Attempt to sue them first, and if that fails burn the place down.

Yeah, short sightedness seems like the biggest defining factor of the anti union mindset.

I know a generally wonderful human being, taking care of his disabled parents, scraping by at a manufacturing job. He is hardcore against unions, says that he can negotiate for himself.

We’re fucked.

Probably a lifetime of hardship when shit starts hitting the fan for reals. Here’s to hoping you and I are in a good zone when this all collapses.

Which do you think will become the first famous climate refugees? Residents of small island nations losing land and safety, or heat affected landmasses that become uninhabitable due to extreme temperatures and/or wet bulb conditions?

Holy crap haha. No, I either forgot or dont remember and had to look it up. Man, they didn’t even wait for the man to get in office before selling racist memorabilia.

Some live a more sheltered life, and there’s always a varying degree of racism in different areas.

My experience was of becoming an adult right around that time, which just meant other adults were now suddenly ok being openly racist around me, and boy did they have a lot to say around that time.

That or the cicada po boy. Exoskeleton off, a good breading, some remoulade sauce and a fresh roll sounds pretty good if their texture is shrimp like.

Texture seems important too, and the thought of a sap eating bug that has a similar texture to shrimp… Doesn’t sound all that bad. I’m honestly half tempted to try to test it when they emerge.

Seems like there’s a fungus that’s known to eat their ass, but as long as they’re free of that it seems fair game.

So like, do you have to de-shell them or do you just eat them exoskeleton and all? Given that their diet is fresh sap and xylem water, they seem like pretty clean little bugs to eat. I’d try it.

And since mental health is healthcare, we don’t have to do anything about it at all. Because as we know, the free market healthcare system is self solving and bulletproof so we should never do anything to try to fix it. Murica.

Already out my man, it’s called Palworld, and it’s great.

Have you not paid attention in the past 5 years? He doesn’t debate or answer anything directly, and he isn’t for democracy. But yeah, let’s hear what the literal Nazi sympathizer has to say.

We have yet to see a lawyer, judge, politician, or rational human being be able to successfully moderate Donald Trump, that’s what the other person is saying. He’s a toddler, he’s either babbling nonsense or he’s having a temper tantrum. There’s no point in a debate if the person you’re debating just wants to whine and lie.

But, I suppose if you want to watch 2 geriatrics losing touch with reality in different ways, at different stages, you could always volunteer at a nursing home.

I’ll piggyback on this one. I’m personally more partial to Lenovo if money and lead time isn’t an issue, but Dell Latitude is the budget business brand. On site repair support is roughly the same, they contract 3rd parties in whatever area you are in to do onsite repair.

I can reliably get Latitude 5500 series laptops with i5, 16gb, 256gb, and fingerprint reader for less than $1000 shipped, and that includes a 5 year on-site accidental included warranty with keep your drive. You drove over your laptop? Ok, here’s a loaner, let me try to pull the storage, and try not to do it again.

If you’re American, your credit score affects a whole lot more than your creditworthiness. A bad, or even not as good score can affect your chances at getting a job, getting a place to live, and more commonly, how much you pay for car insurance.

We give a lot of shit to China over their social credit score, but we’ve had ours for years, we just pretend it’s only for creditworthiness. When your job does pre employment checks, they can also do a credit check. Many apartment complexes do the same. Hell, even utility companies can check your credit and decide you are a risk and ratchet up your deposit.

It’s not a guarantee that anyone does this, but it is a possibility. Be on your best behavior, citizen, the credit bureaus are watching.

I would hope not, though I know we’re working off of incomplete information since we’re not on the ground/in their shoes. It’s certainly an appropriate fear to have, but it also cannot and should not stop the reversal of the annexation.

I’m of the mind of asking the Ukrainian government for leniency or due process once the dust settles and the rightful government takes back Crimea.

The other guy… It seems like he is making whatever excuse to suck off Putin that he can 🤣

I kind of have the same sentiment, but I have reservations about what is likely a very small fraction of them.

Mostly the thought of the doctors who are entwined with government, because I’m sure some doctors just want to help. Other than that, I’m sure there’s at least one individual who did it as a way to get or maintain a job so they can make rent and survive, but that just might be me projecting my American fear of poverty onto a situation that doesn’t apply.

That does seem like a troubling situation. I do imagine that there are likely quite a few people who took those positions with good intentions, but when the new ruler comes to town and asks who wants power, it does seem obvious that there are strings attached. In this case, the deal was indeed to become a traitor in exchange for power/position, but I’m sure many were signing up just to survive.

You’re right, there are probably good people that are going to be harmed alongside the bad, and I don’t think there is a perfect solution. I would say it needs to get talked about as we get closer to a peace deal, it’s truly regrettable that Russia decided to create this problem, maybe they could also work towards a solution for these citizens they forced into this role.

Edit: purely hypothetical, but one thought comes to mind. A compromise might be acceptable if they were given the choice to either retain their Ukrainian citizenship, but lose their position, or to defect to Russia. Though, once again this realm of decision making lies entirely in the hands of the victor of the war.