And his wife still thinks he was stupid for that
Murrell joked that he preferred the employees receiving the bonus over his wife getting “a new fur coat”.
“She still looks at me like I’m stupid, but I thought it was worth it,” Murrell was quoted as saying by Fortune. “They worked so hard. They were so overwhelmed.”
Thanking service members has always been fucking weird from a non-American point of view
Maybe but you give them an inch and in a few years the ads will be targeted
It’s sad but I find there’s a legit problem with sexism against women on Lemmy/Piefed. Its too often I see memes posted that are precariously bordering on boomer/incel humour
Based on the other comments here I’d suggest black electrical tape over the eyes first
I’m a bit OOTL since I mostly just use usenet and TL but what allegations?
Ditto from Canada
It also makes me think of Operation Paperclip, like the one where the USA hired a tonne of Nazi scientists after WW2
There actually are a number of derived languages/dialects of English like Jamaican Patois or other English-based creole languages
For those who haven’t read the (admittedly clickbaity) article, it’s not a new virus and isn’t any huge threat:
HMPV has also been detected in L.A. County, though at levels considered low to moderate at this point, data show.
While HMPV may not necessarily ring a bell, it isn’t a new virus. Its typical pattern of seasonal spread was upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its resurgence could signal a return to a more typical pre-coronavirus respiratory disease landscape.
God fucking damn it, I’ve been a massive Zed advocate and this is extremely saddening. I went as far as convincing my teammates to use it over VSCode and have had a personal subscription to their AI service, partly just to support them
Why can’t we have a single nice thing? I’ll continue to use it after opting out but I’ll be back to the same feeling of reluctance I had when I used Code.
Hopefully we’ll see a fork of the project
What are you gaining from being so insufferable lol
Most recently, xAI has come under fire after Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real people in response to X user prompts.
That’s an understatement…
I’m very much critical of those topics, but they’re a bit beyond the scope of my initial comment. Just to make it clear, I’m not a centrist nor a Liberal voter. My original point is that the average Canadian LPC voter is not voting out of malice for others but out of a desire for stability (especially now in a time where things are very unstable). For example, a Liberal would generally want existing social support systems like our socialised healthcare to continue being funded at the levels that meet people’s needs but are generally anxious at the idea of funding new similar programs like pharmacare.
Most of these voters also have zero real insight or historical context on geopolitical topics such as neocolinialism and I can say confidently that they’re not thinking about it when voting.
I think it’s all ignorant, misguided and lacks vision but I don’t consider it something that’s worthy of being labeled “bad”.
Sorry, what are you referring to exactly? If it’s the treatment of indigenous peoples in Canada or historical collaboration with the US’ imperialistic wars then I’d agree with you but I know the average Liberal voter isn’t thinking about either of those things. While it’s bad that it’s not on their mind, I wouldn’t call them bad people for it as I would do with enthusiastic supporters of Pierre Poilievre’s CPC
Centrists in Canada are just Liberals and while I disagree with some of their policies, they’re not bad, just status quo. Centrists in the US are undoubtedly bad though because what the hell?
Nono, you’ve got to give Americans more credit as they did do something: they voted him into office again
If you go in to your user preferences on the Lemmy.world desktop site there’s a toggle for “show bot account” or something like that
I enjoyed it so it was a good use of my screen space which zeroes out your criticism :)