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but no, he was to interested in putting tampons in boys bathrooms instead of security guards at the doors?
um?
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in case you didn't see it in the news,
"On Wednesday, Robin Westman, a male-born 23-year-old transgender, killed 2 children and injured at least 17 people while they were celebrating Mass at the Catholic school, according to police. Westman then committed suicide."
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so instead of sheepishly laughing, tell the world
what's so ridiculous about his ideas.
To me, he made a lot of sense.
I don't think paying your politicians a medium wage would work, because then they would only take more 'donations', and sell their influence to even more special interests and wealthy people. At their current wage, people are already saying that they should
be allowed to 'better themselves', because they are all educated people.
I would propose making their wage dependent on them actually engaging in politics. Some of them never show up for debates, never write a bill, never write an amendment. They are just present to vote the party line, without ever reading a bill.
Our biggest party in the House of Commons is the PVV, the right-wing populist party
of Geert Wilders. They have 37 representatives, and their corner is almost empty the majority of the time. It's completely empty 34% of all debates. One representative has never showed himself in debates, only shows up to vote. Five of them have never even given their 'maidenspeech'. Still, they get all paid $164,265/year.
My party is present for less debates, but they only have 5 representatives, they are almost as effective with less than 1/5th of the people. They also get paid $164,265/year, but they donate 53% of it to their party, leaving them just about median wage.
They don't take any personal donations, they don't trade in stocks, and they know
damn-well what they're voting for, when they show up to vote.
Here’s another one of the videos where your average “someone” finds interesting content and decides to upload it under their name and the only thing they change is that they’ve added their face which then makes it “theirs”. The woman in this video looks completely crazy, mouth as big as one you would see on a horse.
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It was nicely written (although I suspect some help from ChatGPT was deployed,
I recognize the style) and perfectly delivered. It was funny too, at times,
but that reaction is either an act, or the result of a big canister of Nitrous oxide.
Here's a good police vest cam video:
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(then lies about it)"
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Maybe that's why she's laughing (to the bank).
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The SP has continued its long-standing stance: opposing mass labor migration and advocating for stricter controls to protect workers and housing markets. This aligns with their broader views on neoliberalism, globalization, and safeguarding the Dutch working class.
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This is not a new stands of the SP. The party has been saying the exact same thing, since 1983, far before right-wing populists were addressing it as a problem. However, right-wingers used it to demonize brown people, to redirect people's anger about seeing their jobs being given to cheap workers, for the profits of the employers, towards racism.
Since that right-wing populist party was voted in as the biggest party in 2023, all their laws were designed to restrict actual refugees, and NONE to restrict the million labor migrants from Eastern Europe. They only care about the racism, not about fixing the problem.
This is the stands of my SP, about labor migration, from their own website:
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The SP considers labor migration a form of modern slavery. There are between 800,000 and 1.2 million labor migrants in the Netherlands, no one knows the exact number.
They are brought here by companies, exploited, and discarded when no longer needed. An increasingly large portion of the homeless population in the Netherlands consists of labor migrants. Meanwhile, the pressure on our neighborhoods, social services, and housing market is high, even as companies profit.
But labor migration also causes problems in the countries of origin. It uproots communities, leaves children growing up without their parents, and leads to local jobs being taken over by even lower-paid labor migrants. Through various legal loopholes, more and more labor migrants from outside Europe are now working in the Netherlands. This lawlessness must come to an end.
We will stop uncontrolled labor migration. We will do this by introducing work permits and setting a migration cap of 40,000 per year. This way, we ensure that only those who are truly needed can come here to work, we can tackle the exploitation of labor migrants by employers, and we can help those who genuinely need protection and are fleeing war and violence.
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damn, how could she do this?
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1. Daniel Ball (Florida)
• Arrested the day after his pardon on separate felony firearm charges, linked to possession of a gun and ammunition as a convicted felon. His Jan 6 charges were dismissed due to the pardon, but the gun case remains active.
2. Matthew Huttle (Indiana)
• Shot and killed by law enforcement during a traffic stop mere days after receiving a pardon. He had an extensive criminal history, including DUI and child abuse, and was still facing driving-related charges at the time.
3. Andrew Taake (Texas)
• Became a fugitive post pardon, wanted on unrelated charges involving solicitation of a minor.
