Agreed. Parents and kids’ childhoods do play a huge role in how they ultimately turn out. However, there are near infinite variables during their development, many of which are completely outside our control. The best thing we can do is like you said, educate, mentor, and physically and emotionally support them as best we can. Sometimes, kids just grow into douchebag adults.

Anyway, OP, at the party you should totally just act like Mac, Charlie, and Dennis when they steal Frank’s credit card and think they’re rich.

Do not do the last part. He’s a minor living in fear. Publicly shaming him like that will will almost certainly create an even worse situation if the asshole is prone to physical violence. The key here is for the kid to survive in the short term and escape once they either can get the courts to grant them emancipation or they turn 18. Then after that, therapy so they can learn to move on and thrive.

Ummm, to an extent.

https://texaslawhelp.org/article/corporal-punishment

If a child is showing signs of lasting marks, bruises, burns, broken bones, or other physical injuries, this is likely abusive.

If it’s leaving lasting bruises, even in Texas that may be where they draw the line? If it happens incessantly, along with verbal abuse, you may be able to get some help.

That being said, getting tossed into the foster care system isn’t often an improvement. My suggestion, besides maybe discretely seeking resources, is to focus on near term goals of becoming self sufficient and getting the hell out of there as fast as you can. Pieces of shit like this guy don’t deserve children.

But people often see this type of viewpoint and assume it’s a boomer or something. I think it’s important to show that these gross views span multiple age demographics.

You’re not wrong, but pretty off topic for a direct comment to the OP. Everyone knows what AI in this context means, no one is mistaking it for AGI. In fact, the majority of experts don’t even bother using AI when referring to AGI because the former has been misused so much for probably 15+ years at this point.

That’s what so many people seem to ignore. As long as the person of topic is willing to sue, media outlets will not risk the potential legal battle and will play it disgustingly safe. It sucks, but it’s hard to blame journalists trying to keep a roof over their heads by not getting fired. With something like this, anyone with 2 functioning braincells left will understand the truth and see it for what it is, we don’t need the media to tell us otherwise.

That being said, the major outlets have no excuse as they can easily afford the legal fight.

Why don’t you rewatch the video and watch a history video of Nazis at a rally.

I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).

Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.

If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.

I mean, it could be worse? That’s definitely pretty obnoxious, though.