Modern slavery includes forced labor, bonded labor, trafficked people, and child labor - it’s analogous to chattel style historic slavery in that the conditions are similar.
Current estimates are 50m people living in these conditions today, vastly more than at any time in human history.
Sure, but plenty of people are overworked today.
I agree that things will vary a lot by time and place.
Is slavery less common today ?
The police in Australia here don’t really spend there time watching people and forcing them to do the right thing.
A lot of their resources are invested in regulating traffic. Issuing fines for speeding, playing with phones, not wearing a seatbelt. If you don’t punish people for being dickheads on the road it will be a shit show. If there’s an accident they show up in a moment, manage traffic, get the wrecks off the road, et cetera.
Another important function is domestic violence and other related domestic disputes. If someone is getting beaten by their spouse, a neighbor might call the police. They will show up and take the appropriate actions to resolve. Whether that’s just informal counseling or charging one or other combatant.
They also deal with mental health and substance abuse issues. I remember 20 years ago I woke up one morning and there was some teenager in my back yard. He was ranting about the robots attacking or something. I called the police and they showed up and took him to the emergency ward at the hospital.
They also manage petty or minor theft. I remember someone stole a (very nice) pair of shoes from my front door. I had some pretty good footage of them, and it’s a complicated story but they’d actually left a beer bottle with their prints on it earlier in the day. The police showed up and used the video to get the authorisation to search a couple of houses and found a bunch of stolen stuff.
If you didn’t have “police”, you’d need some other organisation to do these things.
Depends what you mean by “easier”.
I think there was more down time in the day. Yes more manual work but not for 8 or 12 hours a day, at least before the industrial revolution.
There were also more hardships without modern medicine.
Anyone who did not vote for Kamala on the basis of her position on the war in Gaza is an idiot.
This “article” doesn’t really say anything. Of course Kamala lost support because of Gaza. It was an unwinnable issue. She would’ve lost support from either the moderates or the left no matter what her position was.
There were literally idiots protesting about Gaza outside Kamala’s events. Everyone joking in this thread about shooting yourself in the foot. If you had have asked the Trump team, how can we of the left really shoot ourselves in the foot - they would have said go protest about Gaza outside Kamala’s events. Well done idiots.
I bet Gazans are really glad that people didn’t vote for Kamala, I bet that as they dig the remains of friends and neighbours from the rubble they take solace in the fact that at least some Americans didn’t vote for Kamala and sent a message to the Democrat party. I mean Trump’s board of peace is sure as shit going to deliver them prosperity and joy, at least if you’re a wealthy white Israeli anyway.
Everyone knows.
I doubt there’s anyone here who is not already aware of these details.
Common sense says you can’t get convicted as a sex offender for grabbing someone by the arm if you had reason to believe they were in imminent danger.
These kinds of stories have been around since the dawn of time for all sorts of things. Whenever you investigate the details it turns out that either the story is completely made up, or the offense was much more serious than it sounded.
Like the woman who sued macdonalds for getting third degree burns because their coffee was too hot.
The screen caps on the original project page seem to imply a proper web ui:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
Hard to be sure but the menu bar doesn’t look like the native menu.
This is the correct answer.
If you live in SE Asia for example you speak your local language at home but you need to learn English for work.
If you already speak English at home then you already know how to speak English at work.
This poll is the same as all the others.
“Some Americans think Trump may possibly not be amazing”
They do tell us that apparently most Americans are idiots but that’s about it.
Either plan is fine.
Pretty temperate here.
Doors and windows open at least some of the day all year round.
I love sleeping with the windows open in the summer.
You mean the reddit repost bots? I dont hate the bots but the guy running them is as dumb as a box of rocks.
Lets kick start the fediverse by flooding it with trash no one interacts with.
Amazing.
“burn out” in the common vernacular is a nebulous, poorly defined condition.
If you’re unhappy “in” your work, then it doesn’t really matter what you call it.
The solution is always going to involve less of that work - whether that’s a holiday, a change in jobs, or a reduction in hours. You can’t just memorise a mnemonic or start walking the dog.
This sounds more like general stress and anxiety rather than “burn out” as I understand it.
I didnt say we shouldn’t punish people.
yes. Maybe look into it.