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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

drilldo squirt posted:

Laughing at the idea of white america turning on trump because he tried to get them to stop killing themselves.

actually the opioid crisis is fake news spread by deep state obama holdouts to keep decent hard working white americans in excruciating chronic pain aka their daily existence

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



drilldo squirt posted:

Laughing at the idea of white america turning on trump because he tried to get them to stop killing themselves.

this thread, page 251:

"this guy is the worst president ugh sad!!!

– @realdonaldtrump"

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

drilldo squirt posted:

Laughing at the idea of white america turning on trump because he tried to get them to stop killing themselves.

Post Trump voters realizing that they're not going to be allowed to die under Trump here.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

actually the opioid crisis is fake news spread by deep state obama holdouts to keep decent hard working white americans in excruciating chronic pain aka their daily existence

i was at the ohio democrat gubernatorial debate yesterday and the first question involved millennials downloading an app so the state can get real time data on rural overdoses (i'm not kidding)

Antifa Poltergeist
Jun 3, 2004

"We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you"



Business Gorillas posted:

i was at the ohio democrat gubernatorial debate yesterday and the first question involved millennials downloading an app so the state can get real time data on rural overdoses (i'm not kidding)

The app is called ovrdss? No gently caress,Fltlner.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

:dance:

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

:marc:

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

My coworker sat Deshaun Watson on his fantasy football league to own the libs over kneeling. He had 4 touchdowns.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



zegermans posted:

My coworker sat Deshaun Watson on his fantasy football league to own the libs over kneeling. He had 4 touchdowns.

ahahah

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

zegermans posted:

My coworker sat Deshaun Watson on his fantasy football league to own the libs over kneeling. He had 4 touchdowns.

How much money did he lose?

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Crowsbeak posted:

How much money did he lose?

$50

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

Business Gorillas posted:

i was at the ohio democrat gubernatorial debate yesterday and the first question involved millennials downloading an app so the state can get real time data on rural overdoses (i'm not kidding)

uber, but for heroin

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

lmao except literally.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



wrong trhed dammnit

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
what aboutntrump voters too stupid to realise?

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/...genumber%3D2534

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Jose posted:

what aboutntrump voters too stupid to realise?

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/...genumber%3D2534

I like at the end of this article where the Coal Mining trainer guy just admits that they're training scabs.

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003



https://imgur.com/gallery/2TraE

I talked to my dad (who used to work for Dow/Union Carbide) about that fire.

Most of the poo poo in that warehouse was there because it was too dangerous to burn.

A lot of it was used to make Teflon.

Like when you would burn it it would make acid.

Parkersburg people had like 8 days of that poo poo in their lungs.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
ahahahaha
"Though a Dupont spokesperson said that the cloud was harmless, ..."

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


got any sevens posted:

ahahahaha
"Though a Dupont spokesperson said that the cloud was harmless, ..."

Fire up my Zodiac

zen death robot
May 27, 2001

Bert Roberge posted:



https://imgur.com/gallery/2TraE

I talked to my dad (who used to work for Dow/Union Carbide) about that fire.

Most of the poo poo in that warehouse was there because it was too dangerous to burn.

A lot of it was used to make Teflon.

Like when you would burn it it would make acid.

Parkersburg people had like 8 days of that poo poo in their lungs.

Jesus

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
i didnt know wv and ky coal was depleted. i know most wont/cant move, so did they expect trump to magic coal into the ground??? theyll only run factories near the coal...

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

Jose posted:

what aboutntrump voters too stupid to realise?

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/...genumber%3D2534

The headline makes them sound like dumby dumb dumbs, but if you actually read the article there aren't any jobs in the area hiring for what the federal government wants to train these ex-miners to do, so from their standpoint they are acting rationally because it actually is a waste of time. If you want to give these miners shiny new non-polluting jobs then you have to actually give them shiny new non-polluting jobs, not just put them in training while they starve waiting for someone else to eventually decide that there are enough economic incentives to open a tech company in Buttfuck County WV someday, maybe.

FDR understood this poo poo. If he wanted to employ people to build dams, he didn't sign everyone up for a dam building training class and then just hope some company would come along before they all starved and say "hey look at all these people who know how to build dams, might as well." If he wanted to employ people to electrify rural areas, he didn't just teach them how to be electricians and hope someone came along and said "oh I guess I'll invest in rural electrification" etc etc

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

VitalSigns posted:

The headline makes them sound like dumby dumb dumbs, but if you actually read the article there aren't any jobs in the area hiring for what the federal government wants to train these ex-miners to do, so from their standpoint they are acting rationally because it actually is a waste of time. If you want to give these miners shiny new non-polluting jobs then you have to actually give them shiny new non-polluting jobs, not just put them in training while they starve waiting for someone else to eventually decide that there are enough economic incentives to open a tech company in Buttfuck County WV someday, maybe.

