Putin needs a way out. He can’t beat Ukraine, so it’s easier to have Trump get him what he wants, with the only cost being to let Trump brag about “winning”

I always wondered if the overtime is part of the problem. A lot of it is pretty sketchy, so it’s training cops to be sketchy

In my state, police unions have been pretty aggressive about requiring construction sites to pay for police details. I have no idea whether it has the safety benefits they claim but

• city is happy because someone else is paying their cops
• cops are happy with opportunity to make bank

But we all pay a little more, cops have a conflict of interest acting as an authority figure for a private company, and the requirements are sketchy on both sides for something other than what they were hired for

That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant

I once interviewed at a bulk email (spam) company because i was desperate for a job. They realized how uncomfortable i was so didn’t offer it, but i like to think I would have declined, regardless how much i needed the job.

Something needed to happen here, we’ll see if even Torvalds has the power to kick massive telecom and consumer electronics conglomerates in the butt. It’s been too long.

• My fiber provider started an early rollout of IPv6 like a decade abgo, and it’s been stalled out ever since.
• I’m still seeing new consumer electronics being sold even though they’re IPv4 only.

Take my love, take my land

Take me where I cannot stand

I don’t care, I’m still free

You can’t take the sky from me

Take me out to the black

Tell them I ain’t comin’ back

Burn the land and boil the sea

You can’t take the sky from me

There’s no place I can be

Since I’ve found Serenity

And you can’t take the sky from me

Add data from this year.

From several sources, they passed peak carbon last year, and expect coal to peak this year or next and start declining.

Also consider during the time in those charts they went from a developing country to mostly developed with much higher standard of living. They achieved a century of economic progress in a couple decades while simultaneously rolling out renewable energy faster than anyone else

Unless he’s a trans or gay pedophile of course

It’s not, but your vote counts for a larger percentage of state government than federal. You have a slightly greater chance of doing something about it

I have a reasonably conservative brother but it’s hard to tell what he actually believes vs what he wants to troll with

Most recently he got me with Harvard. Apparently it’s a hotbed of racism and harassment, so the federal government needs to step in. wtf? Does he really believe that’s anything more than a pretext to control “woke” education?

Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world

Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.

Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?

Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer

If he has trouble moderating himself, perhaps he should ask his son for help

Why should that be it? Throw in Deism to understand the attitude of the US founders, then round out most of the population with Islam, Hindu, Jainism, and probably many more. You have to cover Judaism because of its influence on Christianity. And of course agnostics and atheism to round out the beliefs. You’ll never hit all the possibilities but perhaps it would be ok to cover families of beliefs, such as if native belief systems are similar (I have no idea and that’s a shame)

Personally I do think it should be required to post some amount of Islamic concepts. Among the many ways we are too provincial is seeing everything through the eyes of a single religion family. Even our friends and neighbors seem alien when we aren’t even aware there are other religions.

Let’s require at least some comparative religion study, perhaps in social studies and history. The major religions have had a huge impact on the development of our societies and we should all be more familiar with beliefs held in common or u destined where they’re actually different (and not just the Fix News version)

Just a distraction from the Trump-Epstein files

Not at all. For the sake of at least one of our major technology companies, I’m happy Tim was able to bribe mango Mussolini so cheaply. For the cost of a small piece of gold and a little pride, tim cook saved his company potentially billions of dollars. Well worth it.

Of course it also violates every business ethics training I’ve had to goto, so it’s probably bribery that would usually get him thrown in jail. But again, good for him to know when being immoral is the right thing to do.

This is not like the situation with Harvard where jaundice Jesus is trying to gain control, destroy its reputation. Harvard has to resist or lose itself. Apple is just one small piece of gold to allow business as usual

When I last went Christmas shopping at a mall, it really wasn’t even worth going. It was sad, as you said but I also didn’t find anything relevant at a price I would pay. It was all sad and pointless

It’s interesting in an unfortunate way that my kid was lamenting having no place to hang out with his buddies. Malls used to attract teens, to the point where their previous hangouts are gone. Now there’s nothing

I have at least three near me. I intend to go next month, to get a new iPhone. So yeah, every 2-5 years; I’m not their number one customer