Damn, a self-burn.

Pink and blue only became gender coded because corporations wanted to sell more merchandise.

“In America by the 1890s and the early 20th century, manufacturers attempted to sell more children’s and infants’ clothes by color-coding them,” she said. Some manufacturers branded pink for boys and blue for girls, and vice versa.

Until then, everyone wore blue and pink.

“If you look back, little boys in the 18th century wore blue and pink, and grown-up men wore blue and pink, and ladies and little girls wore blue and pink,” Steele said.

The complicated gender history of pink

Purple is a wicked color because it's the color of royalty.

Tyrian Purple was associated with the rank of royalty in the ancient civilisations of Rome, Japan, Persia, Egypt and Constantinople, dating back as far as the 16th century BC. But how did it come to be the stamp of everything imperial? For a start, purple was first sourced in Phoenicia (the name translates as ‘purple land’), an ancient city located in modern-day Lebanon. Producing purple dye was a laborious process – and was subsequently expensive – though the method of extracting it was less glamorous. The dye stemmed from the foul-smelling mucous gland of a marine mollusk. As a result, the term purple owes itself to the Latin word for a purple shellfish, ‘purpura’. A time-consuming process saw these sea snails dried and boiled to make Tyrian dye – many of the creatures were needed to dye even a small segment of fabric, but the benefits meant that the intensity of the colour was long-lasting and not prone to fade.

Purple: an enchanting pigment reserved for royals and rulers

You can be a trained retail worker in a few hours in most cases. Same with many farming jobs. Same with working the line at fast food

Retail workers have to deal with irate customers, develop product knowledge, and how to sell items. Fast food workers need to learn how to work as a team, make the food at a consist quality, and juggle multiple orders at once.

As for farm workers, if they are working with animals: how to read the animals for their behavior, treat minor injuries of animals, and how to manage animals.

I will agree that all labor deserve a living wage.

The C Suite bonuses and shareholders.

When there are enough corporations to fit a boardroom table. Competition doesn't exist.

It's well within reason to think that many of Executives all attend the same events, have overlapping social circles, and moved around positions between the corporations.

All it takes is one company to get away with higher prices for the other companies follow suit.

Every accusation is a confession.

The confession for this accusation is that the Court system is stacked with Conservative judges to push a Conservative agenda.

You do mean Brock Allen Turner, who was a student at Standford and was convicted of rape from an incident on January 18, 2015?

I hate to be wrong on that we're talking about two different Brock Allen Turners.

Really love Shawn Fain's attitude of fighting with the corporations. More victories unions to start win, the easier it will be grow unions across of sorts of different industries.

We had Starbucks stores unionize, an Amazon warehouse unionize, and UAW winning major concessions.

No one should be surprised. It's all projection with conservatives.

You do mean Brock Allen Turner who was indicted five charges: two for rape, two for felony sexual assault, and one for attempted rape? This all happened on January 18, 2015.

Anyone else getting radicalized because of this?

Haley's response:

“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” Haley replied. “And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people. Government doesn’t need to tell you how to live your life. They don’t need to tell you what you can and can’t do. They don’t need to be a part of your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom. We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”

All Haley had to do was just add in that the Confederacy was about taking away liberties of groups of people and their ability to seek out economic freedom, and that slaves had no freedom of everything.

The bar was on the fucking ground and Haley still failed to meet it.

Sex work is work and no one should be shamed for it.

Go fash, lose cash.

Slaps knee

Both sides, am I right? /s

$700 million that'll teach Google. Out of curiosity, what was Google's 2022 profit?

......279.8 billion This fine represents less than 0.25% of Google's profit. So I guess Google won't learn their lesson.

Edit: Fix link

Tech Bros, reinventing classic technology with a veneer of techno babble.

I'm not baffled. Republicans love to punish people, the poorer and not white the better.

If Trump is reelected, he will immediately replace everyone he can with Red-hat toadies

This isn't a conspiracy. This is a fact: Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation

Although the system appeared to be sufficient for the nation’s first century, progressive intellectuals and activists demanded a more professionalized, scientific, and politically neutral Administration. Progressives designed a merit system to promote expertise and shield bureaucrats from partisan political pressure, but it soon began to insulate civil servants from accountability. The modern merit system increasingly made it almost impossible to fire all but the most incompetent civil servants. Complying with arcane rules regarding recruiting, rating, hiring, and firing simply replaced the goal of cultivating competence and expertise

Such a reliance on holdovers and bureaucrats led to a lack of agency control and the absolute refusal of the Acting Attorney General from the Obama Administration to obey a direct order from the President.

Congress should also consider whether public-sector unions are appropriate in the first place.

Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy

During their terms, the three Republican commissioners have demonstrated with their votes and their public statements that they believe the FEC should not overregulate political activity and act beyond its statutory authority, construe ambiguous and confusing provisions against candidates and the public instead of the government, and infringe on protected First Amendment activity

Federal Election Commission

Leeja Miller - The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country (you need to know about this)

I'll take CEOs for $1,000, Alex.

Remember everyone, we can shame her for being a cop. We don't shame her for being a sex worker. Sex workers deserve respect and dignity.

Cops on the other hand can huff fetid corpse fumes.

Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees, apparently this is a very common occurrence in Trumpworld. Everyone is stiffing everyone.

The victim may want go to the police however they don't have any documents to prove that they are in the country legally. Those documents such as passports, visa, etc. were all stolen from them by the person who has them as a slave.

The victim thinks if they go to the police, they will be deported from the country.

Edit: Most slaves tend to be foreign workers who come into a country on a visa. Other situations include women being domestically trafficked for sexual purposes or victims who experience tremendous amount of pressure not to talk to the police for fear getting in trouble with the law even though they are a citizen or don't realize that they are slave.

Are we using American time with Scaramuccis or British time with Lettuces?

I read the headline as "Boebart finishes fifth grade". My reaction was "That's nice, dear." in a very condescending manner.

That's because Netanyahu has a long history of supporting Hamas for his own political gains.

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces, Times of Israel, 8 October 2023

Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas, The Hill, October 22, 2023

Netanyahu’s policy, however, was in direct opposition to most of the Israeli defense and security establishment, which viewed cooperation with the PA to be in Israel’s security interest. Fans of the Netflix series “Fauda” will recognize that cooperation. Most security experts felt the PA needed to be strengthened, not weakened.

Since returning to power in 2009, Netanyahu made no secret of his desire to keep Hamas and the PA apart for his own political purposes. For example, in 2017, the PA and Hamas were negotiating a possible takeover by the PA of civilian control of the Gaza Strip. Even though the United States and Egypt supported this reconciliation, Netanyahu was adamantly opposed — lest it empower the PA.

Why Netanyahu helped fund Hamas and how that backfired for Israel, India Today, November 1, 2023

“Whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Prime Minister Netanyahu as saying in 2019.

Video: Ex-Saudi intel chief accuses Israel of 'funnelling' Qatari money to Hamas, India Today, October 31, 2023

Prince Turki al-Faisal's accusation against Israel comes days after a report by Reuters, citing a source privy to the matter, stated that Qatar's financial aid to the Palestinian families in Gaza passes through Israel. The funds are transferred electronically from Qatar to Israel, following which Israeli and United Nations (UN) officials hand-carry the same over the border to the Gaza Strip.

How Netanyahu's Hamas policy came back to haunt him — and Israel, CBC News, October 28, 2023

Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that "if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas's strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister."

In August 2019, former prime minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio that Netanyahu's "strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah."

Netanyahu's current finance minister, West Bank settler Belazel Smotrich, explained the approach to Israel's Knesset channel in 2015: "Hamas is an asset, and (Palestinian Authority leader) Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) is a burden."

"But each time Netanyahu was asked, 'Why don't you negotiate with Abbas,' he would say, 'I can't negotiate with a Palestinian Authority that doesn't represent all Palestinians.' And so he would use Hamas and this division to justify his absolute objection to any negotiated peace agreement."

Liberman: Netanyahu sent Mossad head, general to Qatar, ‘begged’ it to pay Hamas, Times of Israel, February 20, 2022

“Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas, as though it was an environmental organization. This is a policy of submission to terror,” he said, adding that Israel was paying Hamas “protection money” to maintain the calm.

Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided, Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2019

The prime minister also said that, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

If you are living in an area with a high cost of living, $150k won't feel like $150k.

From Bungalow, 10 Mist Expensive Cities in the US,

1. San Francisco, CA The cost of living in San Francisco is the highest in the country. Jobs in the City by the Bay pay well, with average annual incomes of over $100,000. In 2019, the city had an unemployment rate as low as 1.8%. But a good chunk of each check goes toward the nation’s highest housing costs. As of January 2020, the average rent for an apartment in San Francisco was $3,700, and the median home purchase price was $1.35 million. Prices are sky-high because of limited housing stock and lack of new construction.

If you are making $100k and renting at the average rental price of $3,700, in one year the cost your housing is $44,400 which is almost 45% of your income. The goal is to spend 30% of your income on housing. If people with would be normally considered to have a good income are struggling then the poor are completely fucked.

There is a small group of people who are making money off this system and ain't us.

It doesn’t make a ton of sense to argue that Biden is incompetent and somehow magically running a crime family. Those opinions do not jive with one another.

Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

Definitions of fascism, Wikipedia

Gen X would love to fall for online scams however everyone keeps forgetting them.

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Rod Hilton about Elon Musk.

I dunno, the way the world is hurling to a climate catastrophe. Money isn't going matter. This is just smart financial planning.

My brother, some friends, and I did a martial arts tournament like Mortal Kombat. Needless to say I won.

Not an issue when you don't use Adobe.

"Brother, get the flamer. The heavy flamer."

"Hell yeah, brother!"

Ah yes, the glorious Olympics tradition continues of host countries proudly jerking themselves off while spending insane amounts of money.

"Look at us while we jerk our selves off. Ignore the fact that we are completely making life harder for marginalized communities to be able to build these one time use stadiums and lodgings that may or may not be used to house people."

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

Profit line must always go brrrrr!

A Titan submarine, right? We want nothing but best for dear old Elon.

Man, I sure do hope a bunch of 14 and 15 years don't end up joining all those conservative social media sites. Just think, getting sued when your company is already failing, we would be real bad news for investors.

Step 3: Breath into the mouth, just like everyone breathing life into that comment section!