One of their economic ministers wrote in a state journal that shit was bad. Imagine that. Official news, not a leak.

^ BINGO! They were shuffling paper before, now hard currency is leaving the country, a country historically starved of hard currency.

My first thought was I’d instantly overload on the round chips, wouldn’t be special any more.

I feel ya. Didn’t pass a quick smell test for me either.

My wife is fighting for her 10-year green card right now. It’s a fucking nightmare.

It’s not fabricated, these people honestly think one can live the “welfare queen” lifestyle. Reagan said the words and it resonated with the Republicans, Fox News ran with it. But really, this isn’t some master plan. Unless you’ve been through it or tried getting welfare, you can’t know how hard it is and how little you get. I’ve talked to many people like this.

You have to earn below 130% of the poverty line to get food stamps. More you make, less you get. I will say that when I first moved here I was getting a ridiculous amount for a single guy, and they just kept sending it, no questions asked for 6-months. Those days are long gone.

God knows what you have to do to get an actual check, but you have to be worse off than merely needing food stamps. And those checks are paltry. Unless you’re renting a room in someone’s house, you’re not making rent.

Unemployment is a fucking joke. In Florida, employers have to pay $7,200 when you first start, and they have 6 months to get it all paid into the unemployment fund. I would have got a MAX of $4,200, then it’s over. That was less than a month’s pay from my last job.

There is a gauntlet to be run to get a single penny. And you have to keep running that gauntlet, over and over again. I could go on and on, but I figured out 3 decades back that it’s easier, less time consuming, and more profitable, to work a shit job 40-hours a week.

Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on “illegal orders”.

tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.

Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.

Short version

Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.

tl;dr: Make the call on “lawful” orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.

Aight! I want to heart from people thinking this is normal, or not, and if you can actually see pictures in your inner space. I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.

Looks like pen and ink art! I keep staring at it.

No way of telling. Depends on what Trump’s handlers whisper in his ear. ATM he’s mostly against Putin. Can’t find it ATM, but pretty sure I saw a story today about the US approving or shipping high-end weapons to Ukraine. 🤷🏻

It’s the filthy fucking Russians, always is. At what point does Europe call bullshit and invade?! Easy for me to say across the Pond, but if Mexico was constantly sabotaging America, we’d quickly kick their ass.

DG is all we have in the country. It’s not like some mom-and-pop could provide that range of goods at those prices. There are DGs where there is nothing else, never was. I’m on the edge of town and a lot of these people have to walk or bike to the store. The new DG was a godsend.

At the town outside my camp, 900 souls, there’s a DG and a gas/convenience/general store coexisting, only two businesses. I spend what I can with the local store, get what I can’t at DG. The DG is the only real general store (hence the name) for 25-minutes in either direction.

Every criticism I’ve ever heard is from city people.

Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Someone whispered in his ear that he should do the right thing, hint, hint, or face monstrous consequences.

For symptoms:

Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.

My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can’t hurt to expand your lungs with the heat and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.

The cure:

What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I’ll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That’s how I know I’m on the other side and getting better.

Came to say! I marvel watching them fly over the bay thinking they’re like small pterodactyls.

Went to Dollar General for a few things, refused to pay for coffee. I’d rather do without.

Said much the same yesterday. The poster child for narcissistic personality disorder getting on his knees? LOL. No fucking way.

The harm in OP’s example is immediate.

Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.