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can a gun in a drawer shoot on it's own?
No, a gun in a drawer cannot shoot on its own. Firearms require an external force to operate, typically a human pulling the trigger, which initiates the firing mechanism. For a gun to discharge, several conditions must be met:
Loaded Chamber: The gun must have a round in the chamber.
Trigger Activation: The trigger must be pulled with sufficient force to engage the firing mechanism (e.g., releasing the hammer or striker to strike the primer of the cartridge).
Mechanical Failure or External Force: In extremely rare cases, a malfunction (e.g., a faulty sear or drop safety failure) combined with a significant external force—like a strong impact—could theoretically cause a discharge. However, modern firearms are designed with safety mechanisms (e.g., drop safeties, trigger safeties) to prevent accidental firing even if dropped or jarred.
A gun simply sitting in a drawer lacks the energy or mechanism to spontaneously fire. Environmental factors like heat, vibration, or magnets cannot activate a trigger or ignite ammunition under normal conditions. Ammunition requires a precise strike to the primer, which only the gun’s firing mechanism can deliver.
If a gun is stored unloaded (no round in the chamber) and with proper safety measures (e.g., trigger lock or safe storage), the risk of accidental discharge is effectively zero. Even in cases of mechanical defects, spontaneous firing without human intervention or extreme external force is virtually impossible.
"Hey Grok, Can a depressed man, who doesn't own a gun and doesn't have one near him, shoot his brains out on a whim?"
"No, a depressed man who doesn’t own a gun and doesn’t have one near him cannot shoot himself on a whim. Without access to a firearm, it’s physically impossible to carry out such an act impulsively. If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts, reaching out to a trusted person or a professional resource like a crisis hotline (e.g., 988 in the U.S.) can provide immediate support."
"Thanks Grok! How about pills? This guy on the internet took my will to live, with his
brain-dead nonsense..."
"I’m really sorry to hear you’re feeling this way—internet nonsense can be exhausting, can’t it? To answer your question, a depressed person without access to pills (like prescription or over-the-counter drugs in sufficient quantity) couldn’t impulsively overdose, just as they couldn’t use a gun without one nearby. It requires having the means readily available, and even then, it’s not a simple or inevitable act.
More importantly, it sounds like you’re hurting, and I want to help. If someone online is dragging you down, it might help to step away from the screen for a bit or talk it out with someone you trust. Those brain-dead comments don’t define your worth. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, a hotline like 988 (in the U.S.) or a similar service in your area can offer a listening ear, no judgment. Want to share more about what’s got you feeling this way?
I’m here to listen."
you would have to nail his door shut
That would be the last thing that I would do. However, I can't imagine any of it.
It also leaves some time to come to your senses. Picking up a gun and blowing your brains out can be done in seconds, AKA 'on a whim'. Finding a good spot to run under
a truck or train takes longer, maybe hours. The walk alone good help settle emotions.
That suicide can also hurt other people. Many people still care about that, when they
are killing themselves. It's something that survivors of suicides say they struggled with. Obviously, we can't ask the ones who were successful.
There are many ways to kill yourself and many ways to kill someone else, but none are so convenient and effective as using a gun.
I was surprised that only 55% of suicides in the US involved guns though.
Personally, I would prefer it over the other popular methods.
Suffocation / Hanging: ~27%
Poisoning (including drugs/overdose, chemicals, gases): ~11%
Other methods (jumping, cutting, etc.): ~7%
Damn, we're going down a very dark hole now. See what you did.
slitting the wrist is the next up thing women do, if they cut it in line with the blood vessel,it is more difficult to stop the bleeding, she tried that a year before the last attempt,2 inch cut along the main vessel, just a few more minutes and she woulda bled dry.
and here is the part you won't believe, she had access to guns of all sorts, and chose a knife and pills instead.
when she slit her wrist, she did it alone,and had cussed me out and told me to go away and stay gone. the neighbor came over to borrow a movie to watch and saw her in a pool of blood. i think she was done with life. she is now in the care of the state and is usually tied to the bed because she is so violent if they try to get her off meds
whats the gain in that?
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since the police ruined the car, they should have to replace it in my opinion. the thieves would have eventually stopped to get gas or food or whatever, and the car could have been retrieved for the most part intact and usable. this is a case of emergency services just assuming everyone has insurance so fuck it, it don't matter.
i had to share this 1. funny!
i hope it will show up soon.
she is going to get arrested again.
didn't learn a damn thing. she should keep her ass out of a war zone. can you imagine the hoopla if she got caught by hamas and was a hostage? we would never hear the end of it.
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those hamas freaks are probably thinking, " um some nice young ass is coming,all we gota do is grab her " i mean really, what else would hamas gather from her presence?
humanity who is dependent on it, and people who are mass murdered?
Damn, that's dumb.
The author is Stephen Pollard. From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor
of The Jewish Chronicle and he remains a senior advisor, and writer on the paper.
You're literally parroting Israeli propaganda.
why is it parroting if it is fact?
Should she 'learn' something from getting arrested for protesting?
Protesting is a right. The law should not be abused to 'teach' people
to not use their democratic rights.
Propaganda isn't 100% untrue, it's about flipping the truth to serve a goal.
The propaganda is trying to make it about her, by calling her narcissist,
instead of addressing the reason why she is protesting; a genocide.
I wouldn't call it propaganda, if it was just a statement of facts.
I'm calling it propaganda, because he's creating a narrative to attack her character.
She is a protester. She has shown herself to be consistent in her principles.
She's not in it for herself. Even you questioned her sanity for spending all her time
and risking life and limb on these issues. She does it, because it attracts interest
to the problem that she is protesting against. That's the goal of literally all protests.
She's not there to get admiration from people, she's there only for the purpose.
People who don't like that, because of their political agenda, try to discredit her,
instead of honestly discussing their differences of opinion. That's a dishonest tactic,
but you seem to like that, or you just don't perceive it.
You better learn to perceive it, because that's how they hack your mind.
it would be much safer to stay away , but she is going willingly, and should she be captured, no effort should be made to retrieve her moreso than folks taken hostage by no fault of their own.
She does put herself in dangerous situations, true.
Are only men allowed to do that, in your opinion?
Getting bombed by Israel is the biggest risk there.
/ˈnдrsəsəst/
noun
noun: narcissist; plural noun: narcissists
a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.
"narcissists who think the world revolves around them"
so yea, i would say the word describes her well,
if all things were equal as you and many others claim you want it to be, women and men would be treated the same way if they were in danger. but it's not that way. people tend to be more upset about a woman being a hostage or in danger than a man. why?,i don't know.
It's like on Memorial Day 2017, President Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, accompanied by then–Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.
Kelly’s son, Robert, a 29-year-old Marine killed in Afghanistan in 2010, was buried
in Section 60 of the cemetery. While standing by his son’s grave, Trump reportedly turned to Kelly and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”.
what are they floating in, rafts? what's a little storm?
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cushy freebies from the rich
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she has autism
Does Greta Thunberg have ADHD?
Greta Thunberg is a young climate activist who attributes her passion for preventing climate change to her autism.
How rich is Greta Thunberg?
Greta Thunberg has an estimated net worth of $100,000 in 2025. Her net worth in 2025 consists of modest earnings from book royalties, most of which she donates to environmental causes. She also earns income from documentary rights and receives publicly disclosed support for basic living expenses.
so where does this basic living expense come from??? taxes?
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not all that hot either but i bet hamas would still love to get ahold of her
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The Madleen carried essential supplies like baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, water-desalination kits, medical supplies, crutches, and children’s prosthetics.
The Tesla wasn't a permanent gift, but she did use it during her 2019 North American tour.
There’s no evidence she has ADHD. Greta Thunberg has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which is part of the autism spectrum. I know exactly what it is, because one of my best friends has Asperger’s. He has some problems making decisions and standing up for himself, but people with Asperger’s are in no way narcissists.
That she donates her earnings, is showing the exact opposite of what you are trying to demonstrate.
She could be rich of her book royalties & publications, speaking engagements, awards and prize money, which would have added up to millions by now, but instead she does not keep any of the income personally. All proceeds go into the Greta Thunberg Foundation, which redistributes them to climate and social sustainability efforts. Greta leads a minimalist lifestyle. She avoids luxury and flies only when absolutely necessary. Instead, she favors trains, electric transport, or sailboats. For practical needs like travel and lodging, Greta’s family covers those expenses rather than relying on income from her activism.
It's all evidence that calling her a narcissists is rediculous, she's the opposite.
To you Hamas are some evil idiots, but they do understand when people support their cause of freedom for the Palestinian people. They would not hurt her.
It's sad that you can only think in black and white.
of any higher thinking than just primitive mocking?
1) She should be prepared to get taken hostage by Hamas.
2) She is a bitch for Hamas!
Claims 1 and 2 are contradictory.
People who think Hamas is cool, don't care about the freedom of Palestinians.
Protesting against the genocide of Palestinians and wanting freedom for Palestinians, is the opposite of 'being a bitch for Hamas'.
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and there will be no justice for the family,unless there is a chance a company hired this idiot and the family can sue them. but for the illegal, he aint got anything, all he has to do is run for the border once he is out on parole or bail
just look at this guy, has the most evil look in his eyes, as if it was a deliberate act to kill people.
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He didn't even do it on purpose. It's reckless and he caused the death of 3 people.
That's bad, but according to you, all illegals are drugdealers, murderers and r@pists.
The only thing you come up with, in months, is some truck driver who fucked up.
By the way, he's NOT officially an illegal immigrant. That's a false statement.
He claimed asylum, which can take years to resolve. His case is still pending in immigration court. He paid a $5,000 immigration bond. While waiting, he was granted
a federal work permit, which allowed him to lawfully remain and work in the U.S..
That enabled him to lawfully acquire a commercial driver’s license in California.
From Jan 1 till July 31, 2025, there have been 268 mass shootings in the U.S.
Total casualties include 262 people killed (including perpetrators) and 1,161 wounded.
NONE of the perpetrators have been identified as illegal immigrants.
The US is mostly deporting hard working people. Where are all those drugdealers, murderers and r@pists that Trump keeps talking about?
of course he cried for asylum, that's how the terrorist get in here and hang out in plain site.
i call this a terrorist attack although it only killed 3,it has harmed alot of lives, you know family.
A terrorist attack is an act of mass violence for political reasons.
You're now twisting definitions to fit your political agenda.
Where are all the real drugdealers, murderers, r@pists and terrorists?
You're only deporting fruit-pickers, roof-workers and hairdressers.
