Whats rustling your jimmies?

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Kithani said:
How would you go about that? Even in countries that offer "paid leave" it never covers the salary of highly successful people. Even in Norway, one of the highest paid maternity leave in the world, they give you a year off and pay the equivalent of 60k. That isn't nothing but will that really move the needle for doctors, lawyers, engineers?
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Off the top of my head.

1. Paid leave would be a company decision, nothing the government could do. I'm not sure who he intended to do this thing, but generally "we need to do something" means government action. Without government action, paid leave is about all I can think of. As a society we would just need to come to expect that the way we expect a 401k and insurance.

2. The government could do something pretty easy. Make deductions for children percentage based instead of flat numbers. I know you think no one is going to choose to have kids for tax reasons, but I do think people choose NOT to have kids for money reasons and something like this would lighten the blow.


What's rustling my jimmies right now is congestion. I'm travelling for work and don't have access to my navage at home or the humidifier for my cpap. This trip was supposed to be over today but we keep getting delays.
 
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Paid maternity leave should not even be an issue
Plain and simple women just don't belong in the work force, there that solved all the problems.


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Fucking verizon. One of the phones on my account broke. So we got an old phone and swapped sims until we could buy a new phone. i got messages from verizon asking me to verify it so I did. I told them we'd swapped verified the new phone, then they got into some bullshit part that I didn't care about and I left it alone. The phone worked fine the entire time.

Then I started getting emails about the pending line change needing to be verified. Today I finally had time to look at it and saw I needed to click one more link. OK cool. Then I immediately get messages saying that line was suspended for suspicious activity. Check the phone and it's dead. Now I'm on the phone with them getting it revived.

Moral of the story is just to do the fucking sim swap and don't tell verizon about it. I should have known because I had another phone that I swapped sims into and it was working fine until I told verizon about it and they told me it wasn't authorized on their network.

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BTW you can't fucking use chat to sort this out. You have to call them and I hate talking to people. Phones are for porn and texting, not making phone calls.
 
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It is a mainstream position among people in academia that the human population needs to be reduced by 90%.

They don't pretend, they don't hide it, they will openly say this and call you a fascist if you argue.

The useful idiots still imagining a "population bomb" and refraining from having kids.. theyre downstream from the real source of the crazy.
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I mean id lie to see the same, though got very different reasons. Cut the Africans, long noses, various white trailer trash, the dumber native south Americans, i guess most arabs, Indians, and the more trash dumb asians like micronesia, Philippines etc.

World would be a lot better without the 70% of the population that isn't dead weight or actively destructive.
 
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Sludig said:
I mean id lie to see the same, though got very different reasons. Cut the Africans, long noses, various white trailer trash, the dumber native south Americans, i guess most arabs, Indians, and the more trash dumb asians like micronesia, Philippines etc.

World would be a lot better without the 70% of the population that isn't dead weight or actively destructive.
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Yeah, there’s a lot of useless meat walking around the world making it worse. The street shitters and the goat fuckers are way too numerous and destructive.
 
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I have a brother who is an extinctionist. This is a step further than what I think you are suggesting. Since he is on the extreme left i often wonder if people like him actually run things and extinction is the goal.
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If he is an extinction-ist in the literal sense, why does he not handle himself?

I think you brought him up before, doesn’t he think humans are a pox or something?

Is he planning on taking out all life or just humans?

If just humans, what is his strategy for another organism gaining the equivalent of sapience eventually and committing the same , or worse “acts”

I do believe human life is the most important type of life, I don’t believe its more important than life itself, and I certainly think we have a lot of useless bodies that don’t need to be…

I suppose if “Intelligence” is what got him to his position, than indeed it is a failed adaption (at least for him), since he is a regressive force, of course it sounds like he talks a big game, despite still sucking down air.

As I’ve said before we need a really, really good Gom Jab<cough>bar
 
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He views us like a pox or virus and sees us as spreading as a worst case scenario. When his girlfriend got pregnant and refused to get an abortion he was beside himself. I suppose he's like most liberals, he'd never kill himself until his life is already done. He's all talk really. To be fair we'd be just fine with a population of 2 billion. Why is depopulation really something to be avoided as long as we have enough of the right kinds of people to progress society.
 
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self-checkout at kroger, got to weigh a bag of onions. look at them, there is no tag on them now. reach into the bag, find a sticker that had come off. scan it, weigh the bag, place it in bag. instead of the normal annoying "please put all items into the bag" message, the screen started flashing red. guy comes over after a few mins, swipes his card. get to watch a vid of me scanning the onion's tag and weighing them. he starts rapidly tapping on the screen trying to get it stop. now watching the vid again, but in like slow motion. he finally gets the ui to come back up and able to clear it off. was a very annoying 5 mins.
 
