According to the union, on average, each worker will receive almost $11,000 in back pay. One worker is set to receive more than $145,000.

You won’t believe this, but I found it in the OP’s article. Wild. Also:

“The primary underpayment that we first uncovered related to misclassification, so workers being paid in many cases level one in the retail award when, in fact, they should have been paid level three, four or five,” Mr Peak said.

"For some workers, that represented up $5 an hour that they were being paid below the legal minimum.

“It also went to the mis-payment [sic] of a range of allowances [such as] not being paid cold work allowances, not being paid the uniform allowance, or uniforms weren’t being provided to them as they should be under the award.”

Not German, but close enough - there’s usually at least one bus within walkable distance, even if it’s only like 4 times a day or something, that connects to a larger hub.

I lived in a place where I had to be by the bus stop at 7h30. If I missed that I’d have to wait for the next at 8h15, and if I missed that one, I’d better call to say I wasn’t able to go that day.

However, in smaller towns and in the countryside, with no cars, life is so different to the frenetic chaos of big cities that it’s hard to put into words.

For science?

You’re still thinking in a context where the earth is travelling around the sun, etc etc.

If you assume the Earth as the reference point, then that is fixed, absolutely frozen, doesn’t move at all. That’s point zero.

You cannot calculate where the earth is. What you do is calculate where everything else, the universe itself and even other dimensions, are with regards to your fixed point.

This can feel counterintuitive, but here’s a random visualization: https://youtube.com/shorts/UZyuZVvCE78

Note that, in that video, only the perspective has changed. The solar system is moving as usual.

Are you perhaps experiencing a fever, discomfort or itching at the bite site, and a sudden and inexplicable fear of water?

Because it’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen such a nonsensical, aggressive response to an innocuous comment…

You’re a witch with flowers in your hair and a bound demon prince, why would you choose to live as a wage slave?

Is this a book? If not, someone needs to write it ASAP.

That’s outright disgusting.

If you need to regularly scratch your anus, go see a doctor.

Also, even if you do need to scratch your anus, why wouldn’t you be able to eat with your hands? SURELY you sanitize them properly RIGHT? RIGHT?!

Relevant username

Relevant username.

Fair point, but still better than wasting a nuclear power plant worth of electricity to solve math homework with an LLM

This can’t possibly be real right?

For all I can see, the dude could have asked Gronk “format the following text into a top 10 list”, and screenshot the result.

Is there something more concrete?

Mass tourism.

Mass tourism is a cancer that needs to be irradiated from any proper city. That shit brings very little money, and mobs of unruly, uneducated dimwits that think they own someone’s soul because they spent €5 on a couple of the cheapest drinks on the menu.

Well played by these two bros.

Making them waste time and resources with nothing to show for it, plus standing up for those who can’t. Respect.

How liberating it must be to just dump everything single thing on “god’s will”, and have to worry about nothing, ever.

It’s fucking depressing… This isn’t even about religion, it’s about untreated, likely even undiagnosed, mental illness.

It does work, but it’s harder to pull off because you need to give a short, relatable reason along with a negative (if not immediately obviously).

If you reply that you’re stressed but you leave it at that, the other person won’t know if they should ask you about it or not. If they do, they might be getting into a much harder, longer conversation than they were expecting to.
But if they don’t ask, then they will feel like they’re being rude, because you’re supposed to help out other people if they’re not well, so either way it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for them.

If you offer something like “stressed, finals are coming up”, then they can keep the conversation going by asking you about it, or they can just move on by wishing you luck or something to that effect and move on.

I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.

People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.

It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.

I share this view. It was so nonsensical that it was actually funny and memorable.

Brought to you by the Young Earth creationist crowd.

American independence was NOT to stop “shamelessly enriching the elites”. It was about a different set of elites being able to shamelessly enrich themselves.

Prove me wrong.