Just because some people are worse off doesn't make their lot in life any better. The fact that teachers make more than the median (this is what you mean) family income show just how bad things have gotten for the working class.
If you're an IT worker living in a good neighborhood with good property values (read: your schools are fully funded by property tax) then yeah, some of this might not be true. Your kid's Teachers have assistants to grade papers. Their class sizes are under 30 and like one of the thread parents said they'll get paid to get certs (meaning they can do them in the summer instead of working to make ends meet).
That's maybe 20% of districts if I'm being really, really fucking charitable. The rest are everything I described above and more.
being a teacher is fucking hard work. I know teachers and they put in 10-12 hour days. Those lesson plans don't write themselves. Even if your handed one you need to adapt it to the realities of your class. And those papers don't grade themselves. And summers off? Bullshit. The higher up teachers are busy getting more education and certs to try and get a raise so they can keep pace with inflation. The lower tier ones are working jobs over the summer to make ends meet. There's a few bums that take summers off but they're also the kinds of teachers that have high schoolers coloring in maps instead of learning.
Being a real teacher is fucking hard and it pays like shit. Good teachers do it because they like doing it, not because it's easy.
Cheap tech workers brought here on H1-B visas are massively driving down wages in the tech sector. Yes, they're mostly Indian, but it would be the same thing if they were Chinese, African, or whatever nationality. They're only supposed to be brought here for jobs there are no Americans for, but I've seen numerous companies post adverts for H1-Bs specifically.
Given this trend I discouraged my kid from studying IT and encouraged them to go into medicine. This is a better route for them because the medical industry has a workers advocacy group (The American Medical Association) that functions as a Union and lobbies for policies that help keep their wages high.
Now, if my kid was a natural mathematical genius this wouldn't be an issue. But then my kid wouldn't really be going into IT, it'd really be a Math job that happens to use computers as tools to do the math. But that's a moot point. My kid isn't a math wiz and would have had to work really, really hard to make it in IT. So I encourage my kid to put that effort into something that's going to be more stable and pay better in the long run.
I've never understood why it is that when the rich do things in their economic best interests it's smart business but if the working class do it they're being petty, racists or nationalistic. I mean, I know why it happens (ruling elite own the media and they're pushing an anti-worker, pro-corporate right wing agenda) but I don't know why the working class falls for it so much. My grandpappy knew when he was getting screwed by his boss and he and his Union didn't take that shit.
bring back the jobs and us parents will bring back our kids. End the H1-B program for a start and we'll talk. Until then all my kids are going into medical. Not that they're not trying to bring in cheap labor there too, but the Doctor's Union (aka the AMA, yes, it's a Union) knows better than too allow too much of that crap.
and yeah, Denuvo isn't doing that right now. I'm pretty sure Ubisoft's system is though. Their solution is to download the game in chunks as you get futher along. It's also why their games are often barely playable at launch. It works, and the 'barely playable' part doesn't seem to hurt sales. Me? I won't buy an Ubisoft game until 6 months after launch. I did that before I knew about their DRM scheme too. It had nothing to do with principle, I just knew too many people who couldn't play the game until months after launch. Now I know why. But like I said, the impact on sales is negligible.
I'd be genuinely shocked if you couldn't find some examples of LGBTQ and racial harassment at Tesla, especially if they didn't already have strong controls in place to deal with it. It just sorta comes with the territory. Heck, in small non-corporate shops where there's no women (think small help desks) the stuff that goes on would get you fired in any major corporation on the planet.
Thing is, some of this stuff is probably the sort of thing you can laugh off if you're not LGBTQ. But imagine you spent your entire childhood getting the shit kicked out of you because you were a little on the effeminate side or got kicked out by your parents because you're a bit too 'tom boyish'. Or heck, if you're black and come from the South jokes about lynching aren't just in poor taste they're terrifying because, well, you might have actually feared being lynched enough not to know when somebody's joking.
What I'm saying is America is a _hell_ of a lot more fucked up than most of us on/. realize. Even if you're not a snowflake you should still be wary of flame throwers.
maybe they're just blowing smoke, but should one bank of a country that's been in recession have just shy of $1 trillion to throw around? It makes me wonder if the reason Japan's stuck in recession is that all the money's at the top.
without the constant influx of cheap labor from overseas they couldn't indulge in ageism.
