By reducing our labor spend on these spend nothing days and not increasing our labor spends on these days surrounding them, we’ve increased our profits!
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You sound so cringe.
We aren’t calling everything we hate woke anymore. Now anything we hate is DEI
Check out the comments on this video https://youtu.be/sTCZ0f1IhIQ
All white fire crew does a bad job, stupid DEI hires!!
The very first thing that every human does when arriving in a brand new place, is take a piss on it.
The “very first thing”?!
This is why you don’t get invited to parties
Yea I feel bad for him too, you can tell when the officer tells him he has no choice to arrest him that he’s realizing how badly he just messed up.
In his mind he was about to lose his pardon and go back into the prison system.
But to me that also makes me think the officer is justified in his use of force. People that think everything is ruined are unpredictable and he was reaching for violence. While he was saying he was going to turn that violence on himself, there’s no particular reason to trust what he’s saying. I think there’s a very real possibility he gets the gun saying “I’m shooting myself” but then once he has it maybe shooting the cop sounds a bit better.
If I’m the officer I’m not rolling the dice to see if he points the gun at his head or mine.
And as much as I can empathize with the feeling of fear and loss in that moment, ultimately he made a bunch of choices that led to that. He did whatever he did to get his license suspended, he drove on a suspended license, and even in this instance he broke the speed limit knowing that the results of even a minor infraction could lead to the loss of his freedom.
At some point he has to be responsible for the consequences of his actions.
Police Activity posted the bodycam footage.
It’s under 7 minutes and when the shooting happens it’s blurred out. It’s relatively tame from a gore point of view, but it’s still a video of someone being shot so watch with care.
Here’s my synopsis of the footage for people that don’t want to watch it themselves, you can skip the preamble if you just want to understand the shooting. In my opinion the officer acts reasonable, friendly, and professional throughout.
Preamble
- Officer pulls the guy over for going 70 in a 55
- Guy offers up unprompted that he’s a J6 defendant that was recently pardoned
- Officer doesn’t seem to care one way or the other asks for license
- Guy says he’s coming from church and his mother’s grave. He doesn’t have a license and has been trying to get a hardship license, produces an expired license
- Officer asks how often he’s been caught driving suspended
- Guy says “in my life”
- Officer clarifies “recently”
- Guy indicates not much
- Officer goes back to his patrol car to run the guys information.
Shooting
- Officer asks the guy out of the vehicle, they go to the rear of his vehicle
- Officer explains that he’s reached habitual traffic offender status because of driving suspended.
- Guy begs for leniency
- Officer explains its now reached the point of being a felony and he has no choice but to arrest him.
- Guy says he’s not going back to jail
- Guy runs away from the rear of the vehicle and jumps back into the drivers seat
- Officer gives foot chase back to drivers door, he provides verbal commands to stop
- Before the officer can reach the guy, he says “I’m shooting myself” and reaches for something in the passenger seat.
- Officer says “no no no” and fires three shots at the guy.
This is shown from his bodycam and also from his dashcam.
A felon retreated into a vehicle, stating he wouldn’t go back to jail, produced a firearm, and threatened violence. Was the guy lying about shooting himself, was his plan to fire the firearm at himself or the officer? Based on my view of the video, the officer acted within his lawful authority, was polite and professional, and only used force consistent with what the situation required. But I’d encourage you to watch the evidence and make up your own mind.
There are a ton of bad cops and awful shootings. I don’t like J6 but I don’t see this as justified because the guy is an asshole, but justified because of his actions at this traffic stop.
The headline here is kinda absurd. From the article
The case, brought by Marlean Ames, a former Ohio Department of Youth Services (the state’s juvenile justice department) employee, challenges a rule the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals applies, requiring majority-group plaintiffs to demonstrate additional “background circumstances” to establish a discrimination claim.
This case is about whether or not the sixth circuit rule that a majority group plaintiff has to demonstrate additional background circumstances is constitutional.
“Because Ames is heterosexual, she must make a showing in addition to the usual ones for establishing a prima facie case,” Kagan read from the ruling, emphasizing that the opinion itself makes clear that different rules are being applied.
That’s liberal justice Elana Kagan making an argument reading the sixth circuits ruling.
