The only thing that should be named after him is a fucking fountain.

No, she hasn’t. This passed the Senate, still needs to pass the House. Hobbs hasn’t commented on the bill.

Agreed. I enjoy basically everything except a cold wind. A cold, still day in the snow? Lovely. Being out in the rain? Sucks but bearable, as long as there’s no wind. A warm spring/summer breeze? Absolutely amazing. Just no fucking cold wind, please.

The one caveat I’d add to this is that because we have to exist in this system, you don’t have to deprive yourself of all joy all the time. It’s ok to spend a few bucks on something frivolous every once in a while (within reason, of course). Do what you can, however much you can, but also make sure you’ve got the energy to keep going.

Same. All, either Top 6 or Top 12, with the occasional Top 24 (Today) if I’ve been busy and feel I need to catch up.

non-Bastards wanted to be Cops

https://web.archive.org/web/20260220171028/https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

edit: replaced archive.ph link with archive.org

Yup.

Cheated on his wife 2 months after she gave birth.

Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you. For when you die, it will be – without honor.

Ahhhh, ok. Now it clicked.

Yeah, it’s been going on for probably close to 2 years now. I got this lovely scenic route option heading home the other day. I’ve never taken any route home other than the main road, so I have no idea why tf it suddenly thought I needed to take my little hatchback 4x4’ing

Definitely Leavitt. The giant cross around her neck confirms it.

Interesting fact - As of 2011, actual horses* are allowed to be service animals.

*Certain ones, at least

Right, but the limitations around even asking about a service animal make it a risky endeavor, so shops often take the safer route and assume any dog is a Service Animal.

It was absolutely ridiculous that he said that. Full stop. No politician should mess that up that badly.

But, I’ve heard people theorizing that, somewhere in the middle of the sentence, he realized that telling the world “fool me twice, shame on me” would have been a disastrous PR nightmare, so he tried to bail out.

It’s the crazification factor.

Here’s the original post about it.

Fuuuck. There it is. I’d been wondering why the hell USAID garnered such ire, but I’d missed that. Now it makes sense. Thanks.

In addition to what everyone else has posted, FMLA also has the wonderful caveat of not coming into force until you’ve been at a job for one year. Yay…

If you work full time (~2080/yr), then $700 amounts to $0.33 (33¢) per hour, or about $27 per biweekly paycheck. Any union worth their salt will certainly get wages increased by more than that. Unfortunately, for a lot of people at or near poverty, that $27 makes a huge difference.

Same thing with fighting anti-union activity by your employer - yeah, it’s federally protected and you’ll likely win in court and get back pay, but few can afford to not get paid for the intervening months while it works its way through the system.

Not the one you replied to, but…

I was agnostic for quite a while. I viewed it with an air of “scientific smugness”, thinking “since there’s no way to prove one way or the other, of course agnosticism is the only rational view.”

What finally pushed me to full atheism was 2 thoughts:

• Whether there is a god or not, the universe operates as if there isn’t. By that I mean, we’ve chipped away at the “god of the gaps” and found scientific explanations for every natural phenomenon that was previously attributed to god.
• If there is a god, and they are omnipotent, then surely they would understand why I don’t believe and would not punish me for that view. If they’re truly omnipotent and want me to believe, they know exactly what kind of evidence would be necessary to change my mind. Since that hasn’t happened, either there is no god, or there is and they’re ok with punishing me for something they could resolve immediately, in which case fuck them.