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Update: it went really well! We got drinks and then gelato, and had a surprisingly open discussion about our intentions and experience when it comes to dating.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna40473

Georgia deputies failed to shut the door of a patrol car while they were taking a woman into custody this month, resulting in her falling out of the moving vehicle and dying, state officials said in a report released Wednesday.

Brianna Marie Grier, 28, was having a mental health episode on the evening of July 14, her father, Marvin Grier, told WMAZ-TV of Macon. Her mother had called authorities for help at their home in Hancock County, about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta.

Hancock County sheriffs deputies arrived shortly afterward, handcuffed her and put her in a patrol car.

Grier fell out of the moving vehicle and sustained severe injuries. She was in a coma for several days and was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta last week.

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found that a deputy failed to close the rear passenger door before the car left the scene. Agents with the bureau conducted interviews, in addition to reviewing body camera video and inspecting the car.

Two deputies put Grier in the car with her hands cuffed in front of her body, with no seat belt, after she refused to get in, the GBI said in a statement Wednesday. She indicated to the deputies that she intended to harm herself, the statement said.
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The sheriff told the family the next day that she had "kicked the door out and jumped out the car," Marvin Grier told WMAZ. But he and his wife had a hard time believing she would be able to get out of the police car herself.

Yeah

burns112233 posted...

I kissed my GF on the first date we've been together 3 months already.

I say go for the kiss.

I plan to, but that's never been my strong suit.

All the signals from date #1 say she's really into me, but I'm not quite sure what I've done to earn that yet. We haven't texted much in the interim, just to set up plans for tonight.

I have half a mind to go to the DoL myself because I'm pretty sure my pay/hours situation for the past year was not legal.

Dan_Haren- posted...

Some contracts specify that you have to notify them 2 weeks in advance even if the contract is expiring. Some contracts say that even after they expire they continue on a month to month basis until either party ends it. The legality of those specifications can be debated but if it's in the contract it's in the contract.

My contract is one (1) page long and says nothing of the sort. He's got nothing and thinks I'm stupid.

This, to tell the truth, is in line with my experience with him; he preys on people who he knows have limited experience and won't know enough to call him out.

rexcrk posted...

Sooo whatd ya do?

Just said okay but now looking at my old contract and wondering if the DoL might find it interesting, lol.

Arcanine2009 posted...

2 weeks notice a legal requirement? lol what.. is that true in your state or what?

No!

ScazarMeltex posted...

Lol, on what grounds? I know you are quitting but that's not really a reason to report you Department of Labor. Are they just butthurt and making empty threats?

Yeah, it's an empty threat, he tried to tell me that two weeks notice is a legal requirement. Which, lol. My contract only goes through the end of July anyways.

Is it? Small features like that, when they aren't available on all platforms, generally don't inspire much adoption from third party devs.

Buddy you do not know who you are dealing with

You didn't read that article, did you?

1. It wasn't Lightfoot's decision to make; it was the Board of Education
2. Lightfoot in it is accused of retaliating against the teachers for opposing the project, which she was on board with until it became politically untenable, and for which her administration was accused by the feds of environmental racism:

CPS officials recommended firing the two for repeated instances of poor judgment and bias in their instructional roles and in their faculty adviser roles. A more than 400-page report outlined the accusations, though that document wasnt made public.
Chicago Teachers Union officials said Bianchi and Stark were targeted by Lightfoot for embarrassing her.
Let me be clear this is retaliation, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates said at a rally in support of the teachers Wednesday. This is retaliation because we have two educators who stood in lockstep with their students, their families and their communities to challenge the racism.

Yeah those things rock.

--Zero- posted...

Whats wrong with Yang or a new party? There was a push for Yang at one point and I dont remember in the past there being anything wrong with him.

Is the new parties policys really bad? Were all pretty sick of the two party system arent we?

The party has no politics. It's empty. All it can promise is a vague fusion of the status quo parties everybody is upset with.

https://twitter.com/joshchafetz/status/1552986197882015744

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1553024034362626048
From this article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-is-nyc-safe-crime-stat-reality/?srnd=premium&sref=IUm3fzs0

They do not care about consistency.

Seems fine, imo

Only 22k people died is maybe not the load bearing argument you want it to be

TaylorHeinicke posted...

EDIT: Wait maybe I misread; are you in a situation where you have to sign a 6 month contract or have nothing?

Yeah

emblem-man posted...

Are you going to dive into learning programming?

That's the plan

When you're right, you're right

What should I get

https://twitter.com/lee_hedgepeth/status/1552764047291973633

ADOC: Alabama Dept. of Corrections

Anteaterking posted...

Were you working in a group home or am I thinking of someone else?

I used to work in a nursing home, but for the past year I've been working as an exam proctor.

SamsungGearS2 posted...

Thats the worst thing you could do, financially.

Cool.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Ive seen this many times in my life and most people end up regretting it or coming back. At the very least put in your notice in case you have to come back.

