It'd be great for assassinations. With the current political climate I could see plenty of those. As second world nations go we're not too far off from Mexico. We just let Flint, MI and PR go to hell and didn't bat an eye.
and you fed him. The left want stronger regulations. In particular the left wants a process to take guns away from the mentally ill and from spousal abusers (several a year kill their spouses after failed attempts to get an injunction against having firearms). The left also want Assault Rifle bans (yes, assault rifles are a real thing. It's got to do with the speed of the bullet and how it tears through flesh leaving a wide hole).
how exactly are those leading to protest bans? I'd like to RTFA, but the first link had a spyware popup ad and the second link goes nowhere. The rest are just pictures from facebook.
Anyone with an adblocker want to tell me if there's something here or is this just a terrible post? I've got no love of fracking (not a greenpeacer but I'm not convinced it's safe) but this isn't how you get me on your side.
with their new jobs at Netflix and Amazon. The existing employees are all highly talented with a string of hits on their hands. They're also unionized.
for evading the cops long enough to survive and get massive investment capital needed to buy off all the politicians. The other gig economy start ups got shot down. It was a bit surprising when several of them lost their lawsuits and Uber won theirs.
when the layoffs are coming you never tell anyone they're coming. Otherwise they get busy looking for new jobs. The good people leave, the bad stop doing their work and everything goes to hell. There's an easy way to tell if a suit is lying when he says no layoffs are coming: lips are moving. It's a tell tale sign.
which you get with each and every merger. This is why we should stop allowing mega mergers. Big mergers are expensive and what's the first thing you do when you spend a bunch of money on a business expense? Try to make it back. Mergers destroy jobs.
This was another good reason to oppose the Trump tax cuts. The mega-corps already said the money was all going to mergers and stock buybacks. The sort of thing that doesn't create jobs, it destroys them. Heck, it's easy to see why supply side economics fail. Businesses spend money to meet demand. Giving businesses more money does just that, gives them more money. Unless there's more demand they're just going to keep it. And if there's more demand they'll spend the money anyway. Yeah, there's a point where kleptocracy can kick in and choke a business, but you'd be surprised how far up that goes. Meanwhile the working class is choked with low wages and demand for everything is flat. Flat demand, flat job and wage growth.
sounds like they discovered the problem internally and that the people who did it only got away with it on a low selling sports car because nobody was checking their figures due to the low sales volume. Doesn't sound anything like what VW got caught doing. Time will tell I guess, since more might come out of this.
this strikes me as a desperate attempt to solve a problem with market solutions that probably needs to be solved with regulation.
A buddy of mine who idolizes his right wing dad used to do this. He's got a medical condition that requires constant treatment for life. I suggested we ought to have socialized medicine (aka Medicare for All). He was opposed to this. I asked him for his solution for guys like him and he proceeded to lay out this complex scheme where insurance companies would be forced to sell at a price he could afford. When I pointed out that the end result was identical to expanding Medicare except for an extra middle man adding 20-30% to the price he reluctantly agreed with me.
The moral of the story? There are just some things in this world that don't have free market solutions.
and they're getting better every day. Eventually we'll have Star Wars style medical droids. If our civilization doesn't regress I'd say within 100 years tops.
this is what they should be talking about. Robot helpers that take high skilled jobs and make them rather trivial. I saw this with wood workers too. I used to do IT work for a cabinet company where nobody was a carpenter. They had a CNC machine and they punched measurements into it and it cut the wood to the right shape. Then a couple of guys with screwdrivers would install it.
overseas (and sometimes in America, thanks Gig Economy!). It's kinda like how in the 1800s everybody could afford a butler and a maid because the cost was just enough food for them to survive.
You're an adult, so you drive and use roads paid for by my tax dollars. You most likely went to public schools when before school was the domain of the very rich or the occasional whipping boy. The computer you type on was built with technology invented through government grants. I could go on. And on....
I know you're trolling, but it's a bad kind of trolling. Go make trouble on the Overwatch forums or something if that's what it takes to get a rise out of you. There's a chance somebody might read what you wrote and believe it. Of course, you might be a Russian troll paid to make these posts to disrupt and weaking my country. If that's the case all I can say to you is that sooner or later Vlad will be done with you and you're going to be pretty well screwed when that happens. If the post above is the best you can do you're not joining the KGB anytime soon... Wake up and join the left. Join the working class (of which you are clearly a member, the wealthly don't waste time on/.). You'll regret it later if you don't. The 1% are not your friends, and you are not nor will you ever be one of them.
productivity has doubled. Pie's bigger, your piece and mine is smaller. These are facts. There's already a class war going on. You just been insulated from it; mostly because cheap Chinese consumer goods and Amazon losing money in the hopes of driving competition out has kept inflation at bay for you. That won't last.
