Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.
From the party that literally lead a violent insurrection intended to overthrow the government and install Trump as a dictator for life.
Or the GQO calling peaceful protests about Gaza insurrections and exactly the same as Jan 6th. Fascism needs to muddy the waters to drum up as much support as possible. Keep people dumb and angry.
I'm in a large company, 350k+, but our team of ~20 has different rules. The head of our team, my bosses boss, gives us a TON of flexibility to take comp time, take random days off and bill to the project (without taking PTO), etc. When my boss brought me on it was touted as a startup within a large company. I won't say we can do ANYTHING, but outside of go-live weeks we can flex our hours a lot. Hell I cut out by like 2P or 3P every Friday.
Same, it's glorious. That said, on the other side of the coin during go-live weeks I've worked multiple days in a row until midnight or later. So it balances out in the end.
The signs were soon taken down by Emily’s mother out of safety concerns.
My wife pushes back but this right here is the reason I don't have certain signs/flags on my property. If it was just me, fuck the fascists I would fly so much shit all the time. I just can't in good conscious put my wife and kids lives in danger because of the rabid right-wing cultists out there. I understand that's by design and exactly what they want but their safety is far superior to mine.
heh, you don't know how true this is. I've worked in IT for 2 decades. IT is pretty much always seen as a cost center.
If everything is running smoothly - "what are we paying you for?!"
If everything is on fire - " What are we paying you for!?"
And now with companies getting the tiniest of slaps on the wrists for willful negligence it's cheaper to cut IT funding, outsource it, whatever.
If the cost of the fine is less than the profits gained by doing "x" then that's just the cost of doing business. Execs will continue to do this until there are real consequences for the company and them directly.
This is the whole thing that's ridiculous to me. It's not the fact that he had sex with her, it's not even the fact that he paid her to shut the fuck up, it's the fact that he covered it up and committed fraud. He could have just boasted about it publicly and it's unlikely anyone would have cared.
$70 at release. Unless you need a play a game right now that price can easily drop by half or more if you wait a year for sales. There are almost no games I buy on day-one anymore.
This has the added bonus of them usually being patched to be less buggy with more quality of life improvements.
Also, $70 is still pretty cheap in the grand scheme of hobbies. Google tells me the average price of a movie ticket is $11. So rounded up that's 1 game = 6.5 movies. If a movie is 2 hours long that's 13 hours of enjoyment. I can easily sink 50+ hours into an AAA title (hell my wife just put 110 hours into FF VII Rebirth). That doesn't count replayability.
I see your point, but I'm not sure I would argue gaming is an expensive hobby. You can pick up a second-hand console and a handful of games under $500. PC gaming is a different beast (obviously).
To me this number just makes logical sense. A 55 year old could easily have grown up playing video games and leaning into that towards and into retirement seems like a pretty normal next step.
I would fully expect and hope that when I retire in ~25 years I'll join the ranks of older gamers.
Florida’s new teaching standards include the same language that scored national blowback last year for requiring middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
From the party that literally lead a violent insurrection intended to overthrow the government and install Trump as a dictator for life.