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The officer has resigned. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/officer-resigns-amid-probe-over-lack-response-man-harassing-woman-n890781

Blaspheme against her Holy Spirit?

Putin is laughing his ass off at how well this is all going.

I get what you're saying, and even assuming that someone used 10 straws per day, at the price from Amazon above this works out to roughly $50 per year, which is not a whole lot in the grand scheme of things, and you're right, the potential savings in plastic are enormous, given the scale of some of these businesses. Here's one such article that was posted by an acquaintance of mine. They talked about bringing metal straws as well, and the problem is often that people either a) need the flexibility of a plastic straw (e.g. they're not able to get close enough to the straw and need to bend it the last little bit to their mouth) or it actually becomes a hazard to have such a rigid object near the face.

While what you say is true, the articles I saw said that this suggestion is essentially creating a tax on people with disabilities, as they are then forced to pay for something that most people would not. Sure, it's only a few cents (a 500 pack is $7 on Amazon, working out to $0.01398 per straw), but it's something. I need to look into it a bit more though to know for sure what exactly the law says, but in any case my impression was that people were very upset about this, especially since the issue of people with disabilities needing straws was raised and it still went through in Seattle, leading many to feel like their need wasn't heard, or worse yet, that it didn't matter to those making the decisions.

I've been seeing a fair amount of pushback on this (or more specifically on Seattle's complete ban on straws) on my Facebook feed from people who say that it's a misguided policy; trying to do something good for the environment at the cost of harming handicapped people that rely on the flexibility of plastic straws and are unable to use other types of straws due to them being a hazard. It seems like there should be some middle ground.

Yes

*patiently awaits the punchline*

Time for some conservative tears?

I choose you, ACLU! Edit - I made that comment before reading up a bit on the Temporary Protected Status that they have. I have no doubt that Trump or many of his supporters would be thrilled to see non-Whites being deported, but it sounds like this was more or less always the plan... Temporarily allowing people to escape from natural disasters, war, etc. until it was safe for them to return to their country. Is there any reason to think this is being done especially shittily by Trump and his cronies?

That sucks man, I hope you can get it all sorted out quickly. A year or so ago I had a situation where I was doing some IT work for a small medical clinic on the side here in Germany, and the doctor decided she wanted to stiff me for a few hours I worked. I tried talking to her about it and when she refused to budge I just quit, because a) I didn't really need the job, b) it wasn't that much money, maybe around €50 or so, and c) she was annoying to work for anyway. It really annoyed me that she wasn't willing to follow our agreement, and before this, for no reason at all she had bought two new routers for €300 each (which she later returned when she realized they didn't actually help anything) but she refuses to pay me the €50 that she actually owed me for work I had done? Meh, I don't need that kind of aggravation for such poor pay. I realize quitting may not be an option for you at this time, but a lawyer sounds like a great idea to me.

But that's all that we learn in the advanced CS degree; how to use only one shift key!

I think I know what he's saying, in that they could theoretically have reacted to her actions in another way. But in some sense she did force them to evacuate, because that was their policy, and her actions caused their policy to take effect.

If this is against the rules here now, I'm going to go ahead and recuse myself from my moderating duties because reasons.

How do I balance the hours of my life? Probably very poorly. Work: As a student, 5 hours per day * 6 days = 30 hours (this should be higher ) Travel: 40 minutes per day * 6 days per week = 4 hours Sleep: 6.5 hours per night * 7 nights = 45.5 Eating/Drinking: 1.5 hours per day * 7 days = 10.5 hours Bathroom: 30 minutes per day * 7 days = 3.5 hours Free Time: 74.5 hours per week As a student near the end of his studies I have a lot of freedom with my schedule. I used to be in a band but we're sort of on hiatus, and I do read a fair amount and spend a lot of time with the GF. Probably I should exercise more and cook more meals rather than eating in the school cafeteria... but I'm kinda lazy and I like using that time for other things. Probably it would be worth keeping precise track of this for a week to see how I'm actually using the time. It might give me a kick in the pants do things differently.

Just to be clear, for what my opinion here is worth (admittedly very little ) I think it's correct that Wade wants the requests to come from those board members themselves, and I'm not trying to convince Wade or anyone else that we need to do things differently. I just don't quite understand the logic behind wanting to keep Retro as a separate board.

I agree with @legend; it seems completely unnecessary to have a subboard for Retro rather than just a label on General Gaming. Why keep things separate and limit the conversation so artificially? Like legend, I don't always check the Retro subboard repeatedly, but the topics would interest me if I saw them. Simply because "Wade promised" doesn't seem to me like a good enough reason to me... I don't think Wade or anyone else knew of the possibility for category labels when he promised that, and now we have a better solution. Also like legend, I don't care that much and if that's how it will stay, I won't lose any sleep over it. It just seems weird to me to not want to grow the Retro community, given that we have the tools to do so, and IMO the fewer subboards we have, the better.

????? What did you do?!

I never noticed it before, but this thread has helped me to realize that I never use the right shift, only the left one.

Are you afraid of change, johnny?