Hrm, they seem off by a little, maybe... 42 units?

While true that the timing is shit, the amount is nowhere close to "table scraps" - this seems like it will legit be helpful, maybe even enough to turn the tide in Ukraine?

Also, it's not like Congress fed its own and then waited months to feed the dog - rather, dinner for the entire family was delayed from the start of the fiscal year 2024 in October 1 until just a few weeks ago, involving the ousting of one Speaker of the House and almost doing so to the second as well. And now, this aid package for Ukraine may likewise finish the job of getting the Speaker kicked out, bc any time the government is "functional" is considered bad by some elements.

But the timing from passing the federal budget itself to passing this aid package is actually quite short. Yes it's half a year late, but it did eventually happen, and the amount of aid is large, so is a "success" by multiple metrics, and all the more so given the opposition. If we do end up having a civil war as people like MTG are calling for, this may well be the last aid package that the USA ever manages to pass in the final stages of its democracy.

So imho we should take the win and be happy - we may not get to celebrate Congress doing routine activities like "passing budgets" very often in the future, even six months late.

In this journey that we all call life, it is best to travel light, with few encumbrances holding us back.

Too soon?

We probably need content labels on Lemmy, but I figure that we are mostly all adults here.

Your aim: logic.

Their aim: capitalism.

:-(

I believe it is the lying that little dude is concerned about...

Case in point: she might also be lying about those STDs that she "totally" checked for (like AIDS) and "definitely" does not have, wink.:-P

Or locked behind 100 pages of unnecessarily paginated content. Seriously, one of the best features that a webpage has over a physical printed page is the ability to search it for what you were looking for... smh:-(.

I found it hilarious when many California farmers (e.g. fruits) voted for Trump, then got angry when he immediately started cutting back on immigration - like what the hell did you think he meant when he talked about that EVERY SINGLE TIME!? That man isn't exactly known for using "metaphors" or having the slightest degree of "subtlety" - e.g. when he talks about grabbing pussy, he doesn't mean getting to know someone intimately, he means to GRAB someone's ACTUAL genitalia, which simply being within arms reach seems to imply automatically giving consent, and if not then you can take it up with his team of lawyers.

After that, people started dying, and other things happened like infants were literally ripped right out of their mothers' arms and I suddenly found it less funny:-(.

I guess arguably it could be funny to think how liberals get mad when the Democrats they vote for do not do what they promised, yet Trump supporters got mad at him when he did - if that situation were not so fucking tragic for us all:-(.

Edit:

Tell me more about these "spells", which occur in limited numbers, are capable of long-range attacks, deal explosive & powerful damage... and can only be performed by someone who has the proper equipment and spends time in advance preparing them for use? :-D

To be fair, why should a long-term employee spend months of their productive time training a short-term contractor who may not last the year?

Ignore for a moment how few to no actual "employees" are being hired, and thus everyone is a short-term temp.

It's just a consequence of wanting maximum gains for little to nothing, i.e. corporate greed i.e. late-stage capitalism.

Bonus points if managers who do spend time training contractors get removed and replaced by those more willing to get in line with the company vision, being more "productive" in the ways that those in charge (Bezos, Musk, Huffman, etc.) can understand and agree with.