My kid fell for this. They promise you’ll get paid while you learn. What they don’t tell you is that IF you manage to pass the entrance exam (he did) you get put on a list for open apprenticeship positions, waiting to be called in at any moment. While you’re on that list you don’t get paid. If you do get a spot, contracts only last a couple of months. Then you go back on the list. Rinse and repeat. And the longer you’ve been in the union the higher up you get placed on the list. So the older members get placed before the newer ones no matter what number they were in line. This “join a trade” push is similar to the charter school scam, siphoning up state and federal training funds without delivering results.

Perceived “rough” side of a major city.

I tell them I’m accepting offers of $2,000,000+. My home is worth about $100,000.

Colleges will care more about repayment, only giving loans to those with stellar credit, and reducing the number of admissions.

Federated YouTube:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

I took it to mean that the child was kept from attending the reenactment, probably for behaving like a toddler at a Rosa Parks reenactment, and restrained inappropriately as punishment. What happened wasn’t a whole lot better, but not what the title led me to believe.

First and foremost, Farley Flavors’ fabulous fast foods feed and fortify families for a fabulous future.

“I still think that they’ll be uncomfortable leaving in a loophole that basically says you can freely retaliate for speech through specifying a party via objective criteria rather than by name,” Schumer said of the appellate court.

This is the same kind of loophole that the Indiana State Legislature is using to get around the State Constitution’s prohibition against the State legislating individual local issues. The State Constitution states, "The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws regulating county and township business. So they write laws regulating “the consolidated city,” of which Indianapolis is the only one. I really hope Disney prevails.

Funny that they ruined a man’s life?

They feel out of control because they ARE being exploited by systems that are designed to obscure the fact. They don’t understand how anything works, because those systems have replaced their education with propaganda.

I very much do not want AR. There will be ads everywhere. What happened to the anger people had toward Google Glass and the feeling that people wearing them would be recording everything around them basically all the time?

As someone who remembers a time without even answering machines, let alone computers at home: yes, absolutely. We are definitely worse off.

That’s so clearly written by AI that I find it hard to believe any of it’s true.

All of this is a big fucking problem.

Sure as hell not flattening the block.

I’m no republican, but I don’t understand why any party should have any say over when a state holds it’s primary. And I don’t understand what the end-goal is to writing in Biden. If the point was to give the Dems the finger by holding a primary anyway (that won’t count) why wouldn’t you write in other Dems, instead of the candidate the party already supports?

It really sucks that when you try to get involved, leaders of these orgs seem to expect you to already know how organizing/protesting/demonstrating works.

Don’t count out older generations either. GenX has been told our whole lives that we don’t have the numbers to matter, so we didn’t bother. When the boomer counter-culture protestors of the 60s sold out to money in the 80s, we didn’t have the support of an older generation to teach us, either. We’d be more than happy to band together with younger generations who can get us on track.

The idea that there’s ever been any debate about whether this is genocide is sickening.

I mean, the whole point of layoffs, in any industry, is to get rid of more experienced staff who are higher paid, and replace them with noobs that you can pay less.

GenX doesn’t give a fuck about loyalty either, and hasn’t since the 80s.