I mean I’m not above trying it once

Damnit McKenzie that’s not what I meant when I asked for gator clips!

What I’ve learned from this comment is that there is an extremely small percentage of gals who may dislike the term ladies based on a very obscure reason, so until they tell me their personal objections the reasonable thing is to go with the common societal usage of the word.

You’re probably getting down voted because it’d be the same as if I got on my high horse and replied, “well you oughta learn that some people don’t even like the word ‘person’ because it reminded them of existing”.

Like sure, that happened to you and it’s great that you can now refer to your friend the way they prefer. But that’s such a niche situation that I don’t think it should be conveyed in a manner as if people were inadequate for not knowing. Makes a good story to tell though.

If you’d just said “fun fact, some people blah blah blah” it carries a very different tone then “good start, now learn that blah blah blah”

One implies it is an experience you had, the other implies it is an experience that all others should’ve known.

Probably start with buying them dinner first

there’s a great planet money podcast that covers this

It turns out childcare is just a very labor intensive sector due to the amount of adults needed to watch the kids. This means that most of the costs for daycare are already labor:

In fast food, labor is 25% of the total costs. Estimates for day care - it’s, like, more than 70% of total costs.

Given that labor is already a disproportionate amount of the costs, raising salaries a little has a large effect on the increased cost that parents would have to pay.

For some real world numbers, daycare is around 1.3k/month for me. The school does 3 kids to 1 teacher, so that’s a max of 3.9k/month of income per 1 teachers salary. So already, in an ideal world where 100% of what parents pay go directly to the teacher, the max they’d make is 48k/year.

Factor in things like renting the facilities, utility costs, administrative and security staff, taxes, etc. and you quickly start to see why even though it seems like parents are paying a lot, there’s just not that much money to go around.

Worth pointing out that the game being in development for 6-7 years likely means paperwork was already signed going that far back.

Arrowhead knowing about this 6 months earlier suggests their hand was forced.

My guess is if you have a few ETFs you might even have “dealings with Israel”

These size 11 shoes were put on me as a toddler, I’ve never taken them off since.

How I aspire to one day have a mudroom so I finally have a place to take off my shoes.

Real talk, just leave em by whatever you deem to be the entrance to your home.

You’ll notice he’s not the one saying this, she is.

Some people just feel more attractive when they are cleaned up down there.

And before you go off about how it’s the patriarchy, etc, I’m one of those people and I’m a dude.

That’s… That’s not what they said at all LOL.

Do you honestly think if Mr beast blipped out of existence that the government would step in to do all those things?

Hyperloop fucked us, true, but it feels like the campaigns Mr beast goes on aren’t really interfering with government decisions.

How DARE he provide voluntary game show contestants that chance to win money as well as the ability to walk away at every moment.

It’s almost as if the contestants have their own motivations and reasons driving their willing participation in the video.

Like, honestly, half the times that shit just sounds fun. Wife and I found out that NASA was literally doing the same thing as the 100 days in a box challenge as part of a simulation for mars, and we were hyped to do it. Throw in a cash incentive? Even better.

But here’s the kicker: if we weren’t going to do it together, we wouldn’t want to do it, and that’s A VOLUNTARY DECISION I JUST MADE. Some folks would have fun participating given their situation. This isn’t squid games where participants are facing harm.

OP is just mad. Their arguments really remind me of “the unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for”. You’ll notice OP has absolutely no evidence that the participants believed they were taken advantage of.

EDIT: I googled “mr beast taking advantage of contestants” and the results are generally: others taking advantage of Mr. Beast and discussions about the morality of Mr Beast, but I don’t see an article about how a contestant says they were taken advantage of.

Are you more likely to do x again if you got 100k for doing so vs nothing?

We both know the answer to that.

So does getting paid mean x gets done more often?

Does that mean it’s better to be paid?

I run audiobookshelf with drm free audiobooks, but the nicest thing about kindle/audible is the syncing that happens between them - read on an e-reader, and your progress in the audiobook gets updated.

Anyone know of a solution that provides similar capabilities?

So you just kept saying no until they brought you a nice phone?

Seems like a great way to get unexpected monthly charges for a nice phone on your bill.

I find that a lot of getting to know your coworkers as individuals, and not simply “the person in charge of that account” depends on face to face communication.

When I’m working remotely, the moment a meeting ends, I’m outta there.

Pretty much the only IMs I send are strictly work related - there’s not much water cooler talk, not much griping, because it’s all recorded (or can be) when working remotely.

I don’t think anyone is surprised, I feel like anyone who criticizes the government there has a very legitimate threat of getting disappeared.

Yeah but then black becomes the very thing they swore to destroy.

Multigenerational living is also a big thing in Asia.

Ah, the existence of video porn proves that all video is sinful.