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  1. 7 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    And to the shifting tone of American culture, I've defintely seen it. I haven't worked in or around an organization in probably 5 years who doesn't do 6 months paternity leave, much less maternity leave, and 50-100% reimbursement of IVF, and nobody bats at an eye at people utilizing these benefits. 

    Something tells me there's a difference in those benefits depending on your pay scale. I do pretty good in bigtech but I only get 6 weeks paternity (in like, a week, holy shit holy shit!) and that's pretty standard. None of the other benefits you mention though, that would all just be insurance premiums for me.

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Could this remedy not have been submitted along with the objection, instead of waiting for another hearing?  And maybe addressed by Trump co outside of court?

     

    12 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    it was Trump's attorneys who made the suggested remedy. I think it was on them to make it work. Also I think that the original bond was designed so that Trump could find a way to get out of paying it but it didn't work.

    Donald Trump GIF by Election 2016

    trumpco is doing all this to throw sand in the gears and delaydelaydelay. Of course trumpco could have handled this outside of court, but then it would have been neat and tidy and expedient and completely counterproductive to their desired outcomes. 

  3. 1 minute ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Studies show that the policies do in fact make it easier for women to have both family and a career; unfortunately, that does not translate into an increased birth rate.  So basically, even though it’s easier to have both in those places, those women are still choosing to have fewer children.

    I don't think it's as binary as you're framing it. It's that there's more uncertainty and risk in having a child now than ever, and costs are higher than ever with median pay remaining almost stagnant. Even if it's not as much of an impediment to career growth now, having a child is still a massive burden that with little to no safety net, many couples don't feel they have the breathing room or time to responsibly have kids. So you get fewer kids, born later in the parents life

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    if this is accurate, this is a problem for trump.   When the prosecutor objects to you telling the jury it is not wrong to try to influence an election, and the judge sustain the objection, it is perceived by the jury has nothing less than Trump’s lawyer lied to me and the judge corrected him.

    I'd bet the Georgia prosecutors took note of that admission by trump's attorneys. It's not a question if trump was trying to influence the Georgia election, he thought he was just doing a democracy!

    That's more of a Managed Democracy thing, and we're not quite yet to Super Earth 

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    say more, i'd be interested to read whatever studies you're referring to. I work at a danish company, anecdotally it seems like having children (and taking extended maternity leaves) is much less of an impediment to career growth for our female danish counterparts than I've seen in my experience in the US. But, that's highly speculative and anecdotal.

    I'd say the European business culture is way more comfortable with people just going missing for a month or two at a time. Those fuckers do it every year for vacation, so absorbing an extra period of leave for a newborn is not that much extra load. Here in the States, we are 100% grindcore all the time for the shareholder and nobody takes vacation, so being gone for six weeks is a major disruption to the cultural norm.

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  6. Just now, YGIFS said:

    Never going to the inside of a cell, we've all known this for damn near two years now.  But a House Arrest situation does make more and more sense, I'll leave it to the criminal attorneys on here to weigh in on how that differs from just probation/parole officer visits.  He'd obviously claim that all of Mar-a-Lago is his "house", so we could still wander the grounds and play golf.  Or do you have to serve it out in the venue domicile, so one of his New York properties?  I'd prefer to let him have it served at Mar-a-Lago because while he'd walk/cart the perimeter of the vast property every day which would make it less punitive, he could receive adulation from the hundreds lined up around in adoration shifts 24/7 for a year.  And he'd go out there and golf and then talk then along each corridor from a distance.  And address camera crews and the like.  

    And then you start the disinformation campaign.  "Trump's jailers are visiting Mar-a-Lago's exterior posing as MAGA nation to taunt and gloat in Trump's unlawful house arrest!  You must defend America by carrying firearms to the support rallies outside Mar-a-Lago.  It's legal in Florida to do so, as long as you don't cross the property lines and it demonstrates your support of Trump's commitment to the 2nd Amendment and our condemnation of this Kangaroo Court.  Over the course of a year, somebody makes a mistake and adjusts their weapon or takes it out to show somebody else what they're running or actually draws it on somebody they suspect of being an ANTIFA/Deep State plant.  And they do it along the property line, that scenario is not that hard to arrange.  Secret Service sees it and rushes over, a shootout ensues.  Who knows what could happen next, MAGA on MAGA violence could be fun as shit to see unfold on TV.  It's a stretch.  But if the simulation has taught us anything...

    Historically speaking, fascists really do their best work while in a comfortable jail cell surrounded by their friends. Sounds like a great fucking idea. 

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  7. Just now, immamac said:

    Yeah, bad for Donald trump. It really does seem like they’ve got a case that is so strong they are gonna go in no lube. This isn’t congress so it may be a lot different than what we’ve seen before. 

    What, you think they'll allow the prosecution to show documentary evidence? That would be first for trump to defend against 

  8. It's funny seeing all the business thread posters coming here and complaining that women aren't having enough children nowadays. I've got a secret for you: it's the economy, stupid!