It's a contract job. I don't wanna be stuck here working 48 hour weeks to tread water financially for the next six months when basically any 40 hour job I land will pay better.

I thought red shells don't bounce

Wheeee

MFBKBass5 posted...

Check out an app called Sololearn. Its set up like Duolingo to learn Python or other coding languages.

I bought a course off Udemy which is working well for me so far.

Is that Sundae track brand new?

Currently trying to learn Python, what sort of process would I be looking at as someone trying to get a job without a degree in the field?

Top 1 percent in Forza Horizon 5. But that's a measure of how much I've done in the game, not how good I am at it.

It doesn't seem like there's any real patterns to be discerned here from what you've posted.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

What changed they finally get to him

Well,

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1552399388940582923

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manchin-schumer-climate-deal_n_62e1a677e4b07f83766bafbb

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday hes reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a sweeping package to increase taxes on the wealthy and invest in climate and health care while also reducing the deficit.

The agreement, which also has the blessing of the White House, rescues much of the Democratic domestic policy agenda from the trash heap Manchin seemed to put it in just two weeks ago.

Rather than risking more inflation with trillions in new spending, this bill will cut the inflation taxes Americans are paying, lower the cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, and ensure our country invests in the energy security and climate change solutions we need to remain a global superpower through innovation rather than elimination, Manchin said in a statement.

The deal took official Washington by surprise Manchin has been at home in West Virginia this week recovering from COVID-19, and Democrats seemed set to accept a smaller offer Manchin put forward to allow the government to negotiate prescription drug costs.

The bills passage is not yet a sure thing. Its unclear if the Senate Democrats other moderate standout, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) will support the legislation. And a group of House Democrats from New York and New Jersey have said theyll refuse to support any deal that does restore the state and local income tax deduction.

Republicans are expected to line up against the legislation, so Democrats will need the support of all 50 senators and can only lose the backing of four members of the House.

Democrats are racing to pass the measure before the Senate leaves town for its annual monthlong recess in order to stave off health insurance premium increases that are scheduled to kick in that month.

Seems good, imo

I am marketing one called Taterade. Like Gatorade, but potato flavored.

Isn't this just where you are now vs where you were born?

FortuneCookie posted...

To be fair, GTA is totally a "this character is you" series.

Is it, really? There's no character customization beyond clothing, there's very limited opportunity to make choices affecting dialogue or the plot. Is it any more "this character is you" than like, Mario?

Oh that's who all those missing posts are by

Related
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1552359648023482370

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Here's yet another thing that works basically everywhere else and is a net positive for quality of life, but people will argue that the U.S., the richest country on the planet, is uniquely incapable of implementing it for [insert excuse here]

People will argue that it can't do what it already did.

Don't like that

They can't get enough of that shit.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1552316459430187008

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vdwm/america-aspires-to-one-day-in-the-far-future-build-rail-service-worse-than-it-was-in-the-1940s

In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, someone traveling from Nashville to Atlanta likely would have taken the train. One option, the Dixie Flagler, ran from Chicago through the southeast to Miami. The 289-mile trip would have taken 6 hours and 10 minutes. Nowadays, there are no passenger trains from Nashville to Atlanta. But by 2035, Amtrak hopes to relaunch that service. It will take, by Amtraks own estimate, six hours and 34 minutes, or 24 minutes longer than it did 81 years ago.

Hayden Clarkin, a transit planner who tweets under the handle @the_transit_guy, shared this finding on Twitter on July 14. As of this writing, it has been retweeted more than 2,500 times.

Politicians love to talk about American exceptionalismthat America is the greatest country in the worldas well as the growing need to be increasingly competitive with other economic powers, most especially China. But no topic humbles both concepts quite as much as trains, where America is neither great nor competitive.

The degree to which the U.S. cannot hold a candle to high speed passenger rail networks in Europe, China, Japan, and even Morocco is well-documented. What is less well-documented is how the U.S. struggles to compete with a different type of foreign country: The United States about 80 years ago.

The richest country in the world has to do better, Clarkin said in his tweet.

Inspired by Clarkins tweet and an ensuing email exchange, Motherboard compared the anticipated travel times of Amtraks 2021 Corridor Vision plan, set to go into effect in 2035, with historical timetables for the same routes posted on American-Rails.com, a rail enthusiast website. Most timetables were either from 1941 or 1952. While there are nuances, for the most part Clarkin wasnt cherrypicking an outlier case. There are several routes where trains were faster in the 1940s and 1950s than Amtrak hopes to achieve in 2035.

