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the rule is you have to consider everyone for employment that can be employed

Emphasis added to the original comment to help those with poor reading comprehension skills.

Why would a refugee or asylum seeker “never have a chance” at getting hired by a company like SpaceX? Seems like that is part of the problem, no?

Court system is not known as being “speedy” even in the best of times, but it sure doesn’t help that the federal district for DC is also still working through hundreds and hundreds of Jan 6 prosecutions.

Three indictments so far, each of which cover multiple crimes that were part of the same general activity. Multiple instances of the same crime, called charges, are totaled as separate “counts”. For example, the latest indictment has 4 charges of 4 different crimes, each of which only has one count. Compare that to the second indictment in the secret documents case, which has 31 counts of the same crime (“willful retention of national defense information”), plus a few more counts of additional crimes.

You are correct that there are currently 78* individual instances of crime which the former President has been arrested and charged for committing. That was a crazy sentence to type, but here we are.

Hopefully that helps make a bit more sense.

* Sorry for paywalled article, but it was the only source I could find quickly to confirm the current charge total.

I agree! The pace things are moving has me very excited. I might need to brush the dust off my soldering iron so I can convert my 5+ nest speakers into something that is fully local and open source.

State charges from Georgia are likely coming this week, too, from all the recent headlines.

Are you referring to the concept of capitalism?

Love the cat one! That’s a unique take on home automation that I have never encountered before.

The ones I use the most are:

• Turning on lights and setting specific scenes when I turn on TVs in my bedroom, living room and theater room.
• Brighten lights whenever Plex is paused or finishes playing, which is great in a dedicated home theater where the lighting is very dark when watching a movie. This has actually helped improve many hang out nights with friends because the moment after a movie finishes is less awkward, leading more naturally into a nice conversation before every heads home.
• Reminder notifications for when washing machine or dryer cycles finish, or when my garage door has been open for more than 15 minutes (unless I override that with a toggle on my dashboard).
• Turning off all of my lights and switches when I leave the house, unless a boolean variable is flipped (e.g. if someone else is at my house w/o me, which is unusual since I live alone). Well, not quite everything, there are a few devices like a couple power monitoring smart pugs that always remain on.