You seem to think that work is the only important thing in the world. Maybe you don't have anything else in your life, and if that's the case, I feel a bit sorry for you.
Those mental health days, menstrual leave, or three months off won't mean a thing when they retire.
They sure as fuck will. Working yourself to the point of death and retiring just before it happens also means something when you retire.
Quality of life is a real thing that most people value. You don't seem to. That's ok. But to spend hours of your time arguing that it's not a thing that other people should value seems really odd to me.
Family relationships are a real thing that most people value. You don't seem to. And that's the point of leave like this. You get time to bond as a family. If you think working is better than doing that, that speaks volumes about your ability to foster and maintain relationships.
And back to retirement, if you're a stranger to your family because you didn't bother to build those relationships, what are you going to do for the rest of your life? Try to make up for those last 35+ years? The retired folks that I know who had a good work-life balance have a much better retirement than those who didn't. Why? Because they have a strong family that they love to hang out with, and their health, including mental health, is much better.
I like how you could only feign civility for so long.
It's rather crazy to me that your worldview is such that everything not perfect needs to be put down. There's plenty of room for getting close and calling it done. That's how most of the world works.
Consider having wheelchair ramps outside of buildings. No, someone wheelchair bound will never be able to get up and walk up the stairs for your perfect version of equality. But the outcome, getting into the building with a minimal amount of effort, is as close to equal as we can get.
Likewise, you may not be able to give birth, but you can adopt an infant and raise it as a parent. That's about as equal as we can get, and other than the 9 months of carrying it, that's damn close to equality. If you have a surrogate mom and use IVF, the child can even biologically be half yours, just like as if you gave birth to it.
Just because everyone can't have perfectly equal outcomes is not a reason to stop trying.
So rather than fix the application of the guidance, your preference is to remove the guidance? I guess I can see that position, but upon first read, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the guidance, and it seems a legitimately fair and reasonable bit of guidance.
In addition, you're just picking a handful of stories where it seems that the guidance was not followed to support that it was good to revoke it. That's a rather illogical position to take. "The person going 100 miles an hour wrecked and killed themselves. We need to get rid of the speed limit because it didn't work." The lawsuits are a consequence of not following the guidance, especially the parts about neutrality and equitable treatment.
To be intellectually honest, rather than clamp onto a few inflammatory cases, you need to look at how cases were handled before and after it in aggregate, and see if it had an overall positive, neutral, or negative impact. I honestly don't know, but I do know that my preference would be to keep it and work on the application of it. Something the lawsuits were probably quickly resolving.
Mandating equal treatment irrespective of gender is surely something liberals must support, no?
No.
Do you understand the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes? If you give 3 kids bikes, that's equal treatment. If one of them is paralyzed from the waist down, that's not an equal outcome. Just treating or providing the same support to everyone equally only works if they are equal to start with. If they aren't equal to start with, the focus should be on equity to make them equal.
I see a lot of neocon angst about this, and I honestly don't get it. Is it that hard to understand that the end goal for most liberals is equal outcomes? And to get equal outcomes, equal treatment won't work as different groups of people start from different places.
Either way, traffic is going 40+ MPH when it comes to the roundabout, at which point it is expected to slow to 15 MPH. If it does, which it usually doesn't, it perturbs traffic flow on these busy highways.
And a full stop at a stoplight wouldn't? In my experience, roundabouts dramatically smooth out traffic flow. The main road I take every day with two of them a half mile apart flows pretty smoothly, while the next one with the stoplights flows like a slinky going down stairs.
I do agree on the signaling, but at the same time that's also a limitation of the way our turn signals work and the angles in the roundabout. If someone is exiting and has their right blinker on, and you're to their left facing the other direction, there's a very limited period of time where the geometry lines up so you can see the signal. If someone is trying to exit right while going left around the curve before the exit, a lot of cars will automatically turn off the blinker, as it assumes you've already made the turn at that point.
But regardless, once they're clearly exiting, you've got plenty of time to pull into the circle unless the next driver is drifting around it. I just don't get what the issue is.
It's gender-neutral, and lays out the need for schools to have a process to address sexual harassment. I'm unclear where you get 'sexist bullshit' from it. Could you identify where in that letter you see this?
That's true where I live. There has been an uptick of accidents at roundabouts, but a sharp decrease in fatal accidents.
At intersections there's the potential for head-on and side collisions with the passenger compartment. At roundabouts, about the only possible collision is a side-to-side impact between a hood and a trunk. That's fantastic from a human safety standpoint.
