Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Is Kanye *really* running for president, or...
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Kanye West in Midst of Bipolar Episode, Family Concerned
Kanye West is currently off his medication and in the throes of a serious bipolar episode, according to sources close to him.
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figmentPez
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So, the push to fully reopen schools is a blatant attempt to end the public school system in America, right? There's not some other reason to push this hard for such a bad idea, is there?
To make money for
I honestly believe it's really a misguided attempt to show everybody, "See? Normal! Everything is back to normal now, and the seriousness of the epidemic was overblown just like we told you it was."
And then they're going to cut power to the ghost containment unit, and all Hell is going to break loose.
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Yeah parents are going to be incredibly pissed if schools don't open up, and when that is contrasted with every other country having school because they handled the virus competently, it'll be a wave of anti-trump sentiment. Since they can't do any plan that involves more than a second of foresight, they want to just open up the schools and cross their fingers.
I've already seen a couple of companies requiring "proof of child care" to parents that want to work from home. As in, ether that someone else is there taking care of them, that they are attending school, or that they are otherwise out of the house such as in a daycare. Because they want a total monopoly on your time and attention. I mean... it's bad enough that companies are essentially leasing your home's workspace for free, but now they seem to feel they get to dictate your living situation as well. It's pretty fucked up.
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That's so shitty. A third of my current dev team are parents to young children (newborns to teenagers and everything in-between), and you best believe that their children are part of our routines. They work harder because it's OK that they have to drive the 7 year old to the dentist and then drop them off at dance practice. My team lead, who is several times more productive than me, regularly gets interrupted mid-sentence by one of his daughters begging for a tablet, or minecraft time. We crack jokes and carry on, not demand ~childcare arrangements~.
Lord knows I've been spoiled by my career in remote-first jobs, but fucking hell it's not that hard. Caring more about work output, rather than appearances, is best.
My work asked for silly kid and pet pictures and our quarantine fashion. I didn’t share pictures but admitted to only my close team that the Pika pants are on heavy rotation.
GasBandit
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Russia just passed a constitutional amendment denying legal status to same-sex marriages.
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Russian constitution change ends hopes for same-sex marriage
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — At the Lagutenko wedding in 2017, the couple exchanged vows, rings and kisses in front of friends and relatives, then took a traditional drive in a limousine, stopping at landmarks for photos.
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Well, it's nice to know that if they don't like an existing law, they have a mechanism for changing said law, and they apparently know how to exercise that right. I just wish they were not using this as an opportunity to be aggressively regressive.
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Often it is said of foreign entities, such as China, that "don't blame Chinese people for the actions of the Chinese government..." but in this case, this is clearly an instance where the Russian people actively support homophobic policy, and have updated the constitution to reflect their beliefs.
So, I guess that's noteworthy.
Heh, over here not enough people showed up for the referendum to count when it came to reword the stuff about marriage in the constitution so it's no longer the rather gender neutral "between spouses".Russia just passed a constitutional amendment denying legal status to same-sex marriages.
Russian constitution change ends hopes for same-sex marriage
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — At the Lagutenko wedding in 2017, the couple exchanged vows, rings and kisses in front of friends and relatives, then took a traditional drive in a limousine, stopping at landmarks for photos.
Yay apathy?!
The Alabama Democrats have something to say about that...
That reminds me of a dorm game we played once, where the RA would throw out questions/statements, and we would move to either end of the room to signify how strongly we felt about them. One of them was something like "pro wrestling is real" and all of us except for one girl went all the way over to the "no" side of the room, and the look of shocked disbelief on her face was really something.
