As the population ages, the younger generations get smaller and the older generations get proportionally larger. More and more money will need to go to paying for retirees life styles, and they expect retirement life styles like those of their parents who had the benefit of a working age population multiple times the size of the retired population.
In the quest for this, often times not are that this is the effect they are seeking, they have to take control of ever more of the most message resources to force younger generations to do more work for less pay to support them.
The new part is every card payment system having a tip option, where as tips used to be a thing you gave a server in cash on the table, then a optional fee addended to a bill at a sit down restaurant to compensate the server (since they were getting payed below minimum wage), this is different though.
Even food providers where there are no servers have “tips” now. Often times establishments do not even choose to have them, they’re just the default on the payment system.
The tip system was always kind of scummy as it was putting the onus of preventing the server from getting kicked out of their home on the customer. Now though, rather than costumers being put on the hook for paying exploited workers, the companies are weaponizing that guilt based system to pad profits even further. Often times those “tips” don’t even end up going to the workers at the restaurant, they go straight in to the companies revenues, and pad the incomes of the payment service companies that get a 1-3% cut of every transaction.
What used to be conceptualized as a way to reward hard work is now just another avenue to scam people out of money. It’s another crack in the wall of a system that is mindlessly sabotaging it’s own justifications. Creating further contradictions.
A year ago is still new. It’s been a creeping problem since well before covid even. Edging back in to the early days of tablet and phone based card readers.
I have to point out that getting mad at the manufacturer of the weapon is so pointless.
Get mad at the user of the damn weapon please. Oh? You can’t protest in front of them? Ok, maybe you should sit this one out then. Nobody’s demanding you condone the action or the abhorrent violence, and there’s plenty of freeze peaches around for you to express your outrage at it without causing disruption for anyone who isn’t guilty of a war crime.
The state of Pennsylvania is very interesting. Many rural hospitals cannot afford to treat patients like this. And many of those hospitals have closed or were bought by VCs or larger hospital systems. The hospitals that have closed have left communities without access to healthcare. And this is a huge problem. This also opens a much larger conversation about why healthcare in the US depends on making a profit. I will not discuss that because it is extremely complicated.
The city of Philadelphia; however, has many big name, big money hospitals affiliated with universities where their mission to help people who need help. And they raise a lot of money to help the communities they service.
I would gladly pay more taxes to help humans keep their health. I don’t care about citizenship. We as a people are only as strong as our weakest people. And everyone deserves to be treated with compassion, regardless of boarders.
I was not trying to be ghoulish. Fog of war is a very real thing, and a great deal of misinformation about the situation is being passed around. Video footage of paragliders is being passed off as combat footage of Hamas airdropping into Israel. Older footage of a mosque in Syria being blown up is being republished as footage of Israeli forces acting in the Gaza strip. For pete’s sake, footage from the Arma 3 is being passed off as realtime citizen journalism.
In other words, I did some digging on the news site linked to, found that there is a very high probability that it is not a fake news site (with the incredible shenanagains involving professional fake news sites in the last couple of years I’m not willing to say “is not,” only “high probability it is not”), and posted the most informative link backing up the news source.
I wonder if there could be a way to enforce the old equal-time and fairness doctrines that where applied to public broadcast licence holders onto public libraries as well. I’m not sure it would be a good idea since someone would inevitably try and force religious texts alongside scientific journals, but it at least would preclude banning things.
Condolences to the victim/cyclist and his friends/loved ones.
Cyclists can be dangerous (road hazard/traffic hazard) and annoying, rude and disrespectful but they don’t deserve getting hit/ran over by a vehicle. I hope they catch this maniac soon.
“Cyclists can be dangerous (road hazard/traffic hazard) and annoying, rude and disrespectful but they don’t…”
Sorry but no, you’re absolutely off-base. Cyclists are forced to bend over backwards in a world optimized for sociopaths to rage around in 4000lb+ murder machines, and short of literally killing someone there are few or no consequences if they screw up.
Cyclists are not the root cause of the problem here. Horrific infrastructure and car drivers certainly are, though.
We need better infrastructure where it would be safer for cyclists too. Car drivers aren’t ALWAYS the problem nor are the Cyclists. But having a combination of the two on some US roads / streets is insanity sometimes. Anyways, I am not here to argue.
Take care and be safe out there , whether You’re a driver or a rider.
I say it, cause i experience it all the mofo time with cyclists who aren’t careful. Not all of them are insane; but plenty are riding as if there wasn’t any traffic and or vehicles around them. Not a care in the world.
You can try and invalidate my experience and my opinion. I just don’t see what the point is.
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