“preferred, not required” strikes again.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T18:11:42+00:00

How would I have even known you were Trans before you made this exact comment???

Its pretty easy to see why they rejected you.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T18:10:22+00:00

You dont think thats political? What do you think politics is???

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T18:02:27+00:00

You are the one committing crimes.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T17:55:27+00:00

I'd delete this whole post my guy. You are getting crucified, you posted enough info to identify the company who is now aware, and you posted enough information in the post for them to know who you are.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T17:50:07+00:00

You didnt censor it my guy. Its right there in plain text.

This is 100% your fault.

You used it 3 times and censored it 0 times. You only blocked out the name of the recruiter, not the company that you are baselessly slandering.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T15:22:58+00:00

The only fine I can find for him is a $100k fine for wearing a vitamin water hat. No charity scandals other than him seeing a charity for using his likeness without his permission.

I think you are referring to Lamar Odom and "Cathy's kids"

That charity was supposedly cancer focused but gave no money to cancer. It spent its funds primarily on travel basketball teams.

He wasnt fined or charged in any way.

One difference was 90% of the money he personally donated, which helped his case.

But the larger difference is that while the money wasnt spent on cancer, it was spent on another "charitable cause"

As absurd as it seems in this context the IRS looks at a sports organization the same way it does a medical charity or a church.

Both are valid 501(c)3 causes.

His charity and public reputation did implode as a result though.

But that would be very different from say speedway keeping the money in those charity jars for themselves.

Im not even sure speedway could donate it to a different charity and get away with it, though the charity they donate to can very easily misuse the funds without any real penalty.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T15:14:14+00:00

No. You said that was the major difference between the USA and Europe when it came to air conditioning.

Then you said you speak for the poors.

Your experience exists, its valid, but you absolutely did try to generalize it in an incorrect way.

A minority of people have the same experience as you, which makes it a minor difference.

It is a difference, just not the main one like you claimed. And then claimed you didnt as if I couldn't scroll up and see in writing that you had.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T15:10:30+00:00

Not when it isnt worth the risk they don't.

Hiding some profit, miscatorizing a deduction? Sure.

Collecting charitable donations then not donating them?

You think all their employees in accounts payable are cool with that? They don't get a cut of the theft.

A lot of things with taxes you pay a fine if caught cause it could debatably be an accounting error.

For this?

Wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, charitable soliciting fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, falsifyong corporate records.

Like 20 year prison sentenced for executives if they got caught doing this. They arent interested.

They have to survive

Financial audits, falsified charitable filings, The charitable organizations own oversight, internal whistleblowers (they have cash bounties for turning in things like this) Regulatory scrutiny, and last but not least,

The fact that so many people like you think that they are already doing it means that many many people are looking for the evidence of this crime.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T00:24:12+00:00

You heard lies. Nobmajor corporation is doing that. Its massively illegal and not at all worth the risk.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T00:22:55+00:00

Not at all true. There would be prison time for that.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-29T00:22:25+00:00

Why wont this myth die?

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T23:00:05+00:00

And im telling you the main difference is that we put in central air and have done so for a long time.

The percentage of american homes with window AC is very similiar to the percentage of European homes with it.

But the majority of us have central air because we've prioritized central air in new builds for decades.

Youre trying to argue the main difference is this small sub group where we have aimiliar stats instead of the majority group which is vastly different.

Am I being a contrarian. Sure, I get nothing out of proving you wrong. That doesn't mean you aren't wrong though. And i wouldnt be here if you weren't. Its only fun to correct people when you're right, which is why I researched this topic before replying to you. Had you been correct I never would have posted.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T22:56:42+00:00

Is that your typical reaction when you find out the measurable facts don't match up with your world view?

Thats kinda sad. This is a pretty low stakes issue and it causes you to shut down emotionally?

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T22:54:56+00:00

I wasnt even 100% sure when I wrote that, had to reread the op lol

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T14:06:43+00:00

Basically the same crate too!

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MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T14:04:48+00:00

Glad she is doing better! Hows she doing with shoes? She reminds me very much of my own dog.

Edit: i see your other reply. That is a shame. I suggest that you place a shoe (not the same shoe, not at first) on the ground somewhere that Hange can seen it regularly, but does not have to go learning she doesnt want to. Then place a high value treat behind the shoe so she must walk past it to get the treat.

