They do need to go. Their goal is status quo and treading water.

I agree with some of the new folks who feel like impeachment shouldn't be the goal. It's too limited. Accountability and legislation need to be the goals. Impeachment is a subset of that. So is going on a press tour rager when legislation is blocked or vetoed.

Democrats need to wake up and bring the Republicans to bear and fight for the people who elected them. Treading water and whining about Ted Cruz reading Cat in the Hat don't get us there. Make him stand there until he dies of dehydration. Tear them down in a public forum. Do something.

GoG is very underrated as well.

We know they will, but it's probably not today.

Gabe will die, directives will change, Valve will slip. But probably not today.

What does he think will happen here?

If you trick the person making $135k through a few interviews, they won't change their mind and take the lower paying position.

You still end up hiring the $75k person, but with extra costs, overhead, and waste of time.

Anything to keep Netanyahu from releasing more Epstein files. Nothing is beyond either of them.

This is my favorite Farside comic that isn't a Farside comic.

Nope. Said AI instead of SI. ICE is already surrounding your location.

Yeah, but I guarantee he won't call that drugs. He'd just say it's medicine.

Both of my parents are teachers. There were several years in the late 90s and early 2000s where I was home schooled and I did fine because they were teachers.

But I knew so many other kids who did what my parents called "unschooling" where they just did nothing. Their parents were not homeschooling because they were passionate about personally giving their kids a good education, they just didn't like public school, usually for racist or religious reasons, and couldn't afford private school.

So they ended up being essentially latchkey kids who didn't leave the house, and education was a choose your own adventure. Lots of the homeschool kids I knew had no social skills and struggled to read, write, and they couldn't do math.

All that to say, that 1:1 attention isn't worth much usually.

I think this is a large part of why the US has enabled Israel. If we criticize them for over-reacting to a terror attack, it's the pot calling the kettle black. Hypocrisy writ plain.

Latitude is crazy. London would sit in the Hudson Bay, and Atlanta is a similar latitude to Casablanca or Baghdad.

I have always heard people make this argument, and since it's Great British Bake-off time, I'll use it as the example.

There's no prize, and the pay per episode is fairly minimal. Less than $500/episode for contestants. Plus, they get ~$2000 stipend for ingredients. On the fly converting pounds to dollars, so these are guesstimates.

What that means is that Great British Bake-off does not find the best home baker in Britain, it finds the best baker who can afford to take time off to be on the show. If you can afford to miss school, work, or being a parent for 12 weeks, you can't compete.

Same applies here.

If you can't afford to live on the salary, you'll only get people in office who don't need the salary. We already get that to some extent with campaigning costs. This could make it worse. The barrier of entry is higher.

Instead, we need a performance review with real consequences other than "Guess I don't get re-elected, but I still get a book deal."