Just watched this movie, and I think everyone should watch it. It has a really good message.

Sanya marries a 6ft+ guy who behaves well before marriage but turns out to be the most sexist and misogynistic person ever.

This seems to be the case with every 6ft+ guy pic.twitter.com/D51X6QACKg

— Nilesh Bhai (@avgphoenixguy1) February 11, 2025

Oh no no no shortbros

Clears the alimony cheque every month yeah

I love manlets

They can always make me feel better about myself.

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025

Holy shit what a bum

I have one of his books. It's supposed to be aight.

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— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) February 6, 2025

rightoids don't cry about your mutilated peen for 5 seconds challenge

I had a circumcision and never had any issues with it

You carry the mark of a slave to jews bro.

They literally invented circumcision to reduce pleasure… sorry dude ur missing out

I'm not missing out on anything

what a self-own holy shit

More sanitary

You're just coping.

I hope you guys realise how hard it is for me to post twitter drama, I've discovered a new level of ban where I can't even read the website

We have foreskins AND soap on my country and we're quite sanitary.

He's Polish and said this

Yet another example of an explicitly anti Christian attitude being displayed by a page followed by many Christians.

how do you do my fellow Christians

Let's hear the female opinion. Do you want a fruit roll up with stinky schmegma in it, or a normal looking one with 0 crust in front of you?

> Let's hear the female opinion!

So strange……dudes obsessed with other dudes peepees

@Sneedman

you sound like an unclipped savage, son

My friend's son got bad UTI that started affecting his kidneys because of that peepee skin.

how do you tell a twitter user their friend's son was molested

The account admin is def an Indian.

>posted by moroccan

BROWN FIGHT

It's healthier and more hygienic

I'm noticing that this take only comes from third worlders with no access to soap... and Americans. what means

@Kongvann

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Let's get a fight going in the comments

Who could expected that the

Would end up being a problem

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ifd20g/exclusive_us_wants_ukraine_to_hold_elections/

The country who has the weirdest obsession with their own constitution in the world wants Ukraine to break its constitution and hold elections under martial law.

Makes sense, yeah.

Yeah makes sense Redditors ignoring khohols constitution where it clearly stated that election exception is for parliament not presidential. Zelenskyy could had fixed it by calling main court and asking them if his stay is legal, very easy but he didn't do it because he knows they going to take the power for him.

Redditors think US gov (including Bidens admin) would for lol hint at it

Zelenskyy is the only true dictator in Europe.

Why is no one wondering if Trump committed election fraud? Doesn't that seem super logical?

Russia wants the US to tell Ukraine to hold elections. Putin doesn't like Zelenskyy

As if there is a chance to get anyone else. Heck even if that happens, he's gonna be even worse for ruzzia. Pro-ruzzian political flank in Ukraine was annihilated.

Zaluzhnyy, Porochenko and now Budanov are more popular than Zelenskyy

And what's happen when you get more popular than Zelenskyy ?

Ukrainian MP Roman Kostenko says SBU has opened a criminal case into the leaked statement by the head of the military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, who allegedly said at parliamentary hearings that Ukraine must seek peace by this summer or it may face the loss of statehood later.… pic.twitter.com/MKnRZGLpQp

— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) January 30, 2025

2 cases was opened again Budanov

And one again his right hand. You remember how before kicking out Zaluzhnyy, Zelenskyy got rid of all his close circle

Well, Trump is currently violating our Constitution left and right. He's never cared about the rule of law. He's a conman and a criminal.

Zelenskyy ignoring constitution it's Trump fault

A (temporary) ceasefire and permanent peace are 2 different situations.

The Ukrainian constitution requires the latter for martial law to be rescinded

Martial law in Ukraine is very temporary and Zelenskyy always extends it every 3 months so he technically illegally extended it 3 times after he lost presidential power and wtf permanent leave suppose to mean if Ukraine is not at state of war ?

Therein lies the rub. When will it be "permanent"? That requires more willingness and effort from Russia than they've shown to date.

If it holds, sure, I could see Ukraine being ready for elections again, but that requires a peace that leads to normalization first.

And if the Ukrainian people think Zelensky is holding on too long, I'll trust they'll let him know, just as they did vs Yanukovych in 2014.

Normalization probably won't come, at least not under Putin who's shown absolutely no willingness to compromise. In case of a lasting ceasefire like Korea, Ukraine should hold elections even without normalization of ties with Russia.

