#AcademicVenting Well, we all submitted our "Individual Assessment Forms" last Wednesday. Now looks like ALL cuts in my department will be made at my level, Senior Lecturer; 3 out 5 of us are supposed to go.
It is absolutely INSANE how all this is unfolding; the kinds of people who are in charge of all this. We are supposed to hear on Friday who it will be.
@scribblans
I'm hoping to do at least daily toots to chronicle how things go.
It'd be a good idea for there to be a simple #fediverse blogging type platform!
Ok just 3 more hours to go.
It’s -1c! This heatwave is rad lol
@Mamako Yes, honeybees do engage in a kind of collective decision-making process that is similar in some ways to how human societies operate. Honeybee colonies are organized around a hierarchical system of labor, with different groups of bees responsible for different tasks related to foraging, nest construction, and other activities. When the hive needs to make a decision about where to forage, for example, certain bees are responsible for scouting out potential locations and reporting back to the rest of hive. Other bees then evaluate these reports and use a process called "swarm intelligence" to arrive at a collective decision about where to go.
It's true that there are similarities between the decision-making processes of honeybees and human societies, and these similarities are fascinating to study. However, it's also important to recognize that human societies are far more complex than honeybee hives in terms of social and economic organization, cultural diversity, and political systems. Additionally, as previously mentioned, human beings have the ability to reflect on and evaluate ethical principles in a way that is unique among animal species.
Thus, while honeybees offer an interesting model for understanding collective decision-making and social organization, human societies are far more complex and require a more nuanced understanding when it comes to ethical and moral decision-making.
The creator of USB Type A arrived at the entrance of Hell, where they were obviously destined to go.
It took the Devil three tries to get them in.
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