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You don’t need a law. The US has codified protected classes through quite a bit of different areas like housing, employment, and education; they are race, religion, sex (and factors such as pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity (but who knows with this one), national origin, age (if over 40), and disability/genetic condition. If it isn’t one of those things, then selecting employees based on other traits is not discrimination in the legal sense. You can absolutely bring suit against the employer, but you are the one fighting the uphill battle arguing why unwed non-virgin should be a protected class. It’s also an incredibly hard thing to pursue, because the employee must prove that is why they were fired and that alone, while the employer can just say “that and they didn’t fit values/they were late/I don’t like their voice”. Employees don’t often win.

The employee who was fired while pregnant may well have some case, because they basically admit it’s due to the pregnancy, but who knows where it lands in court because the pregnancy is used as proof of other supposed rule violations.

Nah you’re good lol. I have a lot of clients who aren’t intelligent, but they aren’t dumb either. It was more just me making a general distinction and not a commentary on you.

As a matter of “fact”, I work with a bunch of people in the left half of the bell curve. We regularly complete psychological testing, and it’s uncommon that clients are above 100 IQ, tho it’s not surprising when it happens. I would be hesitant to call anyone under 100 IQ “dumb” though. There is a certain level of intent behind it, I think. “Willfully stupid” is a better description.

However, I have recently had a client who called out of work because he “had a horn growing out of his stomach”.

It was a skin tag.

To give a little more nuanced answer, I don’t think these are really mutually separate at this moment. They may not always be allies in the future but I think given current mechanisms, they’re pretty intertwined with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

Yes

I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it’s more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I’m getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I’m able to though, up until very recently, I’d spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven’t. Miss it dearly every day, but I’m still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.

Then yeah, that’s at least pretty weird. Is it like…HS logos on it, clearly a high school uniform? Or is it like…work casual clothes that just also happen to meet uniform requirements?

I guess it depends on the uniform. Plental of people wear college sports jerseys or other stuff displaying their Alma mater, but I guess thay isn’t strictly a “uniform”. If you’re wearing the designated, every day uniform if a high school or something as an adult well past the age, then I wonder what the motives for it are.

Concerning shock would be that you find it hard to let go; the current causes muscles to contract and your hand to close, and you actively have to make yourself let go. Appliances and household voltage can do so, but there is no mistaking it when it happens, and it’s not something you just brush off, especially if it happens repeatedly. And then why would you be the only one experiencing it?

I’d be having people recreate your conditions; if you open it early, length of time, close time proximity to when it occurs. What would you think the cause is, if not something similar to faulty appliance?

I don’t think that’s biology. Old CRT style TVs used to emit a really high pitch frequency, and from the ground floor, I could hear if the basement TV was on. With laptops, if it’s an older one or you have a bad power supply, you may be smelling ozone and that’d your queue, or if your room is small with little to no circulation, you may just be sensitive to the heat coming off it. As for the microwave, it may be faulty or ungrounded. If you were getting shocked by a running microwave, I do not think it would be like a static shock where you just get a little crack. They don’t deal with low power or voltage, it would be a concerning shock that you receive.

Is it just the slight vibration-type shock? I had a laundry dryer with a bad fuse be “live” one time, where if you touched it, you’d be getting shocked, but it was low voltage. But with the regular machine vibration and due to it not being a really powerful shock, it was hard to notice, plus like a microwave, when you pop the door, it largely turns off. The machine vibration coupled with the low power shock, I legitimately didn’t know it was shocking me for like…a few weeks. Because it was such a quick interaction with the machine, if you even touched it while it was on in the first place, it’d be hard to notice.

Yeah, we’re not starting off on a solid foundation, for sure

Concord didn’t last long enough for anyone to notice anything lol

I mean, we’re all rational here, I assume, so that would be a pretty big stretch to say it was shoved down your throat. If you wouldn’t feel threatened by a dude at the store saying you looked cute, then I don’t think BG3 is any worse. The women throw themselves at you equally as quickly as the men, if not more so. Lazel seems like she hates you, and then by like Day 2 is like “well, we may as well smash, you do well with a sword and that’s what counts”.

What games in the same vein as KCD2 have shoved hat relationships down players throats?? What would they even be referencing as the “woke” games?

Imagine finding a way to piss off everyone simply by opening your stupid mouth…lol

Without incarceration? I don’t think there is a massive anti-incarcerarion argument in the US, to a point. With the current iteration, sure, but other countries do incarceration correctly, where rehabilitation is the focus. But I don’t think there is an appropriate option for those crimes (jaywalking withheld lol) that isn’t some kind of separation from “polite society”. Obviously grey areas exist in some cases; self-defence, crimes of passion, etc where there are mitigating details, but just in general, I wouldn’t have any good options for those cut and dry convicted criminals that isn’t incarceration of some form. I guess the option would be round the clock services and supervision for redirection and rehabilitation? But that has a whole host of problems and you’d likely need a dozen or so people per convict? As well as housing facilities, and specialized workers for therapy/education, etc, and then it looks a lot like prison, just without the physical walls at that point.

I would agree the US version would not be helpful though, aside from attempting to give society some kind of satisfaction of “justice served”.

It’s crazy that the company won’t allow this. If it doesn’t effect your work, then the only reason to not approve it seems to be because the health and care for your wife should come second to the company. That’s pretty shit and it sucks that was a choice you had to make.

I did “haha” up until somewhat recently. I started using lol sarcastically, and it quickly bled over into the haha usage. I can’t break the habit either…

One of the few games I enjoy buying on multiple platforms.

I looked it up, it’s optional. What I was remembering was from online racing where it’s just off regardless. But, another option for OP to change how he wants!

I’d say you’d be more likely to enjoy it than not. Obviously racing is a big part of it, but exploration is another, and it usually does a decent job of that. It’s a little hamstrung because you have a GPS, so you know where all the roads are, but they usually tuck some stuff away and have some things to find and collect, if it isn’t just a little over done (I think Horizon 5 had you breaking signs to get followers, and there were like almost 300 signs?). They’ve had some car unlocks hidden as well, but you get pointed to the area and it’s pretty hard not to find them. But it gives you plenty of visuals to look at, usually some decent music, and a good variety of driving activities.

Story is usually a little rough, because the premise railroads you on every game. You’re usually a festival goer in-universe with a “normal” car and you work your way into better cars by winning events and such. Not much else to it, and how else do you get the progression to better cars?

One of the aspects you may enjoy, especially if you’re artistic, is designing car liveries and staging photo shoots and such. I haven’t done in-depth liveries since Forza Motorsport 4, and I think people have found ways to basically import images to the car, but doesn’t mean you have to.

Controls are going to be basically bog-standard car controls, and controller is perfectly fine for Horizon or any Forza game, really. I’ve put, pretty easily, probably 2k hours into various Forza games, all on controller.

I’d say it is not Sim racing. It’s not Mario Kart, you do have to brake and understand a little bit about racing, but the AI is usually pretty forgiving and adjustable as you see fit, and also usually has some built in slow-downs to keep things close. Fits somewhere on the sim side of the scale, but it’s definitely not difficult racing by any means; car damage I don’t think exists outside cosmetically, and you can ram AI cars all day without much penalty.