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By the nature of ETFs, you're definitely going to make less income because your money gets put into an investment pool and returns are proportional. However it makes you less tied to the stock market, which is increasingly tied to a person's ability to retire
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Well, both of us are socialists (I can't comment on the other person). We think about money in such a different way that any money joke about investment is going to lose it's humor. I don't understand it as a joke either, but I definitely understood the financial advice. He selected some large, relatively uncontroversial companies that will pay you part of the quarterly profits based on the number of stocks you own. Tbh I'd avoid the day trading and choose high dividend ETFs instead. $100k is still very out of reach for most people, but it's a reasonable investing portfolio.
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And the dude said it to a native American whose tribe has been in the region for millennia. He's not even a native to the state.
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Right, I'm not denying that. People have always been smart. The problem that calculus solved was the intensely difficult algebra that it replaced
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The joke is that calculus as a field of mathematics didn't exist until millennia after the fall of the empire
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Because the faces have no consistency lmao, pain rated at 5 shouldn't look happier than rank 1
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Probably, but it's a hardware store. I don't know about the habits of folks outside of my little corner of the Midwest, but very few people return things to them anyways
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Watch out for that 11% rebate
Edit: sometimes I forget that Menards is a Midwest thing. Their big advertising thing is that you can mail your receipt to receive 11% of the bill back
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British people were forced to abandon their rock piles and most of history since has been about them making it everyone's problem
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There's no trick, you just use your immense wealth to force the mistress into an abortion without telling anyone. /s
The bans are about controlling women through healthcare. Never forget that.
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It's ok for symbols to have different meanings in different contexts. If someone is new to the context, they should research or ask about it. People that are familiar should provide the mutual understanding, provided they have the will and ability to educate.
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The republican party is pushing bills through the lower branch that enshrine real antisemitism through Zionism. That's where US media and politics are at regarding the genocide.
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I know you're getting downvoted, but I appreciate this analysis. I have autism and don't pick up on body language
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22 people is hardly a survey for a national election, and is a total nonanswer. I'm asking you what you think Vance did better.
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What specifically do you feel Walz didn't do as well as Vance?
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What if it opened in the sky on the south side of the White House lawn?
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It's part of the flaw in polling. AWU is a pretty substantial minority union (meaning they don't have bargaining rights) and they have unionized retail stores. However, Google is also a massive company
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The same way you organize anything. Start by talking to a couple trusted coworkers to form an organizing committee. All the members of the OC need to talk to coworkers, handle workplace drama, agitate for better conditions, educate people about unions, maintain systematic campaign tracking, and fight against the boss during their union busting campaign. When I worked remotely, it was as simple as sending a dm like this:
Hey, would you be able to talk over break? Some coworkers and I were discussing some issues and I wanted to hear your thoughts.
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Unions are legal in the US. The labor movement is currently seeing a huge swell in new bargaining units across most unions
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Unions generally don't write or repeal laws, but a union contract can negotiate overtime pay where there isn't any.
10 points for guessing the street
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19747660
Some of the more avid history fans might be thinking, "Casey Jones saved several lives, why is he being portrayed as a scab?" The intro that Utah gives for this song doesn't explain it enough in my opinion. It's a fictitious and comedy song that uses the name recognition of Casey, simply because there weren't really any well known railroad scabs and Joe Hill was basing this song on the Ballad of Casey Jones in honor of a rail strike.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17394988 > *Company could endure biggest US strike of 2024 as unions accuse it of intimidation during contract negotiations* > > Disney could face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel workers in California will vote on whether to stage a walkout. > > Three trade unions representing 14,000 “cast members” at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels announced an unfair labor practice strike vote would be held next week amid negotiations over a new union contract. > > In a critical statement, **union leaders accused Disney of “unlawful discipline and intimidation and surveillance” of union members**. The entertainment giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13847307 > Taken from a [Press Release by the group](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support-grows-as-teenage-trans-activists-enter-their-third-day-of-protest-at-nhs-englands-headquarters): > > LONDON, 1 July 2024—Two young trans activists scaled the NHS England’s London headquarters at 133–135 Waterloo Road in London on Friday to stage a protest and have remained there ever since. The group, now made up of seven young protesters, all 18 or under, has one simple message: Trans Kids Deserve Better: we are not pawns for your politics. > > The powerful direct action has been organised by the “[Trans Kids Deserve Better](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/about)” network, which is calling for: access to gender affirming healthcare for trans children and young people, protection from discrimination and disrespect in their daily lives and the right to be heard in all decisions that affect them. > > Their protest comes in the wake of the government using emergency powers to ban all access to puberty blockers in the UK, a move that was supported by Labour’s Wes Streeting, likely to be the next Secretary of State for Health. It also comes in the context of a General Election campaign where trans people and trans youth have been used as ‘culture war’ talking points, but not allowed to speak for themselves. > > “We are staging this protest to remind politicians and voters that we’re real kids, not just political talking points. We may not have a vote, but it is our lives that are at stake,” said one of the activists staging the protest. “Gender-affirming healthcare is a matter of life and death for us, and we hope that our actions will bring awareness to this fact and encourage others to fight for the healthcare and dignity that we are so shamefully denied.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16997964 > [PSA] Minnesota workers: there have been worker-friendly updates to Earned Sick and Safe Time > > The new bill primarily clarifies rules that were a bit vague, but it also has new changes that will substantially improve life-work balance. > > * ESST can be used in at least 15 minute increments and cannot be required to use more than four-hour increments > * Qualifying workers were expanded to people hired with an expectation of working 80 hours in a year, rather than actual hours worked. Some jobs still exempted > * ESST usage has expanded to bereavement > * ESST rules for use are expanded to all paid time off > * Employers that do not provide ESST must pay the worker for twice the amount they were supposed to get in ESST
The new bill primarily clarifies rules that were a bit vague, but it also has new changes that will substantially improve life-work balance. * ESST can be used in at least 15 minute increments and cannot be required to use more than four-hour increments * Qualifying workers were expanded to people hired with an expectation of working 80 hours in a year, rather than actual hours worked. Some jobs still exempted * ESST usage has expanded to bereavement * ESST rules for use are expanded to all paid time off * Employers that do not provide ESST must pay the worker for twice the amount they were supposed to get in ESST