YAY SOCIALISM!

I work in retail too and no-one pays by cheques in a shop. Mind you I do get told that the self service tills are doing me out of a job about fifteen times a shift while I am literally doing their shopping for them. (Sorry, venting a bit there). Also the idea of finding Trump in a supermarket would be like finding a…

I live in a country where we are not the fastest tech adopters. But even by the time we moved to the US first time around in the early 90s (literally 25 years ago), we were like wtf paper cheques are still a thing here???  Mind you, when we moved to the UK in the 2000s, we also got asked whether we wanted a cheque…

I work in retail and I hate everyone who still uses cheques. It's OVER, people. Let it go.

Trump doesn’t eat steak raw. He wants it over done and drenched in ketchup 

Like maybe every day for the rest of his life, maybe sometimes strapping him in and leaving him there for a little while, it’d be pretty cool if there were some power surges for extra affect.

Sorry, I should have been more articulate. I actually agree with you, we have evolved beyond the death penalty. I just like the idea of somehow yelling “GIVE HIM THE CHAIR!” at him.

A woman I knew for a while who is a nanny told me about what happened in her family with her own daughter. This woman’s uncle (her daughter’s great uncle) started grooming behaviors, and she caught him with his hand under her daughter’s shirt, and then her daughter opened up about other things this man had done -…

So infuriating. Ugh. I read an article recently about how sexual abuse happens, how people assume it’s mostly men (certainly most reported sexual abuse is by men, but lots of women are sexual predators, as well), and how to reframe your thinking and teach your child body safety, and how to telegraph to everyone around…

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE. I’ve worked in criminal justice, social work, and child care, in that order. When I was working at the day care and child education center I discovered that even most (educated) childcare workers are oblivious to the very real threat of sexual predators. I’m willing to admit that my years in…

I am officially on the record as being against the death penalty and would like to continue to be so. But. This guy deserves things I am not even creative enough to think of. At the very least, this is the kind of person who should never experience another breath of air as a free citizen. I’m sure I can find 10…

Several weeks old baby

Your “if you don’t get into a good middle school your life is ruined” is pretty much just a stereotype of a Japanese parent that doesn’t really accurately reflect Japanese society.

So you think that’s the entirety of Europe?

No, you are either the crook are not yet a victim.

We get a child benefit in Tokyo too. We registered as foreign residents as a family, and we were sent to sign up for the child benefit & mostly free health care until 13 (this depends on what ward of Tokyo, all do it just how long depends on where you live).

Kind of amazing that the right demonizes objectively great places to live like Europe and California or urban centers in general. Who needs high standards of living and healthcare when you got freedom and guns, i guess.

I just moved to Ireland and while applying for our tax number, the clerk recommended that we apply for the child benefit, which apparently is one of the things they just GIVE you to make live slightly easier in this absurdly expensive place.

Very interesting analysis. And for those who are not happy in their manufacturing jobs, there is always the promise of the american dream, that anyone can become rich if they just work hard enough, even though america ranks very low in social mobility. And if you don’t like rich people, there is the idea of the…