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Your reasoning is speculation and your sources only really show evidence for your claim that religiosity is declining.

Another correlation with birthrate is wealth. Wealthy countries have more expensive costs associated with raising children, such as housing and childcare. Given that children can't effectively work for 15-20 years, they are a financial burden. In poor countries, children become another set of hands that can be put to use from only a few years old.


This is almost certainly a UK specific experience. The police here have a track record of treating people who report crimes with disdain.


It’s no different here where I live in Australia, for small property crimes anyway. They’ll file a report at least, but nothing will happen even if you know exactly who did it and have video proof.


More universal than you might suspect. Cops treating the 'citizens' with disdain is a pretty common feature of cops, at least in my experience.


That is, sadly, a rather universal experience.


I doubt in office staff are more valued by companies than remote staff. If the company is moderately large then you will not be any more visible than a remote worker.

I'd be surprised if we're not just figures on a spreadsheet to those high enough up.


> I'd be surprised if we're not just figures on a spreadsheet to those high enough up.

Sure we are, and aggregates in fact, not individual figures.


It can pick up other strategically useful info than just photographs such as radio comms and relay it back to home via satelite.


Maybe I'm making it up, but I swear I've read somewhere that the answers are shit on purpose so you to go to their paid support.

Sounds Microsoftian enough to be plausible.


>At work, there's a box on an HR form where employees can choose between: disabled, not disabled, or prefer not to say

I've always assumed these things were just for statistics. I doubt much will change just from changing your answer.

That said, in the places I've worked (disclaimer: not US) it seems the vast majority of people are not just accepting of autism but are actively aware of how it affects people and are prepared to make adjustments to accommodate.

It wouldn't even be brought up in an interview in my current team, unless you wanted to discuss it. It wouldn't be held against you at all.

I think it might surprise you if you communicate the problems you're having. If someone in my team felt like their work environment was causing them to need to pull all nighters then we'd try to address it.


Is it a form of expression to walk around in semen encrusted sweatpants?


Obviously. In the same way you are largely able to say what you want even if it’s distasteful.


I'm not going to defend the other commenters point but I find your position strange.

Imagine a person covered in poo, ripped clothes leaving visible track marks from using intraveinous drugs.

I'm sure if you were forced to interact with that person, you'd not be happy, right? Does that make you shallow?

I'm not sure someone wearing pyjamas is the slippery slope the previous commenter thinks it is, but their point about preferring people who make themselves more presentable is valid.


I’m rather confused. The topic was how one looked. Where did poo and drugs come from? And where did happiness come from? Do you consider happiness a judgement?


This is horribly reductive.

Put aside the sample size of one for a moment. The fact you've only dealt with the police when genuinely committing crimes, and their response was proportional to the crime, is most likely down to your skin colour.


> and their response was proportional to the crime, is most likely down to your skin colour.

And also due to the fact I was calm, reasonable, cooperative, and didn't point a gun at them. If you are trying to argue that a person's behavior has no effect on how likely they are to be killed by a cop then you are just completely wrong.


Do you mean like the way Philando Castile was calm, reasonable, and cooperative while being executed after being stopped for a break light issue?

What about Charles Kinsey who was as cool and compliant and non-threatening as possible,

What about Donovan Lewis? Is it reasonable to execute a sleeping man?

What about Erik Cantu? I guess eating a hamburger in a parking lot is a capital offense?

BTW, the number of cases like the few I mentioned are FAR too numerous to even keep track of.

If you think that a persons skin color has no effect on how likely they are to be killed by a cop then you are just completely wrong.


Those are 4 people out of many thousands that have been killed by police in the US, they are hardly representative. A persons actions have hundreds of times more impact on how likely they are to be killed by a cop than his race.


I half expected this to be an AI generated title.

500 yen is a small price to pay for being able to tell this story.


500 yen == $3.87 USD in 2023.


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