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Last night I was playing hockey. Total fluke play in front of my own net, the guy in front of me (we were crowding the crease) fell forward and his legs came up. His skate blade managed to miss my shin guards, go inside my hockey shorts, and make a decent sized cut on my inner this, dangerously close to the twig and berries and a major artery. On top of that I then went down and landed square on my hip. Bruised bone. We had a nurse on the bench and she actually got the bleeding to stop before the ambulance got there, but I did bleed on the ice. Kinda made me feel badass.
But now my hip hurts like a son of a bitch if I move at all, and the cut is in an active enough area that walking hurts like a bitch right now. I know in a couple of weeks I will be fine, but I was supposed to do some traveling this weekend, and no way I can do all that walking.

Edit: I am also rustled that the sport I love so much has the potential to damage someone so much with a simple trip while on the ice.
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Bro holy shit don't you have enough medical drama in your life? You gotta go looking for more? LOL
 
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Kajiimagi

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Fucking verizon. One of the phones on my account broke. So we got an old phone and swapped sims until we could buy a new phone. i got messages from verizon asking me to verify it so I did. I told them we'd swapped verified the new phone, then they got into some bullshit part that I didn't care about and I left it alone. The phone worked fine the entire time.

Then I started getting emails about the pending line change needing to be verified. Today I finally had time to look at it and saw I needed to click one more link. OK cool. Then I immediately get messages saying that line was suspended for suspicious activity. Check the phone and it's dead. Now I'm on the phone with them getting it revived.

Moral of the story is just to do the fucking sim swap and don't tell verizon about it. I should have known because I had another phone that I swapped sims into and it was working fine until I told verizon about it and they told me it wasn't authorized on their network.

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BTW you can't fucking use chat to sort this out. You have to call them and I hate talking to people. Phones are for porn and texting, not making phone calls.
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Bro look into Visible, it's actually a Verizon company, $25 or $30 a month flat, same shit you are getting from Verizon without all the BS and none of the drama. Seriously , I cut my account bill in half by leaving Verizon then joining Verizon 2.0.
 
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PSA if you guys didn't know it. I'm building 2 PC's for Xmas presents. Ordered 2 motherboards from Amazon since we're prime members. I ordered all the parts from Amazon mostly because they are the absolute easiest company to send stuff back. The boards are supposed to be here on 10/24/24 , you know, tomorrow. I look up to see who's bringing them and they have not even shipped. Then I do some digging and Amazon is buying them from Newegg business. The company that's the hardest to do returns with. Learn from my mistake and check who the seller is.
Anyhow I cancelled them then bought the exact same MOBO's that are sold and shipped by Amazon for $10 more. Yes I was trying to save money but in the end it wasn't worth it.
 
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Bro look into Visible, it's actually a Verizon company, $25 or $30 a month flat, same shit you are getting from Verizon without all the BS and none of the drama. Seriously , I cut my account bill in half by leaving Verizon then joining Verizon 2.0.
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It is all the same BS and all the same drama. Verizon has been buying all these little shit companies, and now you have an extra layer of yelling at various pajeets who still can't fix anything AND things will be fucked up even worse than before. Just yesterday, I spent an hour nearly yelling at these street shitters, and I am no closer to getting my 2ndary phone account fixed. My phone is stuck in limbo between two companies. Their only fix is to keep manually adding data which really isn't a fix at all.

AT&T is just as bad. GF got a new phone. Traded in her old one at the brick and mortar store, but they wouldn't ship it themselves. We had to take it to UPS depot and ship it ourselves. I saw this game coming a mile away and kept all receipts and took pics of them. Why? Sure as shit the phone was never received they claim. I had proof that it was delivered and sure enough, they "found" it. Amazing how they can find a phone in a few minutes that had been "lost" for a month. They wanted to zing her for $400 by losing a phone they had. I'm sure a LOT of people fall for this scam.

Speaking of scam, POTS was designed to be resilient to outages so people could find help in an EMERGENCY. Here, we no longer have POTS, but have cell towers that aren't maintained or connected to reliable backup power. Power outage hits and we have no internet and no PHONES because the cell phone tower battery is dead and has been for years.

Holy fuck. We had an entirely mechanical phone system that would automatically switch and balance loads, only to be replaced with shit Chinese telecom crap that shits itself at the drop of a hat.

The internet itself was designed to be resilient to outages, but it has been wrecked by lack of foresight. Hell, a single network card took down an entire national ISP's operation for days. Unreal.

I guess our new method of communication will be blankets, kindling, and waterproof matches.

This is what the internet will look like in 2031:

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It is all the same BS and all the same drama. Verizon has been buying all these little shit companies, and now you have an extra layer of yelling at various pajeets who still can't fix anything AND things will be fucked up even worse than before. Just yesterday, I spent an hour nearly yelling at these street shitters, and I am no closer to getting my 2ndary phone account fixed. My phone is stuck in limbo between two companies. Their only fix is to keep manually adding data which really isn't a fix at all.

