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- imbecile0
'World's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth in 2017', says Oxfam
- imbecile11
chart shows how 8 billionaires have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people
- and meanwhile google gets 20% of advertising budgets from industrialized nations...
those guys have big amounts of their money in the industry,uan - all white menClaymantis
- Not really.monospaced
- Point being? Of those 3.6, about 3.2 will never know about it and most of the remainder - if they do know - don't care because they can't do anything about it********
- Well said Busty.robthelad
- yeah busty, my thoughts. the 1% of the 1% of the 1%mugwart
- Income diversity; not news. What would be news is if everyone on the planet suddenly had $55k. And if that happened, it wouldn't last long.********
- Thought they would own more. Disappointing...pango
- So it's not a problem because the worst off can't do anything about it?i_monk
- and meanwhile google gets 20% of advertising budgets from industrialized nations...
- sarahfailin7
http://www.independent.co.uk/new…
The latest on that fucked up couple who tortured their children in California.
Turns out they're originally from Texas. Their old Texas house was apparently in such bad condition -- covered with excrement and the bathroom floor rotted out -- that they moved into a doublewide trailer behind the house before the house was foreclosed on and they moved to California.
Billy Baldwin (the worst Baldwin) bought their old house. No lie.
- Every kid has dads bowl cutRamanisky2
- I can't read anything more about this story, it makes me want to smash things.face_melter
- Specifically the parents.face_melter
- Dad was contractor for big firm that contracted out to the government, yowza!robotron3k
- imbecile2
Starbucks to increase wages, improve benefits for 150K employees
http://www.foxbusiness.com/marke…
Starbucks said Wednesday it will increase wages and enact other perks for more than 150,000 U.S. employees as a direct result of recent tax reform, joining other corporations in rewarding workers.
The Seattle-based coffee chain is giving all of its U.S.-based hourly and salaried workers an unspecified raise in April, in addition to a wage increase already dispersed earlier in the Starbucks’ fiscal year, which began last October. Starbucks says it is investing roughly $120 million in the wage increases.
Starbucks is also awarding workers stock grants worth a total of more than $100 million to those employed by the chain as of Jan. 1, 2018. Retail employees will receive at least a $500 grant, while store managers will receive grants of $2,000, the chain said.
- And the #BasicBitches all cheer in Skinny Frap Joy!. Toys 'R' Us is closing a shit ton of stores. I read that news today.capn_ron
- Toys 'R' Us is closing 180 storesimbecile
- Sears is closing 63 storesimbecile
- Kmart is closing 45 storesimbecile
- Macy's is closing 68 storesimbecile
- Sam's Club is closing 63 storesimbecile
- Nothing to do with tax cut thoughimbecile
- will that apply to the majority part-timers?Gnash
- that's a lotta stores right there. phew!capn_ron
- Nice. So a major corporation is celebrating its billion dollar swampy tax break by giving out peanuts and selling $12 sugar drinks. Nice, nice.monospaced
- Let's all be distracted by this so we don't focus on the fact that their top brass (the 1%) is making more money than ever.monospaced
- The very idea that this is trickle down is laughable at best. What's a $500 bonus ... $300 cash? NOTHING compared to a $250,000 raise.monospaced
- ^ still, they didn't have to do anythingGnash
- top 1% got 82% of 2017 wealth
some are focused on it.imbecile - they forgot to mention when the robot baristas will arrive. how much they're going to increase prices to offset the new costs.dorf
- the standard deviation of the current vs new wage.dorf
- ^ a la Amazon Go
https://www.amazon.c…Gnash
- imbecile0
Lowe's Hiring More Than 53,000 Employees To Support Customers And Communities
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/l…
Full-time, part-time and seasonal positions available now for spring season and beyond
MOORESVILLE, N.C., Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In preparation for home improvement's busiest season, Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW) is hiring more than 53,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees across its U.S. stores, adding to the company's nearly 250,000 current U.S. store employees.
In-store seasonal positions, which typically support stores between March and September, include cashiers, lawn and garden associates, stockers, assemblers of outdoor products and loaders. Lowe's seasonal employees benefit from competitive pay, a 10 percent employee discount and flexible hours, including the ability to see their schedule 17 days in advance and swap shifts with others as needed.
- $10.56/hr...Where do I sign-up?utopian
- https://www.everyjob…imbecile
- how many did they hire last year for the "busy season"?dorf
- Family lives in Moorseville. Ill send this to the teens...ArmandoEstrada
- robotron3k-7
- take your foot off the seat when asked. what an idiotGnash
- We startin to see more women feelin privileged-can’t believe the girl spit in the cops face and they let her off. If it was a man...robotron3k
- "manhandles"?inteliboy
- Hmmm********
- The real question is how do people have that much free space on their phone to record a 10 minute video?stoplying
- ^ haha. so trueGnash
- Hand cuffed for putting foot on seat. Lol what is this!? Nazi Germany?!pango
- Shouldn't this be like ticket kind of situation?pango
- robotron3k-6
- Jesus, why Caroline Aherne but?
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http://www.dailymail…detritus - (sophia) she's probably got more personality than nearly all those people that appear on the ride side of that dailymail webpageBluejam
- iWood®utopian
- Jesus, why Caroline Aherne but?
- ********5
Create an app that does nothing, make vague promises about future of said app, sell it to a legitimate business and GTFO.
CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company
CNN acquired Beme in late 2016 with hopes that it would become a major piece of its digital business. Now Neistat’s leaving the company.
- lolchukkaphob
- https://images-na.ss…yuekit
- what do you expect when he works out 6 hours a day but sleeps for only 2.
Punchiest face on youtube._niko - boss levelinstrmntl
- PonyBoy-9
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/2…
“Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.”
