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I agree that we should keep our drug money here. So does that tweet mean Trump is endorsing an end to the drug war?
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psydude posted:I agree that we should keep our drug money here. So does that tweet mean Trump is endorsing an end to the drug war? Nah he'd just bring it home and start sending bastard feds to go all untouchables on dispensaries.
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A wall is just a bridge turned on its side.
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FAUXTON posted:A wall is just a bridge turned on its side. Mr President?
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Dec 28, 2018 14:41
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What if we repurposed all of the old bridges to build the wall? They'd be at least 45 feet high. That's 15 feet more than the specs!
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psydude posted:What if we repurposed all of the old bridges to build the wall? They'd be at least 45 feet high. That's 15 feet more than the specs! Ruining our already ruinous transit infrastructure to own the libs.
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psydude posted:What if we repurposed all of the old bridges to build the wall? They'd be at least 45 feet high. That's 15 feet more than the specs! You can't see through bridges or else millions might end up dying from ms-13 dropping bags of drugs over the fence or whatever his reasoning was for that stipulation
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psydude posted:I agree that we should keep our drug money here. So does that tweet mean Trump is endorsing an end to the drug war? Pffft. My drug money already comes from here. And it smells like weed.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:You can't see through bridges or else millions might end up dying from ms-13 dropping bags of drugs over the fence or whatever his reasoning was for that stipulation Most of our bridges already have holes, so it's not a problem.
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Dec 28, 2018 15:39
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Just heard that USAA isn’t doing their usual no-interest loan for people affected by the shutdown, which includes the Coast Guard. WTF?
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Dec 28, 2018 15:50
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Well the DoD has their funding, though I don't know about the coast guard. I'm still getting paid at least.
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Dec 28, 2018 15:53
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Coast Guard military pay is funded by DHS, nobody is getting paid. Mutual Assistance is giving $550 loans for E-5 and below. I assume USAA did not bother because it's only CG not getting paid.
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Meshka posted:Coast Guard military pay is funded by DHS, nobody is getting paid. Mutual Assistance is giving $550 loans for E-5 and below. I assume USAA did not bother because it's only CG not getting paid. It's weird to think that USAA "didn't bother" supporting service members this time around just because not all branches are affected, but then again maybe they wasted too much energy verbally harassing my wife for trying to get a payout when one of their insurance members rear-ended her. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Dec 28, 2018 16:14
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Support are troops! No no they don't count
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Dec 28, 2018 16:15
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I agree with the President, hard to believe there was a Congress that would have passed a budget, since there wasn't and they didn't
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The pearl clutching of yesteryear over a black president was amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETO7tYQW6eo&t=30s Only need to watch a minute.
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Fallom posted:It's weird to think that USAA "didn't bother" supporting service members this time around just because not all branches are affected, but then again maybe they wasted too much energy verbally harassing my wife for trying to get a payout when one of their insurance members rear-ended her. Yeah, it is lovely of them, there over 50000 people affected. All of our GSs are furloughed, military without pay, though most here are officers, so they should be fine. Lower enlisted though are getting screwed, it is so expensive to live here that I bet a lot of them will go into credit card debt if it goes for much longer.
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 ANOTHER CARAVAN IS FORMING https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1078638249562775552
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Dec 28, 2018 16:24
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If you want a consistent paycheck you have to join the biggest pork barrel/jobs project in the US. It's like joining the Army/Marines and then figuring out afterwards that all the other E-3's in the USN/USAF get paid the same but in a cubicle farm with A/C.
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Dec 28, 2018 16:28
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In fact, the Russians can have them! Go ahead, stage your missiles!
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Yeah, coast guard and NOAA Corps aren’t getting paid. USAA is doing a .01% 12 month loan, and navy fed is doing an interest-free payday loan. You have to call them to apply though apparently, they aren’t really advertising.
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Dec 28, 2018 16:51
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Vasudus posted:hello landlord i would like to make you the offer of a lifetime in the form of unskilled manual labor in exchange for rent Serfdom is back, baby
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Hey Wall, if you want some $$, come get some! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUJzj4DXHYE
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Vasudus posted:hello landlord i would like to make you the offer of a lifetime in the form of unskilled manual labor in exchange for rent hello tenant I have a mortgage to pay and Wells Fargo isn’t interested in having me whitewash a fence
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lol Good to be a contractor!
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LingcodKilla posted:lol A lot of contractors are getting furloughed and laid off as well. Most contracts contain a provision that lets the government issue a stop work order and halt payment.
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Dec 28, 2018 18:52
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A shutdown should mean every one of those border guys stops getting paid, so that's probably how it doesn't work.
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The Eyes Have It posted:A shutdown should mean every one of those border guys stops getting paid, so that's probably how it doesn't work. They're considered "essential" so they get paid regardless.
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psydude posted:A lot of contractors are getting furloughed and laid off as well. Most contracts contain a provision that lets the government issue a stop work order and halt payment. I’m under the NMCI contract in the shipyards. Getting payed to do nothing is par for the course.
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If you're furlough exempt (meaning you have to come in), you get paid. If you're furlough non-exempt, you go home on leave without pay. This makes you eligible for state unemployment. In either case, you cannot obligate any sort of leave such as annual or sick. Some agencies interpret that as if you're sick and you can't come to work, you go on LWOP status for the remainder of the shutdown and be placed into non-exempt status. Others allow you to come back and you're only on LWOP for the days you were out. Historically, Congress has always authorized back pay, but it's never a given. But I guess you can now offer your landlord to do unskilled labor in lieu of money per OPM. If you have a mortgage, I guess call up Wells Fargo and offer to clean the shitters in your local branch.
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Not paying back pay would be a very trump thing to do. Savings! Put it towards the wall!
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psydude posted:They're considered "essential" so they get paid regardless. I don't think so. Essentials have to come in and are first in line to be paid if we're compensated but they're working for free until Congress pays them.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:If you're furlough exempt (meaning you have to come in), you get paid. If you're furlough non-exempt, you go home on leave without pay. This makes you eligible for state unemployment. serf's up.
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LingcodKilla posted:Not paying back pay would be a very trump thing to do. Can someone put a mechanics lien on the White House for unpaid wages?
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BigDave posted:Can someone put a mechanics lien on the White House for unpaid wages? Like that couple that seized a Bank of America branch because they failed to pay robosigning foreclosure penalties. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/06/06/137002727/sweet-justice-a-florida-couple-forecloses-on-bank-of-america
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I did a bunch of reading on the Skylab program a while back. The "strike" story is little more than media sensationalism, in the book Homesteading Space there are some interviews with the actual people involved: quote:'In an effort to increase our efficiency,' said Gibson, 'we occasionally would have only one of us listening to the voice traffic from the ground and responding to it while the other two of us turned off our radios and worked without interruption. We each signed up for an orbit as the radio-response guy. Well one day we made a mistake and for a whole orbit we all had our radios off!' IIRC there's a post on r/badhistory that goes into exhaustive detail as to the whole mission timeline, as only space nerds can, but another issue with the story is that the "strike" is supposed to have happened on the 28th and they had their discussion with Mission Control on the 30th, but on the 29th they did a space walk, the scabs!
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