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BiggerBoat posted:And poo poo like this is barely registering anymore We've already gotten so numb to mass shootings that 28 people being shot doesn't matter since only two people died. We also have the weird cognitive bias where "shooting where 8 people died = tragedy," but "5 different shootings where one person died at each shooting = meh" because "only" one person died at each shooting. Once we decided that killing a class of kindergartners was worth not changing gun laws at all, then we pretty much wrote it off. When even a universal background check bill supported by Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey is too extreme to pass the Senate, then you're already in too deep.
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Bishyaler posted:Remember how a bunch of people insisted that sanctions wouldn't result in Russian citizens starving? About that. Did you actually read the article? There are no sanctions on sugar, nobody is starving, and the article explicitly says what the cause is: quote:Sugar shortages have been the first major material consequences of the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine felt by many ordinary Russians. It’s been caused by a cocktail of factors that include government attempts to regulate prices, skyrocketing demand and a crash in the value of the Russian currency. The article even says that Russia does not import much sugar, so even a hypothetical (and again, there are no sanctions on sugar) blockade of sugar would have little impact. quote:Russia imports a relatively small amount of sugar The Russian government doesn't even claim it is the result of outside interference: quote:Russian officials insist there’s no sugar deficit and that the crisis is an artificial one, caused by consumer panic-buying and unscrupulous manufacturing and distribution companies hoarding sugar in an attempt to push prices higher. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:Is there some reason you cut off half that sentence and then edited the introductory clause to conceal this and make it seem like a complete thought making the opposite point? I was highlighting the point that Russia doesn't import much sugar. The OP said that people were starving, there were sanctions on Russia directly causing this sugar shortage, and that this starvation was a direct result of them. None of which were accurate. The article says that Russia imports relatively little sugar, that there are no sanctions on sugar, and that the Russian government says that isn't true. Does that change the point that there are no sugar sanctions on Russia, nobody is starving, and the Russian government itself says that there is no foreign cause or even an overall shortage? Those three quotes are disproving the three assertions the OP made because he likely didn't read the article. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Bishyaler posted:"Similar shortages are almost inevitable as Western sanctions and the continuing fighting in Ukraine isolate Russia from the global economy. Inflation in Russia is rising rapidly and a cost-of-living crisis is looming." That similar shortage linked in the story was wheat. The Russian government doesn't make you not read the article, though. There re no sanctions on sugar, nobody is starving, and literally nobody in the article actually claims that is true. It's like showing a video of a toilet paper rush during Covid or Black Friday and claiming that people in the U.S. are starving and desperate for food because of sanctions. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:Except that is not what the quote says, it says sanctions are causing the problem It explicitly does not say that. Literally nobody (except for the OP in this forum), including the Russian government, is claiming that people are starving or that the sugar issue is caused by sanctions. It says that sudden surge in demand, hoarding by vendors, the fluctuations of the ruble, price controls, and skyrocketing demand are the cause. quote:It’s been caused by a cocktail of factors that include government attempts to regulate prices, skyrocketing demand and a crash in the value of the Russian currency. Although Russia imports a relatively small amount of sugar, the gyrations in the value of the ruble mean foreign companies are suddenly unwilling to sign contracts with their Russian counterparts. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:You also seem to have selectively quoted a lot ie. The part where the Russian government says everything is fine and it's all greedy sugar hoarders causing the problem and curiously left out analysis contradicting the government like Inflation is rising across the entire world and has been for a year. Russia's inflation rate is lower than the U.S. and is not the result of sanctions. You can predict that there will be harsher sanctions in the future that do end up starving Russians, but the article is explicitly not about anyone starving and not about sanctions. It just isn't. Claiming that the article is about Russians starving because of sanctions is 100% wrong. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Lib and let die posted:Leon, people in the US are starving and desperate for food: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/...going%20hungry. They aren't because of Black Friday or sanctions. That was the literal point. Bishyaler posted:Watching you argue that sanctions aren't doing what sanctions are specifically designed to do is sure a fun derail. Its almost like you should just take the L and admit the Biden administration made the situation much worse. You just didn't read the article. It's not a huge deal, but you can't post the literal opposite conclusion of the article and then assert that your incorrect statement is right by citing the article you didn't read. You can predict that there will be sanctions on sugar or people starving in the future. But, you are wildly incorrect to say that the article you linked supports the claim that "people are starving" and it is a direct result of sanctions.
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VitalSigns posted:This is just your opinion It is not. Please find a source that people in Russia are starving due to lack of sugar that is a direct result of sanctions. If you think that the original assertion is correct, then you are mistaken. If you don't, then we don't disagree.
