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Australia's 'retirement age' just became 67. So why are the French so upset about working until 64?

Just because something is worse somewhere else doesn't mean you should be happy when things only get slightly worse where you are. They are angry because not only they are historically againt pension reforms, and the way the government forced through the bill by bypassing parliament in a legal method, but one that shows they are really just forcing this down despite popular opinion being very, very against it.

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Conservative Voting Group Sued Over Refusal To Produce Ballot-Harvesting Evidence

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No, and despite 4 dozen cases (probably more including GOP cases) launched by Trump where there would be an opportunity to present the evidence they have failed to provide anything.

It turns out when it's not facebook or fox news and a lawyer realized they could be in deep shit for lying the evidence just evaporates, presumably to the same place as hunter's laptop.

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TIL about the Migingo island, one of the most densely populated islands in the world. The rocky island has density 65,500/km2

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15m^2 is 5mX3m. Or ~9ft by ~15ft. Parking spots in the US are 8.5ft by 18ft.

https://asphaltindustrial.com/blogs/asphalt-industrial-blog/parking-space-dimension-guide#:~:text=The%20standard%20parking%20space%20that,8%20%C2%BD%20feet%20in%20width.

So actually smaller than a parking spot.

For reference, a honda civic is 6ft wide by 16ft.

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When your company lays you off despite making record profits last year/quarter

The company I work for has a different strategy. They separated when reviews, and therefore raises and bonuses are given from the upper management to the lower level staff. Lower staff go first. When it comes time for lower staff raises and bonuses there's talk of 'tightening belts' and 'bracing for a recession' during communication meetings. A few months later when it's time for upper management it's 'Record profits!'.

Of course the lower level staff are given bonuses and raises based on those poor projections, while upper management gets theirs based on record profits.

If you keep your long term lower staff happy with very low raises and bonuses you not only save the money for your upper management in the short term, but also ensure that long term even a return to normal raises saves them money overall.

This is why I remind my coworkers that it is federally protected to share your wage and discuss it. They only get away with this if the long timers don't speak with the new hires and realize how badly they're being shafted.

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SKIDROW and Masquerade claim that the real identity of EMPRESS is Voksi

As long as games keep getting cracked this drama is just entertainment. I'm on Empress' telegram and it's been entertaining to watch their descent into madness.

So far they've opened the main channel followed by others trying to create an empress community, started a cult charging people $1000 to join (teaching the most advanced and supernatural facts humanity cannot imagine or comprehend according to them), started drama with fitgirl, is staunchly and VERY vocally anti-trans, sells AI artwork, regularly goes off on 1337x and reddit, and lastly I saw the reply to this via their channel which is below: "To sKIDrow:

what a SORRY state of madness to see you in after i raped you... but worry not, because next time its gonna be HARDER"

I wonder what is going to happen next.

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Can I dual boot windows and Linux?

I run this pretty much exact setup, with Windows and Linux on 2 drives.

Definitely run 2 drives.

Set the main boot in the BIOS to the Linux drive, you can get grub to recognize windows so your boot menu goes to linux by default, but you can still select windows if you feel like slumming it. This keeps windows from messing with Grub.

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Just use your rear view mirror. Point it directly backwards and there should still be enough light to annoy the hell out of them. I do it regularly on my morning commute and it is very effective.

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It hurts

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This reaches a level of poetic justice that I don't recall seeing since Herman Cain got an award named after himself, and I'm not sorry about that at all.

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It hurts

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It's really not any worse than you probably have already seen on the internet. There's blood and his reaction / slumping / etc but really not much else.

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Snoop Dogg Admits He's “Scared” to Go to Movies Because of LGTBQ+ Representation

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Words used in medical terminology (Like many areas of science) were made using specific latin roots for a reason you numpty, and the reason why is so the definition is clear and set, and there won't be some idiot insisting a word means something it doesn't.

Take hypoglycemia for example. Hypo: Low Glyc: Sugar -emia: In blood.

Just try to divine what hypoglycemia could POSSIBLY mean given that information. It's a bit more than a fucking hint.

Dermatitis? Derma: Skin -itis: Inflammation. Sweet JESUS what ever could dermatitis mean?!?!?

Next you're going to tell me pericarditis, containing the roots Peri (Around) Card (Heart, Cardio) -itis (inflammation) means inflammation around the heart! Insanity!

So what ever in WORLD could a medical condition named HYDROPHOBIA ever mean?