You’re braggadocious
Self centered
Obnoxious
Highly opinionated and a bit of a know it all to name a few
People don’t like that I bet you got beat up a lot in school
1.6 million people so far here in the US have signed a penton asking for the indians release, "it was just a accident". are you fucking kidding me? he watched 3 people die and didn't even as much as wince.
a cold heartless motherfucker is all he is.
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Did he know then that he caused the death of 3 people?
You watch him knowing the result, thinking he knew it too.
Understand that this idea puts your brain in a certain state.
I agree that he was being incredibly stupid, but I see no INTENT of killing anyone
and I don't think that you can determine his emotions from a few seconds of video,
that is cut short and likely shows an angle of the accident that he couldn't see.
That camera is much more to the front and higher, than his line of sight.
Why do they pause, or end, or loop the video, at his expressionless face?
I have searched for more video, but I cannot find it. Did you?
Do we have any video or reports about what he did when he found out?
Maybe he starts crying like a baby, directly after they cut it.
Can we believe any media reporting, if they all cut the video short?
Show me real evidence of him being that horrible person, and I'm with you.
Just a tiny thing about that turban, do you who wear turbans like that?
that you hear "immigrant involved in crash". If I don't agree with phart calling it a "terrorist attack", you find me to be a horrible person. I have standards for terms:
"Intentional, directed violence, against civilians to instill fear and achieve political, religious, or ideological goals."
Meanwhile, you lot have been making fun about driving over protesters, when you don't agree with those protesters. You agree with intentionally killing protesters,
that you don't agree with, politically. That does fit the definition of terrorism.
You lot have made a hero from a 17 y.o. kid who went to a protest carrying an AR-15, 'definitely not looking for trouble', but finding it, and killing 2 people, wounding a 3th.
If you do agree with protesters, you will cry for years, when one of them is killed.
I find you two horrible people, for your bigotry.
I'm here discussing opinions, you just drop them on people
and then chicken out for talking about them. (not you phart)
You're just belittling everyone who doesn't agree with you.
How about that, for being 'Self centered' and 'Obnoxious'?
Take a look in the mirror!
What the hell does Amsterdam have to do with it?
That's the weirdest change of subject (Red Herring fallacy) ever.
See, you're chickening out from the actual subject again.
My country, and even Amsterdam, has less problems with drugs, than the US.
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The US has such a horrible opioids problem that it's central to you border security policies and pointed out by Trump as the reason for the tariffs with Mexico and Canada.
In 2023, the US had 105,000 people dying from overdoses.
80,000 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population: 334.9 million) -> 31.4 o.d. deaths/100,000 people
23.9 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people
In 2023, the Netherlands had 338 people dying from overdoses.
178 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population 17.88 million) -> 1.9 o.d. deaths/100,000
1.00 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people
With all due respect, you are very opinionated with regard to the United States of America, from our government, our governmental policies, all the way down to how you perceive how Americans raise their children. Just sayin’…..
I stand for my opinions, I always provide a justification or at least a reason for why I have them. I am here to discuss them. I don't just drop a zinger of an opinion and then just bugger off.
Show that I'm wrong, and I'll accept that I'm wrong. Those guys just cower off,
when they cannot defend their position any longer. You can see it for yourself
in all the abandoned discussions.
When other people have an opinion that I disagree with, I don't just belittle them,
I always try to explain why I don't agree with them or why they are wrong.
I only call them dumb, when they keep repeating the same tired old nonsense over and over.
By the way the standing tall was about seniority 10 years a piece but I guess that went right over your head
In relation to seniority and 'standing tall', are you talking about your dick?
Congratulations!
So put that in your opinionated pipe and smoke it
a conscious decision to run over protesters, not an accident.
If a white right-winger killed 10 black gay-rights protesters, while it is clear that
the driver was not in any danger, you would defend the driver, because you think those protesters are wrong on principle.
You can disagree with protesters blocking a road, but that's not a capital offense.
It's an inconvenience, not a violent attack, no reason for the driver to use lethal force to defend themselves.
What you include in that argument, could be an argument, if it was true, but that's no argument to allow driving over people, when it is NOT true.
It doesn't require new laws to allow people to defend themselves, when they are in danger. Your self defense laws are already taking the position of the one defending themselves, accepting their claim of being at risk much too easily.
I would never blame the people in the black car. They are innocent victims.
I don't know who those 3 million people are, and I don't agree with them.
The guy still made a very irresponsible and illegal move, causing 3 deaths.
I just don't see that as a reason to call him a terrorist, or an evil person.
Can you understand that morality is a scale, not binary?
a commercial drivers license is difficult to get for people that can read and speak english as a first language,not to mention the health card and such, and this fool makes a illegal u turn and kills 3 people and all folks can whine about is he is not illegal he is a asylum seeker. no he is a son of a bitch and he killed 3 people. death penalty and that way no one has to keep him up.
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He will be punished according the law.
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here is the kind of shit i was referring to when i ask if the democrats would let him be punished, they want him to be made to do community service?!!!!!!! sheesh, that is not justice.
He will likely be judged guilty of either:
1. Vehicular Manslaughter (U.S., U.K., other common law countries)
Definition: Causing the death of another person due to negligent or reckless driving.
Examples: Running a red light and hitting another car.
Driving under the influence and causing a fatal crash.
2. Dangerous Driving Causing Death (Used in many countries, including Canada, Australia, and parts of the EU) - Focuses specifically on reckless or dangerous conduct behind the wheel. The "dangerous" part refers to behavior that a competent and careful driver would clearly recognize as risky.
3. Involuntary Manslaughter (broader term in some systems) - Used when a person kills someone unintentionally, but due to unlawful or reckless actions.
He can expect to be in jail for at least a few years.
He's very likely not getting his asylum anymore either.
If he was a MAGA-hat wearing white guy, causing the death of 3 immigrants,
Trump would pardon him the day after his sentence.
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another 1 that is not professional but explains it, no remorse,even said um, a smurk,
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She talks about a serious systematic problem with companies respecting safety standards, and you completely ignore it all. You're only talking about the things that fit your agenda. She talks 10 seconds about his facial expression, and that's the only thing you got out of it.
She's also making a judgement mistake by blaming that the truck was overweight on the driver. It's the company's responsibility to respect safety regulations. If they don't do that, they are most likely forcing all their drivers to drive overweight containers. Do you think he was in the position to demand anything from his employer?
She does point out correctly that there are lots of drivers on your roads who are unqualified to do so. This guy was obviously unqualified. Have you ever seen how they drive trucks in India? They have some of the most lethal roads on the planet. Maybe that's why he was afraid to go back to India. Most truckers don't survive to make it to retirement.
Instead of your government fixing the system, so you don't have Indian Mad Max drivers, the Trump administration, with the help of Elon Musk, has destroyed most agencies that need to investigate companies that violate the rules. And now your media is distracting you from that, by blaming the driver. Now you dumb-asses want to lynch him, without giving a shit about the systemic problems, that were already going on,
and which Trump/Musk have made even worse.
So go ahead, burn him at the stake! Do you think that will solve ANYTHING?
and the tickets are not cheap. the dmv will give you a 2000 pound leway, but if you are 2001 pounds over, you get ticketed for the whole amount.
here is a google result
Yes, the truck driver can be held responsible if their vehicle is overweight, especially if it leads to an accident. While the trucking company and other parties may also share liability, the driver has a duty to operate the vehicle safely and within legal weight limits. Failing to do so, such as by ignoring weight restrictions or not verifying the load's weight, can be considered negligence and make the driver liable for resulting damages.
It's likely that they forced him to break rules, because this company has a record
of multiple violations. If he can provide evidence that they forced him, that's called
"defense of duress". With their record, that's a credible defense.
“Coercion” under FMCSA rules:
Since 2016, the FMCSA “driver coercion rule” (49 CFR § 390.6) explicitly prohibits motor carriers, shippers, receivers, or brokers from coercing drivers into violating safety regulations (like hours of service, vehicle condition, or weight rules).
If the cargo's documentation is NOT showing that it's over weight,
then that's probably "fraud". He will certainly not be responsible then.
In any case, that's not applicable now, to his illegal U-turn,
but if he can show that they are consistently scamming him with his hours,
and overworking him, that is a legitimate defense.
He doesn't look tired in the dashcam footage, but he also doesn't look lively.
You said yourself that he looks mentally numb. That's a sign too.
ok, so he looses a job or he drives and hopes like hell shit don't hit the fan.
How about not making drivers responsible for making sure that companies
follow the law and respect safety?
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is the primary federal agency tasked with regulating the trucking industry. Its mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses through regulations, enforcement, education, and research.
Under the Trump administration (and reportedly DOGE’s influence), enforcement actions and staffing took hits:
Enforcement dropped sharply. Enforcement actions by FMCSA declined nearly 60% in early 2025 compared to the same period under the previous administration.
This slowdown began soon after Trump took office, as new procedural requirements (like requiring legal review of cases) delayed enforcement. Cases of dangerous companies were left unaddressed, with some dropped entirely, even those involved in fatal crashes.
Staff reductions occurred in NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a sister agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets safety standards for vehicles. NHTSA saw its workforce trimmed by more than 25%, dropping from 772 to 555 employees, which critics warn undermines safety oversight.
DOGE’s role (Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency): DOGE reportedly terminated staff at NHTSA, part of broader layoffs and reorganizations, and thereby could have weakened safety oversight.
I'm not saying this accident was a (direct) result of Trump's or DOGE's actions,
but they WILL cause accidents.
Are white American drivers never making illegal moves in traffic?
Can white Americans drive trucks from birth? No need to train and test them?
Can white Americans drive as long as the employers wants them to, without
ever getting tired?
Or will you just feel a lot better about it, when a white American does the exact same thing, causing the exact same number or more deaths?
didn't know but 1 of 4 signs he was shown, using a interpreter and had 2 not 1,but 2 cdl license issued to him from democrat states. see a pattern? democrat run dmvs issue people that can't speak or read english a license to operate a 40 ton metal object among us. so dangerous.
It's ALWAYS Republicans who cut funds for oversight and safety, not Democrats.
You yourself are a big fan of that "deregulation".
How about regulation that keeps unqualified drivers from getting drivers licenses?
⚖️ Framing & Politics
Republicans: Typically frame these moves as “cutting red tape” and helping small trucking businesses survive.
Democrats: More likely to prioritize strict enforcement and stronger safety requirements, often aligning with labor unions and safety advocacy groups.
