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You don't HAVE to give two weeks notice if you quit, it's not a law. It's just a courtesy to the employer, a courtesy no employer ever gives their employees. They don't give their employees two weeks notice before firing them, they just fire them. So if your ( Read more... )

Capitalism is like the Borg, it will try to turn you into a robot slave. The whole of society is basically a Borg / Cybermen processing facility. Neurotypicals seem quite good at conforming to this assimilation.

I know the pains and stress of being a human being in the midst of the Borg, intimately. I finally decided that I would sign up for ( Read more... )

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I love the description of the Orion home world in this Star Trek novel I'm reading ("Silent Weapons" by David Mack), because of course it's still considered the galactic hive of scum and villainy by most of the galaxy, but the description of the place describes a culture much like the twentieth century United States, but using laws and law ( Read more... )

Just heard a horrible true story about a woman who was so poor and hungry that her anus sealed itself shut and a bunch of her intestines died, because she didn't have enough money to eat every day. She had to get surgery to fix her anus and remove the dead intestines! O_O ( Read more... )

So I was on YouTube, and this guy made a comment to me when I said something against capitalism. His comment ( Read more... )

Is it unethical or wrong to Google my potential employees’ names even though my company does background checks?Yes it is unethical. What a person does on the Internet is no concern of their employers. It is a violation of privacy to do so, even though the information is technically public. There are far too many things people do online, that are ( Read more... )

The Wordsmith has some things to say about crowdfunding and music, which are pretty cool. These things prompted me to respond, and I think my response is worth repeating here ( Read more... )

(Yes, I know this post uses dated numbers, but I've been on disability for a few years and I wrote this without any Internet access.)

Go out and about among the people and say "I'll pay you $7 if you clean my toilet." I doubt anyone would take you up on that offer. So when they decline, ask them "You won't clean a single toilet for $7, but you're ( Read more... )