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Goredho

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  1. This summer, Damien: Omen 2025 will have nationwide release.
  2. I generally agree with the content of what you wrote. Teachers are generally excellent, in the job for the right reasons, and willing to go beyond their job description for students who show promise or who the system is failing. When Leander ISD was denying our kids special-ed services to comply with TEA's caps on the number of students receiving special ed, their teachers went far beyond what they were required to do to help our kids as much as they could. It was the policies from the TEA and implementation under the direction of the school district's administration that failed us. They are not in it for the right reasons.
  3. Well, I don’t know how you do things around here, Mr Chapo, but in the United States the customer is ALWAYS right.
  4. Hey, I hope you and your family find your place to be yourselves without fear or infringement, but I find this really fascinating. You feel safer around cartels than MAGA? I mean, wouldn't there also be a set of rules for staying safe in Trump's America?
  5. We'll ask you again in July.
  6. There's a rural, working-class white-guy zeitgeist going on in entertainment. It's not inherently MAGA, but it does sell well to people who don't see 21st century progress as worth a damn, and that's a big overlap with MAGA. Taylor Sheridan is seen as having his finger on this pulse, much like Puff Daddy was seen as having his finger on the pulse of urban black culture. I don't care, fucking entertain me as the world burns.
  7. Funny enough I’m going on an Eastman buying spree before the tariffs really get up to speed. ETA tomorrow.
  8. Nine-nines of reliable stupidity
  9. SHAPE OF… A WEEPING CUNT BOIL!
  10. That’s not Kid Rock, that’s Mike Lindell in drag.
  11. I wonder how these pro-corporate, anti-government folks would react if the government shut down a business the moment it finds any evidence that a regulation had been violated? Boeing cut corners bringing the 757 max? Several hundred people died? Sayonara, bitches. You are no longer allowed to exist and thoughts and prayers to your employees. Somehow I don't think there would be the same zeal...
  12. I’m more likely to win Mr Congeniality in pursuit of the Masturbatory Arts.
  13. Based on my adolescent listening habits, it would have to be…
  14. MAGA’s Johnny Football.
  15. My hypothesis that scientists and scholars are just as susceptible to buzzword hype as executives and marketers has proven true.
  16. Surly shart poll... Do you try to salvage the underwear, throw it in the hamper for your wife to deal with or do you...
  17. While I totally agree, I don’t think Musk or Trump are the kind that explain themselves, provide transparency or feel the need to answer to anyone. There is a reason the founding fathers wanted a system of checks and balances. Because they were leaving a monarchy where power was consolidated into a single individual that answered to only themselves and whatever conscience they possessed.
  18. They also opened @NowThis in the 2020 Kobe death thread.
  19. I appreciate the data link. Thanks. Maybe adding a million out of work federal employees to the steady state of terminated employees in a year will be a blip for those employees and everyone else? Regardless, we will see soon enough. I was going by largest layoffs in the private sector for a single employer in a single year: IBM: Currently, the all-time record for the largest corporate job cut belongs to tech company IBM, which laid off 60,000 people in 1993, the same year it posted an $8 billion loss. Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co. cut 50,000 jobs and closed 113 stores in 1993. Citigroup cut 50,000 jobs amid the 2008 financial crisis.
  20. This conversation is for everyone else.
  21. I have no problem with the TSA going away. Are they being targeted by DOGE? Most disagreements here seem to be over how federal government downsizing is carried out. I would like to see it done in a controlled and responsible fashion with A) empathy for people that are only guilty of accepting a job and doing what was asked of them in civil service and B) an eye on effects to the broader economy, jobs market and reliability of necessary government services. Those concerns seem to be an afterthought at best.
  22. I mean, for every $100 I made, the state was charged $150, so Utah was getting charged 150% of what I cost Thoughtworks. All of our contracts were for time and materials.
  23. Ok, I will defer to your expertise, but my margin was when I contracted through Thoughtworks to the state of Utah was 50%.
  24. The same people would get the jobs at 150-200% the cost to the government if their salary stays the same. The Deloittes and IBMs gotta eat, too.
  25. I honestly have no problem with the idea that the federal government needs a good trimming. It would be nice if this could be done in a throttled fashion, say over a couple years to "flatten the curve" of joblessness and all of its known and unknown effects and to provide for the ability to pause and pivot if/when damaging effects arise, but that runs into midterms. I imagine that is why this has been outsourced to our unelected modern-day Howard Hughes to execute. He need only answer to the President, not voters. The elected politicians can take credit for the good and avoid blame for the bad.
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