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>If you don't want these rug pulls and employment laws to keep getting watered down, instead of asking about 4 day work weeks, start voting for candidates and parties that have better employment laws at the top of their policies. I
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3y ago
Seems like a perfect opportunity to gin up some alumni donations Become a dues paying member of the alumni society? Get a real mailbox at school.edu to keep your address
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3y ago
>Why does an election year indicate a recession? Alone, it doesn't >Rather, who precisely wants a recession now, in your opinion? I don't think you need more than one guess to figure out the average political leaning of most
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3y ago
I'm convinced that it's because the recession that has been predicted for the past 3 years has not happened, and now we're in the election year and it must happen. The layoffs will continue until we get the macro outcome we&#
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If that was literally the words used probably need to enforce that it's "you're number one for departure" so that you can't inadvertently think takeoff meant cleared for takeoff
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3y ago
We've already been through several disasters based on misunderstandings about whether or not a pilot was cleared for takeoff. That's why they explicitly use "cleared for takeoff" and if you hear anything other than that,
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3y ago
Don't towers all over the world give this information? It's almost every time I'm flying that the pilot tells us as we approach the runway we're number 1 for departure, or number 5 for departure With explicit phraseology
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3y ago
I don't know that splitting existing private insurance from employment would be much better Given how expensive it is, even if wages went up to compensate, you're still directly tied to continued employment to afford paying for it
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>Most countries have some kind of local or regional taxes, and the single tax authority is responsible for collecting and distributing them all. Most states operate this way. Counties will often collect city taxes, and in some states the
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I'm curious percentage wise how many people are having to file returns with their city or county. I've lived in two states (Alabama and Georgia) and even in a city with an "income tax" at the city level and have only eve
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>that all inefficiency is caused by governments Forget about the evidence of other countries (which is completely valid), I just hate the argument that government inherently because it's government is inefficient and will never be e
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I don't know the legal system in Spain or the wider EU, but in the US for example stolen goods are stolen goods no matter how many hands they pass through. Washing them through a fence doesn't suddenly make them legitimate
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Let's just set aside how much of a right a company should have over its employees activities outside of work if they're legal and don't directly affect the employees'job performance If I understand correctly they were ac
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3y ago
>your job is...not criticize the owners of the company outside of work So companies now own 24 hours of their employees' day?
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again, right to work has nothing to do with it they meant at-will employment state, which is every state in the country except Montana. at-will employment means you can be fired or you can quit at any time for any reason that is not illeg
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3y ago
Microsoft has since removed the ban https://old.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/18u5pnj/xbox_...
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3y ago
if it's true, it's ridiculous BUT the cost is just the cost of downtime. is anyone under the impression that they'd actually be out these IP addresses permanently? obviously RIPE would fix the issue and get the IPs returned
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3y ago
A majority of US citizens did, though You're entitled to have your voice heard, you're not entitled to get exactly what you want
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3y ago
Now who is appealing to dead guys?
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>Are we less competent at making laws today than we were a hundred years ago? Yes, absolutely. I have zero confidence that today we'd have public education, social security, or freedom from religion. I'd be terrified if we had
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3y ago
or even better, if I upload a video to YouTube and it includes a Nirvana song, and if YouTube has permission from Interscope to distribute Nirvana music by virtue of an explicit license or the fact that Interscope uploaded a bunch of Nirvan
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that would be absolute chaos, especially when it comes to foundational terms such as does the government have the ability to raise a tax or not
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it's not super hard as a self-employed person, if you don't want it to be. Just setup your business as a real company and pay yourself via payroll instead of pass-through There may be other tradeoffs, but there may also be other a
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>I’m not sure why I’m obligated to be bound by laws that I had as much to do with the passage with as the tax rules in Georgian era England because one, it's impossible to completely rewrite the system every generation. there's
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>And to think, in the US we revolted because the king wanted to tax Tea 3%.... There is an important difference between then and now and it's called the US Congress. It wasn't about the amount of the tax on tea but rather the f
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Yeah, in the US it's a certain percentage up to a limit, and some people are exempt. Pretty simple in terms of doing payroll All the complexity is when you file your actual return, and that one would literally be impossible to chart ou
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Seems like Beavis and Butthead would be pretty easy to cut out the music video sections
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There is a similar situation with The Adventures of Pete & Pete from Nickelodeon that is preventing it from being put on Paramount+. Paramount and (I think) Sony both claim some amount of ownership, and instead of hashing it out they&#x
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3y ago
Neither platform owner is interested in solving this problem, they both abuse notifications for spam themselves
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obviously, and that was a poor way of wording it. my point was he's not completely retiring, just moving on to other forms of output which fit his preferred workload and schedule I do think it's weird how much of a "I'm
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