Mary
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@marcportermagee Some of these seem like really dumb degrees. No one *sane* is getting a BA in physics chemistry or math. Anyone who wants to study physics chemistry in your mouth is going to get a B.S.
It's probably worth cutting
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“Ohio colleges and universities are required to cut any undergraduate degree programs that produce on average less than five degrees annually over a three-year period”
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@CatholicCharm The Y & the city (probably) hires teenagers for summer camps, lifeguarding, after school program stuff like that. At least they do around here
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Thinking about what would be good for a first job for a 14/15yo kid that would teach them hard work and conflict resolution without putting them through fat grown adults verbally abusing them over french fries
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@lymanstoneky A lot of the great scientific advancements have been made by couples who worked together, or who worked in similar in a fields that they got some collaborative benefit.
The only place I see that hires couples is like campground or apartment manager these days
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The key to realize here is before like 1920, *women were also economically indispensable to men*. It wasn’t “men do the production, women are for sex and babies.”
It’s just production was *bonding* rather than *separating*
So the real Based take is: we should *hire couples* for jobs.
The Institute for Family Studies@FamStudies
The problem is not that men have lost the breadwinner role, argues Grant Martsolf in response to @BradWilcoxIFS and @MariaBaerWrites It's that successive economic transformations have stripped the household of the functions that once made men and women economically indispensable to each other. (1 of 2)👇 Read the article: ifstudies.org/blog/the-male-…
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@MiriVinni @thepiclord A lot of us got that don't date stay pure religious stuff as teens but never the part 2 of "here's how you should talk to men...once you're old enough"
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@thepiclord Yes, and many many women (and men) who ultimately married their HS or college sweetheart 100% would’ve become this type had they not lucked out early in this very specific way.
Missing parental figure may be the case, but IME these folks often come from religious backgrounds.
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These are all real types of single women, but it’s missing a very large, mostly invisible category: women who either had one bf in HS/college, or no bf at all, and just never figured out adult dating. They always assumed it’d “happen if it’s supposed to happen” and it never did.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets: 1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father. 2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children. 3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do. 4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up. 5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die. If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.
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Every woman knows multiple women like this - they’re often super lovely and very thoughtful friends - but men don’t even realize they exist because they largely don’t for them.
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@HannahWardEdu That VAPA column also those orchestra musicians and other classically trained arts people. Who typically have very high intelligence, even if they don't always do well in school.
It'd be interesting to see the double profession column - the nurse who moonlights as a cellist etc
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People are focusing on the wrong section of the graph. Are ya'll telling me that tap dancers are scoring higher than the people that keep us alive in hospitals? What's going on with health professions??? I don't need my little ballerina friend scoring higher than my nurse. 😱
Smirkley@Smirkley
Guys, 90% of you just aren’t smart enough to be teachers!
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@Jani__Gee This is so true.
I work at a mostly casual private school - they have to wear something with the school logo on it but not a full uniform.
I've heard the principal explaining to multiple parents if you send your child in a $500 necklace, and they lose it, we are not liable.
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Jewelry!
Jewelry becomes HUGE for school aged children as a class marker.
It already is in most private schools but the impact is more intense in uniformed spaces.
Lakyn Thee Stylist@OgLakyn
Well, no. Even if the school provides specific items—which they often don’t meaning poorer children are immediately at a disadvantage having to scrounge up a uniform—the accessories (shoes, backpacks, hair adornment, whatever) become the markers even more than they already are.
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@kaeruZangyo Yes, Yes, the uphill slopes are twice as numerous. My mom grew up in Japan and she said that she had to go to school uphill both ways, so clearly there were a lot of uphill slopes.
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日本は国土の7割が山地や丘陵地なので、世界的に見てもかなり坂道が多い国です。
しかも下り坂より上り坂のほうが倍くらい数が多くて疲れます。
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@TinyWriterLaura It's the hourglass dichotomy: if you wear something structured and professional, you look a little bit like a hoe. If you wear something loose and flowing, you look 30 lb heavier and unprofessionally sloppy.