Remember, the two Koreas still don't have diplomatic relations and South Korea has consistently ranked highly in the democracy index. >> Not having diplomatic relations with your neighbors or having parts of your territory occupied doesn't excuse you from holding elections. I understand the argument that holding elections during an active conflict is a bad idea, but if there's a lasting ceasefire, elections should be held even without cooperation from Russia because that's not going to come anyway.

Zelenskyy has now sub 50% popularity in Ukraine since his high of over 90%

The man was freely elected (and that angered Putin)

Putin can help get this about by signing a peace agreement.

Redditors legit believe people they don't like, like Trump and Putin ain't freely elected

Seriously why wouldn't Russian elect Putin if west did everything he was warning Russian about the west ? Giving Ukraine German tanks was supposed to make Russian love west ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/tanks/comments/181ujim/have_leopard_tanks_performed_poorly_in_ukraine/

Yeah, some people kinda expected them to perform as near-godly indestructible death machines, slaying waves and waves of Russian tanks.

>some Redditors but not me

The "current team" didn't start or provoke a war to get into this situation. That's all 100% on Putin.

"Unprovoked"

I love this Redditors oxymoron any conflict is provoked.

Khohols walking in Kiev screaming who don't jump is moscal, in 2013 telling they will kill all the Russian in Crimea now it's unprovoked.

Or recently Zelenskyy told he don't respect Russian so he don't respect 40% of his country. He also been telling how he is going to defeat Russia and basically won

Absolutely not provoked just as him being legal president

"Most democracies hold elections during times of war. I think that's very important. I think that's good for democracy. That's the beauty of a strong democracy, that you have more than one person who can potentially run."

Translated from Ukranian, but close to what he said.

Oh yeah when Zelenskyy was popular and wasn't afraid of Zaluzhnyy he didn't mind election

Nvidea going down and down

Biden also wanted them to hold elections.

>Washington raised the issue of elections with senior officials in Zelenskiy's office in 2023 and 2024 during the Biden administration, two former senior U.S. officials said. State Department and White House officials told their Ukrainian counterparts that elections were critical to uphold international and democratic norms, the officials said. Officials in Kyiv have pushed back on elections in conversations with Washington in recent months, telling Biden officials that hosting polls at such a volatile moment in Ukraine's history would divide Ukrainian leaders and potentially invite Russian influence campaigns, the two former U.S. officials said.

Bipartisan stupidity, hooray!

When even democrats don't agree with you everyone is stupid except you Redditor

Not war, but the martial law. Technically it can be cancelled at any time to hold elections, regardless of ongoing conflicts.

It's actually brutal how many people don't understand war is an legal status

The fact that Europe doesn't have the balls to interviene and use it's military to change the odds and the game is a shame towards european spirit (whatever the frick that means these days) and a disgrace towards our european ukrainian brothers. It is a true spit in Europe's eyes and apparently we don't have a problem with that, nor any responsability. Disgraceful and spineless for europe!

Why he doesn't hold bakhmut if he feels so bad khohols ? It's like homo tries to shame other European while his butt is save when khohols getting into another pocket

Getting a wipe in Novosilka seems it wasn't enough but that Redditor could had stopped it !

Actions like this by Russia's puppet make me reconsider if the 2024 election was manipulated.

Why does a Russian stooge think sure a new election would overthrow Ukraine's democratic leader?

Thing is Putin was honest about him wanting Harris to win because Trump makes thing complicated, guy for real want peace deal, the only guy in this trio that wants peace. Putin position was looking good and saying he want peace while beating khohols while Zelenskyy screaming for new game changer.

With Harris it would been easy since she would scream about good faith peace and that Putin is not honest so khohols should continue fighting

USA will help us to the end the war, but with nuance - they will throw us under the bus and call it a "victory". (and this is not even sarcasm)

The US has never delayed an election not even during the civil war.

Battlefield wise most updates are field movements and some not popular villages capturing

Ukraine fully evacuating myrnohrad and its strange they do it after Pokrovsk since Pokrovsk is less encircled that myrnohrad

Fall of chasiv yard probably will be soon. It's just hard to pinpoint chasiv yard borders.

