Being raised gender neutral means they play with the toys the kid chooses, the clothes the kid chooses to wear, etc. Nobody is "forcing" anything except the fundies who back "reparative therapy", a profitable fraud that is now coming under bans in many places because forcing someone to be other than the gender they feel they are is abusive.
I guess you failed to notice the last sentence - the growing influence of social media allowed the YES side to publicly show that there was a lot of support, as opposed to the church just preaching to the choir.
If people don't know that others feel the same way they do, they're less likely to express their own views. Thanks to the Internet, those days are gone. Just another way that tech is affecting our society, so it IS news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Of course, you entirely ignore the fact that Mother Theresa couldn't have believed the bible because she had never read it, and you can't believe or disbelieve something you never read (discovered by some of my former fundy friends when they were helping with her visit here).
When it's "invested" in ponzi schemes like the liar loans of the last financial bubble, who got hurt? Not the banks, that's for sure. When high frequency traders got caught manipulating the markets, who got hurt? Not them - the $6 billion fine was nothing compared to what they scammed.
Funny how they always seem to have a few "get out of jail" cards in their pocket (we normally call them "senators" and "congressmen.")
Provide proof that we live in a moral universe. The universe is also not a person. It has no sense of right and wrong - it just is.
Also, how is doing bad things to people who do bad things moral? The definition of "bad things" has changed over time. Inter-racial marriage is no longer a "bad thing". Same-sex couples is no longer a "bad thing." A society where there are no class divisions is no longer a "bad thing." Same-sex marriage and child adoption are not longer "bad things" - to the contrary, children raised by same-sex couples are exposed to far less domestic violence. Divorce is not longer a "bad thing."
If there were a universal standard, we certainly haven't found it. After all, the xians who hold up the bible as such a standard like to forget that it condones genocide, racism, slavery, child beating, polygamy, etc. That's the thing about "universal standards" - there are so many different ones.
Permanent subsidies don't work. All they do is end up subsidizing the business, since the employer isn't paying the full cost. And in this climate, they've already eliminated pretty much every job they can, so if the choice is paying a higher wage or the work just not getting done, they'll find a way to pay. Prices might go up 1 cent per item at the retail level to achieve a (barely) living wage.
So a race to the bottom is the only solution? That will result in lower wages globally, which means lower demand, which means deflation. Deflation means not only less tax revenue and more tax expenditures, but also the value of the public debt isn't decreasing over time due to inflation.
So again, why should taxpayers subsidize companies that pay below-poverty-level wages? If the business needs the job done, they'll pay the minimum. It's not like they haven't cut back on non-essential personnel at the lower levels. So if they say "we're not paying $15 to stock shelves" the shelves just don't get stocked. Once the shelves are bare, they'll find it's worth $15 to get those shelves re-stocked. Or they can do it themselves.
Just eliminating pennies and the stupidity of $6.99, $3.98, and $0.99 price nonsense is enough for most stores to pay the extra. And if the local "convenience store" can't survive under those conditions, tough - they're a rip-off anyway.
The city planner probably doesn't know squat about laying bricks. That's why city managers don't manage bricklayers. The foreman who manages them certainly does.
Except he can't show relevant experience either. So, if you had to recommend someone who is obsolete, or someone who at least has papers to show they are current, who would you interview, and whose resume would you throw out without blinking an eye?
Experience. He has been freelancing for more than a decade working in isolation. He cannot show any experience managing to any potential employer. Worse, he is seriously out of date. And no experience as an employee. Even if he was willing to work for free, nobody would hire him because of the cost of his errors of judgment and having to have constant close supervision. He's not even qualified to intern as any sort of management because anyone he manages will see that he's not qualified. Time to use this as an opportunity to get away from the keyboard and experience the real world.
In my experience, the biggest asshole bosses are in tech. Ditto for the customers.
High blood pressure, burn-out, and ageism in tech mean you've got to really enjoy what you do... but ask anyone who got out of the rat hole how they feel a few years later. At a certain point, quality of life becomes more important than having more of what George Carlin accurately called "sh*t."
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Being raised gender neutral means they play with the toys the kid chooses, the clothes the kid chooses to wear, etc. Nobody is "forcing" anything except the fundies who back "reparative therapy", a profitable fraud that is now coming under bans in many places because forcing someone to be other than the gender they feel they are is abusive.
But don't let the truth ruin your story :-(
So YOU'RE this guy, the one who the tribe force him to marry to a goat after being caught having sex with it! No wonder you post anonymously here!
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.
