Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007) had a vocabulary of over 100 words, but was exceptional in that he appeared to have understanding of what he said. For example, when Alex was shown an object and was asked about its shape, color, or material, he could label it correctly. He could understand that a key was a key no matter what its size or color, and could figure out how the key was different from others. One day, he asked what color he was, and learned “grey” after being told the answer six times. This made him the first non-human animal to have ever asked an existential question. [x]
Alex’s last words were also “You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you.” [x]
These were the same words that Alex would say every day when his owner left the lab.
When babies babble in baby talk they’re trying to repeat what they hear in an attempt to learn how to communicate better with their own species so if you want your baby to talk sooner speak in full regular [insert language here] not babbles and coos. Dogs, on the other hand, will never understand English so babble to them all you want they will love it and wiggle around when you do
The girl cut her hair once so that she could have bangs. The mother disapproved and decided to cut off 15" of her hair as punishment. The girl later again decided to change her hair style and the above was the result; she shaved her daughters head.
Having a few personal experiences with this kind of invasive behaviour it really hurts to see someone go through these kinds of things, where the parent tries to live vicariously through their childs life, to attempt to shape them and make their decisions for them depending on what THEY would do and give their child NO independence or self expression.
Thankfully, this mother thought her actions were 100% justifiable and posted it to Facebook as a bit of a “haha, teach my kid a lesson” and has been hit with brutal recrimination from her community and has had visits from Child Protective Services.
For so many young (and older) girls their hair is their self expression, and in several months I hope this girl will have hers back.
Okay, saw this on my timeline and it absolutely infuriated me. My feelings on the military notwithstanding, lets take a look at some numbers. I’m about to drop some knowledge y'all.
This will be operating solely off of mcdonalds pay, other places will have different numbers. Also, a lot of this will be average prices and rents, obviously different situations. Also, feel free to correct my math.
An E1 in the military apparently makes 18 thousand a year. At current pay the average starting pay at Mcds, is 8 bucks an hour according to google, because it recently gave employees a ten percent raise. So, assuming that everything is perfect in lalaland, every mcds employee manages to get 40 hours a week every week(Which isn’t a thing that happens but lets assume) So, if an employee making 8 bucks an hour gets 40 hours a week, times four weeks in a month, times 12 months, then the math looks like 8x40x4x12, which equals out to 15360 a year.
Now, the average price for a two bedroom apartment is $650 a month, plus internet, cable, ect. average phone bill is about 100 bucks, average cable/internet is about 90. average electric is 90. So, that brings monthly bills to $930, not counting food. So the yearly cost of simply living in the united states is $11,160 Average grocery costs is an additional 6,443. So if we take those together, we end up with……..$17,603. what was the perfect yearly wage again? $15,360?
Now, an E1 in the military makes about 18k a year. Which is over the yearly costs as demonstrated by my previous math. However, if you subtract the 650 dollar rent and the 90 dollar electric bill, as the government pays for those if you live on base, then monthly bills for someone in the military is only 190 plus food, which if we take away 10% because of military discount, it ends up being 6003 dollars. SO, 130x12+6003 dollars ends up being. $7563. A YEAR That still leaves the military guy 11K TO SPEND. versus the mds worker who can’t even make enough to come out even?
Now, I’m no mathematician, but something here doesn’t match up.
And this is for a single person living alone, on perfect mcdonalds wage. Now, obviously this doesn’t account for two incomes, or kids, or people living in a single apartment, which usually costs less, and people who’s job doesn’t give them a perfect 40 hours, and I’m not going to go into things like car insurance, medical insurance, ect because that’s even more, but in general I think this makes my point.
Now, this thing says that if someone made 15 bucks an hour, they would make $31,200. I don’t know how they got that number, because 15x40 hours a weekx4 weeks a monthx12 months only adds up to 28800. So in order for someone to make 31 thousand a year they have to work over full time in order to get that much. which isn’t a thing that happens often.
Now if we have $28,800, and we subtract the $17,603, we end up with 11,197. Which If you notice, is about the same amount the military E1 had after expenses. Now, lets say that Mcds employee doesn’t “Deserve” to make enough to be equal to a member of the military. Fine, whatever,
My point still stands, that, its not just about yearly wages, people deserve to have enough to live off of, to be able to participate in the american economy, and to come out ahead, regardless of the job. So, i say to Jennifer Harris and anyone who agrees with this, how about you think beyond basic numbers before you say stupid things.
*mic Drop.
Why does this only have a few notes this is really fucking important
Please message this lady and ask her why she didn’t join the military, if it is the only respectable thing to do with ones life apparently
This also ignores the fact that the military doesn’t hire everyone. You have to be able-bodied in pretty much every way (there’s a few minor disabilities they allow), and you have to be both cis and dyadic – trans people are considered psychologically unfit, and intersex people are considered medically unfit.
I’m somewhat concerned that the line OP is taking here is “fast food workers are overpaid” and not “members of the armed forces are underpaid.”
Living wages for everyone!
I can’t believe this person missed the chance to say McDrop.
