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Traditionally it means jobs which could be done by most people with only a minimum of training, rather than anything about formal education. Trades generally do not fall under this because they require significant training, whereas a general labourer who assists a tradesperson with moving materials and cleaning and such would be “unskilled” in this sense. Working the checkouts at a supermarket, doing data entry, or most positions in a fast food place would be unskilled. Any position in which the employer wouldn’t be requiring qualifications or experience if they were hiring your replacement.

Of course they’re all still 100% real jobs and should be respected as such, so I wouldn’t be against figuring out a term that feels a bit less dismissive of them

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Based on the votes it seems like nobody is getting the joke here, but I liked it at least

To be honest I think we could just ditch the apostrophe in contractions altogether. I cant think of a situation in which itd make anything less clear. At worst there are perhaps uses of the fairly rare non-contraction verb “cant” that wouldn’t be immediately clear

This is like if The Pack went to sea

look mate some of us just like fonts. don’t kinkshame

Why did they vote in the guy that said “For Ukraine, association with the European Union must become an important stimulus for forming a modern European state,” and that he was going to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement? That does not seem at all contradictory to me. His sudden U-turn on that was what got the Ukrainian people so pissed at him

Ukrainians already wanted to align with the EU. The US didn’t need to do a damn thing to influence that, a long history of Russian imperialism did it all for them

America spent fuck all on Ukraine in the entire history of its independence up until Euromaidan (pg 167). They simply did not spend “all that money”, because a single digit millions of dollars a year is a rounding error in the US budget. American spending on Ukraine in 2013 was 0.00024% of the federal budget.

If America’s goal was to put Svoboda in power, they didn’t do a very good job of keeping them there, did they?

I have read the Nuland transcript. She’s talking about the existing leader of the opposition. Of course she said Yatsenyuk was the guy, he was the goddamn leader of the opposition. He was the one guy avalable with the best democratic mandate at the last election. Yanukovych even offered to make him prime minister at one point.

Russia put troops into Crimea before the referendum, and the referendum was run by the occupying army. Do you normally trust occupying armies to run referendums about whether or not they should get to keep the land they’re occupying?

Perhaps if Russia was so concerned about casualties in the Donbas, it should not have invaded and caused hundreds of thousands more casualties.

long before Russia went in

There’s a problem with this, because Russia has had troops in Ukraine since early 2014, before Poroshenko’s government

There has been recognition of a particularly useful application of Möbius strips for a long time: belts in machinery wear out slower if they’re Möbius strips, because that way the contact with the shafts is split between both sides of the belt. The oldest example of this usage I know of is from a 13th century engineer in the region of modern-day Iraq and Syria

This is exactly it

My greatest ever achievement in the kitchen was that time I successfully cut a bagel into two interlocked rings like this

That makes sense. Not something to be taken too seriously, but a bit of fun engagement with the past in a space where it’s not hurting anyone if the details are wonky

I’m not about to pick fights with good legislation over it not immediately solving the entire problem

They’re people explicitly looking to dodge taxes by converting their accumulated wealth into an untaxable asset. So you’re not seeing small farmers shielded from consolidation thanks to inheritance taxes. You’re seeing celebrities and mega-millionaires shielding cash assets behind an accounting trick.

This is exactly what the policy is aiming to address. Even if it doesn’t fix the consolidation of farmland by big companies, I don’t see how addressing this loophole is a bad thing, especially when you describe the drawback to it as having already happened anyway

Beetroot is great when winter comes round. It fits so well in those hearty roasted dishes

try some old recipes

What do you think of Max Miller’s youtube channel?

One of the mustard plants is actually a close relative of the broccoli/cabbage/cauliflower/the rest of that set, and it gets used as a vegetable (as opposed to just the seeds being made into a condiment) in a fair few places

…I don’t think that’s actually what they meant, but it’s possible!

Vinland is Newfoundland, I’m afraid! It’s not generally thought that the Norse made it as far south in the Americas as the modern day contiguous USA

Fake-eating an electrical plug. The plug was both not connected to any power - I was “eating” the end that goes into the wall - and also never even close to actually being in my mouth, but the teacher was apparently at just the right angle for it to look convincing and freaked enough that he decided to call my parents and give me lines