You have to pay for health insurance? When I heard US residents had to get insurance through their work I assumed employers would actually provide the insurance, not just give you the chance to pay for it yourself… We have free healthcare here and my employer still for some reason provides us with free health and dental insurance.

You guys need a revolution. You’re getting charged more because that’s what you as a country allow them to do.

“Jaywalking” is mostly a US thing made up by car companies to victim-blame pedestrians when they were killed by cars so they could avoid regulation themselves. Where I am we were taught very early in school how to safely cross a road safely, and pedestrians waiting to cross or already crossing a road generally have right of way even when no signals exist. It’s only an issue in backwards countries where cars have more rights than people and cities are designed for them instead.

I cross without a signal daily because otherwise I’d have to walk all the way around the block to get to a crossing going the opposite direction from where I’d want to go then find a way to circle all the way back at other crossings. That would make leaving the house more than a little inconvenient, especially since everything I’d need is in walking distance so I rarely drive. To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.

Edit: Thanks for the downvote, doesn’t change the facts.

The very word jaywalk is an interesting—and not historically neutral—one. Originally an insult against bumptious “jays” from the country who ineptly gamboled on city sidewalks, it was taken up by a coalition of pro-automobile interests in the 1920s, notes historian Peter D. Norton in his book Fighting Traffic. “Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong,” he writes. “Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists’ claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership.” And so, where newspapers like the New York Times once condemned the “slaughter of pedestrians” by cars and defended the right to midblock crossings—and where cities like Cincinnati weighed imposing speed “governors” for cars—after a few decades, the focus of attention had shifted from marauding motorists onto the reckless “jaywalker.”

Tom Vanderbilt, Slate.com

Brine pools, it’s much saltier water which doesn’t mix with the water around it.

BBC’s idea of non-biased reporting is if they get complaints from both sides it must be fine. On one side you get people complaining that BBC literally platforms hateful terfs who call for lynching trans people and on the other you get claims that “the BBC [failed] to cover the Darlington nurses” even though the article literally exists and tries incredibly hard to paint the nurses in a good light and doesn’t include a single quote from the person they’re harassing. That’s a complaint from both sides so BBC is unbiased.

The employer must offer a minimum of 28 days for full time workers but bank holidays and other company shutdowns can count towards that. It’s a bit more flexible that way, it means it doesn’t matter which public holidays (if any) your company observes everyone gets the same minimum time off. It also allows situations like my company where our only UK office is in Scotland but UK employees still follow English holidays instead.

It’s just adnauseum.

That never made any sense to me. Sure, if you convert a significant amount of people to spamming ad clicks you reduce the value of each click but that just means advertisers will pay less per click. It also has zero effect if they use other metrics, if you pay on conversion rate (number of signups/paying customers) click spam doesn’t matter.

There is some value in messing with data by clicking everything but if you never see ads anyway that data isn’t worth a whole lot.

Queer is a reclaimed umbrella term for any non-cis or non-hetero relationship. If two men were in a relationship they might consider themselves queer. It’s not really a word you’d ascribe to other people, it’s self-descriptive.

A man and woman in a relationship is a hetero relationship, if one or both are trans or gender non-confirming they may consider themselves queer. It’s with noting that a hetero relationship does not necessarily mean they’re straight either, bi or pan people often date the opposite gender.

I wouldn’t normally consider a non-monogamous relationship queer by default, otherwise anyone who cheats would be queer.

Since it’s a reclaimed slur the best move is to not use it at all unless the person you’re talking about has made it clear they’re comfortable being described that way by you.

No you didn’t. You only said that a company that can’t afford “25/hr” would be unable to hire people at that rate. Plus an offhand comment about how some people working full time “cannot be justified” earning a living wage, that’s the point you seemingly want to make but just stating something isn’t an explanation.

You have to account for these cases in your rules.

Why? They can’t afford an employee. They shouldn’t hire one.

Does that distinction even matter? The bullshit generator confidently generates bullshit, it doesn’t matter whether it’s making that up itself, sourcing from some dis/misinformation campaign, or just some guy behind the scenes lying to you, the end result is the same.

You can also open a suitcase by taking a knife and cutting into it. Or bursting the zip open with a pen. The lock is to deter opportunists, not determined thieves. You could travel with your luggage in a safe if you really wanted to but most people don’t think that’s with the inconvenience. Many suitcases have side pouches which people don’t bother locking at all.

The nurses have filed claims on the grounds of sexual harassment, discrimination, victimisation and breaches of the right to a private life, under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

So they must be filling the claim against themselves, right? Because that’s literally describing their own behaviour? They even explained in detail how they’re harassing someone who they admit hasn’t actually done anything?

Swap the word trans for any other vulnerable group and it’s obvious this is just straight bigotry. Imagine reading this headline about someone who was gay or someone who was black.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant? If the default folder was “Camera” or “Pictures” or whatever else your malware would just scan those directories and any real attack likely already does. You’ve only described how having malware on your machine compromises your machine, not exactly a groundbreaking revelation.

