I would assume a totalitarian state would subscribe to the ‘wrench’ school of decryption...

Gives a whole new meaning to “They fuck you up, your mum and dad...” (Philip Larkin poem)

Clearly the answer is “free food, and hope they don’t notice it’s a ploy to get more hours out of them at the expense of family life”.

You kind of glossed over that they in general were not nearly as decent as other tech companies to the employees. They treated them, the employees, not as assets, but more like cattle. They didn’t go after the best, let go of the better ones to cut costs, and under current leadership, gutted the rest of the best by…

Of interest: The porn industry is quicker to drop someone over allegations of rape than the NFL or NCAA.

Unpopular opinion: Natalie Portman was pretty damned terrible in these movies. So much so that it may have affected my opinion of her in everything else I’ve seen her in because I honestly don’t think she’s a very good actress. How the hell she rebounded after these when so many others didn’t seems almost unfathomable.

It took me a long, long time to realize that the largest white privilege of all, is the ability (or normality I guess) of never actually thinking about race at all.

Carly Simon - Taylor Swift before there was a Taylor Swift.

I still don’t get how the fuck she had clowns in her coffee

Is this a conversation at the Annual MRA Convention or one in the real world?

Weird, could sworn the guy was revealed to be Dave ‘Uncle Joey’ Coulier a few years ago.

Agree with #1. Pretty sure that #2 kills more people than #1.

All bullshitting aside, this is really scary shit. Highly organized, timely profiled, and what would seem to be relatively seamless execution on their end.

I don’t think the answer is so complicated. This isn’t about pinterest or women’s self-sacrifice. Real (inflation adjusted) wages have dropped continuously since the 1970s, and precipitously after 2008. It now takes two people to earn enough to even approach the quality of life possible on one income in the mid 20th…

My daughter thanked me once for organising the most epic sleepovers, and informed me they were legendary events and the envy of every girl at her school.

I’m not white & I grew up poor so I honestly think most white, middle class parents have ridiculous expectations and their heads up their asses.

It’s a couple things, one of which you touched on...most people who have any sort of “flexibility” in their work situation understand that for every 1 hour of benefit you get in flexibility, you “owe” the company 2 hours of extra time somewhere else (give or take).

See....in the 60’s people burned down a phrase called “Keeping Up With the joneses” it was meant to attack the lifestyle that went along with having a newer car, better life....

In my own experience I’ve found that the members of my family that are working class “lean” on each other, and that turns in to a strong support network and a real feeling of closeness. But the middle class seems to be trying to do it all, and do it on their own. I’m sure that’s not the case for everyone, but it seems…

I’m a white middle-class working mom (with a white middle-class working husband) and a single child and I have to say this story is RIGHT ON with the point about middle-classers trying too damn hard to have *everything*. Trust me, we didn’t work that hard. Our kid did not have every second of her childhood scheduled…