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Corporations try to all the time. It’s only through an effective use of law that they don’t. And lately, it hasn’t been very effective.

He truly was

I would be happy with one guideline: taxpayers should see and feel the impact of their tax dollars. It feels like that’s currently not a priority at all. The govt can just hand the money to some middleman who pockets 90% for a job worth 10%, and no one checks on it. DOGE was the pinnacle of this practice; honestly felt like Elon and Trump said “hey, you know what would be funny?”

Honestly don’t know if that’s worse than the protestant message that “god is omnipotent, all knowing, created good and evil, created you in his image, loves you and wants you to go to heaven, buuuuuut sorry, he can’t unless you “freely” choose to accept him into your heart. Yep, the heart he made, the mind he gave you, yeah, those are going to send you to hell. Nothing he can do about it, it’s on you. Totally not a weird, abusive, logically inconsistent relationship we have with him.” Then stack on top of that “the woman should serve the man in the same way the church serves the Lord”. Just problematic all the way down. If it was as simple as, “the man hates the woman just as god hates us” then the next step is easy. Fuck that guy, I’m out.

Up until the 80s-90s, they were virtually mandatory for women. Probably still are in many countries.

Everything is always optional for power users on linux. What I’m saying is they shouldn’t have made a GUI checkbox that’s also easy enough for non power users to check.

Good luck!

I would not say “often” better academically. It’s up to the resources the parents have. Poor families doing homeschooling end up poorly educated, wealthy educated families are more able to educate. Humans already did this up until the advent of modern public education systems. In a public school, the idea is that both the rich family and the poor family are offered the same education, and this is better for society as a whole. I will agree that public education isn’t perfect and could be improved in almost every way, but opting for private education is leaving your child’s future up to random chance as dictated by your social status. At some point you will try to socialize your homeschooled kid. If you live in a rough community where drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancies are relatively common, you won’t be able to avoid the same influences you’re trying to avoid in public schools. Except now it will be all they know. IMO exposure a larger population of people in a public school gives kids more reference for all the kinds of people in society, and control over who they want to interact with. Then it’s the parent’s job to make them feel empowered (not pressured) to make the best choice they have available.

If there is an HR dept, I would raise this with them. If you are no longer on the clock at 5pm, there’s nothing stopping you from hopping out of the vehicle wherever it is and going home. Keep a record of everything, what was asked of you and when, what action you took and when, and maybe even have a witness sign off. If they try to fire you with cause, you can sue for wrongful termination. Just remember that HR is there to prevent the company from being sued, they are not your friend. At the end of the day, the real solution is obvious: this is what unions are for. Collective bargaining is how you even the odds with greed.

I’m in software. The company gives us access and broadly states they’d like people to find uses for it, but no mandates. People on my team occasionally find uses for it, but we understand what it is, what it can do, and what it would need to be able to do for it to be useful. And usually it’s not. If I thought anyone sent me an email written with AI, I would ask them politely but firmly to never waste my time like that again. I find using AI for writing email to be highly disrespectful. If I worked at a company making a habit out of that, I would leave.

Then they came for the drag queens, and I stood with them, because I know how the rest of the poem goes.

So, the Republican shift toward the far right was already in full swing by the 2000s. You’d need to go back to at least Reagan to head that off. Trickle down economics, Two Santas, etc. was already decades in the making. My dad had already been fully brainwashed by talk radio in the 90s. But on the flip side, the Democratic establishment has made it painfully clear even to this day that their only priority has always been to maintain the status quo for the privileged NIMBY class. The Republican party didn’t need to do anything to keep unaffordability rising, they all want to maintain the housing market bubble to protect the wealth of boomers.

Yeah, a focus on altruism, but make investments to be more effective at it. Hey, you could even get ahead of the game and start a crypto exchange!

Idk but an AI will have written it, and 99.9% of its views will be from bots.