[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Squatting isn't even legal in the U.S. At least nowhere I've heard about.

And there are so many structures just in my not huge Indiana city that have been empty the entire decade or so I've lived here.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

And, in fact, I initially read it the wrong way and thought, "they're not choosing this life."

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

What genius thought that, of all places, was a good location for a park?

What's next, the Centralia, PA resort hotel and casino?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

If there are good American EVs which are just as affordable, how will the Chinese government decimate the U.S. market?

You want it both ways.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I feel like if you call yourself a libertarian and you become president of a country, you're really not a libertarian.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Klobuchar is definitely a good idea. Although I'm not convinced that replacing Biden this late in the game is going to save the presidency either. I don't know what should be done.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

You can't simultaneously argue that Biden is too old to be president and that we should have someone even older instead.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago

The executive has "abused" it to do things like stop factories dumping toxic chemicals in rivers.

As I asked you below, how do you think our pro-corporate justice system will rule on such matters?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago

I am not in any way going to defend what was done to Julian Assange, because it was abhorrent.

But, based on what he's done in the past, I'm guessing 'everything' will be far more Biden-focused than Trump-focused.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 6 hours ago

THE MULLAHS HAVE SPOKEN ON BEHALF OF ALLAH AND YOU SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PRONOUNCEMENTS!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 6 hours ago

Okay, so absolutely any congressional proceeding can now be interrupted by protesters without them being thrown out, right? Because I'm not sure Republicans are going to like that.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago

I'm going to misuse a couple of lines from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I still think they work. Just imagine Q is all homeless people, and not evil, and Worf is SCOTUS:

Q: What do I have to do to convince you that I'm human?

Worf: Die.

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At the risk of once again being told what an idiot I am, healthcare in America sucks. Thanks for the present though, mom. We need all the help we can get.

By the way, feel free to tell me how great my Photoshop skills are. Some people on Lemmy love to tell me how I’m not sick and just making it up for sympathy.

Sorry… is there a community for “I’ve been pissed off for months now?”

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Resume Builder, which offers résumé templates, surveyed nearly 650 hiring managers in May and found nearly seven in 10 said it was "morally acceptable" to post fake jobs. Hiring managers credited the move with increasing revenue, morale, and how much workers get done.

Here's the weird part though-

About seven in 10 of the fake jobs were on a company website or LinkedIn, according to the survey. And, yet, despite all the shenanigans, many fake listings often lead to real interviews — and even employment.

Four in 10 hiring managers said they always contacted workers who applied for made-up jobs. Forty-five percent said they sometimes contacted those job seekers. Among companies that contacted applicants, 85% report interviewing the person.

"A lot of them are getting contacted and interviewed at some point, so it's not necessarily a black box," Haller said.

Does that part make sense to anyone?

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At one point the qualifications for membership were that one must be 21 years old, possess a good character, not be a Communist and be a Caucasian. By the late 1970s the all-white provision had officially been rescinded, but, because the Order used the blackball to admit new members, it was difficult for minorities to gain membership. In 1979 the FOE tried to get a lawsuit dismissed that alleged it was violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not allowing African Americans to use their athletic facilities. The article stated that a local Eagle official could only cite Joe Louis as a black member of the FOE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Eagles

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This is way up there with the stupidest excuses Trump has ever made:

"Maybe I'm better off losing the debate, I'll make sure he stays. I'll lose the debate on purpose, maybe I'll do something like that," Trump said during an interview with Real America's Voices the day he visited with Congressional Republicans.

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That said, Taxi drivers have something Uber drivers don't- a union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxi_Workers%27_Alliance

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Note I did not buy any food for myself.

To head off questions:

  1. No, I couldn't cook for her. I'm suffering from a long-term illness where I can't eat solid foods and am extremely smell sensitive. My wife is at a funeral, so I had to order food.

  2. She's extremely picky and refused to let me order anything but pizza.

  3. We live outside of town, in a not very big town, with very few pizza delivery options, and they're all at least this expensive.

  4. No, I didn't also have to buy her the cheesy bread or the second topping or the sauces, but it's nice to get my daughter a treat and that is no excuse for the order being that expensive.

  5. We're in Indiana, so this should be ludicrous in terms of pricing. This used to be the pricing I would expect when we lived in L.A. and ordered from a good local place rather than a chain.

Edit: Turns out what I should have been infuriated about is people repeatedly telling me to get takeout and having to repeatedly explain why that wasn't an option, having people not believe I'm sick, and being repeatedly berated for not magically knowing food coupons exist on the internet when I never order food on the internet. Oh right, and also being a bad parent for not forcing food my daughter doesn't like down her throat or starving her if she won't eat it.

By the way, I have another thing to be infuriated about. A huge storm came in and this happened to our trees. I assume I will start being berated for not cutting them down before that happened, but because I have no power or internet at home and have to go to the library to post, your further posts telling me what an idiot I am and how I'm an awful parent and how I'm not really sick will take me a while to read. Sorry to ruin your day. Maybe you'll find someone else to treat like shit.

Anyway, have fun telling me I'm the worst person on Lemmy, just don't expect a quick reply.

Oh, and do tell me how stupid I am for not knowing that people who clear up and fix such damage have coupons on their website.

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Although if I had to pick... David Byrne.

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