As far as I understand, trans people are still a protected class under other statutes on the UK, but basically just don’t count for any laws like “50% of company board members must be women to receive this tax break”.

Which, idk, seems reasonable to me.

I would like to say, California instituted a $20 fast food minimum wage which was estimated to cause an 8% increase in overall wages (they already trend high there) but a 1.5% increase in menu prices. To my mind this tracks as wages are kind of small (too small) against ingredients, building lease, etc.

Granted, increasing the wages of everybody in the agricultural supply chain would probably have a bigger effect, but overall I think businesses tend to mcfucking lie about the impact of wage increases on consumer prices.

It’s not reddit, people can be sarcastic without the /s.

It threw off everybody’s bullshit calibration when the FBI announced in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which included implications of Joe Biden taking foreign bribe money, was “Russian Disinformation”.

They also ordered (technically only “asked nicely”) Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship campaigns based on this.

Later, after helping Biden win the election, they admitted that the laptop was real and not a Russian psyop as publicly claimed. Internal text messages revealed even later prove that while the FBI may have thought the laptop was not real at first, they did not believe it was a Russian plant, in other words, they lied.

So stuff like that might be why Republicans tend to believe “Russian Misinformation”.

“Uhhh, yes ALL MEN, why would you say not all men?”

“Uh not all of them obviously, I don’t mean the good ones. If you thought I was targeting you when I said all men are bad, threats to innocent people, and need to be kept out of public spaces and valuable positions. Obviously you are a bad person.”

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so…

Some deal like “You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone”, even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

4chan today is more moderated than Reddit in 2012.

This statement manages to be sorta true while also missing that there’s more great games on steam than the entire, mature Switch 1 library.

Go Ross Go!

1. Jiffy lube frequently rounds off drain bolts, over tightens drain bolts and strips out the oil pan, puts on the wrong oil filter, spills oil everywhere, and misdiagnoses any other problem you ask them about while you’re in there.

2. I haven’t been around the other ones, but…

3. Other comments sound like they’re just as bad.

Stay away from quick oil change places. Find an independent shop with good reviews if you’re not willing to DIY.

Not the US Democratic Party.

I, too, first heard this quote from Adam on Mythbusters as a child. But, I’m pretty sure I also heard it was said first by some philosopher.

I would later be informed that “some philosopher” was the 1984 film The Dungeon Master.

Only apparently that was not the first, and it was said in a 1974 episode of Doctor Who. Well, someone on Reddit said that, and linked to this WikiQuote page but on that page it also says it’s from The Dungeon master.

So, I don’t know what to believe any more, and I still hope it was actually an obscure lost quote of Rene Magritte or something because in my head it would just make sense.

Imagine comparing the situation in the united States, where women have favorable hiring and scholarship status, to the Taliban state where women are literally property and not allowed to get a job or education under threat of death. Like actual death, not someone online telling you something rude.

I’m glad we have a sexual assaulter to tell us how it is.

Lose one (1) election:

“Actually, misgendering is an excellent idea. Also we’re removing the pronouns from our bios.”

“My work has included advising executives on DEI strategy and coaching leaders, as well as designing and delivering high-quality professional learning experiences for employees across all levels. I have published 12 books, over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and academic papers, and more than 125 essays and op-eds in magazines and newspapers. Foundations have invested $22.2 million into my diversity, equity, and inclusion research, and I have procured an additional $18.5 million for my center at USC.”

This is from the bottom of the article, which can be read in full at https://archive.is/RRfmZ

This man isn’t an obscure nobody, he is a core member of the DEI movement and teaches his brand of thinking to students seeking DEI degrees and other professionals. He is truly representative of the state of the whole thing and you are grasping at straws to deny it. He even brags about how much money it pulls in and how many companies and newspapers he influences.

We have the man who wrote those words expanding upon them to say what he meant, and you’re still saying “actually he meant something else.”

Good to know they uphold this text by not publicly murdering and raping random civilians in their homes and proudly sharing the video.

“People online are so rude! All I did was ask a few questions, but everybody keeps calling me a faq!”