH

I've got 1!

Empathy is definitely not rare. Empathy is a normal human trait. Lacking empathy is a criterion of a few mental disorders.

The "Stranger danger" was not such a good campaign...

My favorite response when people ask me what I want for Christmas: " I want two things. Peace. And quiet." :-D

When I was a drug user in my 20s (45 now), I'd always laugh about this. I paid too good of money to be giving it out for free. Really though.

I lost my partner in January, we were together for almost three years. It was the best relationship either of us had ever had. I have only good memories, except for when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died right in front of me. We had many lively discussions and debates; we enjoyed time together and apart; we shared everything, supported each other emotionally, were loving, affectionate and caring. It was the first healthy relationship we had. I miss him every second of every day, but I am so glad that I got to spend that time with him

My bf passed away 6 weeks ago and I can't help going over our time together and wishing I could go back and do some things differently. I wish I'd told him I loved him more and prioritised our relationship more than I did. After 13yrs together I just took it for granted that he'd always be around and then he suddenly just dropped dead.

I can’t believe they waste this precious gas in party balloons 🤔

Hitchhiker after driver picks him up: Aren't you scared I might be a serial killer? Driver: Hah, what are the chances of two being in the same car?

Caveat on this one, no one will have a life or relationship that is 100% happy, it's more about how you weather the hard times.

And situational awareness. I went grocery shopping yesterday. Twice I had to say "excuse me" to someone blocking the entire aisle with their cart and body...both times AFTER they had looked directly at me, then continued browsing. As always, the store's exit was partially blocked by a herd of half-sized carts left there by selfish shoppers too lazy and entitled to walk a few meters.

Probably because Helium is so rare.

Yes and no. Some people who write for a living came from s****y and totally unsupportive families, but rose above it. So maybe their portrayal of the stereotypical happy family is the family they always wished they’d had themselves. Their fantasy dream family who they turned to in their sleep to help them get through the s**t from their real families. They’re also the writers who are able to accurately portray s****y families and s****y people if those types of characters are necessary for the storyline. The best writers write about what they know. If you’ve been coddled and had the perfect dream life as a child, then you’ve never been exposed to s****y people, so couldn’t write about them very accurately.