or even that special. I'm not the first person to notice that the working class refuses to think of themselves as such. He's not the other, known the guy since 7th grade and he is and remains my closest friend.
But you're strawmaning to avoid the issuea, which is that:
a. Automation is going to put us all out of work and if we don't change how we distribute wealth everybody but a lucky few born into it will live like shit (think Indian reservations but on a global scale).
b. Right wing politics don't work, you know this and it makes you very uncomfortable. Stop reading Ayn Rand and hating yourself and start looking around at the deck stacked against you. You'll have an uncomfortable free years while you work out the demons put in your head by the billion dollar propaganda machines like Fox News and Rush but you'll be better for it.
Patreon's a website where you can send money to people who make content of one kind or another. You're a "Patron of the arts" is how it's sold.
Youtube used to pay good money for adverts, but there was an advertiser scare when some of the major brand's ads (Coke was the big one) were being showed before neo-Nazi videos. The advertisers pulled their ads in mass for about 90 days, but then noticed that being off Youtube for 90 days didn't effect their sales in the slightest, so a lot of them never came back (or only do the occasional "branding" campaign). This is referred to as the Adpocalypse in Youtube land.
Anyway to make a living a lot of the big Youtuber's started asking for donations via Patreon. It's more popular than sending a one time donation because it is typically a recurring charge. Jordon Peterson, for example, makes about $80,000/mo/US last we knew (he's sense hid his monthly take).
Anyway there's a minor brew-ha-ha going on in the Youtube "skeptic" community. A lot of folks built channels and followings on videos debunking religion, new age medicine and pseudo science. When the Adpocalypse hit they saw their revenue plummet. Some of them made good on Pateron, but what really started getting the donations coming in was dropping the skeptic stuff and going after SJWs. There aren't a lot of folks who'll pitch you $5-$10/mo for videos debunking Homeopathy, but there are apparently a ton of them that'll pitch in if you're go after blue haired college girls who say dumb things about the patriarchy. Go figure.
There's also money to be made from the right wing think tanks. Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes SJWs. Even other SJWs don't like SJWs. Folks hate the extreme political correctness that's associated with SJWs just like regular folks are weirded out by religious nut-jobs (and for the same reasons). The right wing think tanks know this and they're using it as a chink in the left wing's armor. The goal is to convince folks that everyone on the left is one of those nut case feminazi's who won't shut up about how oppressed women are. It's a tactic that seems to work too. It shuts down arguments about substantive policy (like discussing Medicare for All, ending the 7 or 8 wars we're in, infrastructure spending, wealth inequity and stagnant wages, basically anything economic). Those think tanks feed into the anti-SJW crowd indirectly (by giving them useful talking points) and sometimes directly (by giving them money or flying them out to conventions to speak).
To be honest I think that racism is gradually going away and with it the "Southern Strategy" (e.g. using race to keep folks in the South voting for right wing policies that negatively impact them). Anti-SJWism is Southern Strategy 2.0. It's the new enemy to focus your anger on so you won't notice you're being robbed blind.
were to automation not outsourcing. To be fair outsourcing makes it that much more painful for the few jobs left. But I think it's pretty clear that our current system of wealth distribution isn't going to hold up. As much as people hate it when people get money they didn't earn (which is funny, since rent seeking on the properties your dad willed to you is A-OK) we're either gonna have to get over all that puritanical bullshit or get comfortable with a dystopia of 1% haves and 99% have-nots.
Here's the thing folks, when 99% are the have nots you're probably not going to be one of the haves. But there's always pride. True story, buddy of mine's a basement dweller living at home in his 40s because he can't find a decent paying job (blue collar guy, couple of mental issues that means he can't hustle like you're expected to in 2018). If you ask him, he's middle class. And Taxed to the Max. I don't even know where he got the phrase, "Taxed to the Max", but he got it, and he's convinced he is, even though on the crappy wages he makes working part time he's not paying any taxes ourside of his vehicle registration on a 20 year old truck. This is what we're up against folks...
if your congressman has been bought off they won't vote how you tell them. Nothing matters when your voting for a corrupt politician. You don't matter unless you're giving them huge checks too.
to watch for dubious package names, that's all. It's not nothing to do with harassment, and if there wasn't a growing anti-SJW community riding a massive overreaction to an overreaction for YouTube videos and Patreon donations (with a healthy dose of money from right wing think tanks) we wouldn't have even noticed.
Keep calm and Debian on. This kind of stuff happens. Middle managers get sticks up their but over this sort of thing. If you've got to blame somebody blame them.
