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@Mike09_100 @RealPostFolder Field sales jobs have had gas reimbursement for years and years. It’s common. Just no common for a daily commute.
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@RealPostFolder Ok but when we all went to the office everyday, did you ever expect or ask your employer to cover your gas and commute time? How in gods name could they possibly track and verify that.
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mid meeting, physical one, my coworker wrote his resignation on a napkin and handed it to our boss during the meeting
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@KILLTOPARTY Reading like a prequel to a “my wife asked for an open marriage” reddit story.
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Some men are drowning while others die of thirst
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@TopTrendingBuzz @Hokuto_Ide You forgot to mention that Nagasaki had the biggest population of Christians in Japan. Made martyrs in seconds.
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@Hokuto_Ide There's a reason the Japanese stopped being religious. They know it's not true. Only the dumb ones still believe.
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この投稿もアメリカまで届くのかな？
ハロー。アメリカの皆さん。私は日本で人口1％しかない宗教マイノリティーのキリスト教徒の1人です。
クリスチャントゥデイというメディアの編集長をしています。
よろしくお願いします。
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@GiffLasta Yes I saw you answer the same to most people . I’m just sprinkling in context.
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@jcmbeans Yes. They were virile men.
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Giff Lasta@GiffLasta
The “Sin” of Masculinity A modest proposal for Christian virility Too many men in churches today here a message like this: “The Christian life is serene, modest, passive and receptive. Don’t do, just be. Give up your grand plans, stop relying on your own strength, let go and let God.” The rhetoric stops just short of calling masculinity itself a sin, but that's the implicit assumption. We need to do better. Manhood involves gaining mastery of the passionate fire in your soul: that core impulse hungry to initiate projects, take action, pursue goals, and face danger. You learn to choose concrete goals, measure progress, and reevaluate what works. The church warns of dangers. You can’t build the kingdom of God in our own strength or earn his love through good works. Many things lie outside your control, and the best laid plans often don’t pan out. You need to be open to God breaking in and surprising you. All that is true, but openness to God doesn’t make masculinity a presumptuous idolatry. He has given you a power that is truly yours to wield. He expects you to own it, and use it. Leaving it undeveloped, or just using it whimsically and unintentionally, is a failure of stewardship. Scripturally, the builder with poor materials is saved in the end. It’s the servant who sits idle on his master’s investment that is thrown out forever. Our master prefers any initiative, even risky initiative that loses the investment, to lazy neglect of what he entrusts. Taking an overcautious approach to masculinity, far from being humble or spiritual, is unfaithful to the God who made us in his image. The great men of the Bible were often impulsive or misguided. But they acted. They took risks. They put themselves out there. God named Israel after Jacob’s wrestling audacity. The Lord loved David’s cocky spirited heart. Jesus built a church with Peter’s impetuous determination. Christ chose the fanatical Paul to spread the gospel (with riots and trouble). He affirms the fire; he corrects the aim. The fire in a man’s heart comes from above. People in your life need your capable and inspiring leadership. There's work to do, projects to begin, battles to fight, a legacy to build, and a power within you to shepherd, cultivate, and wield, for God’s glory and our good.
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Now ask yourself:
Were Jacob, Moses, Samson, Joshua, David, Peter, Paul, and Jesus himself…
…more like the awkward church guy?
…or like the untamable bad boy?
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@GiffLasta Framing bad but I understand what you’re trying to say. The first believers were troublemakers in the eyes of Roman and Jewish law. They were revolutionaries. Jesus turned over tables for turning his father’s house into a marketplace. Simon Peter cut off the ear of Jesus arrestor
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@MCFCDamo @menkarfogrolls @LundukeJournal lol not comparable because it’s likely that heroin in illegal in the country it’s being shipped from too.
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@menkarfogrolls @LundukeJournal I perfectly understand it, you don't seem to understand how service provision works. Do you think it's perfectly fine to buy heroin online because it's not illegal in the country you're buying it from?
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The United Kingdom has demanded that 4chan pay a £520,000 fine for failure to comply with UK age verification laws.
However, since 4chan is based in the USA, the UK has no jurisdiction to fine Americans in America.
“As has been explained to your agency, ad nauseam, the United Kingdom lost the American Revolutionary War. We are not in the mood to discuss the matter further, and have not been in the mood for 250 years.”
The letter to the UK’s Ofcom ended by suggesting that “maybe, you could just stop sending Americans stupid letters and acknowledge the sovereignty of the United States.”
4chan’s attorney, @prestonjbyrne also included a picture of a giant hamster dressed as Godzilla.
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@JodkaVello @AdamSinger Explains the difficulty grasping the concept of per capita
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We should not be surprised that Mara Gay believes that $500 million dollars distributed to 327 million people is $1 million each.
According to Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for U.S. adults, about 68% of African American adults have limited ability and struggle significantly with percentages, fractions, decimals, and multiplication/division.
Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology.
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This is still an all-timer clip, of MSNBC’s Brian Williams and NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay reading a tweet and at no point in their brains does the math click for either of them. They made a whole on-screen graphic too, which compounds how funny it is
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@US_OGA @boijingle Whoever runs this account wins!
Btw, Walgreens is out of business.
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Governor - Magnesium citrate is a saline laxative use before major surgery or a colonoscopy. It's available without a prescription, both as a generic and under various brand names.
