Very_Bad_Janet

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can try NewPipe, which is free. IIRC I downloaded it from F-Droid. Maybe someone else can reply and confirm that's the best place to get it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I would encourage almost any American to get a remote job (or three) and move abroad to a country that has a visa for remote workers and good healthcare. It might be the only way some workers will be able to save and retire some day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do younpay for these services? I'd imagine you might not want to use your credit cards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you use a VPN, change your country and see if that affects the content you're offered. I'm in Manchester according to my VPN, and Netflix is offering me tons of British sitcoms and dramas, shows not available in my home country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm American and I can't think of a comedy show that makes fun of Indian food. Can you name one of them so I can check it out?

I'd say most medium to large sized cities in the US have Indian restaurants, so it's not so unusual.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We use espresso grounds in our coffee maker, so we drink Americanos by default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, can someone tell us what the green text said? I don't see any image or link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"...my father came to America at the age of 12 as a plumber’s apprentice. No education.”

“I went to public school in the Bronx, high school in the Bronx, college in the Bronx. I started my career in Wall Street the day after I got my MBA from Columbia. I had no money. I couldn’t afford a vacation. I made a lot of money. I’m giving it all back...

I'm imagining the cost of living that allowed his father to live on the salary of a 12 year old who worked as a plumbers assistant. I'm also imagining that this billionaire probably went to Bronx Science (a free public school now where attendees likely have paid for test prep to do well on the entrance exam, out of reach for a lot of NYC public school students). If he went to college in the Bronx, it was likely Fordham - the 2023 cost of attendance (tuition plus fees and books) is now $89,575. For an MBA from Columbia, their cost of attendance (which includes room and board) is now $127,058 in 2023.

He cannot make the connection that COL and earnings have grown exponentially since the time his father was 12, yet wages haven't. Does he not see that very few students would be able to go to private universities for undergrad and grad schools and service their debt with current wages? How many graduate and immediately start working on Wall Street? He's probably against WFH, too, solely seeing the benefit to his commercial real estate portfolio and ignoring the commuting costs and work life balance issues for the workers. The world capitalism gave him and his father is gone. At this point it's as real as ghosts and dreams. We are dealing with the current world that capitalism has given us, a capitalism that only a billionaire would cry over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you say you both share the management tasks 50/50 as well?

I think it depends on the task. We have our areas that we focus on (e.g., me laundry, him cooking) but there are others where we come together/alert each other of issues or tasks that are coming up (e.g., selecting afterschool for our children).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My husband does all those things but I also do a lot of the "every other weekend" type chores, too, like organizing all of our stuff, back to school supplies shopping, maintaining our appointment calendars, and dealing with our children's change of season clothing swaps. There are always projects and we split them.

I do consider him sharing the housework as 50/50, however, because he does daily tasks, also. He does the cooking, half of the cleaning, half of the schlepping of children to doctor's appointments and playdates, as well as other as needed things. The daily chores is where the rubber meets the road.

He has also been taking on more small but important daily tasks like monitoring our email inboxes for emails from our kids' schools. I think its more than equitable given that the early years of our lives with children i was either nursing through the night or holding/wearing infants throughout the day. I think a lot of men don't seem to register the overnight labor or the constantly carrying babies and infants as labor (it was freaking exhausting).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People in Australia always say that everyone overstated its dangers.

But I think Australians just want us to visit and store more of their mindworms.

 

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If some companiea can offer fulltime or hybrid WFH to have an advantage in getting employees, some others will.offer 4 day workweeks to be competitive with other companies. Canada can start the trend.

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