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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Holy poo poo, Santa Rosa is your home town? I just moved away from there and I'd be homeless right now if I hadn't. Everyone I know has been affected by this, and it is a tragedy. I hope you and your friends and family stay safe and are able to bounce back. You and I spar plenty, but people matter much more than politics. Napa's my hometown, but my parents live on Atlas Peak, which is pretty much the epicenter of one of the fires. But yeah, Santa Rosa is a loving mess right now - even worse than the parts of Napa that have gotten hit. Parts of town look like a hydrogen bomb went off. I appreciate the well-wishing; my family was super lucky. A lot of people definitely weren't. People should give to the Napa Valley Community Fund btw. A lot of working-class people are getting royally hosed by this fire.
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Majorian posted:Napa's my hometown, but my parents live on Atlas Peak, which is pretty much the epicenter of one of the fires. But yeah, Santa Rosa is a loving mess right now - even worse than the parts of Napa that have gotten hit. Parts of town look like a hydrogen bomb went off. I live near Denver now, and I've been trying to get everyone I know to donate. I don't know what I would be doing if I hadn't moved my family. I'd be jobless and homeless essentially. My wife and I are trying to figure out how we can go back and volunteer in some way. My brother in law is a firefighter that is assigned in santa Rosa from another part of the state, and his firsthand reports are horrifying. My old boss lost his house and his business. All I could offer was to put him up in Denver for a few weeks. Again, if anyone has the ability to donate or volunteer please consider it.
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Majorian posted:Napa's my hometown, but my parents live on Atlas Peak, which is pretty much the epicenter of one of the fires. But yeah, Santa Rosa is a loving mess right now - even worse than the parts of Napa that have gotten hit. Parts of town look like a hydrogen bomb went off. Jesus gently caress. Hope they all stay safe and can get back going.
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Mustached Demon posted:Jesus gently caress. Hope they all stay safe and can get back going. Yeah, the Napa fire department's doing heroic work. I'm amazed that as few people have died so far, and while the blaze probably isn't stopping anytime soon, at least other folks will have more warning, and more time to get their poo poo together to flee.
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Yeah the two largest North Bay fires are less than 5% contained and the winds are supposed to continue for another few days I think. Bad year for natural disasters.
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Stereotype posted:Yeah the two largest North Bay fires are less than 5% contained and the winds are supposed to continue for another few days I think. We usually have Thanksgiving at my parents' house, with the whole extended family. We have a couple climate change "skeptics" in the mix. I'm going to try not to rub their faces in the ashes of my burnt hometown.
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Nevvy Z posted:This reply to one of Macfarlanes "you hollywood liberals shoulda done something" trolls is perfect. Two situations when Republicans suddenly care about women: - when it's a handy excuse to attack Democrats (never mind Weinstein, remember the Bill Clinton stuff from a year ago?) - when it's a handy excuse to be xenophobic (this one also applies to Republicans suddenly caring about LGBT rights)
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Reading all the posts about peoples hometowns this year with the insane disaster damages has made me very appreciative of a hometown seemingly immune to any of these things. Then I remember its just kind a nervous reliance on "how strong is greenstone quartz" away from a really bad one.
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Playstation 4 posted:Reading all the posts about peoples hometowns this year with the insane disaster damages has made me very appreciative of a hometown seemingly immune to any of these things. Living somewhere that's merely tornado-prone isn't too bad either: the damage from those tends to be extremely localized. As in, I have literally lived where a tornado wrecked a building but left its neighbors untouched.
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the US is pulling out of UNESCO entirely over "anti-Israel bias" and im getting increasingly incapable of tolerating a white nationalist ethnostate influencing US politics on local to federal levels.
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Under the vegetable posted:the US is pulling out of UNESCO entirely over "anti-Israel bias" and im getting increasingly incapable of tolerating a white nationalist ethnostate influencing US politics on local to federal levels. Didn't we stop paying dues like six years ago because of that bias?
