Patrick’s Law of Interruptive Conversational Timing

A Law of the Universe The probability that another person will initiate a conversation is directly proportional to the amount of attention required by an audiobook or some other task, and inversely proportional to the amount of time they have remained silent beforehand. Throughout the day, there may be countless opportunities for conversation. The other …

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Why are we giving “unskilled” laborers as much pay as “skilled” workers who earned their wage?

UPDATE 08/25/2021: OnlyFans backpedaled on their decision to ban porn 1 day after I published this article. Image is a collage of screen-captures author took from Facebook advertisements for employment at: Costco, Frito Lay, Amazon, and Waste Management. We’ve seen the news talk about a labor shortage for months, and some of us have joked …

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