MystikIncarnate

Exactly. I worded my statement quite deliberately, that these things have been brought to light. The information was there, we're just putting it in the lime light now...

Regardless, the depressing part is that you're probably correct with why all of this is being brought up.... There seems to be a power struggle of massive proportions going on and all of us "little people" are caught in the middle.

It will stay that way unless someone else follows in Luigi's footsteps, or one of the powerful people in this pissing contest backs down.

There's all kinds of legal murk with this.

If you don't get a break and you make a mistake that injures or kills you or someone else, the employer is responsible.

If you "don't get" a break, either by force or voluntarily (the reason actually doesn't matter), then many places consider that to be.... For lack of a better description (my brain can't think of one right now): bad working conditions, and illegal.

Even if you voluntarily skip you break/lunch, the thin line between that being fine, or a problem for the company, is whether you want to hire a lawyer and make it a problem or not.

That's liability that they don't want.

I guarantee they couldn't give any less of a shit whether you take your lunch/breaks or not, except for the fact that it could affect them.

I'm thankful for this, because bluntly, otherwise, they just wouldn't give you a break at all. They would put it on the books as you working a 9 hour shift, and taking your lunch at the end of the day, but tell you that you are on an 8 hour shift that has no breaks. Since they can't cover their ass like that, you get an unpaid lunch.

The unpaid part was the compromise to get the legislation passed so they don't subject workers to inhumane conditions. Remember that the government is largely comprised of, or paid for by, businesses and business owners. So if it isn't, at the very least "fair" to business owners, it's not going to pass.

How I feel about this:

Thank you very much. This is the first I've heard that his attendance was to a sex party for underaged persons, and that he partook in the event. Even if it's "just" an allegation.

Hebephilia is a new term for me as well; my immediate opinion is that anyone bothering to make the distinction between paedophilia and hebephilia, is already problematic and likely either trying to justify paedophilia, or differentiate some action to distance it from paedophilia, despite it meeting all of the criteria for paedophilia.

I can sort of understand attraction to persons who have completed their physical development (post-pubescent) who may not be legally an adult yet... Not that I would agree or even condone anything of that nature, but hebephilia, for anyone who doesn't know, is attraction to those in the early stages of puberty. Regardless of what it's called, you're a fully grown adult and should have enough self discipline to refrain from pursuing any inappropriate and/or illegal intimate relations. Grow up, be the adult you are.

Don't take this the wrong way, but, is there evidence that he had inappropriate relations with a minor?

I'm not trying to defend the guy at all, I'm genuinely curious what I may have missed. I tend to skip over most of the Trump coverage in the media.... I've seen enough of that Tropicana shithead.

I know there was some pretty strong correlations with Epstein that was brought to light recently, and I think someone testified that he was present at events that included under aged persons, but I have yet to see him accused of any specific activity. He was just.... There.

I mean, I don't need any evidence to dislike the guy, but if I am to take up a defensible position against those that are still deluded enough to support the commander and cheeto, I would like to be working from a solid source.

Thanks in advance. <3

Because Photoshop.

O'Brien is a highlight of any show he's in.

I came here to say this exact thing.

I can't tell you how many times I've missed my exit. It's just not worth getting bothered about.

I might be another 5-10 minutes, but I'll get there alive, and nobody else will be at risk by my error. I consider that an absolute win.

They seem to give a shit now, so.... Progress?

I'm disappointed in the reaction-based interest. They finally have a personal reason to dislike the guy, and now, in retaliation, they actually notice all of the sketchy/terrible shit that he's been involved in, or party to....

Despite my disappointment, I'm just glad things are being seen finally. It's probably way too little, and way too late, since he's currently a sitting president in his second, and hopefully last term, but it's something.

Thank you both for the spoiler free reviews.

Yep. We'll put up statues about it when it's over.

But the joke is on us, it will never be over.

Everyone was too concerned about their own freedoms instead of the safety of themselves, their neighbors and their friends/family, and just wanted to go back to normal as soon as we even tried to isolate COVID to prevent the spread.

Thanks. I hate it.

To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.

It's hard to compete with analog since analog doesn't really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.

Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.

Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.

To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?

What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That's right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that's played is compressed to all hell and back. You don't really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.

Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.

I'm not crazy over vinyl, I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don't have the money they're asking for a new player; so I'm firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.