I actually just learned at work the other day that everyone who is a first responder as part of their job and therefore may be exposed to blood borne pathogens is required by OSHA to be offered a full Hepatitis B vaccination paid for entirely by the employer.
These officers claiming they don’t want to risk Hep B either declined a free vaccination and therefore created that risk for themselves or they’re fully vaccinated and just making excuses to not do their job
Illinois is funky because about a quarter of the state (by land area) is heavily influenced by Chicago but the rest of the state is just generic rural Midwest dotted with small railroad towns and farming communities
Run the most conservative candidates possible so the party can surprised Pikachu when Trump accidentally pushes decent policy through shear contrarianism. Got it
I love how my brain immediately pictured a jewel encrusted royal chastity belt despite nothing in your comment saying anything to suggest that
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
I’ve never had the fun of interviewing or sifting through applicants and I don’t think I’d miss it if I never get to do so
The fuck are you even trying to argue?
I’ve told you where I’m at in my career, that I currently have work that I enjoy to keep the bills paid but it’s not full time employment so I’ve been job hunting trying to secure full time employment, and you’re here telling me I need to drop my entire career and go work in a factory or go into construction or whatever and start my career over at square one for what’s probably a temporary market condition?
I literally shared my experience job hunting as an anecdote of how horrible the job market is right now. I’m not asking for advise in how to shift into a career in welding. I’m just saying it’s a really tough job market!
So I’m currently working as an independent contractor for a previous employer, and I’m around mid-career in IT so right now I can be picky. I’ve been applying to everything that’s around my current skill and experience level and not an MSP so there’s about 5-10 listings per week for me to apply to, but I’m also competing with 100+ applicants on every application
I have one friend who’s around entry-mid level IT career and another who’s just trying to land some kind of entry level office role having several years of retail experience and some office experience. None of us have the skills or experience to make blue collar work even make sense to persue (and my experience trying to repair some plumbing at home suggests I should never do plumbing. Heck the shelf I put up 6 months ago is already falling down so any kind of power tool work is clearly not my forte)
Dude. I and a couple of friends have been job hunting and actively applying for tons of positions for months and none of us have been able to land jack squat. This job market is a rolling disaster
Dude so I live in Wisconsin which has a capital building that looks identical to the one in DC save for having 2 more wings than DC’s. There’s been news articles that say “such and such happened at the capital” never specify which capital, and have an ambiguous photo that could be either DC or Madison, and I just have to shrug and go “I guess I’ll learn later if that’s local news or national”
I love the photos of flooded cars with “fuck you Greta” bumper stickers
Funny how people did the exact same thing regarding the concentration camps the Nazis operated. People chose not to believe the reports they heard from the inside regarding the horrendous and deadly conditions. They “waited for the facts” which of course did not come out until after several years of grinding gruelling war, and well after the final solution began and the gas chambers were operational.
There’s evidence enough as it all stands right now to know that Greta is being tortured and abused, and her human rights violated, as we know so many Palestinians have already been for decades and continue to be every day. Hell, the Israeli officials are constantly publicly bragging about the violations of human rights and international law they’re committing, so maybe even listen to them when they do so?
Yeah how dare she bring food, water and medical supplies to an ongoing famine in a city that has been continuously bombarded with missiles for multiple years straight! Shows her for trying to do some good in this world!
Oh if you think that story is wild the resolution is even crazier. After the panick following seeing boobs appear on the TV at the school board meeting and flinging wild accusations all the way up and down the chain of command it turns out what had happened was this Samsung smart TV was connected to the Internet, and when powered on automatically started playing one of the free movie channels operated by Samsung, and the movie it happened to play was the Jackie Chan movie The Protector (1985) which the US release contains at least one scene with nudity in it
So basically a lack of technical competence to spot that the TV was turned on and started auto playing a movie combined with a lack of media literacy to recognize an obvious movie scene plus a puritanical fear of pornography created a national scandal over what amounted to someone didn’t change the TV channel and some boobs appeared for a moment on the meeting room TV during a private meeting exclusively attended by adults. Seriously nobody could just go “hold on can we turn that off, okay now continue…” like professionals?
My gut feeling is just that discourse shifted rapidly regarding left leaning gun owners over the last year or so, and I can’t help but suspect it’s not partially driven by the gun industry trying to get more people interested in buying guns.
But yeah I’ve known about several left-leaning organizations directly supporting gun ownership for quite a while now
I’m just jaded and struggle to not assume that everything online telling people to buy something isn’t a marketing campaign of some sort
I’m not convinced the sudden surge in posts from otherwise left-leaning people encourage gun ownership aren’t at least partially perpetuated by an astroturfing campaign on behalf of gun manufacturers
The expanded federal child tax credit during the pandemic also greatly reduced poverty, and that was just an extra couple thousand a year (paid monthly)
Jesus Christ. Wikipedia has his last words. They’re spoilered in case you don’t want your day ruined
Last Words
According to body cam audio, these were McClain’s last words as he was restrained by police officers: "I can’t breathe. I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat! But I don’t judge people, I don’t judge people who do eat meat. Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better. I will do it. I will do anything. Sacrifice my identity, I’ll do it. You all are phenomenal. You are beautiful and I love you. Try to forgive me. I’m a mood Gemini. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Ow, that really hurt! You are all very strong. Teamwork makes the dream work. [after vomiting] Oh, I’m sorry, I wasn’t trying to do that. I just can’t breathe correctly.