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As someone on the other side of this in just one private company of thousands:

I put out 2-3 job ads a month. Of those 1 will get past interviews to a negotiation phase, one will get stuck with a hiring manager who only wants to interview the perfect candidate, and one will be pulled for budget reasons and held to try again next month because the candidate for the first job asked for a little bit more money. We hire about half of the people who make it to negotiations.

My feeling is it's that no one has any money to spend. Every company I can think of is desperately waiting to get paid so they can pay their own bills. Most contracts with the government were horribly delayed by the shutdowns last year and it's been knock-on effects ever since.

Rabies vaccine is only made for a handful of animals. For example a vaccine is made for domestic sheep but not for domestic goats. Goats and sheep are closely enough related that goats owners have their animals vaccinated using the sheep vaccinations but since they have not been officially tested, you can't say the animals have been vaccinated for rabies in a legal capacity so the petting zoo has a big sign about the rabies risk in goats.

I think this is mostly a case on NY state's sick of people ignoring their wild animal laws and with NYC especially they can't allow for people to just keep whatever animal they want and think it's okay. If Peanuts owner had been licensed as an actual wildlife rehab, it would have been different but wildlife are not pets even when they are friendly.

Philly got some "means well" but mostly we have "having a good damn time" and "doesn't give a fuck". We're not malicious, but we're not sympathetic either.

I refuse to go backward too, but they overuled Roe, which my aunties told me would NEVER happen. So just not going back isn't enough. We have to move forward.

It's called an Apricot Poodle, once in a great while I hear them called butterscotch poodles too.

Also, that's a standard normal size poodle. They were water hunting dogs. It's the little ones that are bred to be tiny that are weird.

Anyone still sprouting this line hasn't listened to a single thing actual progressives and defenders of Palestine have said in recent weeks.

Harris's position is bad but voting for anyone else is so much worse right now. Bernie Sanders is correct, as usual.

That's what the "Personal Communication" citation type is for.

I was taking control of a big department in a non-profit where funds were tight but I had a lot of flexibility so I read a book about how to reward employees instead of money. I was hoping for non-tangible rewards like first pick of schedule or Employee of the Month type stuff.

Every single suggestion in the book was something that needed money to be spent first but not given to the employee. It had a whole chapter about how giving cash was rude and terrible and your employees would hate you for it so you had to give gift cards or worthless garbage to give them instead.

This was nonsense advice. Nothing motivates like cash. In the end I just taped my own $20 bills to the back of the 'Certificates of Achievement' I have for good work and warned them it was a personal gift and not from the org.

If you read the law as written and voted on in Louisiana, it lists 11 Commandments, because there isn't one list of Commandments that these people can agree on. But they can agree that everyone should be forced to look at them in school?

Support your local thrift stores!

Just a reminder that even if the core work of the transcribing is done automatically now, being a media accessibility specialist who ensures the transcribing works and it is attached correctly, performs advocacy work for accessibility, and manages these systems, is a worthwhile job and will stay so for a long time.