Everyone should get the same carbon budget a year. Maybe as a separate currency. It can then be saved up or traded to use as you see fit. Want to go on oversee flights? Better buy some carbon from some tree huggers with budget to spare.

I need some alcohol at least once per month.

Tesla/Musk really went for the “I have the right to not use collective bargaining” and is really shocked to find out people went for “we have the right to strike”.

It’s not personal, it’s just business.

That’s my brother. When the boss asks to do overtime he opens a spreadsheet that calculates what every hour of overtime actually puts in the bank account. It’s surprisingly low. Then he asks the boss to make it worth his time.

set me achievable targets properly recompensed

In my brother’s place they changed the end of year bonus. It’s no longer on an individual level but as a group. And the targets van change at any time. Who are they trying to fool.

I think myself, I’ll probably get the “you’re indispensable but they’re isn’t any budget for a raise” this year

I just say it’ll be done by Wednesday and next time act like a professional and give some time.

Some other guy I know will get it done, book a crazy amount of overtime, mail the thing and stay home from that overtime until Thursday.

And one other guy would just call the manager at weird hours the entire weekend asking for classifications.

I know some anarchistic people, okay.

People: “Government should be run like a business”

Government: “Speed enforcement is now done by a private business. You’re welcome.”

People: “They’re now trying to squeeze every less cent out of us with speed enforcement!”

Business: “Efficiency!”

Their precious economies can’t survive beyond 2050. Damages from climate disasters will be big enough to make every economy shrink and make the Great Depression look like child’s play.

Not for a lack of trying, but nothing small scale works well.

I work with people in three different time zones. There is always someone having a flower festival, religious day or national holiday. Nobody gets offended for forgetting a holiday or if they did they don’t last long.

Taxes are gone.

Everybody: yay!

Police: protection money and speed traps it is

Everybody: oh no!

The heat index — a combination of temperature and humidity — hit 58.5 degrees Celsius (137 Fahrenheit) Tuesday morning in Rio, the highest index ever recorded there. Actual temperatures dropped slightly on Wednesday, but were forecast to rise again to 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) on Thursday.

Yeah, that’s Celsius.

“The riskier the road, the greater the profit.” ~Rules of Acquisition #62

When it’s propaganda and misinformation dressing up as free speech, yes.

I have a coffee joke but you’d roast me for it

I have a chocolate joke, but it’s too dark

That’s what schools with zero tolerance policies teach children: hit the bully with extreme prejudice as you’re punished anyway even for defending.

All over Asia every time the temperature in the evening goes from scorching to bearable for me, everybody there starts pulling out sweaters and jackets.

Pushes daughter out the door

“Go and make some grand children. You have quality dad material right there.”

“Daaaaaad!”

It’s only Christmas after Saint Nicolas.

It’s a USA thing. Other places often have rules that say the price advertised (on menu, website, in store) is the price the customer pays, all fees and taxes included.