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I would prefer not to | 👉4 👉 The Wind is Rising
The Tam Katılım Nisan 2020
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got a new job at the beginning of the year that has taken me above white minimum wage
been working as hard as I can at it as I know the impression I create over the first 3 months will stick with me for the rest of my tenure with the company
then I can take it easy
Bartleby@lindynap
a tip given to me by a successful retired guy: When joining a new company work really hard for the first 2-3 months. this will create a first impression that you're a hard worker. after that you can coast. has worked for me at 3 different companies so far
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@ObtainerOf Credit cards. Credit cards ruined all leisure activities/ travel.
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The concept of the vacation has declined tremendously, Ghibli movies really capture the more Aristocratic ideal of vacation. In the past you would just disappear for the summer to the same boutique resort you went to every year. Good company and drink, real leisure
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No surprise, deep vessels were the default for most of human history. Flat plates are a modern invention.
⊹ ࣪ pam ˖✦@pamvonhadder
girls want plates shaped like bowls
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with this said I will be taking my yearly break from twitter for Lent
Keep going. We are going to win
Bartleby@lindynap
got a new job at the beginning of the year that has taken me above white minimum wage been working as hard as I can at it as I know the impression I create over the first 3 months will stick with me for the rest of my tenure with the company then I can take it easy
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on the flipside, if you know a boomer who is destitute financially its almost inconceivable how big of a fuck up they are and they 100% deserve it
Zarathustra@zarathustra5150
A wildly disproportionate number of Boomers got rich by pure happenstance, then used that blind luck to convince the public they’re some kind of generational wise man. In reality, they were dopey doofuses merely in the right place at the right time, rode a world-historic U.S. economic bubble from 1980 to 2008 where practically every asset class magically appreciated 25% year after year for decades, then caught a second wind of dumb luck over the last decade on the back of historic money printing. Many are, frankly, astonishingly ignorant imbeciles about pretty much everything, and their astonishing ignorance is why we now find our degraded country mired in the smoking wreckage of such unbelievably dire circumstances.
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The underlying problem of ‘American democracy’ is that mass immigration made the society too diverse - which makes consensus nearly impossible. The result is a spiraling national debt and dysfunction in all directions.
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the funniest thing about viveks cope about how "social media doesn't reflect reality on the ground" is that he's also shown that he doesnt listen to what people are telling him at rallies irl either (specifically, when they tell him they don't support importing labor)
so you know he's just going to put himself into a boardroom conservative echo chamber for the next several months and run an even more out of touch, unlikable campaign than if he had stayed on twitter
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i just spent the day with Mexicans. i'm not afraid of them at all. we were working on something together, got a lot done. looks great.
when i worked with Indians they spent the entire time trying to get me to do their job because they lied on their resumes and couldn't navigate an IBM terminal.
you should have seen how many times they pleaded with me to tell their boss a server or mainframe was down, when it wasn't, so they could have an excuse to not get any work done. it was just endless scamming and trying to blame somebody else for their failures. i've never seen an indian take accountability for themselves or their awful society.
Ash@pk15887
@heywildrich Hating on Indians is easy they won't physically hurt you and infact ignore morons like you. On the other hand hating on Mexicans comes with a cost, first they will not ignore you, second they will come to you face and smash it. So I understand the fear!
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It’s infuriating to hear about White families being financially crippled by daycare our whole lives only to learn that non-white families were being financially enriched by daycares at the same time.
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@ccmembersonly imagine how much better it would be if it was more diverse though?
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@heywildrich It's really easy to hate indians but it takes courage to take the necessary stand against mexicans.
America isn't going to be America in 50 years when half the people that live here are Mexican or some other kind of South American. Way more serious long term than indians.
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I just want everyone to understand that America has not been trying. We bully our smart kids. We spend 1000 times more on special education than gifted and talented programs. We eliminated honors classes in the name of equality. We even came up with a replacement for phonics so stupid that half our kids can’t read. Then we take the smartest kids that survive this system, and we racially and sexually discriminate against them for entry into college. Then we do that again when they apply for their first job. And again for every job after that. Then we undercut them in favor of foreign labor that’ll do worse work for cheaper. Most kids see this and just say “fuck it” and focus on sports, or trying to be an influencer, or just give up on trying altogether. Meanwhile in places like China every kid spends 16 hours a day studying trig tables or gets the belt. Yet America is still number one. In everything. There is so much latent potential in the American people. We have tried before. We crossed a continent and carved this country out of clay. We recrossed the oceans and conquered the world by accident as a favor to our friends. One day (hopefully soon), we are going to start trying again. America will wake up. Don’t be on the wrong side when it does.
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I forgot about this. Indians are the largest ethnic group in Guyana right now.
Country still sucks. what gives?
crêpe chef@dinotransit
@heywildrich 40% of Guyana is Indian diaspora.
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Oh you think winning is good? Well what if somebody else won? Then you’d be the loser. Winning doesn’t sound so good now, does it? Thought not.
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Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.
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Read the diary of the Puritan tradesman Nehemiah Wallington from the early 17th century (extracted at length in the great book Wallington's World). He writes with deep tenderness of his children, four of whom died in early childhood. As far as we can tell, despite high levels of infant mortality, it was far from unusual for our ancestors--including the men--to love their children deeply and consider their lives, however short, a blessing from God. The hardships of life as a craftsman in 17th century London did not make men hard or oblivious to the joys of childhood.
Of the death of his namesake son, Nehemiah wrote, "God doth intend us more good than we are aware of, for where a man's treasure is, there is his heart; now our child is gone to heaven, our heart will be there."
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Truth be told, it's not "trad" to play with your kids. My wife and I hang out with the Schwartzentruber Amish constantly, and if I play with the kids, they think it's weird. The kids' father would never "play" with them. Until the 1950's, this wouldn't have been considered crazy or strange. Many, many families believed kids should be "seen and not heard." Their dads might've taught them to fish, or to whittle, but they were decidedly "hands-off." And you know what? Those kids did fine. Kids raised in that manner built America, won World Wars, went on to lead successful lives. I only point this out to say that on the grand scale of history, what Justin writes here isn't crazy or unreasonable. While I personally love to play with our daughter, and will always make an effort to play with all our kids, I just don't think it's quite as obviously requisite as people make it out to be. Justin's post is mostly viral because when it comes to parenting, Americans demand extreme conformity and engage in a near-total schema of social policing on all of the granular details of parental choices. It's a national pastime, and by expressing himself openly, Justin has made himself the target of a more or less limitless pool of ire. The #1 unspoken rule of parenting in America seems to be: "Never express a heterodox view on the subject of parenting." Perhaps this is at least one part of why the fertility rate is so low. The pressure to parent in the One Authorized Way to Parent is unprecedentedly high. Conform to a perfect T or else be ostracized and judged. And if you're going to do things differently, you've practically got to be a hermit these days to avoid this.
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