4. Edward Kelley
• Although pardoned for his Jan 6-related convictions, prosecutions for conspiracy to murder law enforcement officers were not covered by the pardon. He was later sentenced to life in prison in July 2025.
5. Enrique Tarrio
• After his pardon, Tarrio made headlines for inflammatory rhetoric, calling for "retribution" and targeting an FBI agent, in interviews with far-right media.
6. David Daniel (North Carolina)
• Despite the pardon, he still faces ongoing charges unrelated to Jan 6: production and possession of child pornography involving minors.
7. Daniel Wilson (Kentucky)
• A judge ruled that his pardon might not cover unrelated charges, specifically illegal weapons possession. The court ordered him to return to prison to resume a five-year sentence.
former obama supporter, air force veteran, unarmed, a black cop selects her over many other people with weapons visible in their hands, to kill, a black cop killing a white woman, and that bothers no one on the liberal side. well apparently someone thought it was wrong because her family did get a small settlement of 5 million dollars.
that black cop insured she wouldn't be pardoned, tried, given a second chance or anything, he decided to be judge, jury and executioner for a unarmed woman of another race.
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what a line of bullshit, other officers resisted shooting armed people, he chose a woman , a white woman,they claimed he saved lives by killing her. what was she going to do, strangle people with her bare hands>>?
that protected those cops. She posed a real threat.
Remember not giving a crap about the death of the boy on the right?
Remember your argument? He didn't follow police orders.
Why is that only applicable to black kids and not to MAGA lunatics?
1. Ray Holmberg – North Dakota
Position: Former State Senator
Conviction: In March 2025, Holmberg was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for traveling to Prague between 2011 and 2016 with the intent to engage in sexual activities with minors. He also pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse material.
Status: Serving his sentence; required to register as a sex offender upon release.
2. RJ May – South Carolina
Position: Former State Representative
Charges: In June 2025, May was arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. He allegedly used the screen name “joebidennnn69” to exchange over 200 files on the Kik messaging platform.
Status: Resigned from office in August 2025; awaiting trial.
3. Aaron von Ehlinger – Idaho
Position: Former State Representative
Conviction: In August 2022, von Ehlinger was convicted of raping a legislative intern and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Status: Serving his sentence; required to register as a sex offender upon release.
4. Rick Roeber – Missouri
Position: Former State Representative
Allegations: In 2021, Roeber was expelled from the Missouri House following an investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse of his children. He denied the allegations.
Status: No criminal charges filed; expelled from office.
5. Justin Eichorn – Minnesota
Position: Former State Senator
Charges: In March 2025, Eichorn was arrested during a sting operation on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. He was charged in federal court and resigned from the Senate.
Status: Awaiting trial; resigned from office.
6. Tony Navarrete – Arizona
Position: Former State Senator
Charges: In August 2021, Navarrete was charged with multiple counts of sexual conduct with underaged children. He resigned from the state senate following the charges.
Status: Awaiting trial; resigned from office.
7. Matt Gaetz – Florida
Position: U.S. Congressman
Allegations: In 2021, Gaetz faced allegations of paying and sleeping with a minor. The Justice Department investigated the claims but ended the probe in 2023 without charges due to witness credibility issues.
Status: No charges filed; remains in office.
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Al Franken allegedly toughed an ADULT woman's ass.
That's no where near the same. You are doing false equivalency.
Do you even understand that?
If you want to include adults, the perp should have at least grabbed em by the pussy.
Women who work around Republican politicians should expect some sexual misconduct. It's in their 'job description'. Not literally anymore, but definitely culturally and practically.
In December 2022, President Biden signed the Speak Out Act, which renders pre-dispute NDAs (those signed before any misconduct arises) unenforceable for claims of sexual assault or harassment.
The law passed with strong bipartisan backing. However, all 215 Democrats voted yes, while only 100 Republicans voted yes and 109 Republicans voted no (house of reps).
Your filthy propaganda and make belief isn't an argument.
You only have your prejudices; she's a black women, so.....
Even if it were true, since when is that the same as a sex offense?
A sex offense violates someone's bodily autonomy, selling sex is consensual.
You keep using false equivalency.
In any case, by law that is not prostitution, but "Quid pro quo sexual harassment".
It's prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which applies to most employers with 15 or more employees.
