If the forgiveness fails to go through, I wish they’d at least set the interest rate to 0% and/or make the minimum payment something ridiculously low like $20/month. Both would help a lot
If the debt is impossible to pay off in a lifetime, people simply won’t pay at all. There’s no point. If they make it possible then more people will try.
I wouldn’t go as far it’s them saying being gay is okay, but they’re claiming all queer people can come and be active members of the church. The issue is that they’re saying that while simultaneously treating LGBTQ+ people as second third degree citizens. They are “welcoming” us while also refusing to see us as equal and still claiming homosexuality is ungodly. It’s the bullshit cries of a cult in its death throes.
The only way this strategy makes sense is if these people are not even trying to defeat Trump in the primary. They are only running to elevate their brands for a future run.
Or hoping he somehow gets disqualified, or says the wrong thing and makes his rabid base turn on him
Or maybe they're hoping he'll flee to Russia
Basically, Trump is playing a dangerous game, and there's several ways it could go wrong. None of these guys can beat Trump, but if Trump goes down for any other reason they want to be waiting in the wings as second-best in the eyes of his followers. But in the meantime they don't want to just get completely consumed by him, and they want to appeal to moderates.
If Trump perceives them as a threat, he'll turn on them.
If they try to ride Trump's coattails, he'll use them and then abandon them like everyone else.
Their best bet is to not directly confront Trump but also not fall under his shadow. Supportive, but separate.
Chip lithography is the most advanced, complex, and finicky mass-production process that exists in the modern world, and Taiwan took decades to get there. Not to mention, Taiwan doesn’t have the industry that creates the machines that are used in the manufacturing process - that’s primarily owned by a handful of highly specialized European companies.
Even if the PRC were to execute the greatest industrial espionage campaign of all time and magically obtained all of the required documentation and instructions on how to do it, bootstrapping their industry to bleeding-edge standards would take years - likely close to a decade, if were being realistic - and the bleeding edge would have correspondingly moved on by then.
China is a country that couldn’t reliably manufacture ball-point pens (a deceptively nuanced product to manufacture, as a matter of fact) until a decade or two ago. I do not see them catching up with Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the US, or various European countries in the near future, considering their semi-hostile stance towards the west. I definitely do not see them catching up ever if the PRC decides to send it and try to annex Taiwan, because that will seriously piss off the rest of the world. If you think the Russian sanctions are severe, consider what the sanctions would be on China for attacking a country that literally enables a significant fraction of modern technology to exist at scale.
These “shocker!” or “I’m sooo surprised!” statements are self indulgent and actually kill the inspiration to fight back in some who read along. They don’t serve a purpose beyond you personally having something to say for the sake of it.
Use that energy for a comment with some substance next time. Maybe you find and link some examples of your premise? Or promote the simple act of registering to vote so that we can get more progressive minded people in offices with mandates to do things like apply enforceable ethical standards to the Supreme Court.
In all honestly its completely random now. They get some "initiative" and restructure getting rid of whole teams. Good and bad alike then hire on some purple unicorn basis and ultimately the lost teams work is just transferred to other teams. They still have you waste time with performance evaluation but that is mostly about explaining why raises are so low while earnings are so high.
No one is buying the ‘hur dur in the office is more productive’ bs anymore.
It totally is a silent layoff, but I think a large chunk of the older execs still actually believe the office is more productive. There’s also a large chunk executives who have investments in commercial real estate companies who are trying to put off the complete collapse of that market so they can get more of their money out before it all goes to shit.
Don’t lay offs make sense though if people are being more productive at home? The tech market is contracting so they won’t be looking to take on new projects so much as cutting unnecessary overhead (and labor is usually the largest tech company expense), which they only have because the increase in productivity isn’t being offset by new work (projects) coming in?
Not surprising when the world’s worst social workers the police just drop off mentally ill and drugged out people at ERs and expect them to deal with it.
The ERs in my city literally have security guards because of how much they have to deal with angry people on drugs and others experiencing mental health crises.
“Health care workers don’t even think about that when they decide they want to be a nurse or a doctor. But as far as actual violence goes, statistically, health care is four or five times more dangerous than any other profession,” said Michael D’Angelo, a former police officer who focuses on health care and workplace violence as a security consultant in Florida.
It’s surprising how little it’s talked about, and how common it is. It’s literally a question of when not if that er workers get assaulted. They also have basically no recourse to restrain or subdue attackers.
Putting aside the irony, Zoom isn’t excluded from the return to office trend that’s sweeping tech companies. In recent months, Google, Amazon and Salesforce have enacted similar policies, ending a Covid-era approach that gave employees more freedom to work from home. However, businesses have faced some pushback from employees after workers grew accustomed to greater flexibility.
“Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted operations to assure the defense of the United States and Canada,” a NORTHCOM statement to ABC News said, adding that “the patrol remained in international waters and was not considered a threat.”
A U.S. official also told ABC News that the Pentagon had been tracking and expecting this patrol for several weeks, since well before the exercise began. Four U.S. destroyers and P-8 aircraft were also sent to shadow the patrol.
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