That $1 billionth dollar banked comes with a free trip to the guillotine.

Feel free to earn just as much as you want, but spend it on something.

Molon labe

370 million is 0.37 billion, so the difference is about 37.13 billion.

370 million tons of carbon from a single source is a considerable amount.

If they do this with Russian assets, what’s gonna stop China from doing the same with US assets!?

If they seize US assets in China, we seize their assets in the US. Then we default on the $870 billion dollars in debt we owe to them, cut them off from American markets, and watch India become our biggest trading partner.

Came here for recipes. Leaving hungry and disappointed.

The 2020 election cycle saw $5.7 billion in political spending on the presidency, and $8.7 billion in the congressional races.

Proponents for and against Ohio Issue 1 spent $100 million to promote their respective sides.

The $0.66 stamps affixed to your letters are a start, folks, but they will not save you from the guillotines.

You have to read between the lines a bit, but that’s actually what Kim is doing here.

Look at it from the NK perspective. For 70 years, they’ve ostensibly wanted to “reunify” with the south, under the Kim regime. They’ve wanted to throw out foreign influence, eliminate the ROK government, and unite Korea under the DPRK flag.

In saying that reunification is impossible, Kim is effectively recognizing the south as a separate state.

We mothballed our guillotines. It’s time to dust them off and get to work.

They keep getting slapped down every time they try.

they’re perfect happy (definitely not all of them) with their value and political system.

The way I see it, there are three groups in Afghanistan worth considering. The first is the group you referred to with that caveat: the people unhappy with their value and political system.

The second group is those who are “perfect happy” (sic) with systemic oppression. They’ve built an entire religion, an entire way of life predicated on oppressing themselves. Those people, being “perfectly happy” with oppression, will gladly welcome the opportunity to be oppressed themselves.

There’s a third group of people. A small group. So small you didn’t even see fit to mention them. Like the first group, this small group of people truly despises systemic oppression. They hate it. They know it is wrong, and they never want to be subjected to it. But, like the second group, they deliberately employ it. They actively and systemically oppress not just the “perfectly happy” second group, but also the first group.

I see no problem whatsoever oppressing people who are “perfectly happy” being oppressed. They will relish the opportunity at being oppressed into a fine pink mist.

I feel no ethical or moral compulsion to segregate the “perfectly happy” from the “hypocrites”. I think they should be similarly mistified.

One of our three voids “beat anorexia”. She’s turned into a real chonk.

The other two are a ballerina and a wrestler, though.

Bounties.

Look at locks. The devices used to raise and lower ships between bodies of water at different elevations.

Even if you have to pump in the water from the lower level, it would be much simpler and more cost effective to pump that water than trying to lift the ship with some sort of elevator.

The maintenance requirements of all those elevators are going to be a fucking nightmare. Cables are an objectively terrible way to elevate truly massive objects.

Turbine pumps are several orders of magnitude simpler, more reliable, and more energy efficient than anything involving cables.

I’ve seen plans for a rail design that makes use of three large rail yards, one at the top of a mountain, and one on each side. Loaded train cars (and/or massive weights) would be dragged to the top during power surplus, and rolled downhill during shortage.

I’m more into futanari than the EU’s brand of psycho/political masochistic roleplay. Being cockblocked by a major government just doesn’t do it for me.

No judgment, of course. Don’t mean to kinkshame you.

Meh, just block the EU, with a link to NordVPN.

These EU regulators need to understand that whatever firewall rules they establish for their teenage children will be the same rules implemented on the firewall at their nursing home.

A 2-mile run per day is about 20-30 minutes of cardio. You can count sex, but how are you going to get the other 19-29 minutes?

Nothing in the article even suggests they are operating in bad faith.

The company is basically asking them to voluntarily extend their work day by 15 to 30 minutes, but instead of offering time-and-a-half they would be entitled to as “overtime”, they will double, or more than double their wages.

That roughly 30 minute period of activity is worth about 16 times their hourly pay.

You are entitled to reasonable accommodation upon your request, nothing more. The article mentioned a couple alternatives to running, indicating the company is willing to meet the specific needs of employees. The article may not have explicitly mentioned your specific needs, but that does not mean that the company would refuse reasonable accommodation.

The only thing that would happen from you calling your lawyer is you’d owe your lawyer money.

Yes, firms would be begging to take your case. On retainer. You’d be hard pressed to find one to take it on contingency.

ADA only requires “reasonable accommodation”. A couple alternatives to running were presented, indicating the company is willing to cooperate with the specific needs of workers. That the article fails to mention any specific accommodations for handicapped workers does not mean that such accommodations won’t be made.

A blanket policy covering all disabled employees is not ADA compliant. Accommodations are supposed to be made on a case-by-case basis, based on the specific needs of the specific employee. Without knowing the capabilities and needs of a specific employee, we cannot determine what would constitute a reasonable accommodation.

Yes, strictly applying this policy to disabled employees would be discriminatory, but there is precisely zero evidence suggesting that it will be applied that way.