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Maybe that is because the United States is more conservative than you assumed

If you have a right to bear arms, but no company in the country's sells a gun, do you have the "right" to bear arms?

The answer is: no you don't. Because the government enables these companies to do these things that enroach upon your rights while making people like you believe you still have said rights simply because it's not the government proper doing it. The government and through lobbying can influence and control a lot of what you do without legislation you know.

If the government allows companies to buy all the avenues to free speech, do you really have free speech? For reference, North Korea has rights to freedom of speech and assembly. But it definitely does not mean they actually have that right.

So arguing that the façade of a private company being allowed to shut you down is somehow rational is nothing beyond absurd. If you cannot express your speech anywhere because a mob disapproves, you don't have freedom of speech. Freedom of Speech is not "Freedom to only listen to the things I want to hear." Otherwise there is no free speech, just what is culturally acceptable.

You can violate a TOS that encroach upon your rights granted by the government you know.

How can you exert your constitutional rights if the government allows companies to create/purchase/monopolize every avenue in which to express your rights? What if you had to pay a toll to utilize corporate paid sidewalks and roads? How could you protest the government? Likewise, the internet infrastructure we have today was created by the government, so it only make sense that the fundamental rights we have protected by the constitution be respected here as well.

I don't understand why many liberals defend a corporations freedom to silence speech but get angry when conservatives in the government do it. Six of one, half dozen of the other, it's still speech being silenced by someone more powerful than you. But one being a corporation and one being a politician doesn't change the fact that both limit freedom of speech protected by the constitution.

I keep finding winners of movies. Burn After Reading has been jumped up to my top 10 list just because of how benign and absurd it all is. A cool tragedy I think most people should see is "Into the Fade" with Diane Krueger and the drug addict from Babylon Berlin (dont know his name off the top of my head). A lot of mainstream "marvel-the-good-guys-win" type of people won't like it but if you want cold blooded reality it does it well.

High Risk != High Reward. There are far too many college educated people in the US that assume this. I walked in getting my degree knowing full well I was paying simply for the paper and the potential for getting a job in my field. I didn't walk in like I did the first time getting my associates degree believing I'd be making $50k upon graduation.

I personally feel like college institutions get way too much freedom to act as predatory as they do regarding student loans and education. So many 18 year olds are told to go to college and get a degree only to come out a 22 year old with no work skills or legitimate life experience unless they were fortunate enough to get an internship. Then they have to eventually either swallow their pride and work a garbage paying job for a while or get lucky working for somewhere that actually pays decently in wage and/or experience.

I'm currently a return student, and based off of the data my school collected for the 2019 year, the top majors were: Business Administration, Psychology, Biology, Organizational Leadership, and Nursing.

General business degrees are as worthless as english degrees. They don't teach you anything about actual business and you will not be able to just get a job. You'd have a better shot beating out external candidates applying from within at a low level position...almost every time. Psych and Bio, predominantly taken by females at my school (almost 80%). Again, another worthless field unless you go on to get a MS or Ph.D...of which none at this school do because it's a very low end state school. So there's another thing schools forget to mention about certain degrees. The next one is a general business degree for online transfer students at most schools in the area who just want to check off a "I have a Bachelors" box at application time. Then Nursing (again, predominantly women) which is actually a very hard field to pass but is basically a golden ticket to employment universally here. But that doesn't even hold a candle to those 4 ahead of it.

This base set of data shows that schools are marketing toward the undecided crowd or the people without the jaded understanding that real life can be a bitch. It doesn't care what you think should be the rules. And these schools take extreme advantage of it. Not to mention these schools get tax payer funding but have virtually no oversight as to how the school runs things. The head chair of my Comp Sci department is a guy with a Ph.D in physics! I know that's fairly normal, but it's pretty ridiculous that this guy is making decisions on us having to take an AI class over advanced database administration or making InfoSec students know OOP and programming.

Too many people believe those things are entitlements when in fact they are tradeoffs. Like half my high school graduating class dropped out of college or didn't even start and many make decent wages or have dual income with a significant other. Many of which own homes or live decently. None of which demanded free rent and a college education.

I've always read that it's not too many smart people, but too many unemployed middle class people.

Why didn't Hitler just not invade Russia!?

Because history is a dynamically evolving event, not something someone can 100% accurately predict just cause they read someone in a different era did something similar.

He's no longer president...Do these people really have nothing else to contribute?

That being said, these places are a godsend when you're lazy.

