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Thanks Trump for lowering gas prices
The President is doing a happy dance!
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Since I was a kid.
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Two summers ago when I was a caregiver, my client wanted a caregiver daily from 8a to noon then 3p to 7p. There was wound care involved, assistance with bathing and making certain that medication was taken however I feel that this assignment was predominantly more for cooking and companionship. Anyway…. In the morning I had to put on a pot of coffee and prepare breakfast. You would think that I could cook an over easy egg for him. NOT. Finally he just told me to not worry about it, whatever way I cooked them would be the way he ate them.
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I don't like my eggs sunny side up but I don't like the yolks broken so I cook my egg basted.
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1. Remote and Isolated Location
- Oil rigs are often hundreds of miles offshore. Workers can’t just “pop home” at the end of a shift.
- This isolation requires higher pay to make the job attractive to qualified workers.
2. Demanding Skill Sets
- Many positions require technical expertise (engineers, drill operators, safety officers).
- High-stakes work with dangerous equipment justifies premium pay.
3. Long Hours in Harsh Conditions
- Typical rotations are 2–4 weeks on, followed by a week or more off.
- Shifts are long, sometimes 12 hours a day, often 7 days a week.
- The high pay compensates for these grueling schedules.
4. High Risk
- Oil rigs are hazardous: heavy machinery, high-pressure systems, exposure to chemicals, risk of fires, and potential for accidents in extreme weather.
- Companies offer hazard pay to attract workers willing to take on these risks.
5. Physical and Mental Stress
- Jobs can be physically demanding: lifting, climbing ladders, standing for hours, and working in confined spaces.
- Mental stress comes from isolation, monotony, and being away from family for weeks.
6. Onboard Living Trade-offs
- Workers live in shared, cramped quarters. Privacy is minimal.
- Meals are provided, but dietary options may be limited.
- Entertainment is restricted (though some rigs have gyms, TV, and internet).
Safer, less uncomfortable jobs, requiring similar skills and that make (almost) the same money are:
- Subsea / Offshore Engineering (onshore-based roles)
- Industrial / Plant Maintenance Engineer (oil, chemical, or power plants)
- Pipeline or Subsea Infrastructure Inspector / Engineer
- Robotics / Automation Technician in Oil & Gas or Manufacturing
- High-Pressure Equipment / Turbine Engineer (if you don't fear heights)
that should be a good incentive by it's self.
Men just don't want to work anymore. Laziness has partook of our society.
There should be plenty of men that would want isolation. haven't you read all the info that is out now about how women use men and judge them so harshly that men have just said to hell with dating and remained single?
Men still want to come home alive, that's not "laziness".
You are projecting too much of yourself on other men.
Most men don't want to sacrifice a life for a job.
You read to much manosphere bullshit. Be a man, not a victim.
Woman are not using men, they are just tired of being used by men.
They are longing back for the time that women were subservient.
Sorry for them, times have changed, and it takes a man to deal with that.
It takes bigger balls to have a partnership with a woman, than to dominate her.
How do you tie that with "...how women use men and judge them so harshly
that men have just said to hell with dating and remained single?"
Do you think that you cannot go on a date, without getting accused of
sexual assault?
Of course not, just keep your hands to yourself, until they are invited.
You're not rich, so they don't let you just grab them by the pussy.
No judge is just going to believe the woman, without good reason.
Like with everything, your ideas are false and based on propaganda.
Judges do not take accusations at face value; they follow strict procedural rules to evaluate credibility:
- Cross-Examination: The defense has the right to question the accuser to find inconsistencies, biases, or motives for lying.
- Corroborating Evidence: Even if not strictly required for a conviction, prosecutors almost always seek other evidence to build a case, such as digital communications (texts, social media), witness statements about the victim's behavior before or after, and surveillance footage.
- Burden of Proof: The "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard is the highest in the legal system. If the judge or jury has any logical doubt about the truth of the accusation, they must acquit the defendant.
Pre-Trial Filtering: Cases are heavily screened before they ever reach a judge:
- Police Investigation: Law enforcement must investigate to determine if there is enough probable cause to make an arrest.
- Prosecutorial Review: Prosecutors (such as the CPS in the UK or DAs in the US) will generally drop cases where the only evidence is an accusation that they believe will not survive a trial.
When you have an accused man, like Trump, who first says that he never met the women, and later says that they kissed in a dressing room, than the judge considers that an inconsistent testimony. If the accused keeps lying, while the story of the accuser checks out, and she has witnesses who say that she talked about getting r@ped, not lang after it supposedly occurred, then yes, the judge is going to decide in her favor, especially when you have an accused man,
who is on record admitting to sexually assaulting women, on several occasions;
the "Access Hollywood" tape and on The Howard Stern Show.
When I say "strong women", I'm NOT talking about women who dominate men,
I'm talking about women who are educated, have careers, are independent, have purpose and drive, and don't need a man to feel safe and secure for the future.
She is not waiting for a dominant man, she is waiting for a man who is educated, has a career, is independent, has purpose and drive, and doesn't need a woman to dominate, to feel like a real man.
In the ideology of MAGA, men dominate women, almost like in Islam.
You haven't been paying much attention to what they're saying, if you think women are equal in their 'culture'.
"And to the woman, God said, “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” (Genesis 3:16). The man is clearly to be the provider and toil in the soil, while the woman’s life is to revolve around her children and husband, as she was created to be his help meet."
