what’s a retart?

I came for the alas, stayed for the atlas.

Excuse me sir I think you dropped your monocle. (╭ರ_•́)

…fair enough. :-| Didn’t read it that way but I can see it.

No. The court is ordering the state to allow the necessary medical procedure, NOT mandating to the pregnant woman that she must have an abortion. You either need to read the article more closely, or stop changing the words into different meanings, whichever is relevant.

As an engr manager, I’ve often seen disparity as a result of being hired during good years vs bad years for the company. Or when someone gets a better offer to leave, the company may change their pay but no one else’s. Or hiring externally vs a transfer from another internal team. Or whether the team is coding for frontend web vs dev tools, even if using the same language. Or if female.

It’s always a challenge for one person to fix – with HR, with the department head, with yearly budget. And sometimes fixing one disparity means not having the sway to fix another as well.

Which is to say – pay transparency and unions are good for everyone. And if the company can’t afford to treat the employees equitably, then the company shouldn’t exist. (Or it should reduce its avocado toast budget.)

🎵 And Alice’s Restaurant. 🎶

Like the G in “gigantic”.

If you don’t laugh, you didn’t get it, but if you ONLY laugh, you didn’t get it.

I attended AA in a very liberal city (West Coast). The program is intimately religious, but many of the attendees (including myself) were deeply antireligious.

A common theme was people describing their alternate “higher power” – what we use to play the role of inspiration, support, aspiration, admonition, conscience, morale.

At the time, I viewed the community itself as mine. (Definitely influenced by my anabaptist tendencies – of all the christian strains, I still somewhat respect the community focus of liberation theology.)

Others used themselves, an inner voice. A common suggestion was to use a doorknob – the point being, the value comes from your internal attitude and reflection, not necessarily the target itself.

Anyway, your introspection reminds me of that general discussion.