What I don't get is how there are more accidents. You look left. When nobody is coming, you go. How fucking hard is that? It's an order of magnitude less complicated than navigating a four way stop.
I like how upset you get when your own words are echoed back to you. Does it not occur to you that you could possibly suffer from the same affliction that you so happily label others with?
Your base assumption was the the GP was uninformed and living in an echo chamber, and that seems like a rather dangerous assumption to make. Assuming that the only way that someone could be 100% against the current administration would be to be ignorant is, ignorant. It's very possible to be 100% against them and be well informed.
Personally, I was against a large portion of what Obama's conservative administration did. Trump moving the administration away from conservative policies and into irrational and self-defeating ones does not make me more likely to like any of his policies.
Tell me, what's the most liberal friendly policy that Trump has pushed, that liberals would be hypocritical not to like?
And I don't know why anyone would put up with running their own server and be forced to play IT when off the clock and on personal time.
I don't have an issue with Gmail. For the price (tracking me and needing my phone number) it's worth it to me. I don't want to dick around with a server at home and making sure that it's up-to-date and secure, that my firewall is playing nice with my server, etc. I want the most minimal home IT setup I can get away with, because I have better shit to do than play IT on nights and weekends.
Gmail on my phone mostly just works. Their client was worse than outlook, which is really saying something, but it's functional now that I switched.
I get all of the downsides, all of the trade-offs, and all of the shittiness of Gmail. But to me, that's less painful than having to run my own server infrastructure in my free time. There was a time when I loved that shit, but as I've gotten older, my priorities have shifted. Life is way too short for me to have to rebuild a raid array on a sunny Saturday afternoon. There are far more interesting things for me to do on a Wednesday evening than figure out why a spam filter suddenly stopped working.
If this is your cup of tea, great. But you need to understand that it's not everyone's, and for a lot of us, using Gmail is the less painful and irritating of the two options.
But jesus man, it involves fucking MATH! How do you expect to explain to people that they don't have enough IDs? How do you expect the poor employees in charge of figuring out if they have enough to determine if they do or not? Fucking lookup tables, a calculator, slide rule, couple of Tarot cards.....might as well have a giant hunk of graph paper where you put all the IDs on it and ask the employees to integrate the area.
I'm just advocating that everyone get a QR code tattooed on them at birth. Then you just scan and you're done. Far easier than your convoluted solution. Math. Ha.
The fact that you think there are some good things coming from the current administration horrifically demonstrates the partisan echo chamber you occupy.
Maybe you should seek a broader set of news sources that can offer you a more balanced view.
You seem to have a pretty principled and pragmatic view of the Republican party. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like many current Republican politicians share your views. Or if they do, they are too afraid to express them.
How do you square your dislike of Trump and the current swathe of ass-backward policies with your support for a party that largely seems to be for them?
In fact, it might be neutral or even positive! If you buy stuff with UBI someone needs to sell it to you. And someone needs to be paid to sell it to you. That's economic activity. It doesn't matter if it's bread, jewelry, or drugs, provided it's taxed and that goes back to fund UBI.
The only way UBI can "work" without inflation is if economic value is taken from those who produce it (in the form of taxes), and then redistributed.
If you caught what some above pointed out, that's the real giant benefit of UBI rather than traditional welfare. The welfare cliff is very real, and very much hampers economic activity. If you earn too much money, you lose welfare or disability payments.
This traps people in a life where they can't earn a bit more money because they'll end up with a net negative amount of money. So when a possible job comes up, they pass on it. And this can and has been generationalized within families and communities.
UBI would let people work when there was work to do. In general, most UBI schemes reduce your UBI by $1 for every $2 you make. So make an extra $1000 in a year, and you keep $500 of it. Where does that other $500 go? Back into UBI. Right now, make an extra $1000 on welfare, and you stand to lose $10,000 in welfare benefits.
But assuming that people could convince themselves that such a massive transfer of wealth was politically achievable, there's still the problem of human nature. The UBI assumes that everyone who receives it will spend it wisely, hence eliminating dozens of other government entitlement programs, and that just won't happen.
So what? And who are you to decide what people should be spending their money on? Where do you get your moral authority to police the life of others?
UBI isn't perfect, but it's better than what we're doing now. It actually gives people an incentive to work, and that's huge. No, not everybody will, but the potential is there for a massive uptick in the economy. And people spending their money unwisely actually doesn't hurt UBI if it's an economic stimulus. The added benefit is that if someone is getting $1k/month and suddenly realizes that they need to stop wasting it and use it wisely, they can.