Safety Advocates’ View: Many Republican-led changes (especially delays/rollbacks of Obama-era rules) were seen as increasing risks of fatigue, speeding, or poorly trained drivers on the road.
Obama/Democrats/Biden introduced training improvements: MAP-21
(Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, 2012).
It was a surface transportation reauthorization law that:
- Funded highways and transit for FY2013–2014,
- Reauthorized highway safety programs,
- Included permanent provisions like the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) mandate and the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse requirement.
Republican-Led Deregulation Affecting Road Safety NEGATIVELY:
1. Hours of Service (HOS) Rules
HOS rules limit how long truck drivers can drive before resting.
Under the Obama administration, FMCSA tightened these rules (e.g., requiring two overnight periods in the 34-hour restart).
Under Trump (2017), Republicans suspended and rolled back some of those rest requirements, giving drivers more “flexibility.”
Criticism: Safety advocates argued this could increase fatigue-related crashes.
Industry supported it as easing unnecessary burdens.
2. Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs)
ELDs automatically record driving hours, making it harder to falsify logs.
Mandated under Obama (final rule in 2015).
Some Republicans tried to delay or repeal the mandate (Rep. Brian Babin of Texas introduced bills).
Trump administration implemented the rule but signaled openness to exemptions.
Criticism: Rolling back ELDs would reduce compliance with fatigue laws.
3. Speed Limiters
Obama-era FMCSA proposed requiring electronic speed limiters on trucks.
The Trump DOT (Republican-led) withdrew the rule in 2017.
Criticism: Safety groups say this killed a measure that could have reduced crash severity.
4. Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) Rule Delays Mandated by MAP-21 (2012).
Finalized under Obama in 2016.
The Trump administration delayed compliance twice (from 2020 to 2022), citing industry readiness.
Criticism: Delaying left gaps in training standards, potentially putting less-prepared drivers on the road.
5. Enforcement Slowdown
As I mentioned earlier, FMCSA enforcement actions dropped ~60% after Trump took office, partly due to new procedural hurdles and a general deregulatory stance.
Criticism: Allowed unsafe carriers to operate longer without penalties.
SEE A PATTERN?
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They also blamed the driver, and he was certainly not innocent.
No matter if he caused the deaths of 100 people, by driving into a truck transporting nitroglycerin (just an example), an accident is still an accident. A judge should weigh the responsibility for the accident and the likelihood of what can be expected resulting from the risk, less what actually happened. That's why a drunk driver is also getting pretty severely punished, if they didn't cause any accident. They can be expected
to cause deaths. Judges shouldn't act on "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
"Over the past decade (2012–2021), Canada experienced a decline in commercial vehicle collisions and fatalities. In 2012, there were 400 fatalities resulting from commercial vehicle collisions, which decreased to 343 by 2021, a reduction of
over 14%."
"Regarding the involvement of immigrants in fatal truck accidents, specific data is not readily available. However, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal indicates that recent immigrants are less likely to be involved in serious motor vehicle crashes compared to the general population. The study found a 45% relative reduction in the incidence of crashes among recent immigrants, suggesting they are less prone to being drivers in serious motor vehicle crashes."
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Now why is that?
When a 'native' gets into an accident, there are not immediately millions of people pointing at the driver. They will wait until the legal process results in a conclusion.
An immigrant driver is immediately blamed, and when they are found guilty, they don't just get punished like the 'native', they also often get deported. That's why they are
in general more careful. They have more to lose.
Still, an immigrant from a country like India with driving experience of the lethal roads of India, might not be the best suited for a driving job in a western country.
They should get extensive training and go through strict tests, before they are
accepted as qualified.
That's not what your regime is doing. You want to disqualify all immigrant by default and deport them without a chance, purely out of prejudices, while closing your eyes
to companies that cause accidents on the roads.
"Reports indicate that he had been driving for approximately 13 hours on the day of the crash, which is within the legal driving limits for commercial truck drivers in Canada. However, there have been discussions about the broader issues of driver fatigue and working conditions in the trucking industry."
I once drove back from Denmark, with friends, after our vacation together. It took 11 hours, because of traffic jams. We switched driving position several times, so I had probably driven about half of the hours. When we came home, I was beat.
Driving 13 hour on end is brutal. Why do we allow that to happen on our roads?
In my country, there are not enough resting places either. The difference is that
you can drive from the most Northern end to the most Southern end in 4 hours,
if there are no traffic jams. It's mostly international truckers who have a hard time finding a resting place in my country. So, how should it be solved?
Either the government invests in resting places, or the companies that operate international truckers should be forced to invest in resting places on their properties. Just waiting until the problem fixes itself, is never a solution.
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The report itself says that he is capable of using translation devices.
Does the fact that he uses translation devices in court, tell you something?
The communication in court is a lot more complex than the communication
with a traffic cop. He came over very polite, by the way.
In the EU, drivers are constantly driving in countries that they don't speak
the language of. That doesn't necessarily make them worse drivers.
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I'm indeed calling that racism. Are those emotions genuine? Probably, but not admirable.
When was it ever an Indian guy shooting up kids?
terrorist
as for the indians, i have always thought they were a rather peaceful people except when it came to buying all the 7-11's and making a dollar.
if they (there were a few female school shooters) act out of a political or religious or dogmatic ideology. If they are just crazy, even if they are without conscience and wanting to do harm, that's not 'terrorism', by definition.
Indians are mostly a peaceful people, especially the ones wearing turbans,
who are Sikh. The Sikh religion is the most peaceful religion on Earth.
They do have emotions, but they are taught to act from reason and divine remembrance rather than raw impulse. It's about balance: don’t let emotions dominate you, but also don’t bury them. Instead, integrate them with reason, remembrance of the Divine, and ethical living.
Sikhism teaches that one should act from a place of Naam Simran (remembrance of God) and Gurmat (the Guru’s wisdom) rather than from impulsive emotional reactions.
The aim is not suppression of feelings, but recognition and transformation—channeling emotions toward constructive, spiritual, and ethical action.
Example: Anger itself isn’t always condemned—righteous indignation against injustice is encouraged—but uncontrolled personal anger is discouraged.
The more 'extreme' a Sikh becomes, the less likely they are to even hurt a fly.
That's why I berated your use of the term 'terrorism' in his case. He fucked up,
he made his move intentionally, but I very sure that he didn't intend to hurt anyone. However, your first impulse is always to assume evil intent, when any person is doing something that results in a negative outcome, or just something that you don't like. You do that, because it's part of the ideology that you support. They are learned mental processes, which they teach you intentionally. It's so you can tell yourself
that you are 'morally correct' and everyone else is 'immoral'. It's a very effective strategy to discourage ethical and critical thinking.
but no, he was to interested in putting tampons in boys bathrooms instead of security guards at the doors?
um?
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"On Wednesday, Robin Westman, a male-born 23-year-old transgender, killed 2 children and injured at least 17 people while they were celebrating Mass at the Catholic school, according to police. Westman then committed suicide."
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so instead of sheepishly laughing, tell the world
what's so ridiculous about his ideas.
To me, he made a lot of sense.
I don't think paying your politicians a medium wage would work, because then they would only take more 'donations', and sell their influence to even more special interests and wealthy people. At their current wage, people are already saying that they should
be allowed to 'better themselves', because they are all educated people.
I would propose making their wage dependent on them actually engaging in politics. Some of them never show up for debates, never write a bill, never write an amendment. They are just present to vote the party line, without ever reading a bill.
Our biggest party in the House of Commons is the PVV, the right-wing populist party
of Geert Wilders. They have 37 representatives, and their corner is almost empty the majority of the time. It's completely empty 34% of all debates. One representative has never showed himself in debates, only shows up to vote. Five of them have never even given their 'maidenspeech'. Still, they get all paid $164,265/year.
My party is present for less debates, but they only have 5 representatives, they are almost as effective with less than 1/5th of the people. They also get paid $164,265/year, but they donate 53% of it to their party, leaving them just about median wage.
They don't take any personal donations, they don't trade in stocks, and they know
damn-well what they're voting for, when they show up to vote.
Here’s another one of the videos where your average “someone” finds interesting content and decides to upload it under their name and the only thing they change is that they’ve added their face which then makes it “theirs”. The woman in this video looks completely crazy, mouth as big as one you would see on a horse.
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It was nicely written (although I suspect some help from ChatGPT was deployed,
I recognize the style) and perfectly delivered. It was funny too, at times,
but that reaction is either an act, or the result of a big canister of Nitrous oxide.
Here's a good police vest cam video:
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(then lies about it)"
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Maybe that's why she's laughing (to the bank).
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The SP has continued its long-standing stance: opposing mass labor migration and advocating for stricter controls to protect workers and housing markets. This aligns with their broader views on neoliberalism, globalization, and safeguarding the Dutch working class.
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This is not a new stands of the SP. The party has been saying the exact same thing, since 1983, far before right-wing populists were addressing it as a problem. However, right-wingers used it to demonize brown people, to redirect people's anger about seeing their jobs being given to cheap workers, for the profits of the employers, towards racism.
Since that right-wing populist party was voted in as the biggest party in 2023, all their laws were designed to restrict actual refugees, and NONE to restrict the million labor migrants from Eastern Europe. They only care about the racism, not about fixing the problem.
This is the stands of my SP, about labor migration, from their own website:
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The SP considers labor migration a form of modern slavery. There are between 800,000 and 1.2 million labor migrants in the Netherlands, no one knows the exact number.
They are brought here by companies, exploited, and discarded when no longer needed. An increasingly large portion of the homeless population in the Netherlands consists of labor migrants. Meanwhile, the pressure on our neighborhoods, social services, and housing market is high, even as companies profit.
But labor migration also causes problems in the countries of origin. It uproots communities, leaves children growing up without their parents, and leads to local jobs being taken over by even lower-paid labor migrants. Through various legal loopholes, more and more labor migrants from outside Europe are now working in the Netherlands. This lawlessness must come to an end.
We will stop uncontrolled labor migration. We will do this by introducing work permits and setting a migration cap of 40,000 per year. This way, we ensure that only those who are truly needed can come here to work, we can tackle the exploitation of labor migrants by employers, and we can help those who genuinely need protection and are fleeing war and violence.
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damn, how could she do this?
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1. Daniel Ball (Florida)
• Arrested the day after his pardon on separate felony firearm charges, linked to possession of a gun and ammunition as a convicted felon. His Jan 6 charges were dismissed due to the pardon, but the gun case remains active.
2. Matthew Huttle (Indiana)
• Shot and killed by law enforcement during a traffic stop mere days after receiving a pardon. He had an extensive criminal history, including DUI and child abuse, and was still facing driving-related charges at the time.
