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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 12:33:15 GMT -5
Hannity says on his radio show to contact the hold out republicans, but don't be like yelling and screaming liberals, be respectful and ask them pretty please to help open the Peoples House again.
Yeah sure, that is why Hannity is handing out their phone numbers, in the name of decorum on behalf of Jim 'I see nuthin' Jordan.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 12:37:59 GMT -5
Old enough to remember the gopers squealing denial at Biden’s sotu speech when he accused them of wanting to cut the programs. The real drivers of debt that is paid for by taxes? Unlike the not paid for tax cuts and military spending and give away to massively profitable corporations like oil and gas? Anyways.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 13:03:33 GMT -5
Bibi says to Biden
Fucking sociopathic, cowardly little weak shit. First he beats his chest about how they have the right to retaliate, then he bombs everyone without mercy and now the sniveling little cowardly shit pretend that he is without fault.
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 18, 2023 13:03:55 GMT -5
BBC consulted some experts www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061A few quick snippets: The crater actually is extremely convincing to me 'cause Israel is not wrong on that - that is not a 500lb bomb crater. Hitting the courtyard wouldn't be a logical Israeli target so it's a missed shot either way. Propellent being the primary driver explains the explosion size discrepancy and also is more likely for a missile launched really close rather than one ending its planned flight. This feels more and more like this was a Hamas misfire.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 13:19:32 GMT -5
Old enough to remember the gopers squealing denial at Biden’s sotu speech when he accused them of wanting to cut the programs. The real drivers of debt that is paid for by taxes? Unlike the not paid for tax cuts and military spending and give away to massively profitable corporations like oil and gas? Anyways. They just want the funds for tax breaks for rich people. Every time it a Democrat has got the deficit going down the gopers have passed massive tax breaks for corporations and people making millions a year blowing another hole in the budget leading to more debt.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 13:21:02 GMT -5
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 13:22:58 GMT -5
It is ironic to me that the billionaire says that the idea of a Palestine writes festival months ago that had nothing to do with the terror attack, and when the students express their free speech, it is a drift away from freedom of thought. So these billionaires will not donate any more money until someone shuts up those students.
That is some dangerous shit right there.
Maybe this should be cancelled too then
We do not want to spread the wrong kind of free speech right?
This is the fucking absurdity you can expect when we dependent on the rich to be the vanguards of what they find to be the appropriate free speech.
I'm fine with both. I don't care about either. Not because I don't find cultural expression important, but I already know about the Holocaust and the generational trauma from it, and out of it came the Zionist movement and the excuse of what is now happening in Israel and the occupied territories. And while I wouldn't recommend reading Mein Kampf, not because I'm afraid it'll convince me to conquer the world for lebens Raum and racial purity, it is boorish full of BS. It is when you're afraid that your mind might be poisoned by stuff that you start to excuse anti free speech shit in the name of 'the children'. Expression of freedom is the premier human defining feature.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 13:30:17 GMT -5
If Jim was smart he would bow out now.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 13:33:44 GMT -5
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 13:39:01 GMT -5
Time for company meeting - which means people on cameras and mics when they shouldn't. And a new format. Leadership meeting in a big rented room with other employees and the audio and camera quality is so poor that the video feed keep pausing over and over and and the audio sound at times like it is run through a tunnel.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:03:54 GMT -5
LOL, our CEO is talking and someone is shouting to kids or something over the mic connecting via Teams...awesome
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 18, 2023 14:04:07 GMT -5
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:07:49 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:09:04 GMT -5
I'm sure he'll refuse to own it. Meanwhile other GOP house members are saying that they're fed up with thousands of calls with people screaming at them. All liberals I'm sure.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:19:38 GMT -5
I'm sure it doesn't come as a consolation that when someone asks if people are leaving because of low compensation, what will leadership do, and our HR says - we have a lot more applicants now then ever before.
I mean I have nothing to say about this, but when you address peoples concern about people leaving with more people are applying to open positions, you are sorta saying that outsider perception is that we're awesome but inside there is grumbling.
Personally I think it is the fact that we never really saw that many salary increases during the COVID years, for many reasons, and then we hear about how the company is doing really good, while we're all hurting from increase in inflation. Again, I am not complaining, but we all chipped in by accepting that we were not going to get a salary increase in a crisis situation, so now when they are celebrating higher then expected profits, there is a certain expectations for people that are highly trained engineers.
Sometime I think corporate leadership doesn't entirely understand where people are coming from. Like in my wife's case, where they keep bragging about how they're now a billion dollar bank and breaking records, but gave them a 'according to other banks, you are being paid above the average of your roll'.
This isn't as bad and I find that our leadership is pretty upfront, but it is a problem with corporate leadership in this and many other countries.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 14:21:14 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds. Wait, Biden announced in Israel that aid would flow into Gaza through Egypt and promised consequences if Hamas interrupted it.
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Post by foggyisback on Oct 18, 2023 14:22:54 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds. Sho'aint.
