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A couple of notes on COBRA, the cost is because you’re (usually) losing the amount your employer pays toward health insurance, plus the administrator charges a percent on top to administer the program. So the cost will definitely depend on which plan you already have and how much the employer pays.

With COBRA you’ll be locked into your current plan, but should have the opportunity to change plans when the employer goes through annual/open enrollment.

Another thing to note is that you’ll keep access to any HSA accounts you have (this is money you and/or your employer has put in an account.). You will lose access to any FSA balance you have, unless you elect it while electing COBRA.

That is basically The Great Filter theory the OP was referring to.

Someone please let a bear into his home while he’s at work.

Wish granted… a large, hairy man now waits in his bed.

Not sure how sarcastic you are, but I could see work camps being built. I think we’d see some deportations and some people sent to work camps, but not a complete crack down. Just enough to make it a threat.

It’s not just the logistics of moving that many people that is a problem. It would be extremely damaging to the economy. Undocumented labor makes the food we have as cheap as it is (along with government subsidies). If that labor pool evaporated we’d see more widespread issues with food rotting before being picked and food not getting processed.

The work camps would take the form of farms and food processing plants, possibly expanding to other manufacturing later. Free slave labor is how we’d compete against the slave labor in other countries. It’s important to note that managing that takes up a lot of resources, so I’d expect the majority to not be rounded up and sent to these camps. I’d expect the threat of being sent to a camp to be used to extract lower pay and more hours out of the existing undocumented population that works in those industries.

Having these populations still intact would be useful to instigate more crackdowns as political events to provide a boost.

The main problem with these camps (and existing populations) is that people have kids even under the worst circumstances. That is why we’re seeing the talking point to remove/overturn birthright citizenship. Eventually the camp population would be almost entirely us citizens which makes things less tenable. So they’d need to remain different so it’d be okay for them to stay in the camps they were born into.

Why are they even putting the lids in their mouth to dissolve?

Paper straws do suck though.

He’s busy taking a shit.

I was curious. I did not find any specific listing fo le her, however since she sent the ballots to a Republican official who had been making claims of voter fraud (and is the person that reported the incident) I’m guessing she is republican leaning.

Say what you will about the American education system, but I know it’s a 1/4 lb burgers because you could get close(ish) to 200 lbs of meat from a deer if you were lucky in Oregon Trail.

What do Geno ever do to anybody? Put too much meat on a pastrami sandwich?

It’s not about hate, it’s about a lizard’s right to have seven children, disown them but still allow them to work for you under your new kid who mysteriously disappears and is replaced by another child you call JR (despite one of your first seven having JR in his name but sharing the rest of your name.)

I have a similar story. A relative was researching one of the family lines (he was early teens I think) and was advised by an older family member not to research that line further since there was a “pirate” and it’s “not good to have pirates in the family.” We were also told we had Native American blood somewhere.

We’re now pretty convinced the “pirate” was actually black but white passing and the Native American story was a cover for the slightly darker skin his descendants had.

He will just turn it around on how the DA is doing the bidding of the Biden regime to try and take him out because everyone knows he like money and people know what it’s like when the government tries to take more money from you than they should and that is what Biden is trying to do. But we’re not going to let him. You fine patriotic are going to make sure it doesn’t happen by giving to the true patriot fund.

Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.

Yes.

The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway.

Not really. Libraries function within the constraints of licensing. They buy physical copies of materials and license digital copies.

With libraries the content creators (and yes distributors) are still being paid for their works AND information gets to sprees freely.

I’d argue that libraries are superior piracy.

Maybe if the person who’s actions are being protested against are reasonable. When protesters are met by military forces and detained in trumped up charges of terrorism, then they don’t work until there looks to be consequences for the person/group being protested.

As a rule of thumb if you have the military on your side protests get crushed. Look at Egypt for an example of what happens once the military gets involved.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Blair\_Mountain](The Battle of Blair Mountain) is a good example on the US end. Striking US mine workers crushed by the US military on US soil. You could argue that it was one of many events that led to labor protections, but it wasn’t the inviting event and those protections came more than a decade later.

Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:

Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.

Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.

Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.