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Nah, of course the price of things won't increase when wages are increased: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-25/when-minimum-wage-goes-up-the-menu-price-also-rises annnd no one said that never happens. What is a myth is the *requirement* that it happens or that it *always* happens. Lots...

This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with dismantling the ACA piece by piece via supreme court decision. The ruling, not less than 24 hours later, was expanded to broadly cover all forms of BC. From SCOTUS themselves. It's not even the end of the week, and the same companies in...

the problem with that is the theory (if wages go up, all costs MUST go up) isn't that correct. An increase in minimum wage does not *require* a proportional increase in costs. It can, depending on profit margin or other issues, but it doesn't have to. In fact, there's good reason to NOT auto-jack y...

Good thing McDonalds UK pays enough for their slaves to live. Down here, they would hire burger-flippers (you know, the people who put their hands into the food their clients eat) as "interns" (interns don't have minimum wages nor vacation time) and pay them something like US$ 100 dollars or so. Th...

Slaves? How many slaves got paid anything. What Mcdonalds are doing is dodgy but not illegal. They are exploiting a loophole to keep costs down. What you should do instead of bitching about how McDs are operating in a legal fashion is to get onto the equivalent of your local MP and get this issue r...

Does the average US citizen not see the basic problem is that you don't have a national health service? ... National health services are similar to armies and police forces; they are institutions that both conservative and liberals recognize (at least in non US countries) need to be funded from the...

"meritocracy" as used in the tech industry has nothing to do with the dictionary meaning of that word. instead, it's a way to shove everyone who is not making a billion dollars in tech into the "well, clearly, the problem is you personally suck" bucket. The tech industry is about as much a meritocr...

Funny that Konrad_cruz mentions the bit about the price of goods/services going up when a company has to raise their wages. We're going through that in the Seattle area here ($15/hour minimum wage bump - but *just* for the Seattle area) and I tried to explain to my oldest that what will happen is t...

Funny that Konrad_cruz mentions the bit about the price of goods/services going up when a company has to raise their wages. We're going through that in the Seattle area here ($15/hour minimum wage bump - but *just* for the Seattle area) and I tried to explain to my oldest that what will happen is t...

Konrad cruze is funny. Hilarious simply because I expect people to stop whining and do something about things no, because you have, literally, no clue as to the reality of things in the US, other than what you occasionally read, and you think that if you just repeat the same trope over and over, re...

I don't pay wall mart shit mate. I'm British. What the fuck is SNAP. Mcdonalds do in fact pay people enough to eat. I should know, I worked there. In fact I have lived on min wage before and yes it is doable. Its not fun but I you can live on it. Good thing McDonalds UK pays enough for their slaves...

If you live in the UK, you were definitely not "playing from the same rule book" as a low wage worker living in a major US city. Without the healthcare benefits that you enjoy in the UK. I would also hazard to guess that the min wage in the UK is higher than in the USA. Its about $11/hour. I like t...

Can't afford it? Isn't a high school education free? Can't keep with the curriculum other stresses? Once agian its not your fault. Blame someone or something else. You know it quite amazing what you can achieve with nothing but a high school education and a bit of commitment. I'm earning a decent w...

If you live in the UK, you were definitely not "playing from the same rule book" as a low wage worker living in a major US city. Without the healthcare benefits that you enjoy in the UK. I would also hazard to guess that the min wage in the UK is higher than in the USA. Minimum wage in GB works out...

Indeed, workers are employed to provide a service. They are not employed, however, to serve as slaves. In the US, the minimum wage is monumentally different than it is in other socialised countries like, say, Sweden. Abysmal, even. Working a full-time job for less than $10, hell, less than $8 an ho...

As if exploitation of workers never existed. In fact, it tends to be the norm in places where the state is absent or doesn't intervene to regulate SOME work relationships. A society based on exploitation is bad business for everyone on the long term (see Victorian England or the fucking Middle Ages...

What do you think will happen if wall mart increase the wages. Do you think they will absorb the cost. Of course not. They bump up their prices to negate the increased costs. And hey presto we are back at square one. You are already subsidizing wal-mart through your tax dollars. Wal-mart workers do...

Think of it this way: you pay taxes, those taxes go to the government, the government uses that money to pay for roads, construction, health care, etc. What's so wrong about that? The only downside is that you have to trust in your government and that might not be that easy, but it's better, I thin...

Anyone have a theory on how raising the minimum wage affects jobs? The way I look at it, a company is gonna do whatever the fuck they wanna do, right. So you raise costs on them, and fuck it, they'll only do exactly as much as they must to barely keep the doors open. If they have to pay for higher ...

If good jobs are plentiful, why are millions of people still out of work? Pure laziness, right? And I guess, if a couple really can't afford more than a couple of kids, they should only ever have sex a couple of times during 30 years of marriage, otherwise they are acting "irresponsibly". Sex, and ...

