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Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.

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  • With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.

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    do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?

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  • This upsets me and I demand an apology.

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    do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?

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  • Only if I can come up with a way that the thing could possibly be my fault, intentional or not. Like making a decision without asking first, or because I reminded them of something upsetting without intending to like reminding them of something other than what we are talking about. The latter is going to be the 'I'm sorry I upset you' not a real apology, because I'm not really sorry for saying the thing, just that it caused them to be upset.

    In the past I would apologize for things I didn't do and all it did was make things worse because it was just a reflex response and it wasn't like I could avoid doing things I didn't do in the first place in the future.

    At work I will apologize for things that may be due to not having enough information, but in that case at best I'm going to apologize for not finding out what I didn't know. It is kind of bullshit, but at least they tend to provide more information in the future. It is catering to people who can't admit their own faults to a degree, but ends up being like small talk, something we do to get other people to work as a team.

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  • Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head

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  • It didn't make him smarter.

  • Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year

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  • Modification is the big selling point for Slate. Outside of a few accessories and the ability to change the suspension, no automaker is offering the aftermarket bonanza that Slate is. Sure, there's no paint, but Slate will print wraps for the vehicles and ship them to owners. Want your truck to become an SUV? Order the rear top, seats, and rollcage, and you have room for more passengers.

    This is absolutely an approach intended to maximize the profit from what is very likely to be overpriced customization. I won't be surprised when they put up barriers to 3rd party or owner customization.

    Not to mention how are they going to distribute the vehicles without a paint job if they don't have a paint shop on premesis, massive amounts of plastic wrap?

    If people just buy the base model and don't add on a lot of optional and likely overpriced add ons I see the company folding within a couple of years.

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  • It wasn't even criminalized in the US at all until the 70s!

  • Make America Great!

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  • That would help, but it isn't just the money. Both Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were able to secure offices when they were right around 30 years old and both lacked solid support from their own party. Entrenched political parties are arguably an even bigger barrier to involving younger participation in government, not just because the parties control their own purse strings but because they resist up and coming candidates by treating office holders like they have tenure.

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  • Yes, but that would require learning from history and we suck at that.

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  • That is actually a good reason to have a wide variety of ages in government, so that there is a mix of those connected to the world today and those that have more wisdom.

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  • Indigenous people being humans means there were violent conflicts between different cultures and groups within cultures like anywhere else in the world. It was relatively less violent than colonial occupation like how Europe was less violent than during the world wars.

  • Make America Great!

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  • That was a pretty great time for middle class white people!

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  • Architecture and engineering for construction are on par with doctors and nurses in medicine. Medicine has a ton of grunt work that doesn't require higher education.

    It doesn't seem like you posted this question in good faith.

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  • You are conflating the result of society filtering people with less education into blue collar work with the potential for the work to involve bigotry.

    Saying people should avoid the trades because of the current culture reinforces the current culture by filtering it to the same uneducated pool of candidates. In a first world country higher education should be free so even those that go into trades have the opportunity to further their education without it being tied to their career goals.

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  • What makes you think blue collar contexts have a higher potential for bigotry?

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  • That’s true to an extent, but saying that a feminine woman or a feminine gay man (for example) would be treated better in a blue-collar job than in a white-collar one isn’t really grounded in reality.

    Is anyone saying that?

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  • It isn't anti intellectualism, it is a overcorrection for the decades of insisting that going to college (and taking on massive debt in the US at least) is the right career path although it isn't worth it anymore. It isn't saying that knowledge and learning are bad, but they aren't as economically advantageous as they were a couple decades ago.

    The trades are good for a fairly quick return, but you are correct that they and to take a physical toll and the pay is generally exaggerated.

    Offices are full of misogyny, homophobiaz and other forms of bigotry too.

    A better approach would be to promote both on their own positives and negatives, but humans tend to swing wildly from one extreme to another.

  • Never ask a tankie about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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  • They are saying things haven't changed because children were taught the same thing their parents believed. Aka they are racist because their parents were racist = they are nazis because their parents were nazis.

    They are saying nothing changed because Poland was already full of nazis. They are spouting the same bullshit as the last panel.

    Those people never left, they had kids, grew communities, kids got taught, and it’s now today.

    What’s changed again?

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  • So is aramova.