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PauliExcluded [she/her]

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The most basic principles of socialism like checks notes letting your employer keep extra value from you by turning down extra money and having to work as a wage slave when you’re 80.

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Most employers offer a match on 401(k) contributions. For example, you contribute $500 per paycheck and the employer contributes $250. By turning down this money, you are literally letting the company you work for keep extra money that would otherwise go to you. Fuck companies. Accept the match, so they can’t keep that extra money. You worked for it.

I’m a Marxist and want the downfall of capitalism. However, I’m investing in total market index funds in case capitalism remains the dominant economic system for the rest of my life, because I don’t want to be a wage slave when I’m tired, old woman.

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I’m a completely normal girl, feds. I’m not one of those trans people. Here you can see all of my identification to prove it. No, I’m sorry to say I lost my original birth certificate, but I do have this replacement I got in the mail a couple years ago. I hope that’s fine 😊

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We are so fucked

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According to the New York Times, Kennedy claimed that the worm that infected him “ate a portion” of his brain. Can tapeworms “eat” brain tissue?

SHARIF: Discussions of eating brains are better left in zombie movies than in legitimate scientific discourse. The parasitic infections that impact the brain do not eat the brain. Now, that doesn’t mean that they cannot damage brain tissue. But that kind of inflammatory language indicates a lack of scientific literacy and is pretty concerning.

Okay, but what does it eat to survive, if not the brain?

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My manager just told me that his manager wants to PIP me. I’m my team’s sole web developer, but our team hasn’t had any web development work for the past few months due to an initiative to improve security. I’ve been struggling with doing this back end work, because I have literally no experience doing it. My manager told me he won’t PIP me (only my direct manager can), because he knows I’m doing my best and he’d be screwed when we have web development work in a couple months. This is mildly reassuring, but his manager doesn’t like him, so I’m not sure how long my manager will stay at the company either

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I agree. I really don’t see where an execution takes place changes the fact capital punishment is legal. It’s not like there’s an article over execution facilities in the US or Russia.

However, deleting is a long bureaucratic process where you have to argue with a bunch of no-life randos. Many editors consider it bad form to delete and reword large parts of an article then nominate it for deletion. This is viewed as intentional sabotage and bad faith, even if all you do is delete the unreliable sources. This article touches on this crap.

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Well, I tried to remove as much bs as possible and make things more neutral without raising any red flags for the editors of Wikipedia. Hopefully, that’s a bit better and they don’t revert it.

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