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Isayitoutloud 4 points ago +4 / -0

I think it's a remnant of ancient hellenic culture tbh. Remember this entire area was basically Alexander the Great's empire and split into the successor kingdoms, which eventually fell but left their cultural mark on the middle east up to this very day.

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

The welfare system needs to be reformed.. The way it is right now, you only get help so long as you make under like $1,700 a month. when you make that little, the only way to survive is by having the government pay for your apartment, your food, your medical care. but once you make over that magic number which by the way is not enough to survive because your typical one bedroom apartment these days is like $1,600 a month in a lot of places, All of a sudden you're way worse off because everything just gets shut off instantly. The system needs to do a tapering off at that point instead of just completely leaving people out in the cold. as it is right now, it is set up to basically disincentivize you from getting a job or increasing your income. it's a handout not a hand up. the moment you pass that threshold you lose your medicine for your colitis, you lose your housing, you lose your food benefits, and you end up worse off than you would be if you didn't get a job to begin with. The only way around this is basically to commit fraud or to get some training while you're doing it in order to get a job that pays enough in order to completely cover the constantly rising cost of living. like you basically have to exceed the 60,000 a year threshold in order to make it work.

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

well shit. I sure am glad I don't go around doing stuff that could get me arrested.

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

Great so the American oil companies are going to rake in a shitload of money and we just have to hope that some of that is going to dribble down off of their jowls so that we can eat the scraps that fall on the floor

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Isayitoutloud 4 points ago +4 / -0

I'm really curious about the ratio for the fraud numbers here. I would absolutely love to see a verifiable pie chart to show how much money we're losing to each group from lower level groups like this who steal tens of millions of dollars to the big criminals who cause us to leak billions and trillions

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's what I said. it's kind of crazy that this entity which takes like 20 to 30% of our paycheck can completely shut down and none of us would even notice any difference in our day-to-day lives.

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

for me it's that I want to have a hobby like being able to go to the gym. like being able to afford to eat out once in a while. or hell to be able to go and take some singing lessons and to go to this MMA gym that's here in town and try it out. I'm willing to work 50 hours a week but everybody wants me to work 60 or they won't hire me. if I work 60 then it's a dead end job because I won't have the time or energy to do literally anything else. why not just kill myself at that point?

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

well that's what I've been saying we should do to get rid of this gridlock in the Senate. they're all corrupt, and if they get arrested on felony corruption charges and money laundering and all that stuff then it opens up a seat. if we target Democrats and a few rhinos we can get rid of this blockade that's stopping domestic policy from getting implemented

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Isayitoutloud 4 points ago +4 / -0

if I'm being honest it's because my schoolwork takes a certain amount of time and mental energy. I want the day shift because of the stability it offers and the regular schedule. I don't want to drop out of school because quite frankly why I want the engineering degree is because I want to go further than just a bachelor's. I want to go into research for material sciences or theoretical physics and so in the long run I want to get a PhD. I need the stability for it. I can't take a shit job that's going to have me working 12 to 14-hour days 5 to 6 days a week because I need that time for homework and studying. I can't get anything done if I don't have any time to sleep. there's tons of manufacturing jobs here and tons of companies that are hiring engineers and a number of government contractors who have their headquarters in the area who do lots of designing and research. so I really want to go into engineering because my passion lies in new technology and the desire to basically implement some of the big ideas that I have. I am constantly simulating high concept technology in my head and using AI and I would love for the opportunity to have the resources to make some of these ideas a reality. things like a sort of chemical catalyst that could create a true alloy of ceramic and metal, one that bonds at the atomic level. or possibly a sort of building material that has carbon fiber nanotubes in it that is like concrete and flexible and you can print it out but it also has like some kind of nervous system in it and it's vascular so it behaves kind of like bone but the capillaries can deliver a kind of reinforcing gel into any cracks that happen as a result of impact and the gel could be like a non-Newtonian fluid that hardens into a metallic lattice that reinforces the structure that you build with it automatically. so like self-healing concrete that actively responds to cracks and impact and get stronger The more it's hit. I get other ideas like this all the time and I would really really like to get to the point where I can have the opportunity to explore these things and even if I can't bring my ideas all the way to fruition then I'm sure that I'd be able to make discoveries along the way that would be extremely useful.

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Isayitoutloud 5 points ago +5 / -0

salt lake City is supposed to be a major shipping hub but quite frankly the industry still treats drivers like crap.

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Isayitoutloud 14 points ago +14 / -0

I'm a truck driver with several years of experience and a clean driving record based out of Logan Utah. I'm trying to find local work that I can do while I work on my mechanical engineering degree. I'm just really frustrated because I mean there are local jobs here and I'm applying it's just the job hunt always always always sucks. I was trying to get a job at ABC supply Co and SRS distributors because I mean I'm not afraid of getting out there and actually putting in some manual labor but when I went in for the interview it was like holy crap my application was sitting there in a stack of other applications on the manager's desk right in front of me and it was like an inch thick

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Isayitoutloud 4 points ago +4 / -0

how many of you are willing to sacrifice your own children? how many of you are willing to let your children get raped to death in a satanic ritual in order to protect the well-being of strangers? how many of you would be willing to make that sacrifice knowing full well that you would be killed and replaced instantly with somebody less principled if you didn't?

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Isayitoutloud 1 point ago +1 / -0

it takes getting together and organizing, which is exactly what all of these groups fight tooth and nail to prevent from happening. this shit doesn't just happen organically you don't just get a fucking mob showing up out of nowhere because everybody's so fucking outraged. it actually requires planning organization and the ability to conduct operations while under constant surveillance and the threat of your leaders basically being picked out and tortured to death

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Isayitoutloud 10 points ago +10 / -0

yeah that would be pretty wild if Epstein was just sitting in witness protection all this time and he's flipped on all of his clients

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