This is one of those things that is noticeably true irl for me, this isn’t just an online LARP, crunchy moms are engaged in full on, fully self aware biological warfare against the left 😂
Biggest pension scam I've seen: a guy worked in govt for 42 years and retired with a job that paid about 90k. For all those years, he gets a 80%-90% pension. But his last year he cashed in 100s of thousands of $$ of "unused leave", making THAT his salary to base the pension on
I am telling you right now, any college students who are listening— if you become a doctor or nurse, no one you interview with will ask you if you have any surgical or anaesthesiological passion projects you’re doing at home to prove if you really want the job.
met a young guy who just graduated with a cs degree & can't find a job at all & I asked if he did any side passion projects or leetcode or had a strong opinion on rust or python or javascript & it was a no to all & dude if you can't even fool me, maybe it's not this job market
I read about how Dalmatians have a genetic defect of high uric acid which causes blockages. 50 years ago, a guy crossed a pointer with a Dalmatian to eliminate that defect and bred Dalmatians to carry this gene. The breeders went BANANAS about how this was illegitimate
The goal of Taylorism and Scientific management is to use as little labor as possible. The goal of a union is to advocate for the amount of labor they believe they need
Why we assume the management side has the right number is beyond me
A leftist posted an astute tweet that being a revolutionary means you need to cultivate athleticism to be prepared for community aid and defense. Half leftist twitter is decrying this as ableism and the other is arguing that discipline and mastery over your body is fascism
It's really weird how pedigree dog breeders are essentially superstitious. So it becomes impossible to fix genetic problems in a breed because they don't really believe in genetics.
Casablanca is like this. You’re sitting there watching a bunch of cliches you’ve heard 1000 times before being exchanged between characters, and then at the end you realize you’ve just watched the best movie ever made.
The best thing the U.S. does, which specifically benefits you and the rest of the world on a daily basis, is have a huge navy that protects shipping lanes so that cargo can travel safely
Airbus is staffed by Europeans for whom being an engineer at airbus is one of the best jobs you can get. Boeing is staffed by Americans for whom working at Boeing is something you do because you can’t get a better paying job with a tech company.
Absolutely brutal Boeing story
@nytimes
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"What used to be a duopoly has become two-thirds Airbus, one-third Boeing. A lot of people are looking at Airbus and seeing a company run by competent people. The contrast with Boeing is fairly profound.”
@The_Bird_Lawyer
I get why they exist— you want consistent attributes for a dog to serve specific purposes. But they believe more in “purity” than genetics. the power is in the hands of people who believe in phrenology. You’d never see this attitude in agriculture.
I don’t like the idea that if you win the lottery 30 years ago you are bound to a place for life and unable to move, get married, switch jobs, or have children.
I know that's right!
If I snagged a rent-stabilized apt 30 yrs ago for $250 and was then able to live my dream as a writer and photographer because I'm paying affordable rent, I'd be standing tall in front page news too.
I don't know her but I'm cheering her on.
This is a thread about how Rhodesian settlers, who were mostly farmers and middle class merchants, tried to LARP as idle refined aristocrats and that if they maintained their white supremacist state they supposedly would’ve gone on to do great things. Instead they had to get jobs
Rhodesia was the last attempt at a rebirth of philosophy. An aristocratic, militaristic, pastoral peoples installed themselves on the local farming population outside the confines of the industrial global NWO. Intelligent, cruel, astute, born to command, refined, courageous.
We are supposed to be mad at this guy, but he’s just an ambitious but not especially bright guy with a dream who wants to work and make money who paid $7000 to sneak in here. I like him
We could’ve simply charged him $7000 for a work visa and kept the money for ourselves
For me that meant joining my mom’s farm full time in order to build it up into a business that could sustain both of us while things were still relatively stable, and that could obviously provide a lot of utility when shit hits the fan.
The Princess Bride is the perfect Christian movie: no nudity, no graphic violence, no cursing. Heck, only one person dies. You evangelicals should ASPIRE to be men whose favorite movie is The Princess Bride.
I saw here on X a Christian guy posted what his favorite movie was.
Are you ready?
“The Princess Bride.” Say what? Seriously? A bit limp wristed don't you think? I mean, this is a guy we're talking about…
Recover your manhood and watch some movies for men to day:…
According to Ranker, Joffrey Baratheon is the most hated TV character of all time with 178 thousand votes.
#GameofThrones
2nd: Ramsay Bolton
7th: Cersei Lannister
I don’t know what kind of middle class people you grew up talking to but the salt of the earth middle class types are always talking about being as practical as possible. Or they were at the very least talking about getting as low a payment and interest rate as possible
If you grow up normal and middle class there’s nobody in your life who will tell you to buy a cheap car you can afford in cash. Literally not one person.
The French Brain cannot understand the idea of a quality R1 university located outside the most populous city with professors who actually work for a living.
@MattZeitlin
Delloite isn’t paying employees for these perks. YOUR company is paying Delloite for these perks.
