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What a time to be alive.

Not likely. You have to recall that the US was very homophobic for its first couple centuries even to the point where we had laws on the books declaring homosexual acts illegal in all 50 states until the 1960's and even throughout that era the repression didn't go as far as killing people.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

....if they fire me over this, so be it. i'll collect 6 months of unemployment while looking for a job with reasonable WFH rules.

I would caution that at salaried pay by the hour jobs they can fire you for cause for timecard fraud which would mean that you aren't getting unemployment. Different jobs have different policies and you may even be able to get a "full time work from home" position. But you shouldn't be passive aggressive or sneaky and I certainly would keep quiet at work about charging your commute if you are doing so.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

if you're able to do your job from home, start your working hours once you get in the car and start driving IMO. if your management wants you to be on site instead of remote, you getting there should be on their time, not yours.

This isn't a reasonable expectation unless you were hired on as a "work from home" employee. Your company usually doesn't control where you live and different people value different things. I work in an office on the east side of the Denver metro area. Some people live downtown, some people live out east on the plains, some people live way closer to the mountains on the west side of Denver some people live way down nearer to Colorado springs. Some people live in apartments that are spitting distance from the office.

You choosing to prioritize a particular lifestyle or location over your commute is your choice.

Harrison Ford. I know he has fucked up a few times as a pilot but I'm willing to take the risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8u1NtK-7w

DrizztLink posted...

Grab a used Honda or Toyota whatever, couple of years old.

Then hold on to the rest.

Actually look up what a "couple years old Honda" costs in your area on car gurus. I got my 2018 Accord EX-L in late 2018 old with 3,000 miles on it for about 3,000 off MSRP at the time (25.5k). More than 3 years later my car is worth more than I paid for it even with the 30,000 miles of put on it. This is the worst car market in our life times to get a used car.

g0ldie posted...

iirc, he also played the one dude in Mass Effect 3 (James Vega?)

He was also Kanan in Star Wars Rebels.

What program is this even that they would bring in some folk remedy enthusiast?

ScazarMeltex posted...

Fuck off, you know as well as I do that if I tried to blow through a yellow light and hit a dude my ass is going down for manslaughter.

I stand my point.

If someone read "THE BROTHER WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. HE STOOD THERE EVERY DAY." - in a story about a hobo that got hit by a cop car blaring sirens and lights and thinks police brutality that person is a moron.

Like a legit person that we should pity rather than debate with. This is not a story about police brutality. If someone thinks it is a story about police brutality we should consider them special and pat them on the head.

There isn't room for debate here. A guy that jumps into traffic every single fucking day got hit by a car. This isn't a social justice issue.

Jumping into the middle of the street is dangerous. Doing it every day means that your likely cause of death will be getting run over in that very spot. This isn't news.

The brother was in the middle of the street. He stood there every day..."

OMG who could have predicted the brother would be hit by a car.... in the middle of the street. How fucking stupid would a person have to be to turn this into a story about police brutality? I'm serious. I don't think a person with an IQ over 85 would be able to look at this and not realize they would look like a drooling idiot if they tried to turn into some police brutality cause.

"THE BROTHER WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. HE STOOD THERE EVERY DAY." - Famous quote about a guy that died of being run over by a car.

averagejoel posted...

okay. then when did it stop being a genocide?

When instead of killing them we put them on reservations and fed them for generations up to the present day? Do you really not see the difference between that and if we had decided to just whipe them out?

averagejoel posted...

the US was literally founded on a genocide which is still ongoing. yes, there are currently fewer people in the targeted groups. whoop dee doo. have you considered why that's the case?

Nazi Germany was not some singular unique evil

What are you even talking about? Indian reservations? They aren't ideal but the US just sending money and food to reservations that people can freely come and go from isn't what I would call genocide.

averagejoel posted...

which metrics are you using to determine badness?

Well everything bad is basically genocide so the US having segregation in the 40's was basically as bad as if we had rounded up all the black people and gassed them. Basically.

Not that I can recall. As far as I've read it is relatively common but a lot of the spookiness around it is because of supernatural beliefs that I don't share.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

its only "easily treated" if you know or suspect you have it.

Once symptoms begin to show, you're already dead.

Listen I don't need some so called "Doctor" to give me a bunch of shots, I trust my immune system. Doctors will have you believe that rabies untreated is 100% fatal but they also don't even believe in werewolvs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_the_Vietnam_War#:~:text=U.S.%20troop%20numbers%20peaked%20in,in%202022)%20on%20the%20war.

U.S. troop numbers peaked in 1968 with President Johnson approving an increased maximum number of U.S. troops in Vietnam at 549,500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Devil

"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it is the opening track on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet.

I have gamepass (PC) and played the campaign and thought it was great.

eston posted...

