EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
Who paid for the director of the FBI to travel to another country to hang out in the locker room with the USA men's hockey team? Was it me, the taxpayer? Or was it Kash Patel?
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
There is definitely a class element to grocery store positioning, but Amex Plat giving out free Walmart+ memberships is a boon to the comfortable middle class. Why would I pay extra for oyster crackers?
EdgeCityRed
4mo ago
Veterans are not eligible for Worker's Comp, FMLA, or long term disability, and OSHA is certainly not a concern in the military. Don't die on that hill.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
The idea that, your argument is that people should feel like they have to cower in the safety of their homes if there's ever a federal agent in their neighborhood is fucking crazy.
Also, citizens should not have to cower in their homes if there's an immigration enforcement officer in their neighborhood.
Said citizens should also not have to fear using their right to free speech to express their opinions to federal officers, whom we are supporting with our tax dollars.
It's interesting that the Obama administration was able to deport many more people without this theater and now-routine violence.
EdgeCityRed
8mo ago
You photocopy these documents. You can leave a copy in the hotel safe (if you're not leaving your original passport in there). You should also keep phone numbers handy: your credit card company, for one, though you can probably google that. I have Amex and the concierge had my phone I'd left in a rental car FedExed to me. That's the card provider I prefer for service like that. They will also wire you money and find you a lawyer or directions to a consulate. https://www.americanexpress.com/content/dam/amex/us/credit-cards/features-benefits/PGA_Benefit_Guide_Rev_09-17-final.pdf
You can black out anything sensitive like your SSN, etc. if you put copies of things like this in your luggage.
Also, get luggage tags. A big, colorful tag is extremely handy at airports anyway if you have nondescript black bags that look like everyone else's at the carousel. Mine is a large lime green circle tag.
EdgeCityRed
8mo ago
Criminals vastly outnumber inventive geniuses, and women were barred from equal access to education for centuries.
Definitely a case of elite underproduction at that point in history and into the 1980s, at least.
People also sometimes overlook the social-signaling aspect of a degree; it would infer that someone was "a college man," who fits into an upper middle class environment and can interact comfortably with clients. This became something different a bit later: "it doesn't matter what you major in; you just need to graduate," and "a degree demonstrates that you can finish something," but the first aspect still (sort of) exists, depending on the degree/person.
I have seen people qualified on paper for things like account management positions in tech hit a wall in interviews and promotions because they're rough around the edges socially.
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