Bridgehead in Kharkiv now is solid and Ukraine will lose huge chunk in Kharkiv like I previously posted

Bridgehead in lyman direction got also larger something Ukrainians weren't prepared since zarichne was the stoping point and it isn't protected from north attacks

Judge in southern Illinois finds FOID unconstitutional as applied and facially as well as the fee for it pic.twitter.com/9kfCftdft0

— @Freedom'ssteel (@FreedomSsteel) February 10, 2025

in case you were fricking wondering

https://x.com/sqwunx/status/1889509858019262527

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Guess the fact that those 10 athletes aren't exactly regularly outperforming their biological counterparts parts doesn't matter hey? Ofcourse it doesn't you don't give a frick about women lol. (85)

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Why have competition if you are going to let it be unfair? It's silly (22)

Because you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The amount of trans athlethes is minescule in the big picture. There are bigger problems to be solved. (-26)

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Out of 500,000 NCAA athletes 10 are transgender 😂 completely made up issue (239)

This logic is flawed. While there maybe only 10 transgender athletes, those athletes impact more than just 10 people. They individually impact everyone they ever play with and against. That number is certainly larger than 10. Rules like this aren't for the individuals that they prohibit, they are for everyone else that are affect by them. (-8)

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Imagine if someone made a rule that red headed people were no longer allowed to go to the movies, because their red hair was so bright it might hurt other people's eyes while watching. That's silly, right? There's no evidence of that, there are very few red haired people even that exist, and the majority of the people watching movies are cool with red haired people.Maybe not getting to go to the movies and have a source of major enjoyment that other people get to have isn't a big deal to you.But next they will say red haired people are distracting - we shouldnt allow them to drive either, they can cause accidents.Redhaired people start getting fired from jobs and no longer getting hired, or their businesses no longer patronized since people don't want to risk being around themRed haired people start being murdered and r*ped and committing suicide more often, because criminals know they can get away with it.Then they will say we should round all the red haired people up and put them... (2)

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The reasoning behind it is flawed and masked in "protecting women" when it's about targeting the LGBTQ community Cis women are being targeted and accused of being trans if someone feels they are too good, too masculine presenting or they just don't like them/what they have to sayCis women are being accused of being trans because of how they biologically exist, such as naturally occurring variance in hormones. Once this information is released people refuse to the believe they're women and all their accomplishments as athletes are thrown away. I was born with 9 times the amount of testosterone that I am suppose to have. It never made me a better athlete but people don't care and if that were given out the the public, people would die on the hill that I am biologically male even though I have had two children emerge from my body that lived in my uterus with my eggs that were naturally released through my fallopian tubes.This issue unfairly targets people of color who have a long histo... (8)

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J.K. Rowling says it bestJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowlingThis 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy, and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities, and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it.People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that s*x is real and matters.When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been ha... (1)

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A leaked draft of the list of plans by the European Commission shows that the Commission wants to follow a new approach to introduce "hate crime" as a felony in the entire EU. There have been several attempts since 2021.

Already during her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen wanted to declare "hate crime" a EU felony.

The magazine Euractiv recently published a draft of the list of all initiatives that the European Commission wants to implement this year. On Tuesday, February 11th, the final list is to be presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the members of the European Parliament. The European Commission president wants to tackle another initiative so that "hate speech" is recognized as a felony in all of the European Union.

Already in 2021, during her first term as Commission president, the Commission presented a corresponding legal initiative. The parliament agreed to the initiative, but there was no agreement in the Council of the European Union. Because "hate crime" can only be introduced as a EU-wide felony if all member states agree. In November 2023, members of the European Parliament demanded again that the initiative shall be followed on.

Crimes need to meet certain requirements in order to be considered "EU crimes". These requirements are stipulated in Article 83 Paragraph 1 on the work of the European Union. The crimes must be cross-border, the acts must be categorized as "particularly severe crime", and there must not be an alternative to the expansion of EU crime status to get the crime under control. So far, among EU felonies are human trafficking, terrorism, and money laundering. "Hate speech" allegedly is cross-border not only because of the Internet, but also because media such as newspapers are able to distribute content far and wide.

So far, at the level of the European Union, discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, or s*x is punishable. The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large", as the legal initiative from 2021 says. "Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built", it continues.

