#retired employee

[rightnewshindi]

फर्जी आईपीएस अधिकारी बनकर कुल्लू के सेवानिवृत्त कर्मचारी से लूटे 36.50 लाख, पुलिस ने दर्ज किया मामला

Kullu News: साइबर ठगों ने फर्जी आईपीएस अधिकारी बनकर कुल्लू के एक सेवानिवृत्त कर्मचारी से 36.50 लाख रुपये ठग लिए। ठगी का पता चलने पर साइबर क्राइम पुलिस थाना मंडी में पीड़ित ने शिकायत दर्ज करवाई। पुलिस ने केस दर्ज कर जांच शुरू कर दी है। पुलिस को दी शिकायत में शिकायतकर्ता ने बताया कि उसे एक अनजान नंबर से फोन आया। उसे बताया गया कि उसका मोबाइल नंबर पोर्नोग्राफी और अवैध गतिविधियों में शामिल है।…

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

Thinking about how Chilchuck and Laios started adventuring at around the same relative time in their lives

There are a bunch of similarities to their backstories - leaving home at a young age (14, 12), starting careers in exploring dungeons as young adults (19, 22), developing a complex about the first monster that killed them (Mimics, Living Armor), getting scammed or taken advantage of by other adventurers (succubus-hunting party, gold-peelers) - that they give me "past and future" vibes

Chilchuck is the older mentor to the less-experienced Laios. He joined Laios' party when Laios had only been exploring the dungeon for a year, and Chilchuck regularly gives advice based on his own 10 years of experience in an effort to support Laios as leader. There are several occasions of Chilchuck either teaching or wishing Laios would learn something in particular that he thinks would help with the job

Laios is a reflection of Chilchuck's past from when he was just starting out as a naive adventurer, while Chilchuck is an example of the future that Laios is striving towards as a seasoned dungeon explorer and leader

But also, they can represent missed opportunities and paths not taken for each other

An example for Chilchuck is that he isn't treated with the same respect as a tall-man because he is a half-foot. He can lead a union of half-foots, but leading a party of other races, many of whom would infantilize him, is unlikely. There are limitations to what he can do (physically and socially) compared to Laios simply because of how each were born, and it's partly why he's so hard on Laios to make him a good leader and not waste the opportunities afforded to him

Meanwhile as an example for Laios, who left his family and fiancée behind when going out on his own at 12 years old, who wasn't shocked that Chilchuck became a father at 13, and who even mentioned that some tall-men get married at 13, too...

If Laios had never left home, would he, at 13, have married someone from his childhood and also become a father of three?

[satoshy12]

Baby Fenton and Wayne Enterprises

It all started when Danny learned he was to be Vlad's heir for VladCo. And he needed to learn how to be a CEO.

But Danny needed help! He needed a way to help the employees and be a good CEO.

So he asked Clockwork who had the best idea. He threw him through a portal and told him he would be a great CEO once he was out.

In Gotham

Danny landed in Gotham came out of Wayne Enterprises as a toddler. And I just followed the employees on their day to see how they were doing it.

The Wayne employees didn't really do anything when they saw the black hair blue eyed toddler. I was just thinking that Bruce Wayne adopted a new child.

Danny had already spent two months helping the people at Wayne Enterprises. Before Tim notices the toddler in the company, and was pretty confused.

And that was how the company learned he wasn't an adoptive child of Bruce. But that changed as the CEO Bruce saw him.

Welcome to the family of Danny Wayne.

BONUS

A FEW YEARS LATER.

Bruce had already been crying for two hours. Jason: " Why is he crying?" Tim:' Danny said he doesn't want to be an icky Hero but a cool CEO. " Bruce:" I didn't do anything wrong this time…"

Bruce was super happy!

For Danny he already had been a hero and was very happy, as he didn't need to be one any more in Amity Park. Forget it; he will be the best CEO in the world!

[agathas-megacoven]

The Khan’s are just PHENOMENAL. They’re so warm and vibrant and hysterical in all the best ways. The MCU is absent/shitty/dead/evil-parent-and-complicated-family central, theres too much familial feuding at times, whether that family is blood or adopted or found, so I am LIVING for and LOVING how the Khan’s are just so normal and ordinary and wonderful. It’s no wonder Kamala has such a can-do, confident, positive attitude. It’s no wonder she’s such a dreamer and proudly herself and so damn funny when she’s surrounded by so much love and encouragement. Kamala Khan and the fam need to be in more Marvel movies, their dynamic is just joyous and healing and I will NOT tolerate another Aunt May incident. I WILL NOT. I swear if anything happens to ANY of them-

[blindmagdalena]

do you think there was any significance as to why Homelander brought a cake to the lab? it was just random to me. I wasn’t sure if he was trying to be funny or if it was a silly attempt to break the ice in a way.

i do think it was largely an ice breaker. it's also kind of just... what you do. it reminded me a lot of the early seasons of Dexter where he endeared himself to his office by becoming known as the donut guy. he just always brought in a box of donuts, and that was enough for people to like him.

