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No can do, the elephant ate the banana
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Pay people more, less need for social services and collect more in taxes. Reduces government expenses and raise revenue. More money to spend on infrastructure. This is without fixing tax code so mega wealthy and corporations pay their fair share.
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I seem to remember (but am too lazy to look up) something about Trump using undocumented Polish laborers on a building project, providing no PPE, paid them sub-minimum wage, no overtime. Reported the laborers to INS so they would be deported to avoid getting sued.
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Classifying employees as management without having actual management duties is a violation of federal labor law. You might be owed back wages/overtime. Could be worth looking into. A class action lawsuit against a previous employer I had led to hundreds of employees getting checks for thousands of dollars, even after lawyers took their fee.
Some technical jobs can be legally classified exempt from overtime. That is different than being classified as management.
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What does one use as syrup on Narwhal waffles, ambergris?
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3d ago
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For a job with little in the way of qualifications, it does not pay poorly, majority of states are above the national average of $28.50 an hour. Not surprisingly wages in south are some of the worst, but in line for that region in general. There is little meaningful oversight, they have immunity and often very strong unions.
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The Riverside county sheriff is the one who first used the term assassination attempt. Media uncritically repeated what the sheriff said.
Vandals_handle
1w ago
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How can you distinguish between native and alien UFOs? Once you've identified where it is from, is it still a UFO?
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1w ago
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My Pretzel headlamp turns on and off in steady full beam. Can choose to cycle through low beam and flashing if I want to with quick depressions of button. Switch to red light and back by depressing and holding button. Sometimes use low beam to save battery, red light to keep from loosing night vision, flashing to be seen, not see with.
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1w ago
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Project 2025 needs Vance in power for full implementation, trump is just a useful idiot to achieve their goals. The threats are coming from inside the house.
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Inquisitiveness and the spirit of adventure led many away from comfort and towards danger, simply to know what lies beyond the horizon.
Vandals_handle
1w ago
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Exactly.
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As a mountaineer I enjoy the word "cwm". Sounds like it should nasty but in reality it's just Welsh for cirque.
Vandals_handle
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Don't put out food for any wildlife.
Vandals_handle
2w ago
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A manual transmission for Bob?
Vandals_handle
2w ago
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Depends on the degree. Hospitals , factories and utilities all operate 24 hours. A wide range of roles/degrees needed there. With work from home time shifting and supporting a region in a time zone more acceptable to an individual's sleep schedule is possible. I did this in IT, also common in finance and banking.
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Swing and graveyard shifts exist.
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I see your Rome and raise with Sparta. Yes this brand of stupidity has been going since well before the colonization of North America by Europeans. A more nuanced comment would have discussed how much of nazi germanys eugenics was based on american eugenics of the time as others have done in this thread.
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Eugenics has its roots in the US.
Such a scenic commute, hopefully things align to allow biking more often.
In breeding plumage, love the tassels.
www.independent.co.uk
Although this came to light in the past, it was again reveled during Trump's election interference trial. In a quid pro quo arrangement, Arnold agreed to remain editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines, if the National Enquirer would kill stories that could damage Arnold's carefully crafted image.
Newport Bay Conservancy volunteers returning from the last king tide cleanup of the season.  
Lighting, background and subject matter came together on this one, I was just there to record.
Took advantage of todays 6.8 high tide giving access to clean otherwise inaccessible areas of the UNBR marsh. Sit on tops do have areas where they excel.
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10458716 > Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said. > > A study has found the flowers of field pansies growing near Paris are 10% smaller and produce 20% less nectar than flowers growing in the same fields 20 to 30 years ago. They are also less frequently visited by insects. > > “Our study shows that pansies are evolving to give up on their pollinators,” said Pierre-Olivier Cheptou, one of the study’s authors and a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. “They are evolving towards self-pollination, where each plant reproduces with itself, which works in the short term but may well limit their capacity to adapt to future environmental changes.” > > Plants produce nectar for insects, and in return insects transport pollen between plants. This mutually beneficial relationship has formed over millions of years of coevolution. But pansies and pollinators may now be stuck in a vicious cycle: plants are producing less nectar and this means there will be less food available to insects, which will in turn accelerate declines.
Caught this juvenile stalking its prey on the mud flat in the salt marsh.
Caught this bathing beauty in the courtyard at Bowers Museum
A Red-shouldered hawk perched on a Sycamore branch. One talon on the branch, the other talon tightly clutching its prey.
Red crown and throat of Anna's Hummingbird, Rufous colored sides. Taking a break from sipping Bird of Paradise nectar, crown and throat coloration was obvious while feeding.
Flock of Ibis' on a sandbar preening and drying in the mid-day sun. Light was right to capture a little of their iridescence.
Would be right to use the names that Indigenous peoples had been using for millennia. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) should be respected as equal to western scientific knowledge. If a species was already known to Indigenous people, it was not discovered by western scientists. Addendum for clarity. Initiative is to change common names of birds that were named after people. AOS creating a panel to draft new names based off birds features. I think using pre-existing Indigenous names for birds should be considered.
Many mornings this individual can be found been hunting on the rocks by the Jamboree bridge where the San Diego Creek enters the bay. Its nest site was on the other end of the bay near the Newport Dunes.