AT&T is just as bad. GF got a new phone. Traded in her old one at the brick and mortar store, but they wouldn't ship it themselves. We had to take it to UPS depot and ship it ourselves. I saw this game coming a mile away and kept all receipts and took pics of them. Why? Sure as shit the phone was never received they claim. I had proof that it was delivered and sure enough, they "found" it. Amazing how they can find a phone in a few minutes that had been "lost" for a month. They wanted to zing her for $400 by losing a phone they had. I'm sure a LOT of people fall for this scam.

Speaking of scam, POTS was designed to be resilient to outages so people could find help in an EMERGENCY. Here, we no longer have POTS, but have cell towers that aren't maintained or connected to reliable backup power. Power outage hits and we have no internet and no PHONES because the cell phone tower battery is dead and has been for years.

Holy fuck. We had an entirely mechanical phone system that would automatically switch and balance loads, only to be replaced with shit Chinese telecom crap that shits itself at the drop of a hat.

The internet itself was designed to be resilient to outages, but it has been wrecked by lack of foresight. Hell, a single network card took down an entire national ISP's operation for days. Unreal.

I guess our new method of communication will be blankets, kindling, and waterproof matches.

This is what the internet will look like in 2031:

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And don’t forget the little converters that translate voip etc into pots lines for your fire, elevator and security systems.

And then as those items are traditionally facilities - then years later no one knows what they are what lines they actually use or system and now its suddenly “an IT problem”
 
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Fucker said:
It is all the same BS and all the same drama. Verizon has been buying all these little shit companies, and now you have an extra layer of yelling at various pajeets who still can't fix anything AND things will be fucked up even worse than before. Just yesterday, I spent an hour nearly yelling at these street shitters, and I am no closer to getting my 2ndary phone account fixed. My phone is stuck in limbo between two companies. Their only fix is to keep manually adding data which really isn't a fix at all.

AT&T is just as bad. GF got a new phone. Traded in her old one at the brick and mortar store, but they wouldn't ship it themselves. We had to take it to UPS depot and ship it ourselves. I saw this game coming a mile away and kept all receipts and took pics of them. Why? Sure as shit the phone was never received they claim. I had proof that it was delivered and sure enough, they "found" it. Amazing how they can find a phone in a few minutes that had been "lost" for a month. They wanted to zing her for $400 by losing a phone they had. I'm sure a LOT of people fall for this scam.

Speaking of scam, POTS was designed to be resilient to outages so people could find help in an EMERGENCY. Here, we no longer have POTS, but have cell towers that aren't maintained or connected to reliable backup power. Power outage hits and we have no internet and no PHONES because the cell phone tower battery is dead and has been for years.

Holy fuck. We had an entirely mechanical phone system that would automatically switch and balance loads, only to be replaced with shit Chinese telecom crap that shits itself at the drop of a hat.

The internet itself was designed to be resilient to outages, but it has been wrecked by lack of foresight. Hell, a single network card took down an entire national ISP's operation for days. Unreal.

I guess our new method of communication will be blankets, kindling, and waterproof matches.

This is what the internet will look like in 2031:

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Weird bro I don't know what kinda drama you are having with cell phone companies. My experience with Visible could not have been easier. MIL's phone would not change over as it was too old so I bought her a Samsung El-cheap , mine and the wife's Galaxy 22 Ultras were as easy as getting an E-SIM. Each account is tied to my CC to auto pay each month. No more juggling phones under 1 account. I don't even think about it until I get an email with a receipt.
 
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I am a regular blood donor to a regional place. They give out free T-shirts or hats etc. just got a postcard for my next donation next week, it is Christmas themed T-shirt.
 
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went to lowe's, was greeted by a giant abominable snowman. apparently they had christmas stuff out for nearly a month.
 
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It just a flash but the trauma is unmistakable.

I am running down the dock, full sprint.
The boat is there but as I get closer it begins to slide away.
I rush as fast as I can, reach the edge of the dock as the boat pulls further away, leaping through the air I extend all my will to trying to slow the boat’s escape and force reality to warp me aboard…

…I fail.

Treading water i watch as the boat disappears over the horizon, I scream obscene curses at the Gods while weeping silent tears to myself.

Sony owes me reparations for the ptsd suffered whenever I missed the boat in EQ.
 
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On an individual level, I don't care if people have kids or don't have kids. It's your choice, you're the one thats going to have to do the thousands of hours of work to raise them. But on the societal level having 70 IQ retards being the ones having the majority of kids is obviously bad and we need to incentivize successful people to have kids. We aren't currently doing that.
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You don't even really need to incentivize kids if your populace isn't propagandized into thinking they're a vampiric parasite on your time and money, and aren't living in mouse utopia urban super-cities.

It's literally THE ONLY useful thing to do with one's life. The fact so many Americans have the beliefs they have regarding raising children is completely unnatural.
 
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