You need a big organization like the AFL-CIO so that folks in one industry can strike and be supported by folks half a world away until the strike's over.
That's entirely fucking orthogonal to your point about German unions and centralised workforce, except possibly being proven entirely fucking wrong by it.
. Their president makes $300k/yr, which is ridiculously low
No. It's not.
a network of workers who'll support you when you strike and who you'll support when they strike
Fuck that. You strike, it's on you. Don't be expecting me to support you. I'm not asking for handouts when I quit my job because I don't like it.
You have to do it nationally or they just move to a new state every time you try it.
So they move to a new country instead. See also: The last forty years.
Apply for a job, negotiate your pay and conditions and if you don't like it, get a new one. It's not fucking hard.
Did you get decent health care? Did you get paid time off that you can actually use? Did you get some assurance that you wont be laid off next month or fired without cause? Some things are worth more than money because you could never get these things on your own.
Yeah, my last four jobs all offered those.
Didn't join a union in any of them. Got indirectly fucked over by a union in two of them. Fucking unions.
if you crash your car and it is totaled out, you donÃ(TM)t get to just keep the car.
As it happens, often you do. It's not worth the cost of collecting it.
prove that it went unused
They're insuring you against your favourite player not being there. That doesn't stop you going and watching the others. It just means they're recognising the additional value of the premium player, which has indeed been lost.
It's not just that (essential) trifecta. It's also actually sensible designed too.
No stupid 'new tab' splash pages. Night mode. Privacy mode that's obvious and easy to access.
Best of all, I wrote to them asking if they could add an option for 'Open in new tab' to open as a background tab rather than replacing the current one and the next patch added a new sub-menu option to 'Open in background tab' so that you can do either.
That makes it more usable and nice to use than the others, in addition to the trifecta.
they are needing to drive traffic to that destination for some reason
Maybe so, but buying an airline ticket in no way obliges you to use it.
If anything you're saving them money through improved efficiency (fewer bags/people to board/disembark), greater safety (fewer people stampeding through an exit in an emergency), a superior experience for their other customers (more elbow room, fewer distractions for the cabin crew) and lower fuel costs because the aircraft is lighter.
someone earning £50k+ whose company spends £10k more employing them might see around 30% of that
While I do think tax is rather high, that's just flat out wrong. Someone earning £50k/year will take home £37k/year, and that's assuming they aren't taking advantage of things like tax free pension contributions.
the loss of child tax credits
On what fucking planet is 'loss of tax credits' a tax? How about giving nobody any fucking tax credits for adding to the overpopulation of this island.
Yes. I see, read and hear the constant barrage of 'men are shit' in the media and recognise when a company tries to use that message to sell its products.
It's a message with which I disagree. Indeed, I find that men that agree with it seem to do so because it frequently does describe them, which is their failing and not that of other men.
I read about a Tesla owner who had a note taped to his car window: "This is a Tesla and its air conditioning is running. The dog is fine. Please don't break my window."
I hope someone broke his window.
'Dog mode' should detect a dog left alone in the car, wait ten minutes then unlock the car and set off the alarm. Two minutes later the doors should open.
I'm not rewatching that shitfest just to answer your question.
I didn't identify with the people that the advert was describing, and the advert was clearly targeted at Gillette's customer base. Gillette think that as a customer that advert described me and I disagree, which is my entire fucking point. I don't have to try and defend any behaviours in the advert to make that point, so stop trying to cause irrelevant distraction.
Gees, Glaciers and ice sheets tend to float on water in the Antarctic,
A glacier floating on water isn't a glacier. Ice in the Antarctic Sea is generally relatively thin and most of it is seasonal. Ice on Antarctica doesn't float on water, it's sat on land.
Greenland is nothing. If Antarctica melts most of Europe goes under water.
Sorry but I'm going to have to call you out on this.
If you're using inches then you need to use fractions. 1/12 inch and 'fuck all'.
If you want to go to three decimal places then use a proper fucking measurement system and tell us in metres, mm or micrometres. Those units allow you the specificity you desire.
Forgive my foolishness but how is the ice on Greenland and Antarctica managing to be underwater? I mean, technically most of it is under frozen water but that doesn't then explain the displacement to which you refer.
I can confirm I've never stood in a line of 20 barbecues ignoring small boys.
What, am I meant to go through second by second and ask myself whether this represents me? No, I'm not going to do that. Shit, I've already highlighted an element of that video that accurately describes situations I frequently encounter - but with the genders reversed.
Do Gilette think I'm a woman with an unfortunate chin bristle issue?
Since I can't be arsed to go downstairs and find an ice cube, what's the relative density and how does that compare to the proportion of the ice that's in the water?
