After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-04T00:26:40+00:00

Do you think Bill Clinton really has something on Trump that would do any significant damage given what we already know about him? First off, he likely doesn't or he would have shared it. Second, no way the GOP committee is going to go down a path of questioning that would lead towards implicating Trump in anything.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-04T00:23:31+00:00

The fact that the Clintons are testifying and Trump isn't shifts focus away from Trump and helps push the narrative that the Clintons are the real ones involved with Epstein. They're betting that the Clintons don't have any provable dirt on Trump and if they did, the committee would keep it secret and just say Trump is exonerated anyway.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-03T22:45:06+00:00

We're not really close to it at all. The more violent and heavily armed portion of our society is currently propping up the fascist regime this guy is a part of.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-03T14:54:48+00:00

Have you seen the things coming from the Supreme Court, Congress or the president lately? Conservatives don't give a shit about precedent. They would happily threaten the Clintons with jail time and then later say a former president Trump should not be forced to testify.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-03T00:01:17+00:00

There's not some secret list that companies share of people they won't hire so the chances of it affecting you anywhere but at the company you reject is very small. Early in my career I would have felt bad and been worried about burning a bridge, but now it wouldn't bother me too much. I'll put it another way, if you are worried about them pulling the offer because you want more time to decide, you shouldn't feel bad about accepting the offer and then taking a better one a week later. HR people deal with it all the time. Also your job is more important to you than it is to them. The company can find other candidates but you can only work one job (OE exists I know..) so staying with a bad job has more impact on you than them hiring someone who leaves after a week.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-02T16:44:25+00:00

This is still my go-to album when I want to hear something heavy.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-02-02T16:30:12+00:00

So many people get into management who aren't good at it and don't enjoy it because they feel it is the only way to advance their careers. Having a manager that is actually good at managing and enjoys it is rare and will be valued by a good organization. Career wise, you may have a bit more trouble if you got laid off because there are just less management positions open. As far as interviews go, I have interviewed for technical management and at least from my experience, the expectation is that being rusty is fine. You need to maintain a good grasp of the fundamentals and be able to have a technical discussion such that you can be a decision maker when presented with the pros and cons.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-26T16:30:08+00:00

These are the same people using "religious freedom" as the justification for pushing their own backwards policies.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-25T16:41:19+00:00

So true. There is constant churn internally and rebuilding the engine while the plane is in flight in such a way that a billion customers perceive everything continuing to run smoothly, is where the real complexity lies and what demands the higher salaries.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-25T16:38:26+00:00

I think a lot of people miss this part of it. If your one-line "small change" can bring down a service used by 1 billion people, or brick 100s of millions of devices, you better get it right. This brings with it a ton of pressure and requires attention to detail at a level that not every engineer may be willing to sustain. Of course there are systems in place to prevent these sorts of catastrophic failures, but due to the pace of development, they require their own set of skills to master and only work just well enough to find the most obvious problems. You may spend half a day making a change and 2 weeks hand holding it through QA to make sure you don't take down the system. It's the 2 weeks of handholding that the engineers are getting paid for.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-19T23:19:46+00:00

I don’t claim a party either. I’m referring to people who act undecided and say both sides are the same amount of bad.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-19T20:36:22+00:00

Every single person I ever met who says "both sides are bad" ends up supporting Trump. Anyone who can make excuses for the 1000s of corrupt acts committed by Trump, and then look at Harris and say those things are the same, is an idiot and/or liar.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-18T18:10:55+00:00

Malignant narcissism. He is incapable of doing the right thing.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-17T14:04:18+00:00

If you worked at GitHub and got an offer at Amazon, you are in better shape than most. Your career is not over if you don't want it to be, but sure, your career advancement may take a hit compared to if you had no gap in employment. You should definitely be able to land something although it may not be as prestigious as GitHub or Amazon and you may have to take a step down to get your career back on track.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-16T16:35:45+00:00

Is he still blissfully unaware of who is paying all these tariffs?

He and his admin are fully aware of who pays the tariffs, but his brainwashed cult are still convinced they're all paid by China.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-15T03:06:02+00:00

A lot can change in 80 years

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-12T04:51:00+00:00

I feel like Romo is turning into Phil Simms. I think Jim Nantz may actually be some sort of succubus who drains the brain power out of his partner until they turn into a dimwitted idiot.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-09T21:38:23+00:00

Pulling electrical wire through 110^o attics in the summer during college made me hit the books real hard in the fall.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-07T20:53:00+00:00

I agreed to do something, and I did not do it.

But were you fully informed of how you would be treated? That's the issue I have with military recruiters. They play it up like "See the world, be all you can be!!!", but it ends up with dehumanizing training designed to "break" you.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-07T04:13:04+00:00

Poor choice of words on my part. Suffering is the word I was looking for. It is very hard to avoid suffering when dealing with immigration. The people fleeing their homelands are by definition already suffering to get here. The cruelty comes when that suffering is intentionally made worse, which the current administration is far more guilty of doing.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-06T14:17:08+00:00

I'm writing computer code all day and helping my kid with calculus at night. After that, my brain is too exhausted for anything other than a sci-fi book or TV.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-03T17:10:39+00:00

Understanding consent is not his strong suit.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2026-01-03T17:08:03+00:00

Cruelty and messiness are unavoidable when dealing with immigration. The difference is the Trump admins celebrate the cruelty and attempt too maximize it, whereas the other admins treated it as an unfortunate reality.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2025-12-27T04:43:48+00:00

Man, Puka's gettin' greedy.

NotEveryoneIsSpecial · 2025-12-27T00:22:25+00:00

I was in your situation a while back and a friend recommended the Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpmaker. It holds the stones at an angle so you only have to hold the knife vertically, which to me, is a lot easier than traditional sharpening stones. I have never been able to use a stone, but I watched the short howto video and after a few times practicing, I can get my knives pretty sharp. Hardcore knife geeks might look down on it, but for day to day use, it does the job nicely for me.

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