Yes. Many/Most. It’s called severance pay. And/or remaining on the payroll until Date X even though you’re no longer allowed in the building.

Sometimes the cowardice is justified. Mask Mandates typically had no teeth due to the concern that if somebody actually was punished (enough) for violating, they’d appeal and the law might be found unconstitutional and invalidated entirely. Better a law with no teeth than no law. (My understanding is the odds of a…

Supply and demand in action in the workforce. The demand is there. If the supply isn’t, the prices (wages/other benefits/work conditions) will go up.

I suspect it’s worse now. During COVID a lot of (most?) people were forced to switch to online shopping... and realized they liked it much better. Wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people going back to shopping retail are doing it precisely for the “pick me up” of putting other people down/bossing them around.

This would be the first time a person has been prosecuted for failing to tell a doctor that they were not pregnant, despite not being asked, and the fact that Blalock was clearly pregnant when she had her doctor’s appointment through the window of her car due to the pandemic

Uhm.. fascist or anti-fascist?

Sure, it’s “technically” possible for matches to be played remotely, but no team is going to be willing to tolerate the lag of an intercontinental match when there are $40,000,000 on the line.

So, uhm.  Competitive Gaming?  Professional Gaming?

It’s clearly a public service message about the dangers of running into barred doors at full speed because too many players were getting used to doing it in games and started trying to do it in real life.

I’d assume the glowing screen was bothering folks.

“Blowup doll” seems like a misnomer. Picture isn’t all that close up, but it looks like one of the more photorealistic silicon dolls, so not really surprising at all that it could be mistaken for a body, that’s sort of the whole point. (well, not being mistaken as a dead body...)

Nope, you aren’t missing anything at all. This is a completely hogwash suppression claim. Because even if they secretly purge you and you are too busy to check in advance, you can literally register at the poll and fill out a provisional ballot that will be counted once your registration is processed.

Even simple two to five step drinks can be screwed up

Kinda like reading these articles about federal departments scrambling trying to figure out how to give everybody the day off.

May I be the first to gentrify it by asking...

The real solution is obviously just to wait another couple hundred years or whatever it takes so that most Americans can claim decent from a slave and/or native American, then everybody can just pay themselves $100 and call it even.

Dear EA:

Is it (excessively) cynical that prior to reading the article I was expecting it to cost to preview?

Interesting. As somebody whose only ever gone to a bar (illegally) once when 19 in college with a bunch of friends, I guess I always sort of assumed the bartender was roughly comparable to chefs. e.g. you tip the waitstaff, not the chef, because the chef actually makes a wage, and the quality of the service the…

Deterrent factor.