Wolf314159

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So you're good with skipping a great show because some incels got their panties in a twist over a woman attempting comedy while having the nerve to be attractive? No, you're right. You wouldn't like it. It wasn't written for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah that was my first thought after getting over the weirdness of it, "How manageable is this hair going to be after getting home and later as it grows out?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

Just a reminder that everyone is a criminal, but only the out group get the punishments. It's practically impossible these days to do anything without running afoul of some law somewhere, especially when the new fascist regime is turning your old civil rights into new felonies every day. Fed the homeless? Criminal. Shelter an abused person? Trafficking. Give water to a protestor? To an immigrant? Aiding terrorists. Exercising your right to protest? Actual terrorist. Be a librarian? Obscenity. Report facts and statistics? Treason. Give medical care to the wrong person? Felony. Fail to pay debt? (often debt you had no choice about taking on, like debts to courts, medical, and school debts) Criminal. Insist on a separation between church and state? Hate speech. Resist a kidnapping by anonymous men in an anonymous van? Resisting arrest and deported, yes even the legal citizens. These are just the spicy examples. There are plenty of other more mundane crimes that everyone commits every day. The system is too corrupt and complicated to completely avoid breaking the law.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

"pretty easy" is a bit of a stretch

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'd say they should only have shared it with the news if the news also named and identified them clearly every time the photos are shared. Corruption dies in sunlight. The dangerous ones already know, might as well hang a lantern on any attempts at retaliation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not keep it simpler with one commandment:

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He can absolutely see through those cards. We trust that he's not cheating the same way we trust anyone isn't cheating any other time. She probably wouldn't actually be that into him (and they would have never been an item) if he wasn't already better than most men at handling and controlling his emotions. (I think Worf was her "Bad Boy" phase because he is so awful at controlling his and just funnels everything into angry sex.) Point being, if anyone can bluff her, it's him. Probabilities are useful, but counting cards in most poker variants isn't that much of an advantage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I was just venting. Every place has their quirks. I wish I had your lowkey Fridays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

LOL, not everywhere is like this. Fridays are always the day an emergency project gets dropped in my lap that absolutely must be done before the next Monday because somebody else has a deadline they need to meet (that they've known about for months) and they need our work for a critical part of it, but they never seem to remember until Thursday night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I've also worked at places where the boss demanded a doctor's note to return to work. I just said "No, I'm not doing that." That's always been the end of it. I returned to work once I was well and continued we all continued on as if it never really was about health and safety in the first place. Lots of places have policies on the books that are either outright illegal or unenforceable, but they get people to tow the line out of fear. If a few of us call their bluff, it's better for them to quietly move on so that we don't escalate the situation and shine a light on that policy. If word got around that the policy was unenforceable, they wouldn't be able to bully the rest into compliance.

Moreover, not every "sick leave" is something that is contagious, migraines for example. I've even taken a sick day preemptively because I got to work and discovered that I'd have to work in close proximity to someone that was actually sick and contagious, but refused to stay home.

Also, if the company is requiring a professional evaluation in order to work, surely that is something that will be fully expensed to the company. I suppose that dynamic would be different under universal healthcare. But sending people that are recovering from a contagious disease that will resolve itself on its own would still be an incredible strain (and an unnecessary one) on the entire system.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don't actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren't your parents or your teachers?

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