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You should never be angry at work

This is good advice that I needed 5+ years ago.

I was so wrapped up with career advancement to realize I was self-sabotaging by caring too much.

Now I do the work that lands in front of me and handle the conflicts with a dispassionate distance.

It's not that I don't care anymore, but I come to realize that my feelings about a topic are more likely to cause a problem than solve it. And solving problems is my job (and what I'm good at).

It's too bad for me that anger was the dominant emotion in my household while growing up. Thankfully, I can recognize it and ignore it or actively avoid it now. But it has taken a lot of work.

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Meet Atticus

Happened to us with one of our old ladies who passed a couple years ago.

She was walking around all hunched for a day or so, yowling at everything. We got lucky though, the vet used a rectal thermometer and that unclogged the pipes in quick fashion!

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Senator Cory Booker filibuster against the trump administration Megapost

From the CNN article:

The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination. The Democratic senator’s speech will keep the Senate floor open – and floor staff working as well US Capitol police members detailed to the chamber – for as long as he continues speaking, but lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.

So purely performative. Not a filibuster.

I mean if it's a first step and others follow, then good. But why not filibuster a nomination you disapprove? (I have no clue if filibuster applies to a cloture vote. These fucking stooges and their silly made up rules of decorum...)