Republicans Answer A Liberal's 28 Questions, And They Still Make No Damned Sense To Her Republicans answer my 28 questions, but still leave me baffled. At least they tried. Last week I asked “28 questions for Republicans” because I’m utterly flabbergasted by how anyone can support a president like Donald Trump or the cruel and reckless agenda laid out in the GOP’s 2016 platform. The response was amazing. Then Bill Yarborough and Jay Kruger (who took care to mention he’s actually a Libertarian, not a Republican) took time to answer all of my questions. Many of my fellow liberals may want to call Bill Yarborough and Jay Kruger “stupid” or “callous” or “brainwashed.” When Republicans answer my questions, I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth no matter how much I disagree with them. But what I find odd is that — despite often being nice people — conservatives seem to have a distinct lack of empathy and ability to relate to anyone’s experience other than their own. But what strikes me the most is how conservative policies are so often all stick and no carrot. Yup. 1.
blog: How to use OKRs for planning Ready to start? If you’re interested in trying out OKR goal setting in your own organization, you’ll need the right OKR goals software to set and track your objectives across your entire team. Check out this guide on How to Use OKRs in Wrike: A 6-Step Guide + OKR Template, then start your free Wrike trial to get up and running fast. Source: Google Ventures’ Startup Lab Workshop: How Google Sets Goals Many leading companies tout OKRs for successful annual and quarterly planning; in fact Google credits the process with fueling their exponential growth and success. “What are OKRs, anyway?” OKR, which stands for Objectives and Key Results, is a planning and goal setting technique made famous by Intel and Google. OKRs are set at the company, team, and individual level. OKRs must be: 1. 2. 3. 4. For a comprehensive look at how Google uses OKRs, check out this explanatory video (1:21:49): "How Do I Grade Myself?" When it comes to your OKR performance evaluation, stick to the numbers.
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How to set up a password manager. iStock You use the same password for lots of different websites. It’s OK. Everyone does it. No matter how many times your IT guy, nerdy friend, or even Slate tells you to use a different password on every site, no one does it because it would be too hard to keep track of all of them. Of course, as numerous hacks of large companies over the years remind you, if you use the same password on your bank account that you use for buying a framed picture of your dog, then someone who hacks the framing site will also have the credentials to get into your bank account. That’s where a password manager comes in handy. Step 1: Choose a password manager. Step 2: Download and install the app and its various other accessory apps. As part of the installation, you’ll be asked to come up with a master password. Step 3: I recommend that you write that one important password down on a piece of paper, put it in a locked box, and reveal its location to one person you would trust with all your money. 1Password
Indivisible: A Practical Guide For Resisting the Trump Agenda metaspoon Redecorating and renovating your home can be a lot of fun but, as I’ve been learning these past few months, it can also be incredibly expensive. It seems like everything and everyone costs a fortune. So that’s why I really appreciate creative tricks that transform the look of my home with minimal dollars spent. What do I mean? If you have plain old mini blinds, you can follow the step-by-step instructions in this amazing video by Better Homes and Gardens to convert them into stunning custom roman shades! Here’s what you’ll need: White faux wood blindsThick upholstery fabricPencilScissorsDecoupage and bowlFoam brushClothespinsTape measureIron Watch the video below and let us know what you think about this very clever DIY project!
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature After breaks from school spent ski-bumming, bartending abroad and intensely training as a mixed martial artist, Furey later met the division algebras again in an advanced geometry course and learned just how peculiar they become in four strokes. When you double the dimensions with each step as you go from real numbers to complex numbers to quaternions to octonions, she explained, “in every step you lose a property.” Real numbers can be ordered from smallest to largest, for instance, “whereas in the complex plane there’s no such concept.” Next, quaternions lose commutativity; for them, a × b doesn’t equal b × a. This makes sense, since multiplying higher-dimensional numbers involves rotation, and when you switch the order of rotations in more than two dimensions you end up in a different place. Much more bizarrely, the octonions are nonassociative, meaning (a × b) × c doesn’t equal a × (b × c). The Dixon Algebra The Dixon Algebra
Pretty Damned Fast Georges Thenault The 50 best nonfiction books of past 25 years. “As a writer, I prefer to get bossed around by my notebook and the facts therein,” David Carr wrote in his reported memoir The Night of the Gun, one of Slate’s 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. Carr was mulling over the difference between fiction and nonfiction, the novelist’s art and the reporter’s craft. “They may not lead to a perfect, seamless arc, but they lead to a story that coheres in another way, because it is mostly true.” In the work of canon-building, nonfiction tends to get short shrift. Slate’s list of the definitive nonfiction books written in English in the past quarter-century includes beautifully written memoirs but also books of reportage, collections of essays, travelogues, works of cultural criticism, passionate arguments, even a compendium of household tips. Mr. “What kind of place is this exactly?” Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Villard, 1996) Madeleine’s World: A Biography of a Three-Year-Old by Brian Hall (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) Join Slate Plus Join
Best Slow-Cooker Chicken Cacciatore Recipe - How to Make Slow-Cooker Chicken Cacciatore Parker Feierbach We love slow cookers because they do all of the work for us, meaning we can do literally anything else while the chicken cooks. Need dinner faster? Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Yields: 6 servings Prep Time: 0 hours 10 mins Total Time: 6 hours 10 mins 2 lb. skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs Freshly ground black pepper 8 oz. baby Bella mushrooms, sliced (28-oz.) can crushed tomatoes 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes cooked linguine, for serving Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and place in slow cooker. Delish: Eat Like Every Day’s the Weekend Makinze GoreAssociate Food EditorMakinze is the Associate Food Editor for Delish.com.