Right now, earn too much or spend your money outside of what the man tells you can spend it on, and you're kicked out of the system. That doesn't help anyone except the morality police, because then they get to feel superior to someone.
If there are 50 other customers and they're losing ten quid each time but seeing you walk away ahead, that's good business. If nobody is winning, most people aren't going to keep betting.
If you're winning you're not getting paid to be a customer. You're an advertising expense.
You need to swing back in and check out Office 365! The cloud based Outlook is amazingly even slower and more laggy than regular outlook. And it freezes up for me when displaying other people's calendars and then flashes them on and off again a few times before stabilizing.
If you thought regular Outlook was bad, Microsoft has a huge surprise in store for you with the Office 365 version!
I'm a white male who grew up in the country hunting, fishing and driving pickups and working on farms, who's now upper middle class and headed into middle age. About to move into the suburbs.
I'm pretty much someone who should absolutely be a core republican voter. (Save for a little too much education.) Yet here I sit, repulsed at what the republican party has become. They lost me. For the entire rest of my life. Until everyone who was complicit in the last decade of cynical depravity by the republicans and their spawn has left the party, fuck 'em.
Now that my grandmother has passed, I'm never voting for another republican the rest of my life. The options are democrats or hopefully someone sensible. I just don't understand how a party could draw a hard social line that they know is going to alienate marginal voters for a generation. It's madness.
Because it's 100% bullshit, as far as I can tell. I'm typing this on Ubuntu with a little Dropbox icon in the top right which opens the Dropbox folder. And I use steam all of the time with no issues.
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You seem to think that work is the only important thing in the world. Maybe you don't have anything else in your life, and if that's the case, I feel a bit sorry for you.
Those mental health days, menstrual leave, or three months off won't mean a thing when they retire.
They sure as fuck will. Working yourself to the point of death and retiring just before it happens also means something when you retire.
Quality of life is a real thing that most people value. You don't seem to. That's ok. But to spend hours of your time arguing that it's not a thing that other people should value seems really odd to me.
Family relationships are a real thing that most people value. You don't seem to. And that's the point of leave like this. You get time to bond as a family. If you think working is better than doing that, that speaks volumes about your ability to foster and maintain relationships.
And back to retirement, if you're a stranger to your family because you didn't bother to build those relationships, what are you going to do for the rest of your life? Try to make up for those last 35+ years? The retired folks that I know who had a good work-life balance have a much better retirement than those who didn't. Why? Because they have a strong family that they love to hang out with, and their health, including mental health, is much better.
I'm not sure that you're entirely correct in your assumption that 88 is replacing SS.
What's the 8th letter in the alphabet? H.
I've always seen 88 being used to represent Heil Hitler. I've never seen it claimed to be a replacement for SS.
Well, the last time it was based in Houston we had a problem.....
I like how you could only feign civility for so long.
It's rather crazy to me that your worldview is such that everything not perfect needs to be put down. There's plenty of room for getting close and calling it done. That's how most of the world works.
Consider having wheelchair ramps outside of buildings. No, someone wheelchair bound will never be able to get up and walk up the stairs for your perfect version of equality. But the outcome, getting into the building with a minimal amount of effort, is as close to equal as we can get.
Likewise, you may not be able to give birth, but you can adopt an infant and raise it as a parent. That's about as equal as we can get, and other than the 9 months of carrying it, that's damn close to equality. If you have a surrogate mom and use IVF, the child can even biologically be half yours, just like as if you gave birth to it.
Just because everyone can't have perfectly equal outcomes is not a reason to stop trying.
Why does this make you so irrationally angry?
So rather than fix the application of the guidance, your preference is to remove the guidance? I guess I can see that position, but upon first read, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the guidance, and it seems a legitimately fair and reasonable bit of guidance.
In addition, you're just picking a handful of stories where it seems that the guidance was not followed to support that it was good to revoke it. That's a rather illogical position to take. "The person going 100 miles an hour wrecked and killed themselves. We need to get rid of the speed limit because it didn't work." The lawsuits are a consequence of not following the guidance, especially the parts about neutrality and equitable treatment.
To be intellectually honest, rather than clamp onto a few inflammatory cases, you need to look at how cases were handled before and after it in aggregate, and see if it had an overall positive, neutral, or negative impact. I honestly don't know, but I do know that my preference would be to keep it and work on the application of it. Something the lawsuits were probably quickly resolving.
