This is an example of why we're failing as a species.

Murder! Murder most foul...

Ugh... My very tiny wallet took care of it when my kid was younger, in the form of daycare payments. Summer was hella expensive for me back then.

That works for menial labor in a down job market or a city without much opportunity. It doesn't work for most career oriented positions, or in a strong job market. It costs a company considerably more to replace someone than to compensate them better.

Good for you. I refuse to put work related stuff on my phone. Especially since they want permission to remotely wipe my device if it's lost. I paid for this phone, it is mine, not theirs. Bye.

I assure you that attempting to overturn a court and Congress certified vote of the people in order to retain power is a personal action, and not a presidential action. The president is to preserve democracy, not destroy it.

He will never use symbolism, since it doesn't focus enough on him. It will always be his name. So I guess it would just be something like the Trump Enforcement Squad, if it ever happened.

It will never happen. The Dems insist on playing by a rule book that isn't being enforced, that the opposing team burned and used the ashes as warpaint.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

--Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

There will never be a clear and indisputable moment in which they've gone too far, but this moment seems pretty clear to me.

I think you're mistaking Biden for someone who is not a corporatist.

Oh yeah, the end of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and the beginning of outright fascism. So funny! Haha.

Oh, I agree with you, and I'm actually kind of pissed at my friend for ruining a perfectly good adjective for me, but at the same time I want to respect people, so...

Ali is dead, but he had Parkinson's disease the second half of his life. I haven't heard Foreman speak lately. Does he sound fucked up?

The immunity from criminal prosecution has to do with official acts, not personal acts

Trying to overthrow a court and Congress sanctioned vote of the people to retain power is most certainly a personal act.

See, that's what I thought too, and that's how I've always interpreted and used it. But there is a not insignificant group of people who think it represents systemic misogyny, and even white supremacy. One of my lifelong friends gets really worked up over the word, and has lectured me at le length about it. I think he's overanalyzing everything, and granting words way more power than they're supposed to have. But I feel that way in general about a lot of hot topic subjects right now. Out of respect for his views I don't use that word around him any more. I generally use it less overall now that I know it triggers some people, and I guess I probably haven't used it towards a woman since learning how some people view it.

The word has joined the ranks of trigger words that really set some people off.

Meth will make you feel like all of your problems are completely solved and you're a massive success. Then about 3-12 months later you will have destroyed all of your relationships, your life will be ruined, your brain & body will be wrecked, your muscles gone, and you might be in prison. Don't fuck with it.

Michael: Your felon's name is Felony?

Dwight: Maybe that's why he became a felon.

My spoon's too big.

"but also shes a bitch for wanting everything.

Call me pedantic, but I think there's an important distinction between calling someone something, and referring to someone as something. When I read "called her a bitch" I'm imagining that someone said that to her face. It's still negative to refer to your coworkers with derogatory slurs, but IMO it's not nearly as bad as directly insulting them in a way that requires their response. Am I off-base here?