Something else I notice that bothers me too though, the old guys at my place are usually fervently right wing, anti-government regulation and anti-Union except for this one thing. In this one thing they want the government to step on and protect workers rights. As someone that got screwed over a lot when he was young (right two work state and all that) that hypocrisy really pisses me off.
If nobody has any money to hire one. As poverty becomes the norm you'll just live without plumbing and electricity unless you one of the ruling elite. To coin a phrase, Shit runs downhill.
and rent seeking. We've already got the ruling elite skimming 50% off the economy before anybody else sees a dime. If we keep expanding that number something's got to give. That's what got us WWII last time.
until they can inspect their fleet. They didn't explicitly call the reason out but it's pretty obvious. The best part is these are likely to be structural problems not easily fixed.
I like going to Newegg and browsing through the specials in an image carousel. I like clicking 'reply' on slashdot and getting a box to reply in. I like thumbnail previews. I like menus I can browse without reloading an whole page. I like web mail that feels like a mail client. Heck, I like a responsive and modern web.
If you don't go run Lynx in X11. The rest of us will carry on living in 2017 and even 2018 when it comes along.
why not publish all those vulnerabilities they're using to decrypt devices (after a suitable period of time given to the manufacturer to fix the defect)? Could it be they don't really care about security in our shared cyberspace? Naw, they could never be so callous.
one where pro-worker laws actually make it onto the books. Then again this law mostly helps professionals. I can't remember the last time I saw a law that swung in favor of the blue collar types.
Human population is stabilizing. If anything it's declining in the developed world with birth rates around 1.8 per couple. Overpopulation turned out not to be a thing.
As the population declines the strain on the planet combined with our need to get resources out of it will drop. The only question is if we can keep this trend up. To be honest, it comes down to whether we can mellow our religion. That's the main driving force to increase population and oppose birth control. Specifically the notion that God made the earth for us to exploit and so there won't be any consequences if we do so. That and most religion's concepts around 'fornication' and birth control.
Mellow out religious zealots and you'll gradually see a developed world where the only real problem will be under population. I'm not sure if that'll happen or not. On the one hand we've had a resurgence in America as our right wing leans heavily on religion to get voters to the polls but on the other hand statistics show that mellowing out is happening. I'll be dead before it's a problem though.
and I'm guessing we're not going to do a damn thing about it because a good chunk of us can't bear the thought of somebody having a nice things in life and not working relentlessly to get it. It comes down to an antiquated concept of 'fairness'. They worked and sacrificed and suffered to get what little they've got in life so why shouldn't everybody else? Hell, I've seen it with some of my liberal LGBTQ friends even, who were upset that the younger generation of LGBTQ folks didn't go through as much shit as they did. It's a pretty common sentiment and one that the ruling elite have always been good at exploiting.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking we're in for a second industrial revolution. And that includes the 80 years of rampant unemployment, poverty, social unrest and war they don't talk about in grade school.
seriously. It really is that simple. Trump has a bad tan. The fact that a man with his considerable wealth wears a bad tan is just another example of him being dumb. It's a reflection of his character. If he was born with that tan or had some sort of medical condition we'd shut up about it. I know he wasn't born with it and I haven't heard him say he's covering up a skin condition. He's just really not very bright.
If you want sanity in politics we need to get the Russians out of it. Then we need to get the billionaires and ruling class out of it. The best way to do that is fund education. e.g. pay for everyone to go to college. It's worth it even if they come out with a crap liberal arts degree since at least they had to spend 4 years thinking about something besides beer and the 'Merican flag.
racism resulting higher poverty rates in makes people prone to crime and violence. Blacks are 2-3x more likely to be poor in most states. Anyway I'll just leave this here.
I think the idea is to shore up declining ad revenue so some of these smaller guys can stay in business making content. I'm seeing a _lot_ less content online these days and for a lot of content makers it's because they went back to their day jobs. If you combine ad revenue, affiliate programs, patreon and this you might get something approaching a living.