How far have you deviated? We started out at child sex abuse or sexual misconduct with minors, a heinous crime, and you are now pretending that "Quid pro quo sexual harassment" is the same.
Are you pretending that Republicans would be less guilty of this?
and democrats will willing have sex, just so they can use it to their advantage later, remember monica lewinsky? she even kept the friggen dress!!!!
All to distract from you lot picking a horrible pervert for president and your
continued support for all your other pervert politicians. Weak!
Stop VOTING IN complete degenerates, and maybe I will start giving a damn
about some Democrats having slight discretions.
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This is what your Kamala story is based on. I asked Grok, so you can't say
that it's all left-wing biased.
I asked: "Is there any, even remotely credible, evidence that Kamala Harris has gained advantage in her career, from sexual relations with superiors?"
This is the answer:
Claims that Kamala Harris gained career advantages through sexual relationships with superiors primarily stem from her relationship with Willie Brown, a prominent California politician, in the mid-1990s. Brown, then Speaker of the California Assembly and later San Francisco mayor, was separated from his wife but still legally married during their relationship. Harris was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County at the time. Brown appointed Harris to two state commissions—the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission—which paid her over $400,000 (equivalent to roughly $800,000 in 2025 dollars) for part-time work over five years. These appointments have fueled speculation that her relationship with Brown significantly boosted her early career.
However, there is no definitive evidence proving that Harris’s career trajectory was solely or primarily due to this relationship. Critics argue the appointments were patronage, a common practice in politics, and not necessarily tied to their personal relationship. Harris’s qualifications—her education at Howard University and UC Hastings, and her experience as a prosecutor—suggest she was a credible candidate for such roles. Her subsequent rise, including becoming San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and Vice President, relied on her electoral success and professional record, which included prosecuting high-profile cases and implementing reforms.
On the other side, skeptics point to the timing of Brown’s appointments and his influence in San Francisco politics as evidence of favoritism. Social media posts and some opinion pieces, like those from 2019 and 2020, amplify this narrative, claiming Harris “slept her way to the top.” These claims often lack primary evidence beyond the fact of the relationship and appointments, and they tend to ignore the broader context of her career achievements. Fact-checking sources, such as FactCheck.org, have debunked exaggerated claims, like assertions that Harris broke up Brown’s marriage, noting he was separated for over a decade before dating Harris.
The evidence is circumstantial and heavily debated. While the relationship with Brown and the appointments are documented, attributing her career success primarily to them oversimplifies a decades-long record of professional accomplishments. Misogynistic framing of the narrative, as noted in analyses from outlets like MSNBC and Refinery29, often amplifies these claims to undermine her credibility, a tactic less commonly applied to male politicians. Without concrete evidence of quid pro quo beyond the appointments, the claim remains speculative and lacks definitive substantiation.
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Nothing more than I already knew. Just your party's filthy tactics to destroy
a black woman's credibility, by using people's racism and sexism.
Of course, it's not only racism and sexism, you'll use whatever dirty tactics that are available, like with Tim Walz. It is to be expected. I just want Democrats to stop rolling over and fight back.
When Biden let your election hinge on a black woman, who no one voted for in a primary election, to defend the world from fascism, I was very much annoyed. "Thanks, you old fool, you just bet the world on the US not being as racist and sexist as we very much fear that it is."
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What fricken truck driver tries to execute a U-turn on highway, freeway/expressway and in this case, Florida turnpike?
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i mentioned this elsewhere and of course ananas thinks i am a idiot for being upset.
may or may not be the same man but same name and miserable driving record.
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hahahaha, 54% approval.
gee, let people that can't read our signs, can't speak our language, drive up and down the road like legal citizens. wow how stupid can you get? oh, i need to stop saying that people will take it as a challenge.
to lawfully remain and work in the US, are NOT illegals.
"Illegal" means against the law. They are not.
who wants to live in a clean law abiding red state.
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What Would Jesus Say About Donald Trump?
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Have fun!
maybe this will help you understand anannas
Wrong in 10 seconds. Like women cannot do any of those things.
It's how society has organized itself, but it doesn't have to be.
It's mostly because of guys like you, not because of women.
Calling women TikTok-influencers is also damn disrespectful.
Almost half of my colleagues are women, they do just as good a job as the men.
