Good lord, I hope you never have children, and if you do I really pity the life they’ll lead.
the growing sentinment amongst parents that video games should be banned for everyone under age 18
Where are you getting this from? I’ve literally never heard of anyone trying to do this. I don’t believe this is a thing.
It entirely depends on the specific company’s policies.
The company I work for hires people through a temp-to-hire program. As a temp, you are not eligible for benefits. The moment you get hired full-time, though, you are.
I’ve also worked for companies where you have to be employed for 6 months or a year before you are eligible for benefits.
It entirely depends on the company. This is not an question anyone here can answer. You need to talk to HR.
The idea of ‘trades’, as in construction trades like electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc, has become pretty popular recently. The idea that you can get into a trade and make a good living without going to college has taken off as a response to the “forgive college loans” push. The right will often talk about trades as “real jobs” in contrast to people who go to college, rack up a ton of debt, and get degrees in fields that aren’t high paying or don’t directly translate into jobs right-wingers can easily understand. So talking about trades is a dig at ‘college educated liberals’. Among certain segments of the right, even just mentioning trades will illicit images of big burly men working with their hands doing manual labor raking in gobs of cash and lording their superiority over unemployed, highly-educated Democratic voters with liberal arts degrees and huge college debt. It’s become a meme they can use to quickly and easily convey that idea.
This is totally separate from the type of factory work they talk about trying to bring back to America by boosting domestic manufacturing. There’s really not a lot of construction trade work in factories. The type of factory work they’re talking about are typically unskilled jobs that pay much lower than skilled construction trades. But they also promised their voters they’d be creating high paying factory jobs. As much as they enact policies which suggest the opposite, the fascists running the government can understand simple economics. They know that an iPhone (for example) isn’t going to be built in the US by workers getting paid $30/hour. They know any factory manufacturing jobs their policies might create will be as close to minimum wage as possible with no benefits, ridiculous working conditions, and extremely high turnover. But they also know they have to promise the moon to maintain their sycophantic cult.
So they just words like “tradecraft” when talking about factory jobs because it illicits the idea of high paying skilled trades, but doesn’t actually outright say it. They want people to think electrician, plumber, carpenter, HVAC tech, etc, but also the deniability to say “I never said that.” If they came out and said “trade jobs” a bunch of industry and labor people would be like “uh… there are no electricians or plumbers working on factory floors.” Instead, if they get pushback they can just say, “I didn’t say that. I said ‘tradecraft’.”
It’s just Orwellian nonsense to obscure lies.
(Note: when I say ‘unskilled’ or ‘skilled’ here, I don’t mean to imply that factory work doesn’t require specific skills that can be honed and improved. I don’t mean to imply that any rando with no experience could do the job just as well as someone with a lot of experience. I’m using the terms to refer to the amount of formal training/licensing required to do them, and their relative pay levels. ‘Unskilled’ jobs typically require no formal training outside the workplace or licensing, and typically pay lower than ‘skilled’ jobs.)
This is entirely incorrect
Because polygamy has historically been heavily associated with oppression and subjugation of women. Can it be done ethically and responsibly? Maybe in theory, but, on a broad scale, as an institution, that’s never really happened.
You’re probably right, but also, is it that big of a deal? I don’t buy just a screen protector, but the phone cases always come with one. I work construction, so I like to have a pretty durable phone case. I usually buy an Otterbox or similar. They always come with a screen protector, and I’ve never had a problem putting them on correctly.
I guess I just don’t see why NOT to use a screen protector if you already have one.
This exact thing has happened many many times in history. Not someone transported through time, but someone travelling to a place where nobody (or virtually nobody) speaks the same language, or even one related to yours.
I mean, for the extremely obvious examples, before the Columbian exchange, nobody in the Old World (Eurasia/Africa) had ever encountered any New World (Americas) language and vice versa. They managed to learn how to communicate within a fairly short time period.
But this was just the most obvious example. Until relatively recently (like past half millennia, or so), it was common enough.
You’d learn through immersion. You hear the language every day all day. You try to communicate by pointing and gesturing. Pretty soon you start picking up individual words (point at a piece of bread and say ‘bread’ over and over. Someone is going to respond with their word for bread. Do that a few times and you’ll learn the word for bread, etc, etc). That builds into common phrases. Before too long, you’re able to hold very rudimentary conversations, and it just builds from there.
Folding is the worst.
At least with my laundry when I take an article of clothing out of the basket to fold you can tell the volume in the basket is reducing. Each item is large enough that the difference is notable.
But when I take a piece of kids’ clothing out, it’s not noticeably less in the basket. It just feels like an endless amount of clothes.
This is a pretty silly mindset. I cook every day. I like to use high quality tools for my cooking. That includes high quality kitchen knives. Those shouldn’t be dishwashered. It ruins the handles and dulls the blade.
Same with my nice cast iron pans. And wooden cutting boards.
I also have several very large pots/bowls/etc that are just too large to fit in the dishwasher.
The dishwasher is an extremely useful tool, but it’s pretty ridiculous to limit what kitchen tools you’re willing to use simply because they aren’t compatible with another kitchen tool.
Only 20 minutes?!?! I do have a dishwasher, and I still spend well over 20 minutes hunched in front of the sink cleaning dishes that can’t go in the dishwasher every day.
Not OP, but I’m 6’6" (200 cm). I’m ALWAYS hunching over in the kitchen.
With kids it’s so much worse. I clean the entire kitchen at least 3 times a day, usually more.
Did you see him drop Ohio State’s trophy the other day?
Maybe he dropped the Pope?
Pat the bunny recently came out of retirement and released a new album called Friends in Real Life. It’s quite good, as is pretty much everything he’s ever done.
I haven’t noticed any moderation issues on lemmy.dbzer0.com
Mind if I ask what exactly you feel like is being censored?
I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.
Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.
If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system
I did a tenant fit-out in a new building where the base-building was still under construction by a different electrical contractor when we started our buildout. The building had a penthouse switchboard that was fed with 5 parallel sets. Except the other EC pulled it as 1 phase per conduit. So they had 1 conduit with 5x a-phase conductors. Another with 5x b-phase, etc. Even 1 conduit with just 5x EGCs.
I noticed it because we had to pull a new feed into their switchboard right before permanent power got turned on to the building. This was literally the day before the utility was supposed to turn on power, They were this close to turning on a 2000A feeder with a single phase per conduit. And it was all metal conduit. They’d have burned that whole damn building down.
I told them they did it wrong and were going to start a fire. They didn’t believe me at first, so I had to escalate it to my GC’s safety coordinator, who had to bring it to their safety coordinator. They refused to call the utility to cancel turning on permanent power, so my safety guy and I had to intercept the utility guys when they showed up on site to tell them not to turn on power. Man was that other EC’s foreman PISSED, but he eventually did have to pull it all out and repull it correctly.
this made me completely lose any sense of my place in reality
This is precisely why they used to (and still are sometimes, although not as often) be used for pilot and astronaut training. All the astronauts who went through the early Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions trained on one.
I went to Space Camp for a week when I was like 13. We all got to go in one for a bit. It makes you very dizzy.
Where are you getting this from? I have several friends who have or currently do teach grade-school aged kids in China. Their school day is 7-8 hours with usually a 90 minute break for lunch. This is also what you find if you search for the length of a Chinese school day.
This is only about an hour longer than in the US, which has an average school day between 6-7 hours. Although American lunch breaks are shorter than those in China, so actual classroom time is virtually identical.
The school year is longer in China, running from September-July where US is usually August/September-May/June. But the actual school day is pretty much the same as the US.