SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@acbilson Yes!

I'm guessing it's a collaborative and unhealthy trend, with employees increasingly willing to replace family, church, social institutions with workplace and career... And employers willing to amplify that move by presenting job as family-replacement.

I could see the appeal for an employer being able to benefit from the dedication and loyalty that people once have to their families, churches, and clubs. Moments like this may highlight some differences between family and employer.

Still valuing my family differently than I value my job (which is at a wonderful organization where I love the people I work with), I grow concerned when I see signs of someone/some thing (employers or the government or a movement or whatever) seeking to claim one's Family.

I had the same feeling even with the Teen Titans catchy Friends Are Family song.

I don't disown ten percent of our family when times get tough. I don't banish our children when they don't perform.

I grow concerned when a corporate culture is built on telling employees that their work is now their family. Even the healthiest corporation isn't a family...and presenting it as if it is seems unhealthy to me.

With Salesforce leting go 10% of its Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") employees, I find it helpful to remember the importance of family and other support systems in addition to the workplace.

@steele yes!

The idea came out of a discussion with a coworker where I'd mentioned kaizen and he mentioned the book Atomic Habits. (Haven't read it yet.)

@Big_Diggity yeah, when I started running (to enjoy it, which did eventually happen) I had lost a bunch of weight. Due to life's craziness, the broken leg, and falling out of good habits.... I've gained the weight back.

One percent is doable.... Any day. Even after a year it would be adding a fraction of a mile... Hoping this can help be sustainable and healthy habit building.

As tired as I am today, it still seems goofy to stop at exactly 1.03 miles. But the math doesn't lie, I'm going to follow the experiment.

@rickcarlino thank you! A few years ago I had set a goal of ENJOYING running. I'd run off and on but never enjoyed it.

And it worked! I enjoyed it until I broke my leg doing it. 🙄 Aiming for lifelong healthy habits now. I know I'll enjoy it once I get going. It's the keeping it as a pattern that's the challenge right now.

@MessengerFlats thank you!

I never felt old until I tripped on ice while jogging and broke my ankle. My first marathon was my recovery from that injury. At this point I'm not aiming for races but trying to build healthy ongoing habits

...and I'm hoping I have inherited something from my grandfather who ran races until he was 82.

Colorado law in 2023 welcomes late term abortion and requires increasingly humane treatment of chickens.

I hear the Right saying that congress shouldn't have publicized Trump tax returns. I hear the Left saying How Dare He have years of hardly paying any taxes.

Haven't heard anyone yet say what anyone did that's illegal.

Is the issue that the congress who released the returns is responsible for a tax system that creates the very situation I'm supposed to be outraged about?

@cweickhmann are some instances registered non profits? Or do you mean it would be a business expense somehow?

@Effortless@noagendasocial.com uh oh.

Thinking about the shepherds tonight...

Fear Not, said the angels to the shepherds, the rough and tough cowboys of their day.

When an angel appears to give a message in scripture, the recipient falls over in fear. A lot. They seem to always have to start with Fear Not.

How many of us have an understanding of The Story of the Biblical Narrative where this fits in? Where the weight of reality when revealed, even a little, strikes fear into the strongest and boldest?

@ReadyKilowatt. Delayed because of Nan?

@Big_Diggity how about... We decide how much the store tips us for being the cashier?

With record high increases to the cost of living already before inflation, the government pushes it higher still.

In January, #Denver will start charging FEES for trash pickup in addition to the taxes that have always paid for it. The price of eggs just more than doubled due to new #Colorado regulations. Denver and other localities charge government fees for shipping bags to shop at brick and mortar stores, and the state charges fees to the citizen for every delivery from Amazon or anywhere else. Some homes that burnt down last year north of Denver can't be rebuilt due to regulations that make houses cost way more to rebuild because of regulatory requirements, more than insurance policies cover.

I wonder how much of the cost of living increase that has made Colorado unaffordable for the next generation is directly relatable to these Nickle and Diming policies that continue to take more and more of the people's earnings to disappear into the budget.

Some cost of living is certainly because we have amazing geography and limited space. But when it feels like a new policy to take money from my family is implemented every day, it makes me wonder if most of this cost is unnecessary and the financial strain is directly tied back to politicians messing up our state rather than our state drawing a crowd for being awesome.

(For those outside of Colorado, these are all "fees" because if they call them a tax they have to be voter approved. When they want more of our money and they know the citizens don't want it, they can just call it a fee and no consent is necessary.)