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…not entirely sure; possibly a proxy for snapping in real life?..
…not entirely sure; possibly a proxy for snapping in real life?..
…i’ve been carrying a lot of pent-up rage…
the car’s on fire
and there’s no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows
…ideally, minimum wage should be set per-county at three times one standard deviation below the mean housing cost…
(3 * ((600 SF * σ $/SF) * FHA 30-Year Mortgage)) / 2080
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
…you can do the math yourself: minimum wage has never been pretty but false assertions undermine the legitimacy of reform advocacy…
(edit: these same values are clearly graphed across the entire history of the federal minimum wage in the parent article)
…not to sing the praises of minimum wage, but if it kept pace with inflation from when i was compensated accordingly it’d be $8.05 today; if it kept pace with its inception hourly folks today would be paid $5.57…
…every time you link to xitter, elon drowns a puppy…
…yeah, they’re going to jump from five baby boomers straight to millennials next change of the guard, and like, whatever, man: we acclimated to disenfranchisement thirty years ago…
…i consider 2001 the watershed year after which it well and truly shed its legacy, flawed though it may have been…
all the other regular bank holidays everyone else gets.
…“everyone else” gets six, if they’re fortunate to land a salaried position: new year’s day, memorial day, independence day, labor day, thanksgiving day, and christmas day; all those other unobserved holidays are a thing for the public sector and finance only…
…no longer afford?..man, the last proper vacation i took was in nineteen-ninety-mother-f*cking-eight…
“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”
…so it used to be pretty common in small towns (pre-walmart mainstreet USA) for hardware stores to include a toy department, usually downstairs in the basement, much like how drugstores typically did double-duty as lunch counters…
…the small town where i went to college, though, enjoyed a stereo/mattress/ski shop, and i never wrapped my head around that combination…one of the local grocery stores (pre-hypermarket) also had a full computer department; the most well-appointed amiga retailer i’d ever seen, replete with rendering hardware and video equipment…
People who use YYZ often live further than that so add any additional time from that.
…ah, that explains the rush…
…more wakko than yakko, i guess?..
…you have a birthmark in the shape of legible english characters, not just one, but a full sequence which spell a word?..