Not to belittle the heat wave, the effect of the water break change doesn’t come into effect o until September. So they aren’t really related as of yet, other than shitty and coincidental timing.
There’s multiple sources mentioning this. But here’s one.
Also doesn’t the law deal with water breaks at work? OPs examples were all people doing their own thing. I think we’re all in agreement though that if people are dying from the heat right now that it will get a lot worse once this legislation takes effect.
Capital thinks it loses when labor wins. It’s not completely zero sum but they are too dumb to see that. Labor is winning right now.
Many of the companies that have done layoffs in the last year are desperately hiring to fill the gaps they made for no reason. They (corporate leaders) want recession and high unemployment so bad they are flailing.
Can’t say I’ve experienced this myself (millennial). Maybe I’m the bad influence in my friend group? I’ve definitely turned down going to things because I couldn’t afford it. That said, when gaming at least, I tend to just buy the game for my friends as I want to play with them and don’t want them to have to worry about that cost. Games are, relatively speaking, pretty cheap so I view it comparable to paying for a night out, which is often about the same cost.
The more likely explanation for your not having experienced it yourself is that the numbers cited are bordering on silly. Millennials and Gen Z make up roughly 20% each of the population of the US [1], so something like 6 million each. The “study” polled roughly 1000 people. Drawing any conclusions at that sample size is pretty spurious, and even then, the percentages that agreed with the headline are in the 20 and 30% range.
The size of the sample compared to the size of the population doesn’t really matter. What matters is how representative the sample is.
If they got a truly random sample (they didn’t), then 1000 is plenty.
Realistically, it’s probably 1000 Millennial and Gen Z Credit Karma users (already a niche group) who bothered to open an email and take a survey, which is not a realistic representation.
Maybe you have reams of physical, digital, and eyewitness evidence where trump is literally sayiny “i did the crime!!!” And a personal check from him with his fingerprints on it and his signature; and a video of trump doing the crime and him testifying today “I did the crime”
But Hunter Biden’s laptop and what might be on it 🤔 ??? Think about it… and Hillary!!! She was sending emails to her own staff…what’s she hiding???
I mean, the job of a governor (or President) isn’t to legislate like this. Laws should come from the elected representatives under the guidance of the head of state. And of course we’ll all be outraged when an Republican does this when they’re in power and they enact some god awful nonsense. We should push for better accountability from our elected officials and less of this universal declaration of whatever our current overlord sees fit to do.
With that out of the way, holy crap is he clever to edit “2024-25” into “2425” and set this program up for a very long time (assuming it doesn’t get struck down somehow).
Yep. Wisconsinite here (and a teacher as well). I have mixed feelings on this. I’d be fuming if a Republican governor pulled something like this and I generally think it’s a power governors shouldn’t have. However, when held against the context of the way GOP has operated within the letter of the law to entrench themselves within Wisconsin politics, I’m all for Democrats using tactics like this. GOP will use them and it’s unfair for everyone to expect Dems to take the high road at the expense of our policy priorities.
In my perfect world I’d get rid of both this power and the GOP gerrymander in Wisconsin
agreed, this is a power that should not exist. I’m glad it was used here for good, and I also also recognize that the GOP plays dirty in every way they can, but it is scary that the intent of a law could just be completely rewritten by the governor. let’s hope WI can become more robust to abuse before a fascist ever gets elected governor
So Texans are paying state taxes that are used to ship immigrants a couple thousand miles, and paying federal taxes which are already being used to ship immigrants to welcome centers (more efficiently) all across the country every day.
I would think they’d want their Texas state tax money to go toward solving some of Texas’ problems, like their abysmal maternal death rate or their ludicrously fragile electrical grid.
I would think they’d want their Texas state tax money to go toward solving some of Texas’ problems, like their abysmal maternal death rate or their ludicrously fragile electrical grid.
The GOP has gone completely mask-off, and no longer even bothers pretending to care about enacting policy to help constituents anymore. They don’t have to. They know their base will vote for the ‘R’ no matter what.
As long as you do some token “owning the libs” (even if it also hurts them, which it almost always does), these politicians will continue to be re-elected. Republicans are completely lost in the sauce, and have made hurting others that they don’t like or understand their top priority. Their only priority actually. And this gets them elected again and again.
I don’t know how you’d even begin to fix this. We’re broken beyond repair.
What I want to know is how much of those are fake jobs that were posted online? And how much on average are those jobs paying? Number of jobs are pointless without other facts to accompany it… :/
Now California needs to make a law that any books that have a sexual content rating cannot be sold to public schools. Vendors can then choose between which state they want to sell.
Each state does it differently, but in California alimony is generally 50% of the months of the marriage until 20 years and then it becomes permanent. The concept is that the spouses pooled their resources to generate the best outcome for the family and therefor the family should benefit from that outcome.
If one partner raised the children and took care of the home while the other partner acquired an education and developed a career, both partners benefit from successful children and a home so both partners should benefit from the income that was generated.
If government is going to change the rules, then they need to consider changing all of the related rules. When dividing assets, the courts will now need to consider the future value of an education, employment history, and business contacts. I could see a divorce where 80% of the current financial assets go to one spouse to offset these other assets. What is the present value of future income that is derived from the benefit of not having to stay home and take care of children?
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