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How can you be a king/queen if you don't hold court?

A little of both! I was running my own business with other partners a few years ago. We received a buyout offer from a competitor and the vote was 5-2 to take it. Since I was the design engineer, implementations engineer, director of operations, vice president of supply chain & logistics, warehouse manager, and installation team supervisor and a few other hats as well, the new company retained me on a 1 year contract to consult. After that it was a quick handshake and "the door is right over there". I found myself out of work. With a nice sum of money in the bank true... but still unemployed. I sent a resume to the TDEC in response to an opening I saw on their website. Two interviews later I landed this job. Somehow. But working in a state job has only hardened my anti-government ideas. Tennessee is pretty frugal compared to some states but it still wastes tax money like it was a bodily function. But a big part of my job is saving the state money so I like to think I'm helping a little bit.

First of all I didn't reply to you. Second of all have you ever even read a word I said about how the US (mis)uses the military? Somehow it does not sound that way.

The biggest bullies are cowards at heart. They are at their worst when the target is weakest. Ever notice the most savage beatings come after the suspect is handcuffed and helpless. If you have one cop alone they are usually professional and polite. Get two or three together and you have never seen bigger ****. More than three just lie down on the ground and get ready for a beating.

Majority of remote workers are more productive and communicative Exactly what we have been discussing at work. Offices are an expense whose value is questionable. However, being an employee of the state I've found there is great resistance to change and small incentive to improve the value the taxpayers receive for the money that is stolen from them.

That kid will go far!

One Idea for Speeding a Coronavirus Vaccine: Deliberately Infecting People Remember when we were kids, one of the neighborhood kids came down with Chicken Pox our parents encouraged us to go see them? The thinking was "better to get it now as a child than later". This is kind of like that only to harvest anti-bodies. To tell you the truth, if contraction really did lead to immunity I'd take the two week hit and get it over with,. The trouble is that isn't proven yet.

Portugal Preparing Several Billion-dollar Clean Energy Projects for Post-Coronavirus Future

Lowes hardware store donated $1M in flowers to mothers in assisted living homes: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6155650577001#sp=show-clips

Oh man this one was funny

Sure. But none of that affects what YOU do. If people want to go sit in a crowded restaurant and not wear masks it does not obligate anyone to do it with them. That is the biggest problem with all of this. It's totally appropriate for the government to advise people to wash their hands, stay away from the others, wear masks, etc. But nowhere is is explicitly granted the power to compel business to shut down of people to stay home or for cops to arrest and beat the holy f--k out of people for fishing alone on private property. Only now they do because everyone has just accepted that they do. Sure it is a good idea to do that. I certainly would not have behaved any differently if it had been just suggestions. But it does not get to make decisions for people. Even if they are good decisions. And they certainly can't look at a family with no food in the fridge, unpaid bills, and no income "screw you stay home". Especially since most of them are filthy rich and suffer not a whit from the shutdown they imposed.

Has it ever occurred to you guys if we all just started ignoring the government there isn't much they could do about it. If we had max participation. Just sayin'

Now reading: Some of the conclusions are surprising. Some are on par with what I've already been thinking. It's kind of cool reading your own reasoning in a book written by an expert of the subject.

Panicked over ‘murder hornets,’ people are killing native bees we desperately need

This sounds like a stunt to see who is paying attention. At 4 PM on Friday we get a notification for a all hands conference call at 8 AM on Monday. I'm curious how many people won't be on because they didn't see the notification. Which I suspect was the point...

So she cuts you and you dye?

So in other words they are not monsters when they start but are turned into them over time. I could buy that. The saying "Power corrupts" has been around for a long time. But I think it's more likely that power attracts the corruptible.

Jesus that conversation got weird quickly!

Cops. Give someone authority over their fellow humans, a gun, and the sanction to use it and you create monsters. It takes a tremendous amount of self discipline and character to use that with restraint and apply it even handedly. Unfortunately those are not traits sought when police departments are interviewing candidates.

Cops in Lethbridge Canada take down a woman in a stormtrooper costume for holding a toy blaster: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/stormtrooper-trying-get-customers-attention-taken-down-officers-canada-n1201696 She was advertising for a sci-fi themed restaurant. Sounds like the roughed her up a little to. Good thing is was Canada. In the US they would have beaten the absolute f--k out of her, as well as anyone who witnessed it after confiscating and smashing their phones.

Meh, Palmer was a better President than Obama