Octopus Overlords

Yes, I do.

(I'm surrendering here - continuing would be several pages worth of derailment.)

That’s a weird way to surrender.

Get the last word and declare the debate over…

Heh

Unagi wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:10 pm That’s a weird way to surrender.

No it isn't.

GreenGoo wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:31 pm

Unagi wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:10 pm That’s a weird way to surrender.

No it isn't.

I suppose you are right.

Unagi wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:33 pm I suppose you are right.

Wrong again!

Unagi wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:10 pm That’s a weird way to surrender.

Get the last word and declare the debate over…

Heh

Had I said that the conversation was over, I'd agree. But I surrendered - I automatically lose the argument. He's welcome to get in as many last words as he likes.

Well, this thread went places.

Anyway...

Well, at least we know the first date paid off...

/edit - and to counter the misinformation, she never said 'second date.' She said that they parted and there won't be another date. They've apparently been dating for months. My guess? When the scandal hit, she blamed him. It's keeping with her character.

/edit /edit - and to be clear, there's nothing wrong with having fun on the first date. Or without dating. Or whatever.

/edit /edit /edit - and why the @*#(&*! am I wasting my time on this? I don't even care enough to read about the lives of celebrities I like!

ImLawBoy wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:46 am We really will argue over anything, won't we?

I disagree..
Change my mind!

And outcome of whatever this is...yeah, I don't know, I need to stop scrolling through memes on imgur and go get some work done.

We may argue about anything, but at least we know when we've run something into the ground.

Alefroth wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 7:07 pm We may argue about anything, but at least we know when we've run something into the ground.

Or do we?

gilraen wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:36 pm

And outcome of whatever this is...yeah, I don't know, I need to stop scrolling through memes on imgur and go get some work done.

A friend of mine noted as early as the late 1990s: "The problem with the internet is that everyone talks and nobody listens."

I listen. I open OO, close my eyes and... nothing.

So I just talk.

Holman wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2023 4:06 pm

gilraen wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:36 pm

And outcome of whatever this is...yeah, I don't know, I need to stop scrolling through memes on imgur and go get some work done.

A friend of mine noted as early as the late 1990s: "The problem with the internet is that everyone talks and nobody listens."

Just exposed more there. I think in the real world, the person most interested in what one is saying, is usually oneself.

nod

Always neat to see something like this - totally unexpected.

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1 ... 1528620109

Let's scrap debates and have band battles instead.

"Welcome to the first Republican Presidential hopeful rap battle hunger games" "May the rhymes be ever in your favor."

malchior wrote: Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:56 pm Always neat to see something like this - totally unexpected.

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1 ... 1528620109

I will say, Biden filled his cabinet with personable people, which make me more interested in what they have to say, and then come to find out I respect them. After having so much exposure to Buttigieg as the secretary of transportation of all thing, I would have voted for him in the primaries of 2020. Granholm is the exception. blech

It's horrifying to me that this clip exists.

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/stat ... 2243289538

malchior wrote: Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:56 pm Always neat to see something like this - totally unexpected.

Oh Great! Our Sec of State is a Hoochie Coochie Man ??!

Ha, that was awesome.

Would he be the Hoochie Coochie of State
Or
The Secretary of Hoochie Coochie ?

I think ‘Sec of HC’ is the right label.

He is so good at this

https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/stat ... 6755841056

This morning, I directed my staff to deliver a gift to congratulate and salute Representative Comer and his Team America squad as they embark on their historic impeachment journey.

Unagi wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:48 am

malchior wrote: Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:56 pm Always neat to see something like this - totally unexpected.

Oh Great! Our Sec of State is a Hoochie Coochie Man ??!

I love that song. Even taught it to my daughter when she was about 8 years old.

You go girl. I instantly love this woman.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1707464799209070665

just a PSA

The title of that video is finally gotten to at 11:00 minutes in... if you want to skip 11 minutes of clever lead-up.

Don't get me started on OFW. I don't have the time today but I'll say this: it's going to have huge negative effects on smaller businesses (none of whom sit on the IRA board) and is a moneygrab for city tax revenue and corporate restaurant groups.

I agree that tipping is out of control and that tipped worker wages can often be well under a livable income, despite tips everywh. OFW is still going to be a disaster.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:01 pm Don't get me started on OFW. I don't have the time today but I'll say this: it's going to have huge negative effects on smaller businesses (none of whom sit on the IRA board) and is a moneygrab for city tax revenue and corporate restaurant groups.

I agree that tipping is out of control and that tipped worker wages can often be well under a livable income, despite tips everywh. OFW is still going to be a disaster.

For the clueless, like me:

One Fair Wage, chaired by Alicia Renee Farris, is trying to raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $12 an hour by 2022, and to $12 an hour by 2024 for tipped workers.

Chicago version:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c ... s/3244487/

The change means raising the minimum wage for tipped workers from $9 to $15.80 per hour, though such employees could still get tips. Under the guidelines, the $9 hourly wage would rise by 8% for five years until it reaches the $15.80 total.

coopasonic wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:15 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:01 pm Don't get me started on OFW. I don't have the time today but I'll say this: it's going to have huge negative effects on smaller businesses (none of whom sit on the IRA board) and is a moneygrab for city tax revenue and corporate restaurant groups.

I agree that tipping is out of control and that tipped worker wages can often be well under a livable income, despite tips everywh. OFW is still going to be a disaster.

For the clueless, like me:

One Fair Wage, chaired by Alicia Renee Farris, is trying to raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $12 an hour by 2022, and to $12 an hour by 2024 for tipped workers.

Thanks, I had no idea what that post was about.

I have to wonder if there's a way the city could help the small restaurant owners by giving them tax breaks to offset the sudden burden they're going to be hit with once OFW goes into effect.

On the one hand, I sympathize with hospitality service workers in places where tips aren't that great. But on the other, small restaurants operate on a VERY small margin. This could be potentially devastating to many of them.

In typical fashion, there is no direction or aid for smaller businesses. It's just, "here's the new law, written by and for large corporate chains and groups. Now go make it work at your scale. Or don't and fail. Whatever."

There remains a possibility that it works. We have been told over and over how high minimum wage laws would destroy cities and...where they have been implemented...they didn't.

If the smaller businesses depend on paying workers far under the living wages to survive, maybe they don't deserve to survive.

Victoria Raverna wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:17 pm If the smaller businesses depend on paying workers far under the living wages to survive, maybe they don't deserve to survive.

That's been my stance, for the most part.