I’ve never worked in fast food but I’ve been to them and I’ve watched the workers. You can’t tell me packing boxes at Amazon is skilled labor and that shit isn’t.

The last bit you quoted about Biden is referring to statements he made about Biden asking Netanyahu about the possibility of a ceasefire and that Bibi told Biden there is none.

Right idea, wrong application. We need this kind of solidarity for the workers. Pretty sure the CEO with hundreds of millions of dollars will be okay.

It’s the story of Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.

And they should.

I think there is a sense that if Apple is willing to walk away, it’s a signal to other companies that the problem is real.

I agree that Apple may be the canary in the coal mine but I propose a motive beyond ethics.

It may be that Apple has seen a reduction in traffic from ads on Twitter recently and this latest move by Musk, coupled with everything else, gave them leverage to get out of any contracted ad buys. They pull ineffective ads, help their brand and ethics image, and save money doing it.

The cynic in me says whatever the motivation the largest driver is financial.

I agree with the point you’re making.

her life will never be the same after these horrible events

I don’t think this is the equivalent of saying life is over. It’s saying that if Shani Louk is alive it’s good news while also acknowledging that there has still been significant grievous harm caused to this young woman.

Her not being dead is not equivalent to no harm/no foul. Hamas still has responsibility for significant harm caused to Shani Louk.

My dad calls it checking their pee-mail.

Did they name their dog after liquor?

Maybe they adopted the dog with that name.

Maybe it’s named after W. Louis Hennessy, an American jurist who serves as judge in the District Court for Charles County, Maryland.

Maybe it’s named after the NY Jets long snapper.

Maybe your preconceptions and biases speak more about you than the people in the story.

Be better.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here: how is the guy on the phone supposed to know it really is the police on the other side and not just some guy trying to scam his way into a freebie?

At the individual level this is actually pretty simple. I work in IT and when I used to do security training the way we’d validate is with a known contact.

In this situation you get the contacting officers name and department, disconnect the call, call the non-emergency listed number for that department and ask for that officer by name.

There’s a lot of other failure point potential in this scenario but validating the person calling is actually law enforcement shouldn’t be one of them.