I drove in Austria and Germany for work a few times. After a day or two, you pick up enough words on signs to understand “Entrance” and “Exit” and “One way”, but between the symbols and the English on everything, it is probably much easier for us to drive there than for a non-English speaker to drive here. I bet most immigrants learn “No turn on red” faster than “No Parking Enforced on Alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays except on Holidays from 6:00 PM to 12:45 AM”.

In any case, speaking English is not required of citizens. Tests were offered in Spanish because of a need for it. It’s not that they cannot learn to read a few signs, it’s that the written portion of the test needs to be clearly communicated. The ADA requires that illiterate adults be provided with an audio test or interpreter, because it’s more important for people to understand the test than it is for the government to bully immigrants to score political points with bigots.

Hey want to play a game? Your bank is gonna text you a number, and I’m going to guess it. Tell me if my guesses need to be higher or lower.

I think the most frustrating part of living in the modern world is that we can’t trust the news at all.

Climate change is real. It is man-made. It is causing extreme weather events. People are suffering and dying as a result of our lack of ecological regulations. These are newsworthy facts, alarming and important. This storm system is evidence to support those conclusions.

None of those are included in this article.

Instead, we get click-bait fear-mongering. We get hyperbolic dramatization. The author desperately wants you to read the article, but they don’t want you to learn anything. They want to be an authority on the situation, but they want to hedge their predictions because anything can happen (or not happen) and they don’t want to look foolish.

It’s like if you lived in an apartment building, and it was on fire, and instead of an alarm or instructions telling you to vacate or call the fire department, you get an advertisement for air freshener because the smoke might really smell bad, and you should panic buy at any price because stores will run out of air freshener because all your neighbors are going to want to be prepared. Warning, inconvenience approaches! Spend some money just in case things get bad.

Fair point. I’m just saying it could be published in Well, Obviously Monthly.

Was the methodology for the study “Step 1, open eyes. Step 2, look at reality as it exists. Step 3, Document results.”

I’m really fucking tired of cleaning up after people who told me I was overreacting.

They are goading protestors to try to instigate violence.

No, it’s a tragic case of fascism going as planned.

TIL thank you!

Hasn’t Trump demonstrated that contempt of congress has no consequences?

You should know that a lot of companies engage in performative hiring processes. They post jobs and accept applications to create the appearance that they are hiring. It could be to send a message to investors, or competitors, or current employees. If you find yourself in yet another round of group interviews with potential team mates, consider that maybe you’re the show and they are the audience. “Look what we could have instead of you. Look how eager people are to work here, younger, cheaper, more qualified. We are in control of this situation.”

Ah Jesus, Danny.

There are many ways in which apples and oranges can be compared in an analogy, even though they are very different.

Are you sure you understand what an analogy is?

There were no repercussions for any of the early shootings, so they’re going to keep shooting people.

Oh I agree, and Ted Cruz is a piece of shit for a variety of reasons. I’m saying the events are analogous.

TLDR it is not legal and nobody is going to do anything about it.

That was my first thought, too. Like, they expect him to be up in a basket truck reconnecting transformers?

But then I read more about the guy, and it sounds like he’s a standard issue douchecanoe politician who doesn’t actually give a shit about Berlin. This is more about optics crystallizing the public perception, like Nero playing the fiddle, or Ted Cruz taking a vacation. The act itself isn’t the problem, it’s the message you’re sending to constituents about how little they matter.

Or maybe Just In Time. Time Out. Time Bandits, no that’s taken. Taken Out, no that was my spec script for the finale to the Taken franchise. Time and Again.

Of all the options, thats the only one that is factually inaccurate.