Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.
And I fucking HATE pedophiles.
Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.
People who defend that shit are SICK.
Almost everything you said was error filled, and you provided no material proofs for it, because you can’t: links don’t exist for what you pull out of your ass.
But it’s what you said it in defense of that is truly shitty. No surprise, then, that it requires lies to defend.
Just in case you missed it: (emphases mine)
Which employers may use the youth minimum wage?
All employers covered by the FLSA may pay eligible employees the youth minimum wage, unless prohibited by State or local law. Where a State or local law requires payment of a minimum wage higher than $4.25 an hour and makes no exception for employees under age 20, the higher State or local minimum wage standard would apply.
You wrote,
Which is a buisnesses that makes less than 500,000. But those buisnesses also cannot engage in Interstate Commerce per federal law. In the modern world it is nearly impossible to have a buisness making any amount money that does not engage in some form of Interstate Commerce. So functionally that exemption is meaningless.
I am well aware of what that means. I think that you are not. Check out what the DoL has to say about businesses and individuals not covered by FLSA: there are plenty of businesses that do not meet the standards but have employees that do, for example.
You are really reaching when you insist – incorrectly – that Montana’s exception has no real world meaning. I assure you that exception was very specifically placed in the law for a real world business’ benefit, and that that business had pull in the state capitol or it would not have been added, just as the FLSA itself provides for those exceptions to be made by the states.
If you can’t be bothered to educate yourself on what “interstate commerce” means in the federal legal sense, that’s fine by me because I’ve provided links for all of my assertions, unlike you: people can read them for themselves.
The FLSA has carve outs for various kinds of employees, and while minors are covered, they are not covered as adults are:
The 1996 Amendments to the FLSA allow employers to pay a youth minimum wage of not less than $4.25 an hour to employees who are under 20 years of age during the first 90 consecutive calendar days after initial employment. The law contains certain protections for employees that prohibit employers from displacing any employee in order to hire someone at the youth minimum wage. – from the DoL page linked below
In addition, only a handful of states actually ban subminimum pay for minors, requiring by law full minimum wage. You wrote,
An individual state law cannot supersede federal law.
That is where you are flat out wrong. When it comes to minors and other special categories of workers, they can and do.
Here’s the DoL page on that, you should read it:
Fact Sheet #32: Youth Minimum Wage - Fair Labor Standards Act
Here’s another page that lays out what that means for tipped minors. Quoting from further down in the page:
State law prevails: If state law is more restrictive than federal (higher youth wage or no youth wage), you must follow state law.
Again, that’s why I linked the table. It’s a complex maze of laws and conditions. And I didn’t miss this. You wrote,
You did skip a few types of employees that are actually exempt like movie theater employees.
That’s because I did not expect someone to fight so hard, with such incorrect and easily disproved assumptions, in defense of such a shitty principle: not paying servers a living wage.
Change it to xcancel:
The X link: https://x.com/AaronParnas/status/2072761972303737212
The xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/AaronParnas/status/2072761972303737212
You just insert “cancel” directly after the x and the rest of the link remains the same. You can do this with all X links, and it’s a great way to see the comments if you don’t have an account or don’t want to sign in.
No, I am not misunderstanding. There are a number of exceptions: hotel restaurants, bartenders, minors, students, people in Montana working for a “business not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act with gross annual sales of $110,000 or less.” That last one you’re only guaranteed $4.00 an hour.
That’s why I linked the table.
That bit you quoted does not apply to all situations, nor does it reflect this provision at the bottom:
Some states set subminimum rates for minors and/or students or exempt them from coverage or have a training wage for new hires. …Such differential provisions are not displayed in this table.
Here’s another source that gives it from another viewpoint. Whichever way you turn it, server pay is abysmally low. They need every dollar. And no, not all of them even make minimum wage.
That minimum wage for servers can be as low as $2.13 an hour, depending on the state. The amount and how it is applied varies widely and all of the minimums are pretty low. That server needs every last dollar.
True, but he can’t vote, and while he’s alive and in office they can’t replace him.
