Octopus Overlords

malchior wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 8:45 am Wow. I thought that was well-known. It might be regional.

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:35 am I wonder if it's more well known if you waited tables. I've certainly heard of it from my days slinging seafood at Red Lobster, although my anecdotal evidence found no truth to the stereotype.

El Guapo wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 8:45 am

Kraken wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 2:25 am

Kurth wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 12:49 am

Daehawk wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 12:19 pm Standard dress for all Florida state government employees comes with complimentary white hood.

Is she saying Black people don't tip? Is that a common racist slur, or is this just Ann Coulter making up a new one?

I just read it as business with decline by 0%. But I'm often naive when people speak in codes.

That was how I read it when I first saw it. But when I went back and re-read it, that it specifies tips (and not business or some more general terms), it's hard to read it as anything other than "black people don't tip." Which is also a new stereotype to me.

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:35 am I wonder if it's more well known if you waited tables. I've certainly heard of it from my days slinging seafood at Red Lobster, although my anecdotal evidence found no truth to the stereotype.

LordMortis wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:48 am

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 10:35 am I wonder if it's more well known if you waited tables. I've certainly heard of it from my days slinging seafood at Red Lobster, although my anecdotal evidence found no truth to the stereotype.

+1

malchior wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 8:50 am LOL. I unfortunately schooled with actual white supremacists in upstate NY (which is way, way, way more racist than most people realize).

Results from an experimental program that provides free prescription drugs to hundreds of people in Ontario suggest covering the cost of medication produces overall savings for the health-care system, according to a new study.

The research, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum, tracked a total of 747 patients who reported that the high cost of drugs has forced them to leave prescriptions unfilled or stretch out the time between doses. About half were randomly selected to have their drugs fully covered.

After three years, the researchers found that providing prescriptions free of charge to these patients saved the public health-care system an average of $1,488 per patient per year, by helping to prevent such things as unexpected trips to the hospital.

"I was surprised by the magnitude of the savings," said Dr. Nav Persaud, one of the study's authors, a Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

"It seems like eliminating medication costs both saves money in avoided hospitalizations, avoided emergency room visits, makes people healthier and addresses health inequities — it makes access to health more fair."

Pyperkub wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 2:16 pm US politicians have nothing on India for using power for personal reasons

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65726193

Tho the idiocy factor is high!

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The Texas House of Representatives has voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, an unprecedented move following a legislative probe that faulted the third-term Republican for a yearslong pattern of corruption, including abusing his office’s powers, retaliating against whistleblowers and obstructing justice.

Under state law, Paxton is now temporarily suspended from his duties as attorney general and will await a Senate trial.

The vote was 121-23, with two members voting “present.”

“The evidence is substantial. It is alarming and unnerving,” said GOP Rep. Andrew Murr, chair of the General Investigating Committee, during his closing statement following hours of debate. The committee recommended 20 counts of impeachment against Paxton.

Pyperkub wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 2:16 pm US politicians have nothing on India for using power for personal reasons

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65726193

Tho the idiocy factor is high!

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“All gave some, some gave all.”

The beautiful turn of words has memorialized America’s fallen in their sacrifice, and even though Trump is all too alive, he wants his sacrifice memorialized, too.

No, there is no evidence that Trump has sacrificed anything.

But his Memorial Day message expressly states that his fight is equal to the sacrifices made by those who died on Omaha Beach, in Da Nang, and Iraq.

The Saudi-loving presidential candidate started out off-key for a day in which we remember the dead by beginning with a big, all-caps HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

To be fair, he did wish a “happy” Memorial Day to everyone, not just his supporters, and thus included families who have lost loved ones and remember them today.

He must hope they’re happy.

Trump’s statement insists that everyone remember his equal sacrifice in service of the nation by bravely fighting on the front lines in a war against Americans.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has visited Brazil for the first time since he was banned by former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019.

Mr Maduro was received by the new president, fellow leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ahead of a summit of Latin American leaders in Brasilia.

"What's important about Maduro coming here is that it's the beginning of Maduro's return," Lula said.

Daehawk wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:13 pmThats news?

Daehawk wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:32 pm I meant it as shes a nobody a nothing.I wouldn't give her the time.

Daehawk wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:32 pm I meant it as shes a nobody a nothing.I wouldn't give her the time.

Daehawk wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:32 pm I meant it as shes a nobody a nothing.I wouldn't give her the time.

LordMortis wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 7:43 am ...waiting for the consistent impending, I'm not a republican, conspiracy following tweet storm from Musk in support of Biden.

... a Brazilian different My Cousin Vinny gifs out there and none of "I'm waiting" how disappointing...

El Guapo wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 8:39 pm I wonder why Reade left now. Was she under some investigation or legal threat?

Days after the Bible was removed from many Davis School District libraries, a challenge has been made to ban the Book of Mormon from school shelves.

The district confirmed a request was made Friday by an individual who wants the book removed due to violent content. A committee will now review the religious text to decide whether it will also be taken out of school libraries in the district.
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The same committee that will review the Book of Mormon found the Bible "does not contain sensitive material as defined by Utah Code," according to a district spokesperson, but contains "vulgarity and violence" that caused concerns over age appropriateness.