Fredthefishlord

I can clamp fingers around my wrist easily it’s just that small for some reason

So can I but I'm not hella low BMI.

Alternatively, we can make it a great anniversary. A reenactment even

I love all the stores being closed when I get off work ):

Being the bottom rung is nice because nothing is my responsibility at work., except my own job.

Add these factors together and you can see why people are forced to move to where the rich are, because that's where the business is, because they're the only people with enough money to constitute a customer,

This part specifically is the what I was referring to. Basically, I feel as though you're overemphasizing the "rich" aspect of why people live in cities. Tons of people just like being around other people.

The faster money flows, the more expensive jobs can be provided, and in the country side money moves slower. Wages being higher in cities isn't because that's where the rich are; it's because there's more places to spend money, so everything changes hands quicker and "creates" more money.(While I do think that plenty of modern econ is bunk bullshit, that's one concept that rings true).

While I do agree that the rich kills small towns, I think it's primarily a different reason---big box stores like walmart and medium boxes like dollar general using abusive price practices like undercutting using their wealth to push out the smaller competition, and make it nigh impossible for new places to get going.

Wealth inequality is quite meaningful, but I think it's far from everything. There's a lot of smaller reasons why cities tend to be better places to live, that don't have to do with the rich.

One good example is that higher density means more gov $ per sqrmile, even if the people are poorer, and more infrastructure can be shared, making it cheaper to build. That results in cities inevitably having better infrastructure than the countryside

People are dumb though. And regulations need to account for that.

When there's a legal method to do it, like this situation, following the high road does not create issues. Take the low road when needed, but don't do it unnecessarily. Best not to set any unsavory precedents imo

...teaching your kid to be safe. It's that simple. Be with them until they're old enough, and then they're fine on their own. People underestimate how fine kids will be.

The rights need to be defined by the legislature. And the court needs to impartially rule as per law. There is of course, always room for interpretation.

America needed well placed, strategic policies to support domestic manufacturing decades ago. Now numbskulls started seeing that those jobs should be in the states. Republicans capitalized on that to get elected to attempt it in the worst possible and most destructive possible way.

Twelve weeks. That's twelve weeks more than Americans get.

Paid is the important additional criteria in your statement. Fmla keeps your insurance running and guarantees 12 weeks off work unpaid for maternity leave(for people working more than the pittance that is 1250 hours a year)

something many Americans cannot afford.

Seniors who show they deserve respect should be given it. But plenty do not.