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What it means in corporate America and what it means at a company that works with government contracts is two different things. The federal government mandates strict drug testing at companies they give contracts to. Most companies dont voluntarily choose to be that restrictive with testing

80% of all people who think all drug use is intolerable also dont think having a glass of wine is recreational drug use

Colorado has effectively become a joke of a state where there are only two groups of people: peons who live here at the behest of major companies in workforce housing, and people who can afford a $1M minimum for starter homes in the middle of nowhere. Even in bedroom communities and small towns without real stores or services nearby, little bungalows go for $1M and vacant quarter acre lots go for $200k.

Sad as it may be, Colorado’s governor has no point in being a man of the people. There arent really normal people left here to be a champion of anyways. Except maybe some of the plains towns where they will hate the governor for not making this place identical to Texas anyways

I love being a resident of such a beautiful state, but its just a fools errand to think you will be here long term if you are a normal person on a less than 6 figure income

Same here. 12 years and over a quarter million karma. Im not gonna say I was single handedly supporting the site or anything, but how many high karma long term users can they delete before the site is just pure garbage?

I love Lemmy and Im honestly glad I got permabanned from reddit over nothing. Being here reminds me of the early days of my time on Reddit, but a bit more diverse than that version of Reddit ever was. Even though there is still a pretty heavy white/young/tech skew here as there was back in the day. It doesnt feel like that is the only demographic that is here

That video wouldnt have had anything to do with fisting, now would it have?

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Stateless in the sense of being exiled from her country

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Its truly incredible how terrible Coloradan roadways are, literally everywhere. Not even just in the mountains where it’s reasonable

You dont need access to CRISPR if they just make being brown a crime again like it was in the 1900s

International students generally are ineligible for pretty much all financial aid. There arent actually any “poor” international students who are benefiting from financial aid.

I went to a need-based aid school, like the way Harvard and many top institutions especially are (not that mine was one of those, but still). All of our international students were the only ones ineligible for need-based money. The international students had to pay full tuition, often on tighter timeframes than even full-payer Americans did.

The reality is that cutting out international students actually harms an institution’s ability to provide aid to American students. They get charged full tuition for a multitude of reasons, but partly to fund need based aid for Americans

You can see the same hypocrisy in their energy and environmental policies. “Drill baby drill, put no regulations on dumping or manufacturing. But fluoride of all things is the unhealthy devil” or “fuck your EV tax credits or ICE phaseouts, but if you dont go buy a Tesla then youre not a real American”

Its absolute lunacy. Take the things everyone knows are bad and say we need that. Take things everyone knows are/would be good and say its a core problem in society

Its a double edged sword though. In an ideal world, corporations would be less likely to discriminate in renting out property in the first place. But we also are left with a soulless and faceless corporate landlord, one that can also be racist, that sees renters solely as a profit opportunity.

We could go back to only people owning live-able properties, but then we would be putting control over the housing stock in the hands of individuals. And individuals are more likely to be biased than an entire entity, plus more difficult to hold responsible. As well as more difficult to correct issues with, because then everything would be so diffuse.

Idk my gut instinct is that people owning property and personally renting it to other people is better than corpo landlords because of the human element. But the human element is just as likely to go wrong as the corporation, I just idealize people. If anything, the real benefit of that system would be functional limitations it places on wealth accumulation that can occur via property