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VitalSigns posted:I was talking about the part where you said the sanctions aren't causing inflation, which you should know since you are ignoring the quote from the article that says it, and the official statement from the Biden administration agreeing with it I feel like "read the article you are posting" isn't an incredibly high standard to adhere too. I'm pretty sure it is one of the few actual rules. After he posted it, there were a dozen posts following it of people taking his word for it that people were starving and that there were sanctions on sugar.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the big one is minimum wage; miraculously while they had control of state government nobody was ever able to get around to scheduling a vote on increasing it I think you are thinking of Right to Work. That was the issue where Lee got the local unions, DSA, and Democratic establishment mad at him. Virginia passed a minimum wage increase that is scheduled to further increase each year for the next few years. Cancelling the subsequent raises is one of the things that Youngkin and the new House Republican majority have as part of their "Get Virginia Back to Work" plan. The original bill passed in 2020 and the repeal passed a few months ago, but it failed because there is a 1-vote Democratic majority in the state Senate that voted down the repeal.
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The KBJ hearings seem to be going pretty normally.quote:Tillis: I want you to take a position on adding justices to court. You appeared at events hosted by radical groups that want to expand the Supreme Court, but you say that you won't address your personal opinion on the matter because it is a "political" matter. This isn't even an "I can't recall" situation. You are just not telling this committee. On trans issues: quote:Blackburn: How can you make rulings on the rights of women and deciding who is or is not a woman when you are not a biologist and therefor could not define a woman? https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1506450993801842689 https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1506635233415897100 quote:Graham: You gave child rapists sentences that would result in them getting released from prison at some point and advocated for mandatory reviews of life sentences. I think most Americans would agree that, at the very least, they should be dying in prison and not out on the streets again. quote:Hawley: You consistently gave child predators a lower sentence than prosecutors wanted. Do you think you know better than them? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. quote:Graham: What faith are you by the way?” quote:Cornyn: You have called Former President George W. Bush and Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "war criminals" in past speeches. Why would you do that? It seems so out of character. https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1506383092000464904 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Not a surprise really, but it is kind of wild that nobody will look twice at Lindsay Graham saying that people accused of sex crimes shouldn't get due process and should just be executed without trial or appeal instead. Ted Cruz has also spent his entire time allotment for questions asking about Georgetown Day School's radical CRT agenda for preschoolers and asking if KBJ thinks babies are racist. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1506345537741770757 GhostofJohnMuir posted:hawley finds the real victim of child pornography, himself Yeah, "what if my kids stumble across child porn online and I have to explain that to them" is probably the 74th or 75th most pressing issue with child porn.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Why do people here hate Lee Carter now? Why is he an “rear end in a top hat”? I legitimately still don't know why the local unions and DSA decided he was an rear end in a top hat. The issue they cited was that he turned right to work repeal into a selfish self-promotion thing for his Gubernatorial run that he knew wouldn't pass anyway and made sure it wouldn't get a vote. But, the bill was dead in committee for multiple years, so its not like it was on the verge of passing and he made it a joke. The main thing other elected office holders were mad about was that he "messed up the legislative calendar" by trying to force a vote for something that wasn't going to pass and didn't tell anyone beforehand, so nobody was prepared and they had to delay votes on other things and he "disrespected" his colleagues by not warning anyone and they voted it down 83-13.
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Mar 23, 2022 16:54
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FlamingLiberal posted:So according to SCOTUS, red states do not have to redraw maps before an election, but blue/purple states do Reading through the decision, it looks like the reasoning was that the Governor created 7 majority black districts and said that he did so on purpose to comply with the voting rights act. The state Supreme Court didn't write their own map and instead used the Governor's. The conservative majority are arguing that: 1) The state supreme court was supposed to draw their own map and by just rubberstamping the Governor's option, they violated the procedure for how the map should have been made. 2) That based on the decisions in Shelby County and LULAC, the Governor violated the voting rights act because, by creating those majority black districts, he reduced the amount of black voters in competitive districts without a legitimate reason to do so under strict scrutiny rules and thus reduced the power of voters based on their race. They aren't entirely wrong, but this is definitely the first time that John "literally wrote the majority opinion in Shelby County" Roberts has decided that a racial redistricting case under the voting rights act had to be redone because it was too "harsh" on diluting minority voting power (which, you can argue they did, but the map actually increases the number of minority-majority districts and was supported by the NAACP, so it is hard to argue the Governor was doing it to "dilute" black voting power.) It's not too crazy that someone could come to that conclusion, but it is insane that Roberts, Alito, and Kavanaugh would apply basically the strictest interpretation possible (which they have not only never done before, but usually fall way on the opposite side of giving the state overwhelming benefit of the doubt) of the voting rights act right after the Merrill decision last month.
