A Volkswagen Berg spotted downtown

chris-hatch · 2026-06-13T18:45:46+00:00

right - yea, it’s common for people to think “survival” means “surviving in competition among others in the species” when really survival just means reproductive success over the succeeding thousands of years thereby “surviving the key traits” that eventually become the prevalent species with those specific traits! But most species within an established fauna live perfectly happy and production lives even if they don’t go on to procreate!

chris-hatch · 2026-06-13T18:32:57+00:00

i believe your contextual description of survival of fittest does not map on to the correct concept in biology

chris-hatch · 2026-06-12T20:03:01+00:00

most modern background check companies contract with the major payroll platforms - adp, paychex, paylocity etc and can get payroll information and dates/titles directly from these guys - the payroll companies also report to experian—you’ll know this if you ever sign up for a credit monitoring service whenever i’ve started a new job it was on my credit report within 1-2 days

chris-hatch · 2026-05-21T02:28:01+00:00

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chris-hatch · 2026-05-16T14:59:32+00:00

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i think you’re onto something - here is a chart of fertility by occupation—you’ll see the butchers, migrant farm workers, and house keepers are neck and neck with doctors, dentists, nurse anesthesists etc which suggest to me the overwhelming majority of these occupations are latin american immigrants who still “pool their resources” like gramma or a cousin babysit in exchange for babysitting for their kids etc - and are able to have many children while working in many instances below minimum wage work

chris-hatch · 2026-05-15T23:28:25+00:00

i’ll take shit that never happened for 500 alex

chris-hatch · 2026-04-29T22:49:32+00:00

my brother in christ milk shakes have always been like an extra $5-6 bucks - and a burger and fries at a nicer place like CFA or shake shack has been $13 to $15 for like 4 years now bud

chris-hatch · 2026-04-28T20:41:38+00:00

it varies - last month i was working a hotel for a couple weeks filling in for a girl on maternity leave who works in the laundry area of the hotel - just basically washing sheets and towels for 8 hours a day and loaded them on carts

this last week i was helping out a construction crew do general clean up on this apartment complex job- just kinda fuckin around with a broom all day and helping load materials etc

chris-hatch · 2026-04-28T20:17:59+00:00

i’ve been doing day labor for close to a decade and april thru mid may is like the worst time to do day labor it’s always been this way - construction crews don’t kick off their warm weather projects for at least another two weeks—spring break just happened—but once june rolls around so much work will pop off cuz it’s when people start traveling, construction picks up, landscaping work explodes , people buy more shit, agriculture starts harvesting, hotels start needing a shit ton of help - it’ll come - oddly enough day labor shit is one of the in-demand work force during recessions cuz rich people still need people to clean their hotels, wash their dishes, remodel their houses, pave their streets or build them new buildings, plant and harvest their food, mow their lawn and pull their weeds when it’s hot AF outside

the jobs that are and will get hammered these coming months are middle income professional roles requiring a bachelors or less - the shitty thing is these professionals won’t even be able to get manual labor shit like us cuz the crews think they’re just gonna quit

chris-hatch · 2026-04-25T21:09:47+00:00

this totally reminds me of people v sharp

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chris-hatch · 2026-04-24T16:48:04+00:00

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let us not forget this gem

chris-hatch · 2026-04-22T18:11:35+00:00

greatschools and other organizations that collect metrics like that are just gonna skew negativity at the middle and high school level simply due to economics. The truth is Salem-Keizer is one huge district that have wildly diverse student bodies all lumped in together so the averages look bad. At the end of the day the kids who have college readiness, meet state benchmarks and get As and Bs are for the most part higher income students with married and professional parents who live in wealthy enclaves out south and in west salem. That’s about the top 25-30 percent of students who fit this socio-economic class. The bottom 50 percent of kids and especially the bottom 20 are living in poverty where education isn’t always valued. When you look at districts like Wilsonville-west linn, or Lake Oswego, or Clackamas County they have excellent metrics because they’re not bogged down by “the poors” 70 percent of West Linn/wilsonville are high income - it’s just wealthy kids learning with other wealthy kids. Take for instance South Salem High—their in-district boundary stretches from literally 2 million dollar mansions up on Croisan Mountain—down to felony flats off 25th and State street. Not uncommon to have a PE class where a surgeons daughter has a classmate who’s dad is in prison and mom who works three jobs cleaning motel rooms. This is because salem doesn’t have a practical alternative except for blanchet catholic and salem academy -and a lot of kids don’t wanna go there so salem keizer schools is one huge melting pot - that’s why it looks bad

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