"bulldozing Palestinian homes to build Israeli ones" occurs when they're built without planning permission, which happens in every country, including Israeli homes. It's just that when the country is Israel, and the illegal builder is Palestinian, it becomes an International incident.
By the way did you know that Jews aren't allowed to live in the Palestinian territories, and that under Palestinian law, selling land to a Jew is a capital offence?
Did you know that Israel has violated 28 UN Security Council resolutions (which are binding for UN members, which Israel is)? Or how about that Israel has been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council? Or that Israel has violated the Geneva convention multiple times, including by using weapons like white phosphorus on civilians and by allowing their civilian population to settle in territory they're occupying?
This is why Ned Flanders shuns insurance as gambling
Great reference and really a lesson of why insurance is in fact valuable as that episode wouldn't have any conflict if Ned did just have a standard policy which would have covered a freak occurrence of a hurricane blowing your entire house down which is the exact scenario your average person cannot self-insure for.
Of course then Ned would not have had his chance to solve his repressed anger issues but that plot point was abandoned pretty quickly in the show.
Also, Ned's house was completely back to normal in the next episode. Real life of course doesn't work that way.
No one in the US uses the term mum, unless you're in Texas around October. But that is something completely different.
True enough. It was probably deemed a "racist" term back when they blackballed Aunt Jemima.
Fewer and fewer kids in the US know any term for father. But that's something completely different.
No, its because we're not British. We say mom, and because a mummy is a mummified corpse and not a food.
So if you are late in your career and don't care about further advancement, you can keep working from home. Almost like a benefit to seniority. If you are early in your career, it is a good incentive to look for a better job.
Good point. This is likely to have the opposite outcome to the one they hoped for: younger employees will leave, while older employees will stay.
Yeah, no - about that thing. I'm back at work now and doing it as a Boomer because the young people couldn't handle it. Hopefully a new generation of people will be less pre-installed with stress.
No, they probably just can't stand being around an arrogant Boomer who never shuts up about how great he is and how the younger generations are all degenerates. You know, standard Boomer nonsense.
That makes sense I'm not objecting to the intent, but rather to the characterization.
It's not a "stealth layoff". It's an ultimatum: either come to the office, or accept that you're in a career dead-end at Dell.
Seems like no one from Dell is saying the people demanding to work in some safe space are being fired. And yes, it is simple math that if you won't leave home to work, you are limiting yourself to only careers that you never have to go to an office.
Not everyone is a programmer that probably does better the less contact they have with others. Some work requires an in person presence. If you refuse to be some place in person, that is a job you will never have, and the same for in-company work that requires it.
The whole story seems more like Dell saying "You can refuse to come in, but that will have an effect on your career" - that's undeniable.
And yet these people seem to have been doing their jobs remotely just fine up until now. So what changed?
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
