It’s not a theft problem, it’s a problem with owners meting out collective retribution on their staff members for things they cannot control. A law stating that restaurant workers cannot be punished for dine-and-dash would solve this problem.
India, a supposed ally
Who supposes that? Modi is no friend of the West.
That’s all bluster. The EU should seize frozen oligarch assets and send most of the prceeds to Ukraine.
I hold it against right-wing nationalists who, in this case, happen to be Jews. But I despise all right-wing nationalists regardless of religion or ethnicity.
Good. Fuck 'em.
So why haven’t criminal charges been brought against him?
One of my sons wears size 14, despite not being freakishly tall (he’s 6’2" and strongly buit). He usually has to put in a special order. His hands are also massive. We’ve never had a conversation about cock size, though I’m somewhere in the normal range, whereas my wife’s dad was reputed to be a tripod, so it could go either way, or somewhere in-between.
The Greeks regarded big dicks as immoderate and therefore barbaric. The Romans, on the other hand, were more welcoming, though they seem to have still regarded them as comical. There are Roman statues of men with massive schwantzes. Greek sculpture depicted small winkies, unless they were showing satyrs or similar mythical monsters.
Shoemaker’s signs? Put a big shoe outside the shop? They still do that in places.
The wealthiest people are wealthy because they always took big risks that kept paying off.
Like taking the risk of having rich parents…
We can both have our shit completely fucked overnight thru no fault of our own
Regardless of how much you’re investing, you need to take risk into account and diversify to mitigate it. The people I know who got into trouble when the market tanked had a risk appetite that exceeded their means. High-risk, high-reward investments are a bad choice when your financial stability is put at risk when they don’t pay off. Don’t gamble what you can’t afford to lose.
I just don’t like to see condescension and judgement directed at the financial habits of anyone making under, like, 400k.
It’s not condescending to consider what works and doesn’t work when your means are constrained.
Unless they’re paying child support or making a deliberate lifestyle choice, there’s no compelling reason for someone earning $150k-plus to be house-sharing.
We had three kids, all grown now. I’m not massively well-paid, earn a standard software-person salary. We never had financial difficulties, despite living in the SF Bay Area for much of that time.
This is a matter of priorities, not of affordability. I’ve always driven second-hand cars and wasn’t a spendthrift when making decisions about holiday destinations, home improvements or other discretionary spending. I seldom borrowed money for anything but genuine capital improvements with positive ROI. Not having any expensive vices helped too. That’s all it took.
It’s not what you get, it’s what you keep that matters. Deferred gratification is an effective strategy. Few of my colleagues had the discipline to do that. Now that I’m nearing retirement, I’m seeing the pay-off: my disposable income will increase considerably once I retire.
Incompetent financial management can afflict people regardless of how high their income is.
Translation: the storm has not calmed.
Now, an announcement that she won’t run for President again would be even more welcome.
Which is NOT the case in a well-functioning society.
Say you’re middle class without actually saying it.
They care a lot about deflecting attention from their pedophile.
Yeah, so where are all the trans gold medalists before the ban was put in place?
The leaders of the civilized world (so-called) should jointly announce that any annexation will never be recognized and will lead to crippling sanctions. Same goes for continuing the genocide.
It’s bravado.
The reality is that Putin and his oligarchs hate sanctions. They’re not making that pronouncement for our benefit. Nothing they do is for our benefit.