How exactly is "domestic abuse is not a criminal offense unless it's a repeat conviction or causes "serious injuries"" vague? It's not like "domestic abuse" is used in common parlance to mean a lot of things other than "inter-family-member physical violence" - and the "serious injuries" thing is vague because it's vague *in the law in question,* so if your local judge in backwater hell happens to think "two crushed ribs" isn't a "serious injury," apparently you get to suck it up.

"Better for" is not the issue. I mean, Taco Cabana's better than Taco Bell, but they're both still shit.

Soooo you don't see any problem with a parent beating a child, a wife beating her husband, or a husband beating their wife, and the only rejoinder being an administrative fine?

The first bits, yes. The domestic abuse thing, however, is recent and well-documented. Domestic abuse is only a criminal offense if there are multiple convictions or "serious injuries," and it applies both to women and children.

They can drive, but they can't get their husbands jailed for domestic abuse.

Numbers are impossible to nail down, because of records editing across the years. Those from the Russian space program who have left Russia over the years, though, have stated that they had colleagues who participated in failed missions - i.e., didn't make it back - and subsequently disappeared from public records, down to being removed from the program's group photos. One of the most famous - and chilling - incidents that people like to tie to this is the Phantom Cosmonaut from the same time as the US space program was going on - a woman's voice, in Russian, intercepted on the radio by a pair of Italian brothers, reporting for the most part remarkably calmly the process of her instrumentation catching fire and failing.

Oh, dude, that's nasty. Sorry to hear she said that.

I do get the weirdest looks for randomly complimenting people sometimes.

No, it's bad that you assume everyone has the same ability to budget that you do. Budget dies a flaming death when you've been unemployed for sixth months, and trust me, "swallowing your pride and applying at McDonald's" doesn't work, because McD's will reject you for being "overqualified."
Also, pretty sure you knew damn well that's not what I meant. Either that, or you are *not* overqualified for McD's.

Spoken like someone who's never been unemployed for more than a month at a go.

That's the paper definition. The practical definition is a state where, among other such problems, it's perfectly possible to be dismissed from employ because your supervisor heard you utter the word "union," whether it was meant as a joke or not. It happened to two dozen people in one week at one of my husband's former employers. The official reason was "position was no longer needed," but they also promptly hired on three dozen people to take up the slack, because in a call center one person who's been there a year does the work of one and a half newbies.

Um.... yeah, it's totally legal in a lot of states to terminate someone's emploment "just because." It's called "right to work," and H.R. 785 is trying to make it nation-wide. They still have to show cause if they want to deny you unemployment benefits, but that doesn't mean you didn't just get terminated.
It's common practice in U.S. call center culture to terminate someone's employment when they get to the top 20% of the pay scale.

TL;DR, according to Catholic dogma, the Pope is the "Vicar of Christ," i.e. the representative of Jesus' word on Earth, supposedly an office passed down in a (mostly) unbroken line from Peter the apostle, of whom Christ said "on this Rock (pun on the Greek name "Peter") I will build my church."

It's *supposed* to be more complicated than this little cartoon, but I've worked for a couple small companies before, and I've seen them do a *perfect* analogue of this process. Granted, they're usually *engineering* the collapse specifically so that they can "justify" outsourcing the function in question.

You mean condemn?

Oof. The paint's not the problem in that scenario, the labor is. It's expensive enough just to get window washers up there.

I was shocked to find that I fit into something from Wal-Mart that isn't beige. I mean.... it's gray, but gray is progress. Esp. since the shops like Lane Bryant just keep getting less and less reliable to fit.