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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath …
I... can't right now. I need to put it down for a while. My case manager said that that might be the best thing to do ha. She said it's a hard and dense read and if you're not ready for it it can wreck you.
Will revisit in the future
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Some funny moments but mostly not. Quick, easy, junk food read. Terrible weeks require terrible (in a good way!) books.
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An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most …
Mixed feelings about the author and her portrayal of her involvement in this whole mess. I'm not sure a grown adult could be so fucking naive on purpose if they tried, which is why I really don't know what to think about her. I think I know what I'd do in the same situation but maybe I don't. She comes across well in the beginning but by the middle and end I was really getting irritated with her aw shucks I just wanted to get Facebook better prepared for public policy! Yet she is completely unaware that it is she who went to them and pitched them a job. That job she pitched them didn't exist and once it did, you have a bunch of psychopathic billionaires who were already evil people now awash in political power and even more money.
I put it down a couple times because …
Mixed feelings about the author and her portrayal of her involvement in this whole mess. I'm not sure a grown adult could be so fucking naive on purpose if they tried, which is why I really don't know what to think about her. I think I know what I'd do in the same situation but maybe I don't. She comes across well in the beginning but by the middle and end I was really getting irritated with her aw shucks I just wanted to get Facebook better prepared for public policy! Yet she is completely unaware that it is she who went to them and pitched them a job. That job she pitched them didn't exist and once it did, you have a bunch of psychopathic billionaires who were already evil people now awash in political power and even more money.
I put it down a couple times because I felt myself hyperventilating from the cascades of anxiety that this whole book filled me with. Good read, with the caveat the author is pretending to be a shrinking violet that shirks her responsibility in opening this Pandora's Box.
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most …
I'm torn on Sarah but this is a wild one
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The first couple pages of this book went down smooth, like a good greek yogurt. There were good points all-around and I found myself nodding along in agreement with Kellerman, especially the parts about the dubiousness of “FBI Profiling”.
Then, Kellerman does a complete 180, with dated talking points on putting anyone who commits one crime away forever. The 11 and 13 year olds who committed mass murder with guns should be tossed in jail, do not pass go, even if they were literal children.
The three strike rule in California which disproportionally affects minorities and despite the claim it was supposed to put away only violent criminals such as rapists and murderers, that wasn’t the case when it was enacted.
I am not sure what kind of credentials Mr. Kellerman has to speak on psychopathy or law, but it is clear to me he isn’t qualified to speak …
The first couple pages of this book went down smooth, like a good greek yogurt. There were good points all-around and I found myself nodding along in agreement with Kellerman, especially the parts about the dubiousness of “FBI Profiling”.
Then, Kellerman does a complete 180, with dated talking points on putting anyone who commits one crime away forever. The 11 and 13 year olds who committed mass murder with guns should be tossed in jail, do not pass go, even if they were literal children.
The three strike rule in California which disproportionally affects minorities and despite the claim it was supposed to put away only violent criminals such as rapists and murderers, that wasn’t the case when it was enacted.
I am not sure what kind of credentials Mr. Kellerman has to speak on psychopathy or law, but it is clear to me he isn’t qualified to speak on either one.
Thinking that Kellerman was some sort of academic is a my bad when picking up this book without thinking critically about who wrote it and the angle he was coming from.
Kellerman writes crime novels that are just as easy to digest as this book, so if you’re looking for an easy read full of the copaganda you would expect from crime novels, read one of Kellerman’s novels. Pass on this one.
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You can find my review at Book Notes Blog
This book, although written in 2015, is outdated. By a lot.
Most everyone does these things. Backups, unique passwords. I don’t know who this book is for if I’m being honest.
As a programmer I read maybe 1/3 of this book and skimmed the rest.
Also as someone mentioned this is PC heavy. Most of these tasks I automate on my Mac with third party apps that, with my rules, will file, rename, move, tag, copy, sync, and delete files with specific parameters I set, for instance any photo in my downloads folder gets moved to my pictures folder. Any disk image in my downloads folder older than a week gets put in the Trash. When my trash is 2gb in size it is emptied automatically, etc.
These are the things we can do now. This book is for your grandma who doesn’t understand what technology is.
