I've been told by local gardening groups that when they feed on the sap of Trees of Heaven then laternflies become toxic to most birds, at least in my region.
There's a push to remove all trees of heaven in my county now.
An emergency fund for emergencies. Save up for new tires for your car when they go flat on the highway. Medical bills for when you get injured and put out of work for a week. For when your water main gets clogged from all that bacon grease you pour down the sink, and you have to pay $2,000 to get the pipes dug up and cleaned out.
Save for a better future where you can own a house and some land. Save up to travel somewhere you've never been so you can learn about a different culture and better help how you think about the world. There's an endless list of beneficial things you can do with money if you actually save it up instead of short-sightedly spending every paycheck you get right as it hits your bank account.
It feels ignorant when I see people blanket bash service members like this. Military members in the US are primarily poor, desperate kids with no social safety nets who are just looking for a stable way to get their life together. You can lurk around military forums, chatrooms, tiktok pages, YouTube channels or wherever and see that service members almost unanimously HATE the military itself. There's the saying: "Love the clowns, hate the circus".
Most cops are pussies who would never enlist in the military. More often veterans actually become some type of civilian DoD employee. Working inventory at a CIF, or being a counter clerk at the VA.
If they worked in a certain field while they were in, they can usually go right back to that field once they leave the military. Army S6 guys usually go work IT, Transporters go become truck drivers, medics become EMTs, etc. Even MPs tend to work in private security rather than police force once they get out, the private sector is just better pay and safer. I've even seen guys get out and go work for Smith & Wesson just from the gun experience. I've only seen one scumbag try and become a cop after he got out of the military, and he actually didn't last long before they fired him.
Anyways most vets aren't becoming cops, and most vets I know fucking hate cops.
There's no reason to make these people pretend-soldiers. You can make them US Army contractors if they need to work with the army. You can make them DoD or CIA or NSA federal employees. There are already avenues for war mongering businessmen to take to work with the military.
I'm confused and I don't know how to ask questions about this topic without sounding like a mouth breather, I'm sorry for my autism: why label yourself at all then if there's no rigid definition?
Wouldn't it be easier to have no label rather than a label whose definitions do not fit you? My spouse is pansexual and doesn't enjoy when people lump pansexuals and bisexuals together. I admittedly don't understand entirely why and would like to hear from somebody bisexual who has an opposing opinion on that so I can better understand
I was initially confused about the source of this report, as all it says is that "The new rules, obtained by the Guardian [...]" Without sharing the new rules they obtained verbatim or linking to any VA guidance or statements or anything actually useful...
But it looks like this is more a removal of patients' protections rather than an explicit allowance of discrimination. Not that there's a practical difference between those things. Anyways if anyone is confused on how this exactly happened like I was, this yahoo article seemed to explain it better IMO:
VA hospital bylaws previously barred medical staff from discriminating against patients “on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status or disability in any employment matter,”
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But now, in response to President Donald Trump’s January executive order on “gender ideology,” “national origin,” “politics,” and “marital status” have been removed from the list
I've been told by local gardening groups that when they feed on the sap of Trees of Heaven then laternflies become toxic to most birds, at least in my region.
There's a push to remove all trees of heaven in my county now.