You can also mostly scrap the military and the police.
Wars are started by men and criminals are also mostly men.
This video was damn awful. Except the styling, that was pretty nice.
You can see who has the money to make videos like this.
Directly funded by right-wing conservative donors.
and why aren't they already doing them in higher %'s than stated in the video if they are so qualified?
what keeps a woman out of a fire truck?
etc.
you can claim this and that but when it comes down to the facts, it is because they ,the women ,do not make a effort to over come any perceived or otherwise odds to do the jobs. Quite similar to why blacks are not doing some jobs. Perceived odds or problems. Not real 1's
Do white man not make an effort to do those jobs?
in construction as much. Women are educated higher in the US.
You can look down on the jobs women do, but most are better jobs.
Those jobs are just paid less, because historically more women do them.
It's not that those jobs are less important. Woman are incredibly over-represented
in healthcare, education, childcare and legal services.
When men take 5 days off, everything will be fine. When women take 5 days off, everyone in the hospitals and elder homes would be DEAD.
My country employs lots of immigrants too, but at least I support equal rights and equal pay for them, while also considering if I want my economy to be based on low-wage jobs as much as that. I think that a country progresses as a whole, from maximizing automation, creating better jobs and maximizing people's potential to fill the better jobs. That's best in both the capitalist system and any socialist system that I would support. It both considers the labor shortage and the aging population.
The policy of kicking out immigrants does align with the policy of destroying public education. You need enough poorly literate people, to replace those immigrants.
It's a bit of a waste to make people with academic degrees pick fruit and cut meat.
However, is that MAGA or Make Americans Dumb Again?
Is your country on a strategy that supports thriving in the long term?
In my opinion, Trump's trade-wars are the Hail Mary of a crumbling empire.
The US cannot compete honestly, so it's trying to cheat it's way back on top.
That doesn't work, because it angers all it's partners, it's bleeding support.
People like phart have already accepted that, so they are now considering
to stop trying to compete globally completely, pull up the walls, and just run
the US fully independently. Apparently, the top capitalist country cannot handle competition from a 'communist' country.
"What's the average wage of a meat-packer in the US?"
Answer: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) – May 2023:
For the occupation code Slaughterers and Meat Packers (51-3023):
Hourly wage: between $14.64 and $16.62.
"Are there a lot of immigrants, legal or not, working as meat-packer, in the US?"
Answer: Yes — immigrants make up a significant portion of the U.S. meatpacking workforce, both legally and, in many cases, without authorization. Here's what the latest data reveals:
Key Statistics:
Overall Immigrant Representation:
More than half (51.5%) of frontline meatpacking workers are immigrants, compared to roughly 17% across the total U.S. workforce.
A USDA-funded study confirms this overrepresentation:
51.5% of frontline workers are foreign-born.
There could be some workers in a high quality meat industry, explaining the wages that you saw. There is probably also the cheap quality, that might not
even be safe to eat, where the workers make even less.
I don't live in your country, I get all my information about the US from news outlets and YouTube channels, that are not funded by special interests, but by views. They have been reliable on almost every fact that I check. The things that I check are statistics, research papers and poll results. They provide me a helicopter view of your country. Your country is BIG though. What is true for Florida, can be false for Texas, New York or Minnesota. Those differences are important, so I look at those too, but the overall picture is also important, because that's for a big part under control of your Federal Government. If you want to know the effects of Biden or Trump, you look at the big picture, without losing track of action vs result.
(Correlation does not imply causation)
("post hoc ergo propter hoc": because one event follows another,
it doesn't automatically mean the first event caused the second)
Quite often, super markets will beef up their staff during the high volume period beginning prior to Thanksgiving and ending after Super Bowl. Super Bowl LX is scheduled for Sunday, February 8 meaning I would be happy to be temporary seasonal help OR work to May when I return to Michigan.
If I had aspirations of becoming a supermarket manager, I might consider it
for a second.... Hell no, money isn't everything.
I'm making about the same as an Albert Heijn manager, without having to do
that job. I'm very sure that I like my job better. I have no idea what my job
would pay in Florida, but it looks like it would be a lot more. I found one job
that I'm probably overqualified for, at Ology Bioservices (Alachua, FL):
Specialist I — QA Product Release (Boca Raton):
Handling batch record reviews, document tracking, product release, all very much in line with production support and compliance. Compensation ranges from $76K–$118K/year. Sounds like only 10% of my job description now,
so boring as fuck, but I could make $100k per year.
