Surely we can find a sensible middle ground between allowing senile elderly folks to hold positions of power and kicking every 65 year old out of every job lmao.
In my very backwards and barbaric country every person, regardless of their profession, receives a state paid pension and we have a notion of social safety net. There are homeless here, like everywhere else in the world, but elderly citizens can retire knowing they will be taken care of.
On the particular case of judges, and on this I have the luck to have been explained how things work, upon reaching 65, a judge is retired and recognized by their service, with a very generous pension, as the career is considered as being of high strain.
No one should be forced nor allowed to work until their dying breath and this is a prime example for it.
The US are a shithole that stays afloat because the population is kept tame via populist discourse and seeded in-fighting.
And after reading your comment, I find myself wondering how so many people, from my country included, go to the UK to work. Sounds a bit like US but a notch down.
We all make our choices but you could have chosen other countries, with better social networks.
I have been making contributions towards my national pension fund since I started working and enjoy a free access NHS. When I eventually reach the age of retirement, which now is around 67 years of age, I’ll be granted a pension based on my contributive career.
I’ll still be able to keep working if I choose to but most people don’t and others are barred from it, like judges, surgeons, police officers and even politians, as they are seen unfit to hold crucial positions.
And this applies to all emigrants that move here, with some added conditions, obviously, but still are eligible for these social benefits.
And regardless all of this, you can and should save (products with special tax exemptions exist for that exact purpose) if you expect to maintain a specific standard of living.
I would suggest that, instead, after a certain age or catastrophic loss (such as that of a lifetime partner) we should all be receiving regular competency / cognizants evaluations. I think that compulsive retirement would be dehumanizing, a potential trigger for senility, dementia, or suicide, and a negligent misappropriation of the experience and institutional knowledge, that many of our seniors hold.
Most modern countries contemplate the notion that at some point in your life you are deemed unfit of occupying an active position, regardless whatever experience an individual may have in whatever field.
What that does not imply is the individual being rendered useless. Highly experienced individuals can act as teachers, mentors and advisers, sharing experience but with no weight for actual decision making or action taking.
I myself don’t intend to reach retirement age and turn off all switches and just stay home and vegetate; I think I can make myself useful up until my body becomes too frail and my mind breaks. But there is a point where I don’t want to have any responsabilities towards an institution.
Homeopathy is where you dilute something so many times that there are statistically zero molecules of it left in the substance you're diluting it in, and that somehow makes it more potent. (Narrator: It doesn't.)
Melatonin is an actual substance that tells your brain, "Hey, you're pretty tired, you should be sleeping right now," and it's hella effective and extremely safe.
Nah they have melatonin gummies and pills for a sleep aid and regular doctors will recommend them I take em a lot to help sleeping during the day I've been on night shift for 5 years or so and these help out here n there.
IANL but I bet the gummies added substantially to the sentence as it showed premeditated intent. Feeding someone something and waiting vs snapping in the moment and killing.
You're on the right track, but in the article they say the crime was determined to be premeditated because she bought the gun just a week prior to the murders.
What if I just go buy a gun, and while holding it have an existential crisis and shoot myself or family?
I’m sure it happens. Ever stand at the edge of a cliff and wonder about how easy it’d be to just take a step over? That kinda thing.
Gummies would convince me better beyond a reasonable doubt vs they just happened to buy it recently. (Edit unless it was bedtime and it was a normal thing)
But that’s just me. Also BOTH is even more proof than just one or the other.
I'm not arguing with you and I don't know why you're responding to my post like we're having a debate. I do not care either way. I was pointing out that the thing you were guessing about was written concretely in the article.
It’s always stupid when these kids have to deal with this, but it’s especially stupid with this student because his hair looked awesome (if the photos we see are what they are upset about).
I think it looks stupid as hell, but I don’t care ( but who cares what this old, obese, white dude thinks about some kids’ haircut). Further, that’s no reason to get suspended. Hell, I would have been suspended a whole bunch of times if my HS had a rule against stupid haircuts. I’d argue that HS is the time to be stupid about this shit.
So, you’re telling me there’s a place where lots of conservative terrorist wannabe’s gather in close proximity to one another to act like tough-guy pieces of shit and fantasize about slaughtering the normal people?
I think I saw a scene like this in the woods in Red Dead Redemption.
Besides, even if it violates the dress code they have, this shouldn’t be a part of the dress code to begin with. Who cares if somebody has some freaking dreads like get over it. Smh
I am baffled that the anglosphere has a dress code for schools in the first place. I don't think I've ever heard of anybody getting even talked to for what they wear in a public school here, and I've had teachers in the family for four decades.
Private schools sure, but those are for nepo babies and idiots.
Even private schools where I’m from are unlikely to have that kind of thing. They might have a uniform, but I’m not sure if dress codes are even allowed.
I suppose the exception would be if someone is wearing something that can be considered offensive. E.g. if they come to school in an SS uniform. That’d definitely cause a commotion. I’ve no idea how a hairstyle could be offensive unless someone shaved/shaped their hair into like a slur or something.
It’s not just the Angloshphere, looking at this page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_uniforms_by_countryPlenty of countries across Africa, Central/South America, the middle east and Asia have uniforms too.
Yeeeah, that's fair, but we're talking about an anglosphere country, we're talking about dress codes rather than uniforms and I really didn't want to stop to dig into the roots and history of school uniforms anyway.
Hair-based dress code rules are always bullshit. I used to go to a school that required boys’ hair to be above the ears, as well. I always thought it was stupid, so did my mom, so she let me grow my hair out and the worst they did was tell me I need to get a haircut.
No, millenials end at around 1994-1996 last I checked. These generations are weird because as an early gen z (1999) I’m closer to the last millenials than to a genz that was born in like 2007.
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