Oh I'm sorry didn't realize that we had gone back in time several hundred years. Welcome to the modern western world. Exploitation of workers? Yep it's always someone else's fault. These evil companies are out to keep the man down. Give me a fucking break. We don't live in victorian Britain. We liv...

Oh I'm sorry didn't realize that we had gone back in time several hundred years. Welcome to the modern western world. Exploitation of workers? Yep it's always someone else's fault. These evil companies are out to keep the man down. Give me a fucking break. We don't live in victorian Britain. We liv...

As if exploitation of workers never existed. In fact, it tends to be the norm in places where the state is absent or doesn't intervene to regulate SOME work relationships. A society based on exploitation is bad business for everyone on the long term (see Victorian England or the fucking Middle Ages...

Take some responsibility and pay for it yourself. I am fed up with people expecting everything to be done for them. Want to have safe sex? get a company to pay for it. No. Pay for it yourself. You want to do it, you fucking pay for it. If you can't afford it don't fucking do it. Take responsibility...

Government's one thing but why should a company be forced to pay for it. By what right do you tell your boss "I want to have sex and you must pay for it" What you do in your spare time is your business. You should not be able to force the company to pay for your extracurricular activities. it's in ...

Damion drives a car? I thought he just used a horse with very long legs! Here he is in a Matt Dillahunty style in-car video talking about Melody Hensley's claims that he harassed her. [youtube]72uqyA8DaQI[/youtube] Damion, you know this is pointless. She, like many of the SJW brigade, define harass...

didymos: Trigger warning: Discussion of assault, rape, stalking and harassment. Kind of covers that. "Discussion" by one person ;) I wonder where all the tweets that actually legitimize these "assault, rape, stalking and harassment" accusations are. Most of it can be summed up as "feelzRrealz", and...

And suggesting that "Oh you can just take the money out of the military's budget" would be a solution, is an indicator of just how little you've seen the government "at work". If it were that simple to convert from "Wartime" to "Peacetime", then yeah, it would be a solution. Unfortunately the convo...

I hate how this contraceptive thing, as usual, has turned into a man vs. woman thing. It's not. It affects society as a whole. Unwanted pregnancy = bad. The cost of birth, NICU if the kid is sick, loss of productivity from pregnancy, + 18 years of paying for the kid. Society as a whole pays, in the...

You Amerikans and your silly Amerikan problems. Even in Third World slums you can go to a public health care facility and get free condoms and birth control pills (these may require a receipt, the fuck if I know). AIDS, and 10-plus-kids families, scared people enough for them to say, "Jesus fucking...

Guestus Aurelius wrote:First define "art." Is it somehow different from "entertainment"?

well NOW you're just being silly

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Best way of birth control is a blowjob or anal. Discuss...

they're not mutually exclusive.

I guess it can depend on the game. Planescape Torment, for example, is an RPG, but it's also a fucking book. I think there are over 20,000 lines of text in that game, or something crazy like that. The gameplay experience really did feel like an interactive book. And I do consider Torment to be a wo...

ReneeHendricks wrote:Shitty day yesterday - probably have a broken rib or two and was just a complete bitch. Apologies across the board here, so to speak. Anyway, I'll remember to just breath and let shit roll over in the future. That is, if I can fucking breath (stupid rib(s)).

How'd you manage that?

Bonus is how many angry idiots think it's real and end up as tweet-fodder. Sadly, I agree with the tweet, so I guess I'm a reactionary old art-ist fart. This: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/06/okami-hd02.jpg Vs this: http://princeton.guendel.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/img_870...

As for the birth control debate, does demanding that others pay for ones contraception not imply a massive lack of responsibility on the individual? In saying that, I believe all forms of contraception should be free. Anything that assists in stopping people from having unwanted children, treating ...

As for the birth control debate, does demanding that others pay for ones contraception not imply a massive lack of responsibility on the individual? In saying that, I believe all forms of contraception should be free. Anything that assists in stopping people from having unwanted children, treating ...

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Dick Strawkins wrote:(Yes, we're on to the dodgy puns)
Slymepit is scraping the humour barrel today. Hopefully we'll bounce back soon.

That's gonna snap back on you, the way you're stretching it.

I let quite a few things just float over and not bother me. The thought of a coat hanger shoved up my vagina to hook into and pull out an embryo just sort of leaves me not really feeling like being jovial and fucking laughing. Ya know. Chicks and that shit. OK. Pass. I fully admit that is a bad att...

One of the strangest things I've learned today about this SCOTUS case is that Scalia (of all people!!!) warned of this very thing 25 years ago in the Employment Division v. Smith decision. That was the case about the American Indians in Oregon who were denied unemployment benefits after being fired...

Ok, so reaching down for the laugh. Yeah, it's not coming. Sucks for you, then. I'm still laughing at the Svan Poop-Eater photoshop. No problem :D Just make sure you take a really fucking sharp piece of metal to an area that is super sensitive for yourself and tell me how much it "sucks for me" :D ...