Windows hasn’t been my main os for a while but I’m fairly certain you can mount/unmount drives without rebooting. That’s certainly the case on Linux, and my distro definitely tells me what processes are locking drives when applicable.

I suppose you shouldn’t expect much from a right-wing misinformation rag like this but anyone with half a brain can tell that their conclusion doesn’t follow from their very questionable Center for Christian Value “study” led by Brad Wilcox, “a professor of ancient scripture”. They see the correlation between poverty and not getting married and conclude that not getting married is the cause of poverty. As we all know throwing a wedding is a great way to earn money. That’s it. That’s the whole study. There’s 60 pages of “look at this chart!” and a chapter dedicated to how churches should encourage marriage, but all they say is that poor people don’t get married.

They also for some reason assume every single-parent family is a single-parent family because the parents got divorced and any children live with their mother. Single father are mentioned twice in the entire study as an afterthought and don’t seem to be included in the data they use.

My favourite part was their claim that children living with married parents were 10 times less likely to have witnessed domestic violence than children whose parents had at some point split up. Clearly domestic violence was because they broke up! It’s not like people break up because of domestic violence, that’s just silly. I’m not even exaggerating there, they do admit that domestic violence can lead to breakups but conclude that breaking up is actually the cause of most domestic violence.

Why are children in disrupted families more likely to experience domestic violence? Physically aggressive behavior on the part of one partner sometimes leads to the couple divorcing or not getting married in the first place. But the dynamics of the divorce process can also increase the probability of one or both partners becoming frustrated and angry. The legal system can encourage combat rather than cooperation between litigants, for instance. Sexual jealousy may play a role as well, as one or both parents develop new intimate relationships. And in the case of parents who never marry, a new boyfriend or girlfriend frequently assumes a step-parental role, whether formally or informally. This can lead to conflict over the legitimacy of the substitute parent’s authority over the children, differences in parenting styles or willingness to tolerate disobedient behavior by the children, or the non-resident biological parent feeling that he or she is being displaced. Cases of child neglect and abuse often involve a boyfriend or girlfriend caregiver who does not have biological ties to the child victim.29

That citation on the end is them citing themselves. Most of their citations are. In fact, over 10% of citations are just Wilcox specifically citing his own book. It’s the academic equivalent of saying “it’s true because I said it yesterday too”.

Regurgitating unverified AI output is not useful. I asked chatgpt, it’s from Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Oh, it doesn’t appear in that show? Sorry, it’s actually Amazing World Of Gumball. Not there either? Sorry, it’s actually a werewolf from an obscure animation Scary Larry. Not even remotely the same at style? That’s because it’s actually from this 3d animation. Obviously 2d? Sorry, it’s actually Midnight Mass. Then it got stuck in a loop.

I’ve never thought of it that way but you’re absolutely right, getting kicked out of one niche internet community is literally the same thing as genocide! Nobody has ever had it worse than this guy.

On your end there’s not much to consider here. You can let them know they refunded the entire order, chances are they’ll just write it off. If they ask you to send it back it should be entirely at their expense, do not pay to send it back.

On their end there’s more going on. It sounds like they charged you for an item they knowingly did not ship then claimed the refund was already in progress when you complained. They also gave you a damaged item and claimed to be unable to refund that, which in most developed countries would be a breach of consumer regulations. This sounds an awful lot like that company is attempting to scam people.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 says dead is dead, directly contradicting everything about any afterlives or heaven. Christians pick and choose which parts to follow because they have to, it’s literally impossible to follow the entire thing.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

It also goes on to say go have fun and live your life. That does not some compatible with the strict puritan Christianity most seem to follow.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

I’m not convinced you understand what transitioning means. You can start transitioning without any medical intervention, and pretty much every trans person does socially transition before medical treatment because there’s really no alternative. When a younger person starts medical treatment, it will consist of puberty blockers. That’s it. Fully reversible, no known long-term side-effects, been used for 50 years for cis kids with precocious puberty. Suggesting that’s in any way equivalent to someone permanently deafening themselves is pretty disgusting, it’s typical terf bullshit and you should really think twice about whatever led you to that opinion.

The problem you’re running into there is you’re treating public transport as a capitalistic for-profit business incentivised by making money rather than a public service incentivised by serving the public. When public transport is run purely for profit the goal is to find the maximum people will pay for the minimum level of service.

Regardless, free public transport with privately owned public transport can still work. Where I am there’s free public transport by bus for anyone under 22, over 60, or with a disability, funded by the government despite the fact public transport is privately owned. The only complaint I have is that I don’t fall into any of those categories. The busses are usually clean enough, regular-ish (usually one every 15 minutes for popular routes at peak times), and you’ll usually get wifi and maybe a usb charging port. Modern busses are electric too which makes use of our mostly renewable energy generation. It’s like a train that can get stuck in traffic.

It might be a lot to ask in some places but really all you need is a functioning government who work for the people rather than themselves. Enough people use public transport that it puts pressure on politicians to keep services running well otherwise they get voted out.