We suggest you stop at Walgreens pick some up on the way home.
Because you are full of crap.
Governor Gavin Newsom@CAgovernor
Americans will pay $1.5 BILLION MORE at the gas pump just this week because of Donald Trump's war with Iran. California will continue using the tools we've spent years developing to help fight price spikes and lessen the blow from Trump's recklessness.
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@noampomsky Millennials became aware of what we’re putting into our bodies and the food industry. That’s why you see the corporations making huge investments into more healthier alternatives.
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For me it boils down to how the F-35 was sold. Initially it was supposed to be a better CAP platform than the F-16, a better CAS platform than the A-10, and a better bomb truck than the F/A-18.
Turns out, it’s a jack of all trades, yet a master of none. And that’s actually what makes it great.
An F-35 would lose a one turn dogfight to an F-16. Against an F-15, it’d lose a one turn or two turn dogfight. But the F-35 should never be in a dogfight, because even though it isn’t quite as stealthy as the F-22, the best F-15 radar can only detect an F-35 within about 18 miles. The problem is that the F-35 can detect the F-15 at 100 miles and lob an AMRAAM from 60-80 miles.
Maybe the F-35 can’t carry quite as much as the F/A-18 Super Hornet, but the F-35 can carry its payload internally in order to maintain stealth.
Yes, it’s not a titanium BBBRRRRRTTTT bathtub. But with its advanced targeting capability it is able to put rounds on target and warheads on foreheads from altitude in order to avoid the ground attack the A-10 was designed to absorb.
And the best part is that an F-35 can do all of this in a single sortie. And with its data link and vast sensor array, it makes every other asset that much more capable.
Imagine the following scenario.
A pair of F-35s launch from the carrier loaded with GBU-54 JDAMs assigned to an HVT.
The comms come alive. A rifle squad is being pinned down by an old Zeus. What the hell. It’s only 20 miles off the flight path. Slide it up to mil power and turn in.
Two blips on the screen. A pair of MiG-29s racing full burner to provide air cover to their armor. 60 miles out. FOX 3! Wingman echoes for the second MiG. You hold radar lock until the missiles go pit bull, then roll in to vaporize the Zeus.
Might have to burn a bit to get back to time on target, but the only people who ever knew you were here was the E-2 Hawkeye circling off the coast, and the KC tanker you had to hail to top off the gas tank for the return trip to the carrier, thanks to that little extra curricular activity.
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For years I have been reading about how the F-35 is a stupid, vulnerable boondoggle.
Yet it appears to me that the system is flying over airspace covered by the most advanced air defense systems Russia and China have to offer, yet it is completely invisible, untouched, and accomplishing all of its assigned missions with zero aircraft losses.
Any of you current or former US military fighter jocks have thoughts?
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@MasterK70757958 @Antoi_c @clashreport They do this by necessity, not because they want to. Renewable is a joke when it comes to efficiency. The reason they’ve been going so hard into solar and wind is because US is impeding china’s access to oil.
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@Antoi_c @clashreport Buddy China invests heavily in renewable energy that powers most of its electricity. They are far ahead of most Western countries when it comes to renewable energy.
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German Chancellor Merz:
We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true.
But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly.
With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.
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@OpenOpenNaaa @4thOfJuly365 If James Donald Bowman wants to change his name to JD Vance, it did doesn’t matter to me because he didn’t put on some lipstick and wig and punch me in the face when I called him Mr. Bowman.
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@4thOfJuly365 If someone changes their name are you going to call them by it or insist on calling them their birth name and acting as if they're forcing you to follow some rule? You don't seem to have a problem calling JD Vance buy his preferred name.
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Dear Trans Community,
Let's get something straight.
(pun intended)
I don’t care if you identify as a toaster, a unicorn, or the lovechild of a chalupa and a protest sign.
Chase your bliss, live your truth, knock yourself out.
But don’t roll up with your pronoun rulebook, biology rewrites, or the audacity to demand every school, sitcom, and water cooler chat be your personal cheer squad.
Fck that.
And fck you for forcing that shit on me.
The First Amendment is my wingman, and it says I can speak my mind, call you out, and not clap like a trained seal for your every whim.
Freedom is my vibe, and I’m not trading it for your feelings.
Respect?
You want it?
Earn it.
Keep your choices out of my face and my kids’ classrooms.
Live and let live, not live and make it everyone else's problem.
I don’t care about your lifestyle any more than I care about my neighbor’s keto diet or my cousin’s obsession with sock puppets.
Don’t make your identity my homework.
This isn’t about denying your existence either.
It’s about mutual respect, not a one-way worship session.
Spare me the “inclusion” bullshit.
You’re 0.6% of the population.
That comes out to roughly 1.6 million of you.
Why do you need a standing ovation from the other 339 million of us?
I don’t need Lexi, the non-binary trans art student from Portland, signing off on my love for bald eagles and backyard barbecues.
So why do you crave my approval like it’s oxygen?
If you accept yourself, why am I getting your validation invoice?
How can you demand I embrace who you are now, when you couldn’t embrace who you were then?
Let’s keep it simple.
You do you, I’ll do me, and we’ll both keep the drama for reality TV.
In freedom,
Mr. Star-Spangled MAGA
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