wildncrazyguy138 @ wildncrazyguy138 @fedia.io

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Sounds like a good time for me to RESING then and get that sticky ball of wax rolling.

If I were past the retirement threshold, I would probably take this. If I were so burnt out that I could barely cope, I would probably take this. If I were dying and it wouldn’t affect my family’s benefits, I would probably take this.

But in all other cases, you know what I would do? I would reach out to HR and start having the discussions with them. I’d get those “efficiency” wolves salivating at the chance to vacate my position. I’d ask questions, I’d have trouble with the paperwork, highlight certain lines in the agreement where I needed more assurance and clarification. I’d inject additional terms…I mean really gum up the works. I’d occupy as much of their time as they’d give me.

And when it was finally time to sit down and sign, I’d rip it all up, right there in front of whomever I could get an audience with and tell ‘em I changed my mind. And then I’d do it all over again 3 months later.

Yea? But they say that they talk so much shit about him behind closed doors!

Interesting idea here. Give the president so much rope to hang himself with that all but the brownest of the brown-nosers find his actions reprehensible. And thus impeachment becomes a valuable tool again.

SCOTUS playing 4D chess? Not so much, they’re probably right up there with the lot of them, but one can dream.

Do you want nationalism? Because that seems like a good way to get it.

Sure, happens all the time. Tell me NYC and Albany are aligned. Tell me the people of Austin align with greater Texas. Tell me the people on Staten Island align with the rest of NYC or that the goals of Manhattan and Brooklyn are aligned.

They are bizarre things, our ape brains. We align well in small 100+ tribes…the higher the order of magnitude gets, the fewer common threads there are to keep us all together. But tribes do need safety and security, and tribes can come together to realize economies of scale, so that’s really where nation-states can thrive.

In America, nation-state is different than a state. I have a tinge of a libertarian streak about me so take that as you will. Suppositionally, the idea that states have a lot of autonomy against the federal state is actually a good thing. It means that the more liberal of the states have more control of their destiny.

If you had asked me this 20 years ago I would have said the opposite, but personally, now, I’m very thankful that I don't live in a place where a state does not have a check and balance against the federation.

Damnit I wish I had known about this sooner. I’m traveling tomorrow and this is important.

I wonder if they ever thought that maybe the crew was short on time because they were too busy separating all of those M&Ms.

Keep trying to will those thoughts into existence…may work out for you and your party one day.

This is factually untrue. At the end of the Trump era, China had thought they had the upper hand on the global stage, but we have put into place more stoppages around the world. So much so that Blinken said on The Interview the other day that whenever he and the Chinese ambassador meet, the ambassador starts off by complaining for 30 minutes on how the West has railroaded their plans.

He also put it eloquently, that whenever parties from other nations come together, there’s always a seat at the table available for America. They want to know our position.

Just like our union of states, it is essential that the West remain a union of nations. If we do not, then divide and conquer could absolutely mean our decline.

Coincidentally, I was on my bike the other day in just kind of a funk. And I was sitting there with a sourpuss mug thinking how no one ever smiles on the greenway anymore, particularly in bigger cities.

And then just like clockwork, as soon as I finished my thought, a guy who I never would have predicted looked over at me with a beaming bright smile. It changed my whole day.

There are still a lot of us around these parts that strive to be kind and generous, it’s just that kindness and generosity doesn’t sell a lot of newspapers.

Interesting perspective. Counterpoint - my line of business is seeing more customers move away from on-prem licenses and instead prefer SaaS cloud hosted solutions.

The reasons being: 1) Quicker turnaround time for customer service requests 2) product knowledge expertise 3) lower internal IT resource demands 4) SaaS usually being cheaper than license in the short term 5) the intrinsic value of owned licenses being lower than what was sold due to product lifecycles, user adoption, security constraints, etc. 6) lower perceived switching costs with SaaS.

I’m genuinely curious, why do you feel SaaS is an inferior product? What makes it the devil’s work?

And FWIW, I realize I’m typing this on a FOSS application. I absolutely see the value in FOSS, it’s why I switched from Reddit 2 years ago, but I’m not kidding myself, the devs here gotta eat too and, just like KBin, they could jump ship any day if they chose to.

Well that was quite the read.

Essentially, these female cave flies are a real life succubus.

I am certainly not one of those PRC defenders around these parts, but if you don’t think Western countries have similar technology you are absolutely kidding yourself.

Now, messaging is important. So the question I’d ask is, was this one just an opportunistic discovery or a veiled threat?

The Man of Culture

Switch to everclear and you won’t have this problem.

Not sure I would trust a biscuit on set nor anywhere nearby. That seems like an easy way to get “I can’t believe it’s not butter” on your buttered biscuit.

So the charges are state not federal, but with him being convicted, could he once again potentially be impeached for this?