And, as was discussed earlier, if I need to pay $1000/month for home insurance, I'm already down $12,000/year.
I pay $51.28/month for home, contents and liability insurance.
How about health insurance? Do you get it for free at Publix.
I pay $197/month on the open insurance market, for a package that includes physiotherapy and some coverage for my chiropractor. I have no dental insurance, because that sucks. It's cheaper to pay for it myself.
Healthcare as an employer benefit doesn't really exist in my country. At best we have a bit of reduction in a group-deal, but those are often the most expensive insurers. It's only a good deal for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Our government has a policy of discouragement against employer provided healthcare coverage, because it could restrict job mobility and could be misused by the employer as a bargaining chip in pay and other benefits negotiations.
We don't have a certain number of sick days. When we're sick, we have paid sick leave, with a maximum of 2 years, by law. After that we have disability benefits or unemployment benefit, depending on medical exams.
i am not the first person that has felt like a person could do better for themselves, listen to this speech,
1967,
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listen at about 9:00,where he tells them to stay in school.
where he tells the students to be the best dr and etc.
what part of that message did so many people miss out on along time ago?
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I’m already a millionaire, when I retire in about two years I will have anything I want
and check its sources, to see if it's reliable and accurate.
12 and 14 a hour to bag grocerys is damn good money for unskilled work
Whether Publix employees make "good money" depends on the role, experience, location, and individual expectations. Here's a breakdown based on available data:
Hourly Wages: Publix employees earn an average hourly wage of around $14.99 to $28.64, depending on the source and role. Entry-level positions like baggers and cashiers typically earn $11–$15 per hour, while specialized roles like pharmacy technicians ($17–$20) or meat cutters ($18–$23) earn more. Management roles, such as store managers, can earn $60,000–$80,000 annually, with some sources citing higher averages for specialized positions like pharmacy managers ($135,949/year).
He is openly fiddling with it, to make it spout his own conspiracies on X.
I added "check its sources, to see if it's reliable and accurate", right?
If you think your AI is more reliable, show me some significant differences
in results and then prove why yours is more accurate, instead of these unsubstantiated accusations.
Remember talking about how people cannot afford groceries?
That's the people, who you think make "good money".
People told you how expensive Florida is. It costs up to $1000/month
to insure a basic home there. Then €15/hr pays for NOTHING.
Florida is a risky place to live in, because it has a high risk of hurricanes.
But, that's the same for most of the East coast. The West coast is at risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. In the middle of the US, you have Tornado Alley. Then there are lots of areas, scattered over about two-thirds of your country, that have a high wildfire risk. Basically, there are only a few states that have
a low risk of natural disasters, where home insurance should be cheaper.
alot of it stems from developers putting houses in low places because the land is cheap and car owners that want to get rid of their car payments so they leave their cars in low places to be flooded out. companys can replace their fleet vehicles if they just park them in the back lot beside the creek and so on. crooked and stupid.
Of course insurance companies are fucking greedy too.
If they would be allowed to make 90% profit, they would.
Your supermarkets might be bigger on average. I don't know about Publix.
The median per capita income in Florida is about $41k. (says Google)
The median per capita income in the Netherlands is:
€46,500 = $54,309 gross per year.
In my country, the average salary of an Albert Heijn location manager is:
€59,405 = $69,375, on 40 hrs/week.
Maybe the difference is in education level. If there are not enough people qualified for the position of supermarket manager, then they can negotiate better pay. The job doesn't require rocket scientists, so in my country they make about 128% of median pay.
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I have thousands of pictures to show how great of place it is up there in the mountains and how I camp. I would recommend googling gatlinburg pictures and things to do there, you would be amazed
a local teen, 18 years old, just graduated high school. i have helped him out in regards to some good welding gloves,a 400 dollar jackson helmet and etc, he just took a job making 19 dollars a hour welding brackets on truck chassis. he will get a bonus at Christmas,works 4 10 hour days and can use the company welder for a personal project occasionally on his off hours. and it is not shabby equipment. pretty darn good for a kid, but he wants to work, and learn. it can be done, that is why i get sick of hearing and reading about all these obstacles. push them out of the way and get to it.
