Have you considered the possibility that the mental decline preceded, and perhaps contributed to, your decision to bash your head into things?
Considering that I began bashing my head into things around the age of 10, it is quite unlikely that the mental decline could have started before then.
How do the authors propose to distribute those six-and-a-half-cents? Via a postcard check, with $0.20 of postage?
The lowest class settlement postcard check I ever got was for $0.23.
I actually got a useful class action settlement once. I played college football so I am now entitled to 2 free neurological screenings. I'm only 32, but I have actually noticed some mental decline in myself the past few years, mostly in short term memory. Well, at least I think I remember being able to remember things better.
Was paid for by an actual GOP candidate, but she was a minority. We all know how liberals are racists, so I have to assume that was why. Perhaps these reporters were all white.
Why assume when even a skim reading of the article you link gives you the answer: her ad contained images from the Cambodian genocide that were considered to be against Facebook's ToS. Oh, and the reporter of the Business Insider article appears to be a woman of South Asian descent, just like the GOP candidate in your linked article. So there goes that theory.
The Vice reporter's a white guy though. I would say nice attempt at a troll, but let's be honest, it wasn't.
20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI.
What the article isnt saying is that these lawyers were pitted against a combat AI in a parking lot in the back of a derelict convenience store in the dark hours of the morning. The AI successfully dismembered virtually all of them, despite their decades of experience in corporate law.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, I'm ok with that, and gladly welcome our lawyer-dismembering overlords.
This current country was created by the Constitution, not the Articles of Confederation, nor the Declaration of Independence, nor some silly poem on a statue. Do they even teach civics at your high school anymore? They obviously don't teach how to argue without silly appeals to emotion.
Without the DoI we would still have been part of the British Empire so yes, the DoI was the first document creating the entity that eventually because the US.
Then how about the Declaration of Independence? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." All men, not just Americans.
My family immigrated into the U.S. legally. Wait list, visa, green card, then finally citizenship. Treating all men equally means people who entered the country illegally should be booted out, and forced to go through the same process we did.
You're not asking for equal rights for illegal immigrants. You're asking that illegal immigrants be given superior rights compared to legal immigrants.
I'm asking for a simpler process. It can take decades for people to become citizens, and we are severely restricting temporary entry such as refugee status, so of course people are going to try and come here illegally. Make it easier for people to come here legally to work and they will come here legally. It's been shown with guns, drugs, alcohol, music/movies, anything: when it's hard to get something legally most people will simply get it illegally. Immigration is the same way.
Regarding the funding and leadership of this group, it is also highly likely that someone with an interest in undermining the Trump Administration would at least be supportive of the caravan if not actively funding and guiding it.
I'm sure quite a few people that don't like Trump are supportive of the caravan. But that's not what they were arguing, and that's not what their base would hear. And "supporting" something is different than actively funding or guiding something (which is precisely what Republicans have been claiming they are doing). That why you have people shipping bombs to Soro's house.
You live in a world of platitudes, not the real world. And a world so focused on the US that you're blind to the rest of the world.
This country always accepts immigration. But without control it is just chaos. It's no different than the freeway; should we just let everyone onto the freeway when we want? If so, the freeway becomes a jumbled mess. Instead on-ramps have lights letting people on in a measured way, which allows for a more smoothly flowing system.
We aren't doing "control", we are trying to do "no immigration". The immigration system is broken and causes illegal immigration. And we have every duty and obligation to take in refugees from countries we helped fucked up. If that's too many countries, well, then that's our fault and we need to stop fucking up countries.
And no one wants to stop coming here. The opportunities and freedoms far outpace the rest of the world. India cannot provide opportunities fast enough to feed it's population; they come here to work in biotech and tech sectors. Chinese want to come here because the government is less likely to intrude on your lifestyle and offers far more acceptance of ambitious Chinese women in particular. Middle-easterners want to come here because they are less likely to be persecuted by one group or the next for following the wrong religion or being the wrong ethnic group. Hispanics want to come here because the opportunities for a better life are far more numerous than they are in South America.
If we keep on our current path, people will stop wanting to come here. Either because we will have made this place a terrible place for foreigners to live (which means it would be a terrible place for us to live, too), or the US has fallen from it's place and is no better than wherever they are trying to leave.
