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[FunkMonk]

Our agency just sent out our official furlough notice.

Thanks for the free vacation bitches 

[FunkMonk]

Our agency just sent out our official furlough notice.

Thanks for the free vacation bitches 

Actually I'll rephrase. The official notice will go out midnight on Sunday, we just today received agency guidance on what to expect near term.

Either way, I have a feeling this government shutdown will go on for a good long while. Means I get to do some stuff around the house I've needed to do. 

[viper37]

You gotta love Hollywood.

[Barrister]

You gotta love Hollywood.

You know I totally get and understand a lot of racial re-casting.  Why shouldn't Ariel in The Little Mermaid be played by Halle Bailey - it not like mermaids are real anyways!

But Snow White's er, whiteness, is kind of baked right into the name, isn't it?

[Josquius]

Isn't the issue here more the hot step mother?

I do think snow white with a different race could actually be a good thing - white people don't give a shit about being pale these days. They desire the opposite. Which makes the core concept hard to grasp without knowing some history.
With some other races this is still a going concern.

[viper37]

Isn't the issue here more the hot step mother?

Yes, that was my point. 
The same with the other movie featuring Charlize Theron as the evil stepmother in Snow White and the Huntsman.

[Tonitrus]

Our agency just sent out our official furlough notice.

Thanks for the free vacation bitches 

Our school is mission essential, so our civilian faculty are being kinda screwed.  I would, of course, be working anyway.

[Josquius]

I don't know what people are talking about with this stuff about local media being in decline.
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[Syt]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/01/child-hunger-karl-nehammer-burgergate-austria/

Austrian chancellor says cheap McDonald's meals show food poverty doesn't affect his nation
Karl Nehammer embroiled in 'Burgergate' controversy after leaked video showed him making comments on child hunger

Austria's chancellor has said that there is no problem with food poverty in the country, stating that a €3.50 (£3) McDonald's meal is proof that no one needs to go without a hot meal.

Karl Nehammer was seen in a leaked video dismissing reports of child hunger in the wealthy Alpine republic.

"What does it mean there are kids without hot meals in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest meal in Austria is?" he asked supporters gathered at a private wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg last week.

"It's not healthy, but it's cheap: a hamburger at McDonald's [is] €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can't afford this meal for their child," Mr Nehammer added.

He also targeted women who don't have children and work part-time, saying "hard-working people [are] pulling the lazy ones along".

"If I don't have enough money, I work more," he said.

Austrian media were quick to seize on the remarks, dubbing the controversy "Burgergate" and describing it as a "Marie Antoinette moment", in reference to the Vienna-born princess who allegedly declared that starving French peasants in the 18th century should simply "eat cake".

Critics said that the chancellor was out of touch with the economic realities faced by many Austrians.

'Nehammer ties people's shoes together'

"In Austria, no one has to starve or freeze to death in winter. Because we drew a jackpot in the birthplace lottery," said Michael Landau, the president of the welfare charity Caritas Europe.

"But anyone who says that no one in Austria goes hungry or freezes has no idea about the reality of the people," he added.

Andreas Babler, the Left-wing leader of the Social Democratic Party, accused the chancellor of "despising people for something he himself is responsible for".

"Nehammer ties people's shoes together and when they fall he shouts 'get up and keep running,'" Mr Babler said.

Mr Nehammer's governing Austrian People's Party (OVP) is plummeting in the polls amid stubbornly high inflation and a cost of living crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The OVP currently trails both the far-Right Freedom Party and Mr Babler's Social Democrats.

Mr Nehammer has not issued an apology for his remarks but last week defended his government's assistance to what he called low-income families.

"I stand by the fact that hard work has to be worth it and that parents have a responsibility to take care of their children," he said.

[Josquius]

Someone ought to explain the concept of nutrition to this guy...

[Syt]

In the same clip he said that wanting to enforce a healthy diet for children would be akin to living in the GDR.

[Josquius]

On the tree- a 60 year old former lumberjack is now under arrest.
Which makes so much more sense than a 16 year old.

[Admiral Yi]

On the tree- a 60 year old former lumberjack is now under arrest.
Which makes so much more sense than a 16 year old.

I see the odd video about British kids pegging rocks at car windshields and think chopping down an iconic tree is right in line.

[Josquius]

On the tree- a 60 year old former lumberjack is now under arrest.
Which makes so much more sense than a 16 year old.

I see the odd video about British kids pegging rocks at car windshields and think chopping down an iconic tree is right in line.

Its about capability not desire

[garbon]

What about the man in his late 20s who purchased a sapling at a garden centre and planted it near the tree stump to 'give people renewed hope in humanity'? He is now 'devastated' as the Nation Trust removed it, noting it is illegal to modify the environment at a protected monument.

Also, I saw they said a fence had to be put up to prevent people taking bits of the stump as souvenirs.