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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • In a way, yes. Good healthy families are a core of a functioning society. However some examples you gave:

    Why do you need a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day?

    Unless you’re in a society where doctors are available in the evening, this is a silly question

    Why do you need to go pick up a prescription at lunch time

    Again, depends on the pharmacist’s opening hours

    like why can’t you work through lunch?

    This is just stupid completely

    They need the job a lot more. They have a little girl!

    This makes sense, as again, someone with a child needs to provide for a family

    Clearly they need it more than the the person who has a disabled spouse, because kids are way more important than an adult dependent!

    This is stupid and a disabled spouse or any dependent should also be taken into consideration

    We can’t fire this person, they have kids! Let’s choose someone who doesn’t have a family.

    This makes sense. Some people need more money than others. That’s a basic fact. You or I would find more value in £1000 than a billionaire would.

    Society flourishes when there are more middle class families flourishing. (By “more” middle class, I mean raising people to the middle class and maintaining those who are as well.) It is natural order that we should make society an easier environment to have a family in, rather than harder. Lest you end up like Japan or China with a declining population

    Society was wrong when it started to hate women who had more kids and lived off of child benefits (and maybe a husband’s wage helping as well). If they’re actually doing a decent job at parenting, let them.










  • I mean, I wouldn’t expect a supermarket break room to be immaculately kept. It actually looks alright. Depends on how good of a place it is to work, etc. My guess is that most employees usually book their birthday off, this guy didn’t (some people just don’t bother, which is understandable) and some colleague was like “we had to do something”, so got a pizza from what they were allowed. I think there are pictures far more depressing than this (like Amazon’s Christmas dinner which was probably an actual big organised thing for a mass amount of people).

    I know someone who works in a supermarket and colleagues usually give them a nice cake, but it’s passed its sell-by by a few days. It sounds depressing, but the cake is perfectly fine and would just be thrown out due to policy.