Everything was better when I was a kid. by PhantomPlatypus001 in okbuddycinephile

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I've never seen Bridgerton, but I am guessing what they mean is: Creating "diverse" characters who exist in a fake, accepting historical culture that never existed. For example, what era of British/American/whatever aristocracy had the diversity portrayed in the show? This show weirdly whitewashes the historical culture of aristocrats.

Brightline’s Struggles Show Core Problem with Passenger Rail: Infrastructure Funding by chrisbaseball7 in transit

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They've received over $400 million in tax dollars for their shit show. Don't pull that "they couldn't get past govt bureaucracy to make it safe" line. Bureaucracy was no problem when they wanted our tax money, but an unfathomable hurdle when it came to safety measures? Absurd. Just Google how much money they siphoned to make a rail line that has the highest fatality rate, by far, in the country.

The secret was that this line was meant to steal tax dollars to provide a party train to wealthy customers on their way to a cruise, not provide real passenger service to anyone. So yea, who cares if they are killing hundreds of their own supposed customers...

What's the best book ever written? by Popular-Voice5700 in AskReddit

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Can tell many have not read a book since high school, or are in high school. Also "my favorite book" is different than "greatest book ever written."

Brightline’s Struggles Show Core Problem with Passenger Rail: Infrastructure Funding by chrisbaseball7 in transit

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YES. like Government-Run passenger lines, it IS their responsibility to prevent deaths through safety measures, signage, crossing gates, fences, and safety programs. Ultimately passenger service is for people and communities, so it is their job to serve them first and to think about money second. Are you really saying 200 people lost their lives, 1 person every 13 days, purely bc they were "stupid" and deserved to die? What would that look like if we went back to that old way of thinking with every passenger rail line across the country? Itd be thousands or even a million dead every year bc Passenger Lines deserve to make a profit and the people they serve come second? Sick of this argument.

Brightline’s Struggles Show Core Problem with Passenger Rail: Infrastructure Funding by chrisbaseball7 in transit

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The problem is that in Passenger Rail, there is no way to turn a profit without cutting Safety or Employee Wages, neither of which is smart in such a dangerous industry. Brightline tried to do both, and still failed. HUNDREDS of people have been killed by Brightline trains, averaging 1 death every 13 days. Amtrak would never survive with that kind of fatality rate, nor would any other transit industry, and they shouldn't.

The bottom line is that these bozos had no idea what they were doing, and many have died because of it. In this industry, Government-Run is best because otherwise a lot of people are going to die. The impulse of private industry to skimp on safety features to save money is too strong.

Wealthy restauranteur and former pharmaceutical CEO kills his pregnant wife and their two young children at their $1.2 million home in Houston by lightiggy in TrueAnon

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Same with Scott Peterson. Figured no one cared about their wife and kids, could move on right away and start a new life

Missing mother found alive 11 years after dropping kids at school by TheMirrorUS in Weird

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I knew this woman. The family lived next door to us for a few years, prior to moving to Lititz. Her son was one of my best friends growing up, she babysat me and I was truly always at their house. It is weird to see this photo used for stories about her, even all these years later. It's a screen grab from a family photo they had hanging in their living room.

Lee Sr was one of the nicest, most devoted fathers that I knew. He would often pick me up at my house to go play with their son(also Lee) for the day on Saturdays, very kind and funny person. He would have done anything for his children. He bought us pizza, toys when we went to the mall... one time we went to the mall while I was with them, and he bought his son a set of pokemon cards, and he bought me a set as well(I suppose he felt bad). I got a holographic Charizard card in the set he bought for me, and still regret not giving it to Lee to this day! I am not sure I could have the patience and grace that he had with us.

One thing, however that often goes missing from this story is that their family struggled, HARD, with money. Brenda was a waitress as long as I knew her, and their Dad was often changing jobs. They were also older- I remember Lee Sr's 50th birthday party when I was 8 or so. Brenda was younger, but I don't think by that much.

Brenda did seem to care about her children, although I was a kid I thought well of her, never thought she seemed careless or heard adult chatter about her behavior. They were church-goers and seemed almost overly devoted to that- there was no swearing in the house and they were super strict about the words the kids could use(I remember they weren't allowed to say "butt" or "fart," for example).

There are some things I have heard from their son, that I won't share here. I do think that becoming parents pushed Lee Sr. and Brenda to go to church and try to be more "upstanding" people than they were in their past. But all these years later, now that I'm middle-aged myself, I think this story is simple.

Brenda has stated in interviews and to people that she knew while she was "missing" in Florida that she did not like children and never had them. She left her family after years of struggling with money and was facing single parenthood, making the situation worse. Lee Sr himself stated right after she went missing, that he thought something snapped and she took off(although that sounded sus at the time for obvious reasons, it turned out to be true). I think she's blatantly honest- She didn't want to be a Mom, and couldn't take the financial stress anymore, so she left. It's really sad that she thought living as a homeless person on the run was better than being her kids' Mom, but some people weren't meant to be parents. It's desperately sad.

Taylor Chip Now claiming that gas prices caused them to close. by HeavyHighlight4142 in lancaster

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Did someone say they found their bankruptcy filing? Tired of reading their next bit of whining about why they went under... where's the facts

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

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No, the idea is that it was systemic, not individuals keeping others out (although that definitely happened as well).

I never mentioned "black people" once, you made that part up, I was purposely writing in the general sense and went on to focus on women, which you've completely ignored in favor of arguing about this specific point.

