athos77 @ athos77 @kbin.social

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Even during the height of the pandemic, a friend of mine found a 'reason' that they had to be in the office one day each week (usually Friday, because almost no one else was there on Fridays). Their reasoning was, "If I can do my job entirely from the comfort of my own living room, there's nothing that would prevent the company from hiring someone to do my job from the comfort of their own living room, in India or the Philippines."

Maybe they could fit him with a shock collar.

Good.

Found it - Miles Routledge, and he wasn't murdered, "just" captured and held prisoner by the Taliban for eight months.

Wasn't there some influencer who went there last year to prove he was safer there than in the West and they murdered him?

Well, this can only end well ...

The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah

So almost none of the men and only "some" of the women and children? Yeah, fuck you, Israel, you genocidal fascists.

They're not "getting revenge" for him leaving California, they've stopped buying cars of dubious quality from an immature, arrogant, and very literal white nationalist.

It's good that we're decreasing our impact. That said, the climate is a really massive thing that we've been pushing against for over 200 years, and climate change now has an incredibly massive amount of momentum behind it.

Funny, I thought acorns mostly fell in autumn ...

It's UniLad, what were you expecting?

But in "drugs, gangs, and domestic violence" areas, people never trusted the cops. Domestic violence was considered a private matter between husband and wife. Gangs have always ruled entire neighborhoods. People involved with drugs are usually hard to get to because they're protecting their supply, their freedom, or their income. Is the author basing this opinion on some idealized Adam-12 / Dragnet view of the past? Because I lived through it, and it certainly wasn't like that.

The argument has been that the president can be charged, but only after they're impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. And in the meantime, they're still president. So theoretically they could continue to have House members assassinated until there isn't enough votes to impeach. And theoretically they could also assassinate Senators until there aren't enough votes to convict. And I really don't understand why no one's making that argument to the Court, because that's exactly where the "they can kill anyone who disagrees with me because they're obviously a political rival" argument leads.

Thing is, €5 isn't all that much. I'm not sure who this is going to deter other than shoestring backpackers and people who fly RyanAir. I'd fully expect that price to increase in the future.

how much they think former President Trump respects women: a lot, some, not much or not at all? [...] A majority of men — 54 percent — said that Trump respects women either “a lot” or “some.” Just 31 percent of women saw things that way.

So 46% of men and 69% of women think trump doesn't respect women.

The real question is going to be whether that opinion matters to each person.

Trump took boxes onto the plane before the search The FBI didn't search a closet and a storage area that they were supposed to. They were kept on stage in a ballroom. They were stored next to a copier in a bathroom. Cellphones have cameras.

Of course he still has documents. And those that he doesn't have were copied or photographed. God only knows how many hands they're in now.

I feel sorry for the kid.

I'm betting he chooses a woman, to help undo some of the damage from Roe.

“who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”

You guys did, your entire right-wing mediasphere and political manipulation machine. Funny try to get out of it, you conceived and birthed that baby, you're stuck with her now.

All that said: I wonder how much misogyny is a factor here. It seems like they're getting rid of their firebrand women a helluva lot faster than they're getting rid of their firebrand men.

Edit: additional thought: they're turning against her (and calling her Moscow Marge) for her position on Ukraine aid. But they've been anti-Ukraine-aid for a while, following orders from Moscow. Is this just a ploy to make Republicans less distasteful in the fall elections, or is there some geopolitical calculus the Kochs and their ilk are seeing?

"meme stock on steroids" aka "a way to launder money to trump". Just like the fake NFTs, the sneakers, bibles and all the other bullshit.