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Orale

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  1. I like to think of myself as a fairly eco-conscious person. But the truth is I love to travel and fly as often as I can, most frequently abroad. So I'm basically one of the worst individual polluters in the world based on air miles flown annually (for fun and not work). I use trains and buses almost exclusively when abroad, but of course flying from the U.S. requires traveling thousands of miles by air. I read recently about buying carbon offsets for an equivalent share of carbon produced on individual flights from various charities online. Some sites say this is performative bullshit that has no actual effect on the environment beyond helping frequent traveling progressives assuage their liberal guilt. Any thoughts on it?
  2. I think places like this are gross. But any Republican fauxrage about it is laughable bullshit.
  3. Boop!
  4. I was volunteering in Port au Prince, Haiti fall of 2009. I stayed a week in a 9 or 10 story building the organization had in the Petionville neighborhood. It completely collapsed in the earthquake a few months later killing a friend of mine. I still shudder whenever I think about it. /CSB
  5. It appears it was built in 1981 so there's a fair chance they're long gone.
  6. When you talk about flexibility with schedules, what you really mean is that their employers purposefully avoid giving them enough hours so that they can't accrue healthcare and other benefits. Big fucking corporate employers making billions. And many of these employees are adults with limited skills that don't have the ability to work in higher skill industries that will give them full time jobs and benefits. You say fuck them it's them own fault, free markets, Darwinism, etc... You probably call yourself a Christian and then rejoice when big corporations fuck these people out of healthcare and basic human rights to maximize corporate profits. What a fucking asshole.
  7. Exactly. I don't understand how someone can call someone seeking higher pay and/or a higher quality of life Marxism. Isn't that the free market at work? And there's a lot of elitist snobbery in this thread with folks saying that a waiter or cook is inherently only worth $2.55 an hour plus tips. The market says you're fucking wrong. And yes I'd pay $9 for a fastfood meal if I knew the employees were making a living wage with benefits. The idea that low skill workers should be content with effective slavery in the wealthiest country in the world is disgusting.
  8. Because they're not soft as shit.
  9. Anytime there's a contentious vote, someone is making a comment. It's the implication that counts.
  10. Or their anti-war stance. Or healthcare for all. Or food for all. Or serving the poor. Or treating others as they'd treat Jesus. Fun!
  11. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/us/targeting-biden-catholic-bishops-advance-controversial-communion-plan.html In other news, religions reaffirm the decisions of tens of millions to leave organized religion in recent years. I applaud this brave move. The faster we relegate religion to the dustbin of history the better.
  12. Yep. I think it was when we did a big crawfish boil.
  13. Didn't know what the hell a frat was when I got to UT. Found my way to the Tejas Club which was pretty diverse as far as male organizations go. We used to have coffee talks on Thursday evenings at the house with some pretty impressive guest speakers. McRaven came one time and impressed the hell out of me. Who know that 10 or so years later he'd lead the raid to get Osama. /CSB
  14. I hike once or twice a week. My favorite hike Honolulu side is Wiliwilinui (https://www.alltrails.com/trail/hawaii/oahu/wiliwilinui-ridge-trail?u=i). Amazing views of both sides of the Island. About 2.5 hours roundtrip and easy to moderate difficulty.
  15. What a pathetic cunt.
  16. Super dark and depressing. But really well done.
  17. All the billionaires are doing it!
  18. Yep. Saw him in a play many years ago in Chicago at the Steppenwolf. Pretty surreal experience.
  19. I'd like a massive federal investigation into Trump's historic and intentional mishandling of the virus once he and his people knew about it. If you want a tangential investigation into Fauci's decisions then go for it. The rage you Trumpkin's have against Fauci seems inverse to your absence of rage about Trump and his apologists.
  20. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year Other than rage I don't have a particularly point to make. I know the Fed chair and Treasury Secretary are working on a world wide minimum corporate tax rate. The lack of patriotism and sense of civic responsibility by American corporations is appalling. Even at a corporate 20% tax rate, this is $60bn in taxes avoided that could do a lot of good in the U.S. I'm curious what the right wing argument in favor of this is.
  21. Saw it yesterday and thought it was pretty good. There were some weak plot points as there always is in these types of thrillers, but not enough to diminish the film. I don't know how to spoiler quote on tapa so I won't list them.
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