hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3m ago
These people were just not charging when people asked not to be charged. These kinds of self consciously far left revolutionary businesses usually fail not because of lunacy like their founders leaving to go to clown school or fights about masking but because of ideologically demanded poor business decisions like that one. Thats the common thread in these kinds of articles, is the coffee shops that decide payment is optional or workers don’t need to listen to management shutting down because that won’t keep you in business.
Christian or mainstream businesses don’t do stuff like that. They may go under because they don’t have enough customers or are bad at setting prices or can’t keep costs under control or any other more pedestrian- or dramatic- reason, but they’re very unlikely to decide that employees(writ large; some of them have sinecures) don’t need to do any work or customers don’t need to pay when they don’t feel like it.
hydroacetylene
12m ago
I’ve seen a lot of white hispanics take advantage of affirmative action programs. They were all legitimately smart. IME Hispanics love community college programs to become, like, phlebotomists and technicians of some description who earn the same amount as the college graduates who shouldn’t have gone anyways(with shorter training and less prestige, of course), and that eats a lot of the crowd that would normally be demanding affirmative action.
There’s a separate ‘national Hispanic merit scholar’ thing, that’s like a 1450 SAT instead of 1500. That sort of thing is pretty common for Hispanics who are, shall we say, college material.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
In America the answers for rural employment are often
- Infrastructure maintenance or working in some other necessary function that’s located way out of the way for entirely legible reasons- railroads, long distance power lines, water reservoirs, etc are typically the best paid jobs in rural areas without extractive industry.
- Long haul freight or immediate dependence on it- truckers are going to drive anyways, it doesn’t really matter if they live in lower cost of living rural areas. Truck stops are also very economically important in these areas.
- Prisons and other government facilities people want built far away from themselves.
- Extractive industry. The single largest employer in rural Texas is usually natural gas- and most educated people in rural Texas are either teachers or working in the white collar side of gas extraction(there’s a lot of clerical work involved in land rights, accounting, sales, etc).
- Meeting the immediate needs of the above or tourism. The USA is a very wealthy society and people can go on vacation a lot, the gleanings are more than enough to subsidize a few rural towns. One overlooked source is hunters- most cattle ranchers bring in hunters during parts of the year, and hunters stop for fast food, hotels, etc, even in areas without beautiful scenery or good weather. Another major source is people just road-tripping through on their way to more desirable locations(Buc-ee’s notoriously makes a fortune off this).
- And of course there’s always remote work.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Clearly somebody is selling alcohol in Greenland.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
This will probably be a Dane who’s technically a Greenland resident- chic fil a normally requires previous business experience.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Greenland just found 13 billion barrels of oil, and lots of FIFO workers are alcoholics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That's been an issue with doctor google for forever though- webmd says it's cancer!
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is America, and there are neighborhoods in the city center which are exurban in most metros.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Not in American usage. Rural town means it's not part of a larger metro, or at least not connected to it/too far for reasonable commuting. America would use the term 'farm town' for what you're envisioning(which may not be a town), a 'rural town' might be supported by tourism, mining, a single large employer, etc. A major city is something with suburbs and a suburb is attached to a major city(but may or may not have a population that commutes there for work; some suburbs have more people commuting in from the city than out to the city) and an exurb is a town detached from the major city but economically dependent on a large portion of its population commuting there. A 'village' sounds like something thirdworlders live in.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To be clear I don’t quite understand the job-qualification reasons for elementary school teachers to need high school diplomas, let alone masters degrees, and would would replace elementary school teachers with the top x% of 11th grade girls if made supreme dictator. But what I remember from middle/high school was turning in homework, the teacher passing it out again in a random order, and having to Mark answers with a differently coloured pen as the teacher called them out. Tests were mostly scantron and graded by machine. The teacher had to grade essays, but not day to day assignments.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What I remember from school was having to grade each other's papers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Pretty normal striver parenting- her kid being average is just not a comprehensible idea. But normie blacks use corporal punishment up and down the class ladder much more heavily than whites do; support for corporal punishment in institutional settings is mostly blacks and white southerners, and this includes fairly up-middle class people.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm used to apple cider being the default there and plenty of parents just letting their kid have a small quantity of wine or champagne, with sparkling grape juice being used as a punch, served out of a bowl?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The south became roughly as republican as the national average in the late seventies and was more republican by the nineties. Your timelines don't match up.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, the confederacy would have been better served by a more aggressive strategy, because they were going to lose a war of attrition and needed a decisive victory early.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Latin America is full of dumb regulations, rent seeking, and corruption. I wouldn't doubt that Brazil has the same thing, and just relies on income inequality to make up for it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's like a gun shop, but for black dudes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Barbers are like that. Or they're altchicks. Have to be into heavy metal to do barbering.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In certain neighborhoods in Dallas ISD, part of the benefit of accepting a housekeeping job is your employer lying to the schools about where your kids live- the school doesn’t care, these are mostly well behaved Hispanics whose parents believe in the Chancla, and if they show up to school, they get $9k on top of the property taxes from the sorts of houses that have full time housekeepers in Dallas. The kids get a better education. The employers get to throw in a fringe benefit practically for free. Their kids, of course, go to private schools, mostly Catholic or episcopal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Socially, however, this is not good, you’d have to concentrate the genii anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A good teacher would have said ‘put it back in the bag, under your jockstrap and gym socks, I didn’t see anything this time’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And then get lynched? The gods of copybook heading will return, one way or another.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
UBI, but only for the deeply involved in church or subcultural scenes. UBI, for those who forswear politics and vow to embrace lowest common denominator slop. UBI, for those who pledge to do too many drugs to seek societal change
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Does Germany have mandatory voting?
I suspect that rural western Mass doesn’t have tons of homeless people to begin with.
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