American planner here. We don’t actually get to plan shit. We end up being the middlemen between developers and Council. We explain all the rules we didn’t get to make, the developers explain to council how hlthey don’t even want to follow those rules, then Council overrules us and gives the devs whatever they want.
More specifically, they’re just directives to federal employees. It’s the equivalent of your boss telling you how to do your job.
Trump needs the precedent to pardon himself and his allies from all the state charges coming their way if this ever ends.
The thing is, he plays 2 different roles in the film, and Mr Dawes’s accent isn’t nearly as offensive.
I remember when the Texas Lone Star Rail project between Austin and San Antonio finally got “fully funded.” I was in college taking a transportation systems course, and one of our guest speakers was the director of the project.
I realized how doomed we were when I found out she was the only employee of the project and only worked 20 hours a week - almost all of which was speaking engagements.
It’s like ebay in 2003.
He also has a financial interest in other rich assholes being afraid.
He started a high-dollar personal security company for right-wing billionaires called Foundation Security.
Lots of jobs that need unions are jobs that people don’t want to be working in a few years, because they’re terrible jobs with minimal benefits and shit pay. Those people can’t see that the reason the job is so shitty is because there isn’t a union. There’s a good chance that they’d actually want to stay with the job once the union transforms the working conditions and compensation.
Lots of people would be satisfied with a career in a “lesser” job like retail if the job didn’t suck. There’s nothing wrong with being a cashier, cook, custodian, phone attendant, etc for your whole working life if that’s what you want to do, and we should compensate people in those jobs accordingly.
Yeah, but to them it’s super cheap to buy and arm enough of us for their protection.
If there’s any lesson to be taken from Trump’s history, it’s that he will eventually turn on you when you become a liability and you’ll ot only lose protection, but become a target.
Remember that in 2016 Comey was on his favorite-people list, and stayed there until he stopped being useful. His VP was a loyal, loved ally until he sent a mob after hislm. MTG was a favorite until just a few months ago, and over the course of a weekend he turned on her so hard she had to hire security and resign from the House.
I think Hegseth and Kennedy are the highest-profile stooges most-likely to be discarded soon.
Or if you speak Norwegian. They’re yelling spoilers the Americans can’t understand.
Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.
What we want is a solution for customers who don’t understand the benefit of DP and won’t buy an adapter when there’s already HDMI ports on both devices.
Yeah, but those are shots that happened to hit. They could’ve missed by a ton just as easily. It does have a longer range than a typical precision rifle, but that’s just because it’s a really big projectile with a fuckton of powder behind it.
It’s a 1-2 MOA rifle, whereas a precision rifle might be 1/4 MOA.
You also aren’t legally required to go down a waterslide.
Knowingly selling insurance then intentionally withholding care as the patients are entitled to as long as possible hoping they’ll gove up or die in the process so you can increase profits is absolutely worthy of depraved heart homicide.
And it’s not the same thing as reckless endangerment. Reckless endangerment leading to death is manslaughter. Depraved Indifference leading to death is murder.
I don’t expect you to keep replying because you know you’re wrong on this, and the more we argue the worse you look.
That’s literally not how depraved heart murder works.
The CEO of a Waterpark (schlitterbahn) was arrested for murder after a child died by decapitation on a slide because he’d paid off people who were hurt on it previously to keep quiet so they wouldn’t have to shut down the ride. He didn’t know for sure that particular child would die, or whether anyone would die at all. But he was so indifferent to the known danger that it counted as motive.
Johnson ordered his people to deny millions of medical procedures the patients were entitled to. He absolutely knew people would die, even if he didn’t know any specific person would.
Look up depraved heart murder.
It’s a real legal tool used by prosecutors all over the country. The idea is that if someone actively chooses to take actions so incredibly dangerous in pursuit of their own interests that it is likely to cause people to die, that indifference to human life can be treated as malice aforethought (intent to kill) and they can be charged with 2nd degree murder for any deaths resulting from thise actions. The classic example would be knowingly selling tainted food or medicine for profit.
And it’s not just a US law. China literally executed executives for signing off on the sale of tainted baby formula.
Brian Thompson intentionally ordered the increased rejection of pre-authorizations for covered procedures and medications in order to drive up profit, resulting in a great deal of injury and death.
Is random people shooting execs in the street my preferred choice for how society handles these issues? No. But when official justice is denied, the inevitable result is people deciding to act on it themselves.
Johnson is dead because he was shot, yes. But more than that, he’s dead because the justice system refuses to hold people like him accountable for their illegal actions.
Except Childs also doesn’t know shit about guns.
In the first book Reacher carries a Desert Eagle, and anyone who knows anything about guns knows the Desert Eagle is a range queen. They’re unreliable, eject shells into your face, not terribly accurate, have a tiny ammo capacity and don’t make a person any more dead than a 9mm.
Then in the second book he shits on Glocks for being unreliable, and describes the Barrett 50 cal as a sniper’s weapon of choice. The Barrett isn’t a sniper rifle - it’s an anri-materiel rifle made to break shit. The only reason it even exists is because the Army wanted foot soldiers to be able to use the 50 BMG round to take out enemy equipment without having to carry a 130-pound gun that had to be assembled to use.
Basically, he gets his gun knowledge from video games.
My home wifi is “Terok Nor”, and my mobile hotspot is “runabout”.