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  • What do you mean by you don't understand science? Like you don't understand the process by which scientific knowledge is aquired? Or you don't understand the mechanisms behind things like biology or physics? Or something else?

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    Unions exist to protect the workers from unfair and dangerous labor conditions. Who’s really against this? The answer will tell you a lot.
  • "Unions exist" not 'were created' or 'have always been'. Yes, some Unions have fairly unpleasant histories as do the employers that they were organizing against. Unions have typically been much faster to offer protection to marginalized groups than employers or even governments have. My mother's Union protected her back in the 80s when it was still perfectly legal and commonplace for people to be fired for being gay. My immigrant father's Union protected him in the 70s from bigoted management. My union has been offering protection for transsexuals for decades.

    Union violence was often a direct response to the violence of employers. Employers' casual disregard for the safety and lives of their workers undoubtedly outstrips any violence perpetrated by Unions. Let's also not overlook the violence of their paid union busters either. Thankfully Unions have moved past that despite so many employers ignoring or circumventing safety standards and sending their employees out with missing limbs or in body bags.

    And if you're going for historical accuracy, it's very likely that the formation of Unions would have been impossible without violence.

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  • I went to a Sikh wedding a while ago, the groom's family was Sikh and the bride's family was from Vancouver. After the service the bride and groom sat on the floor while people talked to them from behind. As they were turned to talk to the people behind them everyone else would pass in front of them and leave money in their laps. There were no gifts.

    They also did a North American type reception a few days later and there were gifts for that but they were registered.

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  • I didn't either. Found it four pages deep. under "other privacy settings", nonchalantly placed at the bottom of the last page. And i just did a search for that kind of thing two weeks ago and somehow missed it.

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