If my company weren't offering 10% matching on my 401k, I wouldn't be using a 401k. That shit is a scam. And by the time I have to retire, I'm going to need almost $10 million to live the extra years that medicine will allow me to live.
I don't know where the fuck $10 million is going to come from. My best hope is to have a house paid off by then so that I don't have a mortgage when I'm 80.
I’m mid-tier talent right now in the US. Give me 5 years, and I’m getting the fuck out to live in Europe. The US just doesn’t represent my values anymore. And if I can live just as comfortably elsewhere, I’m going to do it.
In a resurfaced clip from 2022, House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted to monitoring his 17-year-old son’s internet activity for pornography. Johnson made this revelation during a speech at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana, where he discussed the “War on Technology.”...
I literally just wanted to esign a document the other day, and in order to get the functionality I wanted ONE TIME, I had to create an account, give them my credit card info for a free trial, let Acrobat Reader download all the other functionality I didn’t need, which took 10 minutes. The program crashed, buttons didn’t work, it didn’t save the first time.
I fucking hate Adobe.
What’s a good PDF editor that does e-signatures that I don’t have to pay a long-term subscription for? Foxit is nice, but requires a subscription.
I really wish we could give teachers some semblance of independence back in their classrooms. Firing her just for using an unapproved version of an approved novel is ridiculous.
I think it’s mostly that people assume men are bad caretakers and can’t handle a child. It’s partly that they are impressed by the fact that you’re not totally inept, but also that they need to do their part to make sure that dad doesn’t screw up with the child.
The “men are inept in the home” narrative is pervasive throughout all media, even things as inane as product commercials on TV.
It’s okay to be angry when it’s directed the right way. It’s not the driver’s with whom anyone should be upset; it’s the executives refusing to provide fair compensation that we should all be angry at.
I’m not arguably the most powerful person in government playing at best an obstructionist role and at worst actively destroying the freedoms of the people I’m supposed to serve.
He doesn’t deserve any kind of sympathy and the world would be a better place without him. If we’re going to do better as a society, we have to call out the hatred and despicable behavior. Not by pretending we care about those knowingly and willingly destrying people’s lives.
It feels that at this point, the ruling class has gotten so good at giving us just enough to keep us from outright revolution. It’s little bonuses here and there, it’s providing just enough to keep us afloat long enough to get through the next election, it’s information manipulation to have us arguing with each other rather than focusing our anger on them.
It’s going to be extremely difficult to break that control.
Much more likely? No, they’re actually less likely or just as likely, depending on how you count a mass shooting.
Of those, “the number of known suspects in mass shootings which are trans is under 10 for the last decade,” which translated to “1:880 [or 0.11%] of the 4,400 shootings” they recorded, he said.
The report examined 173 attacks in the U.S. that “that resulted in harm to three or more individuals in public locations,” Justine Whelan, press secretary for the U.S. Secret Service, told Reuters via email, and “three attackers (2%) were transgender, assigned female at birth, but were known to identify as male at the time of their attacks.”
Reuters reported on studies in mid-2022 that found about 0.5% of U.S. adults identify as transgender, and about 1.3% of 13 to 17-year-olds (here).
Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement ( medium.com )
Composition examples ( jemmy.jeena.net )
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Snakes can be cute too ( lemmy.world )
The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up ( www.cnn.com )
xkcd #2862: Typical Seating Chart ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2862...
Mike Johnson Slammed After Admitting He Uses His 17-Year-Old Son To Monitor His Porn Usage ( www.comicsands.com )
In a resurfaced clip from 2022, House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted to monitoring his 17-year-old son’s internet activity for pornography. Johnson made this revelation during a speech at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana, where he discussed the “War on Technology.”...
fuck Adobe and fuck their licensing
I’m so absolutely sick of it.
55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag ( changeresearch.com )
Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials
Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class. ( www.chron.com )
A single Father's experience with unsolicited attention ( www.fatherly.com )
The GOP has a master plan to criminalize LGBTQ people ( www.damemagazine.com )
Some quotes:...
A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week ( fortune.com )
Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration ( www.businessinsider.com )
Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.
Right wing trash site headline: "The New Charges Against Trump 'May' Carry the Death Penalty" ( pjmedia.com )
#HOPE 2023...
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News: McConnell says he's 'fine' after freezing during news conference | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he’s “fine,” after freezing during a news conference on Wednesday.
I think the rich need a reminder... ( lemmy.world )
GOP lawmakers predict ‘fistfight’ between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert ( www.independent.co.uk )
Tension between the two congresswomen has been rising in recent weeks
Marjorie Taylor Greene leads false claims that Philadelphia shooter is trans ( www.independent.co.uk )
Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in a mass shooting on Monday