No, most Americans who think our country is difficult or racist or whatever simply have no clue what the world is like. This country is a special place precisely because we debate ad nausem things that are ultimately minor; other countries wish our problems were their problems. While we're out debating the MeToo movement and whether Kavanaugh assaulted someone when he was in high school, China kidnapped and disappeared the head of Interpol, Venezuela is on the verge of a civil war while it's people are starving, Mexico had more deaths due to violence than Afghanistan, a US general is shot in Afghanistan, Myanmar is ethnically cleansing an entire race of people, and Italy is on the verge of such a massive bankruptcy that it could topple the entire European Union.
You're right that this is what is wrong with our country, albeit not for the reasons I think you think. Our current government, and a lot of the people supporting our current government, don't care about any of those things, or the people in those countries. Why aren't we helping the Rohingya? Giving aid to Colombia to help with all the refugees in Venezuela (about the best we could do, getting actually involved in Venezeula would just make things worse)? Stopping the war on drugs here in the US that helps send thousands of guns and billions of dollars to the drug cartels screwing up Mexico? Telling the government in Kabul to get it's shit together and help them retake the half of Afghanistan that's still controlled by the Taliban? Telling China (and Saudi Arabia) they can't just go around extrajudiciously killing people they don't like? Our current government doesn't care, and its supporters don't care that they don't care. We've lost what made us special, and no amount of MAGA'ing will fix it, it will only make it worse.
However, certain cultures in south and central america (and I assume others) are far, far more likely to have people who have no interest in becoming citizens and instead want the better life living here gives, while attempting to not integrate with the rest of society.
So give them an easy process to apply for a work visa that expires after, say, 6 months, and a process and criteria to renew that visa (for example go home for a month between visas, stay out of trouble, etc). They'll still be picking vegetables, working in warehouses/meatpackers, and mowing your lawn, jobs Americans arent doing anyway. Will some people skip out? Sure. Others will jump at that opportunity, won't have to live in fear, can work jobs with reasonable pay and conditions without bosses paying them $5 an hour cash under the table and treating them like animals, don't have to worry about being easy crime victims, etc. Win-win for everyone.
Please point to where Emma Lazarus' poem is enshrined in the Constitution, I must've missed that one in law school!
Then how about the Declaration of Independence? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." All men, not just Americans. Yet there is a growing portion of this country that seems to think those rights don't apply to people outside the US, that they are less than human.
people are going to have to see this as the issue it actually is.
Issues like the fact that Republicans can't stop lying about it to scare their base-Trump's "there might be Middle Easterners in the caravan"(there aren't, and Trump later admitted there aren't) or Pat Robinson's "this might be financed by Soros"(it's not, and he admitted he had no proof of it)?
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?
What has happened to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,”? America is literally built on the backs of immigrants. It's amazing that, as completely screwed up as our country is with political infighting, crumbling infrastructure, horrible and expensive healthcare, lack of adequate social service, and growing ethnic and nationalist sentiments, thousands and hundreds of thousands of people still see the US as the best, safest place to be. You have thousands of people walking 2500 miles for a chance to get into the US. Why wouldn't you want people willing to do that in your country? They'll probably worker harder than most Americans ever would.
There's nothing wrong with having strong borders, but we should also provide real and accessible ways for people to come to this country legally. The US helped fuck up the Middle East and Central America, yet when people from those regions want to come here because it's no longer safe at home we say "too bad". Allow an actual, meaningful amount of refugees, especially from countries where US supplied arms are killing thousands of people. No "muslim ban" bullshit or overplaying and stoking fears of "gangs". If people want to come here to work, give 'em a 6 month work visa and let them work without having to steal SSNs or get exploited by farmers or meatpackers. They'll still be doing the jobs illegals are already doing but it'll be much more aboveboard. The military is killing for more recruits: you want to become a citizen, sign up, do a term, leave with an honorable discharge, the GI Bill, and citizenship.
You're worried because people keep wanting to come here. Meanwhile, I won't be worried until people stop wanting to come here.
I always preferred the Mexican imported Coca Cola in glass bottles. I suspect the taste improvement was not from cane sugar vs fructose syrup but rather due to glass bottle vs plastic.
