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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:And that brings us to 2012. Unlike previous referendums, which were pretty straightforward, this referendum was two-tiered. The first question asked simply whether the voter wanted to keep the current commonwealth system. The second asked what ought to replace the commonwealth. The issue was, iirc, that one of the major parties in PR boycotted the election by submitting blank ballots, and if you include the blank ballots then no option in Q2 got over 50%. And I think they specifically left Q2 blank while answering Q1.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Vox's Max Fischer on why World War III is closer than it's been since Reagan left office. "Oh, hey, both sides used 'strategic' nuclear missiles on a few hardened positions, surprisingly little loss of life... why is the temperature 10 degrees higher worldwide?"
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I've been saying it for awhile. The UNSC countries need to dig a grave for ISIL and we can bury our hatchets there.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Vox's Max Fischer on why World War III is closer than it's been since Reagan left office. I like Vox, especially their piece that dismantled Seymour Hersh's conspiracy theory about the bin Laden operation, but my mind just reeled from this article at every turn. It's less that it sounds crazy so much as it's difficult to accept were it to be true.
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Jun 30, 2015 13:24
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Can't shovel every single employee into a "management" position and tell them to get hosed on overtime? I'm guessing the response will be to stop having employees and we see a truly astounding explosion in "contracting" employees being hired by TotallyNotUs Inc. A completely unrelated company that we never talk to because the paperwork proving they exist in Delaware is stored down in HR's office. Now sign this binding arbitration clause or you're fired for reasons totally not related to not signing it.
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Jun 30, 2015 13:26
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Tonight at midnight the Export Import Bank will lose the authority to extend loans. There are likely more than 60 votes to extend its mandate in the Senate. Prospects in the House are less clear, with well-funded conservative opposition, but it won't be resolved today as the House is not in session.
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Jun 30, 2015 13:31
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Vox's Max Fischer on why World War III is closer than it's been since Reagan left office. This is freaking me out. Goons familiar with this kind of thing, how's the quality of his analysis?
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Accretionist posted:Goons familiar with this kind of thing, how's the quality of his analysis? This is a completely ridiculous statement: quote:Europe today looks disturbingly similar to the Europe of just over 100 years ago, on the eve of World War I. As is the idea of NATO-triggered nuclear war in 2015.
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Jun 30, 2015 13:42
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Fried Chicken posted:New York Times really loving reaches in a pathetic tattempt to make this sound lke a bad thing quote:Conservatives and business groups have bitterly opposed the idea, warning that it will cost jobs. The National Retail Federation, a trade group, has argued that expanded overtime will “add to employers’ costs, undermine customer service, hinder productivity, generate more litigation opportunities for trial lawyers and ultimately harm job creation.” One of those might be true, not so sure on the other four....
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wages don't work like that. And given that they employ the guy who did a ton of work on the stickiness of wages and how they are impacted by forces like this, I expect we will see some good stuff from Krug soon about this.
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Sir Tonk posted:From what I've heard, Obama is changing one of the main loopholes that companies have been using to say that almost everyone is exempt. If you're in charge of like two or three people, then you're considered management and exempt. Either Obama or the DOL head has said that they're looking to push that number to five, at least, in response to companies just saying that everyone is an assistant manager. Actually it is even better than that: "Nonetheless, unofficial pronouncements (including the Secretary of Labor’s remarks before the International Association of Firefighters on March 18, 2014) have repeatedly stressed the DOL’s position that the current regulations result in too many employees falling under the exemptions, particularly retail managers who spend a large portion of their time performing non-exempt duties. Accordingly, there is speculation that the DOL may eliminate the “concurrent duties” provision of 29 CFR 541.106, which provides that simultaneously performing both exempt and nonexempt duties will not automatically disqualify an otherwise exempt employee from the executive exemption. There is also speculation that the regulations may impose a set percentage cap on the amount of time an exempt employee may spend on non-exempt duties, similar to exemption provisions under some state laws (such as California and Connecticut) and to some provisions of the pre-2004 FLSA regulations." The major problem right now is that employers will call someone a Manager but their work will consist of 5% managing and 95% doing the same poo poo the hourly workers are doing. Retail and fast food places are the worst offenders because you always see someone with "Shift Manager" on their tag restocking or running the register. The various business groups in that sector are freaking out and creating hillarious infographics about how the manager isn't actually doing hourly work but instead is "leading by example" or some bullshit:  
