I mean, by that same logic, we shouldn’t offer mental health counseling to first responders because they knew what they were getting into when they signed up for it. You can say there’s a difference between naiveté and stupidity, but it’s entirely arbitrary.
Idk man, I feel like you’re really missing the point here. If you’re going to hire people to do a job that involves exposure to traumatic material, you need to provide resources for them to process and recover from it.
Yeah fuck Elon but starlink has actually been incredible for rural areas.
Y’all’d’ve (YAWL-duh if your drawl is heavy enough): You all would have
I have zero idea how you can look at the democratic party’s behavior, leadership and priorities over the past 20 years and believe this in good faith.
So when a tradesman’s back finally gives out and he gets fired for not showing up to work, he should not be eligible for unemployment, medicaid, medicare, food stamps, housing assistance, subsidized health insurance, or any other publicly funded assistance. That’s his problem to solve.
After all, the data has always shown that this is the sacrifice you make by not going to college. Degrees have always been economically worth it in the long run, and that information was always readily available, so why is it everyone else’s problem and cross to bear when one more plumber decides he actually can’t do this job until he’s in his mid sixties? We should just let people die for making poor choices.
OR
We live in a society that requires a variety of skill sets and knowledge bases, including the trades, retail, food service, the sciences, the humanities, medicine, and plenty of other fields that require postsecondary study. We should remove all financial barriers to education, and we should eliminate student debt, because it serves no purpose other than lining the pockets of large financial institutions. And generally speaking, you know, we should take care of glaring issues we see in our society, like a plumber who can’t work for medical reasons or a Ph.D who can’t effectively contribute to society because he’s crushed by student debt. And we should do all of those things with public assistance programs.
Also, “should have read the fine print” is a dead giveaway for being on the unethical side of an argument.
Nah, no one would choose to be in debt.
Bro chose to get an education. Big difference.
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀🌌 always have bean
Well, it’s impossible for anyone who owns a red sports car to become homeless, so he must have been lying.
Nah plenty of people use them dawg. Maybe you just haven’t been exposed to it.
No autocorrect? Pfft, filthy casuals. I haven’t even stricken a line through a word since the Carter administration.
Yep. It’s quite literally an expression of power for them. Pointing it out does nothing but feed them.
By calling it “[your] expected outcome” I believe you’ve answered your own question there.
Consent is important, dickweed. Cry about it.
Why would you assume it to be appropriate to attempt humiliating someone, even as a joke, just because you happened to discover they were into consensual practice of the kink? Super fucking weird bro. Would you just tie a random person up without asking them if they mentioned they were into rope bondage?
They don’t really mean the exact same thing, or at least not in my dialect. “Fixing to” implies that the thing will happen imminently, not just in the future.
Single em dashes can almost always be used interchangeably with semicolons—they typically separate independent clauses without a conjunction.
Paired em dashes—used to demarcate parenthetical expressions—can be replaced by commas, but not by semicolons.
It has less to do with what feels right and more to do with the mechanics of the sentence. There is a good bit of wiggle room, figuratively speaking, in deciding whether to use commas or paired em dashes—likewise, whether to use a single em dash or a semicolon is almost entirely a stylistic choice. But I feel like the way you explained it is a bit misleading to people still learning the difference.
An em dash can also be used to delineate an abrupt break in the direction or structure of a sentence or dialogue in a way that commas or semicolons simply—fuck, I just shit my pants.
Not trying to be a pedant, just sharing what I’ve learned over the years.
A few cheap laser pointers from Walmart or the discount store and that thing will either be landing immediately, leaving the AO, or crashing violently.
But, you know, you should never do this. Or whatever I’m supposed to say here to prevent the secret police from kicking my door in.
Well, I’ve been a paramedic for a long time, a paramedic instructor for half as long, and a firefighter longer than either of the other two. Your friend sounds like a pompous dipshit, and his attitude is the reason we keep killing ourselves.
The ones who think they’re coping just fine are usually taking it out on their body or their family, in my experience. If you are exposed to shit like that at work, it always catches up with you eventually. Some people last years, some last decades, and some last one call. It’s the nature of the work.
Which is why you should always provide those resources. It saves lives. I really don’t see anything to suggest that the plaintiff is lying about having PTSD or is just trying to make money; I think that’s just the social stigma of PTSD providing you with rationalizations for your own problematic beliefs.