When "hate crime" is fundamentally recognized as a felony in the European Union, then, in a second step, the Commission together with the Parliament and the Council of the European Union, in the scope of the regular legislative procedure, can set concrete characteristics of the felony "hate crime". Also, the three institutions can then decree minimum regulations that are then valid in all member states.

Currently, in EU law, there is no definition of hate speech and hate crime. On the definition of the term "hate speech", the Commission refers to a recommendation by the European Council from 1997, in which it states that hate speech is the incitement of hate because of certain protected characteristics like religion or s*x. The term "hate crime" is being defined in a recommendation by the European Commission in 2015 as "advocacy, promotion or incitement, in any form, of the denigration, hatred or vilification of a person or group of persons." A "negative stereotyping" is also seen as "hate crime". In that, it is about characteristics like an alleged social gender identity, age, origin, s*x, or religion.

Based on these two documents, the Commission speaks of "hate crime" being any crime with a motive based on prejudices. Specifically, the initiative from 2021 says: "For both hate speech and hate crime, it is the bias motivation that triggers the perpetrator's action." Furthermore: "These are 'identity' or 'message' acts, as the messages conveyed - notably that the targeted victims do not belong to that society - are addressed not only to the victim, but also to their community or group."

Accordingly, the motivation of the perpetrator is crucial for the felony. In addition, the text says that "hate crime" and hate speech "undermine the foundations of the EU". The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided in 2006 that it could be necessary for "democratic societies to sanction or even prevent all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance".

The right to freedom of speech does not protect against law enforcement reactions to hate speech, the ECtHR says. The legal initiative from 2021 also refers to the concept of a "ladder of harm" or "pyramid of hate", according to which hate not only leads to discrimination or insults, but also "bias motivated violence" like r*pe, murder, or genocide. As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.

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Can't help but notice a common theme here.

Zero crackers.

How many _ _ _ users are they protecting at this point

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I am totally convinced that Musk is behind this army of bots that try to overwhelm this sub with feel-good fake butt stories (2)

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Every time I read one of these posts I get a little more hopeful. My parents are still stuck that Rump isn't gonna take away social security and that dems are "saying whatever they can" to try and get people to turn against him. (-4)

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As someone who hates Trump, I'm having trouble giving a pass to these people. With smart phones, we all have access to the same kinds of information. What is it that makes people think he didnt mean what he said? (42)

They got sucked into that right wing media bubble. Don't underestimate its power. And now Drump is trying to kill PBS, NPR, CBS, and is forcing any non-right wing media out of White House and Pentagon press briefings. Soon there won't be anyone left to report on the real news. ALL news is looking doomed to be right wing. Welcome to authoritarian heck. (9)

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A lot of these comments are pretty mean, and while I think it was dumb of her, I think people have to remember not everyone who voted for trump is a monster. Not everyone who voted for trump is racist, some of them saw how bad things were under Biden and didn't want Kamala and didn't investigate exactly what was going on. We have uninformed voters, but most dangerous of all misinformed voters. We have the media saying crime is on the rise and immigration is a matter of homeland security and neither are true and both parties are running with it. The Democrats are ratcheting right, but they can't out-flank the Republican party. There comes a time when if the Democrats are just doing the same inhuman shit but with a cleaner coat of paint, 1 Democrats are going to stop coming out to vote, 2 more people are going to vote Republican. Democrats keep chasing the idea of stealing votes from the Republican base and all it is doing is shrinking their own. With a world on fire, to a lot of peop... (1)

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ima throw a gross generalization here, but... i work in the public sector and deal with a rainbow of people. and an alarming number of these indivs are... dumb. they cannot communicate well; they are slow to comprehend; those factors combined cause them to get frustrated easily. their parents failed them and the system has failed and continue to fail them.i get why trump is president--these poor numbskulls relate to him. it's sad and scary at the same time.edit: i am sorry for saying this in a sub for optimists, but i feel as though irreparable damage has been done to our country. and based on world history, this kinda extreme ideological division will only lead to a geopolitical(?) schism... (15)

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So exactly what is your definition of a Republic? As in The People's Republic of China??, I've never heard the terminology Republic of USA... United States of America, United. Being the operative word. That word got lost somewhere.You might as well blame everybody because that's really where things went awry. I really didn't care that he, won this election The country is in horrible shape. Had he lost? Do you think he would have left gracefully and with dignity? Heck? No, it's embarrassing to watch him.Be our leader.. Nobody's united, everybody on the right waits. to see what he wants, and then they all share the same brain,. If you want to call that United they're all in lockstep. Okay, but thru chaos comes order . I don't see him or any of the Democrats looking for order .He has no interest in order as if they're looking for order. We are a supposeed democracy, a government in which the people rule. You don't have to try to teach me anything, I understand I'm not going to lose tra... (1)

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Now renamed after a WW2 soldier instead of the Confederate general

/r/army is actually for the most part okay with it but there's still some seething

Good to see the important issues are being tackled.