I visited the consulting company my employer is working with, and all I could think is how we paid for all their stuff
I have never, ever joined the “complain about tipping” discourse, but the credit card reader at this restaurant just gave me tipping options that were 20%, 22.5%, and 25%
We had basically 100 years of proudly talking about where our ancestors were from the moment anyone asked. It was only the last generation of American born children of immigrants who grew up in the hinterlands who suddenly decided it was offensive to talk or ask about heritage
@ArielDumas
Look, maybe he had good reason to shit in the soft serve machine. You weren’t there and don’t know what kind of split second decisions he had to make
@GobyBala
Please grow up. Here in NYC, the greatest city in the world, people make a good life for themselves working for the state or the city and raising a family and retiring decently. Not everything is about “hustle grindset entrepreneur” stuff you see on social media.
This was actually part of the premise of the movie “22 Jump Street” where and Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum try to act like 90s high school bullies and realize that shtick makes them unpopular and despised
@BodyFarmtoTable
If you support shoplifting then why complain about locks on doors? No one is calling the police. Everyone is just minding their own businesses, locking up things.
She tipped off Hamas about a joint Palestinian and Israeli zoom call that got members arrested by Hamas and then said she supported their arrest and tagged them in a Facebook post to oppose their “normalization activities”
We have no homes.
We lost our memories and precious places we used to love.
We do not have clothes, nothing.
I wish can find anything under the rubble of my house.
It amazes me how in these jobs, the stakes are so low.
Do you ever hear of a surgeon leaving on a private plane from his (or her) vacation because he needs to save someone’s life? No. There’s someone covering for him.
Yet they do this for corporate lawyers over a LBO contract
People see lawyer salaries and get jealous but IMHO that’s the wrong reaction
Almost everyone I know who pursued BigLaw is miserable. Several are divorced
One’s firm landed a private plane on a small lake to bring her back to the office early from her sister’s wedding
- we inherited an educational system from England where science & engineering were considered secondary fields of study
- we have a reverence for law as a field that entitles you to social and political leadership
- our other path to “leadership” is via small/retail business
@CallaWalsh
They're not expensive. People just want to steal because for a person who thinks stealing is fine, if they know that there will be no consequences to stealing, it doesn't seem like a big deal to steal. This just makes it harder for them.
Answer: both sides are lying
Plumbers are not making $150,000/yr
Attending physicians, which some specific exceptions, are making more than double that
Told someone that many plumbers bring in $150,000/year
Their response: "so then why do people slave away in medical school to earn the same"
It's a good question
@Volincelibate
My parents had me because they had a relationship and got married, and I know I was born for that reason not because of some fantasy ideology that they were serving
@KristySwansonXO
I’ve seen Ferris Buehler’s Day Off multiple times, and I cannot for the life of me remember who you played. There was Ferris, Cameron, Sloane, Ferris’s sister, played by Jennifer Grey, and the vice principal. I can’t even remember any minor characters you might have been
It’s an ongoing joke how every city has an “arts district” & farmer’s market & live music scene & a pedestrianized area, and a new light rail line that people talk about as if it’s the most amazing thing in the world…
But they’re good & 20 years ago those things were uncommon.
@Larissa_K_Kelly
Yes, this was an excellent example that starts out thinking the poster is completely unreasonable but you read it and you’re like “he wasn’t doing anything wrong, really”
I love threads like this because it imagines a mythical time when there were “third spaces” where “the community” would gather outside of work and home. And then imagines that this existed just 5-10 years ago and is now fading away. And people have been saying this for 30 years.
The "Third Place" is dying. You know, the place besides your home and work where you can hang out with your friends and family. This is a Starbucks near me that just renovated recently. The big change: No more seats! Take your coffee and get out.
If you have enough money to live in an upscale McMansion housing development, I would not understand the appeal of these kinds of “open fields of homes.” I would want to be surrounded by trees to feel as though I had privacy and as though I had lots of land.
@1_hostile_texan
@Kicksbuttson
If we didn’t live in the city we’d be tearing down forests to turn your town into a housing development covered in single family homes.
The reason for this is that life isn’t really that interesting. The problems you get paid to solve at work are boring. The decisions you need to make aren’t dangerous or exciting.
Get hobbies, exercise a lot, and go traveling.
Young men are being destroyed. A huge number of guys I talk to between the ages of 20 and 40 have either become soulless drones—resigned to life in a dead-end job, learning nothing, few meaningful relationships, nothing big or daring or beautiful in their life—or punch-a-wall…
The guys who claim to want to “run govt like a business” always seem to want to cut the budget for the revenue centers and spend money on cost centers
In a business, the the IRS would be the top talent with the best bonuses & be known as the dept you join to get quick promotions
The GOP in the past few decades has been obsessed with the idea of defunding our public services, especially the IRS, without any regard of whether it translates to ineffectual services or not
They really going too damn far with the limited government BS
I would have to make about $1 million/yr before I would even consider spending $80,000 on a car.
Do people not need to save for retirement? Who are these people who have this kind of expense to spare?