I said Disney should be held to the terms of our social contract. Yes, courts cost a lot. No, I don't want Disney to pay for them per lawsuit. Don't Dodge the main point, Disney broke the deal when they lobbied for unlimited copyright.
the deal is that the government puts it's resources behind protecting your works (keep in mind, your tax dollars are paying for the courts Disney uses to enforce their copyright; more so if you consider how Disney dodges taxes like all major corps). In exchange for that your works eventually become public domain. It was a social contract, and they broke it by extending their benefits indefinitely.
there have been several rules that uphold Arbitration agreements in EULA's recently. Congress passed a law making them binding and the SCOTUS upheld the law because Congress passed it. Employees can still sue for violations of various Labor Laws (mostly national ones) but if you're a consumer you're pretty much boned.
I know I keep harping on about this in various threads, but if we want this to stop we need to vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money
Medicaid pretty much requires you to be destitute. If you make $8/hr for 30/week you're not getting it. Source: Have friends & family that depended on it to survive major illnesses.
SNAP has been cut back for decades. WIC too.
The top brackets of our Progressive Income tax have been slashed non-stop for 40 years. Laws were put in place to make it hard to raise them again but easy to cut them, resulting in a "ratcheted" effect where they go down but never up. Government are then forced to implement regressive taxes like the "Netflix" and "Soda" taxes or just plain more sales tax because those aren't covered by the laws.
Good luck getting on SSI Disability. I've got a buddy who's been in a wheel chair his entire life and has massive hearing loss (no call center work for him) and he fights tooth and to get what little he can. Only reason he's not homeless is friends and family keep pitching in.
I could go on. We started slashing the safety net with Reagan. Nobody noticed because there were two massive economic bubbles in a row (Internet and Housing). Those bubbles are over and there's nothing on the horizon, folks are feeling it now. That's how we got a guy like Trump, the lower working class is looking for answers (well, their parents mostly, based on the polls of who voted for him and why). Thing is, we've danced this Charleston before: bad economy, demagogue, desperate working class.... It doesn't end well.
in the 20s, 30s 40s and even up till the 60s there was talk of less and less hours. And then it just stopped. 40 hours was "standard" with most doing 50+. Why the hell was it so easy to get the working class to work so hard for so little and just grin and bear it?
For the record, 86% of the manufacturing jobs lost were due to automation, not outsourcing. We're not being out-competed, there's just plain less work to do. And instead of working less we're all fighting among ourselves to see who gets to be the lucky guy that gets to do what little work is left.
but from what I can tell Microsoft put some hacks in place to post better in benchmarks. Google made some minor changes to Youtube.com (as they're wont to do) and it broke Microsoft's hacks and revealed their actual performance numbers.
I'm inclined to side with Google on this one, not because I hate Microsoft (I do, but that's besides the point) but because IE and Edge always felt way, way slower than their benchmark numbers would leave you to believe. Like buying one of those $100 GTX 1070s from Alibaba and finding out it's a bios flashed 2GB GTX 1050 kinda slow...
Just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel.
She's since apologized for it, but I don't see a lot to apologize for from a racist standpoint. I'm woke as f**k and I can't read a dog whistle in there. Now, I still would have liked an apologizing for the shameless fear-mongering, but not for any racism (and yes, I disagree with politifact on this, I'd rate it false, they gave it a "Mostly True" in context).
As for calling Trump supporters bigots, as a blanket statement that is wrong. But Trump is a bigot. That's not really up for debate. There's decades of actions on his part with that regard. What's more it's like the old Simpson joke: "Not racist, but No 1 with racists". There is an element of guilt by association because by supporting Trump for, say, his pro-worker and populist policies you give him the power to implement his racist policies.
And that is the difference: in one case you're making an argument about why you shouldn't vote for Trump and should in fact for for Hilary. In other case you're just focusing on getting the Blacks to not vote. It's a subtle difference but it's real. There's no attempt at discussing policy even as a background. CA was just trying to say "Don't Vote". Not, "Vote this way" but "Don't vote".
That's voter suppression. That's the difference and the genius of CA's approach. It's a whole new type of politicking. You're no longer making arguments, your just trying to game the system. It's an "end justifies the means" form of politics, and it's why everything CA did makes us so uneasy. Again, the genius is that it's hard to put your finger on why what they did was so bad because at first glance it looks like politics as usual. It's not.
which would turn off a lot of users. Also make it so that every political Advert is very clearly labeled as such.
