I’m pretty sure their actual justification is that turning the United States into a dictatorship will really own the libs.
I assumed OP was talking about a post-scarcity economy, not one based on barter. I didn’t think anyone wants to go back to a barter system considering the overwhelming popularity of currency everywhere it has been used.
There’s a reason “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” is a saying and “rearranging the deck chairs on the Eastland Steamer” isn’t.
I asked sometime to the prom and got turned down. All I learned was that rejection hurts a lot more than I would have thought.
Damn. I worked for Google for almost 10 years and I had no idea.
She sent a very clear message to the customer that his shitty, entitled, and borderline threatening behavior will not be tolerated. Seems to me like she made the world a slightly better place.
Warning: sweeping generalizations ahead. These are the kinds of opinions I would normally keep to myself.
Based on what I’ve heard from my Indian coworkers, I think India has a culture of ignoring rules that leads to a lot of government corruption. They praise the ability of many people to hire domestic help, but of course they’re the kind of people who can afford it and not the ones providing it.
Based on what I’ve seen in the news, India has a huge problem with Hindu nationalism, which is basically just Indian flavored fascism from what I can tell.
Based on news about the US, I gather the caste system is so pervasive that rules against caste discrimination are being put in place in some parts of the US with large Indian populations. The caste system appears to be a sight variation of overt racism.
Culturally I view India a lot like I view Brazil, The Philippines, Hungary, and Turkey. Economically I view it as similar to China, only a decade or two behind.
I’m not surprised Indians are irrationally proud of their country; Americans are the same.
“Even” atheists? Especially atheists. As an atheist, I disagree with all Christians, but the only ones I hate are the ones who’ve discarded Jesus’s teachings. I respect real Christians.
“People” didn’t disagree with him; the Roman governor did. And it wasn’t even a matter of disagreeing with Jesus’s message; Pilate just saw him as a troublemaker.
Me, a divorced person:
Last time I did that they threatened to call the cops.
The sales associate will explain money to you.
Why would you pick those particular pieces of media? There is a great deal of media depicting Texas. In my (generally suburban) experience, it’s way more like King of the Hill or Office Space than it’s like No Country for Old Men.
As far as I can tell, using your personal phone for things like 2FA is allowed as a convenience to employees. Very few people want to carry two phones.
When I worked at Google, the policy seemed to be that anyone could get a company phone, but almost nobody actually had one. I say “seemed” because I never asked for one. I suppose it’s possible many people asked and were denied, but I doubt it, because Google would give out hardware like it was candy, often to people who have even asked for it. I can remember being given at least one phone and two tablets completely unprompted, with no instructions to use them for anything in particular.
Battlefield Earth. The movie is awful but it’s a much smaller time commitment than the book.
I didn’t do shit, but I use TickTick to help organize the shit I’m not doing.
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I’ve had trouble with being sleepy at inappropriate times at least since my late teens. I almost always wake up feeling tired. (And before anyone says it, I have sleep apnea, but it’s treated. I didn’t notice a big difference when I started treatment.)
There are people who don’t like colors?
I don’t want everything to be colorful all the time, but that’s because I I find too much color visually tiring, and having rested eyes makes me appreciate colors better when I see them.