Elerond
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Google tries to politically indoctrinate employees and fires the unindoctrinatable ones, Hobby Lobby refuses to pay for abortion inducing drugs. Where's the similarity here?No, they don't determine the birth control, just what they'll pay for. The employee is perfectly free to pay for it herself.
That still sounds incredibly controlling. They are making that decision based solely on a religious belief, I assume. How is that any better than what Google does?
Google fired person who used Google's resource and time that was paid by Google (meaning that person write his manifesto during his work hours) to undermine PR effort in which Google has put billions of dollars in past decade. I mean which company would not fire such employee. Hobby Lobby promises healthcare it employees but with exception that said healthcare needs to fit in their brand image. With those two I would say that Google's actions are less nefarious and they pay better salaries for their workers.
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Unless these electric self driving cars work on dirt roads and have 4WD I'm out of luck.
You can install needed cameras and environmental sensors in 4WD car, but dirt roads are quite tricky for driving AI's to interpret with absolute accuracy, which is why self driving cars at least still have manual driving mode for such and other situations that their computer can't handle.
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And the tragedy of it is we are only stuck with it because we think we are. 3rd party candidates only lose because people think they are wasting their vote. If enough people decide enough is enough those votes won't be wasted, they will change things.
You'd be taking about direct democracy 'changing things' if you lived in a multiple party system. We do - and it's the same bull****, albeit on a smaller scale.
Voting blocks graviate towards an effective two party system anyway. The problem is systemic to power itself.
I can recommend this book for a good dose of cynisism
https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328737207l/11612989.jpg
Gravitation towards two party system comes from government vs. opposition arrangement, but what I like in multiparty system is that it is usually easier predict how unified or divided government or opposition is towards certain issues.
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The quickest way to fix the ACA is to force Congress to have to buy it. They exempted themselves from it back in 2010. As they usually do, after all "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
When half of the congress consist of millionaires, I don't think that is that big initiative
And I am not sure if exempted is right term to use but they aren't full participants either at least according to this snopes post
http://www.snopes.com/members-congress-health-care/
"Prior to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as ACA, or Obamacare), members of Congress received the same healthcare insurance benefits as any other federal employee through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, or FEHBP.
During the mark-up of the ACA bill, however, lawmakers inserted a provision (Section 1312(d)(3)(D)) that requires members of Congress and designated congressional staff members to obtain their health insurance through ACA exchanges rather than continue to receive their healthcare coverage through the FEHBP.
As of 1 January 2014, Members of Congress (MOC) and Congressional staff purchase their insurance through the District of Columbia’s small business health options program (SHOP) exchange, also known as DC Health Link. Contrary to popular belief, Congressional members do not receive free health care. As it does for other federal employees who purchase their insurance through the FEHBP, the federal government provides a subsidy equivalent to 72 percent of the weighted average of all FEHBP premiums.
Therefore, MOC and staff pay approximately 28 percent of their annual healthcare premiums through pre-tax payroll deductions.
Although DC’s SHOP offers a total of 57 different ACA insurance plans at the bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels, the Office of Personnel Management has ruled that MOC and staff may only receive the employer contribution if they purchase insurance at the gold tier. If we look solely at the District of Columbia’s SHOP health plans and federal employer contributions, Members of Congress receive benefits very similar to those enjoyed by any employee of a large company.
The bottom line is this: Members of Congress and their staff members are required by law to purchase their health insurance through the exchanges offered by the Affordable Care Act. However, the federal government subsidizes approximately 72 percent of the premium cost."
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There's no irony. Free speech is free for everyone. Also "Fake news" is a term liberals came up with, only to have it boomerang in their faces since they're the main purveyors.
Because conservatives wanted to smear Clinton they succeed to get SC decision that now prevents them blocking liberals from smearing Trump, which forces them to use "Fake News" defense. I see irony in that.For those of you who opposed the Citizens United decision. Re-thinking it in the age of Trump: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/25/trump-attacks-on-washington-post-illustr
For those of you who thought it was the right decision and free speech should be free no matter who is speaking, pat yourself on the back.
pat pat pat
Yes very ironic situation
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Pakistan's SC disqualified their PM because of Panama papers, which maybe good could be good because it move to fight against corruption, but it maybe also bad because it may give control of Pakistan to their generals.
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For those of you who opposed the Citizens United decision. Re-thinking it in the age of Trump: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/25/trump-attacks-on-washington-post-illustr
For those of you who thought it was the right decision and free speech should be free no matter who is speaking, pat yourself on the back.
