The thing that Miguel posted about Publix not paying for PrEP for HIV then being strong armed into it has really pissed me off.

It was only a week ago I made a post about why LGBT acceptance has gone down.  Well, right now, I’m mad as hell at the LGBT community.

At this point in my life I am an employee.  One day I hope to be an employer.  I’d like to stop working for the man and become the man.  This is the kind of thing that worries me about starting my own company.  Not that my ideas or technology won’t work, but that I’m going to get screwed financially out of existence by regulations and bullshit before I ever get off the ground.

The comments I’ve seen in the news are that Publix did this because they are homophobic, and donates to Republicans.  More comments by (gay) people are that it’s a bigoted policy because Publix covers the flu shots and birth control, but not HIV prophylactics.

As a future employer this is how I see it.

At some point in their lives, about half the country is going to be on birth control.  Providing birth control has become a standard benefit from employers.  I could not pay for it, but then I wound’t be competitive and my ability to attract and retain good employees – either women or men who have their wives covered – would be diminished.  The cost of birth control is between $15 and $60 dollars per month.  Taking the average, that is $380 per year.

Take an average engineer salary of $75,000 per year.  Salary is about half the value of an employee to an employer.  So an engineer at  $75K, actually is worth about $150K per year.  That’s $75/hour of work time.  That is the break even math bases for my analysis.

At $380 average for birth control, it costs me 5 hours of time for a female engineer to pay for her to fuck her husband without a condom.  If that is what it takes, roughly half of one working day, to have good female employees, that’s a no brainier.  The math works in my favor.  Done.

Let’s take the flu shot.  That costs about $40 per year.  The flu is highly contagious in an office environment.  The flu costs $10.4 billion in lost work hours in America every year.

If a $40 flu shot keeps an engineer from taking ONE sick day in a year, it was a good investment.  It cost me 30 minutes of his time to save a whole working day.  Done.  Money well spent.

PrEP costs about $13,000 per year.  That is 173 hours or 21 work days just to cover the cost of PrEP.

For the cost of one gay may to fuck random men in the ass without a condom, I can pay for 34 women to fuck their husbands and boyfriends.

If a female engineer gets pregnant, I could cover the cost of her delivering by cesarean for less than the cost of PrEP.

It is unbelievably arrogant, monumentally narcissistic, for a gay employee to think that he is worth almost 20% more than any of his co workers in preventative healthcare costs so that he can be a night club cum dumpster in his off hours.

If the mantra is “equal pay for equal work” than that gay employee better be putting in some serious overtime to justify his medical costs, not to cure a disease, but as a prophylactic.  If he thinks he can do is 40 hours and go clubbing, he’s not pulling his economic weight.

Insurance is a risk pool.  I’d cover cancer, heart attacks, etc, because in all likelihood most employees won’t ever need that level of care.  If they do, it should be a one time deal.  How long can we expect an employee to be on PrEP?  Five years?  Ten?

Going back to Publix, a full time, non-manager salaried position makes about $27,000 per year.  If that full time, non-manager is a single gay man, he’s asking Publix to cover health benefits to the tune of 48% of his salary – for him to take it in the butt without a rubber.

That’s the equivalent to him making one-and-a-half times as much as his co-workers in terms of overall costs to the company.

The simple economic truth is that single, young, gay men are just to expensive to employ if the company has to subsidize their irresponsible lifestyle.

The gay community and its allies who threatened to boycott Publix didn’t think this one through.  They got all high and might on social media and signaled their virtue on Twitter.  The reality is they strong armed Publix into a financially unfeasible situation to appease a fraction of a tiny minority of potential employees.

Rep. Carlos Smith should be ashamed of himself.

BREAKING: Less than 24 hours after meeting w/me, @Publix has reversed course and is expanding their employee insurance coverage to include the HIV prevention pill, PrEP! Diplomacy LIVES! #Sayfie https://t.co/FHn3yE7HwW

— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) February 6, 2018

I’ll tell you exactly what is going to happen now.

Business after business will see a young man drive into the parking lot in a Mazda Miata or with a rainbow flag sticker on the bumper and all of a sudden “the position has been filled.”

