That’s what I don’t get though, these people seem to be delusional in that they think that they’re a hard worker and looooove in person, so therefore every hard worker loves in person and the chaff will quit. Then they act shocked when their high performers largely leave to pursue remote or hybrid options. It’s such a glaring inability to see people different from them as having any value.

Well a couple things, if possible I call ahead and see if anything can be modified, and if not I find some reason to bail. If it’s spontaneous, I benefit from, frankly, being a pretty heteronormative man so I can always manage to get beer and a large side. I really only have to let people know ahead of time if it’s some kind of work event, in which case the staff member in charge of us attending the event handles it but I’m not in that situation a lot. Of course, most of the time I’m eating it with people who already know me well so they already know I’m vegan.

I realize the irony in this opening statement, but as someone who’s been vegan a long time and never brings it up unless directly asked I can say that this people who are vocal about it tend to be the new vegans who are gonna drop out in six months because they just so happened to have a 1 in 6,000,000,000 person medical condition that makes it literally impossible for them to be vegan, which they discovered for the first time right after bbq season started back up. Definitely not just because they have a different outlook now, no sir.

Ghost in the Shell called it thirty years ago.

It is, but that’s also a defining feature of the presidential system as opposed to the parliamentary system.

That’s absolutely not true, you can be convicted of attempting crimes or for conspiracy to commit crimes.

I wish I could agree with you, but we found out that isn’t true the hard way over the last 25 years…

Hey now, be fair. Moldova has a big presence there too… proportionately.

No he doesn’t realize that, the Foxosphere hasn’t adopted that position yet.

Wow so glad this is the lesser evil I’ll have to vote for. Fuck this country man.

Huh. Maybe people think this is some kind of British imposition? But like, it’s not.

Idk why you’re being downvoted, the country chose to be The Gambia, post independence, in order to avoid confusion with Zambia. Unless this changed after the fall of Jammeh?

The part where the US isn’t THE city on the hill probably lol

Not to detract from the sentiment, but automatic firearms have been fully banned in the USA for 40 years now and have been illegal in most of the country since the 1930s.

Not sure about other states, but in my state you can agree to mandatory arbitration for past incidents as long as they don’t do reeeeeally egregious behavior like, eg, slipping a notice into your normal bills and having you “agree” by not objecting within X days.

Today on “Inside the Head of a Russian Commander Assigned to Handle a Hostage Crisis.”

Every American lawyer: “Lol that’s cute.”

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“We need to reduce the number of Slavs in Eastern Europe to defend ourselves from future attacks from the barbaric hoards.”

Didn’t that start as an attempt at damage control because they forked over user data, just like Google?