Ice floats, ice bergs stick up above the water. That ice above the water will be added to it when the ice melts, offsetting the reduced volume of the ice that was in the water melting. How much is offset and what's the resultant change in volume?
Plus of course we need to examine two states: One is end-state, when all the ice has melted. The other is an interim state, when all the glaciers slide off land and into the sea. At that point the sea level will have to include that added volume from the lower density ice. Although of course, that's likely to be offset in part or fully by reduced volumes of ice in the Arctic.
So many factors. So little certainty. So many arguments over utter silliness.
Y'know, I've never met a person who believed that "the problem is too many people" who thinks that they have a moral obligation to remove themselves from the world.
That's because it's perfectly possible to reduce world population without removing anybody from the world.
But a lot of them DO think that OTHER people should be removed from the world....
A lot of people that don't think the world is overpopulated also support removing other people from the world. It's hardly unique to people that recognise that there are too many humans.
There are however many people that are acting on their belief that overpopulation is a bad thing, by not perpetuating or exacerbating it.
Strangely they get yelled at for being abnormal, as though avoiding having children is in some way reprehensible. Shit, Hungary just passed a law to try and turn women into baby factories. But they get to claim EU funds to pay for them..
That's because it's got more than water in it. Add more water, you dilute the oceans, you reduce the density.
Of course, there's also the water that isn't in the oceans. Heavily increased rainfall in parts of the world means more water hitting land, so it's possible some of Greenland's ice cap will head that way.
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That said, the other problem with Unionizing is mediocrity.
I've yet to see a union advocate argue that one away either.
Technically a union can support and demand training and reskilling for employees. The ones in Germany and the UK do.
In the UK at least, that doesn't however sufficiently compensate for the sheer difficulty they cause in removing incompetent fuckwits.
You need a big organization like the AFL-CIO so that folks in one industry can strike and be supported by folks half a world away until the strike's over.
That's entirely fucking orthogonal to your point about German unions and centralised workforce, except possibly being proven entirely fucking wrong by it.
. Their president makes $300k/yr, which is ridiculously low
No. It's not.
a network of workers who'll support you when you strike and who you'll support when they strike
Fuck that. You strike, it's on you. Don't be expecting me to support you. I'm not asking for handouts when I quit my job because I don't like it.
You have to do it nationally or they just move to a new state every time you try it.
So they move to a new country instead. See also: The last forty years.
Apply for a job, negotiate your pay and conditions and if you don't like it, get a new one. It's not fucking hard.
Did you get decent health care? Did you get paid time off that you can actually use? Did you get some assurance that you wont be laid off next month or fired without cause? Some things are worth more than money because you could never get these things on your own.
Yeah, my last four jobs all offered those.
Didn't join a union in any of them. Got indirectly fucked over by a union in two of them. Fucking unions.
They have an installed network connected to virtually every retailer in the industrialized world
No, they don't. The card acquirers do, and they don't offer a VISA network, a Mastercard network and an Amex network. They offer card payment support.
Adding a new payment service is a back-end integration from a dozen acquirers and suddenly all those retail outlets can now accept NewCard too.
3. Edit original tweet to make reactions look evil/racist/ignorant/etc.
I'm struggling here to think of a reply that might look racist following an edit to the post to which it responded, that didn't look racist anyway.
Wait? You mean the BBC don't have a monopoly on shitty Norwegian police procedurals? It's all they've been showing for months.
Just how many of them are out there?
if you crash your car and it is totaled out, you donÃ(TM)t get to just keep the car.
As it happens, often you do. It's not worth the cost of collecting it.
prove that it went unused
They're insuring you against your favourite player not being there. That doesn't stop you going and watching the others. It just means they're recognising the additional value of the premium player, which has indeed been lost.
Indeed. So claim the insurance then sell the ticket.
No fraud.
It's not just that (essential) trifecta. It's also actually sensible designed too.
No stupid 'new tab' splash pages. Night mode. Privacy mode that's obvious and easy to access.
Best of all, I wrote to them asking if they could add an option for 'Open in new tab' to open as a background tab rather than replacing the current one and the next patch added a new sub-menu option to 'Open in background tab' so that you can do either.
That makes it more usable and nice to use than the others, in addition to the trifecta.
they are needing to drive traffic to that destination for some reason
Maybe so, but buying an airline ticket in no way obliges you to use it.
If anything you're saving them money through improved efficiency (fewer bags/people to board/disembark), greater safety (fewer people stampeding through an exit in an emergency), a superior experience for their other customers (more elbow room, fewer distractions for the cabin crew) and lower fuel costs because the aircraft is lighter.
