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Tulalip Tulips posted:The last time this happened was before me and it got out a head who wanted to fully privatize child welfare so there's a lot of unknowns.  uhhh…I don’t even know how that would work. Besides very poorly.
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Turn it over to private, mostly Christian, adoption agencies. You know the ones currently stealing children at our southern border and charging (mostly well meaning) people tens of thousands of dollars to adopt children forcibly separated from their parents, would be my guess.
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swickles posted:So just spent the last half hour catching a bat in our house, so thats a new one for me. I've obtained footage of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lXfu6jLDw
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I'm up bright and early watching Day 1 of the live stream of the World Pipe Band Championships from Glasgow, Scotland. So glad I have wireless headphones to hear everything without disturbing the neighbors.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I'm up bright and early watching Day 1 of the live stream of the World Pipe Band Championships from Glasgow, Scotland. So glad I have wireless headphones to hear everything without disturbing the neighbors. I can’t imagine that doing anything but blowing out your headphones lol. I had a couple friends in high school who played bagpipes, it’s close to racing cars running straight pipes in that “feel it in your chest” regard.
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I didn't understand the appeal of bagpipes until I heard a chorus of them accompanied by drums at the highland games in Scotland and goddamn I could run through a brick wall to that 
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Well, check out the world's best bands. Just coming on now is a band I used to play in until I got kicked out: https://vimeo.com/838253880
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a neat cape posted:It's going to be bad. The California deserts don't have the infrastructure to drain the water properly so its just going to sit on the surface Now us Southerners finally get to be as smug about rain infrastructure as Northerners are about snow infrastructure everytime we get like a half-inch flurry and poo poo shuts down
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Grittybeard posted:Um...how disconnected to you have to be to arrive at this conclusion? This is like a horse sense thing it seems. Air Skwirl posted:This is a surprisingly common theory among administrative types I have no explanation for. Yuuuup. We have a similar crisis with pay. When I started, promotional steps were automatic 12% raises (except the initial from paramedic crew member to crew chief was 18%). During Covid, they hatched a GRAND PLAN to help with recruiting including increasing baseline wages for all street personnel ~15% as well as an implementation of an education and experience matrix. We had the highest wages in the southeast and drew a swift tidal wave of applicants from all across the country. Success! Except there were two problems. A) they stopped at the first step—no experience matrix was implemented and they didn’t counter when every regional service countered with higher wages B) they quietly compressed all promotional steps down to 6%, and have been *discretionarily* giving only 3% at some steps. Not to mention we still have a crisis with night shift. This has been a solved problem in healthcare for a half century, but our service refuses to address it with shift differential. So basically half our systems turns over at a higher rate than the other half. So our recruiting had dried up. Attrition continues apace. They’ve disincentivized promotions for senior people (no one wants to promote a step for 3-6% to lose seniority to stay on nights for ~5yrs). So what conclusion have they drawn from this? Word for word: “money won’t fix this.” Meanwhile admin raises have been 20% annually and it’s public information. I’ve come to the full conclusion that they are obviously not interested in fixing the problem and it is fully intentional.
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lol Hurricane Hilary is now a Cat 4
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LeeMajors posted:lol Hurricane Hilary is now a Cat 4 It's ironic that all Hilary has to do to spare a lot of people irreperable damage is move to the left a tiny bit.
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swickles posted:It's ironic that all Hilary has to do to spare a lot of people irreperable damage is move to the left a tiny bit.  Goteem
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GD_American posted:Now us Southerners finally get to be as smug about rain infrastructure as Northerners are about snow infrastructure everytime we get like a half-inch flurry and poo poo shuts down Now if we could just actually get some rain. All my soil is drying out and shrinking and causing havoc with my garage door and front porch posts.
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swickles posted:It's ironic that all Hilary has to do to spare a lot of people irreperable damage is move to the left a tiny bit.
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swickles posted:It's ironic that all Hilary has to do to spare a lot of people irreperable damage is move to the left a tiny bit. 
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"Hilary wasn't left enough so I voted for Trump" is a heckuva self-own, ngl
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Ether Frenzy posted:"Hilary wasn't left enough so I voted for Trump" is a heckuva self-own, ngl Do these people exist?