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Mar 23, 2022 18:29
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Florida is now actively refusing to recognize trans athletes, considers being trans cheating, and declaring that only cis athletes can be recognized as winners in sporting matches. Pretty wild, even given the history of wild anti-trans moves recently. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1506556130390126611 quote:Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the "NCAA is destroying opportunities for women" and "perpetuating a fraud" by letting transgender women compete in women's sports. quote:Since the start of 2021, 11 states, including Florida, have written trans sports bans into law, according to tallies from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:yeah, my suspicion on that is that the "how dare he try to get us to vote on right to work" thing was a mutually-convenient way for everyone involved to go out claiming to be guns blazing for their ideological commitments, as opposed to an actual reason of "can we please get rid of this guy before the domestic violence story blows up into something bigger, we've already got enough of that between Governor Great-Yearbooks and Lieutenant Governor Look Women Make This Stuff Up All The Time." I don't think there is any actual evidence for this theory, but it would make a lot more sense in explaining why the local unions and DSA dropped him so thoroughly and so quickly. And why the other elected officials didn't really care when he pulled similar stunts initially. Either the local unions had a better feeling about right to work repeal or the political situation and felt he actually did mess it up or they were already annoyed/worried about him and this was just a big public thing that was 100% on Carter that they could use as a jumping off point. Edit: Just saw the mod request.
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Willa Rogers posted:^^^ You keep mentioning how baffled you are that "unions have dropped him" and you've been saying so for months. Have you delved into which particular unions, and their stated reasons? (His staff was the first to unionize in Virginia among pols, btw.) These are all of the unions who endorsed his primary opponent: - Virginia AFL-CIO - United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America - Virginia Education Association - The national AFL-CIO - Service Employees International Union - Virginia Professional Firefighters Union - Virginia Plumbers and Pipefitters Union - Laborers' International Union of North America - United Steelworkers Union - Communications Workers of America All of them just say nice things about his primary opponent in their statements, but don't really get into why they didn't support Carter. One of the reasons its hard to get info on what went down is that basically nobody commented on it on publicly except for Carter and one or two members of the legislature. The local DSA chapter put out a short statement that didn't really get into specifics and most of the unions just endorsed his primary opponent without saying much about Carter. Most of the other stuff comes from random people who worked for Carter, Twitter, or other non-journalistic sources.
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Harold Fjord posted:The business Dem who won or the leftist who split the vote? The one who won.
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After taking 5 months to solve the daylight savings time issue, congress is moving on to the next largest problem in America: The Penny. Covid supply chain issues, Zinc shortages, and the U.S. budget deficit have combined to make congress look into eliminating the penny. The reasons for elimination are: - It costs ~1.8 cents to make one penny and the GAO has determined that there is no possible way to lower the cost of making a penny to lower than the face value of the coin. - The U.S. treasury says that roughly 2/3 of pennies minted never circulate. That means they are either lost, sitting in a drawer, or discarded. - A Gallup poll from 2015 says that 2% of Americans admit that they throw their pennies into the trash and 40% never use them. - Supply chain issues are not only raising the cost of making the penny, but also producing coin shortages. Despite these shortages, they are still minting money that will mostly never circulate. - People are using more digital currency and pennies are less necessary for making change. The arguments for keeping it are: - Nickels cost more to make than a penny. The mint would have to produce more nickels to make up for the lack of pennies. - Most coins circulate for an average of 20 or 30 years, so even though it costs more to make a penny than the penny is worth, it will probably still break even over a 20 or 30 year period. - Pennies are one of the most common donations to charity. Organizations such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Salvation Army, and the Ronald McDonald House ask people to donate pennies to raise funds. - The Lincoln Presidential Library opposes eliminating any currency with Lincoln on it and the U.S. Zinc council says that 1,100 jobs are dependent on the penny minting process. quote:BLOOMINGTON — A penny saved is a penny gained. But what if there's no penny at all? https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/circulating-coinage-production-totals-fall-for-2021 https://pantagraph.com/business/loc...b7f787f5d2.html Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Also, apparently Dr. Oz was appointed to the President's Council on Sports, Physical Fitness, and Nutrition by Trump and is still there. But, Biden has asked him to resign or be fired by 6 pm tonight. Honestly not sure which is more confusing: That he was there in the first place or that they bothered to kick him off after a year of being there into Biden's term. https://twitter.com/DrOz/status/1506747211257978889 https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1506752795604656130