San Diego to Los Angeles took 2 hours 45 minutes on the San Diegan in 1952 making normal stops. An express train ran once a day in each direction in just 2 hours 15 minutes. Today, the Amtrak train makes the same trip in 2 hours 55 minutes. For some reason, Amtrak expects this trip to take 10 minutes longer in 2035, for a total travel time of 3 hours 5 minutes.
Amtrak wants to launch a Houston to Dallas service in 2035 in 4 hours 30 minutes. In 1952, the same trip could be made in five minutes less on the Sunbeam.
Chicago to Milwaukee was once a major passenger route taking just 82 minutes in style with reclining lounge seats, a parlor car, and various levels of meal service. Today, the trip takes 90 minutes. In 2035, an Amtrak expects it to take the same amount of time it does now.
Milwaukee to St. Paul is another route that doesnt hold up so well to its 1952 counterpart, taking more than a half hour longer between the two midwest cities.
Atlanta used to be a major rail hub and Amtrak wants to revive that tradition. It also wants a train to Chattanooga taking more than three hours. In 1941, it took two hours and 58 minutes.
When presented with these findings, Amtrak spokesperson Jason Abrams said there are two main reasons for the slower travel times. First, Amtrak trains often have to make more stops than their pre-Amtrak counterparts. (Abrams didnt go into detail why, but as a quasi-government corporation, Amtrak sometimes makes more stops along a route to please Congressional representatives who need to authorize its funding, unlike the private railroads that existed before Amtraks formation in the early 1970s.) As an example of the added stops Amtrak now makes, Abrams pointed out the 1959 New York Centrals New York-Chicago route took 16 hours and made eight stops, whereas Amtraks Lake Shore Limited along the same route takes 19 hours 10 minutes making 18 stops, including a lengthy pause in Albany where train cars coming from Boston are linked up.
The second reason has to do with track priority. Passenger trains generally travel on the same tracks as freight trains. When the passenger and freight trains were owned by the same company, they typically prioritized passengers. Now, in the Amtrak era, freight rail companies no longer operate passenger train service but still own, operate, and maintain the tracks, which Amtrak uses. Although the law requires them to prioritize Amtrak trains, in practice they rarely do, resulting in an escalating beef between the freight companies and Amtrak.
Amtraks host railroads often do not prioritize Amtrak trains over their freight trains, even though that is required by law, Abrams said. As a result, Amtrak has to build additional time into schedules. (Seasoned Amtrak travelers will know even these schedules rarely bear a resemblance to reality as trains can be held up for hours waiting for freight rail to pass. So even Amtraks schedules typically understate how much slower train travel has in practice become.)

One of the few places Amtrak does not have to contend with freight rail is along the Northeast Corridor from Washington, D.C. to Boston via New York. Either Amtrak or regional commuter rail systems own those tracks. And it is one of the few routes with noticeable time improvements since the Eisenhower Era and the only stretch with anything approaching high speed rail service, saving riders some 45 minutes between New York and Washington when compared to Ye Olden Times. And New York to Boston on Acelauntil recently the only stretch of track in the U.S. with true high speed rail''is 21 minutes faster than the fastest train in 1952.

I live in NYC.

We will not be going to Applebee's

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-b261a2e8a1689f13c3c4ab756423da95?

Republicans are warming up to Doug Mastriano.

When he crushed a nine-person field to win the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania governor in May, some in the party warned that Mastrianos far-right views on everything from abortion to the 2020 presidential election would squander an otherwise attainable seat in a critical battleground state. But now, as the general election season intensifies, the GOP machinery is cranking up to back Mastrianos campaign and attack his Democratic rival, Josh Shapiro.

Mastriano spoke in Aspen, Colorado, last week at an event with donors sponsored by the Republican Governors Association. At the GOPs Rally at the Rock campaign event in northern Pennsylvania earlier this month, the independently elected state treasurer, Stacy Garrity, introduced Mastriano as our next governor. County offices and booths are festooned with his campaign signs and he spoke at this months closed-door state party meeting. And on Wednesday, a pair of top party officials are hosting a fundraiser for Mastriano.

In one of Americas most politically divided states, the GOPs embrace of a candidate who opposes abortion rights with no exceptions, spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection risks alienating moderate party members. But some Republicans say theyre duty bound to get behind their partys nominee.

The Republican Governors Association typically a source of millions of dollars for GOP campaigns has done next to nothing to publicly praise Mastriano, as it has other Republican nominees.

But that could change as the fall campaign nears. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, the RGAs co-chairman, told CNN this month that he would not rule out helping Mastriano and suggested that the group would help if Shapiro appears beatable.

The job of the RGA is to elect Republican governors, and thats what were going to do in this cycle, Ducey said.
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Mastriano is also getting help from an organization whose political action committees are a conduit for campaign cash from billionaire Jeffrey Yass and spent $13 million fruitlessly backing a primary rival to Mastriano while warning that Mastriano could not win swing voters in a general election.

The organization, the Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, has already commissioned anti-Shapiro billboards and plans to spend millions against Shapiro, its president, Matt Brouillette, said.

Whew, that was a close one. I almost responded to an account with 7 karma.

bigblu89 posted...

neither of those were done on purpose.

But that doesn't absolve them of the need to stop it once they are made aware of the problem.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Rootbeer is full of anti-antifars. The only thing with more per square liter is arsenic.

Uh oh, those sound bad!