SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

The bills seem reasonable :

The first bill would require the State Department to certify once a year that Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous to retain its special U.S. trading consideration — a status that helps its economy. Under that designation, the city is not subject to the tariffs that have been levied on China. The bill also sets up the potential for sanctions on people responsible for human rights abuse in Hong Kong.
The second measure would bar the sale of munitions such as tear gas and rubber bullets to Hong Kong police.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/trump-signs-bill-backing-hong-kong-protesters-into-law-in-spite-of-beijings-objections.html

China reacts with fury after Trump signs bills backing Hong Kong protesters

China reacted with fury Thursday, promising "firm counter measures," after President Trump signed two bills supporting the pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters and threatening Beijing with sanctions over human rights abuses.

https://disrn.com/news/china-reacts-with-fury-after-trump-signs-bills-backing-hong-kong-protesters

New data shows lowest yearly number and rate of abortions in U.S. since CDC started tracking in 1969

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Wednesday that their most recent data shows a drop in abortion stats resulting in the lowest total abortion number, rate, and ratio to live births in the U.S. since the CDC began tracking them in 1969.

https://disrn.com/news/us-abortions-at-historic-low-by-all-measures-new-cdc-study-says

After the recent news about chick FIL a, I'll be boycotting them every Sunday.

Democracy died in Alaska.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/65-consecutive-days-of-near-darkness-alaskan-town-wont-see-the-sun-until-january

@masterofthetiger@theres.life thought of you when Adam Ford shut down Christian daily reporter recently to start disrn. Disrn is nice, but only gets one or two stories per day. Other Drudge alternatives are so intrusively ad heavy or so biased they're painful to use. I think there's an opening here. Are you still pursuing that idea?

Liberal Media Retracts Story After Realizing It's Anti-Obama

Oops.

https://bongino.com/liberal-media-retracts-story-after-realizing-its-anti-obama/

Gallup: More women than men are pro-life – Disrn

More women than men are pro-life, according to a new Gallup poll. According to the study, 51 percent of women consider themselves pro-life, compared to 46 percent of men. Meanwhile, 43 percent of women and 48 percent of men identify as pro-choice. Gallup also found that women are generally more pro-life in other ways...

https://www.disrn.com/2019/11/23/gallup-more-women-than-men-are-pro-life/

#abortion #uspol

I work for a company with good pay and good benefits. I want sure I'd survive here for all of 2019 because I was under resourced and had a huge project with an immovable deadline. But I made it. I thought things were going to be good. Then I was contacted by a recruiter for a non profit trader in very committed to. Moving there would be a substantial paycut,which I didn't think I could justify. But I may go back and pursue it. Here's what has me thinking...

Over the last year, I was promoted to manage the dev team (teams really, in house, contractors, and off shore) ; my entire in house team (only 2 devs) quit because of one business person who has now got a personal dev team larger than mine, while my new devs have been here for only 5-6 months. This person's team is not accountable to me, while I'm accountable for the stability of the system, which is not possible in this arrangement. This person is deceptive, manipulative, and secretive but somehow is still in position despite many people going to HR about a hostile work environment sourced from this person.

Because I lost all the experienced devs, I am counted as a full time manager but also a full time dev, business analyst, support admin, QA tester, and deployment manager for a system with 30k users.

Now I am trying to hire a new developer and had the job description approved last month, but 23 days later HR still hasn't moved on this.

My feedback/input/recommendations are routinely ignored.

So I can stay here, or pursue the job at the non profit and support the organization literally saving lives around the world, and figure out the finances. Maybe it's too late for that opportunity, but I'm at least going to put together and keep updating a resume.

Any input from anyone who has been through something similar?