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Oh please. OP offered a position and asked a simple, direct question. That is customary here.

Your bloviation about great writing offers nothing except a great example of a style you won't find in the New Yorker.

I tried reading Moby Dick several times and gave up because I felt a similar reaction to the prose. I finally opted for an audiobook version that was reviewed well for its lively narration. I loved it and subsequently bought a copy to reread certain passages. It's really a great example of literary engineering.

If you take 30 seconds to Google you'll find a bunch of sources that indicate the low percentage of men in nursing is nuanced. It's not just toxicity or gatekeeping.

Examples:

"Research indicates that ideas of masculinity prevent men from pursuing a career in nursing." - https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/653570048/why-more-men-dont-g...

"The problem is that notions of masculinity die hard, in women as well as men." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/men-dont-w...

"Some tasks require getting in a patient’s personal space and some patients may prefer to request a female nurse." https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/blog/men-in-nursin...

Truly one of the best acting duos in history.

Yesterday I read an article that claims an opposite of elite panic -- working class denial? -- of the virus is happening in my city [0].

The thesis is that a community (euphemistically termed a "subculture") of older African Americans in Philadelphia refuse to participate in the quarantine due to their skepticism of the federal government's public health directives due to previous medical conspiracies, namely the Tuskegee Experiments.

0: https://6abc.com/health/expert-says-subculture-still-thinks-...

I was a happy Adguard user for several years but found that some ads have come through lately. I did some research and switched to Blokada, which works well--sometimes too well; I have to temporarily deactivate it to use certain apps when I'm not on WiFi.

Any company that sells to people inside their homes is doing great. Games and content providers, video conferencing software, restaurants that do food delivery, Amazon.

Nice!! I use a ton of tables in the react apps I make on the job, so I'm excited to try this out. Thanks for making it open source.

It's clearer now, definitely. This was in the late 90s and both my parents were humanities academics.

I ended up getting a master's in English and taught essay writing for a while. Many decisions later, I work as security analyst and end up writing a lot on the job, so I like to think things have worked out. I guess. I wish I knew C and more low level cs concepts like some of my coworkers.

I went to a bootcamp with an ISA. I'm thankful for the temporary relief it offered, but I'm almost positive most of the students in my cohort don't have coding jobs right now. I'm convinced the low admission standards ("Never code before? Do this module of Ruby.") and the ISA demotivated them to always keep learning and hustle their way into interviews, which is what everyone who learns MVC app development in three months will need to do.

Anecdotally, the older or previously successful students who could keep up went on to succeed, but these people already knew how to hustle. Bootcamp can't teach people how to hustle.

(I learned to hustle after previously participating in an even bigger scam - a state school humanities undergraduate education. ... )

Love the trope. I read a story in either Asimov's or Analog in the late 80s that featured this. I'd love to read it again. Any sf superfan out there know the title offhand?

React/AWS lambda/AWS DynamoDb+S3 for prototyping CRUD variations.

Anything else would depend on the app's features.

And if you enjoy Ways of Seeing in all its retro-critical glory and need MOAR, check out Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New: https://youtu.be/J3ne7Udaetg