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MeFi post:
Is Day Care a luxury or a benefit?
Google just figured out that it was sitting on a goldmine of liability for agreeing to look after the little brats of confirmed snobs all day.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 10:27 AM on July 5, 2008
Did you even read to the second page of the article? It's the opposite. They are building a snobby daycare for the kids of everybody there and expecting the rank and file to pay snob prices.
As price setters, they don't expect anyone to pay anything above their affordability, and they seem to want to keep it limited. Their legal risk is probably more than double the average because of the deep pocket involved.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 10:37 AM on July 5, 2008
I don't even know what that means, as a troll or as a statement that was somehow meant to convey an organized thought.
I was worried you wouldn't understand it.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 10:58 AM on July 5, 2008
If a kid would be too expensive for you, don't fucking have one.
With that logic then Google shouldn't hire people with kids. Regardless, people "should" probably have kids when they can, while young, which is before they usually have extra time and money in the bank. So, to suggest as a policy, public or private, that healthy childbearing should be a function of income or savings is saying that a supply of money dictates policy, which is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 1:07 PM on July 5, 2008
if you were a child-free person working at Google, it would probably chafe that the company was subsidizing the guy next to you to the tune of $37,000 per year.
This is always a big problem with Americans who define equal as same (ie, specifically rather than categorically). So the idea that someone gets a handicap parking space while the rest are forced to march a hundred yards each way can actually cause resentment among Limbaugh listeners. They... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 2:15 PM on July 5, 2008
What is "fair" about making me pay for other people's kids?
Not getting something is not the same as paying. But it illustrates the mindset.
What is non-discriminatory about compensating workers with children more highly than workers without?
They compensate people at different levels for any number of reasons, this being a social one that benefits them publicly or privately in some way.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 2:26 PM on July 5, 2008
Haha! I stopped reading there.
And then proceeded to suggest I think something through a little harder.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 2:39 PM on July 5, 2008
Oh man, I'd love to. I can't afford it, though, since instead of paying a decent salary, my employer compensates workers with benefits I can't use.
Really, nobody cared if you went or not. Most people rightly accept that the next generation in America will be supplying our retirement investments with their returns in all possible forms.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 3:05 PM on July 5, 2008
What are you even trying to say? The next generation will be fine irrespective of whether I get screwed to pay for some little brat's expensive daycare.
The next generation is paying the dividends on all retirement packages, especially if you don't have one. You only discourage their quality and potential at your own peril. I thought I was rather explicit, but maybe not.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 3:48 PM on July 5, 2008
You can't seriously be trying to sell me on the idea that the best investment I could make, as measured by returns, is paying for some random kid's daycare?
It wouldn't be a good social investment to worry only about the childless bottom line, because if we did, then everyone would be screwed. You opted out of children, and don't need our social reward by the same logic. Also, I don't see you as paying for it at any time, because you aren't next in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 4:04 PM on July 5, 2008
I wrote to Dr. Steve Elvis:
Also, I don't see you as paying for it at any time, because you aren't next in line for the savings per se, because it doesn't change the competitive nature of your job status across the economic board because you can't or don't work for a company that benefits you in this way.
To make more plain upon request: The money you see as would be going to yourself is non-existent, because your company would use it to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 4:47 PM on July 5, 2008
MeFi post:
John McCain, Prisoner of War
Apparently McCain lied about being offered an admiral's position, which isn't surprising since there was nobody alive in his family pushing his carreer for him. He probably graduated from the academy only because they were afraid to fail him, because of his father.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 11:09 AM on July 5, 2008
Experience counts:
McCain has had 30 years in Congress. Obama, but two. Anyone else spring to min d with so little experience that became president? Lincoln.
I think Obama is a bigger fraud than McCain, but McCain is not very smart, and smart goes a long way in preventing people from doing the wrong thing on false principle.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 11:26 AM on July 5, 2008
Yeah well two months ago you were ranting about how he could never get elected.
I made no such rant, ever, and encourage you to find it to save your credibility and illustrate what I actually did say. I supported Hillary as a better bet to remain liberal and get elected in the swing states. Obama has already turned sourly moderate, and his numbers aren't any better than Kerry's were at the same time.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 2:56 PM on July 5, 2008
MeFi post:
the doggy in the window
but the Amish I know and not sentimental about animals.
There's the rub then: most people are sentimental about the Amish.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 10:13 PM on July 3, 2008
Maybe someone can help me understand the link a little better? Is this about puppy mills (bad!), the Amish (curiously obtuse, possibly enlightened, maybe just a little fucking crazy, need to be taken down a peg) or the ne plus ultra - an AMISH PUPPY MILL - Holy fucking shit. These people are truly everything we suspected - just as depraved as every other cloistered society determined to shun the civilizing trappings of modernity.
If you ever actually spend any... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 9:47 AM on July 4, 2008
What I find extra troubling in all of this is that former Senator Rick Santorum was the front man for reducing the problem, the poster boy for stupid bombastic conservatism.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 9:55 AM on July 4, 2008
I need more evidence before I'll be able to work up a good head of righteous indignation.