But nice Straw Man you got there, be a shame if logic and reason knocked out down. Just because Russia has been using our poor race relations against is for a while doesn't mean the didn't work with team Trump to get him elected. The two events are only tangentially related. If anything Donny's the culmination of 20 years work to destabilize our country and congrats, we fell for it Hook line and sinker.
or they'll hide it all with shell companies. That's the trouble with law and why people hate it so much. For it to be fair you have to hold people to the written law, but it's so easy to leave loop holes intact. Even when you're explicitly trying to close them.
1. Arrogance. She didn't think she had to campaign in the swing states. She actually believed in that "blue firewall" nonsense.
2. Trump's billions of dollars in free media coverage. Nobody in the press would denounce him because they were getting too many hits.
3. Russia. Russia. Russia. (insert Brady Bunch joke here). We had an ex-KGB pro with the full backing of his nation throw his hat in the ring for Trump.
4. Her health. She really was too old for this shit.
5. 30 years of bad press. Not just the emails. Everything. The Republicans knew she was going to run for president at some point. They have a multi-billion dollar media machine dedicated to their cause (Fox, Beitbart, all of Koch media, etc, etc). They've been hammering away at her since her husband left office.
6. TPP. Crap deal for everyone except the ruling class. In an election about jobs that hurt a lot.
7. Warmongering. In an effort to show everyone that a woman could be "strong" she went around the world pissing off our allies. A lot of folks figured she'd get us in a war. Meanwhile Trump was saying he wouldn't do that. Jokes on them, he's already got us on the brink of two new wars (to add to the 7 we're already fighting, look it up).
That's about it. Folks mostly agreed with her on everything except the TPP because most Americans are genuinely conservative. e.g. they don't want much change except maybe some more help from the government (for them only of course, not those lazy Blacks^X Welfare slobs). She's a right of center moderate. Exactly what most voters wanted.
it's the name of a movement. Like "Anonymous". She supported the movement and what it stood for (e.g. calling out that violence against blacks as more acceptable than against other groups). I have no idea what "Blacktivist" is. It sounds like something silly somebody made up while talking aboug BLM.
Are you one of them thar Russians trying to rile us all up? If not you should consider applying. That's some mighty fine concern trolling you've got going on there.
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Just because some people are worse off doesn't make their lot in life any better. The fact that teachers make more than the median (this is what you mean) family income show just how bad things have gotten for the working class.
If you're an IT worker living in a good neighborhood with good property values (read: your schools are fully funded by property tax) then yeah, some of this might not be true. Your kid's Teachers have assistants to grade papers. Their class sizes are under 30 and like one of the thread parents said they'll get paid to get certs (meaning they can do them in the summer instead of working to make ends meet).
That's maybe 20% of districts if I'm being really, really fucking charitable. The rest are everything I described above and more.
being a teacher is fucking hard work. I know teachers and they put in 10-12 hour days. Those lesson plans don't write themselves. Even if your handed one you need to adapt it to the realities of your class. And those papers don't grade themselves. And summers off? Bullshit. The higher up teachers are busy getting more education and certs to try and get a raise so they can keep pace with inflation. The lower tier ones are working jobs over the summer to make ends meet. There's a few bums that take summers off but they're also the kinds of teachers that have high schoolers coloring in maps instead of learning.
Being a real teacher is fucking hard and it pays like shit. Good teachers do it because they like doing it, not because it's easy.
Cheap tech workers brought here on H1-B visas are massively driving down wages in the tech sector. Yes, they're mostly Indian, but it would be the same thing if they were Chinese, African, or whatever nationality. They're only supposed to be brought here for jobs there are no Americans for, but I've seen numerous companies post adverts for H1-Bs specifically.
Given this trend I discouraged my kid from studying IT and encouraged them to go into medicine. This is a better route for them because the medical industry has a workers advocacy group (The American Medical Association) that functions as a Union and lobbies for policies that help keep their wages high.
Now, if my kid was a natural mathematical genius this wouldn't be an issue. But then my kid wouldn't really be going into IT, it'd really be a Math job that happens to use computers as tools to do the math. But that's a moot point. My kid isn't a math wiz and would have had to work really, really hard to make it in IT. So I encourage my kid to put that effort into something that's going to be more stable and pay better in the long run.
