Am I correct in seeing a similarity between this and the Xitter drama from 2024? Something about X not having a physical presence in Brazil to sue for damages, and Brazil was going to block it as a result.

Our company of 5000+ US employees just ended a hybrid model and now requires full return to work. I sit near HR. Here are some things I've heard:

• Asked in a public forum what metrics were involved in revoking work from home, VP said "Metrics? None. Next question." All other questions received some kind of diplomatic answer but not that one.
• A couple of HR employees vocally shit on the complaint emails they've been tasked with responding to. They're the bootlickin-est people I've ever heard in a professional setting. 3+ times I've heard "If it bothers you that much then quit, simple. The company's not for you then."
• A global company, our intranet shows the head honcho taking pride in work life flexibility and touts the same fukkin hybrid model. US workers were told it's a "participating locations only" situation.
• VP said they didn't anticipate how beloved working from home was, and said (despite no communication otherwise) it was their plan all along to end it, and that they made a mistake by not doing it sooner because it gave us the false impression it was permanent.

In contrast, we employ some union and some non union workers all over the country. As much HR shit talk as I've heard over 5 years, I and they still have to abide by WRITTEN PROCEDURES whose express intent is not running astray of the Collective Bargaining Agreements. I hear these HR people on phone calls about something union related and I get to hear "Jump? How high?" and other cowtowing phrases, knowing they're fuming inside but can't do anything about it because we're beholden to those CBAs.

Regularly, I witness stark evidence that union workers are treated better than their counterparts. The CBAs have teeth and the company knows it.

I remember seeing this after he bought Twitter

My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".

Some women would be harmed by their husbands if discovered voting blue. I think those women feel a ringing in their souls when they watch that ad. Neut is grasping for any spin at all "ghwuaaahhh dishonesty!". If he was aware of the women who'd wear their husbands' reactions on their faces, he'd never admit it. But I guarantee the mere concept of sparking spousal abuse hasn't even occurred to him, that he's not seeing past the "dishonesty" part.

It's like waving salami in your derpy blind dog's face but he bites air 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Shit you'd think his smeller's busted too. How the fuck he manages to use the bathroom without tracking his own shit through the house is a fukkn X-file.

A more interesting pic:

*Editing to say I didn't notice the sub, and I don't mean to suggest the OP pic was subpar. I just got excited and wanted to share the other images too.

Hamas was an elected government, in 2006. Elections haven't been held since. I hope your mention of "elected government" was to say "an elected government shouldn't behave like this" instead of how it struck me, which was "the electors of that government are more or less responsible for the government's behavior today".

That's kind of overwhelming to me. It's like there's no bottom to that rabbit hole. I love it and I have so many questions.

I'm a big fan of Rise Against. Try these tracks out:

• Architects
• Welcome to the Breakdown
• A Gentleman's Coup
• Megaphone
• Holding Patterns

and Bad Religion:

• American Jesus
• Meeting of the Minds
• The Resist Stance

I hit the 50 cap, then deleted about 30 unnecessary notes, and STILL couldn't create more notes.

I replaced it with Draft Notes.

I entertained it being real until it called Diet Coke sticky, which it is not.

Justin Sane, frontman of punk rock's Anti-Flag, was recently accused of "predatory behavior, sexual assault, and statutory rape."

Allegedly he'd eyefuck girls from the stage during shows in a very "That's right, I'm a rockstar, lookin' at you" kind of way, and somehow get them invited backstage later.

His bandmates disbanded after the news broke. Bandmates say they weren't aware, that they stand with the victims, and they condemn his actions.

I saw Anti-Flag at a small venue years back and it makes me wonder if it happened to fellow concertgoers that night.