I don't like the Mexican versions of Coke/Sprite, but you can get the American formulas in glass bottles as well and I've always thought that the Sprite taste so much better in a glass bottle vs plastic.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term.
When I rideshare I always chat a bit with the drivers, and ask them how they like the job. Based on these conversations, I can assure you that few of them are planning on a long career with Uber.
So? Few janitors, burger-flippers and garbage-men planned a long career in their respective fields too. Doesn't mean that most of them are not stuck there with no choice after a few years.
Garbage men actually make really decent money considering the required skills, you just have to deal with shitty hours, shitty weather, and shitty smells.
So yeah, it's a lot of money but one can make an economic case for it.
One could argue the political case is more important. China has been gradually cutting back freedoms and exerting power and influence over Hong Kong which even since the handover from British control has been fairly independent. By making it much easier to go back and forth from the island to the mainland it brings the island closer to government control and eases assimilation as Hong Kong residents will feel less like outsiders and more like Chinese.
I grew up a couple miles from a Lockheed facility. I've seen f117s amd in painted f22s flying just w couple hundred feet over my head. And that doesn't even count the countless Cobras I've seen at low altitude
Which they will get to enjoy for all of 15 minutes until an A10 strafes the convoy destroying all the material and anyone foolish enough to be trying to unload it.
Just wait until the A-10s are mothballed and replaced with F-35s and all of them are grounded because they found another performance-critical flaw. Free convoys for everyone!
By that definition any diplomatic agreements are a form of imperialism. That's stupid.
If it's a stronger power imposing it's will on a smaller, weaker power then yes, they are. You can have imperialism without armed troops in khakis and pith helmets walking down the street.
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So, really everyone just went out to lunch? An 11am walkout is symbolic at best.
Have you considered the possibility that the mental decline preceded, and perhaps contributed to, your decision to bash your head into things?
Considering that I began bashing my head into things around the age of 10, it is quite unlikely that the mental decline could have started before then.
How do the authors propose to distribute those six-and-a-half-cents? Via a postcard check, with $0.20 of postage?
The lowest class settlement postcard check I ever got was for $0.23.
I actually got a useful class action settlement once. I played college football so I am now entitled to 2 free neurological screenings. I'm only 32, but I have actually noticed some mental decline in myself the past few years, mostly in short term memory. Well, at least I think I remember being able to remember things better.
"Those are called cloud kitchens"
So.... because someone uses a phone to order delivery food, it's a cloud kitchen?
I always thought those were called takeout places. Or Chinese restaurants.
Banned ad on Facebook because of content.
Was paid for by an actual GOP candidate, but she was a minority. We all know how liberals are racists, so I have to assume that was why. Perhaps these reporters were all white.
Why assume when even a skim reading of the article you link gives you the answer: her ad contained images from the Cambodian genocide that were considered to be against Facebook's ToS. Oh, and the reporter of the Business Insider article appears to be a woman of South Asian descent, just like the GOP candidate in your linked article. So there goes that theory. The Vice reporter's a white guy though. I would say nice attempt at a troll, but let's be honest, it wasn't.
She had a deep understanding of our business from the outset
I call bs. Even a cursory look at Snapchat's history and recent business decisions shows no one there has a deep understanding of their business.
20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI.
What the article isnt saying is that these lawyers were pitted against a combat AI in a parking lot in the back of a derelict convenience store in the dark hours of the morning. The AI successfully dismembered virtually all of them, despite their decades of experience in corporate law.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, I'm ok with that, and gladly welcome our lawyer-dismembering overlords.
This current country was created by the Constitution, not the Articles of Confederation, nor the Declaration of Independence, nor some silly poem on a statue. Do they even teach civics at your high school anymore? They obviously don't teach how to argue without silly appeals to emotion.
Without the DoI we would still have been part of the British Empire so yes, the DoI was the first document creating the entity that eventually because the US.
My family immigrated into the U.S. legally. Wait list, visa, green card, then finally citizenship. Treating all men equally means people who entered the country illegally should be booted out, and forced to go through the same process we did. You're not asking for equal rights for illegal immigrants. You're asking that illegal immigrants be given superior rights compared to legal immigrants.