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Because conservatives wanted to smear Clinton they succeed to get SC decision that now prevents them blocking liberals from smearing Trump, which forces them to use "Fake News" defense. I see irony in that.
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Rats with swords? Don't be silly
They also have laser cannons (warp lightning cannons)
Sniper teams
Plague Monks
Screaming Bells
This is Warhammer after all
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What is skaven?
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Chairman of Joint Chiefs tells U-S military "no modifications" to current transgender policy until implementation guidance given.
Source: https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/890589409329983489
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Apparently Bernie Sanders has been stealing his neighbor's newspaper: http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/07/25/report-bernie-sanders-stealing-neighbors-newspaper-d-c/
Makes sense I guess. The neighbor has a paper, Bernie does not. How is that fair? Where is the justice in that?
In socialism it is called involuntary sharing for common good.
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Buzzfeed makes it sound life in Pentagon is quite nerve-racking these day.
"At the Pentagon, the first of the three tweets raised fears that the president was getting ready to announce strikes on North Korea or some other military action. Many said they were left in suspense for nine minutes, the time between the first and second tweet. Only after the second tweet did military officials receive the news the president was announcing a personnel change on Twitter."
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No transgender people in the military, not sure they were so much of a distraction to affect the combat performance.
I think t was more of a cost savings move since gender reassignment surgery was becoming a covered benefit. As much as I abhor discrimination of any stripe the military is a different animal than the rest of society and the rules that apply are different. But I suspect the pols will make much more of this than the story deserves. I believe I read there were less than 10 "transgendered" service members in all four branches.
This study from 2014 estimated over 15k, but can't say how accurate it is.
"Our estimates suggest that approximately 15,500 transgender individuals are serving on active duty or in the Guard or Reserve forces. We also estimate that there are an estimated 134,300 transgender individuals who are veterans or are retired from Guard or Reserve service."
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Transgender-Military-Service-May-2014.pdf
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One has to just love surprise laws.
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These spillways are also interesting looking during droughts
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When 911 become number for assisted suicide line?
Maybe bit harsh, but there has been quite lot stories about police officers that have shot either 911 caller or somebody they have been called to help that it isn't entirely baseless
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even for "them", the underlying mechanisms are beyond "their" control
The markets are largely controlled by those who have their hands on the levers of power. Which is not any elected official.
it lies in the nature of markets that they are out of control
Huh?The economy goes up, the economy goes down because it is largely beyond the control of those whose hands are on the levers of power.
Economy is sum of complex systems, some which are more controlled and some with little oversight.
But elected official have capacity to do decisions that have heavy impact on economy and direction it will take, which is why it is good that they usually are satisfied just to move some pieces around and claim that they have done massive amount of work.
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"a pretty great fit, reframing Aunt May as Peter Parker's actual aunt rather than his great aunt"
52 years old is more likely to be great aunt than aunt for 15 years old boy in real world.
In my experience it's pretty odd to see a couple having a child before 30 (personally I'm the oldest among my siblings and my mother had me at 33, making her 48 when I was 15). If Aunt May is his parent's older sister (for a few years, not a lot), then that gap makes perfect sense. If she's meant to be younger than that parent, it's still not outside the realm of possibility.
I would say it's weirder to consider a 37-year gap as making up for two generations instead of one, but in the case of grand-aunts I do happen to have a second great-aunt who's only 15 years older than I am (daughter of my grandmother's uncle's fourth marriage), so, I reckon anything gives. :-P
When I am 52, my nieces and nephews will be 25-29.
But in generally speaking 52 is youngish to be great aunt and oldish to be aunt for 15 years old. Both are possible scenarios, but I would still say that being great aunt is more likely of those two. Because there is quite lot people that have their first child when they are between 16-25. Like for example Aunt May would be great aunt in scenario where May's sister had child when she was 20 and that child then got child when they were 20 and May is three years younger than her sister, then her grand nephew would be 15 when she is 52. Parker's family is also described to uneducated working class family, where it is more typical to have children in younger age.
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"a pretty great fit, reframing Aunt May as Peter Parker's actual aunt rather than his great aunt"
52 years old is more likely to be great aunt than aunt for 15 years old boy in real world.
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When companies were interested, Game Workshop refused to sell them licence and these days there isn't anybody with resources that is interested to make one.
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Leftists are supposed to want a nanny state with safe spaces. How is anti-establishment leftist?
