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Call your house representatives, have them legislate on and forbid this practice, be explicit about not voting for them if they don’t make it part of their platform.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Well it makes sense if you think of it as a guide of "places worth driving to "

By the supreme absolute and totally incorruptible court of Trumpistan?

It seriously feels good to see this written down sometimes. I hate that religion somehow laid claim to morality.

“…for 32,000$, thus breaking even with the money he initially invested buying avocados to commit the heist”.

Just insulting people will always make them buck against your points, however valid and informed. Bad approach.

The problem with radioactive waste isn’t the fact that it’s dangerous now, it’s the fact that it remains dangerous for much longer than we’re even remotely able to plan for. People will likely have to deal with that danger in waaaay longer than civilization has existed on earth so far.

So the horizontal borehole for instance: amazing idea for the next century - or even, heck, few millenia!! - but how do you make sure our ancestors in 50,000 years never drill a new borehole right there?

That fuckin sockets

Exactly! Like that if their health is too bad, they can also stop being homeless.

Je serai très curieux d’entendre l’analyse d’un professionnel avec un PhD en théologie sur l’étrange mouvance américaine qui s’appuie sur la religion pour justifier de supporter un groupe politique dont l’ensemble des valeurs énoncées et démontrées vont à l’encontre de toutes les valeurs morales affirmées comme étant chrétiennes.

Vois-tu un côté incongru à ce phen, ou au contraire est-il logique à ceux qui étudient la religion? Vois-tu le même phénomène à travers l’europe et à travers le monde?

Question parallèle : j’aimerai entendre ton opinion sur l’origine de la moralité. Il semble y avoir une croyance comme quoi la moralité et le sense de la responsabilité envers autrui se fonde dans la relation des individus avec le divin, leur propre désir de vivre une vie qui - étant morale - leur garanti une éternité au paradis, etc. D’un autre côté, tous les athées que je connais (moi-même inclus) ont un sens morale rigoureux et un desir d’avoir un impact positif sur notre société, basé sur une vision commune de ce que l’humanité peut devenir. Vois-tu une opportunité de redéfinir la relation entre les groupes religieux et les laïcs/athées? Comment peut on faire évoluer les choses?

Merci et bonne chance!

Are you sure?? She was great in Wolf of Wall Street, too, though!!

You know, esteemed academy awardsnominated actress Scarlett Johansson?

She was so good in I, Tonya

Like another person in here said, fuck extremists of all sorts and creed.

If that’s what you mean, wholeheartedly agree.

If not, if you’re generalizing from extremist israelis to all jewish people, you should be deeply ashamed.

How is she being sexist exactly?

Nah, nah, nah. You all got it wrong. There’s one name and one name only: tech support.

You might - refusing to sign, sending a well written formal notice, articulating a good demand with a rationale. It could be that based on your skills, the economy, opportunities in your field, etc that their standard severance won’t “make you whole”, i.e. allow you to find replacement employment that pays the same in a reasonable timeframe.

Ultimately a judge might rule that you had a reasonable expectation of financial stability from your employer, and by laying you off they’re taking that away. The severance is there to bridge that expectation, so if you can demonstrate that their offered severance package is really far, you have a case.

Now the employer knows that - so if you prepare properly and ask/negotiate you have a shot!

Well technically the worst (but absolutely legal) thing you can do, from their perspective is to be very well versed in your rights for the state or province you’re in. Is it a dismissal without cause? Then what severance are they offering? Did your negotiate it? Basically they’ll want you to sign something and promise not to sue - in exchange to signing this they’ll offer something. Negotiate that… Usually in the form of X weeks of pay per years of service at your employer, but X can vary and be negotiated. You can also negotiate a referral letter from your boss even though companies usually say “we don’t make referral letters” - as part of my package negotiation you will…

I hope it helps!!

These are great tricks!! I’d add one that’s always worked for me: if you can’t get your mind to go still in pt#3 above, think back of the story in a book or show you like, and let your mind wander about the characters, the story, the background, the intrigue etc. Focusing on fiction and story helps me drift back, vs focusing on real life things…

Deep cut, love it