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Some care. Some don't want their grandchildren to suffer. But right wingers never care regardless of their age. They're selfish assholes.

Carrots will turn you orange though.

Stupid or malicious. I trend towards malicious these days. Too much info to be that stupid that often.

Exactly what I thought. Sounds like bullshit to fundraise.

Bowsette, actually.

Welcome Maryland. This isn't even slightly weird.

Yeah. With non-pixel phones you can still get SD cart slots, headphone jacks, etc. I think motorola still has cheaper phones that has those things.

What...? That's insane. The point of a broken window policy is to encourage urban cleanliness, fixing things and making places nicer. Because people are less likely to commit greater crimes in places that look like nice. Not to punish people committing tiny crimes harshly.

It wouldn't because USBC doesn't have those expensive standard requirements.

80% of new developments in America have HOAs. We're totally fucked.

Wow that sucks. I'm glad I'm not in the apple ecosystem.

Yeah, I always forget about carrying the insurance over. My parents have quote a few complaints about Medicare.

How did he retire at 45? Did his agency approve VERA after 25 years?

"lol" said the governor, "lmao"

The best benefit is you can't be terminated without reason. It takes real, documented issues to terminate someone. Very good job security.

On GS and GG plans you get both cost of living adjustments (depends on wh or Congress) and you get regular raises with step increases.

The leave is excellent. 4-8hr/2 weeks. And 4 hours sick, no cap. They also can't deny leave without a reason and rescheduling.

Health insurance plans are pretty good. HDHP, CO pay, deductible, multiple agencies.

Pension is a big one. Being able to retire and have a pension, social security, and 5% matching savings plan (traditional and Roth) is pretty much unheard of.

You also probably have union representation depending on your agency.

Biggest downside is pay. If you're technical or very competitive you'll not make as much. There's a cap on civilian pay due to a stupid law saying you can't earn more than the vice president, so every rank is staggered below that. They really need to consolidate ranks below gs5. Those are poverty wages.

I like the implication that I could move 3 pawns in a turn.

Everything you said is still true. As long as you are an office worker that's all correct. The government does still contact out most work but most offices still have plenty of government employees. It's just now the government is more of an oversight and managerial role for 80% of it's employees. Besides things like hr and finance. It'd be nice if the government actually did things again.

Can't really fire contractors either. You'd have to get their PM to reassign them. I've never seen a contract that allowed the government to dictate the contractors hiring. That contractor might decide to fire the employee at government request but that isn't required.

I wouldn't say contractors in government offices are less common than government workers. I can't read the article but I'm assuming this is actually in USAID and not a contractor facility.

Edit: ah wait the blurb is different than the quoted text. It said "pressured to resign" and senior advisor. That's quite a bit different and I don't know who would actually resign unless they thought it would impact them returning to high profile private industry.

How? It's not easy or quick to fire a government employee. It can take months.

The game I run is virtual and only 2hr so just water, sometimes alcohol.

The game I play in provides dinner ahead of time and I often make a dessert for the table.

The part where he said his trial was rigged was where I got really worried.

Denying the election and encouraging a failed insurrection was where I realized this was our last chance. If Trump gets elected again he's going to do everything he's been promising and threatening. He'll make Project 2025 a reality and the United States will never see another real election again prior to a civil war. And honestly, we haven't seen a fascist dictatorship be overturned by it's populace before. We've only seen outside forces overthrow it and there aren't any that could pose a threat to the US.

If Trump wins the election in November, America is done. Probably forever, or until it collapses from within as Russia is threatening to do.