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NathanielThomas , in 'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000

It’s so absurd that some professions are so devalued, at least in certain timelines in history. Scribes are now considered practically worthless, though in ancient times they held high degrees of respect as scholars.

Now it’s middlemen who writers with projects who take the lion’s share of the money, despite accomplishing little else. They have no inherent skills beyond connecting person A with person B.

nonfuinoncuro ,

It’s because that’s what’s rare. Back in the day being literate was extremely rare and most families couldn’t afford to lose the free child farm labor for them to go to school, let alone pay a full time teacher and build a school house with learning materials. Now with free education and tools like computers that make that kind of work and others such as manufacturing with machines and transportation with cars etc. very cheap and plentiful, the hard and rare thing now is to find people who actually like and excel at socializing and connecting businesses and consumers to make deals. AKA middlemen. I don’t like it either but that’s the fact. If it were so easy, everyone would just become the middlemen. Connecting person A with person B is actually a lot harder than it sounds.

Of course, most of us are neuro divergent introverts on the spectrum. Hence why us lowly workers who stay clammed up while working from home or holed up in our cubicles and barely venture outside to hang out in the break room let alone go out for networking events won’t become those middlemen and watch our negotiating power and salaries falter.

NathanielThomas ,

Connecting person A with person B is actually a lot harder than it sounds.

It isn’t, or at least not with practice. I know because it’s my job and I make decent money doing it. Well, more than I did as a writer.

So I connect person A to person B.

CoolSouthpaw , in People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently

Duh. Otherwise, what’s even the point lol.

SquishyPandaDev , in Massachusetts couple denied foster care application over LGBTQ views, complaint says
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Holy shit. The foster system standing up for kids. Now there’s something that sadly doesn’t happen very often. I hope this couple get what they deserve

Prewash_Required ,

In this case that being no foster kids

TheBenCommandments ,
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Which is zero children to indoctrinate by way of fear and hate.

whofearsthenight ,

You know, I didn’t even think of this. I initially just thought “good, they might get a queer kid they’ll abuse/neglect and thus shouldn’t have them” but the whole limiting of the expansion of more shitbirds sure is a nice bonus.

PenguinJuice , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

Keep those undocumented people down there, don't ship em up here!!!

WookieMunster ,

Ignorant mf

teh_bishop ,

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  • baatliwala , in Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

    Do states have “Supreme Courts” in the US? What an odd naming scheme.

    lolcatnip ,

    Yes, all of them do as far as I know.

    delicious_tvarog ,

    The intention is that each state has full self-determination as long as it doesn’t run counter to federal law. Each state has its own legislature, executive, and judiciary.

    Cethin ,

    Yes. Each state has a Supreme Court of the state, and then there the Supreme Court of the United States for matters that regard the federation of the states. If it’s only a state matter, it won’t go to the SCotUS. The SC of the state is the highest court where the state law is applicable.

    Korn ,

    Except for NY

    baatliwala ,

    Ah no my point was just about the name given to it, where I’m from (India) we have a similar system just that the highest state level court is called “High Court” and not State Supreme Court. There’s only one Supreme Court and that does the federal level stuff. Wouldn’t seem very supreme if every state had one did it :P

    sorebuttfromsitting , in People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently

    park behind the bar in a 90s Grand Marquis, recline the front seats (with slow electric motors that kill the battery so you’re stuck there till morning), it was like that car was designed for getting in trouble comfortably on a couch next to a dumpster. bah this newfangled shit.

    OkToBeTakei OP ,

    I got into a lot of trouble in grand marquis in the 90s

    md5crypto , in Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

    I believe in no restrictions. If I want to own a nuclear missile, so be it.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    So you’d be okay if some crazy killed you and everyone around you because they had their own personal nuclear weapon to do it with? Really?

    jcit878 ,

    what you don’t like freedom, commie?

    reverendsteveii ,

    At least I died free

    —an awful lot of 6 year olds

    vlad76 ,
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    And you are the reason these restrictions exist. 2nd Am. is a very important right and the real reason the fight against it is so successful is because of immaturity from the gun rights supporters.

    dude187 ,

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  • JustZ , in Fox’s Chief Legal Officer Will Depart
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    Well I should say so.

    JustZ , in Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk
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    No shit. Everyone was warned. We all knew these fires were going to get more and more frequent.

    Billionaires don’t care. They’re still destroying the planet.

    betterdeadthanreddit , in Southern California Marine charged with sex assault of girl, 14, who was found in barracks

    Hope he likes making big rocks into smaller rocks, explaining the circumstances of his dishonorable discharge and introducing himself to new neighbors.

    flossdaily , in ‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed

    If Republicans had even a single ounce of integrity, they would be demanding he resign.

    But they would rather have an openly corrupt judge that votes their way on every single than to allow Biden to nominate an honest moderate.

    KroninJ ,
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    I’m not sure about the majority but my dad has this mentality that liberals are the corrupt ones and you’re delusional if you think Republicans are corrupt in any way.

    Showing him this new from many different sites only results in “the libs are behind this and just trying to discredit the other side.” (But an article on a conservative site that can’t be found anywhere else is completely legit) There’s no reasoning with that type because reasoning isn’t there anymore.

    flossdaily ,

    I’m sorry that this cult has poisoned your dad.

    My best friend of 20+ years has also had the Trump lobotomy.

    You can reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.

    KroninJ ,
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    On the plus side, I haven’t had a great relationship with him my whole life. I’ve cut him off from my life several times and the only reason I started talking to him again was because he seemed different (from previous issues between us) at his dad’s funeral. He has at least followed my stipulations I set if he wants to continue to talk to me.

    Sorry to hear about your best friend. Hopefully it’s still one of those good relationships ‘as long as politics don’t come up’ kind of thing. But that’s a difficult one nowadays.

    kent_eh ,

    If Republicans had even a single ounce of integrity, they would be demanding he resign.

    If they had integrity, he wouldn’t have been appointed in the first place.

    toastus , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

    Jail.

    JustZ , in Native American Group Threatens National Boycott If Washington Football Team Doesn’t Change Name Back To ‘Redskins’ (The Daily Wire)
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    Asking minorities whether something is racist is really hit or miss. Some of the features of systemic racism are denying things are racist, obscuring racist intentions, and gas lighting minorities.

    betterdeadthanreddit , in Greg Abbott faces more backlash as migrant child dies on bus: "Barbaric"

    Mission accomplished from his voters’ perspective.

    dual_sport_dork , in California judge charged with killing wife had 47 guns, 26,000 rounds of ammunition: Court documents
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    You know, I’ll bet if anyone who wasn’t a federal judge did this they’d be denied bail.

    solrize ,

    He’s a California superior court judge, not a federal judge. Either way, probably not much of a flight risk.

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