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Yavin4's JournalThe responsibility of Sen. Joe Manchin to make bi-partisanship work.
Unlike most of his fellow Democrats, Sen. Manchin is a strong believer in forging bi-partisan consensus with Republicans on major initiatives like voting rights and infrastructure. Also, he wants to maintain the filibuster as well. He believes in the traditional rules of the senate.
Fine. Then it's up to him, and him alone, to find and forge Republican support. He has to demonstrate to the world that bi-partisanship is indeed possible and that Republicans really do want to help govern this nation. He has to prove that.
If he fails to do so, then he's just a tool for Republican obstructionism. So, instead of peppering him with questions about the filibuster, ask him directly what he's doing to garner Republican support.
Cubs prospect arrested with 21 pounds of meth in team duffel bag
Oh, just great. Now, the Cubs' meth and oxy fan night giveaway has been spoiled. Way to go Jesus!
The Vail Daily reports Jesus Camargo-Corrales, 25, of Tempe, Arizona, appeared in Eagle County Court on Thursday on charges including unlawful distribution of methamphetamine and oxycodone, both class 1 drug felonies, as well as charges of unlawful possession of each drug, both class 4 drug felonies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/03/20/cubs-prospect-arrested-meth-jesus-camargo-corrales/4783473001/
Remote work, a new way to cut salaries?
Before everyone praises the new wave of working remotely, understand that corporations have another tool to lower salaries, esp. high paying tech salaries.
I can see corporations estimating wheter a particular on-premise service can be done entirely remotely. Once determined, that particular service can be officially re-located to a low cost of living state. For example, say an L.A. company can re-locate network help desk functions to Mississippi. They can give their employees the option to work remotely from any where, but they will be paid as if they live in Mississippi regardless of where they actually live. You can live in L.A., but you'll be working at a Mississippi rate.
This is already starting to happen:
Over the past six months, many employees living in major cities like San Francisco have uprooted their lives in favor of less densely populated areas with a lower cost of living and more space.
In response, major tech firms have begun scrutinizing the pay of employees who have permanently left the Bay Area. According to a recent report from Bloomberg's Nico Grant, Sophie Alexander, and Kurt Wagner, software company VMware has decided to reduce the salaries of those who have moved to less expensive cities. While employees can permanently work from anywhere, their salaries may now be lower if they leave the Bay Area — an employee who moves to Denver, for example, will see an 18% reduction in their salary, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-cutting-salaries-outside-bay-area-twitter-facebook-vmware-2020-9
Kitteh is channeling his origins.
As a kid, my introduction to pizza was Mama Celeste
Needless to say, I hated pizza as a kid until I got a little older.
Why you can't compare Covid-19 vaccines
John Oliver's story tonight on plastics and recycling. I saw a very good video on this subject.
I saw this video 3 mos. earlier.
My reaction to watching the "Q" documentary on HBO....
...surf the net....
Launched in July 2013 the Greek golden visa programme grants a five year residency visa in return for an investment in real estate. There is no minimum stay requirement and children up to the age of 21 are included in the family application. The visa is granted for five years and renewed every five years if the property investment is retained. It is not necessary to live in the country in order to retain and renew the investor visa. However citizenship can only be granted after seven years of residency.
https://www.goldenvisas.com/greece
Scientist behind Pfizer vaccine: mRNA shots for cancer coming 'in couple years'
“We have several different cancer vaccines based on mRNA,” said Tureci, who is BioNTech’s chief medical officer.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/scientist-behind-pfizer-vaccine-tech-may-prevent-cancer-in-a-couple-of-years/
Fascinating.
While working on a covid data project, I learned that the U.S. had 300K infections in 1 day
This is for my class project. I thought that the number was wrong, but nope:
https://deadline.com/2021/01/us-tops-300000-new-cases-in-one-day-1234664162/
One of the highest single day records in the world.
Data projects are like that some times. You get a data point that you just cannot believe and think that you made a mistake some where or that it was recorded wrong or something. But then, that cold hard truth just hits you in the face.
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