He can stay in that bed forever, IMO – as long as he can’t participate in the further dismantling of democracy.
The anthropomorphization in this article is nauseating:
If Teams AI feels the meeting needs certain information and there’s a gap in the conversation, it’ll jump in through the meeting chat.
Yeah, no. Nice try. But it’s not human. It’s not even an animated teddy bear. There is no friendly presence there waiting to help. It doesn’t feel jack shit. It doesn’t jump. It’s not there for you, or your meeting, or your boss, or your company.
It simply performs a constant ongoing analysis and issues a prediction of the next words based on the preceding words.
That, and it lets MS and its partners monetize every goddamn thing it can snatch from you, your meeting, your machine, and everything else it can digitally force access to.
He was hospitalized on June 14 and has been in the hospital since; they’re just now releasing the circumstances of the 911 call, which was the bit about finding him unconscious.
Until now his staff have been acting like he’s just working from home, which is now revealed to be – I know it’s difficult to believe but hold on – complete and total bullshit. This People article contains the reference to the press release issued by his staff on June 22:
“Senator McConnell is still working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery," McConnell’s spokesperson, Stephanie Penn, said in a statement on Monday, June 22. “However, he will not be voting this week.”
But when you look at McConnell’s actual senate.gov site his staff have since removed it. I guess it’s too blatant a lie even for them.
Kentucky is no longer among the states that allow the governor to select a replacement US Senator for a vacant seat. McConnell himself got the KY state legislature to require a special election for his seat a couple years ago. Beshear will have no say in his replacement.
Huh, wild. Couldn’t place the face for some reason. Thanks.
Off topic, but is that MTG in your avatar pic? I thought I recognized the toilet brush collar from that infamous SotU outburst.
but when it comes to the beliefs of Christians, we tend to be so overly careful is what I’m getting at.
True. I didn’t catch it because my statement would have been the same regardless of the religion I was about to trash, but your point is well taken.
The only thing I would suggest is that this is not something new in itself, but the stretching of a very old norm – avoiding conversation of religion and politics – into something that bears little resemblance to what it started as, and is now used to create offense instead of prevent it.
We as a nation (US) have been firehosed with propaganda, and none more so than the religious. What MAGA has done with the Republican party it has also done with Christianity itself.
Or to put it another way, when propaganda is involved, changing the belief of the individual that consumes it is only the first stop: it is only and ever created and disseminated in order to create a larger, aggressive voice that can also drown out and silence whatever beliefs it cannot change.
So hell yeah, we give kid glove treatment to someone belonging to a group that regularly ambushes the most innocent statements about anything, then twists them and throws them back with malice.
But anything spiritual (or even quasi-spiritual) in content is even more dangerous, because for people who legitimately hold those beliefs the words mean everything, but to the flingers of propagandistic shit the words mean nothing. It’s an asymmetric emotional battle many people never even know they’re facing when they open their mouths, a mistake they generally will not make twice.
And this is by design. The propagandists don’t want a person who carries a genuine faith (or knowledge, or interest) to speak against the fake, and that’s true of both religion and politics, and pretty much anything else the propagandists wish to distort. This is the same dynamic, to me, that lies behind the discrediting of science – I think we’re both true believers when it comes to actual science – and the demonization of real-world experts in everything from vaccines to climate change.
For myself, I’m old school in that no matter the spiritual belief, when dealing with the individuals who profess it I will ringfence it as belonging to someone else and not my business. I too was raised in the “don’t talk religion and politics” tradition. Now we talk about little else, largely because there is an unending stream of actions and distortions that are designed to keep all our divisive subjects front and center, and look at where it’s gotten us.
That’s why I wrote my little screed anyway. If they wanna come at me, at least I’m well equipped to defend my point: that the state of Texas is not trying to teach language by taking the most defeatist “work, suffer and die” passages out of their holy book to stand in for the most high god themselves while indoctrinating a new generation of wage slaves.