3. Andrew Taake (Texas)
• Became a fugitive post pardon, wanted on unrelated charges involving solicitation of a minor.
4. Edward Kelley
• Although pardoned for his Jan 6-related convictions, prosecutions for conspiracy to murder law enforcement officers were not covered by the pardon. He was later sentenced to life in prison in July 2025.
5. Enrique Tarrio
• After his pardon, Tarrio made headlines for inflammatory rhetoric, calling for "retribution" and targeting an FBI agent, in interviews with far-right media.
6. David Daniel (North Carolina)
• Despite the pardon, he still faces ongoing charges unrelated to Jan 6: production and possession of child pornography involving minors.
7. Daniel Wilson (Kentucky)
• A judge ruled that his pardon might not cover unrelated charges, specifically illegal weapons possession. The court ordered him to return to prison to resume a five-year sentence.
former obama supporter, air force veteran, unarmed, a black cop selects her over many other people with weapons visible in their hands, to kill, a black cop killing a white woman, and that bothers no one on the liberal side. well apparently someone thought it was wrong because her family did get a small settlement of 5 million dollars.
that black cop insured she wouldn't be pardoned, tried, given a second chance or anything, he decided to be judge, jury and executioner for a unarmed woman of another race.
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what a line of bullshit, other officers resisted shooting armed people, he chose a woman , a white woman,they claimed he saved lives by killing her. what was she going to do, strangle people with her bare hands>>?
that protected those cops. She posed a real threat.
Remember not giving a crap about the death of the boy on the right?
Remember your argument? He didn't follow police orders.
Why is that only applicable to black kids and not to MAGA lunatics?
1. Ray Holmberg – North Dakota
Position: Former State Senator
Conviction: In March 2025, Holmberg was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for traveling to Prague between 2011 and 2016 with the intent to engage in sexual activities with minors. He also pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse material.
Status: Serving his sentence; required to register as a sex offender upon release.
2. RJ May – South Carolina
Position: Former State Representative
Charges: In June 2025, May was arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. He allegedly used the screen name “joebidennnn69” to exchange over 200 files on the Kik messaging platform.
Status: Resigned from office in August 2025; awaiting trial.
3. Aaron von Ehlinger – Idaho
Position: Former State Representative
Conviction: In August 2022, von Ehlinger was convicted of raping a legislative intern and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Status: Serving his sentence; required to register as a sex offender upon release.
4. Rick Roeber – Missouri
Position: Former State Representative
Allegations: In 2021, Roeber was expelled from the Missouri House following an investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse of his children. He denied the allegations.
Status: No criminal charges filed; expelled from office.
5. Justin Eichorn – Minnesota
Position: Former State Senator
Charges: In March 2025, Eichorn was arrested during a sting operation on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. He was charged in federal court and resigned from the Senate.
Status: Awaiting trial; resigned from office.
6. Tony Navarrete – Arizona
Position: Former State Senator
Charges: In August 2021, Navarrete was charged with multiple counts of sexual conduct with underaged children. He resigned from the state senate following the charges.
Status: Awaiting trial; resigned from office.
7. Matt Gaetz – Florida
Position: U.S. Congressman
Allegations: In 2021, Gaetz faced allegations of paying and sleeping with a minor. The Justice Department investigated the claims but ended the probe in 2023 without charges due to witness credibility issues.
Status: No charges filed; remains in office.
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Al Franken allegedly toughed an ADULT woman's ass.
That's no where near the same. You are doing false equivalency.
Do you even understand that?
If you want to include adults, the perp should have at least grabbed em by the pussy.
Women who work around Republican politicians should expect some sexual misconduct. It's in their 'job description'. Not literally anymore, but definitely culturally and practically.
In December 2022, President Biden signed the Speak Out Act, which renders pre-dispute NDAs (those signed before any misconduct arises) unenforceable for claims of sexual assault or harassment.
The law passed with strong bipartisan backing. However, all 215 Democrats voted yes, while only 100 Republicans voted yes and 109 Republicans voted no (house of reps).
Your filthy propaganda and make belief isn't an argument.
You only have your prejudices; she's a black women, so.....
Even if it were true, since when is that the same as a sex offense?
A sex offense violates someone's bodily autonomy, selling sex is consensual.
You keep using false equivalency.
In any case, by law that is not prostitution, but "Quid pro quo sexual harassment".
It's prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which applies to most employers with 15 or more employees.
How far have you deviated? We started out at child sex abuse or sexual misconduct with minors, a heinous crime, and you are now pretending that "Quid pro quo sexual harassment" is the same.
Are you pretending that Republicans would be less guilty of this?
and democrats will willing have sex, just so they can use it to their advantage later, remember monica lewinsky? she even kept the friggen dress!!!!
All to distract from you lot picking a horrible pervert for president and your
continued support for all your other pervert politicians. Weak!
Stop VOTING IN complete degenerates, and maybe I will start giving a damn
about some Democrats having slight discretions.
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This is what your Kamala story is based on. I asked Grok, so you can't say
that it's all left-wing biased.
I asked: "Is there any, even remotely credible, evidence that Kamala Harris has gained advantage in her career, from sexual relations with superiors?"
This is the answer:
Claims that Kamala Harris gained career advantages through sexual relationships with superiors primarily stem from her relationship with Willie Brown, a prominent California politician, in the mid-1990s. Brown, then Speaker of the California Assembly and later San Francisco mayor, was separated from his wife but still legally married during their relationship. Harris was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County at the time. Brown appointed Harris to two state commissions—the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission—which paid her over $400,000 (equivalent to roughly $800,000 in 2025 dollars) for part-time work over five years. These appointments have fueled speculation that her relationship with Brown significantly boosted her early career.
However, there is no definitive evidence proving that Harris’s career trajectory was solely or primarily due to this relationship. Critics argue the appointments were patronage, a common practice in politics, and not necessarily tied to their personal relationship. Harris’s qualifications—her education at Howard University and UC Hastings, and her experience as a prosecutor—suggest she was a credible candidate for such roles. Her subsequent rise, including becoming San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and Vice President, relied on her electoral success and professional record, which included prosecuting high-profile cases and implementing reforms.
On the other side, skeptics point to the timing of Brown’s appointments and his influence in San Francisco politics as evidence of favoritism. Social media posts and some opinion pieces, like those from 2019 and 2020, amplify this narrative, claiming Harris “slept her way to the top.” These claims often lack primary evidence beyond the fact of the relationship and appointments, and they tend to ignore the broader context of her career achievements. Fact-checking sources, such as FactCheck.org, have debunked exaggerated claims, like assertions that Harris broke up Brown’s marriage, noting he was separated for over a decade before dating Harris.
The evidence is circumstantial and heavily debated. While the relationship with Brown and the appointments are documented, attributing her career success primarily to them oversimplifies a decades-long record of professional accomplishments. Misogynistic framing of the narrative, as noted in analyses from outlets like MSNBC and Refinery29, often amplifies these claims to undermine her credibility, a tactic less commonly applied to male politicians. Without concrete evidence of quid pro quo beyond the appointments, the claim remains speculative and lacks definitive substantiation.
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Nothing more than I already knew. Just your party's filthy tactics to destroy
a black woman's credibility, by using people's racism and sexism.
Of course, it's not only racism and sexism, you'll use whatever dirty tactics that are available, like with Tim Walz. It is to be expected. I just want Democrats to stop rolling over and fight back.
When Biden let your election hinge on a black woman, who no one voted for in a primary election, to defend the world from fascism, I was very much annoyed. "Thanks, you old fool, you just bet the world on the US not being as racist and sexist as we very much fear that it is."
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What fricken truck driver tries to execute a U-turn on highway, freeway/expressway and in this case, Florida turnpike?
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i mentioned this elsewhere and of course ananas thinks i am a idiot for being upset.
may or may not be the same man but same name and miserable driving record.
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hahahaha, 54% approval.
gee, let people that can't read our signs, can't speak our language, drive up and down the road like legal citizens. wow how stupid can you get? oh, i need to stop saying that people will take it as a challenge.
to lawfully remain and work in the US, are NOT illegals.
"Illegal" means against the law. They are not.
who wants to live in a clean law abiding red state.
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What Would Jesus Say About Donald Trump?
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Have fun!
maybe this will help you understand anannas
Wrong in 10 seconds. Like women cannot do any of those things.
It's how society has organized itself, but it doesn't have to be.
It's mostly because of guys like you, not because of women.
Calling women TikTok-influencers is also damn disrespectful.
Almost half of my colleagues are women, they do just as good a job as the men.
You can also mostly scrap the military and the police.
Wars are started by men and criminals are also mostly men.
This video was damn awful. Except the styling, that was pretty nice.
You can see who has the money to make videos like this.
Directly funded by right-wing conservative donors.
and why aren't they already doing them in higher %'s than stated in the video if they are so qualified?
what keeps a woman out of a fire truck?
etc.
you can claim this and that but when it comes down to the facts, it is because they ,the women ,do not make a effort to over come any perceived or otherwise odds to do the jobs. Quite similar to why blacks are not doing some jobs. Perceived odds or problems. Not real 1's
Do white man not make an effort to do those jobs?
in construction as much. Women are educated higher in the US.
You can look down on the jobs women do, but most are better jobs.
Those jobs are just paid less, because historically more women do them.
It's not that those jobs are less important. Woman are incredibly over-represented
in healthcare, education, childcare and legal services.
When men take 5 days off, everything will be fine. When women take 5 days off, everyone in the hospitals and elder homes would be DEAD.
My country employs lots of immigrants too, but at least I support equal rights and equal pay for them, while also considering if I want my economy to be based on low-wage jobs as much as that. I think that a country progresses as a whole, from maximizing automation, creating better jobs and maximizing people's potential to fill the better jobs. That's best in both the capitalist system and any socialist system that I would support. It both considers the labor shortage and the aging population.
The policy of kicking out immigrants does align with the policy of destroying public education. You need enough poorly literate people, to replace those immigrants.
It's a bit of a waste to make people with academic degrees pick fruit and cut meat.
However, is that MAGA or Make Americans Dumb Again?
Is your country on a strategy that supports thriving in the long term?
In my opinion, Trump's trade-wars are the Hail Mary of a crumbling empire.
The US cannot compete honestly, so it's trying to cheat it's way back on top.
That doesn't work, because it angers all it's partners, it's bleeding support.
