Wogi @ Wogi @lemmy.world

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Fucking up implies they didn't get exactly what they wanted.

It's like 95% of male profiles. Bad selfies and the only picture of them taken by someone else is them holding a fish.

Hi would you like to buy some feet?

PICTURES. pictures of feet.

I'll sell you pictures of my feet.

Not another human foot hahaha that would be weird. Unless...

GODAYUM IT SADDAM I AIN'T GIVING YOU NO TREE FIDDY!!

It does!

It's worth noting that the minimum wage in Texas is the same as the federal minimum wage. Which is now, not enough to buy a meal at McDonald's after an hour.

That's really not true either. They don't take issue with technology.

They have cell phones and washing machines. Some Amish communities just look like any old country highway with pickup trucks and harvesting equipment.

The particular type of Amish you're thinking of will still have things like landlines and probably some electricity on the farm.

They take issue with depending on others, Amish strive to be self sufficient and independent. They don't want to attach themselves to possessions, or things they can't make and maintain themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't use them. They can and gladly do. They have rules on their use, they self regulate their use. Guy I went to school with has his wife go through and look through his phone. If she thought the was using it too much she'd hang on to it. He drove an old pickup and he and his brothers ran a junk yard part time specifically so he'd have access to parts for it. He was going to school to be a machinist, because there was a machine shop in his community and he didn't want to bother the elders with learning how to use it. Soon as he finished the precision machine program he just went back to his farm.

We do get overtime pay, this rule was for a very specific segment of workers who were exempt. Being salaried and making under a certain amount. Hourly employees get time and a half for every hour past 40 in a week, federally.

Ok so I looked in to their sources and boy, you're under selling it.

They used 130+ sources of 10's of thousands of surveyed people, each. Typical sample sizes were 70,000+.

This is a meta analysis. The number of people contributing to this analysis is wide enough to put to rest any doubt that it's a representative sample ten times over.

Arrogantly appending "polled" to those figures is like proudly proclaiming that teen pregnancies drop off sharply after age 19.

Yes that's how statistics work.

Overweight and obese are two different categories. 40% are obese. Nearly 75% are overweight or obese.

All alphabetical antecedents are appropriate and appreciated.

You know, I could do without the letter we're referring to here. Plenty of other vowels to suit my needs.

Bro.

Wtf.

That's awful.

Skilled athletes are entertaining to watch. Guys that know how fight and do it well, at least. It can be a highly technical, highly skilled competition. Some people are just there to watch two adults beat the piss out of each other. Which, to be fair, is how the sport started.

Which rapist can haphazardly throw an occasional swing in the vague direction of their opponent, at least half the time at least being close enough to theoretically connect.

Ftfy.

Oh boy did we buffer.

We buffered like it was 1999.

You're describing a few decades out of almost a thousand years of feudalism, in Europe specifically, and it wasn't ever universally true.

A lot of things contributed to that. Not the least of which is the difference between what we'd consider a day off and what they'd consider a day off. Not to mention how they paid taxes and what was actually required of the medieval peasant.

Taxes could be paid in labor or produce. The guys doing the manual labor building a castle were likely to be paying taxes. They did that for up to a third of the year. The rest of the year was theirs to do with as they pleased, and the majority of that time would have been spent growing, gathering, hunting, or maintaining. Guild artisans had the closest thing to jobs that we'd think of them. Coopers made barrels, ropers roped. You had masons and blacksmiths and carpenters sure. Most people were growing and raising food, and maintaining their home. A day off was likely spent doing those things. They had so many partially because that time was needed intermittently.

They worked harder than we do. Every part of their life was harder, required more energy, and took more time.

Taking a day off to relax would have been exceedingly rare and probably maddeningly boring. Though they did party hard.

The amount of shade casually hidden in this comment is something I aspire to.

"confirms a fundamental lack of understanding of the transition process."

"Restates more right wing talking points"

"Gets triggered by their own name when used by a member of a community they just insulted"