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by rexpop 3y ago
What's in it for me?
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Edit: before you read this, I want you to understand that I am not giving a flippant answer. I spent a half hour of my own working day to draft this response. Childhood education is a mechanism that reproduces the existing social order, by
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by rexpop 3y ago
Just spitballing, here, but maybe some sort of voucher system to distribute leave among all your "alloparents?" But that's hard to systematize. Probably the simplest thing is simply to increase wages and PTO across the board,
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You'll hear no argument from me that the loss of alloparenting is devastating to our national trajectory, but I can't take seriously any suggestion that we return to the Cult of Domesticity; those are the conditions that brought t
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Families with "women in the workplace" are not brainwashed, they are wielding hard earned rights and freedoms against violently indifferent economic structures. Under capitalism, we are not free unless we draw a wage, and women ha
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I don't know what your point is. That children can't articulate their needs? That we should consult adult peers and experts rather than taking children at their word? Of course we should. Children do not teach courses on child dev
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We decry "demands" when we should acknowledge "dependencies;" kids won't properly compile without their needs met.
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Yes of course there are feedback loops involved—which is why I really disagree with the comment that we should look back to the big bang, over which we have no influence (AFAIK, but which I'm not interested in debating)—and if I though
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by rexpop 3y ago
> childhood trauma, broken families, pathogens, and metabolic disorders These are all downstream from the points mentioned. > Personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collec
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> Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk endorsed the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.” > An X post Wednesday afternoon said: “Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing th
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Of course it's mandated from above, but you always have power. There's no such thing as a powerless employee. That's the very basis of a free society. "No power" is another word for "slavery." Or maybe y
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I find it hard to imagine anyone stupid and scrupulous enough to go that route when the honorable and beneficial option is to a) push back on arbitrary metrics and b) strive to extract maximal value out of testing practices in earnest.
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> Poverty is the default. For almost all of human history we were dirt poor. I don't know where you get this absurd idea. For many millennia we were commoning , herding, living in symbiosis with game- and fruit-bearing wildernesses
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> It makes everything else you say come across as insincere. This person doesn't read as "insincere" to me at all. To me, they read as very deliberately and conscientiously conceding shared language and norms where possibl
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by rexpop 3y ago
You're completely right, and barking up the most vital tree. This 8-9.4 hours "working" is what needs to be adulterated with movement, social life, and intellectual pursuits. It also needs to be shorter. As workers, we need t
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by rexpop 3y ago
The reproductive labor force have their own tight schedules. Relegating spouses to reproductive labor imposes a sexual hierarchy that subordinates women to men and denies them opportunities for autonomy and self-valorization. Come on, we&#x
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It's apples to oranges, of course. Apple is one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, and China is one of its most important markets. According to Apple's 2023 annual report, China accounted for 14.6% of its t
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by rexpop 3y ago
Critique is not abuse.
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Well, first of all, whether you read this or not (let alone agree, or concede even an iota) thanks for the opportunity to articulate my thoughts. I don't currently have a partner, no, but I inherited these views from many years of love
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I will admit that, as I was writing my little tirade, I was thinking "damn, though, if that ring is passed down even one generation, it gathers enough meaning to invalidate my claim." I won't begrudge anyone their personal fa
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> It's about the sacrifice, and what that represents. It's about the tradition. Diamond wedding rings have only been en vogue since De Beers' 1946 marketing campaign. It's a garish facet of soulless modernity masquera
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This isn’t about more laws, but about fair enforcement of existing ones. Workers, regardless of their immigration status, should have the right to decent working conditions and fair wages. When any worker is exploited, it affects the labor
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> The reality is that men are hurting and that the whole culture responds to them by saying, “Please do not tell us what you feel.” I have always been a fan of the Sylvia cartoon where two women sit, one looking into a crystal ball as th
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by rexpop 3y ago
Deportation orders in the United States are executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE agents are authorized to carry firearms such as handguns, rifles, and shotguns.
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You exaggerate, but maybe you can instead articulate the differences?
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I think the third option is more plausible; neither executive decree nor individual managers' particular penchant drives these trends, but rather widespread cultural trends that individual managers act on subconsciously. We're
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by rexpop 3y ago
Frankly, it's too powerful. We need much stronger protections for workers if we're going to continue down this route. Deportation threats undermine labor's bargaining power, driving down wages and working conditions. How can
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Yes, ten years back[0]: > In one email exchange after a Google recruiter solicited an Apple employee, Schmidt told Jobs that the recruiter would be fired, court documents show. Jobs then forwarded Schmidt’s note to a top Apple human reso
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Forgive my impatience. :/
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This is a common sentiment echoed regarding many different topics across the human experience, so I want to, for the sake of discussion, try and articulate exactly what are the two sides of this scale that might be worth debating. David Put

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