Supporters of the king are in the right and those who oppose the king are in the left. That is how it was until somebody decided otherwise, because they wanted to be in left or right but they didn't have a king to oppose or they wanted just to make everything more confusing.
So technically if you go with original left/right divination then political left is original anti-establishment and political right is original pro-establishment.
And so if political establishment is against nanny state with safe spaces then those who oppose them (by demanding nanny state with safe spaces) are anti-establishment and therefore political left. But if political establishment supports nanny state with safe spaces then those who support them (by supporting existence of nanny state with safe spaces) are in political right.
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Doesn't seem like all that much effort was needed (Reddit user being a careless moron, shock!), but certainly is weird that they'd waste time on it. Do get some satisfaction seeing some troll-type poster get squeezed a bit and buckling. Not sure why CNN would get banned from Reddit due to this,
I'd count cross referencing reddit and facebook as putting in a fair bit of effort, at least considering how little is usually put in.
I'd have a lot more satisfaction about a troll type buckling if it weren't CNN doing it and if the guy was more at fault. End of the day it's a wrestling gif that got exposure because Trump posted it, it was not an assault on the 4th estate and it is utterly trivial. Yet CNN is so self important that they had them tracking down its author as their lead item, and were both smug and hypocritical about it. Ultimately I end up preferring that something bad would happen to CNN, rather than some random redditor.
Theoretically, if a site doxs or threatens to dox a reddit user by trawling their posts it's a sitewide ban for them from reddit as punishment, theoretically it's about the worst infraction there is. Doesn't have anything to do with quality, it being reddit quality doesn't enter into things. Happened to Gawker, for example. Won't happen to CNN though, as all the
CTRShareblue bots would throw a fit about it.Really? To me CNN is middle of road for mainstream media in the US but Reddit is just a cancer. Didn't know they have an issue with sites doxing their users, kind of rich that they do. But alright. Not quite sure the wrong kind of shills are that much in charge of Reddit.
People are constantly doxed in Reddit and they don't seem to care much if they aren't threatened with lawsuit
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I know, seriously. Unless he is some cold blooded murder or has some major public job 9thoguh why would someone like that have time to do this) why would he be scared?
I mean, seriously. All he did was edit some silly video. That happens ALL THE TIME. I'm sure I'm seen that same vid edited to mock Trump before tooo. Or like when he got stunnered by Steve Austin I saw vid changing Austin to others - Ithink even Hillary Clinton pre election. LMAO
I would say that reason why CNN went after him was him publishing list names and pictures of all Jewish employees in CNN.
That is false as they found out about it AFTER they went after him. The reason was and always been that he is the author of the Trump wrestling CNN meme.
That list was posted all over twitter same day when Trump posted the meme
As was all of his previous posts. That's the meaning of previous.
I'm saying that CNN were not familiar with his posts before they went after him.
They found his previous posts during their investigation they performed because he was the author of CNN wrestling meme.
Trying to spin it any other way is ridiculous.
It's like the police searching someone for weapon and finding drugs instead. Did the fact hey found drugs mean the reason for search was drugs, because they happened to found drugs? Of course not.
But how CNN wouldn't be familiar with his posts as his Reddit handle become known after people started to post in social media that same person whose wrestling meme Trump posted has made anti-Semitic posts (which made it possible that CNN and other were able to find information about him). But somehow CNN didn't know about those other posts when they went after him?
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I know, seriously. Unless he is some cold blooded murder or has some major public job 9thoguh why would someone like that have time to do this) why would he be scared?
I mean, seriously. All he did was edit some silly video. That happens ALL THE TIME. I'm sure I'm seen that same vid edited to mock Trump before tooo. Or like when he got stunnered by Steve Austin I saw vid changing Austin to others - Ithink even Hillary Clinton pre election. LMAO
I would say that reason why CNN went after him was him publishing list names and pictures of all Jewish employees in CNN.
That is false as they found out about it AFTER they went after him. The reason was and always been that he is the author of the Trump wrestling CNN meme.
That list was posted all over twitter same day when Trump posted the meme
Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
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Only grapevine speak at the work, can't say how reliable gossip actually is.
When knowledge about his manifesto went viral, it caused lots of talk (gossip) about anti-women atmosphere on Google, which directly undermines Google's PR efforts where they have build image being accepting and diverse working place where any sort discrimination is frowned upon. Google puts great value in their imago as liberal, accepting and diverse company and employer.