Shit, they should be paying him.
according to the fact checking site Snoops
Fact check: Snopes is not a fact checking site.
You appear to be the only person on the planet using SAE, given that nobody else recognises those initials as a measurement standard.
Well done. You're fucking special you are.
Nah. The nearby coastlines will be devastated but most of the world wont notice.
Tsunamis have immense energy but not enough to beat gravity long enough to cover the globe.
someone earning £50k+ whose company spends £10k more employing them might see around 30% of that
While I do think tax is rather high, that's just flat out wrong. Someone earning £50k/year will take home £37k/year, and that's assuming they aren't taking advantage of things like tax free pension contributions.
the loss of child tax credits
On what fucking planet is 'loss of tax credits' a tax? How about giving nobody any fucking tax credits for adding to the overpopulation of this island.
Yes. I see, read and hear the constant barrage of 'men are shit' in the media and recognise when a company tries to use that message to sell its products.
It's a message with which I disagree. Indeed, I find that men that agree with it seem to do so because it frequently does describe them, which is their failing and not that of other men.
I read about a Tesla owner who had a note taped to his car window: "This is a Tesla and its air conditioning is running. The dog is fine. Please don't break my window."
I hope someone broke his window.
'Dog mode' should detect a dog left alone in the car, wait ten minutes then unlock the car and set off the alarm. Two minutes later the doors should open.
Works for toddlers and babies too.
I'm not rewatching that shitfest just to answer your question.
I didn't identify with the people that the advert was describing, and the advert was clearly targeted at Gillette's customer base. Gillette think that as a customer that advert described me and I disagree, which is my entire fucking point. I don't have to try and defend any behaviours in the advert to make that point, so stop trying to cause irrelevant distraction.
Gees, Glaciers and ice sheets tend to float on water in the Antarctic,
A glacier floating on water isn't a glacier. Ice in the Antarctic Sea is generally relatively thin and most of it is seasonal. Ice on Antarctica doesn't float on water, it's sat on land.
Greenland is nothing. If Antarctica melts most of Europe goes under water.
0.08 inches and the ocean floor sank 0.004 inches
Sorry but I'm going to have to call you out on this.
If you're using inches then you need to use fractions. 1/12 inch and 'fuck all'.
If you want to go to three decimal places then use a proper fucking measurement system and tell us in metres, mm or micrometres. Those units allow you the specificity you desire.
Forgive my foolishness but how is the ice on Greenland and Antarctica managing to be underwater? I mean, technically most of it is under frozen water but that doesn't then explain the displacement to which you refer.
I can confirm I've never stood in a line of 20 barbecues ignoring small boys.
What, am I meant to go through second by second and ask myself whether this represents me? No, I'm not going to do that. Shit, I've already highlighted an element of that video that accurately describes situations I frequently encounter - but with the genders reversed.
Do Gilette think I'm a woman with an unfortunate chin bristle issue?
Since I can't be arsed to go downstairs and find an ice cube, what's the relative density and how does that compare to the proportion of the ice that's in the water?
Ice floats, ice bergs stick up above the water. That ice above the water will be added to it when the ice melts, offsetting the reduced volume of the ice that was in the water melting. How much is offset and what's the resultant change in volume?
Plus of course we need to examine two states: One is end-state, when all the ice has melted. The other is an interim state, when all the glaciers slide off land and into the sea. At that point the sea level will have to include that added volume from the lower density ice. Although of course, that's likely to be offset in part or fully by reduced volumes of ice in the Arctic.
So many factors. So little certainty. So many arguments over utter silliness.
Y'know, I've never met a person who believed that "the problem is too many people" who thinks that they have a moral obligation to remove themselves from the world.
That's because it's perfectly possible to reduce world population without removing anybody from the world.
But a lot of them DO think that OTHER people should be removed from the world....
A lot of people that don't think the world is overpopulated also support removing other people from the world. It's hardly unique to people that recognise that there are too many humans.
There are however many people that are acting on their belief that overpopulation is a bad thing, by not perpetuating or exacerbating it.
Strangely they get yelled at for being abnormal, as though avoiding having children is in some way reprehensible. Shit, Hungary just passed a law to try and turn women into baby factories. But they get to claim EU funds to pay for them..
Half the population of the world dying isn't genocide, it's a correction.
You're welcome to keep all the various races, tribes and populations in the current proportions.
Better yet, we don't need to kill anybody. Just provide education, contraception and wait 40 years.
salt water has an even higher density
That's because it's got more than water in it. Add more water, you dilute the oceans, you reduce the density.
Of course, there's also the water that isn't in the oceans. Heavily increased rainfall in parts of the world means more water hitting land, so it's possible some of Greenland's ice cap will head that way.