“excommunicated me from my department for reporting my concerns to her.”
This jumps out to me.
An entire department stopping talking to him means either the entire department was threatened against talking to him, or the entire department chose to stop talking to him.
I’d be interested in hearing from the department members.
Honestly, the sanctions are pretty much just a footnote. If the sanctions were all that mattered, they’d simply withdraw.
If the sanctions didn’t matter at all, they wouldn’t have even been mentioned at all, yet here we are with them part of the conversation.
Somebody should really tell the Russians. I’ve been hearing about “The Rouble Collapsing” for years now and Russians don’t seem to be affected or care.
Is that so? Why are Russians so adamant that sanctions have to be lifted then? If they weren’t affected or didn’t care, why are they even bringing it up?
"Russia ready to end war in Ukraine if sanctions are lifted, says Lavrov " source
If you have a salary that’s in the hundreds of thousands and you think that you’re doing well? You’re just not very poor. You’re basically a slave. You’re a slave with bells and whistles.
Poor isn’t a measure of wealth compared to others. It also means “with less resources than you need to survive in a healthy way”. For most people $100k/year will let you survive in a healthy way. Above a certain dollar figure, having more money doesn’t let you live better, it just gets spent on unnecessary crap (or stacked up and hoarded).
The only big loss was the money that went to the wedding.
I learned recently the cost to getting married in my state and county is $60 ($20 for the license and $40 for the officiant to marry you and process the license to probate). That is less money than it cost for 2 tickets to see an evening movie and get concession stand food. I had no idea getting married could cost so little.
Once the electrode was in place and we performed the stimulation, the first patient immediately said, ‘I feel my legs.’
Even if the return of mobility is very minor, I would think the ability for a paralyzed persons to sense their immobile limbs would be a huge win for health.
Just Googling “speed dating [city name]”. Here are some examples from my other comment
Did you just Google “Local Speed Dating” or something?
Yep. There are usually companies that put these on, and as its their business, it will be the same companies doing many sessions throughout the year.
I wasn’t sure if Speed Dating was still a thing (since I did it years ago), and I find it is still a thing!
There’s one tonight in Los Angeles:
But also midwest towns. Here’s one in Des Moines Iowa 2 days from now:
I give my mom credit. In the 80’s she found summer classes for me where I could learn about programming.
In the early 80s we we NOT well off. However, our entire household chose to go without christmas (and went into debt) to buy a Commodore 64 computer. It allowed me to experiment, make mistakes, and learn in a safe environment. When I started using computers in school was already very comfortable with it. When I started in the working world, I was not only comfortable, but highly knowledgeable about using and fixing computers.
My sibling and I are both successful IT professionals. I absolutely attribute having that computer (even a very under powered c64) in the house growing up.
Introvert here. I met my now introvert wife at speed dating.
If you haven’t done it before, you are in a room (usually a rented out restaurant so its just for this event) with lots of tables. At each table is a woman. As a man, you are directed to sit at a specific numbered table where there is a woman seated (all the other men do the same to the individual table they are directed to). A bell rings. You have 5 minutes to talk to each other and learn as much as you can about each other. After 5 minutes, the bell rings, and the woman stay seated, and the man moves to the next higher numbered table. You have a card with the woman’s name on it and you should REALLY make notes, because you won’t remember which things you thought with each person. The women do the same with their cards.
In under 2 hours each person now talked to 14-18 potential mates. At the end of the night you go online and mark which of the women you’re interested in hearing more from. If any of the women you mark also mark you on their side, you’re given an in-app communications channel and you can choose to share personal contact information from there.
When you’re sitting at the table talking with a woman sometimes it seems like that bell rings as soon as you sit down and you wish you had more time. Those are the ones you mark on your card to talk more with. Sometimes, you’re 1 minute in and you’re dreading waiting though the next 4 min. Those you do not mark.
I’d recommend you give Speed Dating a try.
Team Cat points out that in a prior race Russell impeded cat in nearly the exact same circumstances, but Russell received no sanctions. There is clear bias on the part of the FIA and the race stewards against Cat #69. Team Cat will be appealing the decision against Cat #69.
Is the rover on Mars still taking pics? Cause I’d teleport there. Just to make everyone wonder how I got there.
Not just one but TWO rovers are on Mars taking pics right now. This would work for the picture, and then you’d die pretty quick from the water boiling out of your body from the low pressure atmosphere. Worth it.
This has the possible downside of you being dissected for the benefit of science. One human life for the possibility of discovering the ability to teleport? The astronauts/cosmonauts on the ISS would know about you, but you’d never make the news.
Russell wasn’t on a push lap, even though he was on the racing line.
It’s a regressive policy
Agreed.
made as a reaction
Agreed.
and not an action,
Err, clearly an action. A reaction IS an action by definition.
and thus inherently destructive.
Point of order, counselor. Conclusion not supported by the facts. If you apply your same logic ( and conclusions) to the COVID lockdowns, then your conclusion would be those were unnecessarily destructive.
Sure, one action can have multiple reasons and outcomes. I agree with it in part that I need to pay my fair share of road taxes. I also recognize that this is a relatively new market force, and highly accurate consumption-to-taxation isn’t in place yet (again, for many reasons).
That doesn’t mean it’s why they do it, though.
Its not the only reason they do it.
And here I have to pay more to register my hybrid.
Same for my EV (double the hybrid registration cost in my state). However, that’s because of how road taxes are collected on the sale of gasoline/diesel fuel. Its still overpaying on EV taxes though. For the same registration fee I pay on an EV ($200/year) I could drive over 15,000 miles on a gasoline car getting 30 miles to the gallon. I drive maybe 11,000/year so I’m overly taxed compared to ICE drivers.
It’s going up. Unequivocally up.
Its going up, but the rate of change is going down. So yes, demand is still high, and the total amount of demand is increasing, it is increasing by a smaller amount each year. Here’s that demand growth/decline data for the oil sector.
So they’re saying when Trump was holding the office of President, the election wasn’t carried out with integrity and fidelity , and when a Democrat was holding the office it was?