A prima facie case is the first step in proving employment discrimination. Under the McDonnell Douglas framework, a plaintiff must show they belong to a protected class, were qualified for the job, suffered an adverse employment action, and occurred under circumstances suggesting discrimination. If these criteria are met, the burden shifts to the employer to provide a non-discriminatory reason for their decision.
So this case boils down to, “do members of the majority group have to jump over a higher bar to require that employers provide a non-discriminatory reason for their adverse employment action.”
The working class should be shoulder to shoulder in solidarity here.
I mean I’m sure the forms aren’t identical but is having to tell the same information so much of a burden that removing it materially changes anything?
It seems like to work would be in tracking the spending and then once that is done what all is there to save from only having to hand that data to one watchdog instead of two?
Unless of course one of those watchdogs, being a smaller state agency, could be cheaply bought and have their reporting requirements gutted.
When powerful people want small government what they really want is cheaper bribes.
I’m sure he will keep his word on every concession he’s gotten from the US without the US getting anything at all.
One day the dorks working in doge are going to learn about bulk pricing and projected use negotiations and minimum commitments and they will realize that a lot of this is not waste but how contracts are constructed.
Yes let’s go back and negotiate with Microsoft every time we add teams to another conference room. Who cares about the fact that we plan to bring 60 more online.
Sure there’s a price break at 20k seats that makes it cheaper than trying to size it exactly to 15k seats, but fuck that, we “wasted” 5k seats.
Fucking morons
A shame someone donated garbage
That sounds pretty terrible. Venting can help sometimes so I say vent away (the amount of rants I’ve gone on in my day is something).
I’m going to give you some crappy advice that is going to suck, but it’s something anyways.
The opposite of despair is not happiness, it’s not love, it’s hope. Despair is the loss of hope. I think you have many legitimate reasons to feel despair.
Now you have to ask yourself a difficult question, what do you want for your life? I’m going to let you know that in this situation, despair has a good chance of winning if you just see what happens. Despair has a chance of winning if you fight.
I struggled with alcohol when I was younger. I remember having to have a similar dialogue with myself. I remember thinking that alcohol was going to win and for some reason or another that made me upset. I’m a competitive person I suppose, and so the idea that I would lose to a chemical made me think. Alcohol winning the contest of what I was going to do that evening started off inevitable. And if I had done nothing alcohol would have won my entire life by now. I remember feeling a deep sense of despair and shame, I was the one actually pouring it into my mouth after all.
I remember thinking one day, what do I want out of life? It was easy when I thought about what I wanted that evening for alcohol to win, but at a long enough timescale no one is thinking “I’d like to die young from complications from alcohol abuse.” So it was easy for me to win when I thought bigger.
And I thought about the things I hoped to accomplish and I realized that I would have to really fundamentally change my life to make those happen. And then I dedicated myself to that task. It was not a miraculous one day event. It took time and effort and I had set backs, but today I’m winning and not the alcohol.
Despair though almost got me. It’s like freezing to death in a way, you can feel the peril you are in but in a strange way it’s comfortable. Getting out of the cold feels impossible and you are tired and it would just be easier to close your eyes and give in.
It was only when I told myself that I refused to give up that I could start making a plan to get out of the cold.
I don’t know what getting out of the cold looks like for you. Maybe it’s getting out of the city you are in, maybe the country. Maybe it’s finding people that aren’t awful, where ever they might be. Maybe it’s finding peace inside yourself and joy from within.
The thing that makes me hopeful is that someone who has given up wouldn’t make this post in the first place. They wouldn’t read the replies. They wouldn’t vent. There is a spark in you yet that is telling you not to lay down in the snow and close your eyes.
Why tariffs are stupid in three acts
Act 1
American producers: I can’t compete with that $10 foreign product, I have to sell my product at $12 to turn a razor thin profit.
Politician: ok I’ll slap a $5 tariff on the foreign product to protect you.
Act 2
American producer: awesome so now the foreign product costs $15! I can compete
American consumer: oh well I guess I can spend $12 instead of $10… sucks but America first I guess
Act 3
American producer: no need to leave $3 on the table, let’s sell ours for $14.99, I need more profits because everything I want to buy with my profits is now more expensive for some reason.
American consumer: the foreign one used to cost $10 and the domestic one cost $12… now they cost $15 and $14.99. I guess I’ll buy the American one and skip dinner tonight.