People like phart have already accepted that, so they are now considering
to stop trying to compete globally completely, pull up the walls, and just run
the US fully independently. Apparently, the top capitalist country cannot handle competition from a 'communist' country.
"What's the average wage of a meat-packer in the US?"
Answer: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) – May 2023:
For the occupation code Slaughterers and Meat Packers (51-3023):
Hourly wage: between $14.64 and $16.62.
"Are there a lot of immigrants, legal or not, working as meat-packer, in the US?"
Answer: Yes — immigrants make up a significant portion of the U.S. meatpacking workforce, both legally and, in many cases, without authorization. Here's what the latest data reveals:
Key Statistics:
Overall Immigrant Representation:
More than half (51.5%) of frontline meatpacking workers are immigrants, compared to roughly 17% across the total U.S. workforce.
A USDA-funded study confirms this overrepresentation:
51.5% of frontline workers are foreign-born.
There could be some workers in a high quality meat industry, explaining the wages that you saw. There is probably also the cheap quality, that might not
even be safe to eat, where the workers make even less.
I don't live in your country, I get all my information about the US from news outlets and YouTube channels, that are not funded by special interests, but by views. They have been reliable on almost every fact that I check. The things that I check are statistics, research papers and poll results. They provide me a helicopter view of your country. Your country is BIG though. What is true for Florida, can be false for Texas, New York or Minnesota. Those differences are important, so I look at those too, but the overall picture is also important, because that's for a big part under control of your Federal Government. If you want to know the effects of Biden or Trump, you look at the big picture, without losing track of action vs result.
(Correlation does not imply causation)
("post hoc ergo propter hoc": because one event follows another,
it doesn't automatically mean the first event caused the second)
Quite often, super markets will beef up their staff during the high volume period beginning prior to Thanksgiving and ending after Super Bowl. Super Bowl LX is scheduled for Sunday, February 8 meaning I would be happy to be temporary seasonal help OR work to May when I return to Michigan.
If I had aspirations of becoming a supermarket manager, I might consider it
for a second.... Hell no, money isn't everything.
I'm making about the same as an Albert Heijn manager, without having to do
that job. I'm very sure that I like my job better. I have no idea what my job
would pay in Florida, but it looks like it would be a lot more. I found one job
that I'm probably overqualified for, at Ology Bioservices (Alachua, FL):
Specialist I — QA Product Release (Boca Raton):
Handling batch record reviews, document tracking, product release, all very much in line with production support and compliance. Compensation ranges from $76K–$118K/year. Sounds like only 10% of my job description now,
so boring as fuck, but I could make $100k per year.
And, as was discussed earlier, if I need to pay $1000/month for home insurance, I'm already down $12,000/year.
I pay $51.28/month for home, contents and liability insurance.
How about health insurance? Do you get it for free at Publix.
I pay $197/month on the open insurance market, for a package that includes physiotherapy and some coverage for my chiropractor. I have no dental insurance, because that sucks. It's cheaper to pay for it myself.
Healthcare as an employer benefit doesn't really exist in my country. At best we have a bit of reduction in a group-deal, but those are often the most expensive insurers. It's only a good deal for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Our government has a policy of discouragement against employer provided healthcare coverage, because it could restrict job mobility and could be misused by the employer as a bargaining chip in pay and other benefits negotiations.
We don't have a certain number of sick days. When we're sick, we have paid sick leave, with a maximum of 2 years, by law. After that we have disability benefits or unemployment benefit, depending on medical exams.
i am not the first person that has felt like a person could do better for themselves, listen to this speech,
1967,
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listen at about 9:00,where he tells them to stay in school.
where he tells the students to be the best dr and etc.
what part of that message did so many people miss out on along time ago?
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I’m already a millionaire, when I retire in about two years I will have anything I want
and check its sources, to see if it's reliable and accurate.
12 and 14 a hour to bag grocerys is damn good money for unskilled work
Whether Publix employees make "good money" depends on the role, experience, location, and individual expectations. Here's a breakdown based on available data:
Hourly Wages: Publix employees earn an average hourly wage of around $14.99 to $28.64, depending on the source and role. Entry-level positions like baggers and cashiers typically earn $11–$15 per hour, while specialized roles like pharmacy technicians ($17–$20) or meat cutters ($18–$23) earn more. Management roles, such as store managers, can earn $60,000–$80,000 annually, with some sources citing higher averages for specialized positions like pharmacy managers ($135,949/year).
He is openly fiddling with it, to make it spout his own conspiracies on X.
I added "check its sources, to see if it's reliable and accurate", right?
If you think your AI is more reliable, show me some significant differences
in results and then prove why yours is more accurate, instead of these unsubstantiated accusations.
Remember talking about how people cannot afford groceries?
That's the people, who you think make "good money".
People told you how expensive Florida is. It costs up to $1000/month
to insure a basic home there. Then Ђ15/hr pays for NOTHING.
Florida is a risky place to live in, because it has a high risk of hurricanes.
But, that's the same for most of the East coast. The West coast is at risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. In the middle of the US, you have Tornado Alley. Then there are lots of areas, scattered over about two-thirds of your country, that have a high wildfire risk. Basically, there are only a few states that have
a low risk of natural disasters, where home insurance should be cheaper.
alot of it stems from developers putting houses in low places because the land is cheap and car owners that want to get rid of their car payments so they leave their cars in low places to be flooded out. companys can replace their fleet vehicles if they just park them in the back lot beside the creek and so on. crooked and stupid.
Of course insurance companies are fucking greedy too.
If they would be allowed to make 90% profit, they would.
Your supermarkets might be bigger on average. I don't know about Publix.
The median per capita income in Florida is about $41k. (says Google)
The median per capita income in the Netherlands is:
Ђ46,500 = $54,309 gross per year.
In my country, the average salary of an Albert Heijn location manager is:
Ђ59,405 = $69,375, on 40 hrs/week.
Maybe the difference is in education level. If there are not enough people qualified for the position of supermarket manager, then they can negotiate better pay. The job doesn't require rocket scientists, so in my country they make about 128% of median pay.
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I have thousands of pictures to show how great of place it is up there in the mountains and how I camp. I would recommend googling gatlinburg pictures and things to do there, you would be amazed
a local teen, 18 years old, just graduated high school. i have helped him out in regards to some good welding gloves,a 400 dollar jackson helmet and etc, he just took a job making 19 dollars a hour welding brackets on truck chassis. he will get a bonus at Christmas,works 4 10 hour days and can use the company welder for a personal project occasionally on his off hours. and it is not shabby equipment. pretty darn good for a kid, but he wants to work, and learn. it can be done, that is why i get sick of hearing and reading about all these obstacles. push them out of the way and get to it.
It's reasonable to expect welders getting payed well.
There is one issue though. You are referring to lots of jobs that pay well. Some pay better in Florida, than in The Netherlands.
The issue?
The median per capita income in Florida is about $41k. (says Google)
The median per capita income in the Netherlands is $54,309.
There must be a whole lot of people making LESS in Florida,
than in the Netherlands. What jobs are they doing?
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Marie Van Brittan Brown, an African American woman, invented the first home security system, which included the first closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. This system, patented in 1969, paved the way for modern CCTV security systems and is a significant contribution to home security technology, according to Princeton University. Brown's invention was motivated by her concerns about safety in her New York City neighborhood and the slow response times of the police
what threw a wrench in the gears is non religious types saying oh you don't have to do that, just as Johnson said mothers don't need fathers involved in raising the kids, here's a check, back in the 60's.
people nowadays think it is perfectly normal and acceptable to live above their means and expect debts forgiven for education and such. total lack of responsiablity.
That's called the 'naturalistic fallacy'. Sure, women have breasts for feeding children. That's why she stayed in the cave, while the man was out hunting mammoths. There is no good reason for it now.
You might be right that it was mostly the non-religious types. Why do you think religion is losing more supporters all the time? It's people are done with the ancient bullshit, that keeps people from having freedom.
You're literally saying that poor people don't deserve education.
Fine, destroy education. I'm done with the American Empire, and this helps
getting rid of it. Why do I even bother to support things that are good for the US?
Do you see any successful countries that only employ men?
That only happens in the Muslim 'shit-hole' countries, doesn't it?
It's another one of your ideas, of you giving up competing with the rest of the world.
why would women have breast to make milk if it was not their job to care for the young? does a calf go to the bull for food?
the only reason it doesn't work now is because of some people such as atheist pushing a narritive that goes against the grain of what has worked for centurys.
Do you think evolution decided that a woman's job is to care for the young,
so let's give her the breasts, instead of the man? That's the dumbest reverse logic that I ever heard. Obviously, the sex that has to push out the young, months after impregnation, has the breasts. The sex that inseminated the womb has likely already left. That's a bit unfortunate for the young, isn't it?
How can you expect a bull to feed the calves of all 30 cows in the herd?
This hasn't just worked for centuries, but for 225 million years, since the first mammals. The only reason for it was evolution. There is no design or reason for it,
it just supports the survival of the young better, which turns it into a fixed trait in all the descendants.
It's no longer relevant to modern civilization though. Maybe you don't know this,
but females don't breastfeed their children for the 18-30 years, until they can finally survive on their own, these days.
See, I completely confirm your premise, but not your conclusion,
because your logic is false. It's a 'naturalistic fallacy'.
It's natural to walk or ride a horse. Do you give up your car now?
It’s natural to get sick and die young. Do you refuse antibiotics?
It’s natural to write letters with a quill. Do you give up your smartphone?
It’s natural to fall and break bones. Should we stop building handrails?
It’s natural to hunt with spears. Do you refuse grocery stores?
Women want better for themselves too, and they won't wait
for some man to bring it.
Are you forgetting the subject mid-discussion?
how can parents raise kids if they are never around them? of course that is part of the big idea,break up the family. kids don't feel a obligation to care for their elderly parents because their parents hired out their own care when care when needed.
That was an eye opening video that presented staggering percentages! I wonder who collected the data and produced the video? Most likely a MAN!
I’ve lived long enough to realize what my strengths and weaknesses are and also to witness, first hand, that this is a man’s world!! Yep, it is a man’s world! I worked for mom and pop organizations as well as a major employer. When I worked for a family owned fruit and vegetable market, yes, I worked as a cashier and at the end of my shift, I had cleaning responsibilities ie sweeping and mopping the store (a designated area) as well as cleaning restrooms because that’s “women’s work”. At the office, yes, women could easily advance to the level of supervision however there weren’t many directors or above. Yes, we did have one female SR VP.