And to hell with all the activists who protested or went to Twitter with this.

Gay men have priced themselves out of the market as useful employees.

You did this to yourselves.

I saw the Falcon Heavy launch today, and it was really cool.

I guess because that was trending, LinkedIn sent me a job notification for a Materials Engineer position at SpaceX.

I am fully qualified.  I have a Ph.D. in materials engineering, I run a materials lab, I have a back ground in aircraft failure analysis.  I am everything you want.

I see a lot of open positions at SpaceX.

Here’s my question.  Why are you based in Hawthorne California?

I make roughly $97,000 per year.  I bought a house in Huntsville for $230,000.  It’s got 2,800 sq-ft and a fenced in yard.  I pay roughly $1,450/mo for mortgage and escrow.

Glassdoor estimates you will pay me about $103,000.

For the same $1,450/mo, I can afford a 1 bed, 1 bath, 637 sq-ft condo in Torrance.

To have roughly the same size house in the area, for my wife and two kids, I have to spend $570,000 for a house in  the ghetto.  That will cost me in mortgage payments 40% of my salary in a year.

It’s great for Elon Musk and his $20 Billion to live in Malibu, but for a salaried engineer with the education and experience you want to move a family into 600 sq-ft of apartment is unreasonable.

The job seems pretty cool, but if you double my cost of living, you are going to have to double my salary, and I just don’t see you doing that.

Maybe next time, you’ll set up your facility in a  place were more than just the CEO can afford to live in something larger than a refrigerator box.

When you do, I’ll submit a resume.

Canadian Prime Minister and wake bae, male feminist, terrorist sympathizing, pretty boy Justin Trudeau was answering questions when this happened.

He wasn’t joking: Justin Trudeau interrupts woman during Q&A when she used the word “mankind.” He recommended that she say “peoplekind” instead. pic.twitter.com/mG61BlDcVU

— Andy Ngô ?️‍? (@MrAndyNgo) February 5, 2018

He’s such a woke feminist that he condescendingly mansplained to a teen girl.

That is so pathetic to watch it’s unbelievable.

At this point I’m waiting to Trudeau to mandate that Canadians have to get a permit to possess a dick, which cannot exceed 105 mm (4.1) inch in length, or be equipped with standard capacity balls.

Except if you are a woman who identifies as a man, then the Canadian health care system will give you one for free.

Ithaca High School has canceled their production of the musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame because the role of Esmeralda went to a white girl.

In the original Victor Hugo novel, Esmeralda was born Agnes, the illegitimate daughter of a French prostitute and a French nobleman.  She was kidnapped by Gypsies.  She is ethnically European.  Even if she was assumed to be Romani, that would make her ethnically Central Asian.  Even the Disney version had Esmeralda cast by Demi Moore.  There is no literary reason for her to be Black or Hispanic.

That doesn’t matter.

A group called Students United for Ithaca protested and made demands.

1. STOP rehearsals for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (DEMANDS MET – show is canceled

2. START casting a new show with multiple leads. By doing this the talented students cast in this current show can still shine while also including an equally talented diverse group of actors.

3. STOP hiring adults who have heard complaints from theater professionals, concerned parents of color, and social justice activists time and time again, and have not listened or changed their actions.

4. START better hiring practices. (see “b” below)

FIRST STEP! : Remove Robert Winans as Director of the Boynton Middle School and High School Musical. We have tried to talk to Mr. Winans. He has not listened nor has he said publicly he wants to learn from his mistakes and do things differently. Mr. Brown and Dr Brown… Times Up. (AMENDED)

SECOND STEP! : Hire Joey Steinhagen as Director of the next musical. Joey has a concrete plan and has said he is confident he can mount an inclusive and wonderful show. Joey is the hero we need now to unit our community. Please let him! (AMENDED)

5. STOP the racist and openly stated policy of “color blind” casting in the ICSD.
Because of institutionalized racism this results in white children being cast in roles written as white parts and also white children being cast in roles that were specifically intended for people of color. Make no mistake, the world is not colorblind. Casting cannot be colorblind. Enough is Enough.