Finally, the GOP and CA had a major voter suppression campaign run through Facebook where they run attack pieces on Hilary targeted to specific users to suppress the black vote. A variety of civil rights laws make this practice of dubious legality (though IANAL so it might get past a jury). But the bad press from it coming out would be enough to stop the practice.
And it's definitely something worth stopping. Whether you like Hilary or not targeted voter suppression drives do not add to our nation's political discourse, they subtract from it. I'd like to say "That goes for both sides" but as far as I can tell this was a uniquely GOP/CA thing. And I know it's not popular to call one side out, but I calls it like it is.
we've been shipping our plastic waste to China? At least until recently. Given how poverty stricken those nations are I somehow doubt they're generating that much waste plastic themselves.
with dodgy adverts on them. I'd run a Linux VM to browse them. Most of my fav abandonware sites started hosting warez though and got shut down (snesorama, I miss you, you're beloved community found me a full version of X-Tom 3D, which I wasn't even convinced existed).
they should go back to robbing old ladies in the street. Or we could ask ourselves why somebody's bothering to steal packages in the first place. There's plenty of risk, especially given our draconian sentencing laws (three strikes and you're out, you could do 20,30 years for stealing a $10 pair of crap earbuds).
Man, I swear, America is way, way too into making people suffer.
even if they're the only ones that get killed or injured it's not worth it. For the person getting the package it's a minor inconvenience. They report it lost and get it resent. We all pay a bit more in shrinkage, but I doubt it's very much. If these package thieves get too busy the cops take them out eventually.
Basically, my dinky little $100 order from Amazon isn't worth risking somebody's life for and my $1500, once every 7 years major PC upgrade gets a signature.
and they usually come when I'm at work. So I'd have to drive down to a pick up point, which would defeat the purpose of ordering online.
Also, most companies eats lost and stolen packages. I'm well aware this is baked into the price of everything I buy online, but that seems a fair trade off for the convenience.
but his copy cats will probably be dumb kids. I've already seen folks doing this with small explosives in order to get a loud "crack" and scare the person. If that keeps up sooner or later some dumb ass is gonna put an M-80 or something in a box and kill somebody.
And yes, this is why we can't have nice things. People are stupid on both sides of the isle.
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or even that special. I'm not the first person to notice that the working class refuses to think of themselves as such. He's not the other, known the guy since 7th grade and he is and remains my closest friend.
But you're strawmaning to avoid the issuea, which is that:
a. Automation is going to put us all out of work and if we don't change how we distribute wealth everybody but a lucky few born into it will live like shit (think Indian reservations but on a global scale).
b. Right wing politics don't work, you know this and it makes you very uncomfortable. Stop reading Ayn Rand and hating yourself and start looking around at the deck stacked against you. You'll have an uncomfortable free years while you work out the demons put in your head by the billion dollar propaganda machines like Fox News and Rush but you'll be better for it.
Patreon's a website where you can send money to people who make content of one kind or another. You're a "Patron of the arts" is how it's sold.
Youtube used to pay good money for adverts, but there was an advertiser scare when some of the major brand's ads (Coke was the big one) were being showed before neo-Nazi videos. The advertisers pulled their ads in mass for about 90 days, but then noticed that being off Youtube for 90 days didn't effect their sales in the slightest, so a lot of them never came back (or only do the occasional "branding" campaign). This is referred to as the Adpocalypse in Youtube land.
Anyway to make a living a lot of the big Youtuber's started asking for donations via Patreon. It's more popular than sending a one time donation because it is typically a recurring charge. Jordon Peterson, for example, makes about $80,000/mo/US last we knew (he's sense hid his monthly take).
Anyway there's a minor brew-ha-ha going on in the Youtube "skeptic" community. A lot of folks built channels and followings on videos debunking religion, new age medicine and pseudo science. When the Adpocalypse hit they saw their revenue plummet. Some of them made good on Pateron, but what really started getting the donations coming in was dropping the skeptic stuff and going after SJWs. There aren't a lot of folks who'll pitch you $5-$10/mo for videos debunking Homeopathy, but there are apparently a ton of them that'll pitch in if you're go after blue haired college girls who say dumb things about the patriarchy. Go figure.
There's also money to be made from the right wing think tanks. Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes SJWs. Even other SJWs don't like SJWs. Folks hate the extreme political correctness that's associated with SJWs just like regular folks are weirded out by religious nut-jobs (and for the same reasons). The right wing think tanks know this and they're using it as a chink in the left wing's armor. The goal is to convince folks that everyone on the left is one of those nut case feminazi's who won't shut up about how oppressed women are. It's a tactic that seems to work too. It shuts down arguments about substantive policy (like discussing Medicare for All, ending the 7 or 8 wars we're in, infrastructure spending, wealth inequity and stagnant wages, basically anything economic). Those think tanks feed into the anti-SJW crowd indirectly (by giving them useful talking points) and sometimes directly (by giving them money or flying them out to conventions to speak).
