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In your experience, what is Halloween all about?
  • What do you mean by religion? Halloween is a pagan festival according to Christian standards. Of course, I'd be right there with you when it comes to the fun festivals of pagans, but is that what you mean?

  • In your experience, what is Halloween all about?
  • I realize that Halloween is a commercial event, but I think there are other outlets for criticism of capitalism. Things where you can make a difference and at the same time let the children have fun. I don't think you can change much if you dwell on trivialities that bring people together despite all the commerce. That doesn't seem to me to be the right approach.

  • In your experience, what is Halloween all about?
  • That sounds fun, I imagine it like this:

    Dentist in tooth disguise and surrounded by tooth fairies: Please open your mouth.

    Patient Jack Sparrow: Arr!

  • Elon Musk, Who Has Ties to Both Epstein and Diddy, Criticizes People With Ties to Epstein and Diddy
  • Aha, this must be the "cabal" that these weird MAGA people are always rambling on about.

  • oahsa rocks guys
  • Didn't even have to check the link to know what it was. Classic.

  • CNN bans guest for telling Muslim journalist 'I hope your beeper doesn't go off'
  • Well, people like this Girdusky are a joke. At least that much is certain.

  • Clarification please
  • Zionism is inherently racist. This movement has nothing to do with Judaism. One of the greatest misdeeds of the Netanyahu regime - tho it pales in comparison to their other misdeeds - is to present their inhumane actions as the Jews' point of view. Israel's strategy in the last couple of year was to portray all completely justified criticism of Zionism, and especially of the state of Israel's inhumane approach to its realization, as anti-Semitism. There is no truth in this whatsoever. Zionism is not Judaism and the state of Israel does not stand for the Jews as a religious group - these days Israel only stands for a criminal regime that murders helpless people and breaks international law. This is not about religion, but about crimes against humanity committed by a sovereign state, by Israel, their criminal regime and all their henchmen.

  • Trump cosplaying
  • Back in 2016, I didn't understand how an extremely wealthy heir to a billion-dollar fortune (and regardless of all his business failures) could present himself as the candidate of the little people. Today, after Trump was president and - of course - only made policy changes for the rich, I understand it even less. What is this photo-op all about? Are there seriously still people who don't understand that Trump has never represented the middle class - or even the working class? You can't be serious, dear US citizens.

  • Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators
  • This reminds me of a story a friend who is a teacher recently told me: One of his students was so nervous during an oral exam that he could barely form a complete sentence. So the friend of mine, in consultation with the exam board, gave the poor guy a second chance on the same day - that didn't go particularly well either, but was enough to pass. The parents of the nervous student sued because this procedure did not comply with the examination regulations. They won and managed to get the exam repeated a third time - the examination board stayed unchanged. You can perhaps imagine how this went for the student, who was understandably all the more nervous the third time around. In the end, he didn't graduate, not because the examiners were vindictive, but because they had to grade the student purely based on his performance which wasn't good enough because the poor guy couldn't get a coherent sentence together again. If his parents hadn't sued, he would have graduated.

  • Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?
  • I know. I did not downvote and I really don't get why people feel the need to. Your comment is completely accurate - it makes no sense to impute any intentions to these people in disguise. My only point was that the people in the photo should not appear like that for the election in any case.

  • Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?
  • Be that as it may, people wearing masks or costumes have no place in a polling station.

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
  • Absolutely right. But the thing is that many so-called leaders will no longer have a raison d'être if there are no more unnecessary meetings and all that fuss. Many of them do nothing all day but sit in meetings, achieve nothing and still feel very important. That's the misery of the world of work: it's not usually the best who get into management positions, it's not the most qualified and certainly not the ones who work the hardest. It's the most unscrupulous, those who pass off the work of others as their own, people who would never achieve anything on their own or in a small company that can't afford to waste salaries on froth-mongers. LinkedIn makes it clear how this all works, I think: there, too, it is not the competent people who really understand their work who have the most success, it is the busybodies, the networkers and narcissists. If the competent people set the tone, there would be no discussion about office duties in an IT company. It's only held on to so that managers can live out their fantasies of omnipotence and post nonsense on LinkedIn.

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
  • Don't clog the toilets. It's not the c-suites who have to clean that up.

  • Kamala Harris shares full Trump clip after accusing Fox News of editing
  • Yes, years before he became president.

  • So LinkedIn shitposting seems to be a thing now
  • LinkedIn is nothing but shitposts for a long time.

  • EU panic as Donald Trump threatens trade war and 2,000% tariff
  • Trump and all those who vote for him are aware that China is one of the most important sales markets for the EU, right?

  • Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel
  • I'm just trying to suggest a somewhat reasonable solution. I don't think Israel could afford to keep this inhumane war going if they didn't have the support of the US. Let us also not forget that it was radical right-wing Zionists who assassinated Yitzchak Rabin, the Israeli politician who first credibly promised peace in the region. What I want to say is this: Violence and hatred cannot be a solution - this only leads to more violence and more hatred, more misery and more suffering.

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    Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al [1986]
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    The Firm - Affirmative Action
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    Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons

    A workers' song.

    This is a cover, but probably the most famous version. Original by Merle Travis.

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    Zapp & Roger - Computer Love [1985]
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    What's the strangest job title you've ever heard?

    For me, a random sales guy took the cake when he introduced himself as "Chief Innovation Evangelist".

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    East West Connection ft. Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges - The More I Get (Teddys House Groove)
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    The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again [1986]
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    Kurupt - On, Onsite
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