What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?
I say that he must get up in spite of it all, get the best job he possibly can, and work as hard he can to achieve what he can
Or, he can put forth the absolute minimum effort to give himself a life he can tolerate. He can grift and cheat and abuse what public assistance programs will actually serve him. He can withdraw from civic engagement, undermine the government at every turn possible, and just generally be as shitty as he can to an economic and political structure that seeks to disenfranchise and disempower him at every turn while still feeling entitled to the fruits of his labor.
Loyalty is a two-way street, and the powers that be have shown nothing but contempt for white men for decades.
The Trove is gone, but I think there are torrents out there with everything it had, plus people upload new pubs as they come out. If you want to play their game, just pirate it. Likewise D&D.
Although the content itself is compromised in these companies, so I would just grab their older stuff.
Washington state. No surprise there; they've been speedrunning the transition from nice place to live to liberal hellhole for the last decade.
Isn't working in prison optional unless you have hard labor on your sentence (do they even do that anymore?). Prisoners choose to do it for credit towards early release and it looks good to parole boards. My state also has prisoners work wildfires, and they're all ones that are near the end of their sentences doing it as volunteers.
It would be counterproductive to force prisoners to work anyway because they would just commit sabotage.
And this is why immigrants aren't trusted. There's always the inherent risk of divided loyalty. They're just saying the quiet part out loud.
Space Above and Beyond
They never discuss it in the show, but the fighters have auto cannons that fired whenever someone was on their tail.
There's probably no value in that sort of thing when air combat is with missiles beyond visual range, but it was still cool, and they always do old school dogfighting in those space shows because it's a hell of a lot more fun to watch.
I've got a relative that makes a rum cake and has been using the same recipe from Bacardi or another one of the big liquor companies for years.
This Christmas she said she had to guess at most of the amounts because all of the ingredients were based off standard package sizes when the recipe was written and everything has shrunk. Since everything shrunk by different amounts, she had to try and figure out everything based on the original proportions in the recipe.
I read a book about famous hoaxes in archeology, and the author told a story in the preface that is basically the same thing.
He said he used to get all these mail order books about a variety of different subjects and was shocked that the revelations and counterfactual narratives they presented weren't mainstream knowledge. The books all sounded logical and well supported by evidence to him, yet they shattered accepted norms.
Then he ordered one that dealt with anthropology, which was his field of expertise, and everything in it was complete bullshit- half truths, the truth twisted and misused, and outright lies. He then realized that all the books he had been reading were complete bullshit, he just lacked the expert knowledge to spot it.
He's just saying what he thinks will prevent the new regime from going after him. That's also why he donated a bunch of money to the inauguration and is kissing Trump's ass.
The upshot is that this will be useful for all the lawsuits being filed against them, and I'm surprised his attorneys are letting him say all this. As a private company, Facebook can censor their website as they wish, but if they do it at the demand of the government they are treated as a government agent, and are then liable for restricting speech the same as the government itself would be.
The problem is proving it, as courts have ruled that a simple request from the government isn't enough, as they are free to collaborate when their interests align. A litigant needs to show that they did it because they felt coerced or pressured by the government, and these statements are establishing that pattern of facts.
It's crazy, because someone posted a link to an organization actively suing them and alleging they acted as a government agent just a few days ago.
People like you and yours were afraid because you're ignorant of labor laws, you're ignorant of contract law, you don't know your own Rights
The people the military that were discharged have no recompense, even after the feds lost a lawsuit and were prohibited from mandating the vaccine or taking derogatory personnel actions against those who refused.
Those that got kicked out before the court ruling did not get their jobs back, will not be receiving a monetary settlement, and lost all the vesting they had towards their retirement unless they already had 20 years in.
That was a tough choice
I'll give you that; it's the primary purpose of a congressman.
They should represent their state to Congress and their country to the world. Anything else is unacceptable.
"I will always stand with the US" is the only acceptable version of this for an American politician.
I wish this asshole would go "stand with Israel" in person and give his seat to someone that wants to represent the US.
I feel like the country is teetering on a razor's edge and any moment we can experience an event that sparks a revolution.
The crazy thing is that I'm pretty sure that those in power feel the same way and rather than make any effort whatsoever to address grievances in a way that might avert this, they just double down on oppression.
Unreasonable response or request for an apology (including face-to-face response or request for an apology specifying the position of our employee or partners)
This seems oddly specific.
As would eradicating the tiny hat clan.
So basically his entire schtick is "this is old, so it's stupid". I'm sure he'll enjoy hearing the same thing about everything from his childhood when he's in his 40s or 50s.
"Oh look, it's the guy from Austin Powers!". Imagine not knowing Michael York from all of his other work, like playing D'Artagnan in the best Three Musketeer movies ever made. Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu? Fuck yeah.
The best thing for the world would be if the last Israeli and the last Palestinian left on Earth murder each other like the ending of some old Twilight Zone episode.
The whole thing reminds me of the tagline from the Aliens versus Predator movie: whoever wins, we lose. It's crazy that people are picking sides in this conflict when the only right answer is that they're both absolutely awful and should just disappear.
LoL, I won't watch one second of this. Absolutely retarded.
Yeah, I had to look up who he even was. He's the guy who runs OpenAI/ChatGPT.
Ah, thanks.
It's funny that these deep blue cities are also the ones that get the most "enrichment" from our darker pigmented countrymen, yet they don't seem to see any problems
What did he do that he's unpopular now?
I fail to understand why some white people cheer their own replacement. No other ethnic group does this, and they only apply this logic to themselves.
You'll never catch them cheering on a demographic shift in Asia or Africa resulting in the displacement of the native culture, but when is the US or Europe they clap like trained seals at the prospect of eradicating the cultures that gave us philosophy, science, democracy, and spurred basically every innovation that makes modern life so comfortable.
About every 4-5 years we have winter weather where I live that leaves hundreds of people stranded on the highway overnight. A number of them run out of gas because they keep their car running so they have heat.
Right now, a truck can distribute gas cans and get everyone moving the next morning pretty quickly, but I'm waiting for there to be a bunch of electric cars stuck with no way to get them moving. As a bonus, they'll be blocking the gas powered cars, preventing them from leaving too.
I've got a solution: stop enlisting. You're only fighting for Haliburton and globohomo anyway. Let these assholes fight their own wars.
The entire concept of being sexually attracted to children is revolting, but I find the concept of criminalizing cartoons or AI generated images perplexing.
The whole legal theory behind criminalizing child porn is that the subjects are minors, can't consent, and are therefore victims. AI-generated pictures aren't people and can't be victims.
Barring evidence that viewing fake kiddie porn highly correlates with the person moving on to the real stuff, I'm not seeing the societal benefit to criminalizing this. Yes it's gross and perverted, but that's not the benchmark by which we define what is legal and what is not.
These people are wired wrong, and they can't be fixed, so I'd much rather that they sat in their house satisfying their urges by jerking off to fake kids than messing with real ones.