6. START a policy of “inclusive casting” by working to recruit young people of color, particularly those who are not currently involved in any activities in the performance arts within the school system but who have experience singing in other venues, such as church choirs.

7. STOP being satisfied with a system where only some students have access to voice lessons, dance lessons, acting lessons, etc. This favors the privileged few whose parents have the resource of both time and money.

8. START creating opportunities for all students to train to be performance artists. The local theater community and Ithaca College are untapped resources. Many have offered to help and have been ignored. Contact them. Ithaca College students have a service requirement. Ask them to give free voice lessons after school. Find volunteers for free dance lessons. Bring in experts in audition technique, such as staff of The Actor’s Workshop, who worked with us on Godfrey Simmons Musical 13 to prepare us to audition. So many community theatre organizations have said publicly they want to help, and yet they have not been asked to help. Why?

9. STOP ignoring and denying that you have created a white centered program run by white adults for the benefit of white children. White children should also be educated about interrupting these practices of White supremacy. Hollow lip service about equality is shameful and the eyes of our concerned community are now focused on you.

10. START following the four core values of IHS you tell us to follow, every day, but don’t follow yourselves.

These students are demanding that a teacher be fired for his casting decision.  They claim that color blind casting, that is casting based on talent, is racist.

In an open letter, they themselves acknowledge that the student cast was talented.  She was the wrong skin color to play the daughter of a French prostitute.

Before we speak further, we want to stress that the talented young woman who was cast in this role is a stellar actor, singer, and dancer. She has worked hard to hone her craft and the IHS stage, or any stage, would be lucky to have her. Our concern is not with her, but with the fact that in terms of demographics, she is the wrong choice for this role.

They want racial quotas and to punch students who go above and beyond with extra curricular lessons.

They want the school to admit in some sort of sick Maoist show trial way that they are a racist institution.

This is absolutely and unequivocally racist.  This is an egregious power play.

These students have watched other schools and learned that they can Mau Mau school administrators into stepping down and giving them everything by making racial demands and chanting slogans.

At the college level  other students have used this to destroy debate.

These students have succeeded in destroying this production.  They may succeed at destroying performance art.

If their demands are accepted now, what is next?  An end to color blind, talent only math competition or science fairs?

Is it racist to be color blind and talent focused when looking for a heart surgeon?  I guess it is now.  Sorry grandpa, you’ll be missed.

Administrators need to grow a pair and stand up to these kids.  They use accusations of racism as a weapon.  Mao said  “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”  In 21st century Progressiveness,   political power grows out of accusations of racism on Facebook.

Every administrator that gives in only makes this worse.  There should only be one response to a list of demands like this from students.

My wife cued me in this morning to the fact that a Holocaust denier and White Supremacist is running for Illinois 3rd District.

Arthur Jones, a 70-year-old retired insurance agent and perennial losing candidate in races in Illinois and Wisconsin dating back to the 1970s, was the only person to qualify for the Republican primary in the heavily-Democratic 3rd District.

Let me tell you about the Illinois 3rd District.  It’s been Democrat since 1975, and the Democrats have won 24 of the last 25 elections in that district.

It is mostly in Cook County, but spreads a little into DuPage County as well.  It is part of the Chicago Machine.  Democrats own it.  It is one of their vote plantations.

Republicans don’t run there because it’s not worth the money to run there.  They will lose and it will cost them.

It’s this reason that Jones is going to be the Republican candidate in the upcoming election.  He’s unopposed in the Republican primary.  The rest of the Illinois GOP is denouncing him as loud as they can.

All this old fart is doing is making the GOP in Chicago look bad.  If I were more conspiratorially minded I’d believe that the Chicago Machine is actually backing him just to use him to beat up on the GOP.

“Hey, look at the Nazi the Republicans are running.”

Even through they are not.

This does not worry me.  But it must be said.

Now over to Norway.

There are few things the Far Left hates more than the Jews.