Hey OP, don’t know if you’ve seen this because it just came out today, but it’s another deep dive into the world of pig-butchering scams. As soon as I read it I thought of your post:
If your dad really is the target of a pig-butchering scam, it’s likely that any woman on the other end of this is not doing it by choice but living in horrific, brutal conditions, unable to leave, and of course will never see any of the money he sends. As others have said, the scammers will hire models, or even use other trafficking victims, to do any video or photo proofs required. There is no upside.
I don’t know if this kind of argument would reach him, but I’m giving you the link just in case you can ever use it: the lives of these women trafficked into this kind of scam work are beyond horrible, and the faster you can educate your dad on the reality of it, the better. Also, it might help if you could arrange for him to see this thread: there is a lot of power in seeing almost a hundred comments all saying the exact same thing. Best wishes to you both.
Did I watch Cosmos at a very impressionable age as well as Star Trek? You bet I did.
Same here. We still watch it, especially TOS.
I hear you, but I don’t see these things in terms of philosophy, but of the individuals. To me, beliefs can be mistaken, but individuals themselves need to be addressed with dignity – unless they start shit, in which case it’s fair game.
In this case I was starting the shit, writing what I absolutely knew would be provocative to sincere believers, hence my warning.
To me it is just matter of basic human decency, because in the end we are ALL wrong: the extent to which any of us is actually right is only a matter of experience, subject, and degree. A dose of humility never goes amiss, but of course I personally kind of have to say that.
Sincerely, an ex-Christian.
The lesson of the Tower of Babel is even more than that. It’s about not lifting your expectations, not assuming ideas above your station, staying in your assigned lane in life even if you hate it. What you see here is the “divine punishment” for that.
But for many centuries that idea was actually a given, unless you were born to wealth, and it was only huge, societal upheavals like the Great Plague or a series of unending wars or famines that rearranged everything every few hundred years. And even then it’s only in the last century that humans in general have enjoyed a level of privilege and prosperity that means for most of us, we have never known a starving person or been in fear of it ourselves, for example. Never having to fear hunger or a bad crop season was not something most of these people could even imagine.
So if the ancestors of which you speak were born around the turn of the 20th century and were neither rich nor landowners, and could thus expect a life spent in a service or trade, they’d have had this exact same kind of “don’t get ideas, just do what you’re told and be grateful it isn’t worse” drilled into them by their own parents. Mine certainly were. And I’m absolutely certain that’s why the state of Texas wants to reintroduce the idea to young minds.
But it’s your belief. Does it serve you? You can find out where it came from. If you accepted this belief in your own life and can’t remember it, it may not have been passed down: it could be something that was just really painful for you as a young person and you took the lesson and shoved away the painful memory that delivered it. (I also have a friend who’d insist it’s a past life thing and you should do a regression to find out, but that’s not really up everyone’s alley, lol.) Anyway, if it is of interest to you, you should look into it in whatever way appeals to you, you might be surprised at what you find. Learning who you are and why you are the way you are is never a waste of time, IMO.
So fuck everyone who serves at a Denny’s or a Waffle House. You can only say that because you personally were working at an establishment where you could average $35 an hour.
Your comment is an argument for all other servers everywhere to work at subsistence levels because you personally are in a situation where you can do well on $2.13 an hour plus tips. You’d keep everyone else at less than half that so you personally prosper, and you applaud the tipping system, born of racism and slavery, that supports it.
This is so “Fuck you I got mine” energy when someone else making a living wage doesn’t need to hurt you at all. Just because someone else makes a living wage doing the same job does not, in itself, outlaw tipping. Nor does it bind your employer to paying the lowest living wage: your employer can still pay you above the lowest level. They don’t need a law for that.
And I would remind you, it’s NOT my deal. It’s the owner’s deal. If they can’t afford you, work somewhere else, just as you said.
For myself, I do not ever moan about bad service, nor have I ever left a shitty tip: if service is that bad I assume it’s because bad or absent management doesn’t know how to run a restaurant. I don’t complain, I just don’t return.
I see someone remembers the 2005 rootkit debacle. Such assholes.