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Theris posted:I wonder in how many cases this will be done with a simple "Congratulations, you're getting a raise! (to $50,401)" Like companies cutting people's hours just enough to avoid tripping the ACA 30 hour rule. And keep in mind that just because you make over the threshold, you still need to qualify as exempt. Most lovely companies will just put you down as exempt, but it's up to them to explain why your positions is exempt and you can always report it to the DOL (or just ask them anonymously if you don't want to get hosed with by your employer). If I had to guess, I'd say that at least half of the exempt workers in the US shouldn't be exempt. Hell, it's probably closer to 75%. And it doesn't help that most Americans think that once you're getting paid salary, you're automatically exempt. Everything I heard growing up was that you just work more than forty hours every so often when you're salary and that's how it is. edit There's so many amazing articles on this (for all the wrong reasons). Is Forcing Businesses to Pay Overtime to More Workers Really a Brilliant Idea? No Frigging Way. There was also talk of attached the pay threshold to inflation, not sure if that is going to end up in the eventual rules. I sure as hell hope it does. If the DOL does this right, we might be getting the most effective stimulus plan the feds could implement. Median income going up like $5k, more jobs where companies don't want to raise pay, you name it. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I like Vox, especially their piece that dismantled Seymour Hersh's conspiracy theory about the bin Laden operation, but my mind just reeled from this article at every turn. It's less that it sounds crazy so much as it's difficult to accept were it to be true. All made sense to me. Would certainly be easier to accept that I'm an idiot and got gulled, but overall it seemed consistent with the other things I've read about modern Russia.
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Accretionist posted:This is freaking me out. It's pretty scaremongery. It's like a reverse Cassandra where it demands you bias towards "poo poo, things are like before WW1" so that if you don't think a war is brewing you're a rube. It's a good rhetorical device. I can't help but feel that it's like good old Kremlinology where incidents are strung together in an attempt to create an appropriately scary big picture. E.g. the 900 000 letters sent by the Finnish Defence Forces were in the works way before little green men in Ukraine happened. There have also been "buzzings" by Russian planes in Baltic and Scandinavian airspace before, although the frequency has slightly increased. I think the best point is the fact that going Article 5 on a hybrid war will be very tricky and the last thing you want in a high pressure situation. It's also beyond contention that Russia's actions in Ukraine have introduced instability. But it seems silly to preach that war in Europe is perceived as unthinkable, when there's a war going on right now. Edit: You could write a book on how much things are not like pre-WW1 right now. It's a useless analytical tool. But a great rhetorical device.
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Antti posted:Edit: You could write a book on how much things are not like pre-WW1 right now. It's a useless analytical tool. But a great rhetorical device. But what if the Habsburgs took over again?
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I guess Ted Cruz thinks the SCOTUS ruling only legalized gay marriage for Jim Obergefell.quote:“Those who are not parties to the suit are not bound by it… The parties to a case cannot ignore a direct judicial order, but it does not mean that those who are not parties to a case are bound by a judicial order.”
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Ted Cruz: Super Genius Lawyer.
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Are most of the arguments in favor of laws forcing overtime pay based on job exploitation and mental health and things like that, or based on the idea that beyond a certain number of hours a day (maybe six?), most people's work just gets really inefficient? edit: especially relevant since I just moved back to Japan, land of spending long hours in the office but still getting surprisingly little done. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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zoux posted:I guess Ted Cruz thinks the SCOTUS ruling only legalized gay marriage for Jim Obergefell. He's not actually wrong. It's just that entities are expected to conform their conduct instead of each individual issuer being taken to court to get an order for them, and it'll make the rocket docket look like financial crash litigation for how quick they get smacked around. Basically, he's right that no one who isn't a party is bound by the specific order issued in Obergefell, but they are bound by the Constitution and guess what the settled law on that issue is...
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Samurai Sanders posted:Are most of the arguments in favor of laws forcing overtime pay based on job exploitation and mental health and things like that, or based on the idea that beyond a certain number of hours a day (maybe six?), most people's work just gets really inefficient? All of those things are true so does it matter? They seem based on the exploitation of workers.
