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1. "The 'customer is always right' excuse, and not allowing employees to adequately defend themselves. The customer is the CUSTOMER. The service you get is a privilege, not a right, and you better believe you can be denied service." 2. "The 'workhorse' mentality they want in employees. My job does not need to be my life when I’m getting paid a Medicare wage. My sanity is worth more to me than my work. Quit asking your employees to give all of their energy to their jobs."

Just diagnosed... I have 20/40 or 20/50 in the eye... They are advising a Vitrectomy with Membranectomy... and som laser on perimeter lattice to avoid retina tear in the future... If anyone has had this done, please let me know your thoughts... Prayers for discernment welcomed as well...

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Jezebel, a feminist US news site, was shut down by its owners on Thursday, with 23 people laid off and no plans for the outlet to resume publication. G/O Media, which owns Jezebel and other sites including Gizmodo and the Onion, announced the closure in a memo to staff, which was obtained by the Guardian. “Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of G/O Media, wrote in the memo, which was sent to staff on Thursday morning. “And when that became clear, we undertook an...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted today by a man who approached her on stage, after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in Amsterdam. Ms Thunberg was talking to a crowd of tens of thousands when she asked the women to join her on the stage. 'As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity,' she said. After the Palestinian and Afghan...

Even eating breakfast under Bidenomics is more expensive. Particularly if you like orange juice like I do. To save money, I am probably going to have to switch to nasty-tasting Tang. Food CPI is up 3.69% year-over-year. The rate of growth in food prices is slowing. But do I trust BLS data on CPI? Of course not. Orange juice prices are up 47% under Biden. Tang is the taste I hate and I can get Vitamin C from a multi vitamin. But I just don’t like having government policies (or follycies) dictate my food consumption. Or auto choice (I refused...

Interactions among microorganisms within the human gut may be associated with increased anxiety levels in people with depression, according to research. Using advanced bioinformatics tools like 16S rRNA gene sequencing, researchers analyzed stool samples from 178 patients with a current or past diagnosis of depression who are part of an ongoing Texas Resilience Against Depression (T-RAD) study. The analysis revealed three networks of gut microbial communities, one of which was correlated with anxiety. While the early findings raise the possibility that gut bacteria could affect anxiety levels, further validation is needed to confirm whether there is a relationship and how...

'Mom I'm fine. It's just for the cameras.' Nov 12, 2023https://twitter.com/dudi_dolev/status/1723680858874298654

Results from a clinical trial show that a new combination of drugs doubles overall survival for patients with bladder cancer that has spread (metastatic bladder cancer). The findings show that giving people with metastatic bladder cancer enfortumab vedotin (an antibody drug conjugate) and pembrolizumab (an immunotherapy drug) can stop their disease getting worse and helps them live twice as long compared to those given just chemotherapy. These findings were presented at a plenary session at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference. Life expectancy for people with metastatic bladder cancer is just one year, and the treatment they are...

Explanation: This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but still short of full illumination, the phase is called gibbous. Rarely seen in television and movies, gibbous moons are quite common in the actual night sky. The featured image was taken in Jämtland, Sweden near the end of 2018 October. That gibbous moon turned, in a few days, into a...

For the black pigs go to 4:25 in Serpentza -- 1.44M subscribers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzrxvnQCFtM

'I think there's got to be something different for people to see that heart of yours.' In Iowa Saturday, Ron DeSantis heard from a supporter who suggested his campaign wasn’t successfully showing his “heart,” laying the blame on “consultants” as he questioned whether the Florida Governor could win the Presidency. During an event in Muscadine, which was hosted by the Never Back Down super PAC, the 2024 presidential candidate was confronted with criticism of how the DeSantis message is delivered. “I don’t know what your consultants are telling you, and it’s good for me to be here today to see...

Maybe this hiker should have Googled where he could buy a paper map. A hiker had to be rescued via helicopter in British Columbia after he got lost — because he followed a made-up trail on Google Maps. It was the second time in two months that a hiker got lost relying on the high-tech map app ... stranded on a cliff on the backside of Mt. Fromme, just north of Vancouver, after attempting to reach the peak’s summit. A pair of rescuers were brought in by air and dropped into the heavily forested area during the Nov. 4 rescue....

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that Republicans have no choice but to back the short-term funding proposal. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” McCaul stressed the importance of passing aid for our foreign allies, which will not be feasible if the government shuts down. “We’re gonna have to. I mean, there’s no choice here,” McCaul said when asked whether Republicans can pass the continuing resolution (CR) proposal that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) unveiled Saturday.

Nearly everyone has had the experience of being micromanaged at work, and it is a very oppressive work situation. Micromanagement exhibits lack of trust on the part of your supervisor, reduces productivity, and above all, is highly stressful and counter to human nature. How would you like it if your private life – your day-to-day affairs – were micromanaged? I suspect you would violently balk at the idea. Yet, it is coming. In some parts of the globe, one piece is already in place, that of the Social Credit Score introduced by and managed by the government of China. The...

Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman" who wore patriotic face paint with animal fur and horns in the United States Capitol riot on Jan. 6, is running for Congress. Chansley filed paperwork to run as a libertarian in Arizona's 8th Congressional District last week, according to a submission to the secretary of state's office. The seat is presently held by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), who announced in October she wouldn't be running for reelection. Lesko's term ends in January 2025. After he was charged with obstructing an official proceeding during the riot, Chansley pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 41 months...

Sullivan is working to secure the release of 10 missing Americans from GazaSullivan made the comments during an appearance on ABC's "This Week." He said the U.S. remains focused on securing the release of the nine U.S. citizens and one U.S. green card-holder believed to be in Hamas custody. He said that while Israel is classifying all 239 missing individuals as hostages of Hamas, there is no way to be sure how many of them are "still alive.""We do not know the precise number of hostages. We know the number of missing, and that's the number the Israelis have given,...

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that the Evangelical community’s support of former President Donald Trump was a “deep contradiction.” Anchor Jen Psaki asked, “Did you interact with President Jimmy Carter at all?” Warnock said, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are two of my favorite people on earth. And here is a man who demonstrates how you have faith and how it ought to work and come alive. He is used not as a weapon but as a bridge.”

Peru’s newly elected president identifies as a Marxist and is against gay marriage. Nicaragua’s once revolutionary president is against abortion. Leftist leaders across Latin America, like Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, are scrapping progressive values to maintain electoral coalitions Back in the 1960s and '70s when leftists ruled countries in Latin America, their movements focused on the plight of the poor and their economic conditions. In the 2000s, Latin America’s "pink tide" of leftist leaders, like Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, embraced progressive social movements. But as the evangelical church began to grow in Latin America, a region...

Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), a Republican presidential candidate, said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox New Sunday” that former President Donald Trump’s strong lead in the polls won’t turn into votes because people were “getting tired” of the “drama and chaos.” Anchor Shannon Bream said, “President Trump is up 30 to 40 points on entire rest of the field.”