Toyota Sequoia prices have gone parabolic 📈
Up by *20%* to $80,128 from $66,894 in 2022.
Here's the craziest part: Consumers DGAF.
The Sequoia saw more sales growth in Q2 than *any other* Toyota out there.
We deserve an asteroid.
(Data via Cox Auto)
@jenniferdoleac
I mean, when I was an undergrad in the 90s, campus minimum wage was $6.90/hr, and I could find profs who would pay me $10-$12, so... 25 years later I hope people are doing better than that
I simply don’t understand SF. It’s a small EXTREMELY wealthy city. They could create top tier STEM academies throughout the city while replicating Jaime Escalante’s intensive high school math pipeline for those who need to catch up
Instead they decided to universalize slow math
I love all the replies that are like “who gave the US the right to prevent piracy and extortion in international waterways at the point of a gun ???” Yes, I’m sorry your argument is “the marginalized are being deprived of their right to steal and kill on the high seas.” Boo, hoo
@USAfree123
@Kicksbuttson
Your generation literally created some of the worst smog in history and flooded society with leaded gasoline and had sewage systems that dumped straight into the rivers
@CitizenFreePres
Why are you against independent entrepreneurs buying and selling on the open market?
Incidentally, this is my jogging route. I wouldn’t run by this way if it were unsafe.
“You f**king Jew, f**k you.”
Watch as two Jewish women are harassed and verbally abused in Vancouver, Canada.
Antisemitic incidents are up 350% in Vancouver compared to this time last year.
Enough is enough.
Please share and help us identify the anti-Semite responsible.
The era of dueling was more violent. Napoleon banned it because it was killing too many of his officers, and, finally, dueling does not result in a more polite culture— it results in people becoming more and more sensitive to slights and perceived disrespect they must challenge
The downfall of dueling, though very reasonable at the time, paved the way for many of our issues today
We must allow mutual agreement to combat — contrary to popular belief, this is the civilized way to settle conflicts!
Manhattan College, a Catholic liberal arts college in NY, has cut over 25% of its faculty in the past year.
Now it is eliminating several majors and minors, including philosophy and religious studies:
Why is it illegal? Currently District 3 does not allow for "Flexible Retail," which is the combination of 2 uses. In this case, a general retail (bookstore) and limited restaurant (coffeeshop).
District 3 was intentionally carved out of a new Flexible Retail law passed in 2018.
@MargBarAmerica
If I were a retailer, I would want to maximize sales by making it as easy as possible to buy goods, rather than locking them in a cabinet to make it harder
And I would test whether the locked cabinet solution or open shelf solution makes more money and use the better one
I feel like the left has lost the plot in homelessness. People are *not* supposed to be homeless and living on the streets. If there are homeless, that has to be solved! Why isn’t the left solving it?
SF "moderates" screaming about homeless people sound exactly like rightwing MAGA Republicans screaming about immigrants. It's really the same language, the same false scapegoating, the same us vs. them. Exactly the same.
#SanFrancisco
@ghostring5
@Kicksbuttson
And then you moved somewhere where they had to bulldoze a bunch of trees to build a housing development and named the streets after the trees they destroyed
The thing about civil disobedience is that you subject yourself to the consequences of the law for being disobedient. The proper response to 20 people being arrested is to find 20 more people to reoccupy the office, and so on until the university and public can’t do it anymore
To terminate the protest, Vanderbilt arrested 4 students, including me, and forcibly removed 20+ others with police intervention.
We were evicted from campus until Vanderbilt had decided our fate for the ultimate crime of caring as 33,000 people have been murdered.
Is there a reason that people don’t understand you have to pay the entirety of the interest every month plus some of the principal of the loan so that the balance goes down?
I can’t get over how the country that invented the industrial revolution and broke humanity out of a Malthusian trap is doing everything it can to get itself back to being a modest country of gardeners.
By all accounts Hamas pulled off a stunning tactical operation and defeated multiple IDF companies and just… stopped all that to kill, rape, and kidnap a bunch of musical festival goers and then go door to door attacked civilians in their homes.
Hamas basically blew a unique operational advantage to hunt hoes in the desert, and this was done by the elite units! It's impossible to support a cause whose beneficiaries are that maliciously stupid.
@BigSnugALot
Your revolution isn’t going anywhere if you can’t do the very basics of protecting your neighbors and hauling large crates of food and supplies
I don’t think she should be imprisoned for decades on 8 felonies. But we have laws against making public threats bc those guardrails are important and without them people will feel free to escalate their threats until someone follows through. All threats should be tested as real
"We'll see you at your house. We'll m*rder you." Words said by pro-Palestinian activist Riddhi Patel to the mayor of Bakersfield, California, during a city council meeting on Wednesday. She was arrested on 8 felony counts. Bail set at $1 million
Women having fun seems to get people angry. The idea is that they should be married with kids. But earlier on Twitter there was a “trad woman” complaining about mothers going to cafes and meeting friends with their kids
People just don’t like seeing women outside and happy