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zoux posted:I guess Ted Cruz thinks the SCOTUS ruling only legalized gay marriage for Jim Obergefell. So by this logic, Citizens United v. FEC...only applied to Citizens United.
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Alter Ego posted:So by this logic, Citizens United v. FEC...only applied to Citizens United. No, it also applied to the FEC, which was the enforcing entity of the invalidated provision so that doesn't really work.
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Aerox posted:If you would like to see the trucks crash it's at the end of this video: Wow. quote:LucchiniSW 9 hours ago
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Whenever someone starts harping about how the confederate flag is about state's rights, I've started to agree with them and add "the flag is about a state's right to secede from the union and betray its own country since they're mad they can't have slaves anymore".
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Shageletic posted:Wow. Interesting, interesting... so it is just like the Nazi flag after all? Wow indeed, hahah.
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The poor, misunderstood Nazi flag.
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zoux posted:The poor, misunderstood Nazi flag. Do these people know that you can't actually fly the Nazi flag in Germany either, and haven't been able to for decades?
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:Oh the monkeys are still around. And I'll have you know they're rhesus monkeys in addition to patas monkeys. We are a diverse little island here good sir. I thought the monkeys had been eradicated recently by a hunting program. I remember PETA being up in arms over it, and that it had been considered a success. I'm both amused (because monkeys) and disappointed (because crops and disease) by this monkey business.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Do these people know that you can't actually fly the Nazi flag in Germany either, and haven't been able to for decades? That seems like a perfectly fair policy.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Do these people know that you can't actually fly the Nazi flag in Germany either, and haven't been able to for decades? Of course you can't fly it in Germany, they're Nazis.
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Joementum posted:This is a completely ridiculous statement: I don't think it was meant to be interpreted literally. He's consistent about referring to poorly understood alliance obligations in Europe- he doesn't literally mean Italy, German, and Austria are about to enter a war with France, GB, and Russia. What is sort of true is that any offensive action taken against Finland, Estonia, or Latvia would be enough to trigger a global conflict. Those alliances didn't exist 30 years ago.
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It was explained to me that if Texas refuses licenses, each refused license requires a separate lawsuit, etc. In theory, correct: every violation of settled law is a new thing. But if Texas decided to start, I don't know, arresting people without probable cause... wait, no. Er. ... well, poo poo.
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Warcabbit posted:It was explained to me that if Texas refuses licenses, each refused license requires a separate lawsuit, etc. Sounds like a great way to piss off 1/3 of the government. Texas! Yeehaw!
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SCOTUS granted review of 5 cases, Missouri abortion was not one of them but a challenge to pubic sector unions was, not a lot of discussion on the twitters I follow past that so I guess the rest was boring stuff?
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Antti posted:Edit: You could write a book on how much things are not like pre-WW1 right now. It's a useless analytical tool. But a great rhetorical device. The pre-WW1 stuff was, to me, the least important bit of the article. Throw out that whole line as a needless comparison (which, to be fair, it certainly is) and concentrate more on the meat of Russian nuclear rearmament and brinksmanship and it becomes a lot more frightening. The assassination of some minor noble in central Europe isn't going to lead to four years of trench warfare, but the scenario he actually lays out is clear and possible. We've seen Putin is willing to gamble on the West being too overstretched and fatigued to commit to defending what he sees as Russian imperial holdings, he just needs to make one more successful play for a baltic state and he'll reveal NATO to be completely toothless. So he might just make the attempt, which means NATO would have to respond, which means actual troops moving around on the Russian border, which leads us down the road of artillery strike and counter airstrike and so on until Russia deploys their darkly hilarious idea of a "de-escalating" tactical nuclear bomb on a US tank division.... So not WW1 at all. Much, much worse than WW1.
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The truly scary part is a Russian tank division speeding west across a radioactive wasteland. Have you seem those fuckers drive?
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The Fat Man is in the race. That's what, 16? Or were we already counting him?
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Fried Chicken posted:The Fat Man is in the race. That's what, 16? Or were we already counting him? Safe to say everyone including all the posters in this thread are running. Kasich announces on the 21st.
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Iran intern deal/talks just got extended to the 7th That short an extension suggests a deal is close to me, but I'm just a guy in the Internet
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