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If this ends up being met with creative accounting, I'd be happy for the courts to answer with creative torture.

This wasn't the type of job that laid off. Always new work, can't always automate everything.

Why do you equate Jewish people with Israel? That's a zionist stance, not a Jewish stance. Of course Jewish people exist - but let's not be arrogant enough to define a group of people by their one common characteristic and lump them all in together into one state, yeah?

I have no issues with Jewish people. At least not with those living outside Israel - those who moved there willingly did so at the expense of their own morals (provided they already had a good home somewhere else), as they knew they are displacing an existing culture. I do have some issues with:

1. The creation of Israel, done by lobbying the correct people with the correct incentives (the promise of keeping Muslims in the region at bay, and of being a trade partner for the backers), without any claim on the land - you know, as opposed to the people actually fucking living there at the time
2. Rich people exploiting the situation of Palestine pre-1948 to get richer. Also post-1948, let's not act like selling arms to the Israeli slaughterhouse to continue their genocide on Muslims isn't profitable for some immoral fucks.
3. The ethnic cleansing that's been going on in Palestine over the last 70 years
4. Governments of the world pretending human lives don't matter and that regions of land don't belong to the people inhabiting them (and who have done so for generations).
5. Appealing to those governments to form your opinion. The UN doesn't recognize Taiwan. Wanna stroke their dicks for it, or can we agree some massive conglomerate of rich and powerful old cunts that trade in blood don't really constitute a proper standard of morality?
6. Establishing a state based on a religion. I like the division of church and state, I think it's a good thing.

And so many others that I don't have the energy to type, as this is really not a black and white subject, but it's for sure not as gray as it's being painted. It's just another government installed in a region by external influences with superior firepower, with no rhyme or reason other than making money, like so many others in the world.

At the end of the day, this is my own opinion and the world as a whole doesn't seem to agree - especially since the people in charge don't really care if others agree or not, and since it's not a hot topic or something that impacts us daily, there will never be the type of mass protests necessary to stop funding this terrorist organization. And I'll probably die with this opinion, and nothing will change. In the meanwhile, what the fuck is your excuse for buying into the propaganda and supporting the 70 years of slaughter of a group of people?

My friend works from home he does all his work and in the down time he'll run errands, work out, and play pool at his local bar. Whatever. His work is fully completed and submitted and his performance views are top notch.

I had 2 people like that back when the pandemic started, the only "grown-ups" in the team - married and with children. They were doing some tasks manually but you could tell it's stressing them out because you could see them work until 8-9PM, sometimes even later. And you would constantly hear their kids in the background - probably a difficult adjustment to make at home in the beginning.

So I had to sit them both down and sell them on the idea of automating everything. They liked it (they prefer automating things also), but mostly said they'd never have time for it, because of all the priority stuff they need to work on. So I asked them to work on automating the tasks in-between other, more important ones, and if they were ever getting bothered by management, send them to me and I'd run interference. We came up with a plan, we had milestones for ourselves, the whole thing.

I had to lie in some meetings and claim we were working on what management wanted(and take a lot of shit for being late sometimes, or just flat out saying 'no' to requests, which didn't get me any fans either), but it was worth it in the end. A year and a half later, they were done. Instead of working together until 8PM, they were each working 2h per week by the end. The rest was their time to enjoy, I never asked how they spent it. Along the way, it was even visible how each automated task would clear their schedule even more.

A few months in, they started being really great together and working as a team, completely covering when the other was missing, not needing their hand held with anything... Just awesome to work with them. 4-5 months after we started, they were no longer doing overtime - there was no need to, the tasks which took the longest were now a script. 8-9 months in, you'd have trouble catching them both at work at the same time - they'd cover one for the other, and tasks would still get done. Easy to say to upper mgmt "yeah, they've been doing this intensive activity which usually takes a lot of time" - no questions asked. They would never drop the ball, and in return I'd never bother them about how they got organized, I trusted them completely to deliver on time and take care of the hiccups. Beautiful stuff.

We kept this to ourselves until we left the project (just a few months after we were done), at which point I had them create a presentation for management, showing how they improved the situation (wanted them to show off their achievements, it's not often that we get to do it. And maybe also allow the people taking over to understand why this was so important and to continue using the automated way instead of the manual way). I specifically asked for a page with statistics, cause I wanted to make sure the point got across. They proudly had that slide showing how the workload went from 80-100 man hours per week to 4 man hours per week. Upper management saw it, I could see the guy's eyes light up at this. Unfortunately they never understood how to use it and how to apply it to future teams. I checked back this year, they're using the manual way. Their loss.