Personally, I’m not interested in construction jobs, sanitation, trucking or power/utilities BUT IF I WAS dammit, I want to be considered for that job! Considered not because I meet a benchmark quota but because I am QUALIFIED!
if so, here is some help,
The word "qualified" means:
Having the necessary skills, knowledge, or abilities: Someone who is qualified has met the requirements or standards for a particular job, role, or task. For example, a "qualified teacher" has the training and certifications needed to teach.
Meeting specific conditions or criteria: Refers to being officially recognized as suitable for something, like a "qualified candidate" who fulfills the prerequisites for a position or opportunity.
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Just my opinion it’s not just women who are lazy, men are too! I’m a baby boomer, I worked for everything I have. I am not a descendent of Edsel P. Ford or Walter B. Chrysler II, I am the unmarried daughter of a high school teacher. I have what I have because I worked hard and saved money.
Times have changed and sadly men and women can be media influencers and receive money for doing nothing!
That's not equality.
Bella also said "not because I meet a benchmark quota".
on employers. I mostly agree with them.
They work to live, instead of live to work. That's not being lazy.
Why do all you people want us to be slaves?
Why don't we all work in cooperation, instead of in servitude?
is the fact that you get money for it, a reason to release all freedom?
We cannot be all self-employed, that's ridiculously inefficient.
How can you make a smartphone, car or house on your own?
A company adds a lot of efficiency to production. But it doesn't require relinquishing all freedom and individuality. That in fact HURTS effectiveness of the company.
Has 'the man' beaten you down so much, that you don't have wishes for a better future? If you don't, because you are old now, why should people who have a whole life ahead of them, agree with you?
The world that we are leaving Gen X, Y, Z is fucked up. We didn't do a good job.
Why do you think you have the right to tell them how to shape their future?
Will you just let your boss decide so much about your life?
Is that freedom?
Who has told you that this is how your working life is supposed to be?
Is that just 'common sense'? Who's 'common sense'?
Maybe you believe this, because the media has told you this, all your life.
Maybe the media has told you this all your life, because it serves their owners.
Who owns all your media? Isn't it big corporations and wealthy people?
All those people want you to be an obedient worker drone.
a human has needs. to fulfill those needs requires currency. to obtain currency you trade your time and skills for a amount of currency that is appropriate for the amount of skill and time you provide.
work is not fun,so it brings about currency, the currency is then used to fulfil needs.
when the needs are greater than the currency, more time and skill is traded for more currency until the need is met.
what part of this system is so hard for you to understand?
There is nothing else to it, that you are adding, that is necessary.
If there is no added value in the economy, no one 'obtains currency'.
It doesn't take skill, it doesn't have to be awful, it's only about adding value.
It's also not about trading time. Although time is a limited resource, no one
is paying anyone for their time, unless that time is creating ADDED VALUE.
Even if someone is 'supplying' a massage, that's added value to the one paying.
There is no skill required for getting fucked, but some people still pay for it.
Is it 'no fun' to write a book, sing a song or paint a painting? It's still a job.
As long as it creates added value, for enough people, it's a paying job.
"work is not fun"
WHY? You have provided ZERO arguments for why that should be.
You provide no argument for why that requires a boss.
You provide no argument for why the one working can't have demands.
You are providing no good reasons, only your petrified dogmas.
a boss makes sure the product or service is up to par.or there is no compensation for it.
a boss makes sure the employees come to work, and are drug free and safe to work and be around.
a boss makes sure the books are took care of .
so much a boss does that the regular line worker would not want to do without making even more money.
value?? what the fuck?
you want to eat right>? so you buy food. first you work to earn the money to buy the food,then you have to find food that you want,that someone made or grew. and you want to know it is ok to eat, so there is the need for the boss and others.
There are lots of successful worker co-operations. Employees aren't children. Sharing responsibility further down the organization results in much better outcomes for companies. I'm working for a company where the CEO is only presenting a strategy. Everyone below the CEO create their own goals, in co-operation with the one or two levels below, in line with the strategy and the goals above. That goes down to everyone in the chain, except for the cleaners and the canteen staff, who are contractors. Even our production staff has some goals. I get a voice in the goals of my department and I get to pick my goals. Some of them have been the same goals for years, because they feel like my children, but at least half of them are new. We also have lots of participation, flexibility and benefits. That keeps people happy, creative and efficient.
My added value is mostly cost reduction, and future value creation.
Yes, adding value, that's the whole principles of the economy.
Do you even understand why work results in money?
It's not because a boss likes to see you sweat or spend your time.
Damn, you're struggling with the absolute basics of economics.
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Here’s a young fella that uploads content about his cat, Kurt and Kurt’s new cat brother, Gary. He’s shown pictures of his house and he and his wife aren’t living too shabby. Lots of followers means lots of advertisers, means nice paychecks for doing absolutely NOTHING!
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Enlighten me what is wrong? The Idiot has been in power for over 6 months. What should I shout for joy about?
So according to you, 50+% of the nation is wrong? That is democracy.
Thank your governor for me
I have a much more comfortable job. You couldn't do it though,
it requires advanced knowledge and logical thinking.
comfortable job you say? sitting behind a desk thinking about how to trim 2 cents here and a miligram of sheet rock dust there off a pills cost?
One mistake can result in throwing away millions of dollars worth of product.
Ever seen one of those big chemical plants, with miles of pipe? That's only a few processes running simultaneously, constantly for months on end, making only a few products in bulk. The operators working at such a plant should know their piece of the puzzle. Still, it's a simple process with hardly any instructions. Then there are the people in the back office who are called when there is something wrong, but they cannot figure out what it is, solve the problem and make sure it doesn't happen again. That's the team I work in. In a chemical plant, it would be a team of about 10 people. Another 10 would do maintenance, a smaller team would do redesign. It's simple compared to the processes I work in.
Our processes are many times more complex, we have many more of them, and we are running at least 80 of them together at a time. There are hundreds of instructions that all need to agree with each other. There are many more variables, because we don't have a simple chemical process, we are working with vulnerable living cells.
If one bacterium or mold enters the process, everything is scrap. Besides the troubleshooting, we are contently introducing new processes, new equipment, new instructions. There are constant inspections of governments from all over the world. They could want to do a deep investigation of anything that ever went wrong, because everything is documented, and every mistake requires a investigation and a corrective measure. If they don't like what we did, they can shut us down. Every tiny change we do, requires a documented change process, with a Quality Assurance department checking everything. That result in about 250 people actually making the product and about 1000 people supporting it in other ways. From that 1000 people, I'm definitely not the one with the most responsibilities, but I do have one of the most varied jobs.
I work with different specialists, working on several problems or projects at the same time, including some of my own. When it's a big project, it has at least 10 people from different departments working on it, often together with contractors from suppliers.
The most fun is taking on a small project, work together with a designer and an engineer and just think of a solution for a problem, design it, have it constructed and delivered and then implement it in the process, and see it used by operators.
That's the real test, because operators are not a careful bunch and not easy to please.
After that, you're the owner of that thing, for the rest of your career, supporting it when it breaks down, including its backup. It's fun, but it requires lots of patience.
I understand that, because I can imagine it.
You cannot image it for my job. You know so little about it that you think
that there's nothing to know.
That's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Ice Cream
Scoop
Cone
There is some math involved
1 scoop 2 scoops or 3 scoops
The skill involved is being able to stack the scoops with out them falling off
Actually, that was me on Ice Cream duty.
The difference is that the freezers contain several hundred million dollars worth
of cell culture inoculate, in thousands of small vials, at maximum -292 °F.
It was a procedure that we had to do with at least 2 people. First you look through the window, to see if there's no one suffocating in the room. Open the door with my key-card, with special access. Vent the room (door open), until the O2 level is safe, without going in. If you faint, the door shuts itself. One operator stays back. The buddy is only there to call security, if something goes wrong. Officially, they are not even allowed to pull you out.
To get the freezer back online, we used a manual override plug, which we swapped out for a blind plug. That allows for filling up several freezers at once, while the O2 in the room goes down below alarm level. Of course, you don't go in then and you guard the door. When they are filled, you swap back the plugs, fill in and both sign off the logbook, and go back to work.
We didn't use the term "open loop mode". The room O2 level was called OOR (out of range). What we did was a "safety interlock bypass", which is only allowed under strict procedures. New rooms have such an overcapacity in venting, that we never get O2 alarms anymore. Working in those rooms still requires training and special access.
The rooms are under camera surveillance, because they would be a good target for sabotage. The damage to our production output could run in the billions.
wow, peace and quite, companionship,
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My belief is you have got to be happy with the version that you are currently in a relationship with. Thinking that the person will be “perfect (or better) if only…..” and thinking that you can be instrumental in orchestrating their change is so wrong! Their change will only happen when they truly want to change. How many movie stars, rock stars, TV personalities, local drug addicts, etc are you aware of who are admitted into whatever facility or program and fail multiple times? Some would continually fail and getting clean NEVER HAPPENS! Sadly, this happens all of the time! People/suitors need to realize and understand that they get what they get. So either accept it or get the heck out of the relationship.
number 10 hits home for me by the way i answered by pm instead of here a bit personal
but as for trying to help someone recover from dope and alky, yea, being family members were able to quit drinking cold turkey, i see no reason everyone can't. but some are determined to self destruct and you can't help them. i remembered this gal for what and who she was before a punk in my high school class got her hooked on pot then it became not enough. she was extremely smart, very attractive, green thumb, but once she got ahold of pot then dope at 17 it was a down hill spiral. sadly the 27th of this month her parents are going to court to try to pension the state to take over her care as they are elderly and she has turned violent again, she threw her 80 year old mother onto the floor in febuary and about killed her. she is tied to a hospital bed as i type. that 3rd suicide attempt about did the trick,but it ruined her brain instead.
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can't think of anyone that resembles anyone in this video, but at the 1 minute mark the fellow does speak the truth.
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This video begins by showing an older man who is apparently dying. The person who is documenting the event pans the room that is filled with family and friends who are waiting for him to draw his last breath. Why are there 3 people on their phones? Are they checking to see whether their lottery ticket was a winner? Who in the frick uploads this kinda stuff and WHY?
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It ain’t no joke when it comes time to pay that note
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Crying about propaganda in classrooms and then literally do that.
PragerU is one of the worst partisan conservative filth channels in the world.
PragerU claimed "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed"
Instead of presenting them with clicks (find it yourself if you need),
here is the common sense reaction to that idea:
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i don't mind a idea like this for the handicapped but normal people shouldn't be this lazy
um, i think some of us have mentioned this before,so it is real
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just a random murder and attempted murder,stopped by a gun .
