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keep punching joe posted:The evil company that I work for continues to be good at the pandemic (terrible at everything else), and are now shutting down all plans to switch to hybrid/return to office until after Christmas at least. Spent the night feeling like there was bullet made of phlehm lodged in my esophagus, hacked it up this morning and was happy to get a negative test result. Good thing too as work is opening back up in the face of covid's steady decline, so I can share whatever this is with everyone tomorrow.
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The Question IRL posted:* = Something that is controversial but all the social welfare/tax benefits that families with children get are well earned and probably should be increased. You aren't a bad person if you decide not to have children, but you are a good person if you do have children and raise them right. I don't think that's controversial from a left wing perspective; raising a child is expensive. What's lovely is when it's used to divide people into deserving and undeserving recipients of welfare, but I think everyone here knows that it's the people that try to foment that divide that are at fault.
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Nov 30, 2021 12:51
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That reminds me that I want to set up a donation to the RNLI - even more so if they have to deal with shits like that
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Nov 30, 2021 12:54
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The Question IRL posted:Something that is controversial but all the social welfare/tax benefits that families with children get are well earned and probably should be increased. There's proverbs dating back a long way about "if you feed a child they'll feed you back [n] times" and so on, and if it weren't true I imagine we'd have found out somewhere around the time we went extinct. Tax credits themselves are Blairite Reaganomics bullshit designed to separate the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' parents though, so I'd rather all families supporting children got child welfare support regardless of whether they need it or not than some get welfare and others get tax credits and only one of those gets demonized as handouts for asbo children.
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Nov 30, 2021 12:56
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Tarnop posted:I don't think that's controversial from a left wing perspective; raising a child is expensive. What's lovely is when it's used to divide people into deserving and undeserving recipients of welfare, but I think everyone here knows that it's the people that try to foment that divide that are at fault. I'm not sure about that. I can remember last year (during the height of the Pandemic) this thread going into a derail about whether it was moral or not to have children with the Pandemic going on. (And the associated argument of "if you want children so bad, just adopt one. There is millions of them out there and it's better for the environment than creating more." Which really strikes me as taking arguments about should you get a puppy and doing a Find/Replace dog with child.) And occasional I have seen people here get angry about politicians using "I am a parent" as a sign of competence for decision making, saying that parents and traditional families are shown too much deference by the current system. However I think in some cases it is posters showing trauma from having been endlessly questioned about "when you are having children? What do you mean you aren't?" People shouldn't be made feel like they owe a duty or an expectation to have kids. But on the flip side, those who do decide to have children should be lauded and given as much support as needed. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 12:59
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Those are a bunch of different, separate arguments. I think it's pretty uncontroversial here to say that people who exist, no matter what sequence of decisions led up to that point, deserve enough resources to live a happy and fulfilling life
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Nov 30, 2021 13:03
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Parents and 'traditional' families are shown too much deference by the current system, especially given that the idea of the traditional family is something fabricated entirely by modernity. When's the last time that you heard something positive being said about multi-generational households or extended families? Last year during the height of the pandemic they were being blamed for spreading Covid on purpose while the government was doing nothing about people being sent straight from hospital into care homes. And single parents, despite often needing more in the way of support, have been a useful kickball for successive governments since at least the 70s when the rhetoric went from "oh dear, we need to help" to "this is moral decline!"
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Nov 30, 2021 13:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:my theory is that everyone's forgotten just how much colds suck and between that and paranoia about Delta (and now Omicron) it all just *feels* much worse than it actually is - I mean with a couple of paracetamol and a squirt of decongestant I was straight back to normal apart from feeling a bit tired, I feel like in the Before Times I wouldn't even have noticed it. She's currently suffering like hell and asking how the hell I managed to get out of bed while being that exhausted and 
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Nov 30, 2021 13:10
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Guavanaut posted:Parents and 'traditional' families are shown too much deference by the current system, especially given that the idea of the traditional family is something fabricated entirely by modernity. There's a plausible hypothesis that politicians love the 'nuclear' family so much because it's the smallest possible family unit that can still work and raise children while being isolated, vulnerable and easy to control. People who have the support of big, clannish, extended family networks ate going to be far less likely to put up with a lovely job or automatically comply with State demands, because they don't have the same constant fear of ending up on the street if their salary gets switched off.