I'm asking for a simpler process. It can take decades for people to become citizens, and we are severely restricting temporary entry such as refugee status, so of course people are going to try and come here illegally. Make it easier for people to come here legally to work and they will come here legally. It's been shown with guns, drugs, alcohol, music/movies, anything: when it's hard to get something legally most people will simply get it illegally. Immigration is the same way.
Unlike the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence isn't a legal document.
The Constitution is our legal code, the Declaration is our moral code
They should use the "zoom" feature
When the project was first proposed to them they thought it was VR for ants.
So the country should no longer be guided by the very document that first created it? Good to know America has fallen so far.
Regarding the funding and leadership of this group, it is also highly likely that someone with an interest in undermining the Trump Administration would at least be supportive of the caravan if not actively funding and guiding it.
I'm sure quite a few people that don't like Trump are supportive of the caravan. But that's not what they were arguing, and that's not what their base would hear. And "supporting" something is different than actively funding or guiding something (which is precisely what Republicans have been claiming they are doing). That why you have people shipping bombs to Soro's house.
Dust 514 would probably also have been much more successful if they had launched it on the PC and not just PS4.
You live in a world of platitudes, not the real world. And a world so focused on the US that you're blind to the rest of the world.
This country always accepts immigration. But without control it is just chaos. It's no different than the freeway; should we just let everyone onto the freeway when we want? If so, the freeway becomes a jumbled mess. Instead on-ramps have lights letting people on in a measured way, which allows for a more smoothly flowing system.
We aren't doing "control", we are trying to do "no immigration". The immigration system is broken and causes illegal immigration. And we have every duty and obligation to take in refugees from countries we helped fucked up. If that's too many countries, well, then that's our fault and we need to stop fucking up countries.
And no one wants to stop coming here. The opportunities and freedoms far outpace the rest of the world. India cannot provide opportunities fast enough to feed it's population; they come here to work in biotech and tech sectors. Chinese want to come here because the government is less likely to intrude on your lifestyle and offers far more acceptance of ambitious Chinese women in particular. Middle-easterners want to come here because they are less likely to be persecuted by one group or the next for following the wrong religion or being the wrong ethnic group. Hispanics want to come here because the opportunities for a better life are far more numerous than they are in South America.
If we keep on our current path, people will stop wanting to come here. Either because we will have made this place a terrible place for foreigners to live (which means it would be a terrible place for us to live, too), or the US has fallen from it's place and is no better than wherever they are trying to leave.
No, most Americans who think our country is difficult or racist or whatever simply have no clue what the world is like. This country is a special place precisely because we debate ad nausem things that are ultimately minor; other countries wish our problems were their problems. While we're out debating the MeToo movement and whether Kavanaugh assaulted someone when he was in high school, China kidnapped and disappeared the head of Interpol, Venezuela is on the verge of a civil war while it's people are starving, Mexico had more deaths due to violence than Afghanistan, a US general is shot in Afghanistan, Myanmar is ethnically cleansing an entire race of people, and Italy is on the verge of such a massive bankruptcy that it could topple the entire European Union.
You're right that this is what is wrong with our country, albeit not for the reasons I think you think. Our current government, and a lot of the people supporting our current government, don't care about any of those things, or the people in those countries. Why aren't we helping the Rohingya? Giving aid to Colombia to help with all the refugees in Venezuela (about the best we could do, getting actually involved in Venezeula would just make things worse)? Stopping the war on drugs here in the US that helps send thousands of guns and billions of dollars to the drug cartels screwing up Mexico? Telling the government in Kabul to get it's shit together and help them retake the half of Afghanistan that's still controlled by the Taliban? Telling China (and Saudi Arabia) they can't just go around extrajudiciously killing people they don't like? Our current government doesn't care, and its supporters don't care that they don't care. We've lost what made us special, and no amount of MAGA'ing will fix it, it will only make it worse.
However, certain cultures in south and central america (and I assume others) are far, far more likely to have people who have no interest in becoming citizens and instead want the better life living here gives, while attempting to not integrate with the rest of society.
