I recently watched “The Program” on Netflix, about one of these alleged leadership academies that is really an abusive reform school. Almost all of them are run by an organization called WWASPS, and all of them are eventually shut down for abuse, neglect, and cruelty.
I imagine it is tough for them to open new locations in US States due to past shutdowns, crimes, and lawsuits.
A quick google search shows that this “Atlantis Leadership Academy” is also run by WWASPS.
Americans continuing to buy things that they can’t afford is why prices keep going up. If people buy it, it tells the seller that the price is correct.
I talked to a business leader yesterday who said that their outsourced overseas developers were not performing well, so they were planning to directly contract some overseas developers, because then they would be “captive”. And he proceed to refer to them as “captive developers” for the rest of the conversation.
Sir, you should not refer to people who work for you as “captive”. That has a very negative connotation, and I’m shocked you don’t hear it. Please at least notice everyone else’s reaction when you say it.
p 71 of the actual poll document goes into the methodology. 6616 of the respondents were “part of Ipsos Knowledge Panel”, and another 250 were “recruited” for the survey. I don’t know what the Ipsos Knowledge Panel is, but maybe they offer compensation or rewards for being a part of their survey pool. The surveys were completed through online chats.
Breaking news: Florida passes law that outlaws life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
I did a tandem jump at my local skydiving place, and we hit the ground much much harder than I would have expected. I was bruised up for a month.
My tandem partner said: “Sorry about that. They gave us the worst parachute.”
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I liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!
That checks out. I live near a college town where for 2-3 years there was a rash of “college riots” where police tear-gassed everyone in the streets when they felt it was getting out of hand. The solution to keeping the students from rioting ended up being… stop sending cops out there. Everything was fine.
This may be unpopular to hear… but most of the justifications for not having roommates are like the ones in this thread. People say they can’t have roommates because they have social anxiety or other people are just jerks.
To an older person it sounds like “My generation can’t have roommates because we don’t get along with other people, and they don’t get along with us.” That’s not an economic problem.
It’s actually far far more worrying than that. What happens to a generation that has no ability to coexist with other people? What happens to the world when they are in charge of it?
Surprised to not see anyone in here mention Movies with Mikey (on YouTube under FilmJoy). He does really thoughtful movie analysis with great audio and video production. He’s one of my favorite creators.
He’s also on Nebula for people who’d rather see a video edit that can employ fair use without being taken down automatically.
Maybe he figured out that he’s actually being tried in an admiralty court, or that the state is trying his person and not his individuality. That happens a lot, I hear. Most people just don’t realize it.
Interesting. I just tried it and that worked: I launch the site from a shortcut, and I appear to not be logged in… but if I click refresh, I am logged in.
I’m on Brave Version 1.60.125 Chromium: 119.0.6045.199 (Official Build) (64-bit), running on elementary OS 7.1.
I’m an American and I had a pretty decent job out of college and the idea of moving out of my parents house without roommates was impossible. In fact I don’t know a single person who did it.
Not to pick on you specifically, but I’ve never understood the modern generations’ seeming aversion to housemates.
I had housemates from after college until 7 years later when I had a wife, starting in the mid-90s. My mom had housemates in the 60s after college (my dad had the GI bill, which afforded flexibility, but had other drawbacks).
It seems weird to me that people these days seem to think that’s unacceptable. That’s how people do it when they are just getting started. Either that, or they live somewhere less desirable, far from cities, small, old, crappy. Personally I did both… housemates in a rural area in a shitty place. :)
In January, I thought I was going to be asked to leave my job. In June they gave me a huge promotion.
I also just joined in the past month. You’re welcome
I did because I was on a different Fediverse link-aggregating forum that was pretty quiet and getting quieter, and all the communities and threads I saw over there came from this instance. It just made sense to join directly so I could post and get proper notifications.
The supernova from Rexxit sent a lot of small pieces flying out everywhere, but things will start to aggregate back down to a few winners over time. I went to Squabbles, Kbin.social, and then Discuit… but now I’m just here and Discuit. I like Discuit’s look and feel and users, but it’s not super active.
I love my kids, but if I hadn’t had them, I’d have a lot more money, and less stress from having not quite enough money and lots of responsibility.
Don’t let other people or societal expectations pressure you into the decision either way. Do what you think will work best for you.