I'm sure you took that attitude when it was changed the first time.

I wonder how much money this will cost the DoD and the rest of the American people….

What a waste of money? This administration is stupid and petty.

Good to know that they're laser-focused on government efficiency.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShermanPosting/comments/1imntla/braxton_bragg_is_objectively_one_of_the_biggest/

Union larpers also discuss it

I got around by posting vid directly

Greetings strags

The 4-day-work-week is one of my favorite redditisms. It always brings out the lazy useless commies out of the work week. And always, ALWAYS, these lazy fools try and masquerade their supposed desire to improve society, when instead they are merely desiring a terraforming of the world to suit their own interests, namely them wanting to work less hard hard like /r/antiWORK

I want to ask you dramatards today what you guys think about 4-day-work-weeks. Because it's always an inevitable circlejerk in the reddit euphoric-atheist eurocuck leftoid anti-yank anti-west crowd.

Yet for somebody who works in an already left wing dominated country, and for a private enterprise, I have my great reservations about only 4 working days per week. In our private company, and similar surveying companies, as well as for building contractors, architects, lawyers, Trade-industry like electricians and plumbers, the notion of a 4 day work week is absolutely fricking ANATHEMA

The reason being is that contrary to white-collar soul crushing useless corporate office hours wasting manhours, our 5 days also consist of accumulating clients and jobs and contracts and tenders, from the private world and the government. If i make this sound sophisticated, what i mean is that it basically boils down to cutting your potential outreach opportunity to clients and available office hours, or even available fricking contacts hours by a brutal 20%.

And while I'm not privy to our business' exact financials or contemporary SA surveying companies, I know the netto income is about 20%. And if the government would for example MANDATE or force a 4-day-work-week, it would slit our throats overnight.

Kaamrev, you guys would say, won't the clients just call/visit the office on Monday=>Tuesday. They might, but customers/clients are funny in the mercurial world of business, you will note if you own a private organization, in which you are solely responsible for accumulating/finding clients, that available hours have drastic influence on whether clients finally take the leap in contractig/buying a service.

Many surveyors and chainmen even work way beyond natural office hours, well earlier than 8am, and well beyond 5pm, if a particularly important/large job is at stake. Many would work Saturdays, and even sundays if pressure is at stake. I myself had done so for months last year, as there literally not enough hours in the fricking 40 hours work week to finish particularly dire projects. Last year i actually worked harder than I studied for my 3rd year at univeristy, not out of principle but sheer panic.

This notion of going beyond mandated 40 hour weeks, is probably unknown to wagie redditors who are paid the same, regardless of whether they do their best/slack off. And while I have sympathy for people in wage-cage jobs, in white-collar soul crushing office-cubicle heck -holes, where middle-managers force useless meetings and useless hours, and thus wasting your finite life span away for unclear goals, in unclear corpo leadership - but that is NOT why redditors champion 4-day-work-weeks. No it is because it appeals to them

Supermarket businesses like Checkers/Spar/Woolworths in South Africa, had steadily encroached on weekend openings about 20 years ago. I recall distinctly massive drama within the Christian communities in Safrica, that when places like Spar and Checkers began to have open hours on Saturday, and then eventually open hours on Sundays. Because sundays are supposed to be the day of rest. In the 1990s you had exceptions to the rule, and in the early 2000s, if your pantry was empty, because you had poor planning or some calamity, then you were fricked out of luck for food for sunday, unless you could find some street-vendor road-seller who would sell you some mielies for the day to tie you over for Sunday.

