FlowVoid

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[–] FlowVoid 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a good summary.

As mentioned elsewhere, pediatric cancer funds have already been restored in separate legislation.

[–] FlowVoid 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Americans don't even have a fundamental right to be protected by their own police right here in the USA.

And they claim a right to protection in Gaza? This lawsuit is going nowhere.

[–] FlowVoid 1 points 4 days ago

The subtitle is pretty good too.

[–] FlowVoid 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It already is solvent forever. Every year, it collects money from workers and pays it out to retirees. It can do this forever.

[–] FlowVoid 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If they are not planning to renew their leases, then they aren't doing the bidding of their landlords as OP suggested.

In other words, if a company (for some reason) wants to please commercial real estate owners, it doesn't have to end WFH.

And if it doesn't care about pleasing commercial real estate owners, then it must have some other reason for ending WFH.

[–] FlowVoid 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Right, but if you have a tenant then you don't care what their WFH policy is.

[–] FlowVoid 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

That makes no sense. Commercial landlords collect rent regardless of how often employees are on site.

The real reason for RTW policies is that companies want to downsize without firing workers (and thus without paying unemployment). Hence:

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told staff they will need to be back in the office full-time, seemingly pushing 73% of his colleagues to consider quitting over the move

Stankey said 85% of them already lived near one of the offices. The remaining 15%, he said, will have to “make decisions that are appropriate to their lives.”

[–] FlowVoid 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ethan Crumbley was, in fact, charged with one count of "terrorism causing death". And he pleaded guilty.

[–] FlowVoid 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I know you aren't a nonvoter, and I never said you were one.

Nonvoters include people who don't bother to register and people who say they don't plan to vote. So they can be identified before an election.

And despite what many seem to think, the vast majority of nonvoters would not become voters even if a candidate had done X, whether X is "support Palestine" or "support trans people" or "stop talking about trans people" or whatever else.

People love to project their personal politics onto nonvoters, but the fact is that nonvoters are nonvoters mainly because they do not care about politics.

It's really no different than other human activities. For example, I don't watch NASCAR races because I do not care about NASCAR. And NASCAR drivers ignore me, which is fine. Because even if they were highly interested in me, there is literally nothing they could do that would make me want to watch NASCAR.

I am a NASCAR "non-watcher". Well, turns out lots of people feel the same about politics as I do about NASCAR.

[–] FlowVoid 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Again, the vast majority of nonvoters are politically disengaged. They don't stay home out of disgust, they stay home because they don't care.

[–] FlowVoid 13 points 5 days ago

So on Brand

 

Ending the Gaza war: Three phase proposal

PHASE ONE

  • It would begin with a six-week ceasefire, during which the IDF would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza
  • Hamas would release "a number" of hostages - including women, the elderly and the wounded - in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Some remains of dead Israeli hostages would be returned to their families
  • Palestinian civilians would return to their homes in all areas of Gaza
  • Humanitarian assistance would "surge", with 600 trucks a day entering the strip, and hundreds of thousands of temporary housing units sent by the international community

During that six week period, negotiations mediated by the US and Qatar would continue. If successful, the next part of the plan would begin.

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