To be honest I think that racism is gradually going away and with it the "Southern Strategy" (e.g. using race to keep folks in the South voting for right wing policies that negatively impact them). Anti-SJWism is Southern Strategy 2.0. It's the new enemy to focus your anger on so you won't notice you're being robbed blind.
were to automation not outsourcing. To be fair outsourcing makes it that much more painful for the few jobs left. But I think it's pretty clear that our current system of wealth distribution isn't going to hold up. As much as people hate it when people get money they didn't earn (which is funny, since rent seeking on the properties your dad willed to you is A-OK) we're either gonna have to get over all that puritanical bullshit or get comfortable with a dystopia of 1% haves and 99% have-nots.
Here's the thing folks, when 99% are the have nots you're probably not going to be one of the haves. But there's always pride. True story, buddy of mine's a basement dweller living at home in his 40s because he can't find a decent paying job (blue collar guy, couple of mental issues that means he can't hustle like you're expected to in 2018). If you ask him, he's middle class. And Taxed to the Max. I don't even know where he got the phrase, "Taxed to the Max", but he got it, and he's convinced he is, even though on the crappy wages he makes working part time he's not paying any taxes ourside of his vehicle registration on a 20 year old truck. This is what we're up against folks...
if your congressman has been bought off they won't vote how you tell them. Nothing matters when your voting for a corrupt politician. You don't matter unless you're giving them huge checks too.
to watch for dubious package names, that's all. It's not nothing to do with harassment, and if there wasn't a growing anti-SJW community riding a massive overreaction to an overreaction for YouTube videos and Patreon donations (with a healthy dose of money from right wing think tanks) we wouldn't have even noticed.
Keep calm and Debian on. This kind of stuff happens. Middle managers get sticks up their but over this sort of thing. If you've got to blame somebody blame them.
I said Disney should be held to the terms of our social contract. Yes, courts cost a lot. No, I don't want Disney to pay for them per lawsuit. Don't Dodge the main point, Disney broke the deal when they lobbied for unlimited copyright.
from Amazon or Ebay. They're all cheap bootlegs. They work and they're playable, but have terrible battery life.
the deal is that the government puts it's resources behind protecting your works (keep in mind, your tax dollars are paying for the courts Disney uses to enforce their copyright; more so if you consider how Disney dodges taxes like all major corps). In exchange for that your works eventually become public domain. It was a social contract, and they broke it by extending their benefits indefinitely.
to complex problems don't work, and in fact common sense solutions are nonsense.
there have been several rules that uphold Arbitration agreements in EULA's recently. Congress passed a law making them binding and the SCOTUS upheld the law because Congress passed it. Employees can still sue for violations of various Labor Laws (mostly national ones) but if you're a consumer you're pretty much boned.
I know I keep harping on about this in various threads, but if we want this to stop we need to vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money
Medicaid pretty much requires you to be destitute. If you make $8/hr for 30/week you're not getting it. Source: Have friends & family that depended on it to survive major illnesses.
SNAP has been cut back for decades. WIC too.
The top brackets of our Progressive Income tax have been slashed non-stop for 40 years. Laws were put in place to make it hard to raise them again but easy to cut them, resulting in a "ratcheted" effect where they go down but never up. Government are then forced to implement regressive taxes like the "Netflix" and "Soda" taxes or just plain more sales tax because those aren't covered by the laws.
Good luck getting on SSI Disability. I've got a buddy who's been in a wheel chair his entire life and has massive hearing loss (no call center work for him) and he fights tooth and to get what little he can. Only reason he's not homeless is friends and family keep pitching in.
I could go on. We started slashing the safety net with Reagan. Nobody noticed because there were two massive economic bubbles in a row (Internet and Housing). Those bubbles are over and there's nothing on the horizon, folks are feeling it now. That's how we got a guy like Trump, the lower working class is looking for answers (well, their parents mostly, based on the polls of who voted for him and why). Thing is, we've danced this Charleston before: bad economy, demagogue, desperate working class.... It doesn't end well.
in the 20s, 30s 40s and even up till the 60s there was talk of less and less hours. And then it just stopped. 40 hours was "standard" with most doing 50+. Why the hell was it so easy to get the working class to work so hard for so little and just grin and bear it?
