We’ve had a marked drop in literacy and math skills in the last decade. We need to shore up those core skills before adding in any kind of social comparisons. The lack of understanding of nuance and context in text has directly led us to where we are in this country.

It wasn’t …France, who was there fighting with us for that independence?

So you got the pics, then.

Bro, you are in for a loooong week

Notes? They’ve already got 5 “different” scripts, and two are half way through filming…

Potatoes do very well in pots

… Like did a previous owner sell the severance rights to the clay on your property or something?!

Except they explicitly said “nearly 20%”. Which is blatantly false. Terrible at basic math. And this is why people will remain poor

Superpowers, from a literary standpoint, can get a bit derivative and boring

If the author is bad at crafting a narrative, sure. Powers are just like any tool a character has. If there’s never any limitations to its use, it’s boring to read about.

He wears all black, so he’s emo

Punisher comics isn’t the only thing you don’t get.

The house fire it starts, might

Lol.

Southern hospitality is just using polite language to be an asshole.

It’s usually lower per capita. Right wing media likes to report in nominal numbers, because have 10 crimes sounds like a lot more than 2 crimes. But when you see it’s 10 out of 1000 (1%) people vs 2 out of 50 (4%) it doesn’t look as good.

Yeah we get an offer letter about salary and benefits, and a vague mention of the position you’re working for (this may be more explicit for union jobs), and there’s usually some company policy things we have to agree to every year.

But no, there “must” not be an actual agreement. All that shit can change at the whims of the company. We accept the position, and if things change, we are “free to leave”. Some states might have more laws around this than others, but corporate money and gerrymandering have greatly tilted the political landscape against the worker

Is this…a surprise to you?

Employees have very few rights/protections here. Employers have all the power

I did. That’s not the same thing as an employment contract. And whatever is on that letter can be changed without much, if any, notice.

Sure but being a caregiver doesn’t help explain why you’d be good for a software engineering role, or whatever.

Because resumes are for listing relevant work experience not a timeline of your life events.

Any country that loses ~40+% of is population all at once is going to have a lot of major issues. Even more so when that population is concentrated in specific industries.