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Nov 30, 2021 13:37
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Pistol_Pete posted:There's a plausible hypothesis that politicians love the 'nuclear' family so much because it's the smallest possible family unit that can still work and raise children while being isolated, vulnerable and easy to control. People who have the support of big, clannish, extended family networks ate going to be far less likely to put up with a lovely job or automatically comply with State demands, because they don't have the same constant fear of ending up on the street if their salary gets switched off. This is certainly my thinking.
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Nov 30, 2021 13:40
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Pistol_Pete posted:There's a plausible hypothesis that politicians love the 'nuclear' family so much because it's the smallest possible family unit that can still work and raise children while being isolated, vulnerable and easy to control. People who have the support of big, clannish, extended family networks ate going to be far less likely to put up with a lovely job or automatically comply with State demands, because they don't have the same constant fear of ending up on the street if their salary gets switched off.
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Nov 30, 2021 13:48
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The Question IRL posted:You aren't a bad person if you decide not to have children, but you are a good person if you do have children and raise them right. My sister & her hubby did that for their eight kids (she was a primary school teacher  ) and they did a wonderful job, just not one i could do.  edit: to create a coherent sentence. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 14:07
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Having kids when you can just get a dog is baffling imo
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Nov 30, 2021 14:11
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a potted plant is more than enough responsibility for me
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Nov 30, 2021 14:17
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I made a kid a few weeks ago and so far it's been really quite affordable. Mostly because everyone else is constantly throwing their baby stuff away so getting free baby stuff is incredibly easy. So far we've spent like £500 but accumulated £3000 worth of baby stuff (and the child benefit, worth £86 a month, is mitigating some of what little we've spent. Soon this baby will have made us money) The childcare next year is where costs are really going to bite
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Nov 30, 2021 15:03
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I want a benefit for not having children, way I see it I'm doing all of you, including the child, a big favour by not doing it.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:04
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OwlFancier posted:I want a benefit for not having children, way I see it I'm doing all of you, including the child, a big favour by not doing it. Your benefit is the gift of sleep, oh how I miss it
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Nov 30, 2021 15:05
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I mean yes I am benefiting that way but I want the government to give me money for it. Or more specifically I want the government to give me money and I am using that as the excuse because I think it is a good excuse and only slightly seems like some sort of ransom demand.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:06
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Your benefit is the gift of sleep, oh how I miss it We are blessed with a little angel baby who decided that she wanted to sleep through the night at the 2 and a half month mark. When I say this to other mums and dads, I get this look like "you don't realize how good you got it." (In fairness I do still remember how bad it was in the early days of trying to operate on no sleep. Driving on the motorway and realizing that I was falling asleep while driving still haunts my dreams.) But yeah the ultimate benefit that non parents get is they don't have to deal with all the stuff parents deal with. (Sleepless nights, constant screaming, having to do endless washing of clothes/disinfecting of bottles/soothers/nipper shields.) It's like that bit from the Council of Reed Richards in Fantastic Four. "The cost of Fixing Everything, is everything*." *= To sum it up for non nerds, a cross Multiverse group of Reed Richards get together to solve all the Universes problems. The 616 Reed is offered to join. He discovers that how all these alternate universe Reeds have to time to fix all the Universes problems is they all are estranged from their families. 616 decides that is too high a price even to fix the universe.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/29/someone-needs-a-kick-up-the-butt-bexley-voters-consider-tories-recordquote:... Sue Buckley, a retired Sidcup resident, said she would “love Boris to sort himself out” and “might vote Labour”. However her criticisms extended to wider frustrations with the government. “Someone needs a kick up the butt,” she said. “I don’t believe them any more. They backtrack a lot.” ... Lmao what is anyone smoking that they think that Labour might win this by-election, or that people who would "love Boris to sort himself out" will ever be Labour supporters.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:16
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goddamnedtwisto posted:my theory is that everyone's forgotten just how much colds suck and between that and paranoia about Delta (and now Omicron) it all just *feels* much worse than it actually is There was a doctor on the new a few weeks back saying the 'super' cold is just the regular cold, except everyone's immune system has had 18 months off and is a bit rusty
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Nov 30, 2021 15:26
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Nov 30, 2021 15:27