Not everybody fought in WWII or 'Nam. But we all eventually felt it's effects.
but it would be nice if you were aware about talking down to people. If you personally are, great! Thanks, and keep up the good work. But a lot of people aren't. Don't forget it wasn't too long ago that this wasn't too far from the truth.
Reddit definitely did the damage here. I'm nervous about how Mob Rule just got vindicated. I felt the same way when all those Neo Nazi's were being fired from their jobs. Firing people for being jerks doesn't make them less jerks. It cuts them off from their income, the pressure of which is going to make them worse, not better.
On a side note, she probably can't ignore the comments though. It sounds like she's expected to engage with the community as part of her job. And yes, that means outside of work. Being forced to work off the clock is pretty common in America and it was one of the things she was complaining about in her posts.
specifically it adds context, e.g. that a woman is getting criticism that a man would not have. Here's a pretty good write up about it and also why the term has been diluted.
That said, the tweet she was responding to didn't sound like mansplaining to me. I didn't detect anything condescending. I'm wondering if the Total Biscuit tweet elsewhere on this thread is real (I can't find a reliable source for it online, just a few forum posts) and if this wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back.
In any case one good point has been made: the Reddit Mob, once mobilized, can get anyone at the company fired. That's not a good thing.
there are in the world. If 1% of the population is the ruling class and they claim 1% of the population to service them that's still 70 million people. But that still leaves the other 98% screwed which is 5.6 billion people. Odds are you, mean and everyone reading this is going to be part of the 98%.
Seriously, we need to start preparing for a world where the rich don't need us to generate the wealthy that use.
they're going to leave us behind with Automation. Once they've got robots to build their mansions, jets, run their farms and their military they won't need the 99% anymore. They'll have a smattering of engineers to keep it running, some doctors to keep them running and a few slaves for entertainment of one kind or another and the rest of us will be screwed. We'll be left with nothing. Think of the Indians stuck on reservations but on a global scale.
If we're going to do something about it now's the time. Now would be the time to establish a guaranteed quality of life for all human beings. Food, shelter, healthcare, Education, and transportation established as birth rights. The hard part is to get the 99% to stop fighting among themselves long enough to do it. Hell, I can't even convince my lower middle class friends that a living minimum wage won't cause prices to spiral out of control let alone get them onboard for single payer health care....
that's the reason to have it. Period. I hate living in a world were we're constantly pretending bad things aren't bad things. Like how not having guaranteed access to medical care is somehow freedom. Or how a 90 minute commute brutal traffic is 'me time'.
that's the party that doesn't show up in the stats. We're contracting as a nation. We stopped building in the 70s. Hell, large parts of our cities are being demolished to avoid the high cost of maintaining the grid (electric, water, phone, etc). I remember a story during the Obama era where they were buying out homes in Detroit for enough to buy houses elsewhere just so they didn't have to try maintaining the grid there.
Sears was almost criminally mismanaged. The CEO Eddie Lambert bought into some crazy Ayn Randian scheme where he decided survival of the fittest would make Sears strong so he pitted his departments against each other expecting competition to make it all work. In practice humans did what humans do when they compete instead of cooperate and stabbed each other in the back.
After a decade of losing ground to Walmart on the low end and Costco on the high end and Amazon on both ends they started a final death spiral when Lambert gave up on the company and began the slow process of legally stripping the corporation of everything of value. This takes decades since they're still a publicly traded company and he's got to at least pretend to have the company's interests at heart.
Toy R Us, OTOH, was a company that couldn't afford to run it's stores because all it's money went to servicing Debt. There's nothing to compare there to Sears except maybe at the very end if you compare how a wealthy schmuck is bleeding the company dry at the expense of the employees, customers and other shareholders.
because recycling the old steel is more profitable. To be fair we also don't build infrastructure anymore (thanks to 40 years of non-stop tax cuts) so we don't need very much of it.
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from the guy down the street selling them for $100 bucks a pop. Use it for a one time kill/assassination.