It's reasonable to expect welders getting payed well.
There is one issue though. You are referring to lots of jobs that pay well. Some pay better in Florida, than in The Netherlands.
The issue?
The median per capita income in Florida is about $41k. (says Google)
The median per capita income in the Netherlands is $54,309.
There must be a whole lot of people making LESS in Florida,
than in the Netherlands. What jobs are they doing?
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Marie Van Brittan Brown, an African American woman, invented the first home security system, which included the first closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. This system, patented in 1969, paved the way for modern CCTV security systems and is a significant contribution to home security technology, according to Princeton University. Brown's invention was motivated by her concerns about safety in her New York City neighborhood and the slow response times of the police
what threw a wrench in the gears is non religious types saying oh you don't have to do that, just as Johnson said mothers don't need fathers involved in raising the kids, here's a check, back in the 60's.
people nowadays think it is perfectly normal and acceptable to live above their means and expect debts forgiven for education and such. total lack of responsiablity.
That's called the 'naturalistic fallacy'. Sure, women have breasts for feeding children. That's why she stayed in the cave, while the man was out hunting mammoths. There is no good reason for it now.
You might be right that it was mostly the non-religious types. Why do you think religion is losing more supporters all the time? It's people are done with the ancient bullshit, that keeps people from having freedom.
You're literally saying that poor people don't deserve education.
Fine, destroy education. I'm done with the American Empire, and this helps
getting rid of it. Why do I even bother to support things that are good for the US?
Do you see any successful countries that only employ men?
That only happens in the Muslim 'shit-hole' countries, doesn't it?
It's another one of your ideas, of you giving up competing with the rest of the world.
why would women have breast to make milk if it was not their job to care for the young? does a calf go to the bull for food?
the only reason it doesn't work now is because of some people such as atheist pushing a narritive that goes against the grain of what has worked for centurys.
Do you think evolution decided that a woman's job is to care for the young,
so let's give her the breasts, instead of the man? That's the dumbest reverse logic that I ever heard. Obviously, the sex that has to push out the young, months after impregnation, has the breasts. The sex that inseminated the womb has likely already left. That's a bit unfortunate for the young, isn't it?
How can you expect a bull to feed the calves of all 30 cows in the herd?
This hasn't just worked for centuries, but for 225 million years, since the first mammals. The only reason for it was evolution. There is no design or reason for it,
it just supports the survival of the young better, which turns it into a fixed trait in all the descendants.
It's no longer relevant to modern civilization though. Maybe you don't know this,
but females don't breastfeed their children for the 18-30 years, until they can finally survive on their own, these days.
See, I completely confirm your premise, but not your conclusion,
because your logic is false. It's a 'naturalistic fallacy'.
It's natural to walk or ride a horse. Do you give up your car now?
It’s natural to get sick and die young. Do you refuse antibiotics?
It’s natural to write letters with a quill. Do you give up your smartphone?
It’s natural to fall and break bones. Should we stop building handrails?
It’s natural to hunt with spears. Do you refuse grocery stores?
Women want better for themselves too, and they won't wait
for some man to bring it.
Are you forgetting the subject mid-discussion?
how can parents raise kids if they are never around them? of course that is part of the big idea,break up the family. kids don't feel a obligation to care for their elderly parents because their parents hired out their own care when care when needed.
That was an eye opening video that presented staggering percentages! I wonder who collected the data and produced the video? Most likely a MAN!
I’ve lived long enough to realize what my strengths and weaknesses are and also to witness, first hand, that this is a man’s world!! Yep, it is a man’s world! I worked for mom and pop organizations as well as a major employer. When I worked for a family owned fruit and vegetable market, yes, I worked as a cashier and at the end of my shift, I had cleaning responsibilities ie sweeping and mopping the store (a designated area) as well as cleaning restrooms because that’s “women’s work”. At the office, yes, women could easily advance to the level of supervision however there weren’t many directors or above. Yes, we did have one female SR VP.
Personally, I’m not interested in construction jobs, sanitation, trucking or power/utilities BUT IF I WAS dammit, I want to be considered for that job! Considered not because I meet a benchmark quota but because I am QUALIFIED!
if so, here is some help,
The word "qualified" means:
Having the necessary skills, knowledge, or abilities: Someone who is qualified has met the requirements or standards for a particular job, role, or task. For example, a "qualified teacher" has the training and certifications needed to teach.