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Radish posted:Didn't we stop paying dues like six years ago because of that bias? Yeah, and lost voting ability four years ago for it. But now we're just leaving.
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Did we take any positive action to leave or is this just a bureaucratic deadline hitting that no one has bothered to avoid?
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It feels like this is the real "gently caress you" but we've made our stance pretty clear even before Trump.
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Congrats, Mississippi. Somehow you keep trying to out-bad Louisiana https://twitter.com/dominicholden/status/914955826858733568
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Congrats, Mississippi. Somehow you keep trying to out-bad Louisiana And now it has a DOJ that will defend it.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Congrats, Mississippi. Somehow you keep trying to out-bad Louisiana I mean, you're basically describing Louisiana without N.O., so... (but yeah, holy poo poo, that's bad)
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The UNESCO thing is because the official position of the United States is that there needs to be a permanent 2-state solution negotiated by the Israelis and Palestinians that recognizes Israel as a Jewish State and gives the Palestinians full control of their borders. When the Palestinian Authority was accepted into the council, it was seen as a first step to get themselves unilaterally declared a nation by the U.N. because the 2010 peace talks had just broken down. The U.S. wanted the Palestinian Authority to restart talks with Israel. The U.S. said that the Palestinians' pursuing statehood unilaterally would sabotage peace talks and became an observing and non dues-paying member to protest and advocate for direct negotiations/appease Israel. It was supposed to be a sop to Israel and also advocate for negotiation of a 2-state solution. Pulling out entirely is just a signal that they aren't going to even pretend to advocate for a 2-state solution anymore.
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Looks coordinated. https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/918510397145133056
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That sort of thing happens pretty regularly to people with intellectual disabilities. Probably once every few months there's a case uncovered.
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"In one instance, Smith said, Edwards dipped a pair of tongs into hot frying grease and scalded the back of his neck. On another occasion, when Smith didn’t bring food out to the buffet fast enough, Edwards took Smith into the back of the restaurant and whipped him with a belt buckle, according to the complaint." jesus christ this guy needs to be beaten to death
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Under the vegetable posted:jesus christ this guy needs to be beaten to death 
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https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/918528764824444932 Silicon Valley continues to be 'take an existing idea/concept and do it in a way to skirt labor laws/standards.'
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Javes posted:https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/918528764824444932 To be fair, The WaPo didn't start to turn a significant profit until 2016. They just hired 750 new people and reduced the price of subscriptions with the profits from last year. And "proposed reducing severance packages by up to 12%" is not really the greatest threat to the proletariat. Almost everyone with a large severance package is an executive or making a substantial amount of money.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:To be fair, The WaPo didn't start to turn a significant profit until 2016. They just hired 750 new people and reduced the price of subscriptions with the profits from last year. Uh, he's doing away with stuff like inflation raises. Why in the world would you want to take a defensive angle on this? Bezos's history with Amazon is also plenty of reason to view his actions pessimistically.
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Ytlaya posted:Uh, he's doing away with stuff like inflation raises. Why in the world would you want to take a defensive angle on this? Bezos's history with Amazon is also plenty of reason to view his actions pessimistically. He's going from 4% annual across the board raises to a minimum of 1% (or $750; whichever is higher) annual raises + whatever merit considerations bonuses are to a maximum of 10% a year. Some people will get up to 2.5% less and some people will get up to 6% more. There are still going to be annual raises. Almost every other newspaper in the country is firing people with no severance. WaPo just hired 750 new people and lowered the cost of subscriptions. 99% of print media is boned and WaPo didn't even turn a major profit until last year. This is not even in the bottom 75% of things happening to employees in print media. Also, "opinion journalist working for free on HuffPo thinks that people in print media need bigger severance packages" is not a super compelling example of tyranny. His employer is a far bigger drag on the livelihood of print journalism than WaPo. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's going from 4% annual across the board raises to a minimum of 1% (or $750; whichever is higher) annual raises + whatever merit considerations bonuses are to a maximum of 10% a year. Some people will get up to 2.5% less and some people will get up to 6% more. and most will be getting less (especially women and minority writers) while a very small few get more. nice!