Probably one of the best duos I've ever had the pleasure to work with. People with full lives and responsibilities, who got their work done, were reliable, were self-organizing, and the only thing they needed were some guidance and some backup when they were being pressured to finish some random donut's idea of "important tasks", and in return I could always sleep easy knowing that I don't need to worry about anything if it's in their responsibility, cause they will get it done. I appreciated them while working with them, and even more since not working with them.

Nation states

Personally, I don't recognize the 1948 decision to create this nation state out of thin air, displacing an already existing nation and illegally seizing their land. So I'm cool to keep talking about it as a terrorist organization, yeah? Okay, thanks.

Idf needs to get the fuck out of Palestine before the rest of the world figures out that we collectively fucked up in 1948 and rectifies the situation.

You know. With the same methods they use today.

Motherfucker, look at the maps. Hamas is the resistance. Israel is the attacking force that just said "this is my land now and if you don't like it I'm bombing you". You think that's right?

What would you do if someone entered your home, raped and killed your family, claimed it's their home now and then shot you when you tried to stop them? Would you still talk some shit about how trying to take your home back is terrorism?

Sheltered fuck.

it's targeting the civilians in South Israel who have lived there for ages

Not for ages. Only since the country was split into two with no regard for actual Palestinian input on this. There's been less than 100 years since then. Not enough time to heal, especially when nothing was done to make things right. It's like telling black people in the US in 1700 "it's been ages since you've been brought here on a boat, just let it go, this is the way things are now". Very much fuck you & no.

It seems like a very clear message by Hamas: if you moved into my house by force, you are not a civilian. Get out of my house.

They have a very narrow mindset which is: No deals with the Israel, period

Hmm, I've heard that before, with slightly different phrasing: "we don't negotiate with terrorists".

It seems like a good view.

I'm sorry to say, but this is how guerilla warfare goes. Sometimes civilians are casualties.

Did those civilians do anything to deserve it? Usually no. In this case though, they did. Some were already there, and they were responsible for starting the civil war by accepting to split the country. Others weren't there, but came after that - trampling on another country's ashes and disregarding its original citizens.

What are you going to do when civilians move into your home and declare it is theirs? Consider them civilians? Consider them innocents?

Musk and Grimes first had a son together, named X Æ A-12, and then a daughter born via surrogate in 2021 named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. They refer to them as "X" and "Y."

At this point I'm convinced there should be a test you take before the court allows you to procreate. Now hear me out, cause I know how it sounds. But maybe it can be a very simple test, with just one question: "do you plan to put more thought into naming your children than a junior dev does into naming their variables?"

refunding with a little extra seems fair enough

To you. To the state of Texas, a "person can use deadly force to protect tangible, movable property from another’s imminent commission of theft during the nighttime or to prevent another who is fleeing immediately after committing theft during the nighttime and is escaping with property if the person reasonably believes the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means"

That sounds like it fits the second case exactly, I'd never be able to recover that movie. I'mma need jeffie b to drop by my place, apologize for obstructing justice and calmly await said use of deadly force. I'll use the gift card to buy the ammo, thanks.

Charles Darwin applied for an interview, you said? Yeah I've heard of him. Tell him to contact us when he's able to solve some differential equations. Literally unhireable fuck, who does he think he is.

Trump is another word for fart in the UK so... Yeah.

Shit... is this why conservatives have such high numbers in polls even if they support turning your country into a shithole? Is it because Republican voters can't understand nuance in speech, so when they promise you things, you keep believing?

Wow, this is breakthrough-level stuff. Is everyone voting republican unable to discern sarcasm for example? Here - you have a really great view on politics. How does that statement make you feel? Are all republicans affected by this condition? Is every single republican out there actually on the spectrum and waiting for a cure for a condition they don't even know they have, because half of them lack the education to understand it's real? The ramifications of this are potentially yuuge.

Ah, but what if they have other speech/written text-related issues as well? Like how we've established you lack the ability to understand subtext, maybe you lose focus when reading long series of words. Are all republicans functionally illiterate or suffering from ADHD? Are you maybe too close to dementia to even be able to communicate cohesive thoughts? It's an interesting rabbit hole we're going down here. But hey, I probably wrote too much already, I'll give you a hand with the comprehension.

TL;DR: lol retard