For the record, 86% of the manufacturing jobs lost were due to automation, not outsourcing. We're not being out-competed, there's just plain less work to do. And instead of working less we're all fighting among ourselves to see who gets to be the lucky guy that gets to do what little work is left.
but from what I can tell Microsoft put some hacks in place to post better in benchmarks. Google made some minor changes to Youtube.com (as they're wont to do) and it broke Microsoft's hacks and revealed their actual performance numbers.
I'm inclined to side with Google on this one, not because I hate Microsoft (I do, but that's besides the point) but because IE and Edge always felt way, way slower than their benchmark numbers would leave you to believe. Like buying one of those $100 GTX 1070s from Alibaba and finding out it's a bios flashed 2GB GTX 1050 kinda slow...
Jack Ma is Chinese for Ric Romero.
She's since apologized for it, but I don't see a lot to apologize for from a racist standpoint. I'm woke as f**k and I can't read a dog whistle in there. Now, I still would have liked an apologizing for the shameless fear-mongering, but not for any racism (and yes, I disagree with politifact on this, I'd rate it false, they gave it a "Mostly True" in context).
As for calling Trump supporters bigots, as a blanket statement that is wrong. But Trump is a bigot. That's not really up for debate. There's decades of actions on his part with that regard. What's more it's like the old Simpson joke: "Not racist, but No 1 with racists". There is an element of guilt by association because by supporting Trump for, say, his pro-worker and populist policies you give him the power to implement his racist policies.
And that is the difference: in one case you're making an argument about why you shouldn't vote for Trump and should in fact for for Hilary. In other case you're just focusing on getting the Blacks to not vote. It's a subtle difference but it's real. There's no attempt at discussing policy even as a background. CA was just trying to say "Don't Vote". Not, "Vote this way" but "Don't vote".
That's voter suppression. That's the difference and the genius of CA's approach. It's a whole new type of politicking. You're no longer making arguments, your just trying to game the system. It's an "end justifies the means" form of politics, and it's why everything CA did makes us so uneasy. Again, the genius is that it's hard to put your finger on why what they did was so bad because at first glance it looks like politics as usual. It's not.
which would turn off a lot of users. Also make it so that every political Advert is very clearly labeled as such.
Finally, the GOP and CA had a major voter suppression campaign run through Facebook where they run attack pieces on Hilary targeted to specific users to suppress the black vote. A variety of civil rights laws make this practice of dubious legality (though IANAL so it might get past a jury). But the bad press from it coming out would be enough to stop the practice.
And it's definitely something worth stopping. Whether you like Hilary or not targeted voter suppression drives do not add to our nation's political discourse, they subtract from it. I'd like to say "That goes for both sides" but as far as I can tell this was a uniquely GOP/CA thing. And I know it's not popular to call one side out, but I calls it like it is.
we've been shipping our plastic waste to China? At least until recently. Given how poverty stricken those nations are I somehow doubt they're generating that much waste plastic themselves.
with dodgy adverts on them. I'd run a Linux VM to browse them. Most of my fav abandonware sites started hosting warez though and got shut down (snesorama, I miss you, you're beloved community found me a full version of X-Tom 3D, which I wasn't even convinced existed).
they should go back to robbing old ladies in the street. Or we could ask ourselves why somebody's bothering to steal packages in the first place. There's plenty of risk, especially given our draconian sentencing laws (three strikes and you're out, you could do 20,30 years for stealing a $10 pair of crap earbuds).
Man, I swear, America is way, way too into making people suffer.
we're 20 years out from self driving cars. Maybe 40. Heck, It'll never happen.
even if they're the only ones that get killed or injured it's not worth it. For the person getting the package it's a minor inconvenience. They report it lost and get it resent. We all pay a bit more in shrinkage, but I doubt it's very much. If these package thieves get too busy the cops take them out eventually.
Basically, my dinky little $100 order from Amazon isn't worth risking somebody's life for and my $1500, once every 7 years major PC upgrade gets a signature.
in the first place? The headline assumes that part was inevitable.
and they usually come when I'm at work. So I'd have to drive down to a pick up point, which would defeat the purpose of ordering online.
Also, most companies eats lost and stolen packages. I'm well aware this is baked into the price of everything I buy online, but that seems a fair trade off for the convenience.
in a car. e.g. if it happened when a person was driving and caused in accident.
but his copy cats will probably be dumb kids. I've already seen folks doing this with small explosives in order to get a loud "crack" and scare the person. If that keeps up sooner or later some dumb ass is gonna put an M-80 or something in a box and kill somebody.
And yes, this is why we can't have nice things. People are stupid on both sides of the isle.