Frequent flyer points are where they make their money. So much so that many airlines would run at a loss just flying passengers.
All their partners hand over real cash for points to give their customers, that often either expire or are never redeemed. I think it was the Economist that stated that airlines operate as unregulated banks. Flying people around is a secondary thing they do.
Follow the money root cause analysis never reaches the public, although the analysis will impact the real power shift. General public will receive just enough information so that one group of people can hate another group of people.
You think the personal lawyers of Donald Trump Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche will follow the money unbiasedly? As well as children's book, The Plot Against the King, author Kash Patel and FBI director? As well as Russian asset herself, Tulsa Gabbard director of National Intelligence want to do anything against their power source?
Im not too deep into USA politics and have very very bad memory so i dont remember how it went down. The Wikipedia article you linked says it was signed by trump.
>and then withheld files.
So did he sign that willingly in the end? Did he have to sign it? Did he cave because he said publicly he would?
Democrats are complicit as well. Don't let them off the hook by making the mistake of thinking they're simply weak.
Democrats engaged in the same cover-up and lies and sexual abuse as the Republicans wrt Epstein. Democrats supported ICE and the murder of immigrants and citizens. Democrats supported American imperialism, oligarchy and genocide.
The parties aren't the same. Would we have the same open chaos, violence and instability under a Harris regime? Probably not. Would they have released any of the Epstein files on their own? Also probably not. Voting for the lesser (or more restrained) evil is valid when no good option exists but make no mistake the Democrats are not really a principled opposition party. It's mostly kayfabe.
Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless and couldn't get bothered with doing some work on it.
Republicans are much more implicated then democrats. And republican part protects own pedophiles and criminals while democrats are like "sure, go after him" here.
Of course, that's just like I said: Democrats were sitting on all those juicy details about pedophile Republicans for 5 years and decided to do nothing, even with elections at the door. Sure Jan.
You people need help. Nobody can be sane and that biased.
> Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless
No, they did it to protect wealthy and influential people, regardless of party.
It happens that such people are disproportionately Republican aligned, there are fewer places to hide this behavior in the Democratic tent - really just at the top - and the current POTUS seems to be very close to the center of it all.
Independently, we are learning that extremely wealthy and influential men often commit sex crimes through shared fixers like Epstein.
This is about huge wealth and power imbalances, no accountability for the wealthy and powerful, and the behavior they get away with as a result.
If there are any "good guys" here, it's Massie and Khanna for shaming Congress into forcing DOJ to release something, even while DOJ does everything it can to avoid/minimize it.
Apparently he paid Peter Mandelson for UK government information of significant financial significance, which is resulting in him being disgraced for, what, third or fourth time? This time he's even been reported to the police.
"In the heartland of American agriculture, a quiet revolution is underway. Farmers, long frustrated by the high costs and restrictive repair policies of leading tractor manufacturers like John Deere, are increasingly turning to simpler, more affordable alternatives from an unlikely source: Belarus. These rugged, no-frills machines from Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ) are gaining traction not just for their price tag, but for their deliberate avoidance of the complex electronics and subscription models that have become the bane of modern farming."
This is new? Farmers have been using Belarus tractors for decades. As far back as 1998, I remember a friend in SK whose father had one on his wheat farm.
I tried this a lot. It did not work for me. But I also only sent one email and did not follow up. A few points:
1. Getting rejected does not say anything about you. The guy they hire says a lot about the company.
2. "If the interviewer(s) in question feel like you're trying to circumvent them, you're probably making your case worse"
This is the whole point. In most cased you don't deal with an expert, but with HR. HR are idiots most of the time. HR, like real estate, has also very low entrance requirements. This does not mean that all people are idiots, but the field attracts idiots.
3. A job is a sale. You have to sell yourself. And unfortunately there is only one way to make the buyer happy: Sell him what he wants, not what he needs.
> HR are idiots most of the time. HR, like real estate, has also very low entrance requirements
Soft skills are the most important. Calling a group of people you work with idiots because their role has a low barrier to entry reflects badly on you. Bad recruiters are beyond useless but a good one can read a resume, match it to the JD, learn what the hiring manager is looking for (do they keep saying no to people with too much experience or too little? Or in X tech stack), and they can glean out all of the really important job stuff - salary, location, flexibility, perks, etc. they can also get a read on whether the person is likely to be… difficult. The way they treat people they believe to be below them is how they’ll treat others when they’re frustrated/stressed or even succeeding.
"Soft skills are the most important. Calling a group of people you work with idiots because their role has a low barrier to entry reflects badly on you"
Simple mathematics. There are close to zero entrance requirements to HR or Real Estate. Now compare this to a professor at a decent University. Has to get a HS Diploma, Bachelors degree, PhD, Post Doc, publications. While there may be idiots, it is much harder to become a professor at a decent university if you are an idiot.
Back to HR. I did not say that all people working in HR are idiots. There are brilliant people. But on average, their level is not very flattering. And "soft skills" alone is not enough. Many, if not most, just follow check lists and have no idea what they are talking about.
Recruiter are worse. They add another layer of unnecessary complexity to the process. I avoid them like the plague.
lol if you feel that high competitive fields have less idiots on average. Regardless not a good take, world is not mathematics, there are many axis to people
I am not sure if I like your wording. "high competitive fields" Yes, becoming a professor at a decent university if highly competitive. But so is real estate. The problem: in real estate you have the idiots playing in the field.
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