I am guessing that if you bought a puppy in a store yesterday, given a choice, you would have picked the one from the Amish farm. But their brand is now fucked. I don't see what people expected from them. They breed their kids like inbred dogs, undereducate them and expect even the geniuses to work the fields, and then unapologetically shun those who report... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 11:05 AM on July 4, 2008
So, was this just an ax-grind against the Amish?
Amish puppy torturers. Yes.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 1:16 PM on July 4, 2008
I assume that the aristocratic folks who bred horses and dogs for show were thinking that inbreeding was a good thing, and that something wasn't pure or thoroughbred until it had been made so by the same standards that applied since the Pharaohs mated with their sisters. This was always their blue blooded claim to power after all.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 9:42 AM on July 5, 2008
MeFi post:
WhoTubes?
IP addresses are not personal indentifying information, because if some rotten government tried to nab you for speaking out, they would need to arrest and torture your whole family first.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 7:10 AM on July 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Cause Without a Rebel
Things Muslims Hate, Vol. 1
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 7:35 PM on July 1, 2008
HEY SEWER RAT MAY TASTE LIKE PUMPKIN PIE BUT I'D NEVER KNOW CAUSE I WOULDN'T EAT THE FILTHY MOTHERFUCKER.
Why shun pumpkin pie?
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 8:23 PM on July 1, 2008
MeFi post:
A new jug ships clean
It seems this story just documented the elimination of the concept of the return item in empty trucks (although the crates were apparently empty anyway). One more step away from a returnable universal container for all liquids and sauces. In fairness, though, the idea of returning a bottle to the factory was never any good. It was best conceived as a wide mouth container to fill at a store from bulk containers, allowing the customer to have it, clean it and to own the larger tote it was carried... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 6:04 PM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Full Astern Ahead
Many people think inflation is a good thing for borrowers, perhaps the US government.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 7:07 AM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Associated Press? More like Litigious Press, amirte?
“Cutting and pasting a lot of content into a blog is not what we want to see,” he said. “It is more consistent with the spirit of the Internet to link to content so people can read the whole thing in context.”
Oh shit, I forgot the linky part.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 6:02 PM on June 16, 2008
When people are quoted in news stories, they have given their truthful responses in good faith for the public good. They weren't paid. The news moguls would have us question this relationship.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 6:47 PM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Cette bud n'est pas pour vous
Weak dollar, weak beer.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 6:25 PM on June 12, 2008
And the good news is that native protectionism is alive and well and coming from NASCAR sponsors.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 6:58 AM on June 13, 2008
I'm no beer expert, because it's just beer. It's like being a bubble gum aficionado.
It's like comparing bread. And when people compare their favorite mass-made beer in a can, it's like comparing white bread.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 5:15 PM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Go OKC!
Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs
Go mudbugs! OMDG.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 9:16 PM on June 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Galapagos kitties exterminated
Don't care if the blood of cats were cure-all for every disease known to man. Hate then suckers with burning passion of a 1000 suns. Smelly creature that don't deserve to live.
Did you get sick once after eating too many?
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 11:25 PM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Before Roe vs. Wade.
I think there's ample evidence to support the idea that caring too much about other people's private business is a disorder, perhaps a very serious mental illness. I would be interested to know the treatment histories of random people protesting abortion clinics.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 10:03 AM on June 8, 2008
There is also ample evidence of people with no knowledge of mental illness using made-up pathologies in order to demonize and marginalize political opponents. If they are obviously wrong, then you can presumably show that easily, and argue against the person, rather than making up some internal mindset for a strawman opponent.
You just assumed a rational opponent who would listen to reason in order to disagree, making your argument circular. Raising... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 11:51 AM on June 8, 2008
I for one am glad that no one here was aborted. We have been given a precious gift of life, and I would hope we would be gracious enough to find a way to extend that gracious gift to the very least among us who cannot speak for themselves. They are worth our efforts.
The gift of life we were given was handed down through eons, by primitive ancestors who struggled to survive the elements and predators. Yet religious types deny this evolution every day... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 2:17 PM on June 8, 2008
If abortion is made illegal, women will continue to get abortions
Konolia's response:
And if they do so they do so out of choice, just like people do all sorts of unwise things out of choice. Heroin is illegal-does that make me a party to the death of an addict?
The abortion in question wasn't unwise until you assumed it was illegal, which was your choice. That makes you responsible. You... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 8:14 PM on June 8, 2008
MeFi post:
A vicitm of overhunting
Cut the crap. Nothing is more embarrassing than the spectacle of someone simultaneously trying to claim the moral high ground and claiming that that makes them a better person.
How stupid. Anyone is free to claim the moral high ground because it makes them a better person. Embarrassing would be your problem.
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 8:24 AM on June 8, 2008
But there are many other people in this thread asking similar questions, and I think we're owed more respect than I've seen here today.
Why would anyone NOT be concerned that humans caused the extinction of a mammalian species? There are temporary reasons, I'm sure, but most people will go out of their way to see unique species just to see them as tourists, and maybe that's required to understand their motives. Yet, some people would stay in the car... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B.
at 8:47 AM on June 8, 2008