"Men are the caretakers of women, as men have been provisioned by Allah over women and tasked with supporting them financially. And righteous women are devoutly obedient and, when alone, protective of what Allah has entrusted them with."
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What some folks have a problem with is Social norms that have been a part of how society has operated for century's. For some reason suddenly folks know better,although there is no evidence to show that the world is a better place for it.
It's good that humanity moves beyond it.
Yes, we know a better, because those people knew NOTHING.
Even you know more than they did, and that's saying a lot.
Crime is rampant, starvation is rampant because your side like to have babies spat out by folks that can't afford food and etc. domestic violence is at a all time high, divorce is way high. the world is NO better off than 2000 years ago or 200 years ago for that mattter.
All this new knowledge has accomplished nothing. The despair is still there.
Trump saying that crime is rampant, is one of his many lies, and an excuse for deporting immigrants and occupying blue cities.
My side wants people to be able to afford having children, and keep it a choice, not being forced into it, when contraceptives fail, or they are too dumb to use them or a women gets r@ped. Childcare is of benefit to society, and should therefor not be exploited for profit.
When crime, poverty, divorce and domestic violence are at an all time high, that's a sign of social unrest, stress and unsafety.
Poverty is rampant, because you support the exploitation of the many
by the few. If there is one idea you can learn from history, it's that.
Do you think humanity made no progress, because of crime and divorce?
Divorce is a LUXURY. It means you don't have to stay with a person that you don't love (anymore), just for basic survival reasons. Crime is the result of people feeling no hope, or mental illness not being treated. It both means that society is failing its people, not the other way around.
2000-200 years ago, infectious disease, famine and violence were the dominant killers. Life expectancy around 1800 was probably ~30 years.
Are you dissatisfied with your average life expectancy of 78.4 years?
In my country it's 81.9 years. In Sweden, it's 83.3.
In biblical times, one despot would just have an idea that the other tribe is annoying, occupies land that he would like to occupy, and then tell his own tribe that the other tribe is evil, and god told him that they should be exterminated to the last man, boy and farm animal, but they can keep the young girls as sex-slave. See below.
After your last brutal civil war, some wise men decided that kings should no longer use their people to further their interest and power. The founding fathers wrote The Constitution, to create a stable system of government, to prevent tyranny, by grounding political authority in the people, protecting individual liberty, and restraining the abuse of power through LAW rather than FORCE. That created stability for 72 years, until the American Civil War. The Civil War was not a rejection of the Constitution itself, both sides claimed to be defending it, but a demonstration of the limits of any political system when foundational contradictions are left unresolved. The Reconstruction Amendments, 13th, 14th and 15th, were intended to resolve those issues. That made clear that it is against the interest of humanity as a whole to allow having people as property. The world is definitely better off, with this improvement on biblical 'knowledge'.
International law was created as a response to repeated, catastrophic wars between sovereign states, and to the realization that unlimited national power leads to instability, arms races, and mass civilian suffering. After World War II, major countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, China, and many others, worked together to create:
- The United Nations (1945)
- International treaties governing war, human rights, refugees, and genocide
- Institutions like the International Court of Justice
The core idea was that states should be bound by rules above pure self-interest, just as individuals are bound by law within a society. The result was not the end of war, but a significant change in how the world operates:
- Wars of conquest became illegal under international norms
- Human rights became a matter of international concern, not just internal policy
- Diplomacy, arbitration, and treaties became the default tools for resolving disputes
- Even powerful nations became expected to justify their actions legally, not just militarily
In short, international law was created to reduce war, limit cruelty, and create predictability in a world of sovereign states, accepting that perfect peace is unrealistic, but that rules are better than unchecked force.
Recently, Russia disrespected that agreement by attacking Ukraine.
Yesterday, Trump disrespected that agreement by attacking Venezuela.
The U.S. military attack on Venezuela and forcible removal of its president represents a blatant violation of international law and the UN Charter, which strictly prohibits the use of force against another sovereign state except in self-defense or with Security Council authorization; by acting without legal mandate, the United States has undermined the very rules designed to prevent war and safeguard global peace, setting a dangerous precedent that weakens the post-World War II legal order and emboldens others to flout norms of sovereignty and peaceful dispute resolution.
Using military force against Venezuela without UN authorization violates international law and erodes the rules meant to prevent war; when powerful states act above the law, they weaken global stability and invite a world where force, not law, decides disputes.
How can you act morally superior over Putin now? When China just takes Taiwan, what principles can you still pretend to have, to show your disapproval?
What is the result? Europe will spend trillions in the arms-race to be able to destroy millions of Russian troops like a meat-grinder, if Putin keeps his ambitions. Does that make the world safer?
The world is safer, when international law and human rights are respected by everyone. The world would be safer with the US as the police of the world. But, by acting as a pirate, it forced all other nations to become pirates too. That will result in wars of self-interests, in perpetuity. The only global morality system to prevent it, was just used as toilet paper by Trump.
The EU will now not just have to create a massive war machine to defend ourselves against Russia, but against the US too.
How delusional must y'all be to think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Numbers 31 — King James Version (KJV)
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
30 And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
37 And the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD’s tribute was threescore and one.
40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’s tribute was thirty and two persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
42 And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
43 (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
46 And sixteen thousand persons)
47 Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
and it scares many men.
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