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I make ~30,000/yr doing seasonal physical work. Prior to this role I was a municipal engineer. Be careful what you whistleblow.

If you notice these alloy elements add up to 100. This alloy can be thought of more as 92% Al with 2% each of the other elements. Its a metal-metal matrix composite, primarily pure aluminum with localized, tiny grains of what would be thought of as a traditional alloy (various aluminum-titanium, aluminum-iron, etc. alloys)

FISA has been in existence since 1978. It did not prevent 9/11, so honestly your comment undersells how worthless the program has been in light of the constitutional freedoms we willingly cede in reauthorizing it. The fact is though it remains law and the officials we elected feel the value is worth it. I hope its being done solely based on the benefits it provides us as a whole and is not being used for self-serving purposes

Both are real. I worked in the public sector and only worked from home for a month. My wife works in winemaking and never took any time off work. Both of us due to our jobs were outside all the time. I got covid, and developed systemic inflammation affecting most body functions as well as symptoms consistent with Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. The changes to my memory, cognition, mood stability and personality were frightening. While driving home at the onset of symptoms I had a crippling headache, 150+ bpm heart rate, chest pain, and limb numbness. In the 30 minutes between leaving work and arriving home my handwriting completely changed, and my ability compose communication dropped from consulting on peer-reviewed technical papers to junior high at best. There is no doubt in my mind the effects of lockdown were immense and caused widespread intra- and inter-personal issues we haven’t come close to recovering from. But the physiological damage covid possesses the capacity to unleash on those as unfortunate as I was are equally real as well

shocking to see unanimous agreement by two separate users on such a controversial statement. There is a time and place for (almost) everything, lemon adjunct beverages included, but I would assert beer complements a far greater variety of meals than would a lemon adjunct beverage. My wife is a winemaker who makes 100 point wine and would agree wholeheartedly, as would everyone we know. Doesn’t mean one is better than the other, but they all have their own place, and all deserve to be judged against their own class. FWIW I’ve never tasted a flavored malt beverage which is on par with a decent cocktail or mixed-drink, and the best cocktails outclass them in every way. I’ll take a corpse reviver (lemon) or last word (lime) over a hard anything any day.

Precisely what happened to me. Doctor botched the disgnosis, my department in local government did everything in their power to push me out immediately upon sharing an honest assesment of how I was feeling, asserting that I was voluntarily resigning rather than genuinely ill - which came across as retaliation for some of them having to return to the office in my stead, as prior to catching covid-19 and suffering the above effects I had been the sole volunteer to work from the office and liase with the public on everyone elses behalf. There wasn’t much if any info about ling covid at the time, and HR ignored emails sent over the next year as I tried to apologize for my illness and communicate what it clearly turned out to be.

Completely healthy now, but passed over after every first interview no matter what I do or do not share about what lead me to leave the previous role. If you had to leave work, do you have any suggestions as to how I may come accross as employable again?

What part of the state are you in with good roads? Sonoma county here, miserable roads

No thanks, id rather not pay to listen to smug people in a bubble pat themselves on the back by referencing media which exists wholly within their bubble.

OP forgets ‘institutional investors’ is code for the pooled retirement funds of the vast majority of residents, as well as the institutions who hold much of the sovereign debt, which is generated to pay for social services, war, etc. It all comes down to those who are presently working supporting those who presently don’t.

I hope you’re correct but the very realistic possibility of SPO (single Pilot Operations) is what pushed myself - and many others like me - away from the career. The current pilot shortage was by design, as the airlines were well aware of the issue and had many ways to avoid it. I’m still of the mind the current shortage (and short term plans to mitigate it) are just to hold them over long enough to end the current 2-pilot system and bring the standard to single pilot operations

most issues with failing water infrastructure involve non-biological contaminants like lead.

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Where in the Bay Area do you currently live? We are talking about market street sf here, not sea cliff.