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Ether Frenzy posted:"Hilary wasn't left enough so I voted for Trump" is a heckuva self-own, ngl That’s a weird read. People are hungry for meaningful change and Hillary represented the malignant status quo—full stop. The folks clamoring for better lives didn’t bail on Hillary for Trump. Also why overanalyze it? It’s a good joke.
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Air Skwirl posted:Turn it over to private, mostly Christian, adoption agencies. You know the ones currently stealing children at our southern border and charging (mostly well meaning) people tens of thousands of dollars to adopt children forcibly separated from their parents, would be my guess. Oh I could go on for days about Christian adoption agencies and foster care licensing since they're the primary non-DCYF foster care licensors here. There's such a wide range of supports, quality and information they give so it's an incredibly mixed bag with foster parents who go through them. Some are great, others will email constituant relations because you gave "their" baby back to the bio-parents who did what they needed to do.
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Ether Frenzy posted:"Hilary wasn't left enough so I voted for Trump" is a heckuva self-own, ngl "Hilary wasn't left enough so I didn't vote, and Trump won."
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I wish we had normal people to vote for and didn’t have to choose being bloodgargling demons or focus-grouped robotic freaks.
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Annual reminder that percentage wise, 2008 primary Hillary voters were more than twice as likely to vote for McCain in the general election as 2016 primary Bernie voters were to vote for Trump in the general
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LeeMajors posted:I wish we had normal people to vote for and didn’t have to choose being bloodgargling demons or focus-grouped robotic freaks. I agree but when you're talking about the race for NFL MVP it's not DeShaun Watson or Russell Wilson winning lol I've made it a personal rule to shut the gently caress up about past elections
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swickles posted:It's ironic that all Hilary has to do to spare a lot of people irreperable damage is move to the left a tiny bit. Great googly moogly
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Air Skwirl posted:Annual reminder that percentage wise, 2008 primary Hillary voters were more than twice as likely to vote for McCain in the general election as 2016 primary Bernie voters were to vote for Trump in the general It’s an evergreen fictitious reality for centrists to justify punching left. gently caress em.
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1692570240629063873 Lmao even this dinosaur-rear end website has a block feature. He's mad about how many people have him blocked, isn't he
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then again i've kept hearing people assume twitter is dead for nearly a year so who the gently caress knows anymore
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Vertical Lime posted:then again i've kept hearing people assume twitter is dead for nearly a year so who the gently caress knows anymore There's a pretty large swath of popular posters on twitter that will likely leave when excessively abusive people are allowed to comment on every tweet they make.
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It's just a ploy to temporarily remove it then bring it back as a paid feature
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I generally try to refrain from gendered insults but Elon is such a baby back bitch. No other way to put it. Just infinitely fragile.
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Twitter is dumb and always has been dumb OP
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I fundamentally don't understand Elon's mindset and I'm glad I don't, even if it leaves me completely baffled.
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C-Euro posted:Lmao even this dinosaur-rear end website has a block feature. The ability to block users is a requirement on both the apple and android storefronts for social media apps, so hey, good luck to Elon on this one.
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C-Euro posted:Lmao even this dinosaur-rear end website has a block feature. The dipshits that pay for blue are hopping mad about not getting the engagement they want and continue to prattle on about being shadowbanned when they’re really just blocked because no one wants to hear their bullshit He can’t tell those people that they loving suck and no one wants to hear them so he’s just going to foist them on the people who have stuck around instead (Also delete your loving Twitter already if you haven’t)
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I still like Twitter. Obviously it's gotten dramatically worse in the past year, but the people I know I like are still there joking, politicing, and giving me good sports stuff. Basically feels like the community element has died since the interactivity is all hosed by Elon's various errors. It still serves as an avenue to people I like so I'll hang out until that's untrue or no longer worth the bother. Or till I get a bluesky invite.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Or till I get a bluesky invite. I can help with that. Check your PMs. Just easier to post this extra one: bsky-social-q4o37-q4rty Silly Burrito fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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Silly Burrito posted:I can help with that. Check your PMs. Also have one more if someone else wants one. I also have one going spare if anyone wants.
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