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I'll drop a few games! Later. When I'm at home. I have a bunch of humble keys.

Five is not only an odd number, but also a prime! It cannot divide, only multiply what you already have.

Was watching videos of a liberal comedian on YT, and was faced with a 5 and a half minute long ad (that I could’ve skipped but I wanted to see) of some nutter saying there’s a war on saying the word Christmas by the left in Europe and America when referring to vacations and parties and he’s a Jew and he doesn’t mind being wished a merry Christmas and these mad people on the left are eventually going to ban Christmas as a holiday and all this because of inclusivity but yeah mate they’re not being inclusive all those Christmas songs were written by Jews and he feels like if someone wishes him happy holidays and he responds with merry Christmas he’s created tension, in fact he feels like he’s being excluded from something he doesn’t actually celebrate because it’s important to how country.

Like... he spent literally the entire video talking very calmly about that as though he was being reasonable. I... guess this is a symptom of the divisiveness in America or... something? Are there really enough people who believe that the left is trying to ban Christmas that this guy (who is, according to a quick Google, some type of radio host) feels he can increase his listenership by spouting this nonsense?

I mean it’s a wtf that it exists, and a wtf that it played before watching a very liberal comedian’s video.

This is like 100 posts back but like. I keep getting the same ads. They're from a group called PragerU. They had their monetization on YT taken away a while ago, along with their ad buying privileges. But I guess they got them back because I keep getting them and getting mildly angry when I see them because they're trying to create a culture of divisiveness.

They campaign against "inclusiveness" and talk like it's a doublespeak term to exclude white christian men from things.

And the war on Christmas thing is super extra dumb because he's arguing Christmas is an AMERICAN holiday now and should be celebrated by RED BLOODED PATRIOTS and that we shouldn't have a secular society and that's super bad but a secular government is totes cool guys I swear!

Ugh. I just needed to rant a little. PragerU is hot garbage.

I've got little aerobics dumbells now. Probably going to start doing that reverse dumbell fly for my back muscles (low weight, high rep) since I work a deskjob to help with my hunch and neck posture.

Also going to start crunches/flutter kicks/bicycle kicks and hopefully some pushups soon. I plan on adopting the couch to 5k program in the spring when it starts to get dry again and I'd like to be in some form of shape before then.

I suppose we are too far into this relic vision to turn back now. Let's go.

Well. No sense in tarrying. I'll have to move up anyway and I might as well do it with everyone having my back.

GO GO GO NO STOP MAKE IT SAFE

Character Sheet

1) Work gets new internet backup
2) Need to test it after everyone has left
3) Call the company that does it, tell them to shut off regular internet for test
4) Was calling them on my desk phone. Desk phone needs internet to work.
5) beep beep beep beep

Definitely a facepalm, but this is the DF Discussion board my friend.

Quote from: Madman198237 on November 27, 2018, 04:16:50 pm

Quote from: RedKing on November 27, 2018, 04:09:19 pm

So...he's going to protect American workers by hurting GM so that it has to lay off more American workers. Seems legit.

I don't like Trump, but I think you're just being unfair here. What alternative(s) do you propose? Penalizing the company specifically and obviously for removing jobs in America is a good way to encourage companies to, you know, hold jobs in America. It's not the best method, but it's one that is simple and possible to implement...or at least threaten to implement...before the plants actually close.

If they lay off more American workers, well, what do you propose? If they do that then there's no point subsidizing them if they're not actually creating jobs here. Well, even LESS of a point subsidizing them than there is now that they're closing down a bunch of plants here.

How about making the subsidies based on the workforce? Like, "For every US worker you employ, you get a shiny new nickel" (or whatever...I'm throwing out random numbers here). Then it's just a matter of adjusting the subsidy amount to make it economically feasible for GM to employ US workers instead of moving those jobs offshore. Which is about the only reason ANY industry should be getting taxpayer subsidies in the first goddamn place, IMHO.

Trump is using the subsidies as a blunt object rather than a carrot-and-stick. He's using tariffs the same way. Hell, he uses Twitter the same way.
All he knows is stick.

Meanwhile, Mississippi reminded everyone why it's last in the country in most metrics of being a good place to live.

Thank God for Mississippi, otherwise my great state of Idaho would be.