After reading your whiny entitled posts, sounds to me like you’d be doing him a favor if you did.

😡 😡 😡

Repubs: “Stop saying we’re cutting Medicaid! We’re not cutting Medicaid! So relax! We’re just changing the rules so that no one will be eligible for it any more.”

Aiding and abetting public access to reliable information is radical and forbidden!

Billionaire tech bros gettin’ what they paid for.

Fair enough. Though I expect Mangolini will give the auto industry more breaks once they kowtow to him enough. That’s what it’s all about, getting people to pay up or do other “favors” for him in return for him reducing the amount of pain he’s inflicting on them – “nice business you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it”.

How is that not criminal destruction of property? Some of those books may not even be replaceable. 😠 You could also say criminal intimidation of protected minority groups by an obviously targeted political act.

I’m sure the car companies know more about how it will affect them than I do, so I believe what they say and defer to that.

When the panel discussion I saw said the 100K cap is not an issue for the UK since they don’t sell much more than that here anyway, I extrapolated that to mean it wouldn’t change the status quo for the US side either, but that was just my own speculation.

No danger of that. 😄

Yes it’s capped at 100,000 vehicles. I saw a British TV video panel discussion about the deal yesterday and they said that last year they had sold 102,000 here, so the deal covers almost all they would be selling here anyway. So it doesn’t seem like it should affect US manufacturers much at all.

It was refreshing after reading the comments on the source post’s thread and made me feel better.

I respect this reply because you are simply honest and were neither offended by the post nor felt the need to blame others for anything.

The comments on the Source’s thread are very disheartening, many replies are angry that the OP accused them of not having an excuse. Yes of course not everyone is without an excuse and yes, the OP is exaggerating, but it’s to make a point: that this lady does have excuses, plenty of them, yet she gets out there anyway (at risk to herself in that heat at her age), and that if we care about what’s happening we should try to emulate her determination. And (dare the OP imply?), feel ashamed if we could but don’t? *gasp*

But most of the replies are all about being offended and attacking that message, which is what’s disheartening to me.

When enough people in a society feel no responsibility to other members of their society, it’s doomed. When we can’t admire someone for going above and beyond normal expectations to do their part because it might hurt the feelings of those who don’t, it’s too late for us. When we can’t point out when someone does something “better” in case it makes those who didn’t do better feel inferior, it’s too late. Too many people want to be victims, are proud of victimhood, proud of their suffering, and when someone doesn’t act like a victim in spite of their suffering, it implies that they don’t have to be victims either, and that is unforgivable.

End of rant, now I accept your downvotes for my blasphemy.

This is why whenever I read an article reporting on a scientific study, I always click the source link to read the abstract of the actual paper (or more if it isn’t behind a fucking paywall, but the abstract gives the gist of what was studied and the results).

Authoritarianism and religion go hand in hand. Both are rising together in the form of Christian nationalism.

I read that ICE and CBP are using that signal app fork that Hegseth et al are using, and that has already been hacked, so it should be easy enough for them to take it from there, I guess.

Probably all the same company tracking which variations in how they advertise it get the most clicks.

Take paid time off (PTO) means take your vacation time (or combined vacation/sick time). Otherwise no one would pick the “come in and clean or train” option.

I once worked at a place where every year they shut down the week between Christmas and New Year’s and you had to take a week of your vacation time then whether you wanted to or not (and we only got 2 weeks/yr). I started working there the first week of December, so I was immediately in the hole for 1 week of vacation time. It was such bullshit.

*Goes through and upvotes all the comments about getting a Brother laser printer*