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  • I work a job where I help assist disabled people navigate a major international airport.

    From TSA to their gates is 1/3rd of a mile. Imagine trying to walk 1/3rd of a mile with a broken leg. Or no legs.

    I KNOW my work makes a difference. I’m not enriching some billionaire asshole. I’m transporting the elderly and disabled so they can travel in an airport.

    What makes it discouraging is that SOME of these people make it feel like THEY don’t think I’m making a difference for them.

    I can’t change the shitty experience you had on Spirit airlines. I had nothing to do with that. I don’t work for any airline, but I assist with many airlines.

    They get off the plane, and yell at me because the guy next to them smelled like he hadn’t showered that month.

    I mean, that’s kind of your own fault. You chose to ride an airline that charged you $37 for your ticket, still uses boeing aircraft, and hires hobos off the street to be pilots. I cannot stress enough how little wiggle room you have to complain.

    That being said, that’s only 10% of my passengers. MOST passengers are very thankful that my job exists. So I KNOW my job matters. I just wish my employer would pay me like it does.



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    8 hours ago

    I’ve told people about Lemmy before. I got the same reaction everytime.

    “It looks like it’s just people talking about computers.”

    And their interest dies. Which tells me there needs to be more diversity of active communities. No one wants to come to a small platform, create a new dead community, and talk to themself.







  • Here’s the thing about that.

    I still think Lee Harvey Oswald was a fall guy. That being said, whomever was resposible for killing Kennedy was a hero that saved the whole plannet.

    This may sound harsh at first. But consider this. I challenge you to name another person from any country that brought us as close to WWIII with nukes as he did.

    He actively sought out invading Cuba. He armed nukes in Turkey aimed at Russia, then acted surprised when Russia did LITERALLY THE SAME THING BACK!!!

    There was a misconception back then that USSR had the advantage in nukes. In reality, the USA had close to 3x the number of nukes as USSR at the time. I still believe if Kennedy knew that, he would have gone all in on a nuclear attack. And I fully believe it would not have been fully effective. I also fully believe USSR would have retaliated. And once that happens, I don’t believe there is descalation. The cold war goes hot. And from there it’s impossible to predict what happens next. It all depends on how many nukes hit their target, and how many were shot down. In any event, I can’t imagine either side using all their nukes in one go. So now you have a hot war, where periodically one side or the other realizes they can wipe out a large portion of the others military.

    This would lead to a situation where neither side would place their armies too close together. Which means now this evolves into a series of micro wars all around the world. And whichever side won would be THE superpower.

    And no other president has brought us closer to that scenario. There was a time, for 3 weeks, when that was the expected result. USSR nukes pointed at USA, and USA nukes pointed at (mainly) Russia. Tanks for both sides on the east/west German border. Both sides hesitant to fire first. Both sides knowing what would happen if a single shot were fired. Eventually, backing up inch by inch. Both sides compromising.

    Kennedy is the one who brought us to that point. He’s remembered fondly, simply because the vietnam war hadn’t escalated under his watch, even though thats what he WAS going to do. He fully prepared to do what Johnson did. His advisors were taking him down that path. But people forget that.




  • How is this meant for THIS sub? I already have this same story in my feed 3 other times. But those 3 other posts are in news related subs. SOME overlap in content is to be expected as some subs content overlap.

    But THIS post, shouldn’t be one of them.

    BTW this message is not in any way meant to be a pro-ICE defending comment. Fuck ICE. They are criminals. They are American S.S.

    The point is there are places we SHOULD discuss this story. Put all your comments in those posts. Not here.