I don't see why this is hard to understand. If you're spending so much on childcare that it eats up the majority of one parent's salary, that parent might as well stay home. The problem is that it's the usually the woman giving up paid work in favor of being a stay-at-home parent, as if the general assumption is that the man should work and not raise his kids.
It’s worse than that because you don’t get preferred tax treatment for childcare so you have to pay for it in post tax dollars, plus on the low end those post tax dollars disqualify you from government benefits
If we're going to have trickle-up economics, where money inevitably ends up in the hands of the richest among us because large amounts of capital in one place seem to exert an almost gravitational pull, then I think it makes sense to use the government and its powers of taxation as a countervailing force by taking money from the rich and either pulling it out of circulation permanently or redistributing it to the working class, who will in turn spend it on goods and services so that this money eventually finds its way back to the rich.
> This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year. They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue. -- WILL ROGERS, 27 November 1932
My retirement plan is my grandfather's M1911. All I've got to do is pull the trigger and the nightmare stops. Knowing I can opt out at any time helps me get through a lot of bad shit.
As a software programmer who focuses way too much on logic - and who furthermore can't tell the difference between sarcasm, good humor, or direct honesty - it really sticks out to me that your comment may well be based on wrong assumptions about the afterlife.
As a Christian, I prefer relying on the good old ways of God's revealed Word in Scripture.
> it really sticks out to me that your comment may well be based on wrong assumptions about the afterlife
My assumption, if you can call it that, is that the only afterlife for which we have any empirical evidence is fame. If there's life after death, it's in the memories of those we left behind. I'm not too worried about that. People will either remember me or they won't; that's beyond my control and thus not my problem.
> As a Christian, I prefer relying on the good old ways of God's revealed Word in Scripture.
Is this really the place to proselytize? Hasn't it occurred to you that I most likely grew up culturally Christian at the bare minimum, and if I don't exhibit Christian beliefs there might be a reason for that?
I grew up Catholic. I'm not any sort of Christian today and haven't been since I was 18. I've never believed in any god, whether it's Crom or Yahweh -- but when you're an unbelieving child in a family of believers it's safer to fly false colors until you've gotten your own ship and sailed into open waters before you hoist the Jolly Roger.
Since I don't believe in the Christian God, the Bible is not the revealed Word of God to me but merely the words of men, translated by men. Since the Bible is only literature to me, I have no more reason to believe that it is a true account of historical events than I do to believe that the events of the Iliad actually happened.
In fact, because archaeologists have found a site that may well have been Troy, it's a little more plausible to believe that a bunch of Achaean kings besieged a city because one of them got cuckolded than it is to believe that a Jewish carpenter turned rabbi was somehow both God and the son of God and rose from death three days after he died screaming on a Roman cross -- though I suspect both tales grew in the telling before they were finally written down.
I'm not going to tell you that your beliefs are wrong. But they are precisely that: your beliefs. I don't share them. I have no objection to them as long as you are content to live by them without shoving them down my throat. Nevertheless, they do not give you standing to say that my assumptions about what comes after death are wrong.
We could both be wrong; for all either of us know, the only afterlife that awaits any of us is an eternity serving as sentient chew toys for Yog-Sothoth.
You offered suicide as a solution. I appeal for an equal chance to offer solace in anything up to and including that level of finality.
> But they are precisely that: your beliefs...I don't share them...they do not give you standing to say that my assumptions about what comes after death are wrong.
Actually my beliefs do exactly give me standing to say something about this. Unlike a belief in... well, a belief that nobody knows.
Lastly let me lovingly point out it is strange to find comfort in a pistol if you truly believe nobody knows... seems to me like you would do like any other gambler and hedge your bets, instead of leaning hard in one direction. But hey, I've acted irrationally before too. I get it.
At this point I'm no longer willing to deal with job postings because I can't trust anything I see on the internet. I'd rather just put up a "situation wanted" post with a "principals only" warning and see if waiting for people to reach out to me is really that much worse than reaching out to businesses.
Is UTC the only valid timezone in Markwhen? Also, is there any way to discover feeds in the works, or should I hope to come across feeds linked on people's websites?
Asking for users' emails as part of the signup process is a reasonable way to verify that your chatbot is being used by real people. I am sure to handle users' information with care and respect their privacy.
It's important to clarify that emails are only retained for the duration of the chat session and are not stored beyond that. This approach ensures that users' email addresses are only used for verification purposes and are not vulnerable to unauthorized access or misuse.
