Any big test today? IIRC we had a fire alarm in high school because a trash can was on fire. (No noticeable property damage, the fire was entirely contained in the trash can, which was metal) Rumor had it some kid tossed in a lit match because he hadn’t studied for a test. Takes some time for the fire to catch and be…

AFAIK, e-verify is pretty much just a way for employers to (easily) prove they’ve done due diligence to avoid suffering the legal ramifications. (They already have to prove they’ve done due diligence.) I doubt it would have done much to prevent farm owners from paying migrant workers under the table.

based on additional quotes of the e-mail from another site:

To be honest, I’d be inclined to argue it’d be against the interests of central/southern/etc. countries to align with Ireland. That takes the racism card off the table, which I’d be half inclined to argue is the primary reason they are getting sympathy. It’s much easier to get people to rally against “kicking them out…

There *is* a way to do much of that legally, via migrant visa. There just (as far as I’m aware) aren’t really enough of them available per year. But yeah, legal immigration needs fixing. And I sort of expect that if/when America actually gets serious about removing illegal immigrants, this fact will become readily…

It’s unclear they knew/remembered he was on the exclusion list due to a failed attempt at crossing the border 20 years ago.

The idea of this being an intentional “sting” that they had planned all along seems like a whole lot of trouble to go through just to be cruel.

Hey, as long as that 3rd eye is functional, the radiation wasn’t really harmful, was it?

Maybe I’m just biased then, as my “payout” both times was higher, so 20k didn’t really seem odd. It’s been a while but it was essentially X weeks of pay, + pending pay, + paying out PTO. It sounds like the studio was in heavy crunch, so it’s likely he wasn’t able to use many/most of his PTO, so that’s likely 3-5…

Of ‘course it’s the design. They weren’t put there by accident, or a glitch in the manufacturing process, or somesuch. The question is *why* that was the design. Esthetically pleasing? Something was supposed to plug in? (some sort of lid to make sure the cartridge was correctly fastened in place that turned out to be…

Dogs were interested in the task, but they really just took turns interacting, very respectfully waiting for one to finish before the other started...this really limited their ability to discover that they had to act together. It was quite striking.”

That’s just.... not right.

*shrug* So are most dogs.

Which is why I put decent in quotes. That said, the Nuremberg defense is strictly “following orders”. Nothing about “there was a guy standing behind me ready to shoot me if I didn’t.”

Maybe.... It’s been a while, but that doesn’t sound terribly different wording than the severance packages I’ve been given when the studios I was working for was closed down by the parent company. (ok, yeah. bad luck). You don’t get your money if you don’t sign the form saying you agree and that you won’t talk about…

Honestly, I’m... unconvinced.

I *so* have to agree with you on showing/naming the shooter. Show/name/etc.the victims, talk about them, celebrate their life, etc. But let the shooter wallow in namelessness, preferably with degrading adjectives.

Semantics here, but...

Just as long as it’s genuine organic snake oil, and not this GMO crap.

Honestly, I expect it worked most of the time, particularly early on in his career. Wouldn’t be particularly surprised if towards the beginning the women actually initiated things. Possibly why it got so flagrant, he just started assuming it as a matter of course. I doubt he woke up one morning, and though, “Gee, I’ve…