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Here ya go. Make them regret everything.

Who gets to sieze it? A group of people? And who leads them? That person has power. Now they can steer the ship of the "collective". It's basically how china operates Play store link: Sync for reddit

You can ping your team "I need to go to restrooms, can someone fill in for me for a few minutes please?" ?!

You can't ask the tech team to bring a report which is a union of these two analytics tables?

You can't pack a customer's order who ordered some book called freedom?

Well, I guess it's not only about pay/wage after all.

I’m an estate and tax planning attorney and practice this field, so for better or worse I’m paid to know it. I end up doing a tremendous amount estate and income tax planning for folks worth not even 20% the federal exemption right now, which is why I strongly believe the federal exemption is very misleading when it comes to overall tax efficiency at death.

I don’t want to make this too complicated, but for an accessible read for what I’m referring to, take a look at this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Owners-Guide-Beating-Death/dp/0990358887

I am not suggesting the book because I necessarily agree with the strategies or what it is selling; however I am recommending it because I don’t know ANY other resource that describes what I’m talking about at a more digestible level than this.

Amazon essentials-$20 dress shirt

A+ is only good if you want to stay at the customer service or help desk level.

Sec+ on the other hand is basically required for Cyber. Not sure where you've been applying, but if you want to get into Cybersecurity in DoD, Sec+ is required. DoD will also nearly always require a security clearance, which is hard to get your foot in the door.

I feel like commercial (non-DoD) cyber will probably want something like Sec+ as a baseline to indicate you at least know something about Cybersecurity. Certified Ethical Hacker is another cert that is kinda meh but seems prized by recruiters and hiring managers. Your coworkers will know it doesn't mean you know jack shit, but it can help you get hired.

I dunno man, tryna get hired in Cyber without Sec+ seems like a huge waste of time, DoD or no.

This is the study guide you need if you want to give Sec+ a crack. Good luck with your career, I hope you find what you're looking for! :D

Take the valve stems out of his tires with this https://www.amazon.com/Tire-Valve-Stem-Remover-Installation/dp/B01N7ANTCB

He wont be able to inflate them to drive it somewhere. Its not technically damaging the tire because you just have to put new stems in to correct it. Super inconvenient because its not like valve stems are super common and it'll make them have to go get the kit, do the thing, and waste a load of time.

If he complains respond "I thought you liked pranks/jokes?"

> I don't know about security for school causing issues.

I'd suggest checking this book out, you'll likely change your opinion https://smile.amazon.com/Homeroom-Security-School-Discipline-Justice/dp/081474821X

Police in schools in the very best case scenarios don't help, but don't hurt. More often however, they make things worse. Police are trained to deal with criminals, not children. This means the police treat the kids like criminals, don't trust what they say/assume they're lying. Which is what cops are trained to do when dealing with criminals. Unfortunately, this leads to children having interaction with police that are in a negative light and conditions kids to not be trustful of police.

Idk if you're taking these calls on a landline or a cell phone, but there's an app I used when my landlord was being a retaliatory piece of shit that records all incoming and outgoing calls. I find it to be decent. This is the google play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lma.callrecorder

I'm sure apple has something comparable as well

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights > We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to gain equal rights under the Constitution―and today have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people.

Jawn

The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public > Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well, leading managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings; discouraging investment and innovation; harming employees, customers, and communities; and causing companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and irresponsible behaviors. And she looks at new models of corporate purpose that better serve the needs of investors, corporations, and society.

Myth

To be clear, insurance companies are definitely a contributor to the high prices of healthcare in the USA. My point was that insurance companies are setup as scapegoats, by which I mean that far far too much of the blame is placed on the shoulders of the insurance companies.

If you really want to learn about why healthcare costs in the USA are so astronomical, then you should read this book by the late professor Uwe Reinhardt. The book is well written and accessible to anyone. He was one of the foremost researchers on the topic. It is not a biased or politicized book. It's the honest to goodness conclusions of a man who spent his life researching the topic.

