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It's certainly getting crotch stomped by the GOP just a titch, at the moment, if nothing else. Depends on how badly tattered it is in 2-4 years, and whether/how much of the rest of the world can be convinced this shit was a fluke at that point. Hopefully most of us will still be around to find out, ha.

Little checking (momentary curiosity is a hell of a thing when you have internet) suggests he was actually off the board (oct. 2006) before the company in question (Lundin Petroleum) set to work in Ethiopia (Nov '06). Does seem some sketchy stuff scattered around with the guy, and the company may have done some shitty stuff earlier, but that particular issue is one it doesn't look like he had much (or any, considering the nature of what being a board member involves) interaction with. Other stuff of questionable nature you might could peg the guy with, though.

Ah, well... no, the US gets around that by just kinda' casually shitting on the 4th. Back-scratch civil spying is part of that, but I'd probably be pretty comfortable wagering it's not a majority of it.

EDIT: In case it isn't obvious, yes in the US you should still tip.  Not tipping isn't going to force the employer to give a living wage, it just screws your server if you don't.

Nothing's going to force an employer to give a living wage, heh, save absolutely everyone refusing to work for them. Still, far as I'm aware most places in the states actually are legally mandated to meet minimum wage if tips fall below it, for positions that have that sort of payment system. May be caveated to full time only, can't quite remember. Still definitely not talking living wage in a lot of areas, but... still.

'Course, all that said, the difference between "legally mandated" and "worker living off tips but otherwise minimum wage that's able to get someone to enforce that mandate" can be... wide. Particularly considering "And no longer has a job" is fairly likely to get appended to the latter if it's an actual possibility.

Yeaaahh, first poll I noticed on the paris agreement had support for at 60ish percent and against like... sub thirty. Was from last year, if it's not already slipped my mind. Whatever else this may have been, what the american population wants it was not.

Entirely too lazy to dig stuff up, but so far as I'm aware the initial stuff and pull-out writing bitsies has a period the process of withdrawl proceeds over, which'd finish up around 2020, which is where that's coming from.

In other news, apparently trump/the WH has now stated they're considering shutting relations to cuba back down. Chalk another one up for being able to predict this shit by going, "Did obama do it? Okay, whatever reverses that and then does the opposite."

E: Also neat, USCA. Seem's trump's shit has caused the governers of a few states to come together and announce the formation of a coalition type thing intended to uphold the Paris agreement and aggressively pursue mitigation of climate change related issues. Announcement looks to have been made by the cali, new york, and washington governors.

Nah, you've more or less got it. We bred up a lot of different breeds but we kinda' didn't actually know what the hell we were doing, and doing it on a time scale that makes evolutionary processes basically sit in a corner and cry, with the tears spreading across the floor the results. Unfortunately, and from what we know now completely unsurprisingly, for a lot of the poor mutts it shows pretty hard.

One reached it by evolution, the other by inbreeding, basically, far as I'm aware. Turns out slipshod genetic engineering via relatively short-term eugenics has consequences unforseen, at times :V

You probably could have a healthy canine species with a flat nose, it's just the ones we have weren't exactly implemented well.