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  1. 4 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    say more, i'd be interested to read whatever studies you're referring to. I work at a danish company, anecdotally it seems like having children (and taking extended maternity leaves) is much less of an impediment to career growth for our female danish counterparts than I've seen in my experience in the US. But, that's highly speculative and anecdotal.

    I'd say the European business culture is way more comfortable with people just going missing for a month or two at a time. Those fuckers do it every year for vacation, so absorbing an extra period of leave for a newborn is not that much extra load. Here in the States, we are 100% grindcore all the time for the shareholder and nobody takes vacation, so being gone for six weeks is a major disruption to the cultural norm.

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  2. Just now, YGIFS said:

    Never going to the inside of a cell, we've all known this for damn near two years now.  But a House Arrest situation does make more and more sense, I'll leave it to the criminal attorneys on here to weigh in on how that differs from just probation/parole officer visits.  He'd obviously claim that all of Mar-a-Lago is his "house", so we could still wander the grounds and play golf.  Or do you have to serve it out in the venue domicile, so one of his New York properties?  I'd prefer to let him have it served at Mar-a-Lago because while he'd walk/cart the perimeter of the vast property every day which would make it less punitive, he could receive adulation from the hundreds lined up around in adoration shifts 24/7 for a year.  And he'd go out there and golf and then talk then along each corridor from a distance.  And address camera crews and the like.  

    And then you start the disinformation campaign.  "Trump's jailers are visiting Mar-a-Lago's exterior posing as MAGA nation to taunt and gloat in Trump's unlawful house arrest!  You must defend America by carrying firearms to the support rallies outside Mar-a-Lago.  It's legal in Florida to do so, as long as you don't cross the property lines and it demonstrates your support of Trump's commitment to the 2nd Amendment and our condemnation of this Kangaroo Court.  Over the course of a year, somebody makes a mistake and adjusts their weapon or takes it out to show somebody else what they're running or actually draws it on somebody they suspect of being an ANTIFA/Deep State plant.  And they do it along the property line, that scenario is not that hard to arrange.  Secret Service sees it and rushes over, a shootout ensues.  Who knows what could happen next, MAGA on MAGA violence could be fun as shit to see unfold on TV.  It's a stretch.  But if the simulation has taught us anything...

    Historically speaking, fascists really do their best work while in a comfortable jail cell surrounded by their friends. Sounds like a great fucking idea. 

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  3. It's funny seeing all the business thread posters coming here and complaining that women aren't having enough children nowadays. I've got a secret for you: it's the economy, stupid!

    People aren't real keen to have children when they feel like they're struggling to survive and just tread water. It doesn't make sense for most people to have children when they're already working 2 or 3 jobs with unpredictable hours and scheduling and shit pay. 

    Sure the big economic line is going up on the chart in the sky, but most people aren't getting the benefit from it.

     

    And also - YIKES - from tkthunder soft arguing for a handmaiden's tale. Women don't have reproductive rights AND are too stupid to plan for themselves when they should have kids? They just keep slipping down the social ladder with y'all eh?

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  4. Can we update the thread to "Texas tap water laced with PFAS/PFOS"?

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/

    In Texas, 49 public water utility systems have reported surpassing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits for five “forever chemicals” in drinking water, according to data submitted to the federal agency.

    Experts say there are likely more since not all water systems have submitted their data.

    ...

    Texas water utilities that have reported one or more PFAS chemical exceeding the new federal standard:

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    • Abilene Northeast and Grimes Water Treatment Plant
    • Town of Anthony
    • Arlington Pierce Burch Water Treatment Plant
    • Baytown Area Water Authority
    • Big Springs Water Plant
    • Clear Lake Water Authority
    • Childress Water Plant
    • Cockrell Hill Water Plant
    • Coupland: Manville Water Supply Corporation
    • Dallas Water Utility Eula Water Supply Cooperation in Clyde
    • Deer Park Surface Water Treatment Plant
    • Duncanville Water Treatment Plant
    • Edinburg Wastewater Plant
    • City of Farmers Branch
    • Town of Flower Mound Wastewater Treatment
    • Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 133
    • Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 41
    • Fort Worth North and South Holly Water Treatment Plant
    • Gastonia Scurry Special Utility District
    • Georgetown San Gabriel Park Water Treatment Plant
    • Grapevine Water Treatment Plant
    • Greenville Water Treatment Plant
    • Haltom City
    • Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 119
    • Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 8
    • Houston: Spencer Road Public Utility District
    • Hudson Oaks Lakeshore Plant
    • Huntsville Palm Street Water Plant
    • Irving MacArthur Pump Station
    • Katy: Big Oaks Municipal Utility District
    • Killeen: West Bell County Water Supply
    • La Feria Water Treatment Plant
    • City of Lake Worth
    • City of Livingston
    • Midland Water Purification Plant
    • Prosper Custer Pump Station
    • Port Lavaca Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Water Treatment Plant
    • San Antonio Water System Castle Hills
    • City of Seagoville
    • Seguin: Springs Hill Water Supply Corporation
    • Temple Water Treatment Plant
    • Terrell North Texas Municipal Water District
    • City of Tye
    • Weatherford Water Treatment Plant
    • West University Place Plant 1 and 2

    Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and a bunch of municipal districts hit

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  5. 4 minutes ago, MrBig said:

    We saw the videos of the Tesla hitting the child running in the crosswalk. Why didn’t it avoid hitting a stationary child in the middle of the street?

     

    Lolwtf it's beeping at the driver, so it knows there's something there(?), and then plows through the mannequin. Can't wait to hear the spin on this one from guad lol

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  6. 25 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


    As a fan of vintage ships this makes me sad.

    As a fan of seeing invaders get killed and their shit blown to bits, it’s delicious.

    That's the vessel that russia uses to recover sunk ships, so this is a major reduction in naval capabilities for a very long time. Crazy that she was laid down by the Tsar's navy and presently is getting targeted by modern cruise missiles

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    LOL 

     

    LMFAO a fuckin pop rivet after the fact? That's a hell of a factory bodge job to fix a major design flaw. Like, sure, that's a perfectly fine fix - but shouldn't that have been thought of before assembly lines started? 

    If they can't even make a fucking gas pedal, what other unknown flaws are lurking?

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  8. 1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Jesus, and I complain about the normal one hour with six people. I can't imagine a 6-hour interview, that sounds exhausting and really boring as you repeat the same damn answer 6 times in a day.

    Where I am, we break it up into 4 or 5 45 minute interviews that are intentionally planned to cover different disciplines and skills and traits, so it's at least not monotonous for the interviewee. But it is a grind, wether you're the sausage or turning the crank

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  9. Love that ocean spray on the beach? It's probably full of PFAS. 

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study

    Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines.

    The study measured levels of PFAS released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash, spraying aerosols into the air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands times higher than levels in the water.

    The contaminated spray likely affects groundwater, surface water, vegetation, and agricultural products near coastlines that are far from industrial sources of PFAS, said Ian Cousins, a Stockholm University researcher and the study’s lead author.

    “There is evidence that the ocean can be an important source [of PFAS air emissions],” Cousins said. “It is definitely impacting the coastline.”

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  10. 12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The adversarial, competitive nature of trials is supposed to produce a good facsimile of truth in the sense of iron sharpens iron. But I wonder sometimes if the gamesmanship doesn't produce unjust results. 

    Good faith is a fertile ground upon which trumpism and fascism thrives. That basic presumption of civility is exploited and weaponized to create the sort of unequal justice we've been enjoying for a good long while. 

    Trump is getting free extensions on his prima facie fraudulent bond, simply because the system is built with the expectation of people not lying to the courts face. The system is so incredibly vulnerable to garbage in; garbage out, and it's the main lever of obstructionism he routines uses. 

    The gamesmanship doesn't guarantee unjust results, but it certainly sets the table for them. 

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  11. 4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Claiming “the data shows” without presenting data does not make it a fact.  That may even be construed as misrepresentation of reality, and insisting someone accept it. Accusations, confessions, rah rah. 

    Is this another thing where you're claiming I said something that I didn't? You're hittin the chick fil a too hard man, you're shadowboxin with ghost posts

  12. 35 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    How is that?  Oh no, I simply cannot bear to hear an opposing opinion.  Please mod, come take care of this, even though an ignore function exists. I just cannot take it!!1!

    You aren't bringing a different opinion. You're bringing alternative facts and material misrepresentions of reality and insisting we accept them as true before you will engage. 

    That is trolling my guy. 

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  13. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    And you’ll be pleased to know, that I’ve notified all of your local draft boards and let them know that you are now, all, all eligible for military service.  Except Kyle who is both physically and mentally unfit for Basic.  

    I think he could've qualified for McNamara's unit

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