The fact that it’s a laser printer certainly redeems you! I’m dumb and bought a decent Canon printer several years ago (do they still make them?), and have used it a few times since then. I haven’t checked recently, but am 100% certain all the cartridges are dried up. If I ever wanted to use it again, I’d have to blow out all the dust from it, clean the nozzles, buy more of all the colors (even if I’m printing b&w), and align the printing again. So much better to just go to a print shop the few rare times I’ll need it. I don’t want to make assumptions, but I bet that’s the case for most people…

But… then you’re using an HP printer. 🤮

I’m going to throw up.

Thank you, I did read the whole article! You said “It was all a scam setup by his manager.” That’s an exaggeration, if not misinformation. His manager Parker essentially only scammed Elvis, by making it seem he would be able to avoid service.

I also don’t see where it said his manager “convinced the selective service to immediately draft Elvis before his number came up, lying to them that Elvis would be a performer for the army”, but I don’t have access to The Colonel, the source in the article.

Those nitpicks aside, I think they both probably decided it was a shrewd business decision for Elvis to give 2 years of service as a soldier, rather than a performer, especially since Elvis declined Special Services a second time after he was already drafted.

“Scam” is an exaggeration. Your own Wikipedia link shows he declined a cushy entertainment position in Special Services. Twice. He completed the training, which he hated, and broke down in tears on multiple phone calls, describing his homesickness. As the most popular entertainer in the world at the time, he was of course given special privileges, but he was still a soldier. Soldiers have many duties and not all of them engage in direct combat. “Never winding up anywhere remotely near a battle” would have happened with anyone that famous (for political and strategic reasons), and certainly did for other rich, well-connected people…

Or Mortal Combat.

Well, I do. So fuck him, and fuck you too!

Do you think an obscenely wealthy individual owner vs a publicly-traded company owned by a group of them solves the fundamental issue?

Yet somehow not as aggressive as your comment.

1 vote. Out of 435… Of course it had a meaningful impact. And if you don’t think a significant amount of wealthy MAGAts buy Teslas because of the convenience of not having to go to gas stations and because they support Musk/Trump, you’re kidding yourself. Maybe they’re not as supportive of the renewable, clean energy part of it as Democrats and Independents, but way too many people bought Cybertrucks after Musk showed who he really is…

Only Reddit is allowed to profit off its users’ content and personal data!

No, it shows up as a downloaded book, no browser required! Well, you have to be connected to Wi-Fi (or have the mobile version) to “Whispersync” initially, but once it’s on there, you can read it offline, delete it, send it to the cloud, etc. It does open the browser if you want to archive or favorite it to your Pocket account, but you could do that when you have service again, or just not use that functionality…

Is it a paid or during work hours?

“If you gave a person a choice at the beginning of their job between a day off or an office field trip”

This future CEO is absolutely not interested in paying people for this.

I realize it changes based on scale, but the Director for my group has periodic get-togethers for our ~19 person IT team. It’s only for a few hours, takes place at stereotypical “corporate event” places (think Dave & Busters, etc), is during work hours, and food is provided. It’s “requested attendance”, meaning if a remote employee can’t make it or someone has something going on, it’s no biggie. There’s some minor talk like company news/discussion, who got promoted, etc but mostly it’s just intended as a thank you to the entire team for our hard work. He even gives out small gifts to us, though that’s certainly not necessary! It’s also 100% paid for hourly associates. My company is far from perfect, but that’s the way to do it.

I think it’s actually insane to require people to go to an unpaid “recreational” event on their own time. I don’t even think it’s okay to politely ask, with no penalty!

The Australian Federal Court has been rocked by a major new case, as Beef Weelington has filed a defamation suit against Death Cap Mushrooms claiming the later has permanently damaged their reputation.

How do you (not OP) have two typos in the very first sentence of your article??

The only reason I used Pocket was to save longer articles, ebooks, journals, etc with one click so they would sync with the free p2k (Pocket2Kindle) service and automatically end up on my Kindle. Is there anything similar?

The planes they were using to violently invade another sovereign country! It was 1000% a defensive act.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night

Have they tried looking there…?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

penny

Maybe they’re a cat?

I mean… Where the hell else are they going to wear running gear, branded or not? I’m nowhere near that level, but I absolutely have favorite running gear that I prefer to wear, no matter the distance of the race.