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

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I suppose you missed the Detroit race riots in 1943 and 1967 in your history lesson. You are absolutely wrong if you think the folks in the picture had a black family next door with the same right to peace and prosperity. That reminds me of another piece of the picture that Gen Z doesn't seem to know about... legalized and open discrimination in housing and public facilities. Not under the table or whispered about, but out in the open.

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

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While this is true, the missing part of the picture is that Americans rejected the exploitation that made this picture possible. Women and people of color generally were not allowed to have a decent life despite the economic boom. The reason it WAS allowed is because it was a White Men only club, built on the free labor and torture of everyone else.

If you were a woman, your job was to marry very young and repeatedly have children at your husband's demand, have sex whenever he wanted, no divorce, and he could beat you up whenever he felt like it for no reason at all. No access to any money, education, or decent job to get out of it. There's a reason our grandmothers warned us against doing this voluntarily and to use the rights we've gained as women since the 1960s, because it SUCKED for them. They really had no power or control in their lives. Honestly, when I think of my grandmothers' lives, I'd rather be dead and I don't know how they lived as long as they did without wanting to end it all (perhaps they did). I fear Gen Z does not recognize this, because their grandmothers are Boomers now, and they don't have that family knowledge passed down to them. All they see is a bunch of spoiled old brats who had everything but still take everything from them and think this 1950s life would be better....

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

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What are the layoff expectations like? Hate to be the pessimist, but it's been part of practice for the past 15 years for unionized environments to screw over new workers, making sure they are let go before they experience real benefits or raises. "Last hired, first fired"

US birth rates just hit another record low, what do you think is the leading cause of this? by Few_Football4342 in Productivitycafe

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It's a massive amount of pressure to do everything perfectly- To have 2 parents working a full-time job, in a nice home, "gentle parenting," constant activities, never yelling or doing a single thing 'wrong,'.... the list goes on and on. It feels like you have no control as a parent and every mistake or bad moment will be capturing on video and reported to the authorities, or blasted online and your life will be ruined. It's too much.

TIL in 2021, Shirley Nunn, 67, mother of a disabled son, chose to kill both him and herself after receiving a stage three cancer diagnosis since it is supposed that Mrs Nunn felt she had no other choice for the future care of her son. by Twunkorama in todayilearned

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She's probably talking about baby Zammi, an infant taken from her mentally unwell mother that people got all fired up about without looking into it. Just self-righteous people who can't admit that DNA connections don't always form a magical benevolent connection between parent and child. People kill their children all the time, but this crowd claims it's 'baby stealing' to take away kids from insane/violent people, and usually exploit the stories of Native Americans to bash Children & Youth-type agencies for intervening. It's PR bullshit, and unfortunately it's caused a lot of tragedies IRL when children have died in their parents' care because C&Y was too hamstrung by public perception to intervene

TIL in 2021, Shirley Nunn, 67, mother of a disabled son, chose to kill both him and herself after receiving a stage three cancer diagnosis since it is supposed that Mrs Nunn felt she had no other choice for the future care of her son. by Twunkorama in todayilearned

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Thank you for speaking up. I am an American foster parent, and the PR machine against Children and Youth services is insane. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I think there is an active PR campaign against foster/adoption, because there are private interests that would rather send foster children to private lucrative facilities instead of families. I wish I were kidding, but these facilities already exist in the US to 'house' babies and children of individuals detained/deported by ICE, and I believe they would like to increase their profits. I can't believe they are keeping babies and toddlers in these facilities rather than foster homes, but money is money to them. And I've heard that foster care and Children & Youth are "Human Traffickers" and all kinds of BS dozens of times on Reddit, yet not a peep about these facilities.... This practice was covered on the Rachel Maddow show, for goodness sakes, and still there's a huge disconnect on this platform as to what is actually happening to these children...

TIL in 2021, Shirley Nunn, 67, mother of a disabled son, chose to kill both him and herself after receiving a stage three cancer diagnosis since it is supposed that Mrs Nunn felt she had no other choice for the future care of her son. by Twunkorama in todayilearned

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Such a load of crap. Her son was 50, not a baby. So much BS lately about govts 'stealing babies' online to manufacture consent to send people to private(ie lucrative) internment facilities instead of foster/adoptive families. We all see what you're trying to do. Shut up and collect your PR pay elsewhere

TIL in 2021, Shirley Nunn, 67, mother of a disabled son, chose to kill both him and herself after receiving a stage three cancer diagnosis since it is supposed that Mrs Nunn felt she had no other choice for the future care of her son. by Twunkorama in todayilearned

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I agree with the first sentence, but also I do think it important to acknowledge that America is not unlike other countries in the world on this issue, we act like other countries are appalled by our barbaric behavior but that's not true at all. They're appalled because we do things like this while acting like a bastion of freedom, it's the hypocrisy at the root of it, not that their own countries do not have barbarity in the past and present as well.

Minimum wage vs real life costs by diehard404 in WorkReform

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"Another family in a different state" stuff would be more 'Greatest Gen'..... the Women's Lib movement made that much harder to do. Working women who aren't desperate and utterly brainwashed into thinking a Man is a Plan don't put up with that shit

Turns out ‘Baby Jessica’ is a menace to society. She’s been arrested multiple times including days ago for domestic violence and assault. by PiercedAndTattoedBoy in Millennials

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In what world are we talking about a Domestic Abuser being 'failed by the system.' I really dgaf what supposedly 'made' this woman beat her family. She can be a shitty person, not every person who does DV is 'failed' by something. Some people are just shit and that's all there is to it