At my first job, a fairly large firm with a few hundred people, I remember the furtive glances around the table as everyone didn't want to be the first one to order a beer. Once a single person ordered one, several others would too. The boss was fine with it, but nobody did it in front of the boss's boss. We never had more than one, though.
At my second job, a small, new company with 12ish people, it was pretty common. Sometimes someone would bring a six pack to share into the office on a Friday afternoon. Usually, the owners would join in.
At my current job in the public sector, the culture just isn't there. Nobody drinks at all during work hours. I don't drink as much anymore, anyway.
If I took a drink every time I read a lemmy post about some country hating on the current US, thought to myself "Can't blame em", and kept scrolling, I'd be wasted before I got out of bed.
They shouldn't use the neutral language "costing taxpayers millions." That's taxpayer money going into an elected official's personal coffers. It's embezzling.
The free will question was the main thing that started my deconversion. It's a problem that was simple enough I couldn't just write it off as "There's probably an answer, even if I don't know it." It's also a contradiction at the very root of religion that you can't write off as inconsequential, like some of the contradictions in the Bible.
We live in a world where people worship a businessman/politician as the literal second coming of their messiah, but "Trump Derangement Syndrome" refers to people who are critical of a convicted felon who openly ran for office to kill further prosecutions against him
My thought always was that DDG was good to set as my default, and if I'm not happy with the results then it's not a big deal to use Google once in awhile.
Cloture is by no means a certainty yet: If your senator hasn't stated their position yet, there's still time to call them. With any luck, this will be the beginning of the end for Cowardly Chuck's leadership.
Edit: specifically saying "Vote no on cloture" tells them you're highly engaged and highly likely to vote.
If a lot of the pressure is coming from swing state senators concerned about reelection, this seems like a sign there's a general awareness in the party that the leadership is headed in a direction that will lose elections.
Also, I called Hickenlooper so I'm claiming credit for him being right about something. Bennet, too.
Optimistic of you to say he's realized he's wrong.