Mandating equal treatment irrespective of gender is surely something liberals must support, no?
No.
Do you understand the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes? If you give 3 kids bikes, that's equal treatment. If one of them is paralyzed from the waist down, that's not an equal outcome. Just treating or providing the same support to everyone equally only works if they are equal to start with. If they aren't equal to start with, the focus should be on equity to make them equal.
I see a lot of neocon angst about this, and I honestly don't get it. Is it that hard to understand that the end goal for most liberals is equal outcomes? And to get equal outcomes, equal treatment won't work as different groups of people start from different places.
Either way, traffic is going 40+ MPH when it comes to the roundabout, at which point it is expected to slow to 15 MPH. If it does, which it usually doesn't, it perturbs traffic flow on these busy highways.
And a full stop at a stoplight wouldn't? In my experience, roundabouts dramatically smooth out traffic flow. The main road I take every day with two of them a half mile apart flows pretty smoothly, while the next one with the stoplights flows like a slinky going down stairs.
I do agree on the signaling, but at the same time that's also a limitation of the way our turn signals work and the angles in the roundabout. If someone is exiting and has their right blinker on, and you're to their left facing the other direction, there's a very limited period of time where the geometry lines up so you can see the signal. If someone is trying to exit right while going left around the curve before the exit, a lot of cars will automatically turn off the blinker, as it assumes you've already made the turn at that point.
But regardless, once they're clearly exiting, you've got plenty of time to pull into the circle unless the next driver is drifting around it. I just don't get what the issue is.
I'm unclear what your complaint about the Dear Colleague letter is. (I'm assuming it's this one? https://www2.ed.gov/about/offi...)
It's gender-neutral, and lays out the need for schools to have a process to address sexual harassment. I'm unclear where you get 'sexist bullshit' from it. Could you identify where in that letter you see this?
That's true where I live. There has been an uptick of accidents at roundabouts, but a sharp decrease in fatal accidents.
At intersections there's the potential for head-on and side collisions with the passenger compartment. At roundabouts, about the only possible collision is a side-to-side impact between a hood and a trunk. That's fantastic from a human safety standpoint.
What I don't get is how there are more accidents. You look left. When nobody is coming, you go. How fucking hard is that? It's an order of magnitude less complicated than navigating a four way stop.
A merger of technology, car analogies, and bad jokes. We need waymo that 'round here.
I like how upset you get when your own words are echoed back to you. Does it not occur to you that you could possibly suffer from the same affliction that you so happily label others with?
Your base assumption was the the GP was uninformed and living in an echo chamber, and that seems like a rather dangerous assumption to make. Assuming that the only way that someone could be 100% against the current administration would be to be ignorant is, ignorant. It's very possible to be 100% against them and be well informed.
Personally, I was against a large portion of what Obama's conservative administration did. Trump moving the administration away from conservative policies and into irrational and self-defeating ones does not make me more likely to like any of his policies.
Tell me, what's the most liberal friendly policy that Trump has pushed, that liberals would be hypocritical not to like?
And I don't know why anyone would put up with running their own server and be forced to play IT when off the clock and on personal time.
I don't have an issue with Gmail. For the price (tracking me and needing my phone number) it's worth it to me. I don't want to dick around with a server at home and making sure that it's up-to-date and secure, that my firewall is playing nice with my server, etc. I want the most minimal home IT setup I can get away with, because I have better shit to do than play IT on nights and weekends.
Gmail on my phone mostly just works. Their client was worse than outlook, which is really saying something, but it's functional now that I switched.
I get all of the downsides, all of the trade-offs, and all of the shittiness of Gmail. But to me, that's less painful than having to run my own server infrastructure in my free time. There was a time when I loved that shit, but as I've gotten older, my priorities have shifted. Life is way too short for me to have to rebuild a raid array on a sunny Saturday afternoon. There are far more interesting things for me to do on a Wednesday evening than figure out why a spam filter suddenly stopped working.
If this is your cup of tea, great. But you need to understand that it's not everyone's, and for a lot of us, using Gmail is the less painful and irritating of the two options.
But jesus man, it involves fucking MATH! How do you expect to explain to people that they don't have enough IDs? How do you expect the poor employees in charge of figuring out if they have enough to determine if they do or not? Fucking lookup tables, a calculator, slide rule, couple of Tarot cards.....might as well have a giant hunk of graph paper where you put all the IDs on it and ask the employees to integrate the area.
