Marcel Harmon

@mjharmon67.bsky.social

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Anthropologist (PhD), Engineer (PE), Applied Evolutionist, Focused on evolutionary & human centered design approaches to built environment & beyond. POEs are underutilized. Public & environmental education advocate. Views my own. He/him

For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into
Please stop screaming into the abyss. We’re not insured for that.

Say what you will about the lack of a backbone, but it does afford spineless Republican politicians the ability to twist themselves in some of the most amazing shapes I've ever seen.
A useful trait for defending the betrayal of allies, changing the world order, undermining of democracy, promotion of authoritarianism and dictators, shredding of the constitution, wealth gap, adoption of fascist / Nazi tactics used to target trans kids and the trans community in general, and the list goes on.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. Or twist themselves in a knot defending evil.

As voucher costs explode and state revenues decrease, Arizona has very few options to balance the budget, which leaves slashing programs and services as the only viable tool in a depleted toolbox.” 2 Privatization, in other words, begets more privatization.”

"When we start to talk about what do these numbers do as we're trying to say that diversity equity and inclusion is the problem - the reality is that when it comes to financial performance, companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to outperform their competitors. Companies in the top quartile for racial diversity are 35% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability. Companies with diverse executive teams are 25 % more likely to generate greater profits. Diverse companies earn 2.5 times higher cash flow per employee."
"Diversity works, and until you can show me data that says otherwise I think that we need to go back to being a country that listens to experts and gets out of our feelings and recognizes again that racism is real in this country. And until we stop pretending that it's not we will not solve the problems that we are consistently facing and that will bring real unity that we seek when we're looking for a more perfect union."