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  1. I'll even let the hot bi/bi-curious french women make hot french love to me with their hairy armpits if they save the world.
  2. if your an executive there can be room to negotiate. gotchas on equity forfeiture, buyback rights, value, etc. can come up. If you were laid off from a management position but not executive, there probably isn't much room to negotiate. sometimes you can negotiate better healthcare on an exit like having the company pay COBRA premiums as opposed to simply offering coverage (which is required by law for employers of a certain size). key issues will be whether you truly have a viable claim (because you are releasing all claims), in many instances you simply don't - age, race, sex are the only ones that really come to mind - whistleblower too, but I'm not familiar with CO law, only TX. I had a client that got completely broadsided by MA employment law on a pregnancy discrim case, wow that was brutal. Ended fine, I handled the equity buyout piece, but it took two years. You aren't a pregnant woman in Massachusetts are you? In any event, checking your status and facts against CO law would be important but severance is money in hand, no lawyers, no contingent claims, no 2 year drawn out process that frankly you may not even have as an option. non-solicitation and non-competes can be important too, a lawyer can help review that and explain. compliance is the last piece, return of property, large companies have processes for exiting that you have to follow or you could lose your benefits. non-disparagement is usually a thing too - that's momma's rule - if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. truth is not a defense to non-disparagement clauses. I think that pretty much covers the areas I would discuss on a Texas case in the first 30 mins. I'd spend the second half of an hour call diving into the equity issues. and frankly if it's not an executive exit, I wouldn't really take the matter, not sure I could do much to help. oh and...
  3. looks like sheer ability to collect is limited - the other thread said US has 7 large surveillance planes, UK has 3. stuff like that. I'm betting Europe can step up to a degree, again I think it's the core of Europe putting troops on the ground and the French/UK nuclear deterrent that makes Ukraine de facto nuclear that shuts this down ... or more likely escalates it into a full scale European war. there's probably still an outside chance of a resolution where Ukraine gives up mineral rights, gives up some territory but gets the security guarantees from Europe. but that requires Russia being willing to accept that.
  4. nah, we won't engage, just like the last time. we won't share weaponry or intelligence either. I don't see Trump sending troops to fight Europe. At his core he's an isolationist that doesn't want to spend the cash. Instead, he keeps the US on the sidelines and he gets to grift and gets paid.
  5. I'm willing to bet the core of Europe puts troops in Ukraine. gonna plant that stake in the ground now. I think shit is going to get real fucking ballsy real soon.
  6. and @bolverk that article talks some about the intelligence gaps between the US and UK... also advanced weaponry I was alluding to earlier.
  7. that's pretty demoralizing, I think the only counter to this is France, Germany, Poland and the UK putting troops on the ground and the French and British doing so in numbers with a clear message Ukraine is now de facto nuclear. absent that, I think this article is likely true. unfortunately, that does mean war with Russia and no matter how you technically define a World War - Russia fighting in Ukraine with French, German, British and Polish troops present on the ground (and anyone else that will join) is pretty much what we called a World War in I and in II.
  8. I hate to break it to the real man of genius but that 12, 16, 24 ounces of Jimmy Dean will fucking kill him 20 years early. But hey, he's a real man, all 200 pounds of one. only pussies eat plain yogurt with an assortment of berries, nuts and seeds for breakfast. fucking museli and oat milk. get em yanks and fairymen and their healthy 93 year old asses outta here!!!
  9. ok so British capabilities? when it comes to Europe defending Ukraine - intelligence is probably the number one weakness, as well as some advanced weaponry but I think the Brits have enough on the weapons side for Europe to do just fine. so how is their stand alone intelligence for Ukraine?
  10. you and my wife are in agreement. she can't deal with all the off topic chatter.
  11. serious question - the Israelis and the Brits have arguably the 2nd and 3rd best traditional intelligence communities. can they pick up the slack, not all but enough?
  12. did he say it in the sexy french accent because if he did, I'm in.
  13. I'm becoming a huge fan of the French, Germans and British right now. and the Polish, those bastards are just being quiet but they ready to cut a bitch I'm telling you. and don't sleep on the socialists from the northern country. those motherfuckers straight up sober said, "we're in" oh and the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians? Those men have hot women to defend, well at least if they look like our local tennis pro. Russia is gonna get boxed in.
  14. lighting a molotov cocktail from the flames of freedom for starters, sheesh.
  15. Can the gays and queers be tagged @rainbowmafia ? That would be the tits
  16. don't opt into @lawdogs, it's a cesspool of misery, alcoholism or recovering ones, and just a bunch of other weirdos.
  17. the entire world thought Russia would sack Kyiv in less than a week. let's not revise history please.
  18. I’m not endorsing it at all. Either way though it cannot be a long term strategy. people talk about stealing elections for real this time and maybe that along with the take over of federal LE is the game, set, match for a coup without a shot fired, I still don’t see how he gets a third term, though martial law could be declared. Seeing the supremes go 5-4 against him today even if a technical small victory is still something. I think Roberts and Barrett are swayable. I’m rambling but it’s a long way of saying let Trump tank the economy, inflict pain, let his numbers drop, see if the mid terms go the other way, and if we have one last shot to save this. If so, playing dead is simply meant to let Trump walk his own plank a bit. I get the doomsday scenario I truly do - believe me I do, but there is another outcome possible.
  19. The thing about playing dead is you don’t give Trump things to attack. You get out of his way and let him destroy things without having the reality TV insults and bickering that he thrives on.
  20. troph

    LBGTQ

    Pronouns in an email - more likely than not - signals to people like me that if they were to find out about my status things would not change or be impacted. Some may have been be forced to oblige but most did so voluntarily. It’s kinda of a big deal.
  21. I’ll be honest, I wish there was a path for me. I’ve considered moving to a state where I could but those states don’t need people like me to run. Plus my wife would divorce me and the discord and threats are too much now. I still think about it often though.
  22. back in my HRC days she and I were peers. unfortunately Texas would execute a trans lady for no good reason before Texas would elect one. good for Sarah, hope she can stay the course. at this point I don't know how anyone does politics anymore. you know she's getting death threats. there's a woman in the state house in VA that set the precedent on how trans people represent in legislative bodies - you don't advocate much at all for trans rights, that comes across as a selfish act, instead you keep your mouth shut and deflect back to the economic issues of your constituents. The mere fact that they voted you in is the only act of defiance required.
  23. There’s nothing political about your post.
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