Meeting specific conditions or criteria: Refers to being officially recognized as suitable for something, like a "qualified candidate" who fulfills the prerequisites for a position or opportunity.
Limited or restricted in some way: When used in a legal or technical sense, it can mean something is conditional or not absolute, e.g., "qualified approval" means approval with reservations or conditions.
Just my opinion it’s not just women who are lazy, men are too! I’m a baby boomer, I worked for everything I have. I am not a descendent of Edsel P. Ford or Walter B. Chrysler II, I am the unmarried daughter of a high school teacher. I have what I have because I worked hard and saved money.
Times have changed and sadly men and women can be media influencers and receive money for doing nothing!
That's not equality.
Bella also said "not because I meet a benchmark quota".
on employers. I mostly agree with them.
They work to live, instead of live to work. That's not being lazy.
Why do all you people want us to be slaves?
Why don't we all work in cooperation, instead of in servitude?
is the fact that you get money for it, a reason to release all freedom?
We cannot be all self-employed, that's ridiculously inefficient.
How can you make a smartphone, car or house on your own?
A company adds a lot of efficiency to production. But it doesn't require relinquishing all freedom and individuality. That in fact HURTS effectiveness of the company.
Has 'the man' beaten you down so much, that you don't have wishes for a better future? If you don't, because you are old now, why should people who have a whole life ahead of them, agree with you?
The world that we are leaving Gen X, Y, Z is fucked up. We didn't do a good job.
Why do you think you have the right to tell them how to shape their future?
Will you just let your boss decide so much about your life?
Is that freedom?
Who has told you that this is how your working life is supposed to be?
Is that just 'common sense'? Who's 'common sense'?
Maybe you believe this, because the media has told you this, all your life.
Maybe the media has told you this all your life, because it serves their owners.
Who owns all your media? Isn't it big corporations and wealthy people?
All those people want you to be an obedient worker drone.
a human has needs. to fulfill those needs requires currency. to obtain currency you trade your time and skills for a amount of currency that is appropriate for the amount of skill and time you provide.
work is not fun,so it brings about currency, the currency is then used to fulfil needs.
when the needs are greater than the currency, more time and skill is traded for more currency until the need is met.
what part of this system is so hard for you to understand?
There is nothing else to it, that you are adding, that is necessary.
If there is no added value in the economy, no one 'obtains currency'.
It doesn't take skill, it doesn't have to be awful, it's only about adding value.
It's also not about trading time. Although time is a limited resource, no one
is paying anyone for their time, unless that time is creating ADDED VALUE.
Even if someone is 'supplying' a massage, that's added value to the one paying.
There is no skill required for getting fucked, but some people still pay for it.
Is it 'no fun' to write a book, sing a song or paint a painting? It's still a job.
As long as it creates added value, for enough people, it's a paying job.
"work is not fun"
WHY? You have provided ZERO arguments for why that should be.
You provide no argument for why that requires a boss.
You provide no argument for why the one working can't have demands.
You are providing no good reasons, only your petrified dogmas.
a boss makes sure the product or service is up to par.or there is no compensation for it.
a boss makes sure the employees come to work, and are drug free and safe to work and be around.
a boss makes sure the books are took care of .
so much a boss does that the regular line worker would not want to do without making even more money.
value?? what the fuck?
you want to eat right>? so you buy food. first you work to earn the money to buy the food,then you have to find food that you want,that someone made or grew. and you want to know it is ok to eat, so there is the need for the boss and others.
There are lots of successful worker co-operations. Employees aren't children. Sharing responsibility further down the organization results in much better outcomes for companies. I'm working for a company where the CEO is only presenting a strategy. Everyone below the CEO create their own goals, in co-operation with the one or two levels below, in line with the strategy and the goals above. That goes down to everyone in the chain, except for the cleaners and the canteen staff, who are contractors. Even our production staff has some goals. I get a voice in the goals of my department and I get to pick my goals. Some of them have been the same goals for years, because they feel like my children, but at least half of them are new. We also have lots of participation, flexibility and benefits. That keeps people happy, creative and efficient.