I've never understood why it is that when the rich do things in their economic best interests it's smart business but if the working class do it they're being petty, racists or nationalistic. I mean, I know why it happens (ruling elite own the media and they're pushing an anti-worker, pro-corporate right wing agenda) but I don't know why the working class falls for it so much. My grandpappy knew when he was getting screwed by his boss and he and his Union didn't take that shit.
bring back the jobs and us parents will bring back our kids. End the H1-B program for a start and we'll talk. Until then all my kids are going into medical. Not that they're not trying to bring in cheap labor there too, but the Doctor's Union (aka the AMA, yes, it's a Union) knows better than too allow too much of that crap.
and yeah, Denuvo isn't doing that right now. I'm pretty sure Ubisoft's system is though. Their solution is to download the game in chunks as you get futher along. It's also why their games are often barely playable at launch. It works, and the 'barely playable' part doesn't seem to hurt sales. Me? I won't buy an Ubisoft game until 6 months after launch. I did that before I knew about their DRM scheme too. It had nothing to do with principle, I just knew too many people who couldn't play the game until months after launch. Now I know why. But like I said, the impact on sales is negligible.
I'd be genuinely shocked if you couldn't find some examples of LGBTQ and racial harassment at Tesla, especially if they didn't already have strong controls in place to deal with it. It just sorta comes with the territory. Heck, in small non-corporate shops where there's no women (think small help desks) the stuff that goes on would get you fired in any major corporation on the planet.
/. realize. Even if you're not a snowflake you should still be wary of flame throwers.
Thing is, some of this stuff is probably the sort of thing you can laugh off if you're not LGBTQ. But imagine you spent your entire childhood getting the shit kicked out of you because you were a little on the effeminate side or got kicked out by your parents because you're a bit too 'tom boyish'. Or heck, if you're black and come from the South jokes about lynching aren't just in poor taste they're terrifying because, well, you might have actually feared being lynched enough not to know when somebody's joking.
What I'm saying is America is a _hell_ of a lot more fucked up than most of us on
maybe they're just blowing smoke, but should one bank of a country that's been in recession have just shy of $1 trillion to throw around? It makes me wonder if the reason Japan's stuck in recession is that all the money's at the top.
without the constant influx of cheap labor from overseas they couldn't indulge in ageism.
Something else I notice that bothers me too though, the old guys at my place are usually fervently right wing, anti-government regulation and anti-Union except for this one thing. In this one thing they want the government to step on and protect workers rights. As someone that got screwed over a lot when he was young (right two work state and all that) that hypocrisy really pisses me off.
If nobody has any money to hire one. As poverty becomes the norm you'll just live without plumbing and electricity unless you one of the ruling elite. To coin a phrase, Shit runs downhill.
and rent seeking. We've already got the ruling elite skimming 50% off the economy before anybody else sees a dime. If we keep expanding that number something's got to give. That's what got us WWII last time.
until they can inspect their fleet. They didn't explicitly call the reason out but it's pretty obvious. The best part is these are likely to be structural problems not easily fixed.
I like going to Newegg and browsing through the specials in an image carousel. I like clicking 'reply' on slashdot and getting a box to reply in. I like thumbnail previews. I like menus I can browse without reloading an whole page. I like web mail that feels like a mail client. Heck, I like a responsive and modern web.
If you don't go run Lynx in X11. The rest of us will carry on living in 2017 and even 2018 when it comes along.
why not publish all those vulnerabilities they're using to decrypt devices (after a suitable period of time given to the manufacturer to fix the defect)? Could it be they don't really care about security in our shared cyberspace? Naw, they could never be so callous.
one where pro-worker laws actually make it onto the books. Then again this law mostly helps professionals. I can't remember the last time I saw a law that swung in favor of the blue collar types.
Human population is stabilizing. If anything it's declining in the developed world with birth rates around 1.8 per couple. Overpopulation turned out not to be a thing.
As the population declines the strain on the planet combined with our need to get resources out of it will drop. The only question is if we can keep this trend up. To be honest, it comes down to whether we can mellow our religion. That's the main driving force to increase population and oppose birth control. Specifically the notion that God made the earth for us to exploit and so there won't be any consequences if we do so. That and most religion's concepts around 'fornication' and birth control.