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i'm sure the guy who owns a company that is a living nightmare to work for is acting in the best interests of workers though
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Condiv posted:and most will be getting less (especially women and minority writers) while a very small few get more. nice! I have bad news for you about the state of compensation in print journalism. You may want to take a seat for this.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have bad news for you about the state of compensation in print journalism. You may want to take a seat for this. bezos is actively making it worse at wapo? that's terrible! bezos shouldn't be contributing to the sorry state of compensation in print journalism!
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Condiv posted:bezos is actively making it worse at wapo? that's terrible! 98% of people in print journalism would be very excited to have a 401(k) with company match, annual raises, no-deductible healthcare, a severance package, and work for an employer that is actively expanding hiring. They made their first significant profit last year and they used it to hire more people instead of shedding jobs like every other newspaper, with one or two exceptions, in the country. HuffingtonPost, who published this article, pays their journalists in "exposure" and is a much bigger drag on compensation in journalism.
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WaPo is also the first and only news outlet with a majority female editorial board i believe
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:98% of people in print journalism would be very excited to have a 401(k) with company match, annual raises, no-deductible healthcare, a severance package, and work for an employer that is actively expanding hiring. This information does not feed condiv's massive persecution complex, thus it will be ignored. Jeff Bezos may not be a good person, but what he is doing for WaPo is very good. As long as he doesn't interfere with the actual journalism and just runs the business it will continue to be good.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's going from 4% annual across the board raises to a minimum of 1% (or $750; whichever is higher) annual raises + whatever merit considerations bonuses are to a maximum of 10% a year. Some people will get up to 2.5% less and some people will get up to 6% more. The HuffPo article you quoted doesn't say that - it says that the practice of guaranteed annual raises will be gone completely, with some employees potentially going up to 30 months without any raise at all while the top performers get merit raises of up to 4%.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:98% of people in print journalism would be very excited to have a 401(k) with company match, annual raises, no-deductible healthcare, a severance package, and work for an employer that is actively expanding hiring. i'm sure the guy who pays some of the worst wages among the companies of his' size, and who abuses his workers on the regular is just doing what he must to keep wapo afloat and not abusing workers again i'm sure amazon pays some of the worst rates for programmers and such for a company of its size entirely because of the sorry state of programmer compensation ( )it's just amazing that you're buying that a guy who runs a workplace like this: quote:“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” is actually looking out for the best interests of workers. amazon is a notoriously lovely place to work, and that's for white-collar professionals, and amazon's not failing. amazon's workhouses are even worse and their employees aren't even paid for having to wait in line for security to check them out and make sure they haven't stole anything so again,  that you believe the ghoul known as bezos gives one poo poo about workers.
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Look, imagine all the terrible things that could happen if you're too harsh about Jeff Bezos's management of WaPo. This is serious business, and if his honor isn't defended this could be the end of us all.
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we must unite in defending The Good Billionaires in exchange they will allow some of the wealth to trickle down to us, any day now
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i love that you keep on talking about wapo expanding hiring as if that's a gift from god instead of bezos doing what bezos do btw leon trotsky. amazon has sky high turnover, and is hiring constantly. the reason for that is because it's a meat grinder that grinds workers into paste and then drives them out once they're all used up. and he can't replicate that business model at wapo without increasing hiring and slashing benefits. so good job applauding bezos for the hellzonification of wapo 
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Condiv posted:i love that you keep on talking about wapo expanding hiring as if that's a gift from god instead of bezos doing what bezos do btw leon trotsky. amazon has sky high turnover, and is hiring constantly. the reason for that is because it's a meat grinder that grinds workers into paste and then drives them out once they're all used up. and he can't replicate that business model at wapo without increasing hiring and slashing benefits. so good job applauding bezos for the hellzonification of wapo While I don't want to defend Bezos for his other businesses, the idea that WaPo is anything bus massively successful and supportive of their journalists, especially after this year is
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