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  1. I've shared this before, but I have a friend who does some pretty basic and rote factory floor work at a Peterbilt plant. He essentially screws on 9 industrial screws (I could be exagerating, maybe its 15, but it's not much work) to the chasis or something as it hits his part of the line, does like 15 trucks a night (works the 3rd shift I think which is nights) and between the Union negotiated wages, perks and bennies, OT and 3rd shift stuff makes more than most pediatricians and state attorneys. It's a racket. Soooo....there is that extreme as well, I guess, is my point. But good for him, he just reupholstered his seats on his 2 year old boat. Must be nice.
  2. Trump to "snub" Israel as well as he visits *checks notes* KSA, Qatar, UAE and potentially Turkey.
  3. This is the insane world we live in: Treating consumers badly to boost profits is securities fraud, but treating consumers well and reducing profits is also securities fraud, because everything is securities fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/unitedhealthcare-sued-by-shareholders-over-reaction-to-ceos-killing.html
  4. Changes nothing for me. Still out on this team as long as this management team is in charge.
  5. Disagree. A gay white male who isn't too zesty is not as career limiting as being BIPOC or a woman. Tim Cook, Peter Theil, etc. I think it's widely thought or accepted that being gay doesn't chnage the privilege of being a white male.
  6. Coo Coo Ka Choo little dude
  7. If the Memphis cops can get a not guilty, why not Luigi? Not that I think he should get a not guilty if he's guilty.
  8. Gainesville is still a dump. Went to the "Gainesville Zoo" last summer for some country inlaw reunion thing with the grandkids and wow. That was a sad state of affairs. An emaciated black bear in a chain link fence on a 200 sqft concrete slab was the highlight of the trip. Deformed giraffes cast off from mid-tier city zoos. A smattering of invasive species pawned off as attractions (e.g. raccoons, rabbits, wild boars). The sad part is I'm only slightly exaggerating.
  9. Sure, but on the whole, they don't have the infrastructure to really divert the waters and cripple Pakistan, which is what you'd need to do in short order (a swift, fatal blow) versus a slow, tortured process of diversion which would allow Pakistan to rally a) world sympathy (millions of innocent people affected by the lack of water) and b) Pakistan/China escalated response which would be bad for everyone.
  10. Speaking of Pete, what did Trump just say? Did his mask fall off and he loves Pete?
  11. For all the bluster, India is NOT going to do away with the Indus Waters Treaty. That would all but gaurantee a full on hot war with nuclear threat-- Russia and the US won't let it get that far. China might keep prodding Pakistan up that escalation ladder, but I'm not worried about it (I know I know, famous last words). Estimates are that the Indus water irrigates like 80%+ of Pakistan's crops and secondly reports are that India doesn't even have the technical abilities to divert the waters anyways (yet).
  12. Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain The agreement is the first since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners. Trump said the deal would remake the global trading system, even as he added that its details were still being finalized. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/us/trump-uk-trade-news
  13. But then again, Trump is a moron, so he might actually do something wildly illogical by somehow backing Pakistan (e.g. giving some concililatory or complimentary language like "Shariff is a great guy, Pakistan and I are friends") and condemning India and being in direct conflict to his aims in other areas and completely mixing signals. I guess.
  14. The US would NEVER back Pakistan or condem India. Where are you getting that from? Pakistan is backed hard by China. We are anti-China very adamently when it can be done via proxy and shadow like in this case. If anything we are tying up closer to Russia through all this because India's arms are heavily supplied and financed by Russia. IMO
  15. Yea how? I need to see some legal eagles to provide a technical analysis of the case to explain how this happened.
  16. So catching up on this thread. Looks like you got in trouble by the teacher. Haha. Better shape up!
  17. Ha. Meant $50 [more]/month!
  18. Also, TIL that there are some folks who didn't know that India + Pakistan + Bangladesh used to be one country less than 75 years ago.
  19. I didn't know "Paki" was a slur. TIL. To the guy who didn't believe India jets were shot down. Pakistan now says it’s downed five Indian jets (Delhi reportedly cedes at least three have “crashed”), and the two are now trading artillery along Kashmir. So that's fun, with nuclear foes starting to skirmish. Pushes can become shoves and shoves can become punches and punches can become an all-out brawl. That's the concern, not that there is a little dust up right now.
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