Mellow out religious zealots and you'll gradually see a developed world where the only real problem will be under population. I'm not sure if that'll happen or not. On the one hand we've had a resurgence in America as our right wing leans heavily on religion to get voters to the polls but on the other hand statistics show that mellowing out is happening. I'll be dead before it's a problem though.
that greased up yoda dolls and Natalie Portman's hot grits has been on topic. Thank you, 20th year anniversary!
Also, great googly moogly I'm old.
and I'm guessing we're not going to do a damn thing about it because a good chunk of us can't bear the thought of somebody having a nice things in life and not working relentlessly to get it. It comes down to an antiquated concept of 'fairness'. They worked and sacrificed and suffered to get what little they've got in life so why shouldn't everybody else? Hell, I've seen it with some of my liberal LGBTQ friends even, who were upset that the younger generation of LGBTQ folks didn't go through as much shit as they did. It's a pretty common sentiment and one that the ruling elite have always been good at exploiting.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking we're in for a second industrial revolution. And that includes the 80 years of rampant unemployment, poverty, social unrest and war they don't talk about in grade school.
seriously. It really is that simple. Trump has a bad tan. The fact that a man with his considerable wealth wears a bad tan is just another example of him being dumb. It's a reflection of his character. If he was born with that tan or had some sort of medical condition we'd shut up about it. I know he wasn't born with it and I haven't heard him say he's covering up a skin condition. He's just really not very bright.
If you want sanity in politics we need to get the Russians out of it. Then we need to get the billionaires and ruling class out of it. The best way to do that is fund education. e.g. pay for everyone to go to college. It's worth it even if they come out with a crap liberal arts degree since at least they had to spend 4 years thinking about something besides beer and the 'Merican flag.
racism resulting higher poverty rates in makes people prone to crime and violence. Blacks are 2-3x more likely to be poor in most states. Anyway I'll just leave this here.
I think the idea is to shore up declining ad revenue so some of these smaller guys can stay in business making content. I'm seeing a _lot_ less content online these days and for a lot of content makers it's because they went back to their day jobs. If you combine ad revenue, affiliate programs, patreon and this you might get something approaching a living.
But nice Straw Man you got there, be a shame if logic and reason knocked out down. Just because Russia has been using our poor race relations against is for a while doesn't mean the didn't work with team Trump to get him elected. The two events are only tangentially related. If anything Donny's the culmination of 20 years work to destabilize our country and congrats, we fell for it Hook line and sinker.
or they'll hide it all with shell companies. That's the trouble with law and why people hate it so much. For it to be fair you have to hold people to the written law, but it's so easy to leave loop holes intact. Even when you're explicitly trying to close them.
Here's the reasons (most to least):
1. Arrogance. She didn't think she had to campaign in the swing states. She actually believed in that "blue firewall" nonsense.
2. Trump's billions of dollars in free media coverage. Nobody in the press would denounce him because they were getting too many hits.
3. Russia. Russia. Russia. (insert Brady Bunch joke here). We had an ex-KGB pro with the full backing of his nation throw his hat in the ring for Trump.
4. Her health. She really was too old for this shit.
5. 30 years of bad press. Not just the emails. Everything. The Republicans knew she was going to run for president at some point. They have a multi-billion dollar media machine dedicated to their cause (Fox, Beitbart, all of Koch media, etc, etc). They've been hammering away at her since her husband left office.
6. TPP. Crap deal for everyone except the ruling class. In an election about jobs that hurt a lot.
7. Warmongering. In an effort to show everyone that a woman could be "strong" she went around the world pissing off our allies. A lot of folks figured she'd get us in a war. Meanwhile Trump was saying he wouldn't do that. Jokes on them, he's already got us on the brink of two new wars (to add to the 7 we're already fighting, look it up).
That's about it. Folks mostly agreed with her on everything except the TPP because most Americans are genuinely conservative. e.g. they don't want much change except maybe some more help from the government (for them only of course, not those lazy Blacks^X Welfare slobs). She's a right of center moderate. Exactly what most voters wanted.
it's the name of a movement. Like "Anonymous". She supported the movement and what it stood for (e.g. calling out that violence against blacks as more acceptable than against other groups). I have no idea what "Blacktivist" is. It sounds like something silly somebody made up while talking aboug BLM.
Are you one of them thar Russians trying to rile us all up? If not you should consider applying. That's some mighty fine concern trolling you've got going on there.