Neato

Do they have the libraries of Spotify or Apple music?

Just your local library for Libby or other electronic access. You probably have access to borrow audiobooks online for free. (assuming the US)

Does this get rid of ads? It just looks like a UX redesign.

As someone else said: it doesn’t replace streaming even a little. Pirating is replacing buying music directly. Streaming facilitates finding new music and trying it out. Being able to listen to anything at any time. You simply can’t do that with downloads; no one can download everything. Piracy in this case really just works for people still listening to their highschool favs and not people looking for new stuff all the time.

Some care. Some don’t want their grandchildren to suffer. But right wingers never care regardless of their age. They’re selfish assholes.

Stupid or malicious. I trend towards malicious these days. Too much info to be that stupid that often.

Exactly what I thought. Sounds like bullshit to fundraise.

Welcome Maryland. This isn’t even slightly weird.

Yeah. With non-pixel phones you can still get SD cart slots, headphone jacks, etc. I think motorola still has cheaper phones that has those things.

It wouldn’t because USBC doesn’t have those expensive standard requirements.

80% of new developments in America have HOAs. We’re totally fucked.

Wow that sucks. I’m glad I’m not in the apple ecosystem.

Yeah, I always forget about carrying the insurance over. My parents have quote a few complaints about Medicare.

How did he retire at 45? Did his agency approve VERA after 25 years?

The best benefit is you can’t be terminated without reason. It takes real, documented issues to terminate someone. Very good job security.

On GS and GG plans you get both cost of living adjustments (depends on wh or Congress) and you get regular raises with step increases.

The leave is excellent. 4-8hr/2 weeks. And 4 hours sick, no cap. They also can’t deny leave without a reason and rescheduling.

Health insurance plans are pretty good. HDHP, CO pay, deductible, multiple agencies.

Pension is a big one. Being able to retire and have a pension, social security, and 5% matching savings plan (traditional and Roth) is pretty much unheard of.

You also probably have union representation depending on your agency.

Biggest downside is pay. If you’re technical or very competitive you’ll not make as much. There’s a cap on civilian pay due to a stupid law saying you can’t earn more than the vice president, so every rank is staggered below that. They really need to consolidate ranks below gs5. Those are poverty wages.

Everything you said is still true. As long as you are an office worker that’s all correct. The government does still contact out most work but most offices still have plenty of government employees. It’s just now the government is more of an oversight and managerial role for 80% of it’s employees. Besides things like hr and finance. It’d be nice if the government actually did things again.

Can’t really fire contractors either. You’d have to get their PM to reassign them. I’ve never seen a contract that allowed the government to dictate the contractors hiring. That contractor might decide to fire the employee at government request but that isn’t required.

I wouldn’t say contractors in government offices are less common than government workers. I can’t read the article but I’m assuming this is actually in USAID and not a contractor facility.

Edit: ah wait the blurb is different than the quoted text. It said “pressured to resign” and senior advisor. That’s quite a bit different and I don’t know who would actually resign unless they thought it would impact them returning to high profile private industry.

How? It’s not easy or quick to fire a government employee. It can take months.

Well here’s hoping this judge is tired enough of Trump’s shit.

Don’t people that are sentenced to prison but appeal still serve until the appeals are done? I don’t have faith he’ll be sentenced to prison but whatever he gets should be in effect unless one of his appeals goes through right?

To his supporters there isn’t a legitimate trial.