Djxfactor511
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Victory.
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so like all stupid shit it started as a meme.
Tommy Lee under fire for post after insisting he was ‘in no way transphobic’
The drummer previously posted a clip containing transphobic comments
www.independent.co.uk
Tommy lee even sharing The meme probably didn’t help.
Now dumbasses are actually doing this. The first arrest came last month. It’s not clear how many people are doing this. but based off online chatter there is speculation that a lot if dumbasses may have done this over the last couple of months.
folsom_lives
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Study links air pollution to rising antibiotic resistance levels
File this one under climate change, it’s making us sicker in many ways, but this is one of those unforeseen consequences.
Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across The Country or Be Fired
Two weeks after workers at the company announced a union drive, Grindr management has issued a return-to-office policy that workers say is retaliatory.
www.vice.com
Dtknuckles
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So like I said, I just went to my union leadership conference where the plan is to organize around making housing more affordable. Then the Tuesday after I get the results of my mortgage application. Yea I can’t afford a 2 bedroom condo for my son and I as someone with a masters degree. This shit is insane! How is this sustainable. The only acceptable response to this is to get some whiskey and cry myself to sleep while listening to a National album. The only music for a defeated middle aged man.
Dtknuckles
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Yea it would cost me 50% of my take home pay as would renting.
Yup, because they consider fair housing prices to be based of of dual income. Those us who are single get screwed. There is no way what one would consider a comfortable middle class salary can afford housing these days in most areas of the country off of a single salary.
It's just insane.
And screw the people that say "you could just get a roommate" and "you have to do what you have to do".
It's just insane.
And screw the people that say "you could just get a roommate" and "you have to do what you have to do".
Bull Shannon
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I feel like it’s a common pop-culture trope, especially in 90s sitcoms. I’ve been thinking how there’s such a direct line between that trope and the current panic/demonization. For a lot of people, just hearing that others are scared makes the concern seem real.
Add student loans to the mix and you really get fucked over.
so if housing / rent is 50% of your salary, federal student loans want 10% and your private student loans 20% of your salary (which they consider completely reasonable and don't care or account for federal student loans also coming out of your salary). That's 80% of your salary gone just to be able to stay current and not default.
so if housing / rent is 50% of your salary, federal student loans want 10% and your private student loans 20% of your salary (which they consider completely reasonable and don't care or account for federal student loans also coming out of your salary). That's 80% of your salary gone just to be able to stay current and not default.
This summer appears to be the summer of return to the office or else for many companies.
These companies are facing backlash and defiance from their workers about returning to the office. Leaderships in these companies are not willing to accept a new normal and want to return to how things were before covid. There is a lot of "if I had to work in the office everyday throughout my career than you should too".
Joe Mac
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I kinda don’t think it’s that though. Weak managers feel the necessity to exercise control and micro manage. That’s hard in a remote work environment.
Also wasn’t last summer the summer of return to the office?
It was. This summer is the summer of return to the office or else.
There has been a lack of enforcement of return to office and lots of companies getting pushback from employees or employees completely disregarding the return to work mandates and doing their own thing when it comes to coming into the office.
This summer companies are micromanaging time spend in the office and moving to next steps. Some are going straight to termination.
Twentytwo
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So Garland finally appoints a special counsel for Hunter Biden like the Republicans wanted, but not the guy they wanted apparently. Desantis said if the was a Republican he'd already be in jail. Who exactly went to jail from the most corrupt administration ever and served any meaningful time other than Michael Cohen? Most were pardoned for that matter.
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Lawsuit: Cigna used algorithm to deny patient claims without ever reviewing them
The class-action lawsuit claims the health insurance giant rejected more than 300,000 payment claims in just two months last year.
www.king5.com
yukbon
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Negative, theys specifically asked for David Weiss and Garland gave them David Weiss. Here's the letter asking for him: https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hunter-Biden-Special-Counsel-Letter-FINAL-2.pdf
One of the people complaining about getting this guy....is one of the people who asked for this guy. Fuck these repugnant shitbags.
yukbon
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Just going to put this here. WTF is going on in Montgomery?
Massive brawl breaks out on dock with people dumped into water and chairs thrown
The fight erupted on Saturday at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, and led to multiple arrests. The local mayor has vowed 'Justice will be served,' and revealed it was initially a boat worker who was attackedwww.mirror.co.uk
100% fuck those rednecks; they all got what was coming to them. That dockworker was doing his job and they mobbed him. If there hadn't been a (larger) mob of black folks around (emboldened by Aquamayne), I am certain that dockworker would be at best in a hospital, if not a morgue. That white lady joined into a brawl and was hitting some dude on the head when she got knocked down, she wasn't just chilling on the floor because it was a nice day. Is it bad form to take a chair to the face of someone who's already down? Yeah, of course. But....kitchens and heat. You got in a fight, so you got a fight, what the fuck did you think you were signing up for?
Further context:
summary: Those particular docks are where the slave ships would come in and drop slaves to be sold at market and pick up cotton to be shipped out.
avecigrec
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Boom.
avecigrec
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The idea of a "fair" fight is a farce anywhere outside of a competitor's circle/ring/octagon/cage/whatever. Especially where bigots are concerned.
Oh no, I agree. I am just against all forms of violence. I don’t celebrate any of this because it is only divisive. Do I think the red necks deserved this? Yes. Do I think that violence is ever the answer? No.