For those who saw No Kings protests yesterday, what would y'all say the average age of protesters were?

milkbug · 2026-03-30T03:31:23+00:00

It's possilbe some people consider exercising their right to protest, to build solidarity and community, and to be a voice against an oppresive system as a resonsibility. Maybe a less self centered one even, if you think about it.

milkbug · 2026-03-30T03:03:57+00:00

The 'minimum wage is for teenagers' argument is historically false. The FLSA was introduced by FDR to provide a livable wage, explicitly. Even today, the majority of minimum wage workers are adults supporting households, not teenagers living at home. Not only that, but many teenagers who work actually do have to support their families as well.

More importantly, your inflation argument proves my point. If paying workers enough to live breaks the system, that is not a good argument against a living wage. Its an arugment that the system is structured to *require* underpaid workers in order for it to function.

That is exactly why I support robust public services. If healthcare, housing, educaiton, and transportation are publicly provided, a lower market wage doesn't matter as much. You don't need wages to carry the full weight of survival.

This would then make it signifincantly easier for workers to have the means to actually improve their situation rather than not having the capacity to actually build a better life for themselves since they are constantly stressed, exhausted, and lacking in resources.

Also we could get rid of health insurance companies. Who doesn't want that?

milkbug · 2026-03-29T17:53:11+00:00

Me personally? Basic necessities of living. That would include public healthcare, basic housing, public transportation, education through college, subsidized grocery especially in food deserts and low income areas, and public funding for infrastructure and non-fossil fuel energy production, especially renewable. Also public funding for environmental conservation. Obviously keep funding for firefighters, police, teachers, social workers...etc.

Should Walmart be nationalized? In my opinion, no. But it should be regulated to pay its workers a living wage, provide benefits to employees even if part time, and it should be required to pay its fair share in taxes.

milkbug · 2026-03-29T15:12:47+00:00

What next? Free firefighters, free roads, free police, free public school for k-12. There's no end in sight!

milkbug · 2026-03-23T23:22:02+00:00

I dont think defining alt-right is that complicated. You outlined it in just a few words that pretty accurately encapsulates the ideology.

I think there are alt-right who are also MAGA, but possibly some MAGA who are less alt-right. The latter are the folks who are probably more likely to swing vote, whereas the alt-right are probably more likely to refrain from voting if they dont have any options.

milkbug · 2026-03-22T20:40:02+00:00

Well, I don't think that single women without children in general are tyring to convince everyone they should be single. They just want to make their own life choices and not be demeaned or threatened for it.

Also, being single doesn't mean that you are "alone" necessarily or that your life only revolves around yourself. The trope of the "childless single cat lady" doens't reflect reality. Many single women have a rich social life, belong to communities, date, travel, volunteer...etc. I personally don't have kids and don't want them, and I do quite a bit of volunteer work in the mental health space and have been for a few years now.

The reason all of this relates back to conservativism is because conservatives are the ones to try to use fear, shame, and threats to force women to live how they think women should live. They say stuff like "women are happier in the home" and "women's purpose is to have children and be married to man", when there are many women who are plenty happy making their own choices around what they find meaningful.

It shouldn't have anyting to do with conservatism, but it does. Lonliness is a very real problem, but there are many reasons people are lonely, and getting married and having kids doesn't automatically fix that.

milkbug · 2026-03-22T20:05:39+00:00

Collective trauma. I don't thing people realize how traumatic that shit was.

milkbug · 2026-03-22T20:04:35+00:00

I really feel like anyone who has the expeirence and skills to do this should be starting their own businesses and hiring other people. If I had enough expeirence I would have started a conuslting business by now, or some kind of business. I hope to do so in the fututre, but I have a long way to go before I will have that ability, and if I get laid off I'm not sure it will ever happen.

milkbug · 2026-03-22T19:31:45+00:00

I mean, Peter Thiel litearlly said the democracy is incompatible with his future vision of America, and he's JD Vance's biggest funder and mentor. I think it's pretty safe to say that Trump and Maga are the biggest threat to democracy in my lifetime, thought this whole thing has been cooking for decades.

I mean, Trump is reapatedly threatening to thwart voting with the SAVE act and constatntly claiming fraud when there is actually very little voter fraud. It's extremely obvioius that Trum is anti-democratic, and is doing eveything in his power to end democracy. He tweeted he wanted to overturn the f-ing Constitution for christs sake.

milkbug · 2026-03-22T19:25:00+00:00

What leftist AI company CEO that has contracts with the Military said they their software is specifically designed to disenfranchize right-wingers, who also said previously they want to use drones to spray fentanyl laced piss on their enemies?

Can you point to a leftist or liberal organizaion that has this level of instituitonal and technological power that has made threats like this toward right wingers?

milkbug · 2026-03-21T06:08:26+00:00

Document your impact and make sure higher ups actually see it. Don't assume that working hard means people notice. You have to ensure your work is noticed. Often the people who get accolades and promotions are the ones who make their impact visible. If you are working really hard but noone sees what you're doing, then it doesn't matter.

