Who do these pants -wetting idiots think they're scaring?

The boomers who grew up during the Cold War and who continue to have better voter turnout rates than Millennials, even as the latter generation sneaks up on their 40s.

Like...I don't agree with their policies, but their tactics are objectively effective.

This isn't an endorsement of conservative fear mongering but rather calling out my fellow Millennials, who've recently surpassed boomers as the most populous generation in the US.

Show up and vote, god dammit.

After working retail for the holiday season as a younger person, and seeing how that started in October...then working in the beer industry, watching seasonal creep pushing those beer releases ever earlier (combined with the ramp up and logistics meaning that we were in full on "get ready for Oktoberfest" mode by mid-April...

I think I was just totally burnt out of any capacity for seasonal creep outrage a decade ago.

I saw a Christmas display while grocery shopping this week. Didn't even register as odd, let alone annoying. Which is saying something, coming from me, who tends to treat getting annoyed about random shit as a sort of relaxing pastime.

The game isn't canon.

Which...okay whatever, weird comment...but that's what they meant.

You're placing a lot of faith in our totally trustworthy, honest, caring, and cooperative domestic auto manufacturers to...you know...not just look at the new increased price of imports, as well as the government credit for buying domestic...and raise all their prices to that amount across the board, with the increase adding more expense to the consumer directly that is pure profit on their end.

Which is why there should be legal mechanisms to place legal responsibility for decisions like this personally on those in leadership positions when they're being made, even if those people no longer hold those positions.

You bet your ass the chucklefucks who came up with this little stunt would've thought twice about it if they knew that there was a decent chance they'd go to prison for it.

Also gotta make this shit sting the shareholders too: make the company pay the victims not only the estimated value of their data but also a portion of all profits made while a policy like this is in effect. Since there's no easy way to tell how much money was made off their data, unless the company has the numbers, let's say half.

Suddenly the quarterly report's got a nice repayment shaped dent in its side and all the sudden the shareholders care about following the law and respecting the rights of customers.

And very literally after it was too late to safely leave.

Which means, by definition, they were not dismissed while they could safely leave.

The bounty is posted by Iran... wouldn't it be better for everyone if we dropped him off at Tehran?

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean literally anything, no offense to you.

I get where you're coming from, but that's some really shitty delivery.

Bigger picture, if one isn't to form their own opinions based on world view, what are they to form opinions based on?

Ultimately, all your comment says is, "I don't care about your opinions and don't value them at all. Instead of anything you think or have to say, here's what I think and what I have to say."

Chocolate with raisins is super common though...

My biggest resume gap was a 6 month gap. I was laid off (technically "my position was eliminated") and immediately started looking, but opportunities were slim.

I knew the gap may not look good, even if I was searching the whole time, so I enrolled in a few classes at the local community college when the new semester began.

As it happened, a few weeks after my layoff, my grandfather fell ill as well and it turned out to be a relief for the whole family that I was able to pull the overnight shifts caring for him at my grandparents' home in the last month and a half of his life.

Though my stretch of unemployment lasted long after he passed, the few times I've been asked about this gap in an interview, my response has usually been "I was caring for my dying grandfather" with no elaboration.

At that point, the majority of interviews who asked either let it go and move on or express sympathy and continue. The one interview I've been in where that wasn't enough and they tried to get into specifics, I wrote off that position mentally in that moment and it was just going through the motions until I could get out of there. I figured any place that would pry for details in that situation to see if they felt it was justified was the type of place that would feel justified prying into my private life if I were employed there.

I mean...the moment any large corporation figures out a way to replace human workers that need things like bathroom breaks (and basic human rights, and paychecks) and do the same work with robots and AI... literally the next moment, they'll have the AI start generating layoff notices.

It's just less flashy when it happens that way because there's no need for that AI to look like a beautiful young person.

I mean...those are all valid questions.

Any or all of which could've been asked.