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WaPo and NYT articles with more detail and context on the massive spike in alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. tl;dr - The upward trend of alcohol-related deaths had been occurring before the pandemic and wasn't caused by the pandemic, but really accelerated and spiked during the pandemic. - Previously, alcohol-related deaths had been on a steady climb of about 3% per year every year in the last decade. But, it was an astronomical 26% increase in 2020. - Even though there were almost no cars on the road and bars were closed for most of 2020, there were more than 11,000 alcohol-related traffic deaths in 2020. - Full data for 2021 isn't available yet, but preliminary data indicates that alcohol-related deaths remained around the high reached in 2020. - Some scientists think this may be a "new normal" and alcohol-related deaths won't start to decrease until consumption goes down. - Although consumption among the youth has declined, it has been steadily increasing - both in amount of people drinking and the total amount of drinks they average per week - for the last 15 years and doesn't show signs of declining. - Alcohol sales in the U.S. in the last two years have set a record. 1968 is the only year with a larger annual increase in alcohol sales. - Even before the pandemic, few people with alcohol problems got treatment. It generally isn't viewed as a problem until law enforcement or major health issues become involved. But, even if everyone with alcohol-related issues did want to get treatment, that there isn't capacity for it anyway. quote:Almost a million people in the United States have died of Covid-19 in the past two years, but the full impact of the pandemic’s collateral damage is still being tallied. Now a new study reports that the number of Americans who died of alcohol-related causes increased precipitously during the first year of the pandemic, as routines were disrupted, support networks frayed and treatment was delayed. quote:Michael Barnett, assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the coronavirus pandemic did not create many new social problems. It magnified the ones some people were struggling with — social isolation, financial uncertainty, the burden of mental illness with not enough available treatment, he said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/23/alcohol-related-deaths-pandemic/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/health/alcohol-deaths-covid.html
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Willa Rogers posted:Sincere question: Is there another country in the world with as bizarre of a "healthcare system" as ours? The U.S. is the only OECD country without a form of universal healthcare. Israel and the Netherlands have universal private systems that are basically national Obamacare. But, no other (major) country has anything similar to the general American healthcare system.
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DarkCrawler posted:As bizarre? No. Worse or no healthcare systems? Absolutely. This is technically true. The U.S. doesn't have the worst healthcare outcomes in the world (it typically ranks ~18th out of 193), but a lot of that is due to the fact that the U.S. is wealthy and can coast on that. Also, most people are covered through the weird patchwork of public and employer-provided systems. But, the U.S. has very few guardrails compared to other countries, so despite the fact that it "works" for most people most of the time, the bottom 10-15% of the population or people who run into one of the instances where it doesn't "work most of the time" can fall into a pit that would be almost impossible to fall into in other countries. The fact that the U.S. is the richest country in the world and #1 in many individual financial/quality of life indicators, but #18 on healthcare is indicative that it is severely underperforming relative to its capacity. It's not "the worst" healthcare system in the world, but it is pretty bad in context. "U.S. healthcare is better than nearly 90% of other countries" and "U.S. healthcare is a wildly inefficient disaster" are both technically correct, but don't really mean anything without context of how rich the U.S. is and how poorly it performs relative to other countries.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Extra scary thing to consider with this is the new studies confirming pretty much any alcohol is bad for you and causes damage to your brain tissue. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/any-amount-of-alcohol-consumption-harmful-to-the-brain-finds-study I can't remember who said it, but someone had a quote about how if alcohol were invented today, it would be immediately banned and the news reports would say "New drug is highly addictive, is one of the top 10 causes of death, causes 6 different types of cancer, kills thousands on the road each year, heightens aggression, and can be made in your basement with just simple plants!"
