your democracy is dead and buried

I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m not a USAmerican.

Implying republicans bend rules to accomplish something for Americans…

“So you’re saying” followed by nothing of what I said.

I feel like I’m on twitter… If you like replacing other peoples words with your own, just have the discussion in your head. It’ll save us all a bunch of time.

The issue is deeper too. As mentioned in another comment, [women are often found in jobs that have low pay to start with (https://www.women.govt.nz/women-and-work/occupational-segregation), regardless of sex. One has to find out why that happens as well as why those jobs are paid so badly. “Because women” is not an explanation as the “solution” could either be “fire all women” or “hire more men”, but that’s barely an attempt at analysing nor solving the issue.

Which doesn’t say anything. Nobody throws a dart at the board and picks a job that way. It is undeniable that women are often found in jobs like healthcare, retail and education (source). One could have the simplistic take of “just get another job, duh”, but a lot goes into career-path decisions from upbringing, to social perception, and opportunity. Things aren’t just that simple, so taking such a simplistic formula to draw up a complicated plan is the wrong way to go about it.

I feel like the simplistic representation is the right one here.

Life isn’t simple nor is this issue. Nearly anything can be misrepresented if boiled down a simplistic view. For example “foreigners aren’t from here, so they don’t belong here” is a simplistic take with a simplistic conclusion which is able to galvanise a good portion of society.

If you really can’t understand a simple simile, I question who you’re calling “thick”.

Replace junior and senior by “less experienced” and “more experienced” if you like. The example is to show that apples aren’t being compared to apples.

Good. Republicans don’t play by the rules. Democrats shouldn’t either.

P.S Biden is still a pussy for not having the entire supreme court thrown into jail for “national security” reasons.

The way they calculate it is so simplistic…

Pay for males – Pay for females  
___________________________________   x 100
            Pay for males

It doesn’t take into account what kind of job the person is doing, where they are working, in which industry, work experience, etc. Just median hourly pay across everything with no nuance.

It’s like comparing a newbie and a senior by median pay and claiming they should be paid the same because they are human.

I’m a little surprised to see it in Australia. I thought they used the metric system… Are they being Americanized?

Aren’t those specifically made for teenagers?

Also: this is what happens when you don’t show up to elections local or otherwise.

“I could have pointed the finger at my madam [employer] and said: ‘You’re violating these terms and this is how you should treat me.’ I would have been legally protected.”

Interesting. It was another woman forcing her to do oral without protection? I am confused though, is the employer in the room with them or watching on a camera or something? And what was the legality of prostitution hitherto in Belgium?

In fact, Victoria says she was raped by a client who had become obsessed with her. She went to a police station, where she says the female officer was “so hard” on her. "She told me sex workers can’t be raped. She made me feel it was my fault, because I did that job.” Victoria left the station crying.

This is very similar to male judges being hardest on fathers in family court, with mothers getting custody more often than not and men being forced to pay alimony + child-support in the U.S. As of 2013 things have been better:

The incidence of sole mother custody has decreased over the last decades and children increasingly alternate between the households of the mother and the father after divorce. The incidence of sole father custody has remained low.

Though I haven’t had time to dig into the exact numbers.

That seems quite easy to game. Create a bunch of accounts across multiple instances, target a user you don’t like, find comments / posts with low vote counts and downvote all of those. That’ll skew the ratio and get them “preemtively” banned from communities that use that bot.

Out of curiosity, I looked at what I was banned from: some of them are communities I’ve never even interacted with like [email protected]? What is that even?

And slrpnk has an automated bot now that bans and unbans people. Again, from a community I don’t even recognize (pleasant politics? huh?).

What do the blue and red arrows even mean? Friend and foe?

Another proxy war? What’s so important about Syria?

Let’s hope car companies don’t swoop in and lobby to get wider roads + more highways. Hopefully the government can stay strong against such influences and the people will vote for politicians who can stay strong.

Diplomacy doesn’t work with dictators. It seems like Western countries are afraid of “angering Russia” by arresting their spies or stopping trade with the country as a whole.

Weeeell, tourists are often seen as easy money even in rich countries. There are tourist traps all over and when you don’t speak the language or don’t know the place, it’s very easy to get ripped off. Plus, if you grew up in a place with markets, it’s quite normal to haggle - some people go to the market just to haggle because it’s fun.