It depends on the organization.

I’m part of the Texas Municipal Retirement System. I put 7% of my salary into TMRS, and th city double-matches that, so I’ve got 21% going into the pension annually.

When I retire, the pension pays me according to what I put in and what I make the last 5 years of my career. Each member city that I’ve worked at contributes to my pension until I doe according to how long I’ve worked there.

The biggest thing to understand about a pension versus a 401k is that you can’t cash out on a pension. When I retire, I’ll get paid the rest of my life and even get raises, but I won’t have a huge pile of money I can pull out or give to my heirs.

On the flip side, I don’t run the risk of outliving my savings.

I do not know and will never try to find out.

He’s also about to fire all the JAGS, so they can court-martial anyone who isn’t a loyalist and pardon war criminals who are.

They can also dismiss you for saying you intend to declare guilt no matter what.

A juror deciding a verdict before hearing the case should be dismissed.

We need it to be far enough out they can’t just blame the prior administration.

It’s totally allowed. It’s why citizen juries exist instead of professional jurors, and a jury’s right to determine the law is established in Article I, Section 8 of the New York Constitution. It’s specifically discussing libel cases, but that doesn’t necessarily limit them.

You still shouldn’t say it, because you’ll be removed anyway, but jury nullification is the legal system’s last line of defense against unjust just laws.

The second time was their easiest out. He wasn’t President, he had just lost an election, most of the country was disgusted with his antics post-election or at least just tired with it all.

They could’ve kneecapped him right then and barred him from running again. He would have left Washington a pariah. Most Republians hated the man, and this was their chance to shoot the rabid dog, but they were afraid of getting primaried over it. Which itself is ridiculous because most of the GOP senators were 3-5 years from their next primary.

That was when the GOP was fully-captured.

I know the source and the idiom. I just don’t know why it’s picked up in popularity recently.

I also don’t know why its use as an idiom doesn’t quite align with the story. It’s usually used to describe a situation where the threat of destruction isn’t random. For example, in the OP, the danger is the end of support for Win 10, not randomness.

Bets on it being totally ignored by the world if it turns out to be aimed at Africa?

Trump is still important. He’s the person at the center of the cult they’ve built their power on.

I’ve been seeing it a lot more recently, too. IRL even.

Did it get used by sometime famous recently or something?

They’ll promote him.

It used to be better. The subtitles were all in 13375p34k if you turned them on, but it looks like they got replaced by the YouTube automated subtitles at some point.

Found someone who can help.

https://youtu.be/O2rGTXHvPCQ

It’s not zoning.

It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.

They need to embargo us.

Make the US economy absolute dog shit so the GOP gets nuked in 2026. There’s enough GOP Senate seats in play to remove Trump from office in early 2027.

Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.

And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.

The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.

That’s literally a threat to their sovereignty.

They should say “fuck that”, block Meta, and seize all his European assets until he falls in line.

I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.

Because the honest truth is there’s a double-standard. When they lie it’s no big deal. When we get out of line even the smallest amount the right-wing media machines will run with it for YEARS.