I'm just advocating that everyone get a QR code tattooed on them at birth. Then you just scan and you're done. Far easier than your convoluted solution. Math. Ha.
That is surprisingly good. Thanks!
Clear Channel owns, operates, programs, or sells airtime for nearly 1,200 radio stations.
When 3-4 companies own 90% of the radio stations, you can hear the monopoly.
The fact that you think there are some good things coming from the current administration horrifically demonstrates the partisan echo chamber you occupy.
Maybe you should seek a broader set of news sources that can offer you a more balanced view.
You seem to have a pretty principled and pragmatic view of the Republican party. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like many current Republican politicians share your views. Or if they do, they are too afraid to express them.
How do you square your dislike of Trump and the current swathe of ass-backward policies with your support for a party that largely seems to be for them?
By European standards? By any factual standard Fox News is insane. Perception or subjectivity are not required to make that determination.
In fact, it might be neutral or even positive! If you buy stuff with UBI someone needs to sell it to you. And someone needs to be paid to sell it to you. That's economic activity. It doesn't matter if it's bread, jewelry, or drugs, provided it's taxed and that goes back to fund UBI.
The only way UBI can "work" without inflation is if economic value is taken from those who produce it (in the form of taxes), and then redistributed.
If you caught what some above pointed out, that's the real giant benefit of UBI rather than traditional welfare. The welfare cliff is very real, and very much hampers economic activity. If you earn too much money, you lose welfare or disability payments.
This traps people in a life where they can't earn a bit more money because they'll end up with a net negative amount of money. So when a possible job comes up, they pass on it. And this can and has been generationalized within families and communities.
UBI would let people work when there was work to do. In general, most UBI schemes reduce your UBI by $1 for every $2 you make. So make an extra $1000 in a year, and you keep $500 of it. Where does that other $500 go? Back into UBI. Right now, make an extra $1000 on welfare, and you stand to lose $10,000 in welfare benefits.
But assuming that people could convince themselves that such a massive transfer of wealth was politically achievable, there's still the problem of human nature. The UBI assumes that everyone who receives it will spend it wisely, hence eliminating dozens of other government entitlement programs, and that just won't happen.
So what? And who are you to decide what people should be spending their money on? Where do you get your moral authority to police the life of others?
UBI isn't perfect, but it's better than what we're doing now. It actually gives people an incentive to work, and that's huge. No, not everybody will, but the potential is there for a massive uptick in the economy. And people spending their money unwisely actually doesn't hurt UBI if it's an economic stimulus. The added benefit is that if someone is getting $1k/month and suddenly realizes that they need to stop wasting it and use it wisely, they can.
Right now, earn too much or spend your money outside of what the man tells you can spend it on, and you're kicked out of the system. That doesn't help anyone except the morality police, because then they get to feel superior to someone.
Only if you're the only customer.
If there are 50 other customers and they're losing ten quid each time but seeing you walk away ahead, that's good business. If nobody is winning, most people aren't going to keep betting.
If you're winning you're not getting paid to be a customer. You're an advertising expense.
Google is up there ^. This is the comments section of /.
You need to swing back in and check out Office 365! The cloud based Outlook is amazingly even slower and more laggy than regular outlook. And it freezes up for me when displaying other people's calendars and then flashes them on and off again a few times before stabilizing.
If you thought regular Outlook was bad, Microsoft has a huge surprise in store for you with the Office 365 version!
I can set microwave clocks too. $50/hr, travel costs billed separately.
And this is where I'm just at a loss.
I'm a white male who grew up in the country hunting, fishing and driving pickups and working on farms, who's now upper middle class and headed into middle age. About to move into the suburbs.
I'm pretty much someone who should absolutely be a core republican voter. (Save for a little too much education.) Yet here I sit, repulsed at what the republican party has become. They lost me. For the entire rest of my life. Until everyone who was complicit in the last decade of cynical depravity by the republicans and their spawn has left the party, fuck 'em.
Now that my grandmother has passed, I'm never voting for another republican the rest of my life. The options are democrats or hopefully someone sensible. I just don't understand how a party could draw a hard social line that they know is going to alienate marginal voters for a generation. It's madness.
What decade was this?
Because it's 100% bullshit, as far as I can tell. I'm typing this on Ubuntu with a little Dropbox icon in the top right which opens the Dropbox folder. And I use steam all of the time with no issues.
Do your VCRs blink 12:00 all of the time too?