SuperJail Warden
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Well if it makes any of you feel a little better they cancelled school in NY again. If only he had gone through with sacrificing all of us.
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unnamednewbie13
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His failure to live up to his end of the bargain there probably did anger the elder gods. Or at least whatever one rules over the aspect of taking intercontinental flights to beat people up over forum posts.
SuperJail Warden
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Imagine buying a home across the street from a school and you don't even get to send your kid there.
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unnamednewbie13
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Imagine being even loosely tied to the apocalypse-fetish prepper crowd (a large part of libertarian demographics, I'm sure) but not being able to tolerate a couple weeks isolated with your family. Like how do you think you're gonna go off the grid in the mountains or whatever?

He's too easy.
Dilbert_X
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So now we have a major lockdown, triggered by a security guard at a quarantine facility working part time in a pizza bar, who infected a chef who was working in the pizza bar but whose main job is producing food in a different quarantine facility, both of whom were obviously producing pizzas for the general public.

Hard to fucking believe.
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SuperJail Warden
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Looks like they should have paid the security guard and quarantine facility chef enough so that they didn't need a second job.
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Dilbert_X
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They would have been well enough paid.
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unnamednewbie13
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You'd think someone "well enough paid" would think of other things to do besides working second or third jobs.
Dilbert_X
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You'd think so, I had an Indian CAD designer,/engineer he was well paid, he still worked nights as a security guard for peanuts and was half asleep all day. You'd think they'd focus on doing well in their main job but no, they're all out driving taxis or cleaning offices.
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uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

They would have been well enough paid.


dilbert has life so figured out at his parents’ house.
Dilbert_X
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Min wage is $20/hr, security guards make $25-30/hr, so above the median uk wage.
I'm sure there would have been plenty of hazard loading, shift loading, opportunity for overtime.
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uziq
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'goddamn these immigrants, coming over here and working multiple jobs!'

'why can't they accept a lifestyle at just above minimum wage! goddamn over-working migrants!'

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unnamednewbie13
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Very selfish, working yourself into an early grave to improve your family's lot.
uziq
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i'm sure dilbert would have a few things to say if the migrants were coming to australia and directly threatening his way of life and taking up roles at his pay-grade.  there'd be even more spluttering about the natural inferiority of xyz non-white engineers, then.

but, no, as it stands, he prefers to accuse the humble menial worker for 'choosing' to work themselves half to death for a shot at a better life.

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Larssen
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Well it's not outside the realm of possibility that some choose to work even more if they are supporting a (large) family in the home country. That said I've worked with many people from India/China in the past and I didn't meet one who alongside an actual good job held down one or multiple side jobs.
uziq
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maybe even some of them are working extra hard to buy their parents a home, rather than to live at home with their parents like dilbert.
Dilbert_X
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uziq wrote:

'goddamn these immigrants, coming over here and working multiple jobs!'

'why can't they accept a lifestyle at just above minimum wage! goddamn over-working migrants!'
Like I said - min wage australia = median wage uk

I've effectively worked multiple jobs, and I've taken all the paid overtime I could get, but then there's being irresponsible like this.
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uziq
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what's the relevance of the minimum wage in australia being the median wage in the UK? are the living costs the exact same? someone making a median wage in the east midlands or stoke-on-trent probably feels less poor than someone on minimum wage in a major australian city, no?

i'm sure they work multiple jobs just for fun, though. lack of imagination!
Larssen
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I am finding myself becoming rather furious about the increasing whining over vaccination now that multiple governments are considering that one needs a proof of vaccination before attending public venues. That this would infringe on medical privacy rights, or create a discriminatory government and society! After all, non-vaccination is a but a choice that should be respected! I even saw someone compare it to the persecution of jews, your non-vaccination akin to a star of david.

Fuck this mentally defective subset of the population. I'm so through with all the bullshit artists who use the pandemic as a time to stand on a soapbox and pronounce the end of civil society because any attempt to control the virus spread 'infringes' on their rights and feelings, and their feelings about what their rights are. It's also darwinism at work: when finally a suitable medical solution presents itself, the stupids have been so thoroughly inundated with anti-vax nonsense found via google and social media they no longer dare to accept that extended hand of help. But then to still have the gall to complain that society shouldn't limit you from doing anything!

What the fuck does the word 'pandemic' even mean to these people? If you want to be a walking, breathing contamination hazard please exercise that misguided revolutionary spirit in the privacy of your own home and don't goddamn well endanger anyone else. Lunatics.

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SuperJail Warden
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This reminds me of the differences between positive and negative freedom or something like that I learned in school once. Some people see freedom as "I can do what I want" and other people see their freedom as "I am free from specific coercion or forces".

And frankly in America it is mostly white people who make a major fuss and are obnoxious and political about the first one. They can't or better yet choose to not acknowledge that "freedom to not die from a disease" is a right. I think it is largely a matter of comfort and privilege for them to take part in advocacy of the freedom to be obnoxious. And the way this plays out in regards to COVID is that they genuinely believe that they are special and will be unaffected because no other force in their lives ever oppressed them. What would make Chinese Bat Flu any different?
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uziq
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that’s isaiah berlin.
SuperJail Warden
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See? That's why you are one of a kind
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uziq
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your commentary is on the money here, i think. citation not necessary.
Dilbert_X
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Larssen wrote:

I am finding myself becoming rather furious about the increasing whining over vaccination now that multiple governments are considering that one needs a proof of vaccination before attending public venues. That this would infringe on medical privacy rights, or create a discriminatory government and society! After all, non-vaccination is a but a choice that should be respected! I even saw someone compare it to the persecution of jews, your non-vaccination akin to a star of david.

Fuck this mentally defective subset of the population. I'm so through with all the bullshit artists who use the pandemic as a time to stand on a soapbox and pronounce the end of civil society because any attempt to control the virus spread 'infringes' on their rights and feelings, and their feelings about what their rights are. It's also darwinism at work: when finally a suitable medical solution presents itself, the stupids have been so thoroughly inundated with anti-vax nonsense found via google and social media they no longer dare to accept that extended hand of help. But then to still have the gall to complain that society shouldn't limit you from doing anything!

What the fuck does the word 'pandemic' even mean to these people? If you want to be a walking, breathing contamination hazard please exercise that misguided revolutionary spirit in the privacy of your own home and don't goddamn well endanger anyone else. Lunatics.
So you're a fascist.

Socialism doesn't mean the government dictating what everyone does.
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