The leader of the Red Party in the Norwegian Parliament, Bjornar Moxnes, on Friday nominated the international BDS movement for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Yep, the viciously anti-Semitic  Boycott, Divest, and Sanction campaign has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian radical left wing Communist.

This frightens me.

Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke.  Obama got it for not being Bush.  Al Gore got it for making a shitty movie.  Yasser Arafat got it for not agreeing to peace with Israel.  But this time it the nomination is going to a group with the stated purpose of ending Israel.

Of course it doesn’t take much to get a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

However, a whole bunch of Noel Prize Winners in other categories (where something has to be accomplished to be awarded it) have signed a formal denouncement of BDS.

If the Nobel Prize wants to maintain any legitimacy, awarding a prize to a group many Nobel Laureates denounce is a good way not to do that.

If the Nobel Committee does give BDS the Nobel Prize, I really want Trump do to his worst to Norway.

Whole Foods was purchased by Amazon and now Whole Foods employees are miserable.  They run around a top speed, crying, and hating life.

“I wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares,” an anonymous staffer told Business Insider, which spoke to 27 current and former workers. “The stress has created such a tense working environment. Seeing someone cry at work is becoming normal.”

Did anybody expect anything different?

Did anybody read the famous New York Times article about Amazon.

SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working.

They are told to forget the “poor habits” they learned at previous jobs, one employee recalled. When they “hit the wall” from the unrelenting pace, there is only one solution: “Climb the wall,” others reported. To be the best Amazonians they can be, they should be guided by the leadership principles, 14 rules inscribed on handy laminated cards. When quizzed days later, those with perfect scores earn a virtual award proclaiming, “I’m Peculiar” — the company’s proud phrase for overturning workplace conventions.

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)

  Working Amazon employees until they broke down was the norm.

Bo Olson was one of them. He lasted less than two years in a book marketing role and said that his enduring image was watching people weep in the office, a sight other workers described as well. “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

If Bezos can break the soul of a programmer making over $100K per year, what can he do to somebody making $12/hour?

Jeff Bezos is a known hard-ass bastard, and a terrible boss and perhaps human being as well.

How did people not see this coming?

The question is, will Whole Foods survive?

Is Bezos’ way of running a company possible in brick and mortar retail?  I don’t think so.  You can only push some kid doing an hourly job so far before he quits.

You can tell me “kids these days don’t know what hard work is” but is a job you do part time after school worth the stress of going home and crying because your boss berates you in front of all the other employees as a motivational tool?

(That’s a real thing by the way, Bezos would get an employee up in front of all his or her coworkers and insult them – calling them stupid – until they broke down in tears.  This became part of Amazon culture where management is encouraged to insult, shame, and fire employees publicly.)

I doubt it.

I took a peek at the Twitter account of the Socialist Party of Great Britain advocating for world socialism.

This account is monumentally stupid.  It’s every bad socialist trope strung together.  Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, they aren’t socialist, they are capitalist.  There will be no money and everything is free because we’ll work cooperatively.

We want to know how many people following our account, or who chance upon it, would like real socialism (see graphic for explanation). If you would prefer to live and work in this new society rather than continue living under capitalism, then PLEASE LIKE and RT this pinned tweet. pic.twitter.com/SZkSKdRsb5

— The Socialist Party (@OfficialSPGB) January 1, 2018

This, however, was my favorite Tweet.

With genuine socialism, you would be doing work that you actually enjoy and want to do. All work will be voluntary. No one would be made to do anything they don’t want to do. That is what happens under capitalism.

— The Socialist Party (@OfficialSPGB) January 30, 2018

The question that nobody addresses is: “who cleans the shitters?”

So here’s the deal that I’ll make with the Socialist Party of Great Britain:

I’ll accept socialism on a trial basis.  I call dibs on being the guy who has to paint the swim suits on the Sports Illustrated swim suit models, body paint special.  Since that is a seasonal job, I’ll spend the rest of the year as a sponsored professional IPSC/USPSA shooter.

Everyone who is a member of Socialist Party of Great Britain gets first crack at pumping septic tanks and Port-a-Potties.

If in 10 years time, they still want this system, I’ll be happy to consider making it permanent.