Seconding Allyson's proposal.
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Cindy - May 16, 2003 11:15:15 am PDT #1953 of 10005
Nobody
askye - May 16, 2003 11:17:26 am PDT #1954 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
Thirding Allyson's proposal.
Cashmere - May 16, 2003 11:20:34 am PDT #1955 of 10005
Now tagless for your comfort.
From the time of the official proposal, the process takes a week, so you would miss some of the discussion and some of the voting period, but not all of either.
thanks for clarifying, Jesse. The discussion may be the part I want to miss the most.
Betsy HP - May 16, 2003 11:23:29 am PDT #1956 of 10005
If I only had a brain...
Sorry. I"ll go back and threadsuck; I made exactly the proposal I wanted in this thread. BRB.
[And it has seconds.]
Allyson - May 16, 2003 11:27:12 am PDT #1957 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson, is that in general (and I agree) or in response to my suggestion?
In general. My job entails navigating a sea of bureaucracy so that the smartest physicists in the whole world wide can unlock the secrets of the universe without getting buried in paperwork.
If a light goes out in someone's office, 5 people need to be notified, paperwork is created and signed, and it takes 5 business days to get the damned thing changed.
And this thread can be worse, sometimes. This is supposed to be massaging my brain while I quietly gnash my teeth because a high up secretary can't sort an excel sheet, making me instead gather 12 signatures from people who are constantly in meetings so that some dude can present a paper at a conference for which he's already been approved to attend.
This sort of goes with the Who We Are, Who Do We Want to Be? discussion. My ish, perhaps.
Laura - May 16, 2003 11:27:17 am PDT #1958 of 10005
Our wings are not tired.
Seconded.
I also don't see a big with discussing both proposals at the same time. If Allyson and Betsy want to have the discussion and vote combined I would like that.
Allyson - May 16, 2003 11:29:07 am PDT #1959 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I think I have all my secondsies.
§ ita § - May 16, 2003 11:29:50 am PDT #1960 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am very against discussing both at the same time. Let's run Betsy's, and then Allyson.
Allyson - May 16, 2003 11:30:17 am PDT #1961 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'll go on a ballot with Betsy any day of the week and twice on Sundays, with a hunk of bread to slurp up the gravy goodness.
Lyra Jane - May 16, 2003 11:31:35 am PDT #1962 of 10005
Up with the sun
I'd rather do Allyson's now. The grandfathering thing just does not seem to be getting proposed in a voteable form -- we've been waiting on it, IIRC, since March. If someone does the proposal, I'd say do it first; as it is, Allyson has the proposal and the seconds. let's do it. Grandfathering can wait a week.