During my brief stint as president of a uni NARAL chapter, I was agog at how many "pro life" people hated the idea of any form of birth control. Why? They oppose abortion and birth control for the same reason: preventing babbys from forming the way God intended. well, I was rather young at the time...

Ugh. Sorry everyone. As a few of you know, I'm on the side of MRA in many situations. But when it comes to sex and birth control, I lose my fucking shit when men sit there and talk about "being too cheap" or popping out "meh" when it comes to this topic. The thing is, this affects men AND women. Me...

Ugh. Sorry everyone. As a few of you know, I'm on the side of MRA in many situations. But when it comes to sex and birth control, I lose my fucking shit when men sit there and talk about "being too cheap" or popping out "meh" when it comes to this topic. The thing is, this affects men AND women. Me...

Damn it. I really shouldn't post or reply when I've had a drink or two. But seriously. I (perhaps stupidly) thought that most of the men on here were a bit more evolved than that. Sigh. Well, if it makes you feel better, I am 100% cool with birth control. As I pointed out, it's MEDICINE that is use...

I just need the lulz right now, so usual Pit stuff is all good. Quick Phil, hope onto twitter, tumblr & A+ forums and play up your newly highly ranked victim status. Call them all shitlords because of their over privileged health status. If you play it right, we should see a whole slew of paraplegi...

Shit Phil that sucks arse. WTF were you doing on the trampoline? (besides falling off) So no headbanging for you then chap... my first thought is with 3 months to get through, can you still spank the monkey? Anyway anything you need that we can provide give us a shout. I was indulging one of my fri...

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/35

it is giggle-worthy.

The SCOTUS just ruled that businesses can deny birth control coverage in their health insurance plans for religious reasons. I am kind of "meh" about the whole topic. If you wanna fuck then maybe you should buy your own bc. Years ago it was common for health plans to not covered bc. Just my feeling...

Phil: Eucli got banned, again, on FT-LSiL's advice Someone made an ass of themselves on twitter. More people made asses of themselves on twitter. I made an ass of myself on twitter. Even more people made asses of themselves on twitter. Skep is going to TAM, along with another two people (Mr. Justin...

Sadly, this is completely true. My Tolkien university experience was like this. You went to Tolkien University? Was this straight from Hogwarts, or did you have a gap year? The barrow-wights were a bitch on grading. Nah but seriously, I had to take some lit courses. I had this one professor I reall...

Though they do sort of give some indication of having their hearts in the right places; unfortunately though more than a few seem to have allowed their dogmata - or maybe just their peevishness - to get the better of their rationality .... I think it's a bit easy to forgive people based on "their h...

The apology letter sounded pretty good to me. But I am not trans, so may be missing something. But some of the commenters seem to feel if CIS women or girls feel uncomfortable in a dressing room with trans women that appear to be men to them...then that is their problem, and fuck them I agree with ...

So Natalie Reed was still Twitter fighting today, this time with Laurie Penny. Natalie, you goddamn idiot, turn off the computer. Or at least find something better to do than witter on Twitter. And, voila! Like magic you no longer have to deal with all those people being so mean. "She tasks me. She...

Ograpist is playing the heart-string fiddle again: You know youâ€™re a survivor when, almost 40 years later, the sight of a cub scout uniform still sets off a panic attack. Didnâ€™t happen todya, but it sure did yesterday. Uh-huh. He's only panicking because they might be able to run faster than he...

Well X Ray Spex were slightly popular for ten minutes in 1978, so I hope she's got a tardis* *I can't believe I made a Dr Who reference in this cesspit of nerds. Finally looked them up on wikipedia. NOW I remember them. Yeah. they were a classic punk band. 1-2 songs, and done. And Reed is such an u...

That whole list of alternate choices she gave was just an excuse for her to show she knows cool or obscure stuff. FFS, X Ray Spex, complete shite, but probably very far from mainstream in whatever part of US she lives. I guaran-fucking-tee she says "I liked them BEFORE they were popular" at least o...

https://twitter.com/GuestusAurelius/status/483275819280646145 I get so tired of these people. If something/someone is world-famous and liked by millions, liking them yourself makes you a poser who lies in order to make yourself look... educated and cultured? However, if you like lesser-known things...

ReneeHendricks wrote:So, if you don't agree with Natalie Reed's "Approved List of What Poets/Musicians/Writers/etal You Can Like", you're either a liar or and uneducated and uncultured person (gotta read from bottom to top):

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Silly bint. You brag on Cristal, not Dom.

Class. His blog is pretty good. Reminds me a bit of Maddox. You do realise that you will be hung from the nearest lamp post for that comment. http://thoughtcatalog.com/parker-marie-molloy/2013/09/i-cant-write-for-the-same-website-as-jim-goad/ Date of that article: September 2013 Date of most recent...

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