That’s what I keep saying…

Wow, you are so bad at this, no wonder nobody answers your calls.

Me doing one thing does not mean that I am not doing another thing as fast as it can possibly be done. Normal working class people don’t just go into standby mode when waiting for our main objective to progress.
Also, why would you assume that stopping the inept and over privileged from spreading stupidity and misinformation is not part of my mission? But most of all, maybe if you can’t find your own ass with both hands, you shouldn’t be in charge of other people… or projects… or anything at all.
Once again, but slower this time… Just because someone works for you, does not make them your slave, or inferior to you. They are allowed to have a life outside of you. And if you absolutely must have someone at your neck and call for you every minute of the day, then expect to pay for it.

When we were finally able to buy our first home, it was a real shock for me the first Halloween. People didn’t tend to go door to door in our apartment complex, they went to the surrounding neighborhoods so the only people that came to the door were those few that had very young children and were neighbors we saw regularly.
After the first few groups of trick or treaters I told my wife I felt like I was committing a felony every time I open the door. Thankfully, over the last few years a lot of the mothers of the younger children started dressing up with their kids. Now I can just be a perv staring at the mothers in there sexy Halloween outfits rather than trying to avoid looking at the jailbait.

No, we were talking about for the test part…

I know what it’s like to have people who you respect turn out to be MAGA. You spend a lot of time trying to come up with an excuse so that you can reconcile your respect for them with the horrible shit they are staunchly defending. And what you say is definitely true, or at least was. But Trump was initially elected in 2016. He has been on and in the news daily for almost a decade.
People who are still MAGA, have made a choice. They have either decided that they are ok with it all, or they are willing to pretend and look away. They choose the echo chamber to drown out the reality that they want to ignore.

We are not slaves, we have a right to be be paid for our time. You are the one that set the rules. You, people like you, all these business people and “job creators”. The days of employees working an entire career at one company and retiring with a pension are dead. You and your ilk killed it. Employees are just cost centers. Constant growth and profit are all that matters. Layoffs, soft layoffs, invisible layoffs, hiring freezes, attrition, trimming the fat, split shifts, workforce reduction, voluntary separation packages, contract positions… these aren’t personal, they are just business. A companies interaction with its employee is a business transaction governed by contracts, employee handbooks, and labor laws. They specify the number of days I am allowed to be sick in a given year and even limit the number of days we are allowed to be sick at one time. And after all of that you want to talk loyalty and sacrifice?

Ya, that shit is infuriating. I used to work for a very small company in an area that is dominated by oil companies and all the associated companies that support them. It was really hard for us to compete for people with experience.

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  I had to cut out a 30 minute rant about why it sucks to try to hire in an oil dominated market… Sigh
  The short of it was that we so rarely had the “perfect” candidate for a given position that it was actually really painful on the very rare occasions that we had more than one that was perfect.

As someone who used to be part of the interview team for my company, sometimes you can be “perfect” for the job, but still lose to someone who is better than you.
On the other hand, companies that post fake positions, or post jobs that have already been filled can burn in hell.

Considering that Elon was an illegal immigrant to the US at one point, I question the legality of his citizenship.

If my response to you can’t wait for my next normal working hour, then that means I will have to carry my work communication device with me when I leave work and I will not be able to travel anywhere that puts me away from whatever communication type that you require for longer than the duration that you are willing to wait. This type of restriction has a term for it, it is referred to as being “on-call”. Employees deserve to be compensated for being on-call. If your business requires your employees to be on-call, but you don’t compensate them, then I have very little sympathy for you when you get sued or fined.

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That’s lovely. And the best part is that this could response could be automated with a bot.

Are you talking about one of the erasers that is like a piece of industrial carpet on the bottom, or the other type that’s foamy rubber (like what the sole of a running shoe is made of)?

Originally the idea was intended to provide and more equal representation.
In a dense urban setting, the different minority groups tend to cluster together but those clusters rarely follow any kind of orderly district lines. In a randomly divided district, the minority groups are often in contention, so usually won’t vote for each other. This means that the the winner tends to be the white guy. If instead, you shape the district to follow the different clusters, then each minority group is much more likely to be able to vote one of their own into office. Unfortunately, the rules that were created to make things better for minorities were also able to be weaponized against them and eventually against the majority itself.

The law says that you have to have X number of machines per person in each district. It also says that noone should have to drive more than a specific distance to get to a polling place.
So the GOP drew the maps so that districts dip into very dense parts of the city, but then explode outwards for hundreds of miles. Now that district may have a thousand machines, but they are spread across thousands of square miles so that random farmers out in the middle of BFE have not just one, but multiple polling machines just to themselves, and all the inner city people have a choice of either standing in line for 2 hours to vote, or driving for 2 hours to get to one of those BFE polling stations and then driving 2 hours home.

As some others have pointed out, paying social security directly costs companies money.
However, there is also a secondary set of costs to social security. Social security dramatically decreases a companies grip on a worker as the worker grows closer to retirement. A lot of workers would not be able to retire with out the income that social security provides. Without social security, once a worker passes the age at which they become less desirable for other companies to hire away then they essentially become slaves. And knowing you’re heading towards what is essentially slavery is going to have a lot of knock-on effects too. Pay and compensation negotiations, changing companies, how afraid people will be of being fired, ect… Are all going to swing heavily into the companies favor.

They said that this was a threat, so maybe not.

The average NFL game is 4 hours long, within which there is only about 12 minutes of actual playing. Without the risk of severe brain injury US football is just about watching a bunch of men in tights to stand around.

As an American, the last 10 years have been a real surprise to me. I’ve always known that there were incredibly stupid and hateful people, but it seemed like a slowly shrinking minority. The slow, incremental progress of America has led to apathy for most progressive voters. After all, if nothing is broken and it is getting better on its own, why worry about fixing it.
The problem is that a very over the last 100 years, a small but very rich group of psychopaths have been slowly eroding things like our education, journalism, social support, workers rights, judicial systems, and more.
I’m not talking about some secret group like the Illuminati, I’m talking about individual psychopaths like Elon musk who pick one or two things that they feel get in the way of thier ability to grab the power they think they deserve. They whittle away, using their immense wealth to slowly chip at our institutions. And each new one is able to build upon the work of the previous psycho.
The problem is that the last hundred years of slow witling has left us with very weak foundations, and things are beginning to fall apart.

Unfortunately, I personally believe that religion is a symptom of this type of mentality, not the cause. There is no cure, but teaching basic reasoning skills certainly helps. And that is why conservatives are targeting the education system.