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Be_Neato 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's all good -- until a month before your options vest.

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Be_Neato 7 points ago +7 / -0

Hong Kong is different. Xi wants to integrate it into China. It cannot come into China as a wealthy province with dual loyalty to Britain. It must be impoverished, crushed, and chopped up. It must come into China as a beggar. I am only surprised that it has not yet been split up.

You need to do what it takes to get out.

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Be_Neato 3 points ago +3 / -0

To add to the previous, employers frequently forbid discussion of salaries. Each employee is convinced by their boss that they are uniquely overpaid and that talking about it would result in lowering their salary to the mean. Such forbidding is legally unenforceable, but people can be bullied into all kinds of things.

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Be_Neato 15 points ago +15 / -0

Russiagate.

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Be_Neato 1 point ago +1 / -0

Many of those seem like bird flu death or preventive culls. So as bad as they are, they are still only one thing.

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Be_Neato 1 point ago +2 / -1

Wait ... what? Is the wife wearing the dead girl's shoes?

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Be_Neato 5 points ago +5 / -0

One reason is that it's a way to mark slaves. Simple, permanent, mostly non-fatal.

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Be_Neato 2 points ago +2 / -0

There are alternate interpretations. https://www.patreon.com/posts/63491893

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Be_Neato 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nigeria and Niger are different countries. Nigeria exports crude oil, Niger exports yellowcake. Boko Haram is more of a problem for Nigeria. There is spillover, but Niger has bigger problems.

by pkvi
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Be_Neato 2 points ago +2 / -0

"We are a family that believes in science. We believe in masks, and we believe in vaccines"

From CNN:(https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/illinois-family-vaccine-obit/index.html)

From the original obit: (https://www.sj-r.com/obituaries/i0039023)