But you know, you can't always judge a book by its cover... — Amity
Not sure about the 'bird' thing... but does it matter? — Amity
For 6yrs I didn't see any reason to change it.
What did it matter? — Amity
It's not just an apple, though, is it? A butterfly is emerging from it, or through it. From a chrysalis. — Amity
Is this about Eve's plucking the forbidden fruit leading to knowledge? The Creation story in the Bible. — Amity
I wonder why some people stick and others move on... — Amity
And can't even remember what you had before! — Amity
I had no idea when I uploaded my profile pic (yesterday) of its symbolism. Yet, it's so 'right' for me! — Amity
she gives all the thoughts at a moment and you feel like you are living in that characters brain. — Burcu
Hope it didnt tuned our to be commercial i really get thrilled as i mentioned — Burcu
And most importantly the thing i love about her writing is she is writing with all the parts that live in our mind — Burcu
She writes without quotation marks, without dividing conversations but you can still follow and realize who is the one talking to who — Burcu
If anyone is out there who has same taste with me i will be glad to know — Burcu
Brother, already on to a different girl man; the teacher is old news. This other one does in fact like the beach she said, so it might work out super chill. Who knows though. — Zolenskify
But I digress, right now I have to pick between going out with this one girl or a chance to catch a nice swell; so, I have my work cut out for me. — Zolenskify
I didn't see it because I hadn't signed in. Not everybody does. So, they will not know about the Literary Activity. — Amity
"Where is my apple?". She said, "I ate it". We were happily married for 33 years. — jgill
Is what it sounds like, nothing to nsfw, but maybe just some coffee? — Zolenskify
But trying to teach both subjects simultaneously was counter productive. — jgill
And I am not sure the ability to write lengthy pieces with delightful descriptive flourishes is an admirable trait where succinct, to the point passages would suffice - in fact, be more readable. — jgill
How is it in Spanish? — Jafar
I read the Republic in German — Jafar
I believe there are also plenty more nations who are witnessing the same thing, and more to follow. — Christoffer
There are no long sentences and paragraphs in the same way as previous generations used in writing. — Christoffer
They don't write letters, they don't write posts like this, no actual arguments or stories; they write in short forms that themselves consist of even shorter elements, previously emojis, but now also acronyms and made-up words conveying specific meanings spread as word-based memes (not just visual ones). — Christoffer
What exactly is going on here? — Christoffer
What in culture and education fails to form these abilities? — Christoffer
With Israel on the cusp of regional war, in my opinion it is almost unthinkable that an American president is elected who is critical of Israel in any meaningful way. — Tzeentch
6. The right to bear arms. — Bob Ross
Liberals are moving away from these core values in the name of social justice. — Bob Ross
I think a healthcare system that is actually governed by the free-market would be best; and the right to bear arms is more important: what does good health care do if you can’t protect your rights? — Bob Ross
I'm not sure what you mean by "core value." — Hanover
America is a capitalist country, which makes it less Marxist than other countries, which I guess is just true. — Hanover
. I don't know how much time Americans spend thinking and commenting upon the working model of Spain, but, to the extent it is more communistic than the US, that would likely not be something many Americans would want to emulate. — Hanover
The US does have strong national healthcare. Your concern is over affordability and accessibility. — Hanover
The M-16? Sure, we all walk around with fully automatic rifles. — Hanover
Isnt there a split of values in your country, — Joshs
I think America woke up and realized that this is getting out-of-hand; and wants to go back to America’s core values. — Bob Ross
The Democrats put very little money in conservative states except sometimes for specific federal candidates. Most money is spent for "swing states", e.g. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan. — T Clark
All and all, I think globalization has been bad for American workers — T Clark
That's a good point. I didn't mention it because I'm not sure any foreign policy position would have much impact on an election here. — T Clark
Edit: javi2541997 - I see you have deleted your post. Why? — Amity
grow enough food to feed the population — Punshhh
Have heard of the mythical Mondrogon corporation. Americans would do well to learn about work cooperatives in school if wasn't always considered anti-American socialist propaganda. — Nils Loc
Wonder if Amazon (corporation) workers in anywhere in the world could get away with this, or is the labor monitoring so fine-tuned that it makes the potential for 'Spanish practices' pretty much impossible. — Nils Loc
Am sure there are very interesting examples of it written down somewhere. — Nils Loc
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/have-a-rant-spanish-practices-is-an-outdate-phrase/In the Royal Mail’s case, there are apparently 92 ‘Spanish practices’, which are said to include workers claiming overtime if mail volumes reach a certain level, or clocking in and out at the same time so no-one knows what actual hours are worked,—this is indeed my favourite :lol:—and additional payments being claimed for Easter and Christmas, even if no overtime is actually worked.
https://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-spa2.htmThe term became infamous in the 1980s as a result of battles between the print unions and management in the newspaper industry in Fleet Street. The Spanish practices included deliberate overmanning; union control over who was hired; demands for cash payments to remake a page as deadlines approached; machine-room employees who claimed wages for workers who didn’t exist; and men who might be absent for whole days while moonlighting at other jobs but who would be covered by unspoken agreements not to notice.
