Wonder who bankrolled this poll.

Well that comment aged like milk.

Let hope this next one isn’t as close as ours was. I’d like to know that our rights are secure by something more than 9 votes in one riding.

They can’t see the van for the candy.

Our regional election’s up in the air as so many districts had a third party spoil it that the cruel aristocracy won. Time and time again, like some Stein nightmare made real.

Like:

• progressive 48%
• conservative 49%
• third party splitter 3%

Our popular vote is 48.52%, 48.51%, 2.87% .

In every case the no-chance green vote killed a majority. We’re going to end-up conservative, and led by a climate-change denying anti-vax Mr Burns.

Bot, #bothSides, right?

you’re all going to have to talk - and listen - to each other

We do not tolerate intolerance.

ran

run

How are the lawsuits against the church going?

ITT: American HR vs the world.

This is true.

Look, the moment you know you need a new job, you’re done at the current shop. So get looking.

I see that in the bad spots, though – people are looking but not landing a new post, so they cope by doing the minimums, peacing out on the dot and getting their sleep. They no longer care about the success of the company, and while that’s admirable, it’s a social issue to abandon the tribe and it can eat on people.

I’m so happy when they land a new post, happier still if I do before I just … stop going. And that’s what I do: I lose interest in going if I can’t find a new post within the year I usually allow (I’m picky).

This last move I told my boss he had a year. It was like 13 months.

I had a miserably toxic job, and, yeah, I know that pit of despair and what it does to our decisions. I opened the search to the world, but came up with a domestic job about 3000mi away.

I grabbed the go-bag and all but bugged the fuck out, quitting on a Thursday, boarding a plane on a Friday and starting my new job on the Monday. She sold the house, got the movers (fuck moving) and shepherded all our worldlies to the new place. She’s not military but she faked it really well.

This is why I have two jobs. The second one fills with work until every 5 years it seems I abandon the day job and bulk up on the second job to make ends meet and burn its queue down.

It’s not intentional but it works out that way.

No. I haven’t doubled my salary, but I’m on the wrong side of 40 where I’m happy to be employed in this toxically ageist field.

My wife has done super well and sometimes beats my day job pay cheque, so we finally have that buffer too. And she doesn’t quit her jobs as she’s a super team player and instead gets promoted to fix problems. (Kinda got a crush on her for being so awesome)

Downvotes because I’ve seen someone gifted?

I kinda wonder where he’s going now that VMware is being squeezed dry. He’ll pop out and get snapped up by someone else, but there aren’t many doing actual kernel dev for money anymore.

Too bad about its failure as an init system, though.

Let’s be fair.

They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.

They didn’t sign up to get irradiated by some shady shit that the FCC is all “no. Fuck off” about when asked about safety concerns.

So let’s render unto Caesar on this one. The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong) are huge dinks for knowingly subjecting their people to rads way in excess of what’s cool – worse if you look at the TSA people and realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.

And Logan intl are dinks, just like whatever union the TSA people are in, for not supporting and protecting the staff. That lawsuit is gonna be like Erin Brockovich II .

And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will. The people who can’t dead-sea-effect out of there are gonna be absolutely unemployable elsewhere. And that fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about the mental capacity and happiness of TSA agents and their international emulants.

She’s had a lot of opportunities to turn things around with the Arab community, and

You DO realize that she can’t campaign on that, right?

I know it’s a little subtle for an American political scene that no longer uses such terms as waffler and carpet-bagger, but these used to be campaign-wrecking slurs.

She’d be labeled a waffler in seconds. And not only would we like her to change her position, but so would the gqp for the political damage. She can’t change until she’s achieved a 4-year contract.

No worries. 50-50 chance the anti-science guy is gonna get in and we don’t have to worry about funding for this any more.

There’ll BE none.

Public yes, but not nationalized. User fees and ends-means and run-to-fail has severely damaged the critical resource that is our bc highways ferry system, and removed any reliability from the transit systems which are our main evacuation system in emergencies. These are services classed as Emergency and Essential that can barely provide minimal service in optimal circumstances, let alone under stress.

We have failing boats, fairweather trains, ditched buses, etc. Why? Costs of doing it right is not borne out by user fees and gov proceeds are insufficient. A guy in castlegar shipping to Vancouver pays nothing extra for road access aside from fuel costs; shipping it further to Nanaimo or Victoria means massive cost increases hat he’d rather not pay in taxes OR user fees. So while he enjoys access to roads maintained by Transpo, he sneers at doing his part to maintain a ferry system and will consistently vote against snart money and seamless service because some fucking suit from Edmonton told him user-pay is better for ferries because then it’s the others’ problem. Screw those guys.

Buses. Paid mainly by the gov but with user fees to ensure the poorest can’t use them. And still the buses are in the ditch at the Markham turnoff in the winter for lack of winter tires. User fees do not support a decent tire budget, let alone an actual biz continuity plan.

There’s Government Service, and there’s Public Service Badly Managed for Profit. Hint: if our ferry system tries to bill itself as a tour operator, it’s in the latter group.

They want transit to support itself through user fees and local taxes. That’s about 90% taxes and 10% user fees.

Because user fees worked so well for them during COVID. Losing 10% meant service reduction and less user fees and then more service reduction, etc.