Those islands have different rules. Longest I’ve ever waited for bags

Honestly i just want to stand after a long flight. I do not fit well in the seats, my shoulders are significantly wider than the seats. If I end up in a middle seat I have to roll my shoulders in. If I’m in an aisle or window seat I have to lean away from the other person. Not comfy

They only run out of overhead room because dickbags put a carry-on and their personal item in the bin. Your personal item goes under the seat.

There’s a lot of jobs in the private and public sector for people with anthropology degrees. In the US, anthropology is taught as a four field approach encompassing Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Archaeology.

Each of the subfields have different levels of hireability based on a bachelor’s degree.

I personally only have a bachelor’s and live well. I have a home and live comfortably. But, to your point, I have essentially capped out my earnings. I can’t make more without obtaining a graduate degree.

I have my doubts on if they’ve ever worked a job.

No, it’s not. When people use the term “unskilled” for jobs it doesn’t mean “you literally have to have zero skills, not even the ability to user your hands, to do it” - it means you only need a limited skill set and is a job that has minimal economic value. Essentially it’s a job that anyone at any stage could walk into and be able to do with minimal training.

That has always been how the skilled/unskilled labor gap has been broken up.

You’ve bought the lie they’ve been telling forever. Every person that goes to work is performing skilled labor. The only thing a person can do that doesn’t take any skill is being born rich.

Rich assholes that do nothing other than “invest” into a buisness. Every dime made from there is off the backs of working folks. Without our skills the wealthy would be poor.

The minimum wage when it was instituted was designed to represent the minimum wage needed for a single worked to support a family.

Additionally all labor is skilled labor. You either need school or experience to perform a job. I can drop a highly educated neurosurgeon into a restaurant. Without instructions they will fail at the job.

Anyway, all labor deserves a living wage. If you work a full week you should be able to support yourself comfortably.

This explains why people gave me a hard time for getting an anthropology degree…

The park service was ordered months ago to remove anything that made Americans in the past look bad. They had to display QR codes at all parks so citizens could report signage that made Americans look bad.

Internal reports are full of visitors complaining about how signage makes the Confederacy look bad or how the signage at a historic plantation focuses too much on slavery.

It’s wild

I try to keep a small glimmer of hope that we come to our sense and make dramatic changes over the next 20 years, but I doubt it.

If we were to invest our resources heavily into reversing these trends I think it’s possible, but that would have to be humanity’s collective goal. We can’t even agree to stop murdering each other though so yeah it’s bad

So glad I’m going to study abroad. Good luck drafting me.

Nuclear energy is both sustainable and safe. It was given a bad reputation by the fossil fuel industry to keep us buying oil.

Well here we are. We could have eliminated the vast majority of fossil fuel use by the 1960s when solar and wind energy were in their infancy.

And it’s a shame that we became scared of one of the greatest technologies we ever created.

Nuclear accidents have killed using the most extreme number 45,000 people. Directly meltdowns have killed less than 100. The middle ground estimates average out around 5,000, but let’s give the most extreme number possible for the sake of the argument. These numbers are including projected cancer rates.

Cars annually kill 1.19 million people in comparison.

Even if you were to add nuclear weapon usage to the numbers you’d still barely be close to these numbers. Plus every time there’s been an nuclear accident new technologies and safe guards are deployed. 40,000 of that estimated/projected death toll is from Chernobyl.

Pretty much, I struggle to see any real human achievement in my lifetime. Sure we invented phones and computers are faster than ever before. We haven’t really done anything worthwhile. No real improvements in the human condition.

We have fun content, but our planet is going to cook

I don’t think that’s a fair comparison to modern day.

People were experimenting with steam engines for 1,000 years sure, but this wasn’t 1,000 years of dedicated research.

It was more like someone discovered the principle, then someone re-discovered the same principle 200 years later in a different, and repeat. Every time interest was lost. It wasn’t until much later that people started to build off of each other and actually pursue technology.

They will definitely win too. If they were on off time there’s no grounds for the firing. Even if they were on government time it’s still quite dubious and likely not a fireable offense.

I think we should take a moment to discuss something that plagues the NPS and allows this type of abuse to continue. The NPS hires many employees on a temporary basis. There are some parks where nearly 2/3rds of the staff are temporary or term. For all the people not familiar with federal hiring, this is terrible. These employees get very few of the employment protections offered to permanent employees. With temporary employees getting the least support. Allowing employees to easily be fired like this since temporary employees can be terminated at any time without cause per federal policy. It’s a terrible practice and takes advantage of employees. While this one has a political motivation, it’s very common for whistleblowers to also recieve this treatment in the NPS. Leaving employees with the choice between a job they love and protecting the park’s resources.

This has been going on for decades.

Edit: I just learned they were in their first year of a permanent position. Basically the only time it’s easy to fire a permanent employee as they experience reduced protections during their probationary period.

I love showing the citizens of occupied countries fighting to expel an invading force and calling them terrorists.

Honestly reminds me of Deep Space 9.

This right here is another example of the issue. It’s not “facts” that the economy was good for the average citizen. Yes our economy was performing well, but our metrics are not designed to tell us how well people are affording rent or groceries. It’s designed to tell us how much is being produced. We can be more productive than ever, but that doesn’t matter if housing has never been more unaffordable for the average American.

We measure the economy based on the needs of capital, not the workers.

Yeah he will not support trans rights and maybe even erase some rights.

The current republican party is moving rapidly towards extermination camps

I think what really caused Harris to lose was the constant everything is great and I won’t change anything messaging. People were struggling and she offered nothing.

Trump did offer something, but anyone with a memory greater than 4 years should have remembered his promises are lies, but here we are.