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How long until he tires of the Paper Of Record and shuffles off to The Gray Zone?

Baby pictures of the new Defense Minister.

My own company is dealing with this and it's bubbling to the surface. One example is our overtime policy. Due to labor laws, we have an Overtime policy that pays 1x time up to a certain salary. Beyond that, it's 0.6x of our rate. However, our overtime hours get billed fully to our clients. To complicate it, we have some employees that get bonuses and they don't get paid for overtime. So, in my case, I get $42 an hour. I work 40 hours, I make $1,680. If I work 45 hours, I get that normal $1,680, but the extra 5 hours I work doesn't mean I get $210. I only get $126. US labor law that allows this: Wages and the Fair Labor Standards Act WWW.DOL.GOV The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting most full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. Our corporate leadership made this big announcement that this is going to change. No details yet, but they're looking to change it and address this. The best part is normal low and mid level workers are now being VOCAL about it DIRECTLY to the corporate leadership. This is pretty awesome to see. Here's a quote from a colleague of mine that posted this directly under the corporate guy's internal post about it: And it's pretty hopeful to see the corporate guy respond this way... We're hemorrhaging people and we have too much work to spread around. We're scrambling to keep people. I've already been told that there's more money in the budget for wage increases this year. We'll see what that looks like.

My buddy in Kyiv says he doesn't think the Russians are going to invade. It's being talked about, but he's sort of low on anything happening. He previously was displaced from his hometown of Donetsk in 2014 when the Russians took that city.

The more I think about it, the more I realize this show is kinda goofy. And I mean that in a good way. It's got some sequences that are just wacky. The kitchen sequence in Ep 4 is the best example. This tweet really distills it the best: https://twitter.com/ValerieInsinna/status/1484328811017629701 I legit laughed when this happened! It wasn't a funny laugh line. It was just on the other side of knowingly absurd. And I don't hate any of this. It just doesn't feel like I thought it would. It's not as dark and gritty as Mandalorian is, or what we thought Boba Fett would be.

He never said he was anti-STATE prison!

Well... Just spitballing here.

lol this is just a fucking disaster The tests don't ship until late January!

All of these. He's 95 and has really just lived a full life. But he also fell recently! I literally JUST remembered that. AND he's had dizzy spells. I wonder if those things really happen again now that this is fixed.

Yeah, I've always been wary of gas specifically because of the explosive and silent natures of the way they can MURDER YOU.

RIGHT? I was laughing on the phone when mom was telling me. Like, this could have been horrifically tragic, but it's actually astounding that it WASN'T. All you can do is laugh... (and install CO detectors).

So I have no idea where to put this, but I have to share this wild-ass story my mom just called and told me. My grandfather celebrated his 95th birthday a couple weeks ago. He's doing great. For the past several years, he's taken up reading history books as his recreational activity. It got to where he couldn't really get around as well outside, so he wasn't doing anything around the farm like he used to. He needed something to do to not go stir-crazy in his house. So he picked up a new hobby in his 90s. We'd get him books here and there and for his birthday and Christmas. He would sit on the couch in the living room and read them until he fell asleep. He'd constantly say that he would "set there and read and fall asleep... and when the book hit the floor, I'd get woken up." Happened all the time. Put a pin in that. The other day, my grandfather's heater in his home was on the fritz and wasn't heating as well. So my mom called a local heating company to his house to look into it. When they got there and checked it out they went to my grandfather and told him "sir, by law we are not allowed to turn your heat on." TURNS OUT... his heat exchanger had a crack in it and they detected a carbon monoxide leak. Long story short from there, they replaced the heat exchanger later that night. But this had been going on for some time. My grandfather falling asleep on the couch repeatedly wasn't due to him being lulled to sleep by a good book... He was being poisoned by carbon monoxide! Since they fixed his heater, he's sat on the couch and read and hasn't fallen asleep once. My mom bought carbon monoxide detectors for his house, hers, and my brother's house now. I do not have gas service. My grandfather is, by all accounts, perfectly fine and chugging right along at 95 years old. This shit blew my mind.

A cold dose of reality for all parties:

Excellent mask discipline, high vaccine rates, and incredibly robust tracking and tracing infrastructure is why South Korea is having such an easy time with it.

I believe that the US has been handed this intel from Ukraine. I don't believe that this makes it necessarily incorrect, but we should be doing our due diligence and it doesn't seem that we are. But that doesn't mean it's out of the realm of possibility that it is true. Provocations can come from army units too--like in Georgia. The group that is allegedly prepositioned is a special operations urban warfare group. They do more than just provocations. If they are there, that doesn't mean this supposed purpose is a slam dunk. Although, looking at the wider situation, the talks with the US have failed and I don't know that anyone knows what comes next. The avenues for a diplomatic solution are decreasing quickly.

Someone doesn't know about aboriginal English or Pidgin English. Port Jackson Pidgin English - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG It's real, and a real language... but when I first learned of it, it felt like it was the most racist thing I have ever heard. Now, that's not to say there are racist origins for why Pidgin English exists. But it's not just some fake racist language.

Everything we learn about "how Congress works" seems like fucking Calvinball. Like, you could tell me that whole process was made up YESTERDAY and I'd have believed you.

He did it for Baby Dog.

First I'm hearing of him. What's his dealio?

I kinda assumed he was dead since he's one of those classic actors that was just of that age. I'm definitely putting Sneakers and In the Heat of the Night on my list to watch.

"Sir, we found the sub trailing us..."

How much daylight is there really from this being a satisfying payoff and it being obvious and contrived?

Because they never say anything new that changes things.

No, he's saying that we all know this is going on. We don't need every single example of it to confirm our priors (which have already been confirmed).

I figured it was BK. Dude looked MENACING.