My added value is mostly cost reduction, and future value creation.
Yes, adding value, that's the whole principles of the economy.
Do you even understand why work results in money?
It's not because a boss likes to see you sweat or spend your time.
Damn, you're struggling with the absolute basics of economics.
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Here’s a young fella that uploads content about his cat, Kurt and Kurt’s new cat brother, Gary. He’s shown pictures of his house and he and his wife aren’t living too shabby. Lots of followers means lots of advertisers, means nice paychecks for doing absolutely NOTHING!
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Enlighten me what is wrong? The Idiot has been in power for over 6 months. What should I shout for joy about?
So according to you, 50+% of the nation is wrong? That is democracy.
Thank your governor for me
I have a much more comfortable job. You couldn't do it though,
it requires advanced knowledge and logical thinking.
comfortable job you say? sitting behind a desk thinking about how to trim 2 cents here and a miligram of sheet rock dust there off a pills cost?
One mistake can result in throwing away millions of dollars worth of product.
Ever seen one of those big chemical plants, with miles of pipe? That's only a few processes running simultaneously, constantly for months on end, making only a few products in bulk. The operators working at such a plant should know their piece of the puzzle. Still, it's a simple process with hardly any instructions. Then there are the people in the back office who are called when there is something wrong, but they cannot figure out what it is, solve the problem and make sure it doesn't happen again. That's the team I work in. In a chemical plant, it would be a team of about 10 people. Another 10 would do maintenance, a smaller team would do redesign. It's simple compared to the processes I work in.
Our processes are many times more complex, we have many more of them, and we are running at least 80 of them together at a time. There are hundreds of instructions that all need to agree with each other. There are many more variables, because we don't have a simple chemical process, we are working with vulnerable living cells.
If one bacterium or mold enters the process, everything is scrap. Besides the troubleshooting, we are contently introducing new processes, new equipment, new instructions. There are constant inspections of governments from all over the world. They could want to do a deep investigation of anything that ever went wrong, because everything is documented, and every mistake requires a investigation and a corrective measure. If they don't like what we did, they can shut us down. Every tiny change we do, requires a documented change process, with a Quality Assurance department checking everything. That result in about 250 people actually making the product and about 1000 people supporting it in other ways. From that 1000 people, I'm definitely not the one with the most responsibilities, but I do have one of the most varied jobs.
I work with different specialists, working on several problems or projects at the same time, including some of my own. When it's a big project, it has at least 10 people from different departments working on it, often together with contractors from suppliers.
The most fun is taking on a small project, work together with a designer and an engineer and just think of a solution for a problem, design it, have it constructed and delivered and then implement it in the process, and see it used by operators.
That's the real test, because operators are not a careful bunch and not easy to please.
After that, you're the owner of that thing, for the rest of your career, supporting it when it breaks down, including its backup. It's fun, but it requires lots of patience.
I understand that, because I can imagine it.
You cannot image it for my job. You know so little about it that you think
that there's nothing to know.
That's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Ice Cream
Scoop
Cone
There is some math involved
1 scoop 2 scoops or 3 scoops
The skill involved is being able to stack the scoops with out them falling off
Actually, that was me on Ice Cream duty.
The difference is that the freezers contain several hundred million dollars worth
of cell culture inoculate, in thousands of small vials, at maximum -292 °F.
It was a procedure that we had to do with at least 2 people. First you look through the window, to see if there's no one suffocating in the room. Open the door with my key-card, with special access. Vent the room (door open), until the O2 level is safe, without going in. If you faint, the door shuts itself. One operator stays back. The buddy is only there to call security, if something goes wrong. Officially, they are not even allowed to pull you out.
To get the freezer back online, we used a manual override plug, which we swapped out for a blind plug. That allows for filling up several freezers at once, while the O2 in the room goes down below alarm level. Of course, you don't go in then and you guard the door. When they are filled, you swap back the plugs, fill in and both sign off the logbook, and go back to work.
We didn't use the term "open loop mode". The room O2 level was called OOR (out of range). What we did was a "safety interlock bypass", which is only allowed under strict procedures. New rooms have such an overcapacity in venting, that we never get O2 alarms anymore. Working in those rooms still requires training and special access.
The rooms are under camera surveillance, because they would be a good target for sabotage. The damage to our production output could run in the billions.
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