I don’t mean to be…dark but.
If everyone has hantavirus on that ship, or they’re most likely going to get it, due to the transmission rate
The ship can’t dock..
isn’t everyone on that boat eventually going to die?
So there’s just gonna be a ghost boat floating around like a giant Viking funeral?
What is the plan here?
We got rid of spirit airlines just in time to launch spirit cruise ships? Like what the fuck…?
@SenJohnKennedy Builds new houses at a cheaper price, people buy them, INVESTOR offers them an extra $100k to buy their house, sells, value of all houses in the area go up, price is too high again.. you're not fixing the Fing problem!! This isn't hard
You don't have to be an astrophysicist to figure out that homes and rent cost too much.
Why? Because of a lack of housing supply—duh.
My Build Now Act will incentivize new homebuilding and lower housing costs.
@realLocomana@WorstGenHQ@MbokaKN No, because he is their sugar daddy and they think he is a friend of their ancestors from 800 years ago who founded the World Government.
@Ravenismeee Spend time with family and friends. If you don't have those volunteer at a place that has interaction with people. Just don't be alone and the bad times pass eventually
@tuuu28283 NY is a shithole. Visit areas with national parks and monuments. There are better places than Hawaii if you just want a beach vacation. Don't waste the money
@UziCryptoo This is a cultural issue. Americans need to re define what the family structure looks like and get ready for new norms like family living together longer. Houses will likely need to be rebuilt in an apartment style vs single family, etc.. change is coming, better be prepared
In my area, In-N-Out and Chipotle are hiring around $20/hour for new workers.
Let’s say you even land full-time at 40 hours/week: $20/hour = $800/week
That’s $3,467/month before taxes.
After just 12% in federal taxes, you’re left with about $3,051/month take-home.
Now here’s the reality: Average one-bedroom apartment is around $2,000/month.
So even working full-time in fast food, 65% of your income disappears to rent alone.
That leaves you with about $1,050/month for:
• food
• transportation
• insurance
• phone
• savings
• emergencies
This isn’t a “budgeting problem.”
This is a cost of living crisis.
Working full time should never mean barely surviving.
@USAttyPirro Simple question. Why wasn't there a blackout curtain to separate the line of sight from in front and after the security checkpoint. He was able to see that entire section. A cheap curtain would've at least made him guess and question what happens after part 1
Today, we are releasing video already provided to U.S. District Court showing Cole Allen shoot a U.S. Secret Service officer during his attempt to assassinate the President at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
There is no evidence the shooting was the result of friendly fire.
The video also shows Allen casing the area in the Hilton Hotel the day before the attack.
My office along with the @FBI will continue this extensive investigation to bring Cole Allen to justice.
@EmilySm43 Women have HRed men out of the workplace, voted for people that made McDonalds cost as much as a good steak house used to, and half would insult a man for opening a door for them unless they look like a model.. so, no
@TheWorldClassBS Wow, some shareholders still like money? So weird. They could send them to Africa and make everyone else non white and the fans would still be happy with this
@RepNancyMace This is literally at the bottom of my who cares list. If they qualify legally for snap let them have whatever makes their rough life a little better. Put that energy to better use please Ms Mace
The House just voted against banning soda from SNAP. Why should the government fund your soda purchases?
If SNAP recipients want to buy sugary drinks, they can do it on their own dime, not on the backs of a taxpayer-funded nutrition program.
@Hari_Vachan@archeohistories Maybe it was god that gave her the ability to carry so much weight so that the locals didn't make her do much worse things with her body for much less pay? You have to be very ignorant to put today's standards on a picture from almost a century ago
@gothburz To try and be fair, all of that wine would've been thrown out anyways and the emergency was over. It's tacky and embarrassing, but not ultimately that big of a deal. The money was spent already
I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.
The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.
A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.
Everything else was improvised.
I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.
What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.
I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.
She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.
The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.
The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.
That's priority.
The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.
A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.
That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.
I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.
I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.
188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.
A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.