You should REALLY look a bit deeper into those things in which you truly believe. IF you took an honest look into that and SUPPOSING you had the ability and capacity to think reasonable and logically, you would see that is YOU that lives in fantasy.

How about this? A test. Let us test for a realistic grasp of reality. Tell me, which party is MOST responsible for the highly controversial, bipartisan, FIRST STEP Act, House bill, H.R. 5682? Are the Republicans most responsible or the Democrats?


As for "insults", is any of these things you label as insults really an insult? How can the t***h be an insult?

@Blade:

Pretty darned... I think I woulda remembered actually discrediting it off hand...




I don't know about you but that doesn't look like a discrediting to me, more of a "meh, not in my lifetime". Of course that doesn't negate the possibility that I am mistaken. Let's have a poll, who thinks that was me trying to discredit the laws of probability and who thinks that looks more like I was showing a lack of concern since I considered it unlikely to happen during MY lifetime, or any of the rest of OPP posters' lifetimes as well? If you think I was trying to discredit the laws of probability with that one statement, post as response "Discredit" otherwise post "Meh". This could be a fun experiment to see how honestly people answer that question.

Let the poll begin.






Edit: Please answer honestly, it looks better and we get a more accurate result that way.

Good thing she hesitated, I woulda missed Bugs..."I musta made a wrong turn at Albuquerque"...

Practice reading comprehension, I made no attempt to disprove it, I merely stated we have time left.

Sorry, not my thing. Besides, I would NEVER remember how to log into any additional accounts...

Yes, even with my piss poor memory, I do remember SOME posters.

Interesting... Though to be honest, I kinda like the name SSDD. But please, tell me more in case I lose interest in SSDD.





PS. Never mind, I went exploring and found, but it looks as though all paths lead through admin.

Perhaps they "lurked" wrong. You lurk, THEN you create account...

Admin changes usernames? Did not know this.

That or that dirty SOAB SSDD is a dirty, dirty lurker/stalker. Stalker much SSDD?

SSDD: Who? Me?

*SSDD quickly hiding night vision binoculars with built in still/motion digital camera behind his back*

SSDD: I would never!

If that were so, guess what, we have had that all along, for the most part. The amount of v***r f***d is, and has been for quite some decades negligible, at least in the national e******ns. Also, IF that were what ALL conservatives really wanted, then why so many Trumplican's committing v***r f***d in 2020? There were many cases in 2020 of Trumplicans v****g in the names of dead loved ones and many tried to v**e more than once even in their own name. Of course even those were negligible, they weren't nearly enough to sway the e******n.

Even the numerous attempts to restrict v****g perpetrated by the GOP failed to sway the results by enough to hand Trump the win. There was v**er roll purges shortly before e******n, gerrymandering, reducing the number of polling places and shortening the hours, sabotaging the USPS by DeJoY, reduced number of drop boxes, the GOP even ran a sham campaign for "Independent" Kanye West. Perhaps a better more sound plan for the GOP to try to win would be to actually have a platform on which to run, and let's not stop there, make the platform popular by not screwing the working class to enrich corporate America and the top 1%. I would bet THAT might be popular.

Of the developed world, WE are the least friendly to the working class. Our working class do not get the time off or the vacations that other developed nation's working class get nor do we have universal healthcare that the rest of the developed nations have. We also have one of the greatest wage gaps in the developed world.



Reference Section:



Verified v***r f***d:

https://apnews.com/article/v**er-fraud-e******n-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f

https://medium.com/discourse/v**er-fraud-occurred-in-2020-e******n-a82c71dfc071


Yes, v***r f***d occurred, but it was Trumplicans committing these acts and they failed to significantly sway the e******n in Trump's favor.



Unverified, false claims of v***r f***d:


https://www.bbc.com/news/e******n-us-2020-55016029

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/evidence-actually-rudy-giuliani-v**er-fraud/ (This article "claims" verified cases but only presents allegations via sworn affidavits which ARE NOT evidence of ACTUAL crimes, merely an allegation of criminal activity which can either be mistaken or even deliberately false)


False claims are just that, false and/or unproven.



