So… Did you bring anything to the discussion? What’s your take on the new policy?

Median means half the people earn less, half earn more than 150k

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

This is a better source. Lowest 10% ear below 76k a year, highest top 10% earn more than 210k. Median is 150k

Median is $154000 a year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

I’d honestly call it ‘yeah, you should be earning that much in less demanding and less important jobs’ rather than ‘high paying’, but I’m corporate trash and high salaries I see are higher.

I may have given up my career to sit in therapist offices, but I believe every troubled kid deserves a shot.

Every other kid and teacher in school deserves peace and not being assaulted by your kid.

Cool. Do you want me to go through each sector in the article and ask you the same question, do you think salary in it will go up or down if suddenly most office workers will be competing for the same jobs? Or did I get my point across why blue collar workers will have it worse if suddenly office workers will be out of office jobs, or if median salary for them goes down?

By blue collar do you mean, what exactly? Trades? That will go down quickly, you can’t feed all tradesman on the need of the richest few who remain.

Factory? Suddenly all the previously white collar office jobs and the current factory workers will be competing for them. Do you think that will make the salary go up or down?

Agriculture? Most office workers are stuck in the city. Who can will move and they will be competing for those jobs too, so you think the salaries there will go up or down?

Don’t invent the scenarios, none of the comedians in questions are “starving”.

Maybe you should reread it and quote which parts of it cover this?

What is the difference? I mean can you create a definition that doesn’t say “I like this thing and dislike that thing” to differentiate them? Because I can’t.

International community is used to USA being the empire of evil. We’re interested if USians experience it themselves, will they change for the better or civil war splint USA?

Those list USA being evil:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_atrocity_crimes

Those list USA spreading evil

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_operations_abroad

I think its missing stuff like Operation Gladio and such, but I don’t want to overwhelm you with links.

And that only is about US government direct crimes, it doesn’t even touch what USA corporations do outside USA.

Is there a FOSS music discovery service? I like to listen to 1920’ to 1960’, and the radios and discovery in those era on Spotify work extremely well.

What I can’t stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries

I signed on .ml because that was the second most popular instance at that time; there are so many people in .ml enamoured with USSR, whitewashing it, that I tend to skip local posts because it’s not worth it. They behave like people brainwashed by USA propaganda but with different polarization.

Sometimes I think they might be CIA shills/bots created to discourage people from socialist movements.

Btw - China does have local elections where people pick their local representative. So people can pick a person, but not the ideology - that is mandated from the high. It’s not exactly what I would call democratic, but hey, the more you know

Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing?

But… You do. Example - no US invader can be charged with crimes against humanity, as the standing US policy is to then invade Hague. Another example - operation Gladio. Or even fucking TikTok from recent years that bent the knee and started spewing american R/Trump propaganda after last election is USA

There are things China does right.

Like retirement age of 55. Like nationalising billionaires when they get too big.

It also does a shitton of things wrong, but credit when credit is due.

Then how have you overeaten so much that you need Ozempic?

All junk food is ultra processed food, but not all UPF is junk food.

Store bought pre-sliced ham is UPF.

Supermarket white bread is UPF.

Dried apple chips are UPF.

Activia yoghurt is UPF (and evey other form of yoghurt besides plain natural unsweetened one).

I went there; my first take is that it’s full of wanna be editors who were rejected or edited out.

What am I missing?

It happend in Poland in 2010 too :)

Not codified?

Some opportunities are codified to only VIPs - e.g. you can’t invest in a hedge fund legally unless you have certain net worth.

Punishments? If a punishment for a crime is monetary (like a fine), it’s an absolute, not percentage based, so wealthy and not people are affected very differently by it.

What else do you want? Literal human hunting license?