I distinctly remember many neighbours begging after Sunday services for some key ingredients or some flour or fruit, and promising to pay back on Monday, cuz there literally was no shopping mall or tuckshop or anything open the whole day! But as religiosity gradually faded throughout the country, corporations gradually found weekend openings to be acceptable and convenient to the public

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_shopping

So for these corporations, 7-day operating weeks became a virtual necessity. Because if they did NOT operate during the weekend as their competition did, they lost out on potential clients, because the people who would have shopped during regular weekdays were now satisfied for their groceries on weekends. Smaller grocery businesses would find themselves in a death knell had they not adapted.

And many small town businesses like mom-and-pop bakeries, who traditionally operated on weekdays like they had in the past, and was closed during the weekends as it was family run, and they had to take care of family/kids, would be screwed if they did not compete with corporate chains like Spar, which had bakeries, as the Entire monday sales period would be cut off, as customers had their monday needs met during the weekend.

A not too dissimilar phenomenon happens in trade or contract industries. Even if Governments could make a blanket ban on 5-day-work-weeks, so that your competitors could not operate on a 5th day, same a your company does, and thus steal your clients, there is a weird hidden opportunity cost lost by customers which were on the precipice of a decision, but your unavailability, lost them to your business. This is in addition to the potential loss of manhours to work on potential projects.

I also don't buy this mythos from popular rediditor zeitghest, that in ancient/medieval times, farmer peasants worked much less today, and only in our modern corporatized world we work ourselves into an early grave. I've seen actual farms - there's always work, if the pipes burst, they need to be fixed. It's many long and hard hours.

But I'm also aware historic labour laws came into being becuase of much sacrifice and due to great abuse by magnates and oligarchic businessmen who literally worked English children to death in mine shafts during the Bong Industrial Period.

What do you guys think?

Anyways some drama and sneed below

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wsqxx/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wtgzg/?context=8

What does billionaires have to do with the 5-day-work-week?? It's like wagie redditors are so far removed from ever having had the fate of a business enterprise on their shoulders, that they equate a societal business norm of the past several hundred years due to the greed of a cabal of billinaires

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x33fc/?context=8

Thank frick for that

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wtjl1/?context=8

"STOP MAKING SENSE!" only stupid people want to work for 5 days a week!

Some takes with more than 1 braincel

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x8zql/?context=8

"It really depends on the industry. I work in manufacturing. Output is directly tied to labor hours applied. My wife works in healthcare. Obviously you still need staffing coverage 24/7."

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xae3c/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xdeau/?context=8

This guy gets downmarseyd for pointing out against the circlejerk that the 4-day-work-week was only considered by the experimenting 61 companies, becuase it DIDN'T affect a loss of productivity, and these cute twinks downmarsey him for pointing out that any loss of productivity/ or incurring more costs like hiring additional staff would negate the feasibility

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xecgh/?context=8

ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh man he really pissed off these neetstrags

"Congrats. Not everyone is you. You're not even going to stay the you that you are now. Try working 50 hours/week for 20 years and see if your productivity keeps up." lmoa 20 years, try people who worked 50 years of their lives you strags

Of course redditors can't read (or ever read the linked articles anyway)

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xc5vb/?context=8

"The dude you are replying to is just going around to very comment trying to justify why him and his area shouldn't allow people to work fewer hours. He also talked about not seeing any decrease in productivity till he pushed workers to work more than 50 hours a week."

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xrie2/?context=8

Anti-yank circlejerk begins

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wspod/?context=8

Those filthy yanks

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wusca/?context=8

Again these redditors miss the forest for the trees. Sometimes a company cannot exist in a system where a loss of opportunity is caused by a loss of potential clients or contacts because the fricking business wasn't open or available for liaison

Some more redditors with braincells in smaller threads outside the usual 1000-point upmarseyd circlejerk teenage angst subthreads, ask significant questions, because they are skeptical of this supposed overgood news.

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x1ihz/?context=8

Manufacturing industries are out

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6ws0nj/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x5xrt/?context=8

Ok, nice link, thanks.

So the #1 category, by a large margin, is not-for-profits/charities. Which isn't very representative of most people's workplaces.

The #2 is the creative/consultant/PR/marketing space - an industry where the actual hours worked have little relevance.

I thought there was a construction company in there, but it turned out to be a Housing Association. Unfortunately, these really aren't representative of where most people work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xovrl/?context=8

This guys shits on the hopes and dreams of soyneets and soywagies

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x2xww/?context=8

Anyways the same theme is repeated throughout the thread. What do YOU dramatards think?!

@YALLAHblessYoTraplord this could be us but u playin'