It'd be great for assassinations. With the current political climate I could see plenty of those. As second world nations go we're not too far off from Mexico. We just let Flint, MI and PR go to hell and didn't bat an eye.
and you fed him. The left want stronger regulations. In particular the left wants a process to take guns away from the mentally ill and from spousal abusers (several a year kill their spouses after failed attempts to get an injunction against having firearms). The left also want Assault Rifle bans (yes, assault rifles are a real thing. It's got to do with the speed of the bullet and how it tears through flesh leaving a wide hole).
how exactly are those leading to protest bans? I'd like to RTFA, but the first link had a spyware popup ad and the second link goes nowhere. The rest are just pictures from facebook.
Anyone with an adblocker want to tell me if there's something here or is this just a terrible post? I've got no love of fracking (not a greenpeacer but I'm not convinced it's safe) but this isn't how you get me on your side.
with their new jobs at Netflix and Amazon. The existing employees are all highly talented with a string of hits on their hands. They're also unionized.
for evading the cops long enough to survive and get massive investment capital needed to buy off all the politicians. The other gig economy start ups got shot down. It was a bit surprising when several of them lost their lawsuits and Uber won theirs.
when the layoffs are coming you never tell anyone they're coming. Otherwise they get busy looking for new jobs. The good people leave, the bad stop doing their work and everything goes to hell. There's an easy way to tell if a suit is lying when he says no layoffs are coming: lips are moving. It's a tell tale sign.
which you get with each and every merger. This is why we should stop allowing mega mergers. Big mergers are expensive and what's the first thing you do when you spend a bunch of money on a business expense? Try to make it back. Mergers destroy jobs.
This was another good reason to oppose the Trump tax cuts. The mega-corps already said the money was all going to mergers and stock buybacks. The sort of thing that doesn't create jobs, it destroys them. Heck, it's easy to see why supply side economics fail. Businesses spend money to meet demand. Giving businesses more money does just that, gives them more money. Unless there's more demand they're just going to keep it. And if there's more demand they'll spend the money anyway. Yeah, there's a point where kleptocracy can kick in and choke a business, but you'd be surprised how far up that goes. Meanwhile the working class is choked with low wages and demand for everything is flat. Flat demand, flat job and wage growth.
sounds like they discovered the problem internally and that the people who did it only got away with it on a low selling sports car because nobody was checking their figures due to the low sales volume. Doesn't sound anything like what VW got caught doing. Time will tell I guess, since more might come out of this.
this strikes me as a desperate attempt to solve a problem with market solutions that probably needs to be solved with regulation.
A buddy of mine who idolizes his right wing dad used to do this. He's got a medical condition that requires constant treatment for life. I suggested we ought to have socialized medicine (aka Medicare for All). He was opposed to this. I asked him for his solution for guys like him and he proceeded to lay out this complex scheme where insurance companies would be forced to sell at a price he could afford. When I pointed out that the end result was identical to expanding Medicare except for an extra middle man adding 20-30% to the price he reluctantly agreed with me.
The moral of the story? There are just some things in this world that don't have free market solutions.
and they're getting better every day. Eventually we'll have Star Wars style medical droids. If our civilization doesn't regress I'd say within 100 years tops.
this is what they should be talking about. Robot helpers that take high skilled jobs and make them rather trivial. I saw this with wood workers too. I used to do IT work for a cabinet company where nobody was a carpenter. They had a CNC machine and they punched measurements into it and it cut the wood to the right shape. Then a couple of guys with screwdrivers would install it.
overseas (and sometimes in America, thanks Gig Economy!). It's kinda like how in the 1800s everybody could afford a butler and a maid because the cost was just enough food for them to survive.
You're an adult, so you drive and use roads paid for by my tax dollars. You most likely went to public schools when before school was the domain of the very rich or the occasional whipping boy. The computer you type on was built with technology invented through government grants. I could go on. And on....
/.). You'll regret it later if you don't. The 1% are not your friends, and you are not nor will you ever be one of them.
