Tetracube posted:

Xand_Man posted:

I'm legit angry that Australia beat the USA to inventing this.

Former DILF posted:

australia is the florida of commonwealth states

megalodong posted:

Capitalism will never resolve its greatest contradiction - that the producers are also the consumers, and the capitalist desires to pay them as little as possible in one hand, and charge as much as possible in the other.

You can't shift the producers elsewhere (say a sweatshop in India), because then you end up with your consumers having no money instead of merely little money.

You can't make production more efficient, because then you just end up with a surplus that never gets bought. Your producers still get the same amount of money, how are they going to buy more of what they make?

But consumption must continue, so instead we just see the rise and rise of consumer debt.

StashAugustine posted:

Tbh I'd probably make any hypothetical kids do service work to instill a healthy respect for the proletariat

StashAugustine posted:

Tbh I'd probably make any hypothetical kids do service work to instill a healthy respect for the proletariat

Former DILF posted:

australia is the florida of commonwealth states

Shame Boy posted:

I know it's fun to make fun of Florida and all that but keep in mind we have a massive, oppressed minority population

Paladinus posted:

How is that different from Australia again?

Also, Australia has its own Florida, Gold Coast. It's Florida squared.

Xand_Man posted:

I'm legit angry that Australia beat the USA to inventing this.

bob dobbs is dead posted:

i read in a left-to-right script, a right-to-left script, and even took a class in a boustrophedon script which i forgot entirely, but i've never seen a left-to-right-for-the-first-two-thirds-and-then-right-to-left-script

(i guess it's a boustrophedon with idiosyncratic line lengths)

bob dobbs is dead posted:

boustrophedon

Shame Boy posted:

I was vaguely aware of this but never really looked this up before and now I'm mad everything doesn't do that because it saves my eyes a full sweep across the page on every line

quote:

15 October 2018

On Saturday night, Ryanair ops couldn’t immediately provide accommodation for the stranded crews as – according to Ryanair COO Peter Bellew – all hotels in Malaga were completely booked.

The crew – already at odds with their management – was forced to sleep on the crew room floor and decided to take a picture. Peter Bellew tweeted that the crew didn’t spend the entire night on that floor but was offered an access to the VIP lounge of Malaga airport: “The storm created huge damage in Portugal. Later after this the crew moved to VIP lounge. Apologies to the crew we could not find accommodation”.

But that information is not true as Alex Macheras discovered: “I’ve spoken to the ‘SALA VIP’ lounge at Malaga Airport, the only lounge in the terminal, who confirmed no crew from any airline entered the lounge, and not only described it as “against lounge policy” but added “it’s also impossible, as our lounge closes at 23:00 each night, and this was the case on the night of flight disruption caused by the storms”.

“There are at least 400 hotels in and around the main city of Malaga, City, with a further 1,500 properties within 20 kilometres of the airport. Furthermore, it’s low-season in Southern Spain, and most hotel occupancy rates are at 50% (half-empty) as is normal for this time of year. Hence the statement of Peter Bellew is simply not the truth, nor the reality in Malaga“, Alex Macheras commented.

Taintrunner posted:

hey remember when that sully guy landed that plane on the hudson river and everyone called him a hero and they made a tom hanks movie about him then he went on to put the spotlight on labor issues in the airlines industry and was promptly never heard from again

zegermans posted:

what are you talking about Tom Hanks has several movie projects coming up

quote:

Hero pilot Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, who landed the US Airways airbus on the Hudson, has a tough message for Congress: Pilots are getting so shafted by their employers that the good ones are leaving to do something else.

...

The reduced compensation has placed "pilots and their families in an untenable financial situation," Sullenberger said. "I do not know a single, professional airline pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps."...

Sullenberger's copilot Jeffrey B. Skiles said unless federal laws are revised to improve labor-management relations "experienced crews in the cockpit will be a thing of the past." And Sullenberger added that without experienced pilots "we will see negative consequences to the flying public."

Sullenberger himself has started a consulting business to help make ends meet. Skiles added, "For the last six years, I have worked seven days a week between my two jobs just to maintain a middle class standard of living."

bob dobbs is dead posted:

do you really want to have to
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zegermans posted:

what are you talking about Tom Hanks has several movie projects coming up

WampaLord posted:

shut the gently caress up zegermans

Paladinus posted:

No, he's right. There's Toy Story 4, and at least to more movies with him in 2019.

WampaLord posted:

he's trying to distract from an actual issue with a dumb snipe/joke about bad grammar and it's the most annoying loving poo poo

Tetracube posted:

mycomancy posted:

Is there a guillotine for just someone's hands?

Tetracube posted:

Tetracube posted:

Taintrunner posted:

https://www.businessinsider.com/capt-sullenberger-stop-cutting-pilot-pay-or-next-time-plane-will-crash-in-river-2009-2

qkkl posted:

Couldn't the pilots just join a union? I'm sure all pilots threatening a strike to ground all flights will get the capitalists to pay attention to their woes.

qkkl posted:

Couldn't the pilots just join a union? I'm sure all pilots threatening a strike to ground all flights will get the capitalists to pay attention to their woes.