throwawaypali

Interesting story I feel for the author. However, I think we are prone to hysteria about certain covid symptoms - I and my extended family have all had covid and we can all still smell. A small sample of 10ish people from thanksgiving thru now but these sorts of click bait articles leave many believing covid is commonly very severe (no, even people in their 50s have mild cold symptoms in general) and had a bunch if terrible after effects. I'm mid thirties, over weight and eat ramen noodles for lunch and dinner - I got over covid in a day or two of fever.

Uh, like most people I get around a 5% raise per anum, if inflation is higher than the CPIU estimates I'm treading water, like most people. If you're getting 10% per anum those are very unusual terms even for a high performer

Can we just go ahead and admit that the foster program is not superior to the orphanages that it replaced?

Does this actually work if you're being paid a salary in USD that wont likely rise with inflation?

Sure looks like apartheid to me.

The Zionist movement to settle isreal was openly colonialist - many banks and organizations even had 'colonial' in their name before this became unsavory.

In other threads about isreal, you'll see commentors mentioning 'vigour and a sense of pride' this is nationalist pride around a shared identity.

In general, we are pretty (rightly) critical of nationalist colonial regimes. Here we see one that is still in the later stages of colonization and the effects on their subjugated 'others' is hardly surprising.