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nobel peace prize for russian journalists working for opposition/independent newspapers (many of whom's journalists have been murdered).

i await shahter's response telling us that, ackshually, no one understands russia! we have putin all wrong!

So tech giants are going to pay 15% tax, on 25% of their profits, on profits above a 10% profit margin.

So thats well under a 4% tax rate when they should be paying 20-30% corporate tax.

Who comes up with this stuff?

We should have a pop concert and send them food, that'll fix it, it worked before.

Whatever we do they won't stop fighting, they don' stop fighting when they have everything and are in a first world country.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Stop correcting other people’s grammar
https://www.educationviews.org/stop-cor … s-grammar/

Another one of these, from 2019. I see these confessions from time to time. "I was one of those people until I went to college and learned that I knew far less than I thought I did." I've been thinking about that sort of thing in the wake of what I perceive is a bump in ever-present grammar nazis on social media platforms. Someone makes a minor typo or some sort of mistake, and five people reply with unsolicited corrections. Amazing contributions, not.

Give me linguistic freedom, or give me heart death.

Uzique really should go back to using capital letters though

Man, fuck E. E. Cummings.

In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.

Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.

It was March 18, 2019. At the U.S. military’s busy Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, uniformed personnel watching the live drone footage looked on in stunned disbelief, according to one officer who was there.

“Who dropped that?” a confused analyst typed on a secure chat system being used by those monitoring the drone, two people who reviewed the chat log recalled. Another responded, “We just dropped on 50 women and children.”

An initial battle damage assessment quickly found that the number of dead was actually about 70.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/u … eaths.html


Yikes. That's a lot of civilians. We should have never been a part of the anti-ISIS coalition in the first place.

Issues with costs of living, housing, underinsurance (or lack of), are often underplayed, though not the only reasons. There are probably things millennials actually have some responsibility in killing off, but it probably isn't the AmErIcAn DrEaM.

Does knowledge of the BS they have to look forward to given that you're one of the country's underappreciated teachers, with other experience from your old mechanic job, mitigate the disdain you have for your students? Knowing that they'll grow up into a culture where underpaid workers think someone like a burger flipper shouldn't make a livable wage because that would bring their low pay too close to their own shitty jobs'? Or do you (like some) look forward to it out of a certain spite?

This post from 2015: https://imgur.com/gallery/QXJ56x6

One of the more awful questions in job interviews, "how much do you want to make," requires a magical answer somewhere in the sweet spot between you not wanting too much from the company, and undervaluing yourself to the point they think you have no self-respect or don't think much of your own skills. Knowing how much a job and your qualifications should earn you isn't always going to be the same as what a company wants you to say. Anyway, extend to low $/hr jobs, few people in business are going to respect workers who bow to wages hovering little over minimum, or even below, and don't seek to be paid more.

Although, expecting everyone to be negotiating for better pay for themselves every chance they get may be a little idealistic, when some may be more worried about just keeping their job even under a capricious employer. Need representation, legislation.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Does knowledge of the BS they have to look forward to given that you're one of the country's underappreciated teachers, with other experience from your old mechanic job, mitigate the disdain you have for your students? Knowing that they'll grow up into a culture where underpaid workers think someone like a burger flipper shouldn't make a livable wage because that would bring their low pay too close to their own shitty jobs'? Or do you look forward to it out of spite?

The premise of your question is wrong. I don't disdain my kids. Maybe individual ones...but as a whole I am a big advocate for the youth. Especially troubles ones. I would be willing to make personal or financial sacrifices for the youth of our nation.

I encourage the kids to look into trade schools for stuff like mechanics or joining the military.

Regarding pay...it is a nice thing to be part of a union. Everyone has the same pay scale. No begging for a raise or finding out the fuck up you know makes more than you because reasons. One theory about why the wage gap still persist for women and minorities is because both are afraid to advocate for themselves and better pay. "Be grateful you were hired". Yuk.

Circling back to institutions...this is probably another reason why so many are going into the dustbin of history.  Be grateful you were even allowed to join, grovel to some pig people, etc.? Fuck all that.

You probably have a very loose definition of "disdain" then.

LMAO