Don’t forget all the American lives yet to be sacrificed!

Why would they care? The whole world is witnessing it and no one is doing anything to stop them.

I’m thinking Musk may be in a “Brewster’s Millions” situation, in which he needs to spend every penny he has and end up with absolutely no assets in order to win an even larger fortune.

If we’re really, really lucky, someone scammed him to think that he’d win a fortune, and after he’s lost everything he’ll discover there’s no fortune.

Well, duh.

More likely tribalism.

Yeah, kind of seems appropriate.

Yeah, I meant “guaranteed”

the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive.

The U.S. doesn’t give their citizens the same rights that the U.S. constitution has.

That’s ridiculous.

The spy’s actual activities are criminal. They didn’t come into the country to get a job working construction or to get an education or escape criminal activities at home. They came into the country to specifically violate the laws of the country.

If a hitman comes into a country to assassinate someone, it doesn’t matter if they’re doing it for money. They should be held accountable for the crimes they commit in the country.

Did you read the article? They weren’t migrants, they were spies.

I’m ok with people sneaking in to make money. I’m ok with people sneaking in to escape bad situations.

Don’t pretend that spies aren’t committing a crime in the country where they are spying.

I’m guessing the French wouldn’t be especially accommodating to such vigilantism.

You are absolutely correct!

You’d need to use a guillotine.

It’s not that complex.

A mutation happens. It can result in either a disadvantage that prevents the plant from surviving to reproduce or an advantage that helps the plant survive to reproduce.

There’s no “knowing” involved. There is no intent on the part of the plant. It’s just random. You’re seeing the descendants of the plants that got an advantageous mutation.

What you’re not seeing in your yard are the billions of different plants that never survived because their mutation was a disadvantage.

it has pedals like a bicycle

Are you taking about the Aptera from the video you linked?

If so, the Aptera doesn’t have pedals like a bicycle. It’s a fully electric vehicle (or it will be if it reaches production).

Conservative humor: trip a child and laugh when it is injured.

If the U.S. managed to do it, they’d use it to build up the military.

Nah, the fix is gonna have to be a workaround

Ah, yes. The “do nothing but cross your fingers and pray it doesn’t bite you in the ass” workaround.

Those of you women living in U.S. red states will be familiar with the feeling.

I have an electric lighter that we use for lighting candles. It charges via USB and generates a short spark between two contacts to light the candle.

I am also aware of a manager at my job who got fired for playing those games. Fired and security-escorted out.

Knowing the department director and how she felt about the employees, she was probably enraged when she found out what the manager under her was doing.

Here it’s very difficult to fire an employee after the probationary period, but managers are relatively easy to fire. There’s a three strikes rule for managers. Whenever a PIA manager starts being extra nice to everyone, you know they just got reported to HR for a second time.

Screwing with time cards in the U.S. is extra double bad because of federal law.

If the employee can prove the manager has done it, they’ve proven that their employer is both guilty of wage theft, and also that they’ve destroyed the records showing how much time you actually worked. So usually the employees get to say how much they are owed, and the employer has no way to argue against it.

If I recall correctly, if it was an honest mistake, the employer has to pay back two times what was owed. If it was intentional, then they have to pay back three times what was owed.

There aren’t many worker protections in the U.S., but that particular set of laws is ok. Of course, there could be additional protections in state or local laws.

Edit: clarification and typo.

I’m just a dickhead on the Internet, but what you’re describing doesn’t sound normal or healthy to me. Have you tried therapy?