Come on - why would you deny gays and lesbians all the joys of separation and divorce that straight couples have? Oops - I mean SHARE THE PAIN! :-)
Civil rights aren't rights if they're denied to some groups. Then they're just "privileges".
I guess you failed to notice the last sentence - the growing influence of social media allowed the YES side to publicly show that there was a lot of support, as opposed to the church just preaching to the choir.
If people don't know that others feel the same way they do, they're less likely to express their own views. Thanks to the Internet, those days are gone. Just another way that tech is affecting our society, so it IS news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Of course, you entirely ignore the fact that Mother Theresa couldn't have believed the bible because she had never read it, and you can't believe or disbelieve something you never read (discovered by some of my former fundy friends when they were helping with her visit here).
When it's "invested" in ponzi schemes like the liar loans of the last financial bubble, who got hurt? Not the banks, that's for sure. When high frequency traders got caught manipulating the markets, who got hurt? Not them - the $6 billion fine was nothing compared to what they scammed.
Funny how they always seem to have a few "get out of jail" cards in their pocket (we normally call them "senators" and "congressmen.")
Do you really believe that a teen-ager babysitting (your example, not mine) is making enough to go over the basic exemption?
Doesn't address the question. Again, why should tax-payers subsidize businesses that don't want to pay a living wage?
Also, how is doing bad things to people who do bad things moral? The definition of "bad things" has changed over time. Inter-racial marriage is no longer a "bad thing". Same-sex couples is no longer a "bad thing." A society where there are no class divisions is no longer a "bad thing." Same-sex marriage and child adoption are not longer "bad things" - to the contrary, children raised by same-sex couples are exposed to far less domestic violence. Divorce is not longer a "bad thing."
If there were a universal standard, we certainly haven't found it. After all, the xians who hold up the bible as such a standard like to forget that it condones genocide, racism, slavery, child beating, polygamy, etc. That's the thing about "universal standards" - there are so many different ones.
Permanent subsidies don't work. All they do is end up subsidizing the business, since the employer isn't paying the full cost. And in this climate, they've already eliminated pretty much every job they can, so if the choice is paying a higher wage or the work just not getting done, they'll find a way to pay. Prices might go up 1 cent per item at the retail level to achieve a (barely) living wage.
So a race to the bottom is the only solution? That will result in lower wages globally, which means lower demand, which means deflation. Deflation means not only less tax revenue and more tax expenditures, but also the value of the public debt isn't decreasing over time due to inflation.
So again, why should taxpayers subsidize companies that pay below-poverty-level wages? If the business needs the job done, they'll pay the minimum. It's not like they haven't cut back on non-essential personnel at the lower levels. So if they say "we're not paying $15 to stock shelves" the shelves just don't get stocked. Once the shelves are bare, they'll find it's worth $15 to get those shelves re-stocked. Or they can do it themselves.
Just eliminating pennies and the stupidity of $6.99, $3.98, and $0.99 price nonsense is enough for most stores to pay the extra. And if the local "convenience store" can't survive under those conditions, tough - they're a rip-off anyway.
Boris Badanov looking for Bullwinkle
No, my advice is, it's hopeless to try to catch up, look for a new career.
The city planner probably doesn't know squat about laying bricks. That's why city managers don't manage bricklayers. The foreman who manages them certainly does.
When someone says they are 40-something, they are bumping 50, same as dating sites. Otherwise he would have said low 40s.
Because the definition of "older" follows Moore's law in this industry. Every 18 months, old is one year less.
Do you want fries with that?
Except he can't show relevant experience either. So, if you had to recommend someone who is obsolete, or someone who at least has papers to show they are current, who would you interview, and whose resume would you throw out without blinking an eye?
Experience. He has been freelancing for more than a decade working in isolation. He cannot show any experience managing to any potential employer. Worse, he is seriously out of date. And no experience as an employee. Even if he was willing to work for free, nobody would hire him because of the cost of his errors of judgment and having to have constant close supervision. He's not even qualified to intern as any sort of management because anyone he manages will see that he's not qualified. Time to use this as an opportunity to get away from the keyboard and experience the real world.
This 100 â... this. No matter what he does in terms of trying to catch up, there will be dozens of people with a decade of experience to compete.
Don't forget the more weeks paid vacation, etc. Watch "Sicko" and see how much better life is there.
In my experience, the biggest asshole bosses are in tech. Ditto for the customers.
High blood pressure, burn-out, and ageism in tech mean you've got to really enjoy what you do ... but ask anyone who got out of the rat hole how they feel a few years later. At a certain point, quality of life becomes more important than having more of what George Carlin accurately called "sh*t."