Lol, I just saw that and thought the same thing!
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Trump inauguration, because they all gave him ~~inauguration money~~ bribes and because they want the new administration to side with them.
Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are supposed to be sitting together on Monday, that'd be nice ...
There were also the Olympics, and the French put in a lot of effort to make Paris as appealing as possible.
... Who's paying for the electricity to run the crypto miner?
Apparently the [?head ?CEO ?Mayor McCheese] of TikTok is attending the inauguration. Which means that they've already bribed Trump and the ban will be reversed pretty much immediately.
Years ago, I worked on a project that was being mismanaged. The upper managers kept meeting with clients and promising them difficult things on impossible schedules. At one point, they told us it was crunch time and we really need to meet a deadline, so we all worked really hard to meet that deadline - and when we mostly met the deadline, they put in a new one, and one after that. They were absolutely determined to get every single bit out of us.
We were professionals (in a slightly older time), so we went along with it - some of us working 70 hour weeks - for several months, but we were all getting really exhausted and too many things weren't getting done in our personal lives. Unspoken, we all started pulling back on our hours.
Management noticed and freaked out. They sent out a directive that everyone was mandated to work 50 hours a week until "this next deadline" was met, but we all knew they'd just push us again. So everyone worked at a regular and not frenetic place, and walked out after exactly 50 hours every week. Matters were not helped when the upcoming Christmas bonuses were announced. All us worker-bees got no bonuses and a 50-cent raise. Middle management got five-figure bonuses; they never told us what the big bosses were getting, but we knew it was more than we ever would. Unspoken, we kept walking out at exactly 50 hours every week.
They held an All Hands Meeting in mid-November and chastised us for not working more than 50 hours a week. One of our harder workers stood up and said: "I live an hour from here, so I'm commuting a minimum of 2 hours every day. I'm dropping off and picking up my kids from pre- and post-school daycare, I'm trying to write Christmas cards to send out, and clean the house and organize Christmas decorations to be put up, buying and wrapping Christmas presents for my kids, organizing Thanksgiving, not to mention just all the ordinary stuff in life. I'm finding it really hard to find enough time just to give you guys 50 hours, I can't do more."
And the head of the division looked at her and sneered (and this is pretty close to an exact quote, I remember it that clearly): "If it wasn't Thanksgiving and Christmas, it'd be because it was Easter, or it was summer and nice out. You would always find some excuse."
The room went dead quiet. I personally don't remember anything after he said that, I was so angry! And we all walked out of that room and started looking for jobs. Two people left the following Monday, three on Thanksgiving week, one the next week, five the week after that. Lower and mid-management had to have meetings every Monday to re-arrange the people who still remained on the project, only for more people to turn around and leave. And the thing was - this was November and December, a time when everything slows down and most companies weren't really hiring, yet every single person walking out had a job lined up.
January hit and companies came out of winter hibernation, and it was a blood-bath. 25 people quit the second week of January, another 25 the following week. Out of a starting team of about 450 people, they'd lost probably 300 people by the time I left in mid-February, and everyone left was also just serving their time until they walked out too.
But one of the things I remember so clearly from that time was the sense of time being suspended over the holidays, as we all waited for companies to get back to normal after the holidays, waiting until January before the exodus began in earnest. And I can't help but think that may have happened here, that there was a major internal turning point, and while some people got out early, the rest are just counting time until they walk out the door. I hope they are.
Also, fuck CSC.
Unfortunately, fire tornadoes are a thing :(
Most of my cars, I've bought from friends, co-workers, or relatives, or people that they knew. We agree on blue book value, I get it checked by my mechanic, occasionally I've had to get a bank loan, and it's done.
Part of it's starting to keep your ears open when you think your current car may be getting toward the end of it's life, so that you can take advantage of anything you might hear about. Part of it's asking people if they've heard of anyone who might be getting rid of their old car. And part of it is people remembering that you've asked about these things before so that, when they or someone they know start thinking about getting rid of their old car, you're one of the people they think of who might be willing to take it without hassle, at a fair price.
Palestinians in Gaza rejoice in streets In Tel Aviv, hostage families express joy Israeli PM says some items unresolved
And he's already prepping his get-out clause, whatever "issues" he decides are "unresolved".
tl;dr: he owns 3 golf clubs in New Jersey. For reasons that I don't remember, the one near Philly gets to retain it's liquor license. The other two have only been given short-term provisional permits since his conviction last summer. The New Jersey attorney general is now deciding whether those licenses should be revoked.
Interesting bit at the end, in that he "cannot own a firearm and will have to give a DNA sample".
Well, they've ~~bribed Trump~~ help pay for the inauguration and are planning on attending, so it's all good, innit?