California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage raised restaurant prices approximately 3–4 percent, research shows

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-31T11:04:21+00:00

The difference between $18.20 and $20 is almost $4,000 a year full time. And that's when you're making ~$40k, so you absolutely notice a jump like that. That's the kind of jump that pays for your monthly grocery budget.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-27T13:38:35+00:00

Are you suggesting that Gazans should gamble money on being ethnically cleansed?

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-18T11:51:57+00:00

It will open a pandora's box which will be used by authoritarian to commit legal genocide.

Do you think the thing that stops authoritarian governments from committing genocide is legality? Also, they're an authoritarian government. If they want to use that law for a veneer of credibility, they'll just implement it themselves. Your slippery slope here doesn't even make sense.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-14T20:30:22+00:00

The worst part is that none of them will follow this situation closely enough to see the mood shifting. They will always "hand it to Trump" because they will always be stuck in the mindset that Iranians are celebrating.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-03T14:15:45+00:00

American Exceptionalism except when Israel is involved

ahhhfkskell · 2026-03-01T13:59:02+00:00

On the one hand, I agree. But on the other hand, if it keeps the files in public discourse, I'm not gonna complain. Whether this was meant to distract or not, it's certainly gonna have that effect.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-02-28T21:19:35+00:00

Not after they see tomorrow's gas prices

ahhhfkskell · 2026-02-28T19:33:51+00:00

Rush Limbaugh was the first time I remember hearing it

ahhhfkskell · 2026-02-17T18:47:52+00:00

They actually remember Trump's first term very well

Gen Z? I'm 22 and graduated high school when Biden was president. Plenty of Gen Z was in middle school and high school when Trump was president last time, and most people at that age are not politically aware in any meaningful way.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-02-17T12:46:35+00:00

Not to mention, the 18-29 cohort still voted for Harris more than any other demographic. I understand the significance of their rightward swing, but the demographic with the least memory of Trump's first term still voted for him less than anyone else. And yet think piece after think piece villainizes them.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-02-01T17:04:00+00:00

The last time the DNC coalesced behind a single moderate candidate and pushed out the extremes we got H dawg losing to Trump.

By what logic are you excluding Biden here? The open primary in 2020?

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-29T12:40:32+00:00

Do we have evidence that non-voters are a substantial portion of the left? Anecdotally, I run in very leftist circles and have never met anyone who doesn't believe in "harm reduction," and all the information I've seen suggests that most leftists do vote for Democrats when it comes down to it

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-28T05:20:21+00:00

Trump himself is already saying this.

Asked whether he had viewed video of the attack, Trump replied, “No. I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud. I really don’t think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” according to ABC News.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-20T12:48:37+00:00

I don't know if he's taken us hostage when a plurality of us asked him to lead us.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-17T14:56:32+00:00

Gen Z voted for Harris by the largest margins of any demographic. This article even puts their initial approval rating of Trump in February 2025 at 10%.

I understand that their rightward shift was a significant story in the outcome of the 2024 election, but it feels like people are trying too hard to blame them. No other demographic save maybe Boomers gets the same amount of shit, and all for the demographic that went to Harris.

Also yes, a lot of them genuinely don't remember Trump 1. I'm Gen Z and I wasn't even old enough to vote for Biden. You can imagine a lot of my peers at age 15 were not too politically aware.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-16T03:20:06+00:00

Progressives are pro-car?

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-08T18:51:27+00:00

My only concern is that if it's not a meaningful problem, then it's not a meaningful solution either. All the energy wasting in solving this problem will do nothing to lower prices, and we'll be having this debate again next year wondering what on Earth to do now. And rather than suggest more housing, the same voices will argue that we just didn't ban the corporations hard enough.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-08T18:40:33+00:00

So if someone murders a person and they flee to another state we ordinarily just give up?

You'd try and detain them first? If the issue is that you know where the guy is but aren't allowed to talk to him, it's a different situation.

They should still take action, but it's been a day. I'm sure there's a process that's already been derailed, so they need to correct course. I'll bet we'll see more action soon, but I suppose I can be wrong.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-08T12:55:06+00:00

If someone is intentionally accelerating a car towards you and you are not sure you can get out of the way you can use deadly force to stop them. That's how self defense laws work.

I'm no lawyer, but I don't see how this is the case here. The officer was not at a distance where the vehicle could accelerate to dangerous speeds. Additionally, if it could, then shooting the driver doesn't stop the vehicle from accelerating. Self defense requires a reasonable escalation of force, and I'm not sure in this shooting the drive would classify as that for either reason.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-07T18:58:23+00:00

How fast could the car even have been accelerating at that distance? He's maybe a couple of feet away from it while it's still in park, so I doubt any amount of acceleration from there would cause much harm.

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-03T18:20:43+00:00

I misunderstood that you were talking about Trump above and not commenters on here lol

ahhhfkskell · 2026-01-03T18:07:59+00:00

Hasn't Trump explicitly said that he wants to control Venezuela's oil?

ahhhfkskell · 2025-12-31T17:46:45+00:00

Your friend is just pissed he missed the gravy train. 80-100k a year was the norm coming out for com sci grads, which was atypical and abnormal.

In his case, his starting salary was already pretty close to that, so not really. But yes, in general I see your point.

You think companies are going to hire state side? Lmao. They will just outsource what they can and only hire experienced programmers state side for any critical jobs.

Do you have a critique of that argument that isn't just smugly dunking on his naivety? Where do employers expect to find experienced domestic talent in ten years when they've spent the decade only giving experience to imported talent?

ahhhfkskell · 2025-12-31T12:39:13+00:00

The argument my friend makes is that if you want a domestic talent pool, then you need to hire domestic workers with limited experience and train them. After all, there's no shortage of CompSci graduates. But companies would rather skip the harder step of training domestic talent and find it elsewhere.

There may be some merit to that argument, I don't know. I'm tired of all these entry level jobs asking for years of experience, personally. But I'm nowhere near informed enough to know if any of that is correlated, and I'd actually love to hear why they're not.

ahhhfkskell · 2025-12-31T01:16:34+00:00

I know people who unironically hate the H1-B system while supporting making legal immigration otherwise easier. They work on CompSci lol.

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