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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:06 pm

As much as CNN loves finding parents of gun victims, something tells me they won't be interviewing this one


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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:24 pm

Wonder what Steve Kerr thinks

You wonder that quite a bit.
It seems awfully too complicated for him.

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Postby NAN » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:39 pm

You can’t train well virtually and you can’t manage well virtually. I think there will be opportunities for people in the middle to work from home, but my wife for example, is having a ton of issues with the younger people she works with. Its hard to have 25 and 26 year olds focus on work from home
I've been pretty fortunate that my group is going through a transformation right now, and we have some new people that we are training from home, and they have been taking to it pretty well. However, it would be a lot easier in an office environment.

On top of that, the existing people in my group I know pretty well from in person interactions, so it's been working well from home, but I have 4 new people that while I talk to a lot on the phone and via skype, I've never met in person.

Honestly, I'd be fine working virtually most of the time, but with the option to have hoteling stations as well as booking meeting rooms in the office to work in on occasion. I'm a people person, so I do miss that aspect.

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Postby faftorial » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:29 pm

OK gets their Obamacare:

Oklahomans voted Tuesday to alter their state constitution to expand Medicaid over nearly a decade of opposition by Republican governors, making their state the first to widen the safety-net insurance program as the coronavirus pandemic steals jobs and health benefits.

The expansion’s approval, by a slender margin, means that an estimated 250,000 additional Oklahoma residents will be eligible for the public insurance, including nearly 50,000 who have lost coverage as unemployment has soared this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/v ... story.html

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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:55 pm

This speaks to the seriousness of “Karen:”


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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:02 pm

Image

Thought this was a good image in relation to the ladders discussion earlier in the week.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:04 pm

Emilly Swaven is a "Canadian Activist".

That sounds like an oxymoron.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:04 pm

The more details that come out about that shooting in Seattle, the uglier it gets.

https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/ne ... 9466ed7a9f
Homicide detectives searched for evidence in the Jeep but it was "abundantly clear" people had gone through the vehicle after the shooting, according to Chief Best.

Detectives interviewed protesters who said they were in the CHOP at the time of the shooting. People are not cooperating, according to Chief Best.
It sounds like two black teenagers were murdered by at least one other black person acting as "CHAZ security", and when he ran out of bullets he pistol whipped the 14 year old who was barely hanging on to life at that point. After that, other people looted their car while they sat there dying, and refused to cooperate with police.

Sorry, I don't want to hear about the "systemic" reasons nobody would snitch on a man that SHOT TWO Other UNARMED BLACK CHILDREN. TBQH, this would have been a great moment for BLM to come out and take a strong stand against the incident. The silence is deafening, however, and it only reinforces the optics that only *some* black lives matter.

It is sickening to watch the hoops CHAZ/BLM supporters have jumped through on social media to defend this shooting as justified. Can you imagine if the Proud Boys had done that? Or God forbid the police? Half the country would be burning.

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Postby mikey » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:04 pm

"K word"...yeah, ok...sit down...

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Postby dodint » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:18 pm

I thought that graphic was the basis for the discussion. It was posted a while back.

I find it falls apart in the first frame when the person not getting the apples seems to do so because they picked the side of the tree that has sparsely scattered fruit which is also plainly higher up. Instead of doing what seems obvious and moving to the other side of the tree, they ask for the whole system to be adjusted for them.

If I were being a cynic.

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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:23 pm

Must have missed it the first time... my bad. I don’t think it was a “choice” in the first frame; more like he can’t see the other side of the tree. And the boy on the right isn’t “asking” for anything. But I’m not really a cynic, so...
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Postby mikey » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:24 pm

Yeah, in the first two frames, I'm like, "you dumb dickhead child...why would you do that...you couldn't see how that wasn't gonna work out...?"

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:24 pm

Someone who doesn't understand agriculture wrote that graphic.

If one wanted to be cynical.

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Postby dodint » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:24 pm

Yeah, I know I am overanalyzing it for effect. I figured some kind of barrier between the two characters would've made sense. Without it the one on the right just looks dumb and lazy.

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Postby King Colby » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:25 pm

First pic should have a ladder on the left

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:26 pm

I'm more concerned about why the colors of the shirt and shorts of the downtrodden apple picker keep changing.

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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:26 pm

Almost like it’s figurative and not literal.

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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:27 pm

I'm more concerned about why the colors of the shirt and shorts of the downtrodden apple picker keep changing.
Used the little money he had for an extra outfit.

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Postby mikey » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:27 pm

You can't make it uphill on one side because of that mixed message and result...

I guess the socialists could take the two frames and then just make sure left, smart child gives his/her work to lazy, untalented child so that loser child doesn't starve...

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Postby dodint » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:27 pm

I'm more concerned about why the colors of the shirt and shorts of the downtrodden apple picker keep changing.
The apple tree is at State College.

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Postby MWB » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:29 pm

The more details that come out about that shooting in Seattle, the uglier it gets.

https://www.king5.com/mobile/article/ne ... 9466ed7a9f
Homicide detectives searched for evidence in the Jeep but it was "abundantly clear" people had gone through the vehicle after the shooting, according to Chief Best.

Detectives interviewed protesters who said they were in the CHOP at the time of the shooting. People are not cooperating, according to Chief Best.
It sounds like two black teenagers were murdered by at least one other black person acting as "CHAZ security", and when he ran out of bullets he pistol whipped the 14 year old who was barely hanging on to life at that point. After that, other people looted their car while they sat there dying, and refused to cooperate with police.

Sorry, I don't want to hear about the "systemic" reasons nobody would snitch on a man that SHOT TWO Other UNARMED BLACK CHILDREN. TBQH, this would have been a great moment for BLM to come out and take a strong stand against the incident. The silence is deafening, however, and it only reinforces the optics that only *some* black lives matter.

It is sickening to watch the hoops CHAZ/BLM supporters have jumped through on social media to defend this shooting as justified. Can you imagine if the Proud Boys had done that? Or God forbid the police? Half the country would be burning.
I need to read more on this, but there’s not “systematic” reason to not turn this person in. A travesty.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:29 pm

Yes we need a government agent taking from child on left giving to child on right.

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Postby faftorial » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:32 pm

Another Karen for @MIMH:


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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:34 pm

Hell yeah


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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:11 pm

mods please ban Faf for using the k-word

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