In newspapers, whenever someone is described as “controversial and outspoken,” what is generally meant is “delusional and loudly ignorant.”
In newspapers, whenever someone is described as “controversial and outspoken,” what is generally meant is “delusional and loudly ignorant.”
Sorry, what? Newborn babies can’t shoot a gun and can’t take care of themselves if their homes are bombed and their parents die. Not to mention that half of Gaza is already under 18 and probably won’t be having babies any time soon, given that hospitals are being targeted. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Any premature prohibition on the use of 6PPD in tires would be detrimental to public safety and the national economy.
…What about the safety of my body? Or the health of children and animals? It’s not as if tire waste dumped into the ocean just stays in the US, this could be affecting Canada and Central America too, as well as other places.
I don’t understand how a manufacturer’s consortium can basically be like, “we don’t want to spend the money to find a new chemical that works similarly on short notice, so we’re just going to lobby to poison you indefinitely.”
It would be nice to have F-Droid and other app repos available on the Play Store. Or some other solution that puts alternative app sources on a more level playing field.
Or maybe I’m disabled, lol. Who knows? It’s not like it’s my life or anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It also hurts, and since I’m not very active I don’t have the physical stamina to bike distances much longer than a couple of km. I biked to work for a short while when I lived closer to my job but now I can’t.
As someone who experiences pain while walking essentially any distance over 100m, I don’t want to walk for my groceries. But it’s nice to have a store nearby. I really want an e-bike, but since I need a car and am already forced to pay for one, I can’t really afford to have both.
Why was Hitler’s birthplace considered a fun trivia question suitable for a large event? That’s the real question I have here.
It surprises me to read that “annoying as shit” is more common than “fucking annoying,” to be honest.
I thought it would be obvious because of the article headline, but email reactions. It’s undeniable that emoji are useful for communication, I’m just not convinced that this particular interaction with an email is anything that anyone asked for or needs.
The only use case I can imagine would be for school/work accounts, but this feature isn’t supported for those types of accounts yet. I’d assume that’s because it’s not yet integrated into the Office 365 platform.
The question remains: who outside of a corporate environment needs this? Maybe large families who communicate through chain emails? I honestly don’t know anyone who uses email to have group chats anymore, but I suppose those people must exist. Just seems like it would be a small number.
I’m struggling to think of a use case for this. Why not just reply and put an emoji in there?
Her first album didn’t come out until 2006, in 2001 she would have been 12 or 13. Maybe you’re thinking of Christina Aguilera or something.
What? That’s not at all what I’m saying, I’m an anti-Zionist - I literally called the situation apartheid.
I just don’t think it’s likely that Palestine will end up benefitting from this this given how large the Israeli lobby is. Your quip seems inappropriate.
I’m pretty surprised by this. Israel has a lot of wealthy allies and an already robust military propped up by defense manufacturing and compulsory military service. This is going to lead to even more Palestinian casualties than were already happening… every Arab in or near the West Bank is at risk of being executed right now. I’m really curious why Hamas decided to do this given how the global north has been giving Palestine the cold shoulder and actively arming Israel for decades.
I live in Canada and I know that we are already giving military aid to Israel - we are probably going to increase that after this, and I’m sure that the USA and UK will do the same. There are already mainstream organizations that refuse to acknowledge Palestine whatsoever, so I’m really concerned about the possibility of the apartheid turning into a genocide and no one really caring because “they deserved it,” especially given the aggressive anti-Palestinian propaganda in right-wing Israeli institutions and social circles.
The family’s home was being monitored by state police, but the officers had been sent to another call in the area when the suspect dropped off the note.
Why even bother if you’re just going to send them to a random call after stationing them there? This girl easily could’ve been killed due to this decision - there are a lot of offenders that don’t have fingerprints on file.
I hadn’t heard that she was intending to go unscripted, my apologies.
In my opinion, that’s an attempt to find a way around the strike and to cut writers’ labour from the equation so I would still consider that to be roughly equivalent to scabbing, but I realize that not everyone thinks that way.
Talk shows are scripted. Scripts are written by writers. If non-union writers wrote the scripts while union writers were on strike, that’s scabbing by definition.
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Here are some possible reasons for why the unemployment rate can be misleading and why low-wage workers (usually in the service sector, which includes over 2/3 of jobs in Canada and over 3/4 of jobs in the USA) are often not considered for promotion or career development. Wage stagnation and inflation are rampant and are driving down real wages. I made less this year than last year despite a 5% wage increase because inflation was over 8%.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underemployment.asp
A third type of underemployment refers to situations in which individuals who are unable to find work in their chosen field quit the workforce altogether, meaning they haven’t looked for a job in the last four weeks, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) definition of “not in the labor force.”
The number of these workers skyrocketed during the onset of the economic crisis and lockdown in early 2020, which ultimately resulted in a substantial change in working conditions and coincided with a crash in the markets. It is statistically difficult to measure the third type of underemployment.
People are removing themselves from the job market; they’ve given up and are not being counted by labour statistics. This is also not something caused by COVID-19, just made more overt due to the large number of people affected.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-marx
A lot of bullshit jobs are just manufactured middle-management positions with no real utility in the world, but they exist anyway in order to justify the careers of the people performing them. But if they went away tomorrow, it would make no difference at all.
And that’s how you know a job is bullshit: If we suddenly eliminated teachers or garbage collectors or construction workers or law enforcement or whatever, it would really matter. We’d notice the absence. But if bullshit jobs go away, we’re no worse off.
My sister-in-law’s ex-husband works for the federal government; when he first started his job, he did his work at what he thought was a normal pace, only for his supervisor to tell him to slow down because others weren’t able to keep up. He would be given a report to write and would finish it in 3-4 days, but his supervisor wanted him to take 7-10 days.
He’s employed, sure, but he has to essentially waste his own time so that his superiors don’t get butthurt. He plays video games on his computer during his downtime; you’d think a person like that would be fired, but he’s been working there for 4 or 5 years now, so he would never be on the chopping block during layoffs.
https://hbr.org/2022/03/does-your-company-offer-fruitful-careers-or-dead-end-jobs
For example, we worked with a food services company that is one of the largest employers in the world to examine how training and job opportunities are created within the company. With more than 15,000 current job openings at the company, recruitment and retention is a constant focus. Training employees to create career paths for them in this low-wage industry is an important part of the retention strategy.
An initial examination of the data showed that training expenditures were highest among low-wage workers at the company, yet when those low-wage workers changed jobs within the company, more than one third soon left, and almost half saw almost no pay increase. Digging deeper, we found that only 17% of low-wage workers saw a significant pay increase.
These outcomes did not jibe with the firm’s commitment to training. Further analysis showed that when we removed compliance-related training expenditures from the data, we learned that most other training expenditures were directed at higher-wage workers and that these workers were more likely to take advantage of training benefits offered by the company.
If you’re working 40 hours per week while living paycheck to paycheck, yes, you’re employed, but is that really the sign of a healthy national economy or robust quality of life? Job hopping is the only way to reliably keep up with inflation, but it impacts your ability to build towards retirement (pension, 401k/RRSP contributions, etc.) or qualify for benefits such as paid time off or continuing education.
In the tech industry it’s even worse, as there are so many software developers and networking/IT professionals waiting for a chance that companies genuinely can get rid of interns/junior staff (and sometimes even senior staff) at will and have a replacement at the “revolving desk” by next week.
Yep, I love it. I use it for comics, manga, and epubs. It also connects to Tachiyomi and FBReader so I can read stuff on my tablet through the apps I prefer (though I’ve heard the built-in reader is good). The dev, Joe, is great too.