The flat chested coworkers can wear either and look good
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as a large boob-haver at only 4’11 so they look even bigger than they are, i am genuinely so frustrated that women are still having to explain that there’s no way for us to throw on a new pair of business-casual tits for work
Lindsey✨@viridianmoon_
corporate dress code is so awesome.
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@ShamashAran Then it's more if you need the special kind of oil because you have an older car or European car.
That's also not counting disposal fees. So yes $60 is the floor. They make money off of all the other stuff, the oil change is the bait on the hook
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If you're using synthetic oil (and you SHOULD BE)
Assuming an average 4cyl car that takes ~5 quarts of oil:
5 quarts of Mobil 1 synthetic 0w16 is about $40.
Oil filters can be about $10
So your oil change costs $50 in parts alone.
So you can do the oil change yourself for half the price.
Back when i worked at an oil change shop, I made $20/hr. lets be really nice and say it takes 30 mins to change your oil, so another $10 for labor (this is overestimating, to be clear)
so at the top end, in costs alone it costs $60
That's the absolute FLOOR of what an oil change should cost, and nobody makes much if any money doing it.
✨localchaos✨@localchaos_
Are oil changes supposed to be $100 or is that bc im a woman
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@LorentLouise We did something similar as fifth graders (public). The school had this whole area of miniature storefronts, everyone was fighting over who got to be the doctor and give people Band-Aids & pretend to listen to their heart.
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The children are running a micro-society in homeschool co-op today.
It's really quite impressive (kudos to the mom who set it up). The older kids are running businesses, paying employees, etc. Every child was given 25 "dollars" to start with.
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@FarmGirlCarrie Yeah, I'd keep walking. If you need to build in a minimum, raise your prices enough to pay your people fairly and put out a tip jar for *extras*.
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If you saw this sign on a business,
would you enter, or keep on walking…?
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@HannahWardEdu This is the right kind of neutral clinical language for this topic to be age appropriate. I would hope that there were more detailed lessons in later chapters about what to *do* now that your body is changing, about showers and deodorant and pads and things.
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Honest opinions please.
I'm writing a review for a series of books for parent-directed knowledge-based read alouds. This series has gotten some grief from people for a few different reasons, one of them is this section in the 5th Grade book. Note: this lesson would be presented by a parent.
Thoughts?
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@RivendellM52270 @romanhelmetguy Right? It's someday and the prince has NOT come, Disney has lied to me 😂
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@romanhelmetguy To add to number 1 dating problems can include being single for long periods of time. Sometimes feelings are unrequited or the future husband just never shows up. Some women save themselves for a marriage and family that never happens.
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I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets:
1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father.
2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children.
3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do.
4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up.
5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die.
If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.
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@romanhelmetguy Add 6. Dating Problems but Opposite:
wants to marry & have kids but too shy/socially awkward to do the stupid Tindr/bumble thing so just perpetually single. Curses at whoever told men to stop asking people out.
(I know many men who also fit in this category)
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@CatholicAwesome 35F:
I drive a VW, and changing my oil is a lot harder than it was when I drove a Buick. Also I live in a place where I'm not allowed to work on my car in the driveway.
So for me the cost of the oil change - even at SoCal prices- is worth it.
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Depends if you think unscrewing a bolt, watching your oil drain for 10 minutes, screwing the bolt back and then pouring oil back in is $80 worth of labor lol
✨localchaos✨@localchaos_
Are oil changes supposed to be $100 or is that bc im a woman
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@DrNeilStone Also, like, the smallpox vax was a one-time thing. The flu shot's different every year and it doesn't even work most times.
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In 1777 George Washington himself mandated smallpox inoculation for his troops
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth@SecWar
The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
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@ClimateWarrior7 But we have this wonderful invention, popularized by Florence Nightingale of course, called washing your hands.
There was a time when this was not a popular habit amongst all people
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I keep hearing that people in ye olden times would die from simple things like a cut finger, because there were no antibiotics.
But I don't know a single person who's consulted a doctor over a cut finger.
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