The short summary I can offer you is that healthcare costs in the USA are high because of a lot of inefficiencies that slice at us like paper cuts. Insurance companies are an inefficiency, clearinghouses are an inefficiency, the opt-in or opt-in nature of health insurance allows abuse of the system that creates inefficiency, the existence of employer sponsored healthcare creates inefficiency, the malpractice insurance issue creates inefficacy, the outrageous cost of education for doctors creates inefficiency, the lack of control from the government over costs of drugs and medical equipment causes inefficiency. It's an enormous list of people in the healthcare system who are taking their pound of flesh and the end result if insane costs.

That’s a good point.

A symptom of our time is that rich people have so much money they can’t find enough places to stick it. Tesla has a larger market cap than all other automakers combined

Venture capital & IPO money is so plentiful no one bothers with government money. The educational market is huge, but it favors established players & isn’t enough of a meritocracy that an innovative company can afford to put their eggs in the government’s basket.

There probably are people trying to do it, it’s kinda obvious & has so much potential I have to assume something like severe institutional dysfunction is actively preventing it.

I have 2 buns in the oven I am both more experienced with & more qualified to execute, but I will definitely work with you as far as you’d like to go. I’ve got 3 or 4 pages in my Big Blue Moon book worth at least sharing.

There are some apps to gamify & reward activities like https://habitica.com/, but I think they are dead ends for a project like this.

Are you getting enough vitamin C?

Your symptoms could be scurvy. Eat some oranges and lemons.

https://www.healthline.com/health/scurvy

https://www.amazon.com/Stretching-40th-Anniversary-Bob-Anderson/dp/0936070846/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=stretching&qid=1654056435&s=books&sr=1-1

In the USA yea, not in Canada. That exact same one on amazon.ca is $27, which of course is unreasonable. The closest comparable size for me is $15.

This is 248g for $6.50

https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Garlic-Powder-8-75-oz/dp/B074ZK8MQS/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=RRK0NF1NRIF5&keywords=garlic+powder&qid=1653235478&sprefix=garlic+powder%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-3

start here!

Fixing our very broken education system is far beyond my question for this thread, but in talking to people outside the thread about my question I was pointed to two things.

First one was private tutoring, of which a good book on the subject is I Left My Homework in the Hamptons. I've not read the whole thing through yet, but I'm going to make that time.

Second was secular private academies - not all are for the "elite", some are simply trying to be really good schools, with or without a particular educational theory that's notably different from the mainstream. They'll pay on the curve, maybe slightly less, in trade for being more selective about who they accept, particularly about families that aren't going to abuse the faculty. Working at those is probably going to take experience at lesser schools, or a very very good college transcript and surrounding activities.

https://www.amazon.com/Rii-Backlit-Business-Keyboard-Optical/dp/B081YXTSXG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=backlit+keyboards+for+computers&qid=1651246527&sr=8-3

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The entire shift should shit into a baking-mold of an egg. Like THIS, only a LOT bigger. Then freeze it, saran-wrap it, and send it to corporate as a gift.

Absolutely. A peasant couldn't gather wood for the fire from the forest because the lord owned the forest. Even getting a little kindling without permission could get a stiff fine. No hunting of any deer or birds, since the lord loved to hunt. Maybe fishing from the mill pond for eels was okay, but in the river, and you would probably have to get a license for that, just like today.