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punk rebel ecks posted:The general consensus is that it’s roughly 1/5th to 1/3rd of Americans who can’t afford care at all. Per capita and median calculations by definition factor inequality into the count. Mean or average calculations are subject to outlier skews. The U.S. has the highest per capita disposable income of any country, even when taking into account taxes and transfers like free/reduced healthcare and education. https://www.statista.com/statistics/725764/oecd-household-disposable-income-per-capita/ The standard deviation for distribution in the U.S. is wider than other countries, but the median American has more disposable income than a median citizen of any other country even after accounting for government benefits and taxation. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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I'm legitimately surprised he's invoking the DPA for climate change. The hesitance to use it for other issues doesn't really make sense if the administration is willing to use it for climate change (which is probably slightly more of a stretch than other potential uses). It also includes a fun blatant bribe for Manchin by making West Virginia the center of the new domestic lithium battery and green energy production supply chain. I'm sure in less than 24 hours there will be a lawsuit against arguing that climate change doesn't fall under the national security requirement. It will be fun (not really) to see the justices who normally give the government a wide berth in deciding what is a national security issue (including Alito who once ruled that the federal government merely saying something is a state secret qualifies it as a national security issue outside the bounds of congress and the courts) suddenly decide that the executive branch has gone too far and needs to be reigned in. https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1507041077919891467 quote:BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DRAFTING ORDER TO INVOKE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT FOR GREEN ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
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punk rebel ecks posted:Your link is locked behind a paywall. They do take all transfers into account. It's been true forever. You can find it hard to believe, but it has been true for many years. The median U.S. citizen doesn't have twice as much disposable income as the average E.U. citizen. Just some countries in the E.U. The median citizen of Latvia, Hungary, and Portugal aren't the median representatives of the E.U. as a whole. You also have to factor in PPP adjustments. In many E.U. countries, you have large amounts of the population living in a single central urban environment with higher costs of living. ~16% of England's population lives in London. For the U.S., the largest city is NYC and only 2.5% of Americans live there.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I think our very rich skew those averages but the basics of "Americans have few services but more opportunities to get filthy rich and Europeans have more services but less opportunities to get filthy rich" seem to be backed by the numbers. I'd personally like more services and less chances to get filthy rich. Our very rich don't skew per capita and median measures. Mean/Average is not the same as Median.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Think again. The US is 27th on the Global Social Mobility index, behind most European nations Yeah, mobility is actually lower in the U.S. than in Canada or (most) E.U. countries. The standard deviation of income distribution in the U.S. is wider than those countries. So, even though the median American has more disposable income than the median E.U. citizen, the absolute poorest 12.5% of U.S. citizens have about equal or even less disposable income than the poorest 12.5% of French citizens; and the richest 12.5% of Americans have significantly more disposable income than the richest 12.5% of French citizens.
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BiggerBoat posted:There's also the thing where if you need to see a shrink, go to rehab type visits or what have you that a LOT of employers will not work with you and any of these types of interruptions in building cogs for them count against you. I have psychiatrist and pain management doctors that I absolutely have to legally see every legally defined period of time or else I cannot refill my medication. And I can't usually pick and choose what times they have available. Just FYI, they can't actually hold it against you in your review or penalize you financially for medical appointments under FMLA. Sometimes, you might have to invoke FMLA yourself if your employer doesn't want to let you know about it. They don't have to pay you for FMLA time, but they can't mark it against you and if there is any perception that they fired you or penalized you for FMLA-eligible time, then they can have major problems. Ongoing maintenance or recurring treatment for a mental or physical illness (addiction is considered a illness) will always be covered under FMLA. You just can't exceed 12 weeks in a year. And your employer has to be bound by it, so it doesn't apply to small businesses with only a dozen people. I doubt a factory would ever fall under that, though.
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Mellow Seas posted:I gotcha loud and clear on median but isn’t “per capita” usually a straight expression of total $/population? I think that eg Bezos WOULD add $10 to the per capita disposable figure income. Yes, I meant "purchasing power parity" and not per capita. Autocorrect got me. Edit: My Android phone also wants to autocorrect "PPP" to "FBI" despite there being no common letters in either. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Harold Fjord posted:What they can actually do is find every other acceptable excuse to harass you. And often they do. FMLA is pretty ironclad and there actually aren't that many violations annually. They absolutely can harass you about other "legit" violations, though.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I mean does "disposable income" really matter if people can't afford healthcare, housing, education, and the like where U.S. lags compared to it's Canadian or EU counterparts? When it includes transfers for healthcare and education, they are factored in already. And the U.S. does not lag Canada in affordable housing. Canada's real estate market is currently insane and worse than the U.S. The average home price in the U.S. is ~$322k USD (~$403,683 Canadian dollars) The average home price in Canada is ~$748k Canadian dollars (~$596,645 USD) https://globalnews.ca/news/8620883/...%20CREA%20said.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:wouldn't put it past him by a long shot, but to my knowledge only one of America and Russia is currently actively engaged in a program of ethnic cleansing at its borders I've got some bad news for you.
