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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Even if someone has used it only once, even if they just tried it, they are ineligible for military service.

Well that's just false. You'll get denied if you pop hot on a drug test at MEPS, but they don't tend to care if you've smoked in the past, except as a barometer for if you'll smoke in the future. And, like almost everything else in the DoD, there's a waiver form you can fill out for it too

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah...this honestly just makes me want to vote for her more

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

This is about bugging people to work when they are off the clock.

And that's exactly what Kevin is advocating for. He wants the benefits of an on-call team without having to pay for an on-call team.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ordinarily, I might agree. However, this suspension is because musk refused to appoint a legal representative for the company in Brazil, IAW Brazilian law. That's a reasonable ask for a company that's actively doing business in the country. If a billionaire* crybaby refuses to follow the law, then he gets to deal with the consequences. FA meet FO.

[–] [email protected] 240 points 1 week ago (18 children)

If you are in an industry where an emergency at 2 am cannot wait until 0900 (or whenever shift starts in the morning), fucking pay a swing shift to be there. Or fairly compensate your employees for calls off the clock. Either way, stop expecting free labor from your employees. And if your business can't afford to exist without fairly compensating those who work for it, then your business should not exist.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

There are some commercial rolls I've seen in the US that seem to be a happy medium...the holder itself in the stall has a thin plastic rod for the TP to go on, and the rolls have a very small opening in the center (and no cardboard) to go on that rod.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Are those themes actually present in game, or is this another "please don't hurt our feelings" from China?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

...he forgot that NM is part of the US again, didn't he

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

A "benefit" of using RAF helos is it the flight hours. Pilots typically need a certain number of flight hours every month to maintain their certs, so they'll likely be flying anyways. Having them fly senior ministers around instead of other training flights technically is free, as the flights were going to happen anyways.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not only just to trap Trump, but also to coalesce everyone behind a successor candidate. Because the only thing worse than Biden staying in the race would have been him dropping out and then a dozen Democrat candidates popping up, vying for the nomination, barely 5 months before the election. Further infighting would have handed the election to the weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 139 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

As much as I detest SpaceX and the literal child in charge of the company, their craft at least has a track record of safely bringing astronauts to and from the ISS. Boeing doesn't even have that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

True, however I have to assume that fuel tanks tend to be lower on the locomotives (and therefore nearer the tracks), so as long as the explosive is high enough energy to set off the fuel, it'll do a lot of the work for you. As will momentum, because all the explosive has to do is damage the tracks and jostle the engine, and the length of cars behind will keep on moving, go of the rails, and slam into the fireball.

 

There are so many gems in this one, least of which are the bathrooms.

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