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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
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People are still arguing masks work? Lmao ok. Well they definitely work in one regard - they tell us for sure the person is an NPC incapable of even the basic level of independent thought.

I'm also guessing anyone still wearing masks have preferred pronouns. So you all might as well go ahead and put those right on the mask.
 
All these ppl like @jameslee32 just keep getting more transphobic by the day. He's on here denying a marginalized community their identity, smh. Yesterday you guys said you cant question anything, today your throwing ppl in a dumpster bc they're different than you.

 
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Because something like this isn't quite as easy to find an answer through google:

I see facebook libs are moaning over Republicans voting against rail workers having paid sick leave.

But why do I get the sense that this isn't fully true, and that they are conveniently leaving parts out? Like, I've NEVER had ANY sick time at my jobs.. but I DID have "PTO" (Vacation time) anywhere from 3 to 5 weeks, which could be used for sick time as needed.

Anyone got a more fair description of what went down over this?
Most jobs have something like 15 PTO days, excluding holidays. 10 are usually vacation and 5 personal days. Most jobs will accrue those days and you can start taking them after 6 months. At my job after 5 years I got an extra 5 days of PTO but they did some sort of employee retention incentive last year that gives me an another 5 in 2023. I’ll basically have 4 weeks vacation to use next year.
 
Must be nice to get 95% healthcare AND juneteenth


Here's what the contract includes:

  • 6% wage increase to be paid in the first year
  • 4% wage increase in the second year
  • TARC will continue to pay for 95% of employee's health care premiums
  • Juneteenth added as a holiday
  • CDL reimbursement
  • Increased instructor pay
  • Increases in tool, shoe and uniform allowance
In reality, that’s not much. 10% raise over two years isn’t even keeping up with inflation. If someone is getting a CDL to drive TARC’s busses, then TARC damn well better pay for it. My work pays for me to keep and maintain licenses in all the states we do business in. They pay for my licenses, my professional organization dues and my continuing education requirements. And they allow me to get those CEU’s on company time. Typically I do webinars while I work for most of them.
 
Yeah I get that the railroad companies will take a hit if they give out 2 weeks of sick pay. And that's another topic. I guess I'm wondering: don't the rail workers have PTO they can use? That was my point: I feel like this is typical liberal spin. Make everyone think the Rail workers don't have days to take off.

.. however, I'd like to KNOW this to be true.. Because if it is indeed true that Rail workers don't get time off, well that's a problem. And I'd finger-wag at the repubs who voted against this.
My dad was a railroad worker for 30+ years as a switchman. Dude had like 6 weeks or more of PTO by the time he retired.
 
Lord Fauci even said no one needs to be wearing masks out and about. They’re for healthcare settings specifically surgery where patients are opened up. Hence the name : surgical masks.

They protect the patient from the surgeon spitting bacteria into an open wound, not the surgeon from whatever virus the patient might be breathing out.

It's very WELL understood by SCIENCE! that a mask (except for a fitted n95) can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent you from catching a highly contagious respiratory virus in the air.
 
You mean Kavanaugh sides with Americans while the rest of the conservative bench sided with their corporate overlords. This should have been a unanimous decision against apple. Their is no sane world where they are not responsible for what they sell on their app store. Hopefully he also rules against apple in the monopolized repair case.
 
You asked for one. Here is one. It's from the NIH. They probably don't know anything and probably not good enough for "Science Guy".


Conclusion: Face mask use in health care workers has not been demonstrated to provide benefit in terms of cold symptoms or getting colds.

There are many others, I'm looking at another one right now from AJPH and a 3rd from CIDRAP (U of Minn). If you want to find them, they are out there. You are too close-minded to look.

You asked for one. I gave you 3.
Masks are ignorant. How many times do people actually wash them or dispose of the ones that are intended for one time use? People cough, breath and sneeze their germy spittle into them, then constantly fiddle with them and adjust them, therefore getting those germs on their hands and spreading it around everywhere they touch. Masks are gross.
 
They protect the patient from the surgeon spitting bacteria into an open wound, not the surgeon from whatever virus the patient might be breathing out.

It's very WELL understood by SCIENCE! that a mask (except for a fitted n95) can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent you from catching a highly contagious respiratory virus in the air.

Absolutely correct
 
0% chance people like dion/Sam/Jimlee are wearing masks in public at this very moment in time. But, they sure sound virtuous on the anonymous message board.

They know it’s stupid. That’s why they don’t wear one in real life. But, they can’t allow themselves to admit they were duped by our tyrant political/bureaucratic class.

Hurts their argument for more government when that same government are proven liars.
 
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0% chance people like dion/Sam/Jimlee are wearing masks in public at this very moment in time. But, they sure sound virtuous on the anonymous message board.

They know it’s stupid. That’s why they don’t wear one in real life. But, they can’t allow themselves to admit they were duped by our tyrant political/bureaucratic class.

Hurts their argument for more government when that same government are proven liars.


I don’t think the percent is 0. They are truly gullible and stupid people.
 
This really goes to show that if you own the information wave and are the only one who gets to hold the microphone, you can convince a good portion of the country of the craziest shit.

Amplify this crazy stuff, convince people this is "normal" and mock those who call out the ridiculousness.

We have a huge crazy problem in this country and it's showcased every day on social media, with people that have blue/green/purple hair, and still wear masks.
 
I am as sorry as I can be for the families of the uvalde shooting but I would not force the gun maker to give them a penny. You can’t seriously force the maker of a legal product to be responsible for the actions of a deranged person, who bought the gun legally.

Why not sue the manufacturer of a knife used to stab someone?
Why not sue food companies for heart disease?

I'll tell ya what, if we can do this, we should be able to sue or imprison politicians who let in violent criminals and do the same to activist DAs who let out violent criminals who go on to hurt citizens.
 
My dad was a railroad worker for 30+ years as a switchman. Dude had like 6 weeks or more of PTO by the time he retired.

Awesome, good info and thanks.

So then to me, this isn't a huge deal that they don't have a secondary bank of "sick time".

I work tech for a Non for Profit and I only get like 4 weeks of PTO with ZERO sick time.

I'd be curious what sort of PTO one of these rail workers get when they start their employment.
 
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However.. the issue seems to be that rail workers must put in for PTO days or even weeks in advanced.. which kind of negates the ability to take a "sick day".

So that's something you'd like to see changed for them, in a feasible way. Let them use 5 of their PTO days as "sick days" to be taken without notice.

But of course, the left is making this out to be that the rail workers don't get time off.
 
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A Coronabro will always be a coward, and a medical tyrant.

That's SCIENCE DUDES problem.

He is a coward.

Craven.
They laughed at Copernicus....scoffed at Sir Issac Newton....ridiculed Mendel...dismissed Darwin...and immigrated Einstein.
Like many scientists before me...my theories and support for science will be proven correct and held in esteem by future CatsIllustrated3000 posters. 😉
 
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