@shibao It helps to realize that generally companies will cut you loose if it in their best interests. Be professional but loyalty won't be coming from their side.
On their end they may simply not be able to offer what you're asking for. Work you want may not fit into their business plans or only so many people can work on it. Roles are limited so you may not be able to move up. There are also budgets so maybe they don't offer as big of a raise as you want.
If you aren't happy there is no shame in looking for a new company. Just line something up before you quit.
If you're burning out vacations can help but having strategies to leave work at work and maintain a life outside of work is important.
Some good news today: The SC on Tues allowed the Biden admin to enforce regs. aiming at clamping down on so-called "ghost guns" -firearm-making kits available online that people can assemble at home. The court in a brief order put on hold a July 5 ruling by a fed judge in TX that blocked the regulations nationwide. The vote was 5-4, with conservatives Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the 3 liberal justices in the majority. #ItsTheGuns#GunReformhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-biden-ghost-gun-regulations-rcna97310
@KimPerales The rule in effect is rather narrow and doesn't actually ban home manufacturing. All the elements of a kit are still accessible and legal.
The only difference is that all the parts to finish the controlled part can't be sold together. So like you could by the 80% from one shop online and the jig from a different shop online. All the other parts wouldn't be affected in general, maybe an issue if sold with the 80%. And there are also other ways to do home manufacturing that would be completely unaffected but the rule.
Also the case isn't done. The order is a temporary stay where the court is asking the ATF lawyers to explain things.
@The_Icarian Stephen King should probably stick to what he is good at, doing cocaine and writing novels. He is well outside of his wheelhouse talking about firearm.
I don't voice opinions as to what other people's governments should do because I know I don't understand the intricacies of their cultures and history well enough.
@birdpoof To characterize the reluctance to implement gun control as "happy when schools full of children are massacred" is a mischaracterization and tribalism problem along the same lines as what OP is talking about. It's boiling down a political issue into a clickbaity statement that claims one side is basically a cartoon villain.
Your response just seems to be "no, these random Europeans are completely right but it's like hard and I'm not like the other Americans".
If people where to spot you here in public with a toy gun that even resembles the real thing in the slightest way there's a big chance a special firearms unit from the police will come to arrest you and you'll have some explaining to do
Maybe overkill but rather that then the other way around where you'll never know who's consealing what
If (some) people carry weapons in public because they can there's no "safe feeling"
No matter how many guns you are carrying, you can't doge bullets :cate:
@stux If someone is concealed carrying the whole point is that people don't see it. There wouldn't be a reason to call anyone because no one noticed anything.
Yes, swatting someone with a toy gun is overkill. RIP kids with nerf guns I guess.
@crow Not really sure how someone faking it would expect things to work out. Someone could decide they could get a bunch of clout and followers by faking it. But at some point they get shown to be a fraud then they lose any following they had. Are the people who claim to have discovered something notable before this or could they just be riding a wave for a min for a quick buck? I guess there have been cases in more proper scientific circles of faked results.
Reporting on it is kinda whatever as that's kinda just talking about what someone else claimed.
Another possibility is that some other mechanism is at work or there is a fault in the test setup. At that point the person making the claim could be wrong but not necessarily aware of it. Maybe due to a lack of knowledge.
@morax The comparison isn't really a good one. In theory the barriers are actually doing something, even if it has human rights violating like results. Typical gun free zones just have a sign and maybe some legal issues if someone gets caught. The sign or legal issues isn't going to stop someone who is already a prohibited possessor or planning on commiting mass murder. Gun free zones that actually secure entry and have security are obviously going to be more effective than a sign.
Really, there is no reason to drag other political issues into this issue. To begin with it's questionable if Texas can even legally put such barriers up as the feds did not approve it and there are international concerns before getting into the harm it is causing. With the harm there are legal and moral problems even if you don't want immigrants coming in. I guarantee if I built such a hazard on my property there would legal problems if trespassers got seriously injured due it. For normal people the moral issues are probably enough but laws and/or federal enforcement is really going to be what stops it. Ideally some people get arrested and jail time for the harm they caused. Feel free to ship them off to Mexico if they have to face some charges there.
@skykiss I expect some satanists to troll them if the establishment issue gets ignored. There are religious schools and home schooling if that is what a particular family wants. When I was little I went to a Catholic school with an attached church. So that can get a school with God all over the place. Something like a chaplain doesn't really belong in public schools or our government though.
When did it get banned from public schools though? We got it daily in the pledge. Nothing is stopping little Sally or Timmy from praying if they feel like it. I remember religious clubs and even a room set aside for Muslims to pray as some wanted to do it a few times a day.
The same people pushing for this kind of thing are the ones that would freak out if yogo was an option for PE or a wiccan decided to do a prayer at the football game.
I’d bet a thousand dollars the orange pos has never held a gun in his life. give that man a gun to load and shoot while he’s on TV and all those magas will lose their love for him in a matter of seconds 😂
@enoch No, they probably wouldn't. He has been rather anti-2a in the past and somehow the MAGA crowd forgot all about it after about a week. At first they were upset but with enough spin it didn't actually lose him much support. See "Take the guns first, go through due process second".
Is there a reason i get like a bajillion ads on YouTube for things related to guns? Holsters, glasses, vests. Is it like that for everyone or is it based on something i watched? Honestly can't think of anything that implies I'd be interested in that stuff.
@bkardell YouTube's algorithm thinks you want that stuff based on internet history, watch history, demographic info, current video, etc. It will build this kind of profile if you are logged in or not. Some of it could be the kind of demographic the person running the campaign is trying to target as well.
The algorithms can also get confused. If you watched something against guns or a demographic that buys guns it might mis-label the video decide you clearly want to buy the gun stuff. Same way informational content on covid misinformation can get label as misinformation by algorithms.
It's interesting how many sources around the Internet claim that the term "Drink the Kool-Aid" (as in unwise groupthink) refers to San Francisco and LSD. Or to the novel "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."
It does not. It refers to the Jonestown Massacre of
1978 in Guyana, where almost 1000 followers of Jim Jones voluntarily (or in some cases, involuntarily) committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. (And yes, it's true that technically the brand was "Flavor Aid", but nobody has ever said "Drink the Flavor Aid" in these contexts, as far as I know!)
@billyjoebowers Might be an age thing and misinformed ideas gaining traction among those who weren't around at the time. Personally I've never heard of it referencing any but jonestown.