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10hr ago
I have jogged miles through Shanghai late at night because I missed the last train. Eventually came across a taxi and the smoking teenager driving it who was not the guy on the taxi license took me the rest of the way to the hotel.
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17hr ago
schooling should be run by professionals
In a better world yes. Unfortunately some of our professionals like to ban teaching phonics and think Gender Queer is good content for 8 year olds. I like having a democratic veto over these people. If the school board goes looney enough then they can be voted out. As a taxpaying voter I get a say.
TIRM
1d ago
Okay. "Breeders" is a gay term for straight people. You can borrow gay language. People reading it will think you are gay.
Not clear what old apps are. Dating apps? I have never used a dating app. This is actually confusing since the same apps are inside and outside city limits. Some other meaning of "apps" I'm not getting?
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1d ago
Yes, but,
"breeders."
He's gay. Or using gay lingo. I don't forsee a wife and kids in his future.
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1d ago
Chinese grind 996 work weeks
I worked in China a bit. I have visited a number of times. As best as I can tell, none of my Chinese in laws work 996 and certainly none of my coworkers did. I worked more hours than the Chinese engineers.
Google tells me Chinese people are working longer hours in the past few years. Around 48 hours per week. That's certainly not taking it easy. But not greater than typical hours in my current and former American offices.
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2d ago
I don't know about actual warehouse workers, but the people who comment on reddit love bitching about CEO pay.
When Luigi Mangione murdered that CEO a few security guards at my work laughed and joking asked which CEO would get it next. On their break in the lunch room where I could hear them.
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3d ago
I never got 100% on a college essay. They always have a series of issues with any writing sample. Or they did back when I attended university.
Almost any clear improvement that I quite enjoy doesn't have a large impact on my whole life satisfaction. So I trivially answer not very much.
Radio is terrible. I like clicking up a podcast or music from my phone. I remember the pre-bluetooth days with CDs and ipods and GPS units. Tolerable but a step down from Bluetooth. I already own a phone and they already have to put a PCB in the console. Sticking a Bluetooth antenna in that is almost free. Certainly cheaper and less complicated than me buying a set of CDs.
TIRM
5d ago
my phone connects to the radio for some fucking reason
I use this feature every day and love it.
TIRM
6d ago
LVNs are vocational school nurses and are still around. A legally separate group of RNs have college degrees.
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7d ago
Russia bears responsibility as the aggressor Not Americans for bolstering the defenders. Apparently the Ukrainians weren't bluffing about their willingness to grind Russians.
My comment from deep in the last thread is about just this:
In the novel Diamond Age nanotechnology allows for any consumer good to be created almost for free. Free for the end user if they accept integrated advertisements playing on their stuff. So the wealthy wear natural fiber clothes handmade by tailors and write on 19th century style paper hand pressed by an artisanal paper maker, etc. If sheets of pure diamond were almost free due to diamond's simple repeating atomic structure, then the wealthy would only have genuine glass unlike the poors.
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10d ago
The maid in To Kill a Mockingbird published in 1960 about a fictionalized 1930s small town is black. Not sure how realistic either of these works of fiction are.
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10d ago
We would have to bear the burden of carefully explaining to our chef and maid how to make good coffee.
TIRM
10d ago
with kids sharing rooms in bunk beds
My childhood in the 90s. I didn't feel deprived.
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11d ago
Yes Biden's pardons were ridiculous. Mass pardoning and clemency to thousands of people including murderers and child abusers. But that's the president's power not subject to second guessing by courts or future presidents. If Trump goes after Biden's pardons then courts will stop him.
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11d ago
In the novel Diamond Age nanotechnology allows for any consumer good to be created almost for free. Free for the end user if they accept integrated advertisements playing on their stuff. So the wealthy wear natural fiber clothes handmade by tailors and write on 19th century style paper pressed by an artisanal paper maker, etc. If sheets of pure diamond were almost free due to diamonds' simple repeating atomic structure, then the wealthy would only have genuine glass unlike the poors.
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11d ago
Gulf States also do it. By American standards they are quite cruel to these workers. We lack the stomach for it.
TIRM
11d ago
"We wanted workers. We got people instead."
Comment about a """temporary""" guest worker program in the 1960s in which the temporary non-European workers tended to stay forever.
Not to negate the premise, but I neither own a TV nor have ever used any food delivery service. I almost used Uber Eats years ago when on a business trip. Instead my coworker and I walked a couple very cold miles to a pub. We made the right choice.
According to my grandfather food was good in the 50s, reached a real low point around the 70s and has improved since then. One man's opinion. But, "food in the 50s was bad" is not obviously true. Especially for our hypothetical very rich person.
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11d ago
To be perhaps excessively fair to Trump:
In 2024 Speaker Johnson met Biden and asked about an executive order pausing new natural gas permits that Biden signed a few days previously. The response was horrifying:
Biden reportedly denied having issued such an order, saying "I didn't do that". Johnson pressed the issue, describing the economic and national security damage the pause was causing.
Johnson told the Free Press' Bari Weiss that he did not believe Biden was lying, but rather "genuinely didn't know what he had signed". Johnson left the meeting with "fear and loathing," questioning who was truly in charge of the country.
Who the fuck signed that executive order if not the executive? Some anonymous staffer set LNG export policy without Biden's approval or awareness?
The use of the autopen itself is not actually concerning They've been in common use by US presidents for centuries. Biden not being aware of executive orders he supposedly recently signed is very concerning and I'm fine with Trump issuing a contrary executive order.
Having read Trump's announcement: he doesn't specify pardons. I hope he won't try to reverse pardons and he'd fail anyways.
Now imagine how poorly American pedagogists would behave if they could run wild and never answer to voters or parents. Which is my response to BurdensomeCount rather than Tyler.
I'm deeply skeptical of would-be technocrats. Self appointed "experts" aspiring to shape society free from petty concerns like consent from the governed so consistently go against my preferences. This happens to be a good example of the "experts" not clearly aligning with broader societal preferences, expectations or goals. Maybe American school administrators are especially unaligned with any positive societal outcomes and BurdensomeCount is fairly pointing out how British schooling is well managed by competent professionals. That's certainly not a point in America's favor given how school administrators seemingly run rampant. But that is especially not an argument for why they should be freed from the last bit of voter influence over them.
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