For anyone else who works in these sorts of environments don't be afraid to buy an aggressive hair net or bandana. If your hair gets entangled you'll be lucky if a scalping is the most of your injuries.
Part of it is because you still need a gig to keep the retirement funds rolling. You don't want to live it out on pea soup and bread.
Part of it is because after a certain point every bit of your body, from your bones to your brains, is only available on a Use It or Lose It basis with no warranty for service blackouts.
And part of it is because, and l guess this is due to the collapse of the extended-family model, lots of people don't have anyone or thing to go home to; they're divorced or widowed, kids have moved out, and their social network has literally died out.
Towards the end of his life my father only had ONE surviving peer from grade school. Imagine how it is to call your only surviving friend on a regular basis and to wonder, each time, if today's the day you learn you've already heard their voice for the last time.
I would suggest that, instead, after a certain age or catastrophic loss (such as that of a lifetime partner) we should all be receiving regular competency / cognizants evaluations. I think that compulsive retirement would be dehumanizing, a potential trigger for senility, dementia, or suicide, and a negligent misappropriation of the experience and institutional knowledge, that many of our seniors hold.
There's more than one way to run a democracy, and more than one way to tally votes; it just so happens that the way we're currently doing it —First Past The Post Voting— is utter shit; it's the lynchpin of the two party system and systemic corruption.
If we commit grassroots focus to electoral reforms in favor of Ranked Choice Voting then all these insidious actors will find power to be much more slippery.
Too heavy, too integrated into the design. Might as well worry about people stealing your transmission or rack & pinion (TFW: that's what your car uses to translate 'turning the wheel' into turning the wheels).
You may want to take this opportunity to educate your children on the relationships between lifestyle choices, old age, atrophy, and death, but also to ensure they understand that who they see is not who he was.
So throw a few people under the bus and use that to make people believe "it is getting better" as you continue to smear shit on yourself.
This made my brain generate a picture of someone standing naked before a horrified crowd and moaning out, "It's gettingbetter!" as they smear feces on their body.
Isn't this the stuff that the fascists tried to weaonize in WWII, but it was too dangerous to handle and it, like, burnt down a concrete bunker or something?
For anyone else who works in these sorts of environments don't be afraid to buy an aggressive hair net or bandana. If your hair gets entangled you'll be lucky if a scalping is the most of your injuries.