Genies lie, they are malicious. They want to screw you over but are compelled to grant you those.

Not unless you do it the right way, i.e. the way it is done in Europe. It is basically mandatory to take vacation days every year up to a specific number. Unlimited PTO makes it so you get extra. I also have a policy of a burnout vacation - if I notice you are burned out you get sent to a mandatory paid vacation. You get to refuse once, as a hangover excuse or “I’m fine, really”. But it I notice it again after refusal, you get a choice. Either you go to vacation, or you get fired. It doesn’t go into a tally of “I need to talk to this guy, he took 80 days off this year”, I treat it as if they’d worked. Oh, and 100% paid sick leave instead of a percentage, all they need is to talk to their doctor and they put in that they are sick in the system.

The agreement about time off is you get the 25 mandated by the law, anytime, without any request beforehand, as long as it won’t make the sun explode. Instead of people requesting time off, I request time “on”, if I need to work with them, have them in a meeting or train someone.

My “off the contract” ask to them is “I’ll try to treat you as fair as I can, and ask you to do the same in return”. I did get screwed over by an employee once, but so far I can still maintain this policy

It is a genie. That’s exactly what it means when she says “replace all the water in the world with milk”. Genies hate people. They are malicious spirits that have been imprisoned by sorcerrers to serve them and their wishes. The only thing is that it probably isn’t going to work because they are not omnipotent and have limited power usually. Enough to “fulfill a wish” of a greedy dude and fuck them over in the process, but not enough to destroy the universe.

And then they rounded up officers, teachers, politicians and killed them.

You also gotta love the disonance between the Warsaw uprising - where Russians stopped on the eastern bank of thr Vistula river to wait for the Polish uprising that was launched to “welcome them to a Polish city, not a nazi one” to die out, and them saying “we went in only to help you guuuuyys”.

There is a “Polish bard”, Kaczmarski, who sang protest songs. You might even remember “Mury” - Walls, it recently got unearthed again in 2020 during the Belarus protests. Anyway, he’s got a song about a russian tank, that doesn’t understand why it isn’t fighting. It’s basically the machine spirit yearning to fulfill its purpose, watching the other bank through an empty periscope. Talking about its armor, which is heated up by the September heat and yearning to attack. Complaining about the cold engine, the engine grease stagnating and coagulating because noone sat behind the viewfinder / targetting reticle for a month. It talks about the “larynx of the barrel yearning for the taste of a projectile going through it”. But the only taste it gets is the smoke wafting over from the other bank of the river. The tank hears the screams of Poles in the headsets that have been taken off. It ask why it didn’t cross the river sprinting. It begs to be able to grab the sleek waves with its tracks. It begs to be able to “support the barricades with fire”. It doesn’t want the city, which is so close, to call its inaction “a betrayal”.

Sadly, the HQ is silent, as silent as the flowers on the bank of the river, behind which the tank lays hidden. Because a ruskie tank won’t fight for the Poles, the ruskie tank is to wait till they are all wiped out.

And when the uprising burns out in a darkened lightning, they’ll turn on the engine. They’ll wake the blood of the machine. So it could watch the city that was so close, taking over ruins and rubble without a fight.

Honestly, for anyone even remotely thinking if Russia / Soviet Union was “right” or “had a point” or “were the saviours of Europe”, just find lyrics to songs about World War 2 that talk about specific events. You will very quickly be rid of that notion.

The thing is - you go into a group of 30 people and there is a huge chance that two people share a birthday. As someone said - there is always a “weird” date, someone’s birthday, someone’s death, country falling apart or whatever.

Yup

Isn’t lion king 3 about their kids

“on discord and twitter”

They did spy on their own people, and to get ahead, a lot of people collaborated with the government to report other people.

Going 20 is the definition of “letting them pass”. Or should she have ran off the road so the tailgating ahole could continue on going 90 in a 50 zone?

I just watched the episode where she has the biggest issues with allying to some faction that kept attacking them. Then she gets “a talking to” from the first officer and the security officer going “bruh we just got our asses kicked, this aint the alpha quadrant we need this”. So the solution is to ally themselves with the first other faction they come across - a deus ex machina fleet of previously unknown oppressors of the faction that kept attacking them.

Apparently the dealbreaker is “the oppressors who enslaved an entire race trying to assassinate the leaders of the other faction they used to enslave”

Prime suggestion all the way. They really tried to make it “the sensible choice” in the early seasons, and they failed so hard at it that it’s rolled over from “funny” to “eyeroll” again

Not every dog is bad to the bone

That’d work if for instance there wasn’t the ten commandments and a ton of “this is evil don’t do it” in any holy book out there.

Gaza gets destroyed regularly since 1947. They always rebuild.

It is the logo of magic the gathering circlejerk sub on reddit

The funny part is that Russia literally did it first, they occupied Poland for 123 years. Then Poland was reformed after WW1, along with Lithuania. Then of course the Russians attacked Poland 2 years after it was reformed / independent, and got their teeth kicked in so hard, they had to wait 20 years to try again and ally with Nazi Germany to succeed.

So they invaded Poland to get back at the US? Like they invaded Poland in 1920 when they got their ass handed to them by a newly sovereign country? Just like they are doing now to Ukraine?

Nope, you are “just” whatabouting.

So “abandon Ukraine and your other long term allies in favour of China, for no reason”, got it.

“whatabout”.