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4.40,good question, won't cook or make em a sandwich but uses the man for sex.
Women are not property, they are other human beings.
Don't expect them to make your damn sandwiches. Be a grown-up!
some women understand that you work together to make a relation ship work but most don't. they have the pussy and you shall serve them like slaves to get any.
1 thing that i can agree with liberals on is prostitution should be legal. it would be much cheaper to pay 50 bucks once in a while than to have to buy flowers, jeweler, clothes ,houeses ,cars and etc, just to get a piece once a week and hen pecked the rest .
but in my country men and women do work together to make a relationship.
We work together, care for children together, do housework together.
Still many women chose to care more than the men. Freely, not compulsory.
Sex is something you share together. If it's some reward, you're not doing it right.
My girlfriend doesn't make the same money as I do, but she definitely doesn't spend more on herself than she brings in. We have shared financial goals for the future.
I bring in most of the money for that, I do most of the financial planning, but I do not sacrifice more luxury, comfort or spare time, than she does. We contribute to our future luxury, comfort or spare time together.
Also, my country has had right-wing politics in power for decades now.
Almost everything important is privatized in my country.
The only thing we do (still) have is some more social benefits.
Why we still have that, is because right-wing voters want to keep it.
Right-wing populists are promising left-wing benefits, like no increase on the retirement age, eliminating the deductible on health insurance, a rent-increase-freeze or subsistence security. However, when they get into power, they forget everything they promised, but it still makes it very difficult for them to actively destroy the social benefits that we have had for many decades now. They have to walk a tight rope.
The term 'equality' doesn't mean something different in different systems.
A strong short definition is: “Equality is the fair treatment of all people, giving them
the same rights, opportunities, and respect regardless of differences.”
If men earn more than women, for the same job, with the same performance, that is not 'equality', unless there are other job rewards for women, that men don't get, compensating for the difference in pay. You could say maternity leave is one of them, but equality is respecting differences. Society should not punish women for having
a womb and the burden to keep humanity from extinction.
If I have to speculate, then I say it's mostly a cultural thing. When a culture accepts the inequality, than it will result in the inequality, because employers will never pay more than they need to. Their bottom line is maximizing profit. If a culture doesn't accept the inequality, they will demand social rules and laws enforcing equality. It's that simple.
If you vote for a politician who outlaws DEI, you're basically saying: "We don't care about equality!". The result will be growing inequality.
not to mention all the time they have to take off to carry the kid to the dr and sport events and so forth. a man goes to work in the morning and goes home at the end of the day. no monthly periods, no need for maternity leave and so on. thus being more productive and a better investment of training and funds.
that is not to say women can't do the same job as a man in Most cases. but there is justification in difference in pay in most cases
you LIKE inequality. It doesn't matter if pregnancy is a choice, it's ONLY a choice
for women, which is a factor to consider, in relation to equality.
At least you can consider pregnancy a choice, but that's not an argument for the menstrual period. They indeed are quite affected in that period, which probably does affect their productivity. That's EXACTLY why equality means considering that as a factor, although a small one, that needs to be compensated.
If men were bleeding from their dicks every month,
we would have 4 days off from work every month.
Did you even read the definition of equality? You seem to not understand.
What do you think the "regardless of differences" part is about?
You're the one who kept yammering about 'men' in female sports.
How about women NOT being allowed to have 'equality' in sports?
"Sorry ladies, it's just fair that you lose in basketball from Shaquille O'Neal."
"What? Do you think you deserve special treatment? Sports is a CHOICE!"
woman needs to change pad every so often,what does a man do that is equal?
woman has 4 days of evil each month, what does a man have that is equal?
What do men do or are affected with, to make them less effective for their employer? Here are some examples:
Higher rates of risky behavior and injury — Men are statistically more likely to take physical risks, get into workplace accidents, or engage in dangerous hobbies that can lead to missed work days.
Shorter average lifespan — Men tend to die younger on average, which could mean (by that same twisted reasoning) less long-term return on training investment.
Higher incidence of certain health problems — Men have higher rates of heart disease and certain other conditions that can impair work capacity.
Lower performance in multitasking — Research shows that, on average, women often outperform men in multitasking and some forms of complex communication — skills relevant in many modern jobs.
That's not just a few days per month, that men are less effective than women.
but that would mean a society run by women would be different.
It would be brains over brawn, instead of the other way around.
I also think it would be a more peaceful society.
Men have fucked up this world pretty hard. Women wouldn't do that.
Men might have built a lot of things, but we are also very good at destruction.
because we would already have it.
Are you able to understand this very simple concept?
“Equality is the fair treatment of all people, giving them the same rights, opportunities, and respect REGARDLESS OF DIFFERENCES.”
The principle is that it is unfair to have people suffer consequences
for circumstances they have no control over, like being born a woman
or being born black or being born with poor parents or being disabled.
I know you disagree with that principle. You can explain your principle
until you're blue in the face, but it's not a lack of understanding, it's a difference in moral principles between us.
You keep focusing on the equality between men and women, but that is not the worst equality problem. The real problem is that some people make 500X more money than the people who work for them. Are those people 500X stronger? ALL of them have a "sissyfied office job". According to your own logic, they shouldn't make more money than the people who do the ACTUAL work, with their big brawny muscles, because they are probably weaker than some women. Can you explain that, without flipping your principles to something else?
stop expecting the worker to keep up the lazy, and the rich to keep up the lazy.
work,earn,enjoy, simple
Do you think they risk going hungry? Workers do, every single day.
Their bosses control their livelihoods 24/7. What risks do billionaires have? If they do something stupid, they fire all their employers and sell the parts of their investments. Often, even the government comes to their aid. During Covid, Trump dumped trillions of tax-dollars on them,
to save them from any losses and they became even wealthier, while people were waiting in food-lines and were at risk of losing their homes.
You really need to purge this dump propaganda from your brain.
Billionaires don't work, they have people work for them. It's the easiest job in the world, it only takes money, to make more money.
The only skill that the wealthiest of them have is talking a good game.
There is millions of people who can do that.
I predicted you would flip your arguments. First, how much you should earn is completely dependent on how much a person produces and now all the sudden it is dependent on taking more risk, by investing your money or investing in yourself and putting your ideas and labor out there. Any reason to say that women can't do that?
i can't explain why some people are content doing little as possible to survive. that is lack of motivation perhaps?
In your country, most people work their asses off.
It's not lack of motivation, it's lack of opportunity.
When you're born as a serf in the US, their is almost no chance
of becoming a lord. The lords made sure of that, with your support.
that is bullshit that opportunity is not there. it just not taken by most. to lazy and no desire for improvement.
Netherlands: ~32.4 hours/week
Austria: ~33.7 hours/week
Germany and Denmark: ~34–34.6 hours
In one breath you call Americans lazy, in the other you are telling me that many American make it from rags to riches. You don't present statistics, you present anecdotal evidence. First of all Lee Iacocca is ancient history by now. Back then, there was still a lot of opportunity in the US. Your politics has destroyed that opportunity. It made education unaffordable, it destroyed small businesses and it gave the wealthy a dominant position to kick people, who try to make it, back down. Amazon is literally selling products under cost, until their competition is dead. Then they have a monopoly, so they can raise the price of the product to whatever they want.
How many times have I presented you the 'opportunity' data?
The US is 27th in the world. The top 10 countries are:
Denmark
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Iceland
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
Austria
Luxembourg
You have supported the idea that entrepreneurship is the best way to make it big, right? In the US, self-employment percentage is 10.1%. In my country it's 16.8%.
Self-employed also are van drivers, who get exploited like crazy.
In my country, there are still many more Lee Iacoccas than in yours.
What mostly remains in the US, is from riches to kings, like Elon.
He came to your country with blood-emerald mine money.
The top 10 richest people all came from families that could support their higher education.
1. Elon Musk: Studied physics and economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
2. Larry Ellison: Studied computer science at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.
3. Jeff Bezos: Degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.
4. Mark Zuckerberg: Studied computer science at Harvard University.
5. Steve Ballmer: Graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics and economics.
6. Larry Page: Degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.
7. Jensen Huang: Studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University and Stanford University.
8. Sergey Brin: Degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland and also studied at Stanford University.
9. Warren Buffett: Studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School.
10. Bernard Arnault: Studied at the Йcole Polytechnique.
No poor family can pay for an education like they all had.
Here is a review of her debate about women's sexual freedom, with some feminists.
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Why do the people who represent your opinions feel the need to lie so much?
Can't they find anything that's true, supporting your opinions?
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Obviously people who donate their chicken, rabbit or guinea pig, don't.
Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs are eaten by humans, so why not lions?
They are not asking for dogs and cats, which are only pets in the civilized world.
I agree that it's weird, but I think it's also educational.
There is no difference between a pet chicken and a livestock chicken.
They have the same ability to suffer and be afraid.
That's why I support regulation to reduce the suffering of livestock animals.
Do you do that? Or do you only have feelings for pets?
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The Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.".
That's the 'Tangerine Traitor' right now.
Still, I hope ICE taken in by his t-shirt. Many people like him are already deported.
They don't even think you're an American if you're "Born In The USA", right now.
By the way, how old is his video? 2020 is a long time ago? Is he still in the US?
Or is he re-considering his life's choices in a prison in a swamp or in El Salvador?
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Notable Cases of Immigrant Soldiers or Veterans Detained by ICE:
Marlon Parris – A green card holder and Iraq War veteran, Parris was detained by ICE shortly after Trump’s reinauguration. Despite having served two tours and receiving explicit reassurance from ICE (including a letter stating he would not be deported), that protection was disregarded, and he was taken into custody.
George Retes – A disabled U.S. military veteran and U.S. citizen, Retes was detained during a farm raid in Southern California in July 2025. He identified himself as a U.S. citizen but was nonetheless subjected to pepper spray, tear gas, had his car window smashed, and was held in custody for three days without legal representation or medical care. He was finally released on July 13, 2025.
We know about them, because they got out and were able to tell about it.
Many legal immigrants have just disappeared.
New Mexico: 48 Missing Residents - In March 2025, ICE raids in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Roswell led to the arrest of 48 New Mexico residents, many of whom were legal immigrants with no criminal records.
The ACLU of New Mexico filed a complaint alleging all 48 have effectively “disappeared,” as ICE has not identified where they're being held, or if they can access legal counsel or family members.
“What we know is people in our community are gone, workers are gone, family members are gone, our neighbors are gone.”
