All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Reviresco]

Wretched Ron got played like a cheap fiddle by The Mouse:

DeSantisÂ’ Reedy Creek board says Disney stripped its power

Hahahahahahahahah!!!!


My second favorite part ...

One of those firms is Cooper & Kirk, which has gotten more than $2.8 million in legal fees and contracts from the DeSantis administration to defend a controversial social media law, a ban on cruise ship COVID-19 “vaccine passport” requirements, and a restriction on felons seeking to vote.

Cooper & KirkÂ’s lawyers will bill $795 an hour, according to the firmÂ’s engagement letter. The boutique firmÂ’s roster of lawyers includes Adam Laxalt, who roomed with DeSantis when he was training at the Naval Justice School in 2005 and made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate last year in Nevada.

Weren't those all cases Desantis lost? 2.8 million of taxpayers money ... to LOSE. LOL!

That's not including the local debt taxpayers are worried about having to pick up that used to be paid by Disney.

What's happening in Florida is so weird. I read an article in Time that the state isn't really doing that well.

https://time.com/6266618/ron-desanti...rnance*******/

From the little I've read; he doesn't seem to be performing super-well as a governor beyond the culture war nonsense.

I'm not sure why folks in Florida (the ones that actually came out to vote) supported DeSantis in such large numbers.

It's a race to see whether Mississippi or Florida can sit at the bottom of the Worst States by Any Metric. Even before Destantis, their education system suxed and skilled workers laughed at their wages. Add to that climate change weather issues, the housing insurance crisis, and I honestly don't know why anyone who isn't filthy rich stays there. It's not all that great in Alabama, Georgia, or SC, but it's tons better than FL.

Because its an old state and DeSantis is playing up the tune of , every issue you old folks can't handle with modern times is due to gays and transsexuals. Its basically using "fear" policies to plant seeds that the "woke" is tearing up the state while he has no answers on homelessness , crime and covid deaths.

It's a Maga Red state that panders to the rich and corporations. They also were pulling shady shenanigans in the House elections with fake candidates. Plus they picked up the Cuban vote by yelling 'socialist' and apparently threatening the election boards and disenfranchised Democratic voters.

[Spike-X]

Life is a game with a set of rules (at least in the west). You follow the rules and you'll have an ok life. Part of the rules is to get a skill that'll pay you a living wage.

Ok Boomer.

[ed2962]

Life is a game with a set of rules (at least in the west). You follow the rules and you'll have an ok life. Part of the rules is to get a skill that'll pay you a living wage.

Well...there were a number of folks who were doing ok, then the pandemic hit. Before that you had people who had an ok life, then 2008 happened. And during all that for the last 25-ish yrs you had folks with jobs that paid a living wage but those jobs got outsourced to places outside of "the west". There's no shortage of people who play by the rules yet still get screwed.

[Vakanai]

Life is a game with a set of rules (at least in the west). You follow the rules and you'll have an ok life. Part of the rules is to get a skill that'll pay you a living wage.

This...this might be the single most spectacularly dumbest thing I have ever read that wasn't tweeted by Trump.

[Refrax5]

Life is a game with a set of rules (at least in the west). You follow the rules and you'll have an ok life. Part of the rules is to get a skill that'll pay you a living wage.

What a childish, simplistic, insulting view of the world and other people.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Well...there were a number of folks who were doing ok, then the pandemic hit. Before that you had people who had an ok life, then 2008 happened. And during all that for the last 25-ish yrs you had folks with jobs that paid a living wage but those jobs got outsourced to places outside of "the west". There's no shortage of people who play by the rules yet still get screwed.

Yea but this are almost back to normal now, except for those people screwing themselves with 'quiet quitting'. You deny yourself opportunities when you do that.

[Malvolio]

Yea but this are almost back to normal now, except for those people screwing themselves with 'quiet quitting'. You deny yourself opportunities when you do that.

What opportunities are those? The ones where you do more work, but get paid the same? Or the ones where you do someone else's work, but they still take the credit?

[Tami]

US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling

On Friday, Biden said that he was inclined to block the Willow project, only to be told by administration lawyers that ConocoPhillips, the owner of the project lease, would likely sue and win to secure it. “My strong inclination was to disapprove of it across the board but the advice I got from counsel was that if that were the case, I may very well lose,” the president said.

The administration has also indicated that the terms of the Inflation Reduction Act also compel the Gulf of Mexico sales, although opponents argue that such a large area did not need to be put up for sale.

[Gray Lensman]

What opportunities are those? The ones where you do more work, but get paid the same? Or the ones where you do someone else's work, but they still take the credit?

Quiet Quitters are really just people who wised up and realized that the prize on the end of the string was always going to be yoinked again just before they could grab it, and decided that the frustration of watching thier boss laughing at them again wasn't worth it anymore.

[ed2962]

Yea but this are almost back to normal now, except for those people screwing themselves with 'quiet quitting'. You deny yourself opportunities when you do that.

Things are stabilizing now, but they aren't quite at the "normal" we had 5 or 6 yrs ago. And we're never going to go back to the normal we had say 50yrs ago where if you were a guy with a college degree and you got your girlfriend pregnant, you could get married, get a job at the local widget factory and support your family. You wouldn't be rich but you could be alright. Or if you wanted to go to college, you could pay for it with a summer job. That economy is gone and it's probably never coming back. The so-called "quiet-quitting" isn't remotely new...we've all either known someone or been that person ourselves that took a job we didn't like just to pay the bills and did the bare minimum while keeping an eye open for other job opportunities.

[shooshoomanjoe]

What opportunities are those? The ones where you do more work, but get paid the same? Or the ones where you do someone else's work, but they still take the credit?

When your manager, supervisor or even co-workers moves onto another company that offers better benefits and bring you along. And you can also learn new skills when you volunteer for jobs at work that can benefit you in the future.

[Tendrin]

When your manager, supervisor or even co-workers moves onto another company that offers better benefits and bring you along. And you can also learn new skills when you volunteer for jobs at work that can benefit you in the future.

Oh boy. /10char

[JackDaw]

Quiet Quitters are really just people who wised up and realized that the prize on the end of the string was always going to be yoinked again just before they could grab it, and decided that the frustration of watching thier boss laughing at them again wasn't worth it anymore.

It (quiet quitting) is often a good option…it’s the one I used for last few years at work…but it does limit opportunities, it’s not a good strategy for the seriously ambitious.

[Reviresco]

US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling

Needs new counsel.

I mean, look at all the things Biden is trying to accomplish, that some Republican ********* sues about, whether they can win or not. Let them sue. Heck. Sue them first.

[Vakanai]

When your manager, supervisor or even co-workers moves onto another company that offers better benefits and bring you along. And you can also learn new skills when you volunteer for jobs at work that can benefit you in the future.

Except for most people, most of the time, when yes they do try - that doesn't happen. Upper mobility has shrunk and stagnated for a long time now. The trend has for years been you put in more work for the same pay, often for fewer benefits, for years, and only wind up worse off because **** happens in life that soaks up your savings and you just can't save up more, and all trying does in those situations is usually give you more stress not success. This has happened to so many people this is why they quiet quit. They're not lazy. Let me repeat that again - THEY'RE NOT LAZY!!! They're just sick of the bullshit and fed up.