Pressing charges for someone slapping you would be kind of a bitch move tbqh

This plus it looks like he is the bigger man when he takes the hit and lets the public decide what the response should be. What will Smith did was wrong for a lot more reasons than "because it was illegal" and that discussion is happening right now without Will Smith being dragged to jail for assault.

The car market is ridiculous right now. I can only imagine they would do that because some weirdness with existing agreements with the manufacturers that keep them from selling new vehicles for way over MSRP.

Go to Car Gurus and look up Hyundai Palisades to see what I'm talking about. You can order a new SE AWD for $37,000..... or you get one with 6,000 miles on it for 44,000.

Its possible that they actually will be able to sell your car for more than they are allowed to sell a new one for because of weirdness. These are strange times. Pre-pandemic your car would lose thousands of dollars in value as as you purchased it but now we are in very strange times and a lot of cars weirdly are worth more to a dealership used than new.

Universal Studios Orlando is probably the place that you are second most likely to see a Disney World shirt after a Disney World itself. The parks are 15 minutes away from each other and a lot of people hit both of them in the same trip.

ANort175 posted...

The whole series has serious balance problems though, which makes it hard to play as anything but "the best" class in each game. I have a hard time forcing myself to play DAO as anything but mage since Fireball and Inferno are just so ridiculously good in 99% of fights and they make the early parts of the game so much easier.

ANort175 posted...

The whole series has serious balance problems though, which makes it hard to play as anything but "the best" class in each game. I have a hard time forcing myself to play DAO as anything but mage since Fireball and Inferno are just so ridiculously good in 99% of fights and they make the early parts of the game so much easier.

I liked the human noble storyline better than the Mage one but could never get myself to go through it because of this.

Warriors can slap inneffectually at enemies and last slightly longer in a fight. Makes can nuke the whole map, heal themselves or the team, cast crowd control and debunks and can be species to be ultra tanks as well not that they need it.

1. I had to be there from 6:20 to 5 pm most days.

2. I had to work way more than 40 hrs per week no over time.

3. They made me go to Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 months in a 3 year period period and only gave me an extra $150 a month in hazard pay.

refmon posted...

Cant we just clone more down the line?

Do a little bit of research.

1. The Red Wolf is descended from Coyotes and Wolves with about equal % of both.
2. There are a stable number of them in captivity.
3. Attempts to reintroduce them into the wild have failed on multiple occasions. The population they are talking about is one of the reintroduction efforts failing again.

I wouldn't do a drive that long for either to be honest. I like Chic Fil A and eat it fairly frequently but there is one literally across the street from me.

In my personal opinion for Chic Fil A...

1. Best Sandwich - Spicy Chicken (non delux).
2. Best Side - Fries with your sauce of preference.
3. The strips taste better than the nuggets.
4. The Chicken Tortilla Soup Bowl and Southwest Salad are the best non standard meals.
5. Always load up on sauces. Try them all and find your favorites.

I thought it was ok. I liked the Nolan ones more.

Where and what injury did he have?

In the Denver metro area? Countless. Our registration fees are very high (about $950 for a new Honda Pilot for me this year) and enforcement is crap so a lot of people drive expired plates or rock paper plates or have no plates at all.

I've never understood the point of having a laptop with a 4k screen. How could it possibly have a screen big enough that you would notice?

From a US perspective we've had a lot of massacres but I don't think we've ever had one this big at a sports match.

As far as I know zero. I was in the Army from 2007-2011 and they could have recalled me to active duty until 2015 because I was in the IRR (inactive ready reserve) because technically anyone that enlists is signing up for an 8 year obligation even if you are at the end of the active part of your contract (this is how stop loss worked).

MelbuFrahma4 posted...

Mask mandates are over in pretty much every state.

This plus this is Disney World in Florida.

bigblu89 posted...

"New" Hollywood is like that as well.

I mean, how many actors and actresses in My Big Fat Greek Wedding have also played Italians at some time or another in a different movie?

Or Pierce Brosnan playing James Bond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gK2fOq4MY

Chill out my dude.

Is anyone else in the same boat? A European war in 2022. How the fuck did this happen?

Yes.

NoMeLx22x posted...

Hey man, this literally didnt happen.

He stopped a pipeline from ever being built in the first place. A pipeline that was going through protected reservation areas. And it's something that has absolutely no baring on the situation we're going through right now.

Keystone XL being shut down will end up increasing gas prices down the line but its not having a huge impact right now and wouldn't have a huge impact even if it had been finished.

Biden and Obama sacrificed it to appease the environmentalist wing of their party while still allowing the fracking boom to continue which has had a much bigger effect to decrease gas prices.

My account is 20 years old.

Why not a gaming desktop?

In my experience gaming laptops die a lot faster just by the nature of what they are. If you are carrying it around its going to get bounced around. Its also got much more difficult heat issues to deal with. I've loved the gaming laptops I've bought but I've had two of them die on me with them lasting about 3-4 years on average.