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I'm lazy.

The first sexual and reproductive health centre to offer abortion services on the island of Ireland will open in Belfast next Thursday.

Wow.
The level of fuck I don't give is incredible.

 Kirk Cameron told Liberty University students last week to be brave and speak up when asked about their views on homosexuality and other topics, Right Wing Watch reports.

BIBLE GLASSES.
WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH A SCIENTIFIC IDEA JUST BREAK OUT YOUR BIBLE GLASSES TO INTERPRET IT.
Brilliant.

A couple in Hong Kong is suing a Boston-area education consultant for the $2 million they say they paid him to get their two sons into top prep schools and, ultimately, an Ivy League university. The suit is seen by some as an example of an "arms race" in education.

This is actually the story I wanted to comment on.
I frankly, like everything I've quoted so far, don't care but the comments are gold:

2. Fuck the whole system (in US and in China and everywhere else in the world) that pressures parents to try to buy their children spots at the top schools. I won't judge these people for doing everything they can to get their boys into the best school possible, but I judge the Hell out of the system that created the impulse.

Well we've eliminated the concept of achievement in the US so we have to separate the wheat from the chaff somehow.
I can't believe the number of classes I've encountered where the concept of failure was so foreign to them they didn't fear not doing the assignment at all.

I know so many people who spent their entire educational careers in private school and who could afford to take the ACT/SAT five times if they needed to and have all of these expensive ECAs and whose well-educated parents helped with their homework who insist that the only reason they are successful is because they worked harder than everyone else and that a "meritocracy" would be totally fair.

A meritocracy by definition isn't fair but it's objectively the best form of government there is.

I don't know who in their right mind would argue a meritocracy is fair since a meritocracy can be summarized by the quote "so according to his ability, so according to his needs" but whatever.

The only people who defend a meritocracy tend to be the best/smartest/whatever anyway so I don't even know why we're discussing this.

The funny thing about a meritocracy is that even if you want one, you can't have one without socialism.

That's fucking stupid and you know it.

People who defend the notion of a meritocracy tend to side with consequentialism anyway so I doubt they'd care how someone got to be the best only that they are the best.

I know personally that's how I view things.

OMG my ex was like that.

"I EARNED ALL OF THIS ON MY OWN!!!!" Nevermind that his parents paid for his car (oh I'm sorry that was his sister's old car so it doesn't count),

Or maybe they do.

If they're stupid.

I know I didn't earn all of my knowledge on my own and I'm grateful to my parents for what they did for me but that doesn't make me not the best at what I do.

God, I hate when people use the argument "I deserve to be rich and give nothing back because I work hard for my money". The woman who cleans your toilet for minimum wage works just as hard as you do, only she gets less for it.

But anyone can clean a toilet.

I'm not saying what she does isn't important or she isn't worth respecting for doing it (Christ, I could barely cut cleaning vegetables) but there is a reason why nurses make more.

It's because you wouldn't want anyone giving you injections.

I'm wondering how the parents got that much money with so little common sense. Simple mathematics should tell them what they were promised was impossible. Harvard has a fknite number of openings. Not everyone who applies is going to get in no matter what. I'm not even buying the "they're foreigners" argument because Hong Kong isn't exactly some back water village. They wanted status more than they wanted the best education, and someone took advantage of their greed.

Yeah why are you people defending Hong Kong in this?

You want to talk about ultra-capitalism, Machiavellian politics and a harsh meritocracy with class struggles stretched back further than the entirety of recorded US history look no further than Hong Kong.

I mean fuck, we're talking about a country where piracy is a major source of income.

Why?

Because it makes money.

Is it morally wrong?

They admit it is but it's what makes cash so whatever.

Am I the only one whose first reaction was, "Wow, what a couple of excessively rich, entitled douche bags" (the parents, not the kids)?

It does sound like they were scammed, and the guy who did it should pay for that. But at the same time, the idea of someone trying to buy their way into Harvard and then being offended because their kids had to go to some other *GASP* *clutches pearls in horror* Ivy League schools instead totally blows my fucking mind.

But by the earlier logic they should have been accepted because they had the most money.

Maybe the wheels of this unfair meritocracy don't grind quite like you think?

Imagine the pressure First and Second Son have been living with their whole lives. I'm guessing there were no As for effort in that home.

I mean should there be?

I'm not going to beat my kid for failing but I'm definitely not pretending like it's the effort that mattered.

Olive Garden, Red Lobster Scale Back Employee Work Hours to Avoid Paying for Health Insurance.

OBAMA CARE.

Though details were scant, the company did say there were no immediate plans to expand the "test," which is aimed at "help[ing] us address the cost implications health care reform will have on our business."

Sliding minimum wage.
I've been saying it for months.

Starting January 2014, when most major provisions of the Affordable Care Act go into effect, companies with over 50 employees will be required to provide health insurance to employees working over 30 hours a week. Companies that flout the law will be fined $3,000 per uncovered employee.

Let me employ my formula to see how much minimum wage should be at one of these fine eating establishments--

He raked in 4.29 million last year.

I'm not going to factor in options and kick backs and all that crap because I do have to go to bed soon--

$18.34 an hour is what I've calculated.

Darden, which, ironically, bills itself as "the world's largest full-service restaurant company," made headlines last year when it started a "tip sharing" program requiring the waitstaff to share its tips with all other employees. According to the Associated Press, "That allows Darden to pay more workers a far lower 'tip credit wage' of $2.13, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour."

And under my administration paying less than 50% of the stated minimum wage equates to slave labor.

Slavery in my country is a capital offense.
Let us hope the next CEO of Darden Restaurants exercises more caution in his economic strategies.

I don't get why companes are so fucking cheap that they will do something like this and screw their own employees.

Oh wait, it's because they're fucking cheap.

You seriously don't get it?
How fucking deluded and sheltered are you?
They do it because they fucking can.

People need actual protection. That's the point of the law. To protect the weak from the strong.

And because they can. :(

People need jobs so badly that they have no choice other than to put up with this kind of crap. Ugh.

And under my system there'd be no need for unions because they're protected by the state.

No union dues, no abuse from the unions--

there'd be no real need to force your employer to pay for healthcare because additional reforms to the healthcare industry itself (actual reforms, not nonsense Obama is deluding people into thinking is a good idea) would ensure any citizen could pay for his or her own healthcare easily--

Places like Red Lobster would only want to hire the best waitstaff and such, ensuring a top quality product from them--

every single person wins under my system.

Elect me emperor now.

It's the trickle down theory.

The only difference is either money or blood trickles down.

TAKE YOUR PICK, FOOLS.

My sister worked at Sonic Drive-In when she was in HS and they did the same thing. Sounds like it's been pretty common for a while.

Sonic minimum wage--

A paltry $7.74. High school work.

Ever since public employers like school districts and colleges were allowed to shift their workforce to unbenefitted hourlies and adjuncts back in the late 80s, there has been a steady erosion of fully-benefitted full time employment. Government practices tend to lead the way. We need a labor movement for the permanent part time/temporarily full time workforce that more and more of us are forced to be a part of.

Don't worry, plebeians: I have already solved all your problems.

If you think my wage solution was radical and brilliant wait until you see how I'm balancing the budget.

Or my science program.

Or my space program.

Anyway time to go now.

FAREWELL, SUBJECTS