Management or business/data analyst. Half the time these people are just glorified middlemen that get paid decent wages and just look at excel or support some obscure piece of software without dealing with programming stuff. I am in a fairly large company actually it has never been more prevalent to me that many of these people's jobs could be done by literally anyone. If you know programming and don't mind engaging with people, these are the sweet spot for you.

Damn, I should buy a smart watch just for this. I came to add I set my pace at the 3 mile mark too. Im currently running 5 miles every otherday.

The whole point is everybody involved plays fair and follows the rules so they dont have a government agency come in and regulate them.

>It can be as high as 20k-50k€.

Meanwhile in NYC they're knocking off few months rent and dropping the security deposits just to get people back there.

Even letting a higher up down is expected. You have to feel it out though if the certain thing is one of those. But if you know it can't be done or you got time, one of the best things you can do is abandon ship. It's really absurd and kind of a bad thing to lace your coworkers with, but if you've got references elsewhere and people within whom you're on good relations with, it won't affect your career one bit. Not only will you not get the blame for it when things aren't done presently, but you don't have to deal with the impossible task management gives you! Which in the grand scheme, if you can stick it out long enough before they fire you and get a job elsewhere, on paper, you never failed! You always achieved your goals.

The entire Gervais Principle goes into detail on this and it's a fun read. A lot of it sounds like just general office politics written in a funny way, but there are some nuggets that a lot of people who aren't in the "sociopath" category (the authors words), aren't willing to do. It's kind of like "the best time to be looking for a new job is now" philosophy in work.

Doesn't it have more to do with the fact that they didn't even recover yet from the 1st World War? Also don't forget Holodomor. It literally happened after the Great Depression yet unlike Western Nations, 3.5 million people died from disease or starvation. Unlike in said Western countries that just had an economic collapse.

What is stopping us from launching seed payloads to these planets with some way to continually water them? Wouldn't that be a way to theoretically test the survivability of the planet without sending people?

God that would honestly be a dream come true actually

I learned that working hard isn't the ticket to wealth. It's knowing people and putting on a good show that you work hard. I used to work hard and never really got "respect" for it (like promotions or whatnot). While I got shit done, it didn't give me what I wanted. Eventually I started coasting and chatting with coworkers more. I didn't sweat making mistakes either. It was literally the moment in Office Space where the guy just "doesn't care anymore." Like I really had no fear of losing my job, reprisal, or anything. Obviously being a single guy I could afford that, but it was frighteningly one of the most eye opening experiences of my life. I don't have some philosophical belief on life that I think others should follow, but playing pretend and winging things with confidence has done me far greater wonders to my career than being blatantly honest about everything and working very hard.

I did a stint in commercial lending so I know a little about Bylaws and operating agreements. Why not just write that in there? VC's are not banks so they have a bit more flexibility in terms of what they'll accept.

My mind went there as well. Say I'm an affluent oligarch shorting major companies. I'd paying the ransom group to massively attack the company or various companies. Then cash out during the chaos.

I'd wager the thought process wasn't so much for enforced compliance, but a tax if you do not wish to be compliant.

As someone who has worked in banking, I guarantee is not mostly "low income" type of "paycheck to paycheck." Most people I saw come in for mortgages were often making 6 figures together if married. The reason they were often dirt poor is they treated their house as a equity fund to cash out on refinances all the time. On top of that they'd just have extravagant spending habits. That's not to say they aren't warranted because they certainly are. This concept of "paycheck to paycheck" should only apply to people below a certain threshold because often these people are the ones that it does matter most. Not people who budget for trips to the Barbados every year, have two $50k trucks and $400k house. These are people you should laugh at for living paycheck to paycheck. Simply because they are living extravagantly but subtly pretending that they have no money.

The main irony I find in many people that "love animals" and are vegetarian/vegan is these people tend to be just as likely to lock their pet up in a cage for 8-12 hours a day while at work. Then of course they also don't play with them. So the animals is essentially in a prison of boredom and minimal variety of food. It's like the Twighlight Zone episode where the guy goes to hell basically being trapped in a room for eternity.

>In 2012, the media reported the case of John Pittas, whose mother had received care in a skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania after an accident and then moved to Greece. The nursing home sued her son directly, before even trying to collect from Medicaid. A court in Pennsylvania ruled that the son must pay, according to the Pennsylvania filial responsibility law

That is literally inheriting debt. That should be illegal, yet almost half the country allows this.

This is my greatest fear but you have to wonder if the reverse will happen, where tech companies get so large, they they can afford to develop and support their own distro (or even operating system).

I personally would prefer clock in and clock out of 5 hours. Not "clock in for 8 hours, but only put in 5 hours worth of work."