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Pursue strength and momentum.

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Life only happens outside of the algorithm.

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@champagne_scar “I was raped in college.” *Tells story.*
“Oh my god, did you contact police?”
“No.”
“Did you report it to your college?”
“No.”
“So what happened to this guy?”
“Nothing.”
“Where is he now?”
“He’s around. He’s in my friend group; we see each other every now and then. We’re cool.”

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@aswren @FrantizekPaul Now this is 5D chess.

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@albert8768 @femalenatured That’s the point: months ago, these women ghosted the dudes who texted them, but will come out of the shadows immediately to join that Malibu opportunity, hence {however you’d like to perceive that}

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@albert8768 @femalenatured It’s dudes shit-testing women who ghosted them

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This needs to be extended to all businesses with a standing contract with the federal government. If they can’t prove they’re fully staffed by Americans, their contracts are null and void, open to competition.

This is the only way to reverse the bad behavior of Big Tech.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

INTRODUCING: The Hire American Act.

This bill does exactly what its title says: hire American workers only. The legislation amends title 5 of the United States Code to restrict federal government employment to U.S. citizens and nationals ONLY.

American taxpayers foot the bill for every single federal job in this country. Every salary. Every benefit. Every pension. Those jobs belong to American workers, not non-citizens. Right now, there is no permanent law stopping a non-citizen from being hired by a federal agency or put on the federal payroll. Our bill ends this.

Prior to any appointment, individuals must sign an affidavit attesting to their citizenship status and the hiring agency must verify it. Anyone who lies faces up to a $50,000 fine and five years in prison.

The Office of Personnel Management must report to Congress on the number of current non-citizen federal employees disaggregated by agency and position within 180 days.

The American people are tired of a government working against them. They deserve to know the people running federal agencies, handling their data, and accessing classified information are Americans first.

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@st_louis_stan They’re always from Nigeria.

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@DejaRu22 Longhoused Rhinoplasty

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It’s a huge crime that a lot of these Big Tech companies laying off American talent, not touching foreign labor, have federal government contracts. The federal government should be forcing companies with these contracts to hire American. No excuses.

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

The American worker now faces a three-pronged attack. First, DEI policies discriminate against white employees in hiring and promotions. Second, corporations import cheap foreign labour through programs like H-1B visa. Third, when Americans cannot be replaced at home, their jobs are simply shipped abroad to countries like India.

Few companies embody all three trends more clearly than IBM. The tech giant recently agreed to pay $17 million to settle allegations from the U.S. government that it discriminated against employees on the basis of race and sex. Federal authorities alleged the company tied bonuses and hiring decisions to demographic targets and restricted certain opportunities on the basis of identity. At the same time, IBM has relied heavily on imported labour, receiving 32,725 H-1B visa approvals over the past decade according to USCIS data. And increasingly, the company’s future appears rooted outside the United States altogether: under Indian-born CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM now employs roughly a third of its 280,000 workers in India, a figure that may rival, or even surpass, its American headcount.

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@AdamLaneSmith What’s your advice to the boring folks married to the chaos addicts?

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1PM vs 5PM

[Erik @e_cdalton]

Scenes from 2027

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@0x49fa98

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Sprints once/twice a week + somewhat regular cardio between. And not being a glutton too.

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how do people debloat their faces

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@Alexandrovna805 How many women want boob jobs to better their marriage vs better their other prospects though?

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“What happens when Gabe dies” is arguably the most important succession plan in the 21st century. Valve, please figure this out.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Gabe Newell owns the majority share in Steam. Now, I know Newell somewhat. We've met. We've talked. He's not a close friend by any means. But it is by his will and genius that Steam is the way it is - a triumph of good guy capitalism. A great site for finding games, with cheap prices, frequent sales. Well ... I don't need to praise it here. You guys all know about it.

When Newell passes away, it's unclear what will happen with Steam. Doubtless his shares will go to his family. Will they continue his vision? Or will they sell out to one of the many circling sharks who have been trying to buy it for years? What will happen if the sharks DO get their teeth into Steam?

I believe that in that case Steam will go to hell in a handbasket. Owned by men in suits who don't give a sh*t about quality or the consumer. Probably it will become a subscription service or worse. If it gets sold to a horror show like Electronic Arts or Disney it'll be a nightmare.

The only mitigating feature is that a different service might arise, but it will need to fight the rotting lumbering corpse of Steam to establish itself. I am content that since I am several years older than Gabe, it is plausible that I won't live to see this terrible day. But you might.

Gabe Newell, to me, is literally barring the gates to Hell for us all.

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@GraduatedBen Queen move

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It’s insane how much I listened to this song (we’re talking metric tons) and had never seen the music video for it until now, 21 years later.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

21 years ago, Fall Out Boy released 'Sugar, We're Going Down'

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@PunishedAltus

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@Brandon93Smith It is good that random Men With Honor still exist. Cheers to you.

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@shtpostingbrn @plainstriumph Wichita and KC are pretty affordable areas to live in. Wichita is cheaper, but more to do in KC. So pick your poison, but if you’re already looking there then you can’t go wrong.

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How often we wish we could build a digital shrine to the things we love, that’ll endure forever. Yet nothing does. Not even physically: the tombstones planted decades ago start to tilt, eventually will topple, unless we right them tomorrow.