Looked mine up… There’s part off the problem…

Compensation

Base salary $174,000

Net worth (2012) $54,251,531.50

As I near 50 my plan if I ever have to date again is just to wear a pin with my age and “single” on it and if anyone wants to know more they can ask.

I remember everyone saying “don’t worry, he won’t win” the first time.

Forgive my if I maintain a pessimistic view this time around.

They made a blood tithe they feel can never be repaid. Compared to that it’s pretty clear they see all this *waves hand around* as trivial amounts of collateral damage.

Do Mormons not use the poophole loophole?

because the private company should create as much profit for the owners as possible - it has to be as lean / efficient as possible.

Yeah but no. It would be if the owner/shareholders weren’t skimming of the top. The process may be lean but the pricing is designed to maximize and take as much as the market will bear. Which undoes the benefit the efficiency could bring to a public service.

No, the world is screwed, but if I could not have to breathe all the exhaust I’d be all for that.

what we’re being asked to do is suffer alongside without being able to alleviate the suffering.

I know that isn’t actually what people think they are asking for, but it sure feels like it so often.

Thanks for putting this into words for me.

If feel like us guys are at a disadvantage here. All our lives were are told not to complain unless we bring a solution, not to cry, get up, keep moving.

Then suddenly the thought pattern we have been trained on all our lives turns out to not be healthy for supporting others and it’s a hard transition to make when we want so desperately to help and are asked not to.

Not saying it’s wrong, just hard.

I mean, yes, but they also need to forgive themself for not better understanding the situation and being better able to respond to it. We often blame ourselves for being vulnerable to the abuses of others.

Yeah, but that old technology is what still lets me run a 13 year old version of Adobe creative suite. If that ever changes I will have to learn something new!

For me it’s a basic question of who gets to make your medical decisions, you, or someone else.

It isn’t a person yet it’s not a baby and it is “human” only by DNA. At that point it is indistinguishable from an embryo of a dolphin or other mammal. It can’t even think yet, but for some reason people think of is special enough to be worth denying you your body autonomy.

I heard some recent steam thing made it pretty great now? Or was that just marketing talking?

A wash tub?

Correct, this is just artesianal deception

So… long COVID then. The vaccine doesn’t undo you having already had it…

So he’s saying he has gaydar?..

Yeah, that’s why Democrats let them vote the speaker out in the first place, so the party of loose cannon renegades can come face to face with the consequences of being a party of people who are more interested in being the protagonist than in working together. Surprise surprise, the party committed to being a thorn in the side of federal government isn’t able to function as federal government.

I’m doing my part!

Well, obviously they will have a second, shaper knife concealed as well.