$99 a night for company rooms? Around here we can get a shitty room, AND a hooker for that price. Not to mention drugs being readily available in the parking lot.
As one in the industry, it’s incredibly frustrating. Colleagues have been saying “oh, we get all of these perks and get nice salaries, we don’t need a union” while others are bucket-crabbing with “you make big money, why do you need a union?”, both overlooking the immense amounts of unpaid overtime that are endemic. Then, there’s the push for RTO, which does nothing to benefit employees and would be readily prevented by strong unions.
A lot of companies used to run company towns. Toyota still does, as far as I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a return of that sort of thing with real estate prices getting absurd and companies wanting to drive people back into the office.
Hah, I actually did that when I first started working for a small company.
The co-founder also rented out a house he owned as a duplex.
Actually wasn’t that bad, he charged slightly below market rate, and was pretty attentive. But definitely felt weird and I was happy to move out after a few years. It’s just an unnecessary source of potential drama.
Now my manager lives there, and has for five years.
Some people say a man is made outta blood. A code monkey’s made out of Fritos and crud. Fritos and crud and skin and bone. A back that’s weak and a mind that’s strong…
The good that comes from that, from the perspective of the boss-landlord is that if your employee-tenants start getting the idea to strike, you control both their income and their shelter, so they reconsider.
The jokes they’re referring to are very much a boomer thing as well. The ol’ ball and chain, that sort of stuff is prevalent. Just take a look at any of the “boomer humour” communities and you’ll see what I mean.
Not many of the silent generation posting shit memes to Facebook.
There’s a reason so much media about the 60’s/70’s portrays hippies and that era of counterculture in general as lazy bums getting high instead of people tired of bullshit. It’s because it was fucking working, and the powers that be didn’t like that one bit and so put the full force of the propaganda machine behind making it into a mockery.
put the full force of the propaganda machine behind making it into a mockery.
Agreed, and Nixon making cannabis illegal was part of that, and probably a pretty crucial move, that gave the police enormous power to disrupt everything the “hippies” or protestors stood for.
Unfortunately I think it’s still working, the search for a more humane society based on humane values kind of ended with the 70’s.
We didn’t fight and win. It was an awkward ruling to begin with otherwise it would have covered drugs and a whole lot of other health related issues. We counted a questionable ruling as a win, high fived and did nothing for 50 fucking years.
Roe vs wade was a bad court decision looking to be overturned. I wish congress has done something knowing it was bad. Countless scotus judges have said it was a bad decision. Even rgb said it was flawed
I’m a republican but I am pro-choice. Yet the party is pushing abortion bans without compromise.
I won’t vote democrat which means most likely I won’t vote. Until the republicans want to negotiate on abortion. They won’t get my vote.
I fully support the right to an abortion for any reason up until a reasonable time frame. I don’t know a single person who supports these crazy bans. I know they’re out there but they’re not in the circles I keep.
I agree with you on timeframe, but we don’t really have data that shows a need to limit abortion really so it seems kind of moot. As it turns out, carrying a fetus for 9 months and then merking it at the last minute isn’t a thing women do, and certainly not intentionally.
In Denmark we had a huge debate and lying campaigns by Christians against abortion, similar to what you have had in USA for 50 years now.
After a long struggle by women interest groups, and despite the misinformation by Christians, the Danish parliament finally decided to grant free abortion within 12 weeks of pregnancy in May 1973. So we have 50 year anniversary on the law this year.
In Denmark women won the fight against the extremely religious. But not just the victory of getting it legalized, the support in the population increased tremendously, and it was a huge prestigious loss for Christianity and their right to dictate morality based on religious views instead of reason based on current knowledge.
A poll in 2003 found that a whopping 93% of the population support it. Any talk by extreme Christians to remove it, has all but vanished. They know it’s a lost case for them. Now there is talk of relaxing the law, because in some cases it’s considered too strict.
As I said, they try to define it that way but for it’s tied to religion for most people.
I’m an atheist. I do attend mass but like Dawkins I just like the tradition and ceremony. I fully support abortion and even if I believed in God I’d support abortion.
I believe in the concept of a “soul”. Not in a paranormal way but there is more to us than just a chemical interaction but it goes away when we die. I do not think it’s formed until much later in life. As such, when we are in the womb, we are the potential for more but we are nothing special.
Now I don’t mind some crossover between religion and government. I like having Christmas off. I don’t really celebrate it but it’s a nice holiday.
What I don’t like is when we take purely religious concepts and try to ban others behavior because of your sky god. Abortion is an example since some religions allow it and some deny it.
I wouldn’t mind going back to school, but I’m only in my 40s. Think I could pull off a Maeby Funke and put on a grey wig and glasses before going to the admissions office?
That’s only for auditing classes. Retirees tend to only take classes for the love of learning. They are good to have in classrooms and don’t whine and complain to professors during office hours.
Right, but the fanaticism is about making women suffer. Punishing them for the sin of having sex. And, of course, it’s definitely God’s punishment if there’s something wrong with the pregnancy and you die. You must have deserved it, you wicked sinner.
Saying the suffering is the point gives them far too much credit I think. They lack the fundamental capability to understand the impacts of their decisions and position. They can’t go past the basic and horrifically oversimplified “murder is wrong”. They won’t entertain situations in which the life of the woman could come into play. They can’t fathom why anyone might not consider a fetus a person. They legitimately don’t understand that they could be wrong. So how on earth could they be wrong?
They cannot process the full depth of the situation. So they revert to the simplest interpretation they can manage.
The suffering is the means, the end is to cause fewer liberal voters than conservative to move in and cause some of the liberal voters there to move out.
This came from crew on the apprentice, plenty of stories from different people, but sure maybe that was an old phase in his life, or they were lying… But I have to say that the bad debates with him really struck me as that guy is on drugs, and that was before I heard about his Sudafed abuse
I really wish we’d stop using “Artificial Intelligence” to describe these things.
They’re just recognizing patterns and regurgitating them. There’s no cognitive function going on, no critical thinking, no analysis. It doesn’t even know the difference between true or false.
It’s closer to AI than we’ve ever had, but it’s still not close to intelligence.
Yeah, a crowd of fucking kids got larger than anticipated and of course got rowdy with no security set up. They should go to prison? For being kids? We should ruin their entire lives and give them a record? For dancing and throwing water bottles?
Or are you mad that black kids fought back against overly aggressive cops?
Jesus Christ, how evil can they get? Filing an appeal targetted specifically at medically necessary abortions is low even by Texas Republican standards.
So, the reason the judge made an exemption is because doctors were basically saying, “We have no idea how to provide care in these situations and not break the law”.
The Republicans response is, again basically, “The doctors have no reason to be worried about being prosecuted so the exemption isn’t needed in the first place.”
They could fix it in 5 minutes by passing a law specifically providing protections but they won’t because any reasonable law would allow at-will abortions too because, say it with me, ABORTIONS ARE MEDICAL CARE.
I've seen it referred to as "The Shirley Exception"
"We don't need to do anything specific about this legally because SURELY they'll make an exception to this law in cases I agree with." And then when someone (obviously) does prosecute a case like this, it's all shocked pikachu faces.
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