In the US, we think of doing everything for ourselves. Put up shelves. Hang curtains. Wash the car. Mow the grass. But in the middle ages, and really, right through the 1800s and even today, in Europe, only guild members and licensed craftspeople could do this work. Everything was highly regulated and you paid fines if you violated these rules. It was a world of control freaks. Read any of the books on medieval life by Joseph and Frances Gies. Easy, interesting, but scholarly work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JBI2IY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?\_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Depends on the time frame, but even peasants who owned strips of land still owed the lord labor or might have paid a fee or hired someone else to do the labor. There was really no such thing as the family farm, as we envision today. Villages had lived communally even before there were lords, they made many decisions together, such as when to plow, rotating to fallowness, etc. The lords were landlords who were given land by the king, and were able to extract rent and fees. This was the moneymaking industry of the day. Medieval Europe was more like modern life in many ways, than say the American frontier. You had to wear certain clothing, buy from merchants who belonged in guilds, get permission from the lord to travel, marry, sell your own goods. The idea was the lord still had authority over everything. The lord was compelled to pay taxes to his duke or king, so he had to do this. He had to throw parties, arm his knights, and if necessary, call up the peasants for battle duty.

When my peasant ancestors left Central Europe in the mid-1800s, they did not own any land. The nobility owned everything. There was no such thing as working for yourself--the nobles controlled everything, and the movements of every person. Prussia was a police state. My ancestors were homesteaders and owned their land, finally. But less than 200 years later, we are back to industrial farming, and making it impossible for family farms to exist.

I recommend this great book, and all the books by these authors. They are academics, but the books are accessible and easy to read. I've read most of their books. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JBI2IY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?\_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

If all else fails, and you can't get another employer in short order, just install Libreoffice.

It's a free/opensource office suite, everything from Writer (a Word processor) to Calc (Excel equivalent)

https://www.libreoffice.org/

IME, most things are 99% the same, with just a slightly different interface.

If it were the old days, BASIC was the standard first language for a couple of generations. Nowadays, probably Python or javascript (although javascript is super weird in many ways). If also recommend C# or Java before C++. If you really do want to go low on the stack, however, learn C before touching C++. Just don't expect it to be welcoming to newbies. In fact, the best programming book ever written was the standard manual for C, and I recommend it to everyone, regardless of which language you are learning: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/

Here's a study from 2017 Romania:

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/11247/nature-of-the-relationship-between-minimum-wage-and-the-shadow-economy-size-an-empirical-analysis-for-the-case-of-romania

Here's Argentina in 2008:

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/3911/does-the-minimum-wage-have-a-higher-impact-on-the-informal-than-on-the-formal-labor-market-evidence-from-quasi-experiments

Please note that the United States has not conducted a formal study at the national level for this phenomenon. To ask me for a peer reviewed study that doesn't exist or else I'm a liar is a poor way of engaging in dialogue. I want the highest possible wages for the greatest number of people. If you disagree with that stance, then you probably don't belong in this subreddit.

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I can't speak for all baby wipe brands, but I did find one that was flushable: https://www.amazon.com/Flushable-Kandoo-Hypoallergenic-Cleansing-Sensitive/dp/B0083E62HA and suppposedly there are others. I"m wondering if some people flushed ones that were not flushable and this caused problems. Baby wipes are pretty well labeled for this, one way or the other.

Tim Nichols: The Death of Expertise.

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190865970/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_3X4WN2BNFSPB6WSWHYN5

Ya'll need to spend the $5 on an automatic nightlight in the bathroom lol

https://www.amazon.com/Diffused-Efficient-Bedroom-Bathroom-Kitchen/dp/B07PVG7N4K/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Thank me later

There’s this book that’s been on my list - Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Amazon link for you).

My parents were always lowest-cost shoppers and I mostly turned out that way. But honestly, the few nice things I had ended up lasting me way longer than any low cost items that I got curious and now I try to buy the best quality for the dollar, when possible. Even if that means I get it later. I know that’s not always possible or feasible but if you’re paid well then I think, in the mid/longer-term it will end up saving you money.

