No, they hire third-party staffing companies who only hire ‘independent contractors’ at low rates, with no benefits and punitive Ts&Cs.

we’re living in a Pink Panther movie

Reminder that Bill Gates is #4 on the Epstein Leaderboard for sheer volume of references. He didn’t just participate in the abuse, he was a leader of it.

Because there is not a full replacement for the product. Come on. Don't be deliberately obtuse.

Read up on the Ten Hour Movement or the Bread & Roses strike.

You are never going to get relief by asking politely.

Imagine being the next president inheriting this dumpster fire. I always thought Obama was handed a poisoned chalice. This will be insane.

> the next president

I appreciate your optimism.

This is presuming the next president isn't supportive of these policies and a continuation of the policy.

I'm thinking that even then, they'll be a bit smarter and realize that this is a lot to handle. Won't be starting from as good of a base.

It really does need to be someone who has been in the political game their whole life. It cannot be another inexperienced populist.

Along these lines, it seems too much hope for... but we need a president that can respectfully dialogue with people on the other side of the aisle and empathize with people and their views gained from lived experience. These days the status quo is to treat any opposition to their point of view as sign of idiocy or moral corruption.

Absolutely not. The otherside have shown their colors. They need to be completely ignored and shutdown of power so adults can focus on running the country.

we’re witnessing how advanced civilizations actually die

there’s no heroic clash with other civilizations, they simply rot away

Check the podcast “Fall of Civilizations”, this is very true. This advanced civilization is actually dying.

not at all a mistake; the us govt is fully-compromised by foreign intelligence and this ‘breach’ was fully intentional

Worse—it may even be compromised by domestic interests

where’s the extra-gluten pasta?

the rise of the gluten-phobes is unchecked and I feel the rest of us are getting hosed.

This is typical "help, the 99% is being oppressed because the 1% is not being oppressed" garbage. There's gluten everywhere. In a lot of American cuisine, every single item on the menu has wheat flour in it.

Gluten isn't a phobia, it's an allergen that causes a variety of symptoms in people who are sensitive to it, from constipation and sneezing all the way up to bleeding and brain damage.

All the way up to death, actually. Celiacs who consume gluten destroy their digestive system and die.

You know how celiac disease was first discovered?

Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.

> You know how celiac disease was first discovered?

> Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.

It was the link to wheat specifically that was discovered in the Netherlands, not the discovery of celiac disease itself.

The disease has a much longer history [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_...

[1] https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/

I really hope that the person you replied to was being sarcastic..

It's getting better to be celiac but it's still very difficult. People who can eat gluten aren't being inconvenienced in any way by celiacs needing gluten free food at grocers

The consequences of replacing Jefferson’s Union with Lincoln’s Republic in 1861 were foreseen at the time, but the ‘copperheads’ were shouted down. ‘Fascism’ emerged in Europe from different causes much later. Only casuals find this insightful.