I know you're trolling, but it's a bad kind of trolling. Go make trouble on the Overwatch forums or something if that's what it takes to get a rise out of you. There's a chance somebody might read what you wrote and believe it. Of course, you might be a Russian troll paid to make these posts to disrupt and weaking my country. If that's the case all I can say to you is that sooner or later Vlad will be done with you and you're going to be pretty well screwed when that happens. If the post above is the best you can do you're not joining the KGB anytime soon... Wake up and join the left. Join the working class (of which you are clearly a member, the wealthly don't waste time on
productivity has doubled. Pie's bigger, your piece and mine is smaller. These are facts. There's already a class war going on. You just been insulated from it; mostly because cheap Chinese consumer goods and Amazon losing money in the hopes of driving competition out has kept inflation at bay for you. That won't last.
Not everybody fought in WWII or 'Nam. But we all eventually felt it's effects.
but it would be nice if you were aware about talking down to people. If you personally are, great! Thanks, and keep up the good work. But a lot of people aren't. Don't forget it wasn't too long ago that this wasn't too far from the truth.
Reddit definitely did the damage here. I'm nervous about how Mob Rule just got vindicated. I felt the same way when all those Neo Nazi's were being fired from their jobs. Firing people for being jerks doesn't make them less jerks. It cuts them off from their income, the pressure of which is going to make them worse, not better.
On a side note, she probably can't ignore the comments though. It sounds like she's expected to engage with the community as part of her job. And yes, that means outside of work. Being forced to work off the clock is pretty common in America and it was one of the things she was complaining about in her posts.
specifically it adds context, e.g. that a woman is getting criticism that a man would not have. Here's a pretty good write up about it and also why the term has been diluted.
That said, the tweet she was responding to didn't sound like mansplaining to me. I didn't detect anything condescending. I'm wondering if the Total Biscuit tweet elsewhere on this thread is real (I can't find a reliable source for it online, just a few forum posts) and if this wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back.
In any case one good point has been made: the Reddit Mob, once mobilized, can get anyone at the company fired. That's not a good thing.
there are in the world. If 1% of the population is the ruling class and they claim 1% of the population to service them that's still 70 million people. But that still leaves the other 98% screwed which is 5.6 billion people. Odds are you, mean and everyone reading this is going to be part of the 98%.
Seriously, we need to start preparing for a world where the rich don't need us to generate the wealthy that use.
they're going to leave us behind with Automation. Once they've got robots to build their mansions, jets, run their farms and their military they won't need the 99% anymore. They'll have a smattering of engineers to keep it running, some doctors to keep them running and a few slaves for entertainment of one kind or another and the rest of us will be screwed. We'll be left with nothing. Think of the Indians stuck on reservations but on a global scale.
If we're going to do something about it now's the time. Now would be the time to establish a guaranteed quality of life for all human beings. Food, shelter, healthcare, Education, and transportation established as birth rights. The hard part is to get the 99% to stop fighting among themselves long enough to do it. Hell, I can't even convince my lower middle class friends that a living minimum wage won't cause prices to spiral out of control let alone get them onboard for single payer health care....
that's the reason to have it. Period. I hate living in a world were we're constantly pretending bad things aren't bad things. Like how not having guaranteed access to medical care is somehow freedom. Or how a 90 minute commute brutal traffic is 'me time'.
that's the party that doesn't show up in the stats. We're contracting as a nation. We stopped building in the 70s. Hell, large parts of our cities are being demolished to avoid the high cost of maintaining the grid (electric, water, phone, etc). I remember a story during the Obama era where they were buying out homes in Detroit for enough to buy houses elsewhere just so they didn't have to try maintaining the grid there.
Sears was almost criminally mismanaged. The CEO Eddie Lambert bought into some crazy Ayn Randian scheme where he decided survival of the fittest would make Sears strong so he pitted his departments against each other expecting competition to make it all work. In practice humans did what humans do when they compete instead of cooperate and stabbed each other in the back.
After a decade of losing ground to Walmart on the low end and Costco on the high end and Amazon on both ends they started a final death spiral when Lambert gave up on the company and began the slow process of legally stripping the corporation of everything of value. This takes decades since they're still a publicly traded company and he's got to at least pretend to have the company's interests at heart.
Toy R Us, OTOH, was a company that couldn't afford to run it's stores because all it's money went to servicing Debt. There's nothing to compare there to Sears except maybe at the very end if you compare how a wealthy schmuck is bleeding the company dry at the expense of the employees, customers and other shareholders.
because recycling the old steel is more profitable. To be fair we also don't build infrastructure anymore (thanks to 40 years of non-stop tax cuts) so we don't need very much of it.
you're basically untouchable, right? Zuck is now a member of the ruling class. We do not spill the blood of kings.