So give them an easy process to apply for a work visa that expires after, say, 6 months, and a process and criteria to renew that visa (for example go home for a month between visas, stay out of trouble, etc). They'll still be picking vegetables, working in warehouses/meatpackers, and mowing your lawn, jobs Americans arent doing anyway. Will some people skip out? Sure. Others will jump at that opportunity, won't have to live in fear, can work jobs with reasonable pay and conditions without bosses paying them $5 an hour cash under the table and treating them like animals, don't have to worry about being easy crime victims, etc. Win-win for everyone.
Please point to where Emma Lazarus' poem is enshrined in the Constitution, I must've missed that one in law school!
Then how about the Declaration of Independence? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." All men, not just Americans. Yet there is a growing portion of this country that seems to think those rights don't apply to people outside the US, that they are less than human.
people are going to have to see this as the issue it actually is.
Issues like the fact that Republicans can't stop lying about it to scare their base-Trump's "there might be Middle Easterners in the caravan"(there aren't, and Trump later admitted there aren't) or Pat Robinson's "this might be financed by Soros"(it's not, and he admitted he had no proof of it)?
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?
What has happened to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,”? America is literally built on the backs of immigrants. It's amazing that, as completely screwed up as our country is with political infighting, crumbling infrastructure, horrible and expensive healthcare, lack of adequate social service, and growing ethnic and nationalist sentiments, thousands and hundreds of thousands of people still see the US as the best, safest place to be. You have thousands of people walking 2500 miles for a chance to get into the US. Why wouldn't you want people willing to do that in your country? They'll probably worker harder than most Americans ever would.
There's nothing wrong with having strong borders, but we should also provide real and accessible ways for people to come to this country legally. The US helped fuck up the Middle East and Central America, yet when people from those regions want to come here because it's no longer safe at home we say "too bad". Allow an actual, meaningful amount of refugees, especially from countries where US supplied arms are killing thousands of people. No "muslim ban" bullshit or overplaying and stoking fears of "gangs". If people want to come here to work, give 'em a 6 month work visa and let them work without having to steal SSNs or get exploited by farmers or meatpackers. They'll still be doing the jobs illegals are already doing but it'll be much more aboveboard. The military is killing for more recruits: you want to become a citizen, sign up, do a term, leave with an honorable discharge, the GI Bill, and citizenship.
You're worried because people keep wanting to come here. Meanwhile, I won't be worried until people stop wanting to come here.
I always preferred the Mexican imported Coca Cola in glass bottles. I suspect the taste improvement was not from cane sugar vs fructose syrup but rather due to glass bottle vs plastic.
I don't like the Mexican versions of Coke/Sprite, but you can get the American formulas in glass bottles as well and I've always thought that the Sprite taste so much better in a glass bottle vs plastic.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term.
When I rideshare I always chat a bit with the drivers, and ask them how they like the job. Based on these conversations, I can assure you that few of them are planning on a long career with Uber.
So? Few janitors, burger-flippers and garbage-men planned a long career in their respective fields too. Doesn't mean that most of them are not stuck there with no choice after a few years.
Garbage men actually make really decent money considering the required skills, you just have to deal with shitty hours, shitty weather, and shitty smells.
So yeah, it's a lot of money but one can make an economic case for it.
One could argue the political case is more important. China has been gradually cutting back freedoms and exerting power and influence over Hong Kong which even since the handover from British control has been fairly independent. By making it much easier to go back and forth from the island to the mainland it brings the island closer to government control and eases assimilation as Hong Kong residents will feel less like outsiders and more like Chinese.
I grew up a couple miles from a Lockheed facility. I've seen f117s amd in painted f22s flying just w couple hundred feet over my head. And that doesn't even count the countless Cobras I've seen at low altitude
Which they will get to enjoy for all of 15 minutes until an A10 strafes the convoy destroying all the material and anyone foolish enough to be trying to unload it.
Just wait until the A-10s are mothballed and replaced with F-35s and all of them are grounded because they found another performance-critical flaw. Free convoys for everyone!
By that definition any diplomatic agreements are a form of imperialism. That's stupid.
If it's a stronger power imposing it's will on a smaller, weaker power then yes, they are. You can have imperialism without armed troops in khakis and pith helmets walking down the street.