Thank you! Surprised the report didn’t mention that (I was too lazy to do a search).

If he were said to be omnipotent, this would be an interesting conundrum. But he isn’t so it doesn’t really work?

The subhead misses out the worst stuff. How on earth?

Criminal charges still in the works, I would hope.

I’m not sure it’s ever legit for the job-hunter to be paying the recruiters. It would normally be the employer.

A % commission doesn’t give that much incentive to find you the very best job as opposed to the first one that will do. You’re paying them a percentage but they’re looking at the return per hour of work they put in. You’ll come under a lot of pressure to accept the first job on offer simply because that job gives them the best return even if it is a smaller cash amount than the best job they could possibly find (if they put the time in).

Their incentives do not align well with your incentives. So best avoided, IMO.

“90% of content moderators are foreigners. What we have experienced during the process is very hard… spending three months without receiving a salary, in a country that isn’t yours. You cannot pay the rent, you cannot buy food,” Nkuzimana explains. Cori Crider – co-director of Foxglove, a British organization that is supporting the workers in this process – adds that this situation “forces [the content moderators] to continue accepting insecure jobs to remain in [Kenya], despite the serious risk to their mental health.” Moderators have resorted to crowdfunding, so that they can support their families as the legal fight unfolds.

Just highlighting the exploitation of migrant workers here, like much of Twitter’s remaining workforce, apparently. It also reminded me of this story: The fishermen:

On November 22, Joanne circulated a letter among the migrant crew. “I have been made aware the crew members are contacting an outside representative,” it read, possibly referencing a call Quezon made to Stella Maris seeking help for Susada. “I am also aware that crew members have been leaving their port without permission or making our office aware. Sadly the actions by these crew members are beginning to ruin the trust and faith we have placed in our Filipino crew.” It concluded by noting they would make reports to local police and UK immigration authorities “if necessary”.

These people are fucking sick. The whole system that denies people the legal right to work just so they can be more easily exploited is fucking sick.

I’m going to go and punch some walls. Laters.

There’s only so much time in the day. And far too easy to waste it arguing pointless things with random strangers on the internet.

In this case, their motive does not matter. They did you a favour shutting it down before you wasted any more time thinking about something that does not matter at all.

For those who boycott, Sodastream are an Israeli company. I believe Drinkmate has its origins in wanting an alternative to that. Just so everyone can choose their side.

If you’re going to drink that much sparkling water (as I do), invest in a Drinkmate or similar. It’s about as cheap as the very cheapest sparkling water but you end up with much, much less plastic to pretend to recycle.

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Without a pass, you’d need a passport to prove eligibility. Not everyone owns a passport.

Yes. It’s happened to me and it is a head fuck. The email was from a business with a perfectly legit email address.

Not if you’re USian. But apparently ‘politics’ only exists for USians. Confusing, I know. Probably best not to worry about it. If you’re not interested, just scroll on by.

How Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did

Facebook turned over chat messages between mother and daughter now charged over abortion

Unsolved cases don’t typically get closed. And when they eventually get solved, it hits the news. You’ve read many stories like it, for sure.

In this case, it sounds like there is new evidence. No big mystery.

Well, OK. But they didn’t have a point that needed explaining. They’re not being sincere and there’s no need to give them an assist, especially if you’re going to leave it to me to explain why your generous interpretation of their ‘point’ is bullshit.

I’m British. The slave trade is but one of our many world-fucking sins.

There are people alive today whose grandparents were born into slavery. Given that slavery did not actually end with the civil war, and Jim Crow, and mass incarceration, and the current dismantling of civil rights era laws, there are hundreds of millions of people alive today who are still directly suffering the aftermath.

So no, it is nowhere out of living memory and I am astonished that there are two people in one place so ignorant that they are willing to argue that it is.

You’re going to have to explain how you think I’m drawing a line there.

I didn’t draw any lines. Your English is easily good enough to comprehend what I wrote. If you misunderstood, read it again. If you’re being deliberately obtuse, fuck off.