FDR understood this poo poo. If he wanted to employ people to build dams, he didn't sign everyone up for a dam building training class and then just hope some company would come along before they all starved and say "hey look at all these people who know how to build dams, might as well." If he wanted to employ people to electrify rural areas, he didn't just teach them how to be electricians and hope someone came along and said "oh I guess I'll invest in rural electrification" etc etc

Get this man a cabinet position.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
remember when hillary wanted to have these coal-devastated hick areas start buildin solar panels and they all went LOL NO

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!

VitalSigns posted:

The headline makes them sound like dumby dumb dumbs, but if you actually read the article there aren't any jobs in the area hiring for what the federal government wants to train these ex-miners to do, so from their standpoint they are acting rationally because it actually is a waste of time. If you want to give these miners shiny new non-polluting jobs then you have to actually give them shiny new non-polluting jobs, not just put them in training while they starve waiting for someone else to eventually decide that there are enough economic incentives to open a tech company in Buttfuck County WV someday, maybe.

Seven years ago, I couldn't find much in the way of tech work in the rust belt, so I stayed there and died moved to California where there was high demand for people with my skillset.

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003

Relin posted:

i didnt know wv and ky coal was depleted. i know most wont/cant move, so did they expect trump to magic coal into the ground??? theyll only run factories near the coal...

trump promised to bring their jobs back and nothing else mattered because believing in a lie was better than the reality that many towns in america are totally unimportant to the economy and their deaths will only be hastened if obamacare is gutted and rural hospitals founder

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

cmerepaul posted:

Seven years ago, I couldn't find much in the way of tech work in the rust belt, so I stayed there and died moved to California where there was high demand for people with my skillset.

Hahahahahahahaha How The gently caress Is Unemployment Real Hahahaha Just Move Somewhere Else Like Just Get A Job Haha

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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While we're at it, why don't people evacuate during storms? Must be because they are stupid /lazy and not because they have no support network outside of their community or no way to get to faraway relatives/friends.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


also those retraining programs ulitmalty would have lead to them still being unemployed because they get out competed by desperate college grads.

train them for environmental clean up work instead imo.

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!

VitalSigns posted:

Hahahahahahahaha How The gently caress Is Unemployment Real Hahahaha Just Move Somewhere Else Like Just Get A Job Haha

Hahahaha why should I accept free training and go find a better job somewhere hahahaha I should just sit here and wait for more coal jobs that will never come because it is literally impossible to start a new life more than 15 miles from home haha nobody has ever done it

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jose posted:

what aboutntrump voters too stupid to realise?

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/...genumber%3D2534

lol

quote:

When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.


He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.

”I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner.

quote:

But Consol also announced in January that it plans to sell its coal holdings to focus on natural gas. And it has commissioned a recruitment agency, GMS Mines and Repair, to find contract laborers for its coal expansion who will be paid about $13 an hour - half the hourly wage of a starting unionized coal worker. The program Sylvester signed up for was set up by GMS.

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!
Clearly he made the right choice, what are the chances he'd ever find a job in nursing or programming? :thunk:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

cmerepaul posted:

Clearly he made the right choice, what are the chances he'd ever find a job in nursing or programming? :thunk:

lol

quote:

Greene County Commissioner Zimmerman said he’d like to see a big company like Amazon or Toyota come to southwestern Pennsylvania to build a distribution or manufacturing plant that could employ thousands.

Bad dem dream of coding boot camps for ex-coal miners isn't working out for some reason

quote:

In Greene and Washington counties, 120 people have signed up for jobs retraining outside the mines, far short of the target of 700, said Ami Gatts, director of the Washington-Greene County Job Training Agency. In Westmoreland and Fayette counties, participation in federal job retraining programs has been about 15 percent of capacity, officials said.

“I can’t even get them to show up for free food I set up in the office,” said Dave Serock, an ex-miner who recruits in Fayette County for Southwest Training Services.

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!

quote:

Greene County Commissioner Zimmerman said he’d like to see a big company like Amazon or Toyota come to southwestern Pennsylvania to build a distribution or manufacturing plant that could employ thousands.

They've got a new self-driving-car facility there now... but that's probably a net negative for jobs in the long run.

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!
Everyone living in a dying coal or manufacturing town either moved there for the opportunity at some point, or had an ancestor who did... the industries have been there for 200 years or less, and before that there wasn't anything there. The towns are literally built on the concept of people moving to where the opportunity lies.

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
None of them remember doing that. As far as they're concerned that's how it's always been.

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