Time off/Vacation time:


https://time.com/4620759/european-american-work-life-balance/

https://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-countries-where-people-work-the-longest-hours/

https://clockify.me/working-hours

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-other-countries-are-s_n_5127495

https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/countries-where-working-hours-are-least-in-the-world-1510040682-1


More time off and/or vacation time? Yes, please

Studies, listed below, AND in practice, have shown that it makes the worker more well rested, happier AND more productive. That is wins across the board if you ask me, both for the worker AND for the employer. How can we go wrong there?



Studies:


https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/crunchmode/econ-hours-productivity.html

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-10-24-happy-workers-are-13-more-productive

https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/new_study_shows/

https://hbr.org/2015/07/the-research-weve-ignored-about-happiness-at-work


Why aren't employers listening to these studies? If they did, they would see marked increases in profitability. The more productive the worker, the more they PRODUCE in the same amount of time which means same pay, more product for more profit.if a company or corporation manufactures more product per hour, IF they do not raise the workers' pay per hour, which history has shown they likely wouldn't, that means they will stand to make more profit overall. It has been pointed out that post WW II, workers' pay has not kept up with the increase in productivity over the years, following WW II meaning that worker pay is lagging severely. It is said that IF wages had kept up with the increases in productivity over that same period of time, the minimum wage would be in the area of about $24 - $25 today.

IS that our current minimum wage? Do MINIMUM WAGE workers make roughly $50,000.00 per year? THAT is why the wag gap keeps increasing, THAT is PART of the reason American workers are so unhappy and can barely make ends meet. IF the minimum wage HAD kept up with increases in worker productivity, the higher income brackets would have likewise increased and workers wouldn't be struggling so hard to keep up with expenses and childcare costs, if any would be far more manageable. In the past, families would typically have one parent "bringing home the bacon" and the other, typically the woman, staying at home and "keeping house", raising the children, getting the shopping out of the way and cooking dinner.

Now, whether that stay at home side of things remained as a "woman's thing" or if it varied from household to household, does not matter. The point was that it USED to be possible for most households to manage living on a single income WITHOUT government assistance, try doing that today without a higher income bracket job requiring years worth of higher education and the expense that goes along with that. The expense of a higher education has outpaced the increases in wages, the increase in productivity has outpaced the increase in wages and the cost of living has outpaced the increase in wages... Bottom line, prepare to marry your job, 'til death do you part...

There IS a better way but corporate America isn't interested in it EVEN IF it WILL likely improve profit margins or at the very least, remain about the same overall. Happier, better rested, more satisfied workers. Better pay and/or better more time away from work.

Better wages can increase profitability in that IF the workers can afford what they want/need with perhaps a bit extra to put away for a rainy day, they loosen the purse strings and purchase that which they need but could not otherwise afford to buy living paycheck to paycheck. More people buying more of what they want/need increases demand, increased demand means more sales. Workers are happier now and less stressed which makes them more productive so the increased demand MAY NOT necessitate increased workforce, but IF increased workforce IS needed, more consumers produced. Wow, mind blowing... What looks good on paper doesn't always have the same impact in practice, on paper, decreased wages LOOK like increased profit margins, not necessarily in practice though as lower wages, less happy workers.



Basically, the Republicans AND the Democrats should both want the same thing, happier more productive workers for an improved American economy and then maybe, just maybe, the GOP would have a more v**er friendly platform...



Note: I didn't mention health care in the breakdown, healthier workers ALSO increase productivity... Whoulda thunk it?

We are the green bar furthest to the right.

I am not the one living in a fantasy world. Hey... wait... You are right. I COULD be living in a fantasy world too. Boy wouldn't that be the life? I could make it anything I wanted it to be...

Ah, but then I am sure reality would creep back in, I am not imaginative enough or crazy enough to pull that one off. You people sure do have it lucky...

It's called "lurking". Many people do it for varying lengths of time BEFORE signing up. IF lurking isn't allowed, OPP should make it to where we can't read UNTIL we sign up.

Sometimes with the craziness of so many here on OPP, I think I should have just moved along and NOT bothered signing up. I did see the insanity, the detachment from reality well BEFORE I signed up, yet here we are... So many on here just don't live in reality.

10^4 works well, easy to read with no confusion, that or "10 raised to the power of four" but 10^4 is less typing and very concise. Makes it easy to read and understand where the writer is going with their equation.

Wasn't my joke, I passed it along myself, go ahead. It was a good one.