The start of Imperialist fascism in the United States. This is late stage Capitalism. This warning has been documented by the likes of Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.

In the same email of your requests, I would suggest, emailing them to INFORM them of your upcoming vacation. Do not request again, only inform as a reminder. By reminding them that your are taking your vacation AND your access to communication will be highly restricted, they will have to respond one way or another. If they ignore again, take your vacation as if it were approved. If they respond with no, present your documented requests and state they were ignored even though you requested a month in advance. If they come back and say no, time to bring in HR and be harsh in your stance. Don't feel that you may be fired for something, because you did not do anything wrong.

He is an idiot. I'm a Marxist Leninist socialist and have read enough to say Marx has never advocated for UBI. It's literally, From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. You produce what you can, meaning you work and you earn. A pure Communist society is a cashless one. Dave Ramsey is a conservative, religious nut job whose whole career is based on "only buy what you can pay for. Don't borrow. Save enough money to buy house with cash" He is a dinosaur in today's time.

You absolutely can go have lunch elsewhere. I've been in similar situation. If asked, you can simply tell them, I enjoy having lunch by myself, it helps me recharge. Also, most of the time, boundaries are set through action not only words. Just do what you prefer without the concern of what others will think or feel, while being polite with your words. Most people will pick up on you actions and eventually leave up be. I've had serious boundary issues in my family and I've had to learn quite a bit about forming proper sustainable boundaries.

As someone from Texas, these are disgusting, and people driving this garbage are not friendly towards pedestrians at all. They have no self awareness sitting inside these killing machines.

The only reason for 99.9% of people to drive this garbage is to feel big when on the road. How petty.

Or generated with AI like midjourney, therefore, made with AI.

There a huge difference between the two, yet, no clear distinction when all lumped into the label of "made with AI"

I totally agree with a streamlined identification of images generated by an AI prompt. But, to label an image with "made with AI" metadata when the image is original, taken by a human, and simply used AI tools to edit is absolutely misleading and the language can create confusion. It is not fair to the individual who has created the original work without the use if generative AI. I simply propose revising the language to create distinction.

Dying light

Never ever trust a corporation. In case of Adobe, they don't give a shit about your creative work. That's not what they are in business for. They are in business to increase revenue and reduce expense, by any means necessary. Just like all corporations. Their customers are but a product for them that they can manipulate how they see fit. Capitalism demands profit over people. Never trust a corporation.

Yael Naim - New Soul

A Wells Fargo spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company "holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior."

Says an unethical piece of shit corporation that secretly opened millions of unauthorized accounts of their customers to collect bogus fees, appease their shareholders and financial status.

Were the executives fired? No. Were they jailed for financial fraud? No.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations-sales-practices

A pattern that camouflages me from the threats of corporate greed and Capitalism as a whole.