Homelander was visibly terrified walking into that lab. i said before that i don't believe he knew exactly what he was going to do. the cake was a way to disarm people when he himself felt disarmed and uncertain.

and it worked! people were immediately smiling and distracted while he stood off to the side. it took the attention off of him and let him process. when we cut back to him staring at the incinerator while everyone else is eating cake, that's when we see his body language and expressions change.

that's when he decides what he's going to do.

[thehappiestgolucky]

side order has absolutely captured my braincells so here’s more splatscug doodles there will be more

[ruvviks]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:

EARLIER THIS WEEK, two Democratic senators announced they have requested a criminal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — regarding, in part, a loan for a luxury RV provided by a longtime executive at UnitedHealth Group, one of America’s largest health insurers. Thomas apparently recused himself in at least two cases involving UnitedHealth when the loan was active, according to a Rolling Stone review. Yet, he separately chose to participate in another health insurance case and authored the court’s unanimous opinion in 2004. The ruling broadly benefited the industry — shielding employer-sponsored health insurers from damages if they refuse to cover certain services and patients are harmed. Thomas’ advice to patients facing such denials? Pull out your checkbook.

While UnitedHealth was not a party to the case, the company belonged to two trade associations that filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to side with the insurers.  “As we saw so starkly this term, Supreme Court decisions can have sweeping collateral implications: If the court rules in favor of one insurance giant, for instance, it tends to be a boon for all the other insurance giants, too,” says Alex Aronson, executive director at the judicial reform group Court Accountability. “That was the case here, and it’s a perfect example of why justices shouldn’t accept gifts — especially secret ones — from industry titans whose interests are implicated, whether directly or indirectly, by their rulings.” The public had no way of knowing about Thomas’ RV loan at the time of the decision: The loan was only exposed by The New York Times last year. Senate Democrats investigating Thomas believe that much or all of the loan, for a $267,230 motor coach, was ultimately forgiven. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently requested the Justice Department investigate whether Thomas reported the forgiven portion of the loan on his tax filings, after he failed to disclose it in ethics forms.

Meanwhile, Thomas’ health insurance opinion has had wide-ranging, long-lasting ramifications, according to Mark DeBofsky, an employee benefits lawyer and former law professor.  “It hasn’t been rectified. The repercussions continue,” DeBofsky tells Rolling Stone. “People who are in dire need of specific medical care, and [their] insurance company turns around and says, ‘That care is not medically necessary,’ and there’s an adverse outcome as a result of the denial of the treatment, or hospitalization, or service — there’s no recompense for what could have been an unnecessary death or serious injury.” Since last year, the Supreme Court has faced an unprecedented ethics crisis, with much of the focus aimed squarely at Thomas. ProPublica reported that Thomas received and failed to disclose two decades worth of luxury gifts from a conservative billionaire, Harlan Crow, who allegedly provided free private jet and superyacht trips to Thomas and his wife; bought a house from Thomas and allowed the justice’s elderly mother to live there for free; and paid for at least two years of boarding school tuition for Thomas’ grandnephew.

[...] Federal law requires Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves in any case where their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” The justices decide for themselves when such a move is necessary — and when they do withdraw from a case, they rarely say why. Thomas does not appear to have explained his decision to withdraw from the two matters that directly involved UnitedHealth. Thomas did not take similar steps in Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, a case that broadly affected the health insurance industry. He instead authored the court’s opinion, which expanded insurers’ favorite tool for limiting liability: ERISA. Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, commonly known as ERISA, in 1974 to protect employee benefits. The law is relatively vague when it comes to “welfare benefits,” and contains a broad preemption clause. The courts have filled in the blanks — including in the Aetna Health case — with distressing results for patients. Half of Americans have employer-sponsored health insurance coverage; nearly all of these plans are governed by ERISA.

Rolling Stone exposes how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas received a $267K RV from a health insurance executive.

[b0bthebuilder35]

Thoughts?

[darlincollins]

it's all over for james at this point, if my husband went away on a sketchy work trip for some sus government mission and i found out he decided to bingewatch you: season four AI edition instead of shutting that mess down and coming home i would bust down the facility doors myself

[hephaesta]

Filing taxes...

Question: What to do tomorrow?

Response: Finish Deema's taxes.

Finishing Deema's taxes had taken you longer than you'd like. You'd had to amend the last few years after she had discovered (or 'discovered', and you're not sure which bothers you more) a diary of expenses going back a few years, and long arguments about deductions ('Everyday shoes aren't a business expense!') set you back even further.

'Sign here,' you tell Deema the next morning after breakfast, and place another statement in front of her.

'You should be able to forge my signature by now,' she grumbles as she marks her name.