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 18, 2023 14:24:18 GMT -5
I think it is worth remembering McCarthy's running holdout total from vote to vote:
1: 19 2: 19 3: 20 4: 20 5: 20 6: 20 7: 20 8: 20 9: 20 10: 20 11: 20 12: 7 13: 6 14: 4 15: 0 (Note: the holdouts changed their vote to "Present" rather than for McCarthy)
My point being: Jordan losing 2, while funny, is more consistent with the one person who switched on McCarthy's 3rd vote than evidence that he's bleeding support. It means that 2 people thought Jordan's position was better than it was and once they have a proper understanding, they felt more secure in where their hearts originally were. That said, if Jordan's support continues to bleed, then it's more likely to snowball.
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 18, 2023 14:28:01 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds. It might not have been an ideal resolution when Biden is in meetings with Nety
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 18, 2023 14:32:43 GMT -5
Time for company meeting - which means people on cameras and mics when they shouldn't. And a new format. Leadership meeting in a big rented room with other employees and the audio and camera quality is so poor that the video feed keep pausing over and over and and the audio sound at times like it is run through a tunnel. Zoom has all of that shit figured out..... Well, except the bad feed and mic but that's the responsibility of whoever is doing the presentation to deal with on their machine....
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:36:23 GMT -5
One thing that our company is doing on a global level, is addressing the real threat of climate change on a technological level. That is hardware and software that helps companies to proactively deal with certain things like security and also sustainability. Meaning we monitor and use AI to help predict and score all the different criteria.
So someone asked if we should focus on questionable things like that, so I assume it is someone who question our company wide focus on this future issue. Here's the thing; we are simply providing a platform combining efforts that already exist or are emerging, from CISCO hardware to different software from a diverse amount of companies.
This is already a push in the industry, partly because global companies are less partisan and they are already coming across customers that are asking for these services. For many reasons - such as compliance in different markets, or just moving in that direction because they see a benefit for it. Both to service their customers or they see that is an emerging feature that has a cost benefit.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:38:40 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds. Wait, Biden announced in Israel that aid would flow into Gaza through Egypt and promised consequences if Hamas interrupted it. What if IDF interrupts? I mean they always seems to put the onus on Hamas, but so far IDF has been the one bombing convoys and even firing at the border region wounding Egyptians. USA need to stop excusing this shit as a Hamas issue alone, because that simply gives IDF an out if anything happens.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:40:45 GMT -5
Time for company meeting - which means people on cameras and mics when they shouldn't. And a new format. Leadership meeting in a big rented room with other employees and the audio and camera quality is so poor that the video feed keep pausing over and over and and the audio sound at times like it is run through a tunnel. Zoom has all of that shit figured out..... Well, except the bad feed and mic but that's the responsibility of whoever is doing the presentation to deal with on their machine.... Webex used to work like that, but we're moving away from Webex. The admin could mute all mics and cameras more easily. I can only guess that they're leveraging existing infrastructure since we have moved away from Webex features towards MS Teams. I'm not a fan of it. Some of our customers use Zoom but it doesn't always work well with outlook (like warning you of upcoming meetings and helping you join a meeting better).
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 14:43:27 GMT -5
That honestly don't make sense. US vetoed because they want more time for diplomacy to work. Flattening Gaza isn't going to improve the odds. It might not have been an ideal resolution when Biden is in meetings with Nety Well, we have already taken their side and decided to put everything on Hamas. Which is just another step in excusing IDF war crimes. This will go like all other conflicts. Massive difference in death toll and then the idiotic 'we won't help unless Palestinian kicks out Hamas' nonsense. Like the Comedian asked Pierce Morgan. Lets take Hamas out of the picture. We already have this with the West Bank, so why are Palestinians still dying? There is no Hamas there. It is a good question.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 14:44:55 GMT -5
Wait, Biden announced in Israel that aid would flow into Gaza through Egypt and promised consequences if Hamas interrupted it. What if IDF interrupts? I mean they always seems to put the onus on Hamas, but so far IDF has been the one bombing convoys and even firing at the border region wounding Egyptians. USA need to stop excusing this shit as a Hamas issue alone, because that simply gives IDF an out if anything happens. When he was giving the statement my impression was that it was with Israel’s approval.