Let me start by saying I am an anarchist and so of course Im going to be biased here. As with any subject its important to not just read one thing as an intro. Some of my favorite pieces of anarchist literature in the beginner range would be The Abolition of Work and Other Essays by Bob Black, Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution by Kropotkin, Desert by Anonymous, Armed Joy by Alfredo M. Bonanno, Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, and Anarchy by Malatesta. After that Im personally a fan of Bookchin and Stirner, the Ego and Its Own is the quintessential egoist text. All these can easily be found for free at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index theres also the Anarchist FAQ which is a decent resource as well for any questions. That can be found here https://anarchism.pageabode.com/book/an-anarchist-faq/

As for criticisms of anarchism, I dont have any specifically to recommend as Im not particularly a fan of any of them but youd be looking for more statist literature. Authoritarian Marxist Leninists or just straight up capitalist literature. 

From my other post:

Again, let's compare this bullshit with the NHS in the UK. Honestly, I don't like kids, and thats my personal preference but that doesn't mean I don't want others to go without having any. However, I am 35 and do base decisions on cost and clearly the cons outweighs the pros in the USA. The US doesn't have the infrastructure to support anything or it's future much less fix what's already broken because of the GOT Mine, Fuck You mantra. The system here is crumbling and failing. The children in foster care are not being carefully looked after, the laws against queer couples not being able to adopt are hurting children who need places of refuge, the child services are overwhelmed, parents are murdering their children, the idea of men getting preventive birth control for themselves is DOA, the idea of abortion is DOA, the idea of financially helping families is DOA. Soooooo what the fuck is the USA good for???? This country sucks ass!

https://wise.com/gb/blog/cost-of-having-a-baby-in-the-uk

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Or - something like this:

https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/multiracial-raised-fists-concept_8724489.htm#query=human%20fist&position=4&from_view=keyword

There are software packages that a lot of growing activist organisations can leverage for this sort of thing. The one I see most often is NationBuilder, but they're corporate and for-profit, so probably not the best option.

There appear to be a variety of Free (as in both freedom and beer) alternatives though, that while not focused on community development exclusively like NationBuilder, may still do the job.

Setting something like that up is usually pretty painless (many offer hosted versions) but all will require some level of financial support, at least for the hosting costs. To be clear though, these costs are to the tune of about $4/mo, so it's quite manageable.

Still, none of these come with community management tools out of the box, though some, like WordPress Iikely have extensions for pretty much anything. It might be simpler to start out as a mailing list (yes, I'm old), or Google Group, using free tools like Elements, Discord, Gitter, or Slack for more real-time communications. You can get a lot done with these tools + a few people sharing spreadsheets on Google Docs.

The only thing you absolutely need for stuff like this is leadership, which understandably is a problem for some people in this community. I don't have an answer to that. There's a reason that leaders and coordinators exist in every successful movement: they manage to get shit done when you're dealing with large groups of people with similar (but not identical) ideals and goals.

So, if anyone wants to step up and ~~lead~~ coordinate the swarm into something effective, let's hear it! I'm willing to offer technical advice (though this is Reddit, that's likely not in short supply), but I don't have the time or energy for anything more than advice at the moment.

The USSR fed its people roughly the same caloric intake as the US. Much of what you think you know about the standard of living in the USSR is probably wrong

money has actually got some value in that it provides liquidity for trade to take place, and capital isn’t always produced by labour you’re ignoring the fact that capital produces capital, natural resources are required as well as entrepreneurship in order to facilitate it… well ‘ignored’ you just didn’t actually know.

well i actually have, ive stated i follow the austrian school of economic thought. and yes all respected schools of thought show capitalism to be superior to socialism and communism, each having their own preferred level off and form of government intervention.

you’re just extremely out of your depth here and i’d recommend starting with economics for dummies so you can begin to understand basic economic theory and eventually move on to more nuanced issues like the differences between schools of thought.

Ask your counselor for the no jab cane. It's always good to have a backup one. If you're going to be in grassy or wooded areas in PA, then ask them to get you a dakota disk cane tip.

This stuff is a mix of catnip and silvervine, and my cats go apeshit for it. They come running from the other side of the house and rub all over the stuff and eat it. Lose their damn minds. :)