'Nope.'

'Nobody up here cares,' she adds.

'I'm still a registered bookkeeper,' you say. 'I've got my ethics.' You still don't know if you'll renew your registration.

'Bookkeepers can't complete tax returns.'

'Bookkeepers who aren't also accountants can't provide it as a service. And you're not paying me. This is just your apprentice helping you out.'

She mutters something that sounds suspiciously like 'I hate you,' and signs the next statement.

--

You carefully pack Deema's returns into your trusty pack and walk into the town hall.

A tired looking clerk nods vaguely as she half-listens to you explain that you're lodging current and amended returns. She flicks through your stack of papers and lets you know they'll be processed within a few weeks.

Your over-explaining must have alerted her somewhat to your background because before you leave she says, 'There's information on becoming a tax help volunteer on the noticeboard in the foyer.'

--

Before leaving the cottage you had armed yourself with a brush to scrape paint off the rocks. It doesn't have to be a good job, you reason, just enough of a job to interrupt the sigil. Still, remembering the volume of rocks you painted puts you off enough to start near the platform where you can at least take comfort in the sight and smell of the sea.

It's when you're sitting cross-legged in the dirt scrubbing a stone that you hear a sharp whistle and look up. Lex is at the top of the stairs, looking bedraggled and exhausted, and they point to the stone in your hand with a raised eyebrow.

You shrug and wave them over. You're not sure how to communicate 'currently scrubbing sigils.'

'What are you up to?' Lex asks as they squat down next to you.

'Scrubbing the paint off these rocks.'

They take a moment to think that over. 'How did the paint go on?'

'Ah. Me.' Before they can rib you you ask, 'Nice swim?'

'Nope. Fell in.' They don't bother to wring water out. 'That's a lot of rocks,' they say, probably before you can rib them.

'Don't get me started,' you sigh.

Celebrating this story's one year anniversary by talking about taxes #adulting #worldbuilding

[compacflt]

The poor SECDEF being referenced in Ice's postcard as an unfunny man and then in the Slider POV where Ice and Mav talk to SECDEF and have some sort of inside joke where they laugh about them. I love all these small inside references that feel like Easter eggs. How do you keep track of them when you're writing? Not sure if it will be in the 120k words of extra scenes (which I'm so grateful for, like I'd be fine with even just scraps) but being a fly on the wall while Ice interacts with the SECDEF be like sounds hilarious. Ironic that Ice thinks that he'd sit out in his retirement until he becomes SECNAV and then possibly SECDEF in "Debriefing" and that Ice has become the sort of unfunny man that lost his acerbic wit but regained it by the end in Slider's POV. Anywho I'm kind of in love with your writing and these characters and will sorely miss them when you're done posting these extras. Thank you for writing this fic and the extras and the WIP Wednesdays and everything. I know you've got other writing projects and wishing you the best, and can't wait until the 120k words drop this weekend. :)

to be clear the secdef ice says is unfunny/the secdef ice & mav laugh about at his retirement party are these two fucking guys

im very hesitant to label anyone war criminals even for Funny Reasons because words do mean things., but when it comes to Bob gates i do get all twitchy and hair-triggery

i think ice being secdef after being secnav is unlikely at best & impossible at worst but the thought of him stepping up to do it during bidens second term & then having to deal with. like. china invading taiwan is unbearably funny to me so it’s not out of the question in my fic universe because it would be good for the bit. first openly gay secretary of defense and he sends the US to open all-out conventional war with China,

[coockie8]

It's so funny to me when Gordon Ramsay is shocked when the employees don't eat at the restaurant they work at. And not even because it's Kitchen Nightmares so obviously the food is going to be terrible, but because unless it's free, and not "you take the cost of what I eat out of my paycheck at the end of the week" free, but actually free, I'm not eating at my place of work.

Why? Just so I can give them back a decent chunk of the money they are literally paying me to work there? Fuck that, I'll bring something from home or I'll eat somewhere else, but I'm not giving part of my pay back to my employers so they'll feed me.

[fazcinatingblog]

but what if her aim is to just make as many money as possible, as quick as possible, and then sell the business, let someone else deal with the mess of it, and just retire with her rental properties and money from selling the business and/or those townhouses and

[ranger-kellyn]

i know speculating is not going to help anything, but i just want this conversation my dad and i have had a few times to just have a date stamp on it. with any luck, it'll never amount to anything more than speculation on our end, but still.

this is our thoughts on what is going to happen: trump will get in office, and, at first, things will be as quiet as a trump presidency can be. within a year, though we're honestly guessing less, the republicans will invoke the 25th amendment on him, get him out, have vance take over. from there, vance will pardon trump, and then we will go full-throttle into...whatever is next

[drogonea]

Idk what Amazon employee needs to hear this but you should quit your job like, asap. Whatever level you're at you dont deserve that kinda crap. People have ended marriages for less.