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This is some properly dystopian poo poo: https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1465630149269987334?t=sTw05jJzgkkdwln5rIoI2g&s=19
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Nov 30, 2021 15:32
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Common cold can remain dormant in your lungs for months after an infection. Changes in your immune system caused by fatigue or colder weather can cause it to reactivate and reinfect the host.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I made a kid a few weeks ago and so far it's been really quite affordable. Mostly because everyone else is constantly throwing their baby stuff away so getting free baby stuff is incredibly easy. So far we've spent like £500 but accumulated £3000 worth of baby stuff (and the child benefit, worth £86 a month, is mitigating some of what little we've spent. Soon this baby will have made us money) make a reminder in your calendar to set up a childcare tax free account with .gov (google it), knocks of >£100 per month
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Skarsnik posted:There was a doctor on the new a few weeks back saying the 'super' cold is just the regular cold, except everyone's immune system has had 18 months off and is a bit rusty that isn't how immune systems work 
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Nov 30, 2021 15:36
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Bobby Deluxe posted:This is some properly dystopian poo poo: How to determine if someone is a 'good culture fit' when CVs are anonymized.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:38
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I've had somewhat more sympathy for hirers recently after I put a job ad out two weeks ago and got 112 applicants. Where the gently caress do you begin with 112 CVs? It ends up just being a massive exercise of "no, no, no" without any realistic possibility of offering any feedback as to why.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:46
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I reckon a computer would probably like me better than a person might
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Bobby Deluxe posted:This is some properly dystopian poo poo: One of the worst things I ever did as an undergrad was have a practise interview videoed by the careers office and played back to me with critique. Watching the video back, I just spent the whole time thinking "who is going to employ THAT" (I had horrendous acne at the time) and it completely destroyed my self-confidence. So, not only were graduate jobs almost non-existent when I graduated (1981 was a dreadful year for graduate recruitment, the careers office was just fully of racks of completely empty company folders, the jobs fair ('milkround') was cancelled, and I've mentioned before, around 500 of the 'top' graduates in the UK who had been recruited by IBM were sacked before they even started work, but I hardly dared apply for anything anyway. I'm sure one of the major reasons employers are finding it hard to recruit nowadays is the use of AI and online forms, whether it be searching online applications for keywords, complete lack of scope for anyone who hasn't a linear career showing a steady progression of slightly better jobs in the same field with a steady salary increase.
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It's also massively discriminatory against Autistic people, but given that its treatment of neurotypical people isn't really any better, I'd say that's the least of its problems.
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If you're just talking to a camera in general that's gonna make you look like a weird robot unless you are specifically practiced at acting. Your body language doesn't work if you aren't talking to a person, or at least you cannot mentally trick yourself into acting as if you are, which is a skill I don't think many people just have.
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Lib Dems to announce a skills wallet to train in interacting with two ping pong balls on a mop handle like CG movie actors.
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OwlFancier posted:If you're just talking to a camera in general that's gonna make you look like a weird robot unless you are specifically practiced at acting. Your body language doesn't work if you aren't talking to a person, or at least you cannot mentally trick yourself into acting as if you are, which is a skill I don't think many people just have. Don't worry, the replies have a solution https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1465653611296403456?s=20
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Nov 30, 2021 15:59
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Ah the classic three drinks and I'm invincible tactic, I know it all too well.
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Nov 30, 2021 16:01
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NotJustANumber99 posted:where was the cold for those 18 months? Someone was sitting there with it for all that time? my 10 week old has slept through the night since day 1. Insisted on doing it on my chest for the first week or 2 mind, but I feel like I've won the lottery & look forward to my karmic punishment
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Nov 30, 2021 16:07
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I've done plenty of interviews hungover, not sure ever drunk.
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Nov 30, 2021 16:08
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Imagine approaching anything related to work without a permanent state of inebriation.
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Borrovan posted:strains of flu have literally been going extinct Covid has nuffin on baby plague when they start going to nursery. sinky posted:Don't worry, the replies have a solution We need a study where someone does these things while under the influence of various substances. Who knew LSD + cocaine would make the AI think you were a fantastic applicant? Z the IVth fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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