Thank you!
Every day, I’m like: is this burnout or information overload or looming dread or late-stage capitalism or aging or post-covid or from dealing with the endless new tasks shunted to us (everything from self-checkouts to post-purchase surveys) or burnout or information overload or looming dread or…
This is the part of if that people miss. Like… If Waffle House changed their company policies to allow managers to close up and people to go home the very second the weather services recognized a real danger to human life, the Waffle House Index would no longer hold as a metric.
Not all the way, no. MAybe some precautions, but they basically use "lights are on and you can see us cooking: as a signal of where things stand: www.wafflehouse.com/how-to-measu...
Waffle House - How to Measure a Storm's Fury One Breakfast at a Time
Because of better weather protection and building codes. The deadliest hurricane in US history, the Galveston, TX hurricane was so deadly in part because they had no warning (why that is, is racism but that's for another time).
[and thank you for sharing!]
Yes! This was such a great shout-out.
Genuinely thought that was an Onion headline for a hot second, before I saw the URL.
Fun fact — @kateclancy.bsky.social and I first met while she was a doctoral student, through her partner who was doing his PhD in the lab where I was a postdoc. And I’m so pleased that we are fellow travelers even though we work in such different fields.
This is my entire life, yes.