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Not surprising given her views on gays and lesbians, but Tulsi has officially crossed over into TERF territory. https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1506937567337345030 Weirdly, Tucker also announced that he considers himself a TERF (although he didn't use the word) because his main problem with trans rights are that it is anti-science and that opportunities for women are being erased by "men" taking their spots in sports, jobs, and politics; and he wants to promote women in those roles. https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1506783469581578241 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:How does it "factor in" when less Americans can afford emergency payments and a third of them aren't getting any type healthcare due to cost? Because when you are measuring outlays and payments and include transfers for education and health, then you are factoring in taxes and monetary transfers. Very simplified example: Two people make 50k. Person A pays 10k in taxes and pays 3k for medical care. That is a net negative of 13k from your gross income and Person A has 37k in disposable income. Person B pays 20k in taxes and receives 5k in in-kind contributions for healthcare from the government. That is a net negative of 15k from your gross income and Person B has 35k in disposable income. You're also confusing self-reported survey data with actual data from bank accounts and expenditures.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:...you say this, and then when you click through to the Facebook (?) link, the actual crime russian soldiers stand accused of is removing schoolbooks about Great Hero Bandera, which makes me raise an eyebrow. Putin is pretty clear on what he thinks about genocide and Ukraine. He doesn't think Ukraine is a real country or real people and that the destruction of the false Ukrainian identity is necessary to free the confused or persecuted Russians in Ukraine who yearn to return the territory to the motherland. That is pretty genocide 101. quote:Genocide: Killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group This is his actual official Kremlin translation and a PR release from the Kremlin Wire Service: quote:Russia is restoring its unity – the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe in our history, its unnatural dislocation, has been overcome. Yes, at a great cost, yes, through the tragic events of a virtual civil war, because now brothers, separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are still shooting at each other, but there will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together – in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, if we had allowed the temporary division to take hold for centuries, then we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants for allowing the disintegration of the Russian land. quote:But the fact is that the situation in Ukraine today is completely different because it involves a forced change of identity. And the most despicable thing is that the Russians in Ukraine are being forced not only to deny their roots, generations of their ancestors but also to believe that Russia is their enemy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the path of forced assimilation, the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state, aggressive towards Russia, is comparable in its consequences to the use of weapons of mass destruction against us. As a result of such a harsh and artificial division of Russians and Ukrainians, the Russian people in all may decrease by hundreds of thousands or even millions. quote:I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. Our spiritual, human and civilizational ties formed for centuries and have their origins in the same sources, they have been hardened by common trials, achievements and victories. Our kinship has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and the memory of people living in modern Russia and Ukraine, in the blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For we are one people. https://web.archive.org/web/20220224002106/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 https://thefrontierpost.com/the-new-world-order/
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:it raises a question that I genuinely don't know the answer to: is it, in fact, an attack on Ukranian identity to say Bandera was not a hero, but a monster? No, but saying that Ukrainian identity is fake and you are taking back your land from "Ukraine" and killing those who believe in the false consciousness definitely is.
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punk rebel ecks posted:The Canadian data is calculated by bank account info. Digging into the PPP analysis, it looks like the biggest differences between the U.S. and E.U. are: - The median U.K. (for a pretty close comparison to the U.S.) household only earns about 72% of the median U.S. household's gross income and the median E.U. household earns about half the median U.S. (some of the E.U. countries are pretty poor and drag down the ratio). - The median U.S. household pays much less in taxes (the average E.U. personal income tax rate for the median citizen is about double the personal income tax rate in the U.S. and the E.U. has an average VAT/National Sales tax rate of 21%) - Much more people in the U.S. live in rural or suburban areas with lower cost of living than the E.U. It is not uncommon for 16% to 20% of a nation's population to live in a single urban metro area with high cost of living in the E.U. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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DeadlyMuffin posted:You literally argued it's intentional. Sanctions have different purposes and target different things. Saying all sanctions target X is like saying all taxes hurt poor people. Some sanctions the U.S. put on Iran in the 80's, early 2000's, and 2018 were absolutely specifically part of a regime change policy and designed to cause mass economic hardship. So far, the U.S. has sanctioned 417 individuals, seized boats, prevented the Russian military bank from making currency trades with American accounts, prevented certain advanced targeting computers for missiles from being exported to Russia, and removed Russia from its "Most Favored Nation" trade agreement list that gave it preferential tariff and tax rates under a free trade deal. None of those are going to cause mass starvation, mass economic pain, or regime change. They might go further and eventually implement sanctions that intend to do that, but they aren't as of now. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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