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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

Good thing is has that white icon in the middle. It would have been super shitty and wasteful if it was just a fully black page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Increases in other contracts that funnel tax money into oligarc pockets but provide no value to tax payers, decrease in revenue collected to offset expenses due to IRS cuts and tax code changes, and the other big one is from judicial fund settlements that have already surpassed pre trump levels.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I would also encourage people to go to midnight showings of Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' and watch as people throw handfuls of plastic spoons at the screen. Also fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You either lost money, or you lost time. If you are implying that you lost nothing because you didn't cash out and therefore can wait for a rebound, then you are going to lose the time you have to wait for the rebound. In economics that is also called an opportunity cost. You have now lost the opportunity to invest that money into something profitable because you have now tied it up in something that is unprofitable. You still lost. You are just too dumb to realize it with this mentality.

Worst case is when people with this mentality ride a stock to the bottom insisting it will just take more time to come back, and it doesn't. Then forcing the person to lose both the money and the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I miss HEB. family owned and private. Thus why they get away with treating their employees so well, paying them well, and supporting their communities all while also being the largest private employer in the state of Texas. That company is a great example of how a company can both grow to a large size and not be evil. If they ever go public you know all of its charm will instantly get cut in the name of shareholder value.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I would love it if reddit clamped down on free speech. Please reddit, just lay it out on what else you want to limit. Let the people know what else they can't say. Or even better- force people on reddit to make mandatory posts praising billionaires. It would make my day. Please reddit, put more gas on your dumpster fire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Missing bottle caps...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to be honest here, as an American I fully support you in this and hope the best for Canada. Many of us totally understand the resentment and know that our government and republican party asked for this. I hope the boycotts work and I hope they send the clearest message back. At the same time I don't have much faith I our leadership to react rationally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This wasn't a framing job, it was a siding job. And no, the HOA hasn't approved it, that's why it's contraband. We were going with the "ask forgiveness instead of permission" approach. Please don't snitch.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seriously. I'm from texas. Some people would happily let him come over to their car and start reaching in punching just to let it cross into castle doctrine/stand your ground territory. I was always taught to just assume people have guns in their cars and to act accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Think of a more direct democracy. I will oversimplify enough to annoy those from Switzerland:

Differing levels of law require differing thresholds. Country votes on a law, the majority above the required threshold vote it in. It becomes a national law. That is easy. What about when it fails? Then look to the state level. Did it pass the threshold for your state? Yes? Then it is a state law. Failed state level? Let's look at your county/city/local level. Passed threshold? Local law.

Again, over simplified, but general idea.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I have a bunch of coworkers who were contractors in a position for about a decade, then transitioned over to GS employees doing the same job. They were classified as probationary due to being "new" to their positions and were put on notice.

 

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