I don’t know. Being in Colorado and seeing how people trash our public lands (see, e.g. Conundrum Hot Springs), I’m ok with increasing fees to make our hardworking forest service employees have the resources they need and what they need is money for trail maintenance and supervision so they can stop people from…

The man spread in the photo is strong. It’s like they’re on a subway preventing Trump from sitting down

Bibi’s terrible. You’re right- we run this risk of believing that we’ve integrated judeo-Christian society but every thing the Trump/Pence administration seems to be doing shows that we haven’t gotten over the things that caused the nazis to do what they did (whatever you call it-murder, genocide, Holocaust, pogrom,…

It’s a shame we don’t know each other and can’t hash it out over drinks because neither of us are wrong and our intentions are the same, we just come to different conclusions. IMHO using what the nazis did to the Jews as a signpost of evil delegitimizes the fact that this didn’t happen in a vacuum and was largely the…

That’s not an established fact sadly. The Holocaust (capitalized because it’s a term beyond the event) has changed in its inclusion or exclusion of groups beyond Jews since WW11 and now largely depends on the historian and what country they represent (so their bias). As a former holocaust historian myself in another…

There were 6 million Jews killed and several million other fringe groups. All of which are included in the holocaust, but that’s confused by 1. The fact that “holocaust” comes from a religious term in Judaism and 2. The more Jews died than other groups

It’s been a while thanks to a lack of term limits but Ann Richards?

Colorado is mostly a blue state and Texas would be too without gerrymandering

I am on the regular in consumer packaging. Mentioned this in a different thread but just yesterday a supplier patted me on the head and gave me a purse. More seriously, my boss’s boss sexually harrassed all the women on the team on the regular and he was demoted but kept on the team working with me. He continued to…

You probably work for one of my suppliers. If so, know that when that one millennial chick visits (there’s only one of me- our competitors don’t have any), she’s trying to make eye contact with you in solidarity because she gets it. Fist bump!

Consumer packaged goods here. Before this I worked in oil and gas. I have experienced so much more sexism in CPG than oil and gas- made worse because I can go an entire week interacting with only men. Today for example I was called little miss and given a purse as a gift by a supplier.

The interesting thing is China is dumping solar technology in developing countries like Myanmar. You see not reliable grid there but plenty of renewables

I come from the utility industry (and also can say the AR PUC chairman is not progressive so his statement is telling). We have been planning for renewables for decades and will not be reversing those choices. CA is on trend to be renewable only by 2045, CO/WA/OR soon to follow. Companies like Lockheed and Tesla have…

TapeAngel here. In 7th grade, some popular guy at my school pretended to come on to me on AIM, telling me he liked short girls cause they didn’t need to kneel to give head. I didn’t understand what head was. Or why I called myself TapeAngel

I negotiate contracts for a living and 6 months isn’t even that long

So true! My plastic surgeon was the most ethical doctor I’ve had ever. Refused to prescribe more than 5 days of opioid painkillers unless I was in extreme pain, had cutting edge outpatient care and scare management techniques, refused to do anything to my body that would appear unnatural (not that I asked to, for the…

True but she’s young and had terrible parents teaching her. I’ll give her another 5 years

If anything, it makes Netflix look good, especially the bit allowing them to keep it open until the end of the original run

It has. That’s why in California you see BPA containers saying “known to cause birth defects.” It’s also worth noting that plastic is used a lot in coatings, especially for acidic food/liquid that could corrode the container. For example, soda cans have trace BPA, though they’re working on removing it to comply with…

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