    People aren't real keen to have children when they feel like they're struggling to survive and just tread water. It doesn't make sense for most people to have children when they're already working 2 or 3 jobs with unpredictable hours and scheduling and shit pay. 

    Sure the big economic line is going up on the chart in the sky, but most people aren't getting the benefit from it.

     

    And also - YIKES - from tkthunder soft arguing for a handmaiden's tale. Women don't have reproductive rights AND are too stupid to plan for themselves when they should have kids? They just keep slipping down the social ladder with y'all eh?

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  9. Can we update the thread to "Texas tap water laced with PFAS/PFOS"?

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/

    In Texas, 49 public water utility systems have reported surpassing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits for five “forever chemicals” in drinking water, according to data submitted to the federal agency.

    Experts say there are likely more since not all water systems have submitted their data.

    ...

    Texas water utilities that have reported one or more PFAS chemical exceeding the new federal standard:

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    • Abilene Northeast and Grimes Water Treatment Plant
    • Town of Anthony
    • Arlington Pierce Burch Water Treatment Plant
    • Baytown Area Water Authority
    • Big Springs Water Plant
    • Clear Lake Water Authority
    • Childress Water Plant
    • Cockrell Hill Water Plant
    • Coupland: Manville Water Supply Corporation
    • Dallas Water Utility Eula Water Supply Cooperation in Clyde
    • Deer Park Surface Water Treatment Plant
    • Duncanville Water Treatment Plant
    • Edinburg Wastewater Plant
    • City of Farmers Branch
    • Town of Flower Mound Wastewater Treatment
    • Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 133
    • Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 41
    • Fort Worth North and South Holly Water Treatment Plant
    • Gastonia Scurry Special Utility District
    • Georgetown San Gabriel Park Water Treatment Plant
    • Grapevine Water Treatment Plant
    • Greenville Water Treatment Plant
    • Haltom City
    • Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 119
    • Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 8
    • Houston: Spencer Road Public Utility District
    • Hudson Oaks Lakeshore Plant
    • Huntsville Palm Street Water Plant
    • Irving MacArthur Pump Station
    • Katy: Big Oaks Municipal Utility District
    • Killeen: West Bell County Water Supply
    • La Feria Water Treatment Plant
    • City of Lake Worth
    • City of Livingston
    • Midland Water Purification Plant
    • Prosper Custer Pump Station
    • Port Lavaca Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Water Treatment Plant
    • San Antonio Water System Castle Hills
    • City of Seagoville
    • Seguin: Springs Hill Water Supply Corporation
    • Temple Water Treatment Plant
    • Terrell North Texas Municipal Water District
    • City of Tye
    • Weatherford Water Treatment Plant
    • West University Place Plant 1 and 2

    Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and a bunch of municipal districts hit

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  10. 25 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


    As a fan of vintage ships this makes me sad.

    As a fan of seeing invaders get killed and their shit blown to bits, it’s delicious.

    That's the vessel that russia uses to recover sunk ships, so this is a major reduction in naval capabilities for a very long time. Crazy that she was laid down by the Tsar's navy and presently is getting targeted by modern cruise missiles

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  11. 1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Jesus, and I complain about the normal one hour with six people. I can't imagine a 6-hour interview, that sounds exhausting and really boring as you repeat the same damn answer 6 times in a day.

    Where I am, we break it up into 4 or 5 45 minute interviews that are intentionally planned to cover different disciplines and skills and traits, so it's at least not monotonous for the interviewee. But it is a grind, wether you're the sausage or turning the crank

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  12. Love that ocean spray on the beach? It's probably full of PFAS. 

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study

    Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines.

    The study measured levels of PFAS released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash, spraying aerosols into the air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands times higher than levels in the water.

    The contaminated spray likely affects groundwater, surface water, vegetation, and agricultural products near coastlines that are far from industrial sources of PFAS, said Ian Cousins, a Stockholm University researcher and the study’s lead author.

    “There is evidence that the ocean can be an important source [of PFAS air emissions],” Cousins said. “It is definitely impacting the coastline.”

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  13. 9 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    What now?

    That's how most big tech companies do interviews, one or two phone screens and then a big day of interviews across a panel of interviewers that then give feedback and assess the candidate wholsitically. 

    It's a big pain in the ass lol. On #bothsides

  14. 12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The adversarial, competitive nature of trials is supposed to produce a good facsimile of truth in the sense of iron sharpens iron. But I wonder sometimes if the gamesmanship doesn't produce unjust results. 

    Good faith is a fertile ground upon which trumpism and fascism thrives. That basic presumption of civility is exploited and weaponized to create the sort of unequal justice we've been enjoying for a good long while. 

    Trump is getting free extensions on his prima facie fraudulent bond, simply because the system is built with the expectation of people not lying to the courts face. The system is so incredibly vulnerable to garbage in; garbage out, and it's the main lever of obstructionism he routines uses. 

    The gamesmanship doesn't guarantee unjust results, but it certainly sets the table for them. 

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