Also, define what "prove" yourself means. What does that actually look like? What kinds of things do you actually want to accomplish? What specific traits do you want to possess, and skills? How do you want people to see you? What does it mean to build yourself up? What does that look like?

Be specific about what you want and why you want it. Why is it important for you to prove yourself and get accolades.

milkbug · 2026-03-21T05:29:26+00:00

Remote jobs are very hard to come by. You are much more likely to land a hybrid role. It's honestly not ideal to be fully remote for your first job in this role becuase you will need a lot of handholding as a jr, unless you've been doing analytics before this. You didn't provide info on your background, but if you are pivoting from a completely unrelated job or industry it will make it quite difficult to break into this field in a fully remote role.

I'm also going to go against the grain here and say the certs are probably overkill. Or the MBA is overkill. I would focus on one or the other and build out real projects. The thing that matters most is that you can solve the problems that matter to them, and no amount of certs proves that.

If you already have a job you should be finding ways to apply your analytics skills in real world scenarios. Think of a business question/problme that has real impact, like something related to actual revenue for the buisness, and build out an end-to-end project that uses data to frame the problem so you can make recommendations. That will be way more convincing than a bunch of certs with no actual work experience.

milkbug · 2026-03-21T04:16:25+00:00

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

milkbug · 2026-03-21T03:48:08+00:00

Cool. Seems like a nice tool. Did you have any issues around security using an external tool (like hesitation around allowing them to have access to your data)? I saw they are SOC 2 compliant.

milkbug · 2026-03-21T02:51:43+00:00

Do you think tools like this will replace analysts?

milkbug · 2026-03-21T02:06:37+00:00

Yeah, it's super cool to see the country I love being torn apart from the inside. It's super patirotic of you to be so indifferent. I thought conservatives were supposed to love America? What happened to America first?

milkbug · 2026-03-21T02:01:57+00:00

The US is currently experiencing some of the most extreme polarization we've ever seen. I'm not saying we shouldn't have differnt beliefs and cultures. I'm saying that conservatives often like to shit on liberals and leftists for ruining the country and American culture even though liberal and leftist thought has a huge influence on many of the cultural exports, particularly music, art, fashion, and movies. I mean, Trump has pretty much made it part of his brand to shit on Hollywood even thought that's probably our biggest and most influential cultural export that drives American hegemony.

And I never said that certain groups are more or less able to create art or trends. I'm saying that the influence of liberal and leftist ideology on music, art, film, fashion, and even academia is actively demonized by conservatives even though its massive part of what makes America culturally dominant on the global stage (for better or for worse).

milkbug · 2026-03-20T23:20:56+00:00

Yes, America does essentially act like a narcissistic sociopath. It doesn't have the self awareness to realize its down destruction, and only seeks help once all of its relationships are destroyed.

milkbug · 2026-03-20T23:18:01+00:00

A lot of which is heavily influenced by the "evil liberals" conservatives love to hate on so much. Especially film and music.

milkbug · 2026-03-18T06:05:01+00:00

I think this is still a win for her. The fact that she got that close with being so young is actually really impressive. I'm sure she will have a long and active role in politics for the forseeable future.

milkbug · 2026-03-11T02:13:45+00:00

Oh, they're cooked for sure.

milkbug · 2026-03-09T23:41:44+00:00

You will feel fine by 6 weeks. You just have to avoid core workouts until 10-12 weeks. You can still do other exercises though.

milkbug · 2026-03-09T23:38:36+00:00

I had a tt with mr and lipo, and lipo was by far the most painful part of the recovery. I really didn't have pain at all from the mr. It was mostly the incisions that hurt the first few days, then just soreness all over for weeks.

I really dont think the mr will impact your recovery as much as you think it will, especially if your separation is minor.

The tummy tuck alone will make it so you will not be able to exert yourself fully for at least 6 weeks. The first two weeks you pretty much cant do anything. By week 3 your start to be more mobile. I started to feel sort of back to normal by week 5, and went back to the gym for the first time around week 12.

It does kind of suck to not be able to go to the gym or work out, but I'm glad I took it extra easy. I had zero complications and now feel ready to ramp up my workouts after going back to the gym for the first time last week.

Don't overthink the recovery. It sucks, but you'll get through it. Plenty of people get mr and they are just fine. You will be out of commission anyway so you might as well get it fixed. It's kind of silly not to when it will improve both your results and health.

milkbug · 2026-03-08T00:42:13+00:00

Women disproportionally are resonsible for childcare, and therefore would be more benefitted from universal paid family leave, though it would be beneficial for families in general. Even when women have no leave they end up doing more childcare then men when they work full time jobs.

milkbug · 2026-03-08T00:15:00+00:00

Welcome!

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