Ecco the dolphin

Friend, the totals are percentages, not absolute counts

This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It’s just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.

Article from the “Harris Poll”

I couldn’t find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There’s no methodology for it I can find. It’s just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.

So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included

Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.

It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.

Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it’s the second sentence in my post.

Given the small sample size

It’s a survey of 3,000? It’s still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.

But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.

18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.

For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.

That’s weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)

Hi, I read the article.

24% of all households are living paycheck to paycheck, while 29% of low-income households are living paycheck to paycheck this year, according to the article.

The title should (imho) read “nearly 3 in 10 low income Americans” instead of nearly a third. But, “nearly a quarter” wouldn’t be right either.

I’m also surprised the number is only 3 in 10…

The Trump administration had warned that it would lay off workers during the shutdown, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the cuts were aimed at “Democrat agencies” or initiatives.

Hello CNBC?? You need to push back against this statement. Federal employees, until this administration, are nonpartisan. We pay the budgets of these departments through bills passed in bipartisan Congresses.

The only department I can think of that’s fully partisan right now is DOGE.

Just say it: the Trump admin wants to cut services to the people of this nation (Park service, CDC, FDA, EPA, NASA, NOAA, … etc)

Furloughed IRS workers were told in a letter that they will receive back pay when the shutdown ends. That letter came a day after an internal draft memo suggested that the Trump administration might question its obligation to give back pay to some furloughed employees.

Cnbc should have mentioned here that its probably against the law for federal workers to not get back pay due to a law passed in 2019 (also trump administration)

wapo link

It feels like major media companies are manufacturing consent for this by mentioning that memo repeatedly but not pushing back on it. Not even mentioning the legality of it.

He’s talking about getting rid of military members who can’t shave due to medical reasons.

context

People with curly hair can have ingrown hairs from shaving. Most people with no shave chits are black.

Don’t let him trick you into thinking this speech is just stupid. Its stupid, but he’s also trying to give generals plausible deniability to remove minority military members and women.

She, famously, has no idea how humans live. She is culturally distinct from the Europeans on the coast.

She has more in common with the fish that she speaks to. She’s basically a magic dolphin.

Meanwhile, the people in the OP image are humans (to my knowledge, I’m not a nerd). Humans who have lived in the human world with human pasts full of human culture which give context to their characterization. I’m sure their background stories matter to their fans.

Nobody argues about what color the scales on Ariel’s tail should be.

You responded to someone pointing out there is no evidence provided for the image in the OP (saying he is a groyper) with more non-evidence. That’s why I replied to you. You’re not really on-topic in the context of that conversation. I’ve done that before, tbh.

I read all of your comment, none of it was relevant tbh. Yes, I did pick out the most outrageous thing you said. It was outrageous after all. I could have picked apart every sentence, but I didn’t want to do that, and nobody wants their words dissected like that. Its not nice.

Your larger opinions on the Utah area do not change what this guy actually believes. You might be right. You might be wrong. All of this is speculation. That’s my point, and that’s the point of the person you are originally replying to.

I never said posting from ML was good or bad, just pointing out they are leftist, as am I. I’m not interested in debating the goodness/badness/whatever of Lemmy.ml, I’m just stating facts.

Anyway, I hope your day is going well.

The kid was born in crackerstan. Non-Republican’s there are about as common as non-whites.

this is demographics, not evidence.

He’s the result of a long-term breeding experiment that investigates what would happen if you concentrated all the most gullible/ignorant people into a single space.

???

Rest of post is a screed about how you don’t like Utah. Not evidence.

I have seen no evidence either way this guy was a leftist, or a groyper, or anything. People out there WISH he was something so they can wrap this whole thing up and explain it away, without acknowledging that people with fulfilling lives and hopeful futures don’t do things like this.

His whole family are sympathizers for the fascists

So are mine, and here I am, posting on lemmy.ml

Slow your roll. Post evidence or stop muddying the waters.

They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave’s hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.

I’m trying not to be a pessimist about this, but if only we had senators willing to call this genocide before so much destruction has already been done. So many of us are unwilling to call something a genocide until hundreds of thousands have died.

This report might be entirely ignored since these are Democratic senators.

Large USA media outlets are too focused on the death of a hatemongering podcaster to even report on this. I tried looking for articles from larger media outlets, and I only found an article from The Guardian (UK) and an MSN article… really wasn’t expecting to see an MSN result.

Focusing on the death of one hatemongerer while our government supports genocide… we do live in a violent society.

The Democratic party would rather lose than oust corporate candidates. That is who they are. If they put forth non-establishment candidates, they would no longer be the Democratic party.

See: the reaction to Mamdani in New York, or how Sander’s presidential run was ratfucked.

one time the state of Indiana almost made pi equal to 3.2. This is the dumb shit that happens when you aren’t introduced to these topics in school. Please don’t return us to dark times.

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I know someone who is 100% disabled and works a full time job. That job sucks, frankly. People look down on him for working in customer service, but his body is too broken to enter the trades, and his mental health is too poor to attend college (even though it would be free through the GI bill). I don’t even think he needs the money, he just wants to be “normal” and he doesn’t mind the work. He and his wife do not live lives of luxury and their kids seem happy.

He would not be able to support his family on this low-paid job he has. His wife also works.

Perhaps the problem isn’t disabled vets getting paid, maybe the problem is that we keep sending them out to die for oil. Maybe the problem is that life in America is hard for anyone who isn’t in the top 10%.

I do believe that in order to achieve welfare/prosperity, not all the people have to work. And I do believe that there are more important things in life than working. I’d love to be a stay at home dad, but I can’t.

Being a stay at home dad is work. Raising children is necessary work that capitalism requires, because it requires laborers. We have engineered a system in which this work is uncompensated, and if you gender this work, it causes gendered oppression.

I will also point out that in America we have decided that unless you have a “job”, society has decided that you pretty much don’t deserve health care. Anyone who chooses a life of domestic labor in America puts themselves in a position where they are financially dependent on their spouse and their spouse’s employment status. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have forged these chains.

Whether doubling the workforce is a good thing - that I’d keep up for a debate.

If we had more workers, it could be that we wouldn’t need those workers to work as long. Earlier retirement, shorter work weeks, whatever. The issue is not the size of the work force, the issue is what is chosen to be done with it.

Are you trying to imply doubling the available workforce is not good? Its usually a good thing. While their motivations are cynical, those leaders are doing good.

…or are you trying to imply that keeping women out of the traditional work force (by only allowing them to work unpaid in the home in domestic servitude, labor that capital does not value) increases the value of male labor through scarcity, which would be preferred?

Sorry that second question kind of reads as an attack. A shitty coworker of mine said that to me unironically and tried to play it off as a joke when I pushed back.

In addition to the replies you got already, discord has screen sharing/streaming. An experience kind of like zoom (I don’t use it and dont see the appeal but maybe someone who does can elaborate more. My partner uses this feature sometimes).

Are you talking about plan B type pills? They are not an abortifacient. Common misconception (important to correct though).

Per FDA link:

Q. Is Plan B One-Step an abortifacient (causing abortion)?

A. No. Plan B One-Step will not work if a person is already pregnant, meaning it will not affect an existing pregnancy. Plan B One-Step prevents pregnancy by acting on ovulation, which occurs well before implantation. Evidence does not support that the drug affects implantation or maintenance of a pregnancy after implantation, therefore it does not terminate a pregnancy.