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Post by LA_Randy on Oct 18, 2023 14:53:28 GMT -5
I think it is worth remembering McCarthy's running holdout total from vote to vote: 1: 19 2: 19 3: 20 4: 20 5: 20 6: 20 7: 20 8: 20 9: 20 10: 20 11: 20 12: 7 13: 6 14: 4 15: 0 (Note: the holdouts changed their vote to "Present" rather than for McCarthy) My point being: Jordan losing 2, while funny, is more consistent with the one person who switched on McCarthy's 3rd vote than evidence that he's bleeding support. It means that 2 people thought Jordan's position was better than it was and once they have a proper understanding, they felt more secure in where their hearts originally were. That said, if Jordan's support continues to bleed, then it's more likely to snowball. Does that hold if 2 switched from No to yea and 4 switched from yea to no? Which is what happened.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 15:05:13 GMT -5
What if IDF interrupts? I mean they always seems to put the onus on Hamas, but so far IDF has been the one bombing convoys and even firing at the border region wounding Egyptians. USA need to stop excusing this shit as a Hamas issue alone, because that simply gives IDF an out if anything happens. When he was giving the statement my impression was that it was with Israel’s approval. I'm sure it was. We will most likely not say anything when northern Gaza will be left in ruins and most Palestinians flee south and then Israel will take over more land in order to create a 'buffer' while giving it to settlers. That has been the rodeo since 1948 and they'll keep hammering the 'worst day since the holocaust' tambourine as the justification why any opposition to this and their apartheid regime is simply antisemitism. We can pile the dead a mile high and we're already at the stage where some of this is inevitable. BTW, I have no stake in this. I don't know anyone that lives in Israel, either Israelis or Palestinian. I used to know a guy back when I was a teen that fled the civil war in Lebanon and I got to hear my dad talk shit about them with the justification that his work buddy had served as a UN soldier in Kongo. I mean they're all the same right? Dirty post colonial people trying to figure out what is next - of course they're just animals compared to us wise Europeans leaving Africa and Middle East in disarray. I just can't accept people who claim they are better then everyone else because they're a 'democracy' and then excuse their murder as righteous. See also South Africa. I've heard people talk about 'where Palestinians' Mandela? People forget that once South Africans started murdering them when they peacefully protested, ANC started fighting back. And when he was imprisoned and asked time and time against to disavow armed struggle, he refused. Our vision of Mandela is that of this wise old peaceful man, but they won their freedom through struggle. Now adays no one questions their right to fight back, but back in the day he was considered a terrorist until the opinion among regular folks changed. When they saw what South Africa was all about. And while we have modern ways to communicate today, our Media by large refuse to show the worst of the continued atrocities against Palestinian civilian. I mean the whole 'a global day of Jihad' flew right around the world, but the end of it saw a 6 year old stabbed to death as a result of these lies. So, as a humanist I don't see the struggle of Palestinians any different than the Yugurs in China, Muslims in Burma, Africans in South America (then, eventho shit aint good yet since white people own most of the land still creating a lot of issues there). Anyways, enough ranting. Hopefully we're about to hit the home stretch soon and maybe, just maybe, someone can convince Bibi that enough is enough. They got their 1 ton of flesh, so maybe IDF will pull back from the brink of catastrophe. One can only hope.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 15:06:30 GMT -5
I think it is worth remembering McCarthy's running holdout total from vote to vote: 1: 19 2: 19 3: 20 4: 20 5: 20 6: 20 7: 20 8: 20 9: 20 10: 20 11: 20 12: 7 13: 6 14: 4 15: 0 (Note: the holdouts changed their vote to "Present" rather than for McCarthy) My point being: Jordan losing 2, while funny, is more consistent with the one person who switched on McCarthy's 3rd vote than evidence that he's bleeding support. It means that 2 people thought Jordan's position was better than it was and once they have a proper understanding, they felt more secure in where their hearts originally were. That said, if Jordan's support continues to bleed, then it's more likely to snowball. Does that hold if 2 switched from No to yea and 4 switched from yea to no? Which is what happened. The idiotic thing is that this will probably lead to similar rules that doomed McCarthy. I can't think for a minute that Jim can win without major concessions.
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 18, 2023 15:12:48 GMT -5
I think it is worth remembering McCarthy's running holdout total from vote to vote: 1: 19 2: 19 3: 20 4: 20 5: 20 6: 20 7: 20 8: 20 9: 20 10: 20 11: 20 12: 7 13: 6 14: 4 15: 0 (Note: the holdouts changed their vote to "Present" rather than for McCarthy) My point being: Jordan losing 2, while funny, is more consistent with the one person who switched on McCarthy's 3rd vote than evidence that he's bleeding support. It means that 2 people thought Jordan's position was better than it was and once they have a proper understanding, they felt more secure in where their hearts originally were. That said, if Jordan's support continues to bleed, then it's more likely to snowball. Does that hold if 2 switched from No to yea and 4 switched from yea to no? Which is what happened. Honestly, that puts Jordan ahead of McCarthy in my mind because McCarthy wasn't able to get any traction until the 12th vote because McCarthy was fucking terrible at this shit.
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Post by mrobvious on Oct 18, 2023 15:15:43 GMT -5
BTW, from today, as stated by the Israeli foreign minister.
So, as suspected. This was always a genocidal landgrab under the guise of 'the worst day since the holocaust' with the endorsement of all cowardly world leaders. The whole leave the north for your safety is just the beginning of the expressed landgrab. The rest will follow when IDF is done leveling most infrastructure and move their army in. Then Gaza will most likely be split in two, with Israel taking the northern part with most of the existing infrastructure for themselves and forcing the rest, millions of people into living in continued destitute in the south.
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