- Serving a party of 20 with plastic straws could lead up to 10 years in jail.********
- looks like something omg would post, have something to tell us Pony? Are you secretly omg?capn_ron
- DV PONY
IS NOW
ILLEGALGuyFawkes - just a ridiculous story... but unfortunately true, capn... what's wrong w/posting it?PonyBoy
- nothing wrong with posting it, it is a ridiculous story, i agree. just seemed like something omg would post so I asked if you are omg.capn_ron
- capn_ron is just secretly... wanting to know who the daddy is with the long straw.********
- Update: Reason spoke with Voleck Taing, a senior assistant to Assemblyman Calderon, who said they intend to amend the bill to remove the fines.dmay
- omg, i (not-so)secretly want to know who you are. the real omg. like be friends and hang with.capn_ron
- ide hang w emGuyFawkes
- it’s amazing how different people behave in personGuyFawkes
- Serving a party of 20 with plastic straws could lead up to 10 years in jail.
- imbecile5
Ancient jaw bone found in Israel shows modern humans left Africa 180,000 years ago
- But, but the Bible?nbq
- Africa has been a shit hole for some time I'm guessing...robotron3k
- ^Trump echo chamber. Lolpango
- Feet had seven toes? (or is that 8?)Krassy
- great sturdy teeth as well. Fuck sugar and dentists, they are not needed, another western enslavement construct ;)fadein11
- detritus1
Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia's interference in US-elections
- Interesting. Dutch - Russia relations are a bit strained after MH17.Fax_Benson
- Lol... Are you serious Nairn? Believing this shit... Or are you being ironic?OBBTKN
- Believe? All I believe is that things aren't as black and white as people on either side like to make out. What do you KNOW?detritus
- Like the rest of us, I suspect you KNOW very little, so I'm not sure what right you have to react with such scornful I.detritus
- *incredulitydetritus
- I know there is an agenda for to pointing at the rus in this particular thing mate... and looking the way the same news agencies lied about other questions...OBBTKN
- I'm not going to believe a shit about this for now, they're demonising this country for the interests you can easily imagine...OBBTKN
- But ey! Like you so many times said, we know a shit about those particular things/newsOBBTKN
- jaylarson1
The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts
http://www.paywallnews.com/life/…
- robotron3k-4
You guys have free health care, the dole, and liberal policies, but still... Why so much hate there??
There was a record number of acid attacks in London in 2017, police data shows, as perpetrators turn to household cleaning products as weapons.
In response to a freedom of information request by CNN, data from the London Metropolitan Police showed a sharp rise in attacks, with 465 recorded in 2017, up from 395 the previous year and 255 in 2015. The attacks increased six-fold over six years.
Additional police data from the first 11 months of 2017 show that the attacks are predominantly a problem among young males.
More than 75% of suspected attackers and around 60% of victims were between the ages of 10 and 29. In terms of gender, 71% of attackers and 72% of victims were also male.
This is where London bucks the global trend. In many other parts of the world with high numbers of acid attacks, such as South Asia, the act is overwhelmingly carried out by men against women they know.
- it's a v.nasty recent gang related trend mainly centred around London, much as knife crime was/is a problem.fadein11
- Still nothing on your gun probs though.fadein11
- "the dole" do you know how hard it is to live off the state now in the UK, no you don't do you, because you are a retarded bitter nasty troll lolfadein11
- "liberal policies" you do not have a clue do you. Our govt is farther right than yours. our press is predominantly right as well (or the popular press is)fadein11
- do some basic research before you spew your utter drivel again.fadein11
- Lol at the dole. Is it giro day?Fax_Benson
- I thought CNN was supposedly fake news? You absolute fanny.face_melter
- absolute bell-end, he's rapidly becoming omg²fadein11
- you Brits can never offend me, I just imagine the classic British baby-talk style of voice when I read the comments. it's so fucking cute...robotron3k
- Still, the growing trend of disfigurement by acid attack in a 1st world country, up to 5 a day, is surprising and horrific on its own.robotron3k
- is this a wide-spread practice or limited to certain ethnic communities?_niko
- lol @ getting offended when you were the offensive one robo. Learn something about a country before commenting on it. You seem to think we are a socialistfadein11
- country with left/liberal media. You are v.wrong.fadein11
- robo can't even troll in a worthwhile manner. He's a Netto omg.face_melter
- @niko -- i think it's limited to poor communitiesGnash
- What gnash said nikofadein11
- Gnash0
Budget cuts aren't helping
- The police force is on its knees through this govts. austerity policies. As is the NHS. As is social care. As is pretty much anything that involves the care offadein11
- UK citizens.fadein11
- ^ Hey, how is Sky News viewed in the UK?Gnash
- Sky is along fox lines but not as absurdly bad. Same agenda/ownerfadein11
- Or major owner i should sayfadein11
- I say that but I have seen some quite reasonable reports on their recently about subjects you don't normally see on there.fadein11
- thanks. that's kinda the impression I hadGnash
- Sorry for my typos/spelling. On my phone at timefadein11
- ********0
Evolution! Still a monkey though.
Chinese scientists break key barrier by cloning monkeys
https://www.reuters.com/article/…- you’re a species of great ape and you still don’t grasp how evolution works, which is really sadmonospaced
- Muming PooClaymantis
- sted1
"The New York Times reported earlier about a 2014 trial in a U.S. laboratory in which 10 monkeys inhaled diesel emissions from a VW Beetle"
no need for link that's the news, Volkswagen is done- like saying every pharma company is done, unlikely.fadein11
- https://worldanimalt…Gnash
- fucked upGuyFawkes
- Volkswagen gave me cloned monkey disease!HijoDMaite