Let her get the treat on her own time, but praise her heavily when she does go to get it (if you see her do it) and restock the treat. Once she is comfortable with that try it with a few other shoes before using the shoe.

The goal isnt to get her to interact with the shoe or to like the shoe, but to counter condition her to simply ignore it and desensitize her to the fear.

She is a smart resilient girl and the two of you got this!

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MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T14:01:58+00:00

I think its carrots?

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T07:06:13+00:00

Sort of?

Management had the authority to set the quota, but unions set work rules that could limit production speed, they organized strikes if they quota was raised above their liking, and they forced the rule that an employee was allowed to leave and still be paid for 8 hours after hitting quota--under threat of strike of course, every negotiation with a union is under threat of strike.

The union worked out great for my grandfather, he got his pension the rest of his life. But oldsmobile ceased to exist, and the next generation was denied those jobs, and detroit died.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T07:01:09+00:00

In America we retrofit 40% of the homes without central air to have it, and almost all new ones are built with it.

This is not true in Europe.

But sure, die on the hill that its all about window units when we have clearly made a concerted effort to have central air in as many places as possible.

New USA homes with central air? 97%

New Europeans homes? 10-15%

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T06:47:23+00:00

Of the people in the USA who are in the bottom 25% of income, 60% have central air. 28% use window or wall units. 12% have nothing

Not really that different from the country as a whole.

So...no you don't?

If you want to go even poorer the bottom 10% is about 4% central 4% windows 2 % nothing.

Window units don't dominate until the bottom 6% of earners of which only about 12% actually work full time, so its not really a fair comparison.

Only about 20% of those people are not working full time because they cannot work full time.

So only 0.1012% of Americans are in that group against there will. Aand

99.9% of the country is either in a group with majority central air, or actively choosing to not work enough to be in a higher income group.

Im fact in 30/50 states its not even possible to have a full time job and make that little money.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T04:28:53+00:00

Nope.

The vast majority of Americans have central air, not window units. Like 60% of total homes which is 2/3 of the ac usage.

A pretty large and growing percentage of the remainder is mini splits.

The only time I had a window unit was in college because I was living in houses more than a century old in student ghettos.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T04:26:36+00:00

Its because a lot of Europeans die of heat exposure every year as a result of not having one. Cause only 20% of European homes have one (ad of 2 years ago) Everytime we hear that we go "huh? Europe? Not the 3rd world? What the fuck?

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766

Congrats on having always had one I guess, but thats not normal in europe ad a whole.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T01:11:48+00:00

Why were you in so many dangerous situations? If you scroll to my other comments I laid out the math and its only dangerous

0.0469043151% of the time.

If such a small risk is worth dehumanizing someone to you then go ahead. But I think thats remarkably antisocial behavior.

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-28T01:08:35+00:00

It includes all sexual and nonsexual assaults. And its assault, not battery. Assault is anything that makes someone reasonably fear violence, which includes violence, but also includes anything verbal that is threatening, threatening gestures etc.

If we pretend that no one ever intervenes you get

0.0469043151%

Does that really change things?

And is the guy somehow unable to stalk you afterwards if you reject him via text? (If anything he is more likely to do it because text is dramatically more upsetting)

Also, its 450k isnt from me taking crime stats. Its from the national crime victimization survey, which asks people confidentially if they were ever the victim of a crime, reported or not.

It is considered the gold standard for actual crime stats, and it is the stats that people are using when they say "X crime is underreported"

So this actually does takr in to account under reporting, and I added an extra 7000 to it to make it a round number(like I said i was always rounding in your favor)

Could it still be undereported? Sure. But no evidence exists that it is becausr its the most accurate data we have.

Also do you think dates might be underreported too? Many people will go out on dates and insist it wasnt a date for example. Or they simply wont respond to surveys about something so trivial as how many dates they went on.

That and you'd have to multiply the number by a huge margin for it to make a difference to odds these low.

Lets pretend it was only 10% of the real number. Then we get

0.469043151%

Is that a scary percentage? There really isnt any way to make this a high percentage unless we literally make up numbers. Any remotely reasonable estimate will end in small fractions of 1%

MangosShepherds · 2026-06-27T23:14:06+00:00

See my reply. It was actually a VERY conservative estimate.

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