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Nationwide Fear of Disappearance
In Wisconsin, immigrants, many without criminal records, are increasingly expressing fears of being "disappeared" by ICE. Attorneys note that rapid detentions, inadequate legal access, and lack of transparency are fueling these fears.
"Disappeared in America" - A national effort dubbed “Disappeared in America” highlights disturbing incidents involving legal residents, such as Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student, and Andry Hernбndez Romero, who were detained or deported without due process or notice.
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Repost of the Washington Post article “Here are the U.S. citizens caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown”
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“Could You Prove You’re a Citizen?”
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Trump promised to end birthright citizenship by executive order
On December 8, 2024, during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump declared:
"We have to end it… We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous," referring to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
Executive Order 14160: Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, he signed
Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”
This order attempted to reinterpret the 14th Amendment, asserting that children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally or legally but temporarily (such as on a student or tourist visa), and whose other parent was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, should not automatically receive citizenship.
Supreme Court—Trump praises ruling curbing nationwide injunctions.
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to limit lower courts’ power to issue nationwide injunctions. Trump greeted this as a “monumental victory for the Constitution” and criticized what he saw as federal courts blocking executive power. He also argued that birthright citizenship “was meant for the babies of slaves,” claiming the current interpretation had strayed from original intent.
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i would try to defend my neighbors and myself if we are attacked but no i would go over seas to fight someone elses war
Gallup International Association (March 2024)
• In the U.S., only 41% said they would be willing to fight if their country were attacked, while 34% said they would not — with 25% undecided.
Still a lot higher, but somewhat disappointing from a people who are taught as children
to salute the flag, start the day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listen to
the National Anthem before every sports game.
without their efforts these people that won't fight ,wouldn't have the privilege of a choice to fight, it would be chaos like in the middle east for centuries on end.
The 'right' to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?
Their elders and ancestors sacrificed for democracy and freedom.
You are throwing that away like yesterday's newspaper.
There is nothing that the middle east would bring, that you wouldn't.
Trump went to Saudi Arabia and was jealous of how their people were obedient.
you can in the US because you have equal rights and 1 thru 12 education covered by tax dollars same as everyone else.
because they think they have freedom over there. Putin is their idol.
Equal rights? In the US?
Making it, is about opportunity. 1 thru 12 education isn't equal opportunity.
Sure, it's still possible to "make it" in the US, but more difficult than in 26
other countries. The "American Dream" is literally just a dream.
There is an index for how easy it is to "pull yourself up by the boot straps",
it's called the Global Social Mobility Index (GSMI).
China passed you in 2020. Then China was 26th in the world and the US was 27th.
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Since everything is DEI to you, except clear racism, that's rather cryptic.
Not paying enough taxes is a good reason to boycott a company.
Do you LIKE paying more taxes, because the wealthy get away with cheating?
Anywho, I can't join them, I had never even heard of Lowe's.
I usually buy at Hornbach, Gamma, Praxis, Karwei or Bauhaus.
There are like 15 big DIY stores within a 10 mile radius around me.
I wouldn't suffer much, if I needed to boycott one.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which
two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers (such as advertisers), and finally degrade their services to users
and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
A term coined by writer Cory Doctorow to describe the life cycle of many online platforms:
1) Start – A platform treats users well to grow quickly.
2) Middle – Once big enough, it prioritizes business customers (advertisers, sellers)
over users.
3) End – It exploits both users and business customers to maximize profits, leading to
a worse experience for everyone.
For example, Google Search:
- Early phase: Results were clean, fast, and prioritized helpful websites for users.
- Middle phase: More ads and Google-owned products (like Maps, Shopping) began appearing above organic results, slightly reducing usefulness.
- Current phase: Search is cluttered with ads, SEO‑optimized content, and Google pushing its own services, so users and websites both get worse outcomes.
Other example of enshittification are food delivery services like DoorDash
(and similar apps like Uber Eats and Grubhub):
Early phase (growth):
- Low fees for restaurants and customers.
- Frequent discounts, free delivery, and good pay for drivers.
- Goal: Rapidly acquire users and market share.
Middle phase (monetization):
- Rising delivery fees and service charges for customers.
- Restaurants pay higher commission (often 20–30%).
- Gig workers face pay cuts and algorithmic scheduling.
Current phase (exploitation):
- Multiple fees (service, small order, driver benefits).
- Search results prioritize sponsored listings over best restaurants.
- “Ghost kitchens” and low‑quality options crowd the apps.
- Less transparency about costs and tips for drivers.
the "Ten Commandments" in every classroom
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"The separation of church and state doesn't just protect the state,
it also protects the church."
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If you do want South Park canceled, you're a ❄️
For people who struggle to understand the difference between satire and defamation,
ask ChatGPT or Grok: "What's the difference between satire and defamation?"
Or: "Can you explain the legal difference between satire and defamation, in the US?"
A disclaimer at the start of each episode, can be a legal protection against defamation.
"ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THIS SHOW — EVEN THOSE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE — ARE ENTIRELY FICTIONAL. ALL CELEBRITY VOICES ARE IMPERSONATED…..POORLY. THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGE AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT IT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE"
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ChatGPT: The story you encountered about a one-year-old child biting a cobra to death in Bihar, India, has been widely reported across various reputable news outlets, including NDTV, Republic World, and The Tribune India. These reports describe an incident in Mohji Bankatwa village, where the child, identified as Govinda Kumar, allegedly bit a venomous cobra that had coiled around his hand, leading to the snake's immediate death. The child reportedly fell unconscious shortly after and was subsequently hospitalized.
While the event is indeed unusual and has garnered significant attention, it's important to approach such extraordinary claims with a degree of skepticism. The reports primarily rely on statements from local witnesses and medical personnel, and there is a lack of independent verification or photographic evidence to corroborate the details of the incident.
In summary, while the story has been widely disseminated by several news outlets,
the extraordinary nature of the claim warrants cautious consideration. Without further corroborative evidence, it's challenging to definitively assess the veracity of the incident.
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Q: "Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?"
A (Epstein): "What do you mean by “personal relationship,” sir?"
Q: "Have you socialized with him?"
A (Epstein): "Yes, sir."
Q: "Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?"
A (Epstein): “Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today I’m going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.”
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The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees specific rights to individuals accused of crimes, focusing on ensuring a fair trial. It states:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, is one of the most important amendments. It addresses citizenship, equal protection, and due process. It has five sections, but the most frequently cited are in Section 1.
Core Provisions of the 14th Amendment:
1. Citizenship Clause
Grants U.S. citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
This overturned the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which had denied citizenship to African Americans.
2. Due Process Clause
Prohibits states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Basis for applying most of the Bill of Rights to state governments (incorporation doctrine).
3. Equal Protection Clause
Requires states to provide equal protection under the law to all people.
Key foundation for civil rights cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (school desegregation) and modern anti-discrimination rulings.
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ChatGPT:
Do you want me to show how this tactic (invoking multiple amendments) has been used
by other high-profile witnesses — like organized crime figures or corporate executives —
to avoid answering damaging questions?
Q: Were those organized crime figures invoking multiple amendments, when they were asked questions about dangerous criminals, higher up in the crime organization?
A: Yes — there is a pattern of witnesses in organized crime investigations invoking multiple constitutional amendments when refusing to answer questions, particularly when those questions involve higher-ranking figures (bosses or “untouchables”) in the organization.
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so keep listening, keep learning, maybe come up with some a bit firmer.
If a Democrat would be associated with 1/100 of what Trump has been saying on record, you would accuse them of leading a demonic pe.do sex slave organization, but when it's Trump, you're gonna make believe that he is totally innocent and knew nothing of what was all going on around him. The denial is absurd.
Trump keeps lying about everything, while evidence is piling up.
It's clear that not just Trump and Epstein were good buddies, but both their families
were closely entangled with each other.
It all stinks up to high heaven and Trump and his ilk are doing everything to cover it up.
It's clear that only full transparency can silence the allegations of him being at the very least a huge pervert. That he is not doing that, shows that he is probably far worse than just a huge pervert. If the files proved him innocent, he would not order them to be buried.
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i know it doesn't matter who the person was or why they did it, it was the guns fault.
oh wait, oops,it wasn't a gun, it was a knife, so i guess we will have knife bans?
Traverse City is north and on the west side of the state and I’m in southeastern Michigan! What kinda wack-job uses a “folding knife” to wreak havoc? By the way, I have a Walmart+ membership, I think that’s what it is called. I can and have placed orders and then they’re delivered to me. The Walmart closest to me is approximately 20 miles away from me. My last order was like the super large package of Cottonelle toilet tissue, a 7lb bag of Purina One kitten food, a large roll of heavy duty aluminum foil and package of E.L.Fudge cookies. 😀
1. DOJ Interviews Conducted by Trump Ally
On July 24, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly Trump’s personal lawyer, conducted a full-day interview with Maxwell at a federal office in Tallahassee. Blanche’s close relationship with Trump raised immediate scrutiny about the potential political motivations of the meeting.
Maxwell cooperated fully, answering every question without invoking her rights, and returned to prison carrying a mysterious white box, sparking further speculation.
2. Allegations of a “Hidden Pardon” Deal
Former Florida prosecutor Dave Aronberg, who previously worked as an aide to Pam Bondi (Trump’s former Florida Attorney General), publicly speculated that Maxwell might be offered immunity or a future pardon in exchange for statements absolving Trump, such as testifying that Trump had no involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
Expert commentary attributed Blanche’s involvement as “extremely extraordinary” for a deputy attorney general, suggesting it might facilitate a pardon-related arrangement.
3. Context: Political Pressure & Epstein Files
Persistent pressure from Trump’s MAGA base to release more Epstein documents, including what some referred to as a “client list,” has led DOJ to pursue new interviews with Maxwell. Some see this as a way to placate constituents rather than pursue unbiased justice.
Internal DOJ memos concluded there was no new evidence, no client list, and no proof of a broader conspiracy involving high-profile figures. Still, the interviews continue amid speculation about political motives.
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In any case, it's a clear conflict of interest that Trump sent his former personal lawyer to "investigate" a case that he is clearly implicated in. Is any of you considering that this is
just stupidity?
What was in the box? Forgive me for being suspicious when associates of Trump are moving boxes. It's when important documents often 'seem to' disappear.
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That's not consistent with what they said before.
Will you follow their orders, and believe what they tell you to believe?
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Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
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If I could turn the page
In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes
But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
Tell me lies
Tell me, tell me lies
Oh no-no, you can't disguise
You can't disguise
No, you can't disguise
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
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