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Proud Christian Mom posted:according to really smart people in the trucking industry its all because insurance rates are too high because of ambulance chasers so as soon as states start cracking down on the ability to sue companies for injuries they'll be paying truckers more If that was the case, every trucking company would be lining their rigs with cameras to prove it. It's because they pay their drivers poo poo and run them ragged on hosed up scheduling, so they might have 10-14 hours a day "off" but it'll be broken into weird blocks to fit your pick up and delivery windows. The good old days, people would run two sets of logs so if they got pulled over, they could hand out the one that has them with legal time left, while stuffing the other somewhere they can only hope the cop or DOT won't look. They had to run two books because they couldn't make enough running one. Trucking has always paid poo poo. gently caress everything about the trucking industry as it is today, even yesterday. Pay the drivers, and they will deliver your poo poo.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:gently caress everything about the trucking industry as it is today, even yesterday. Pay the drivers, and they will deliver your poo poo. Well, soon enough there's won't be any trucks for drivers to drive. Gotta automate everything. I got into an argument with an uncle about delivery, and how I don't believe that same day delivery should exist, and that the expectations of delivery speed are a real negative on society. The real solution is to just not order stuff. If it's an item that's already being sold in a store locally, go buy it there, don't make them send one special just for you to your door just so you can save a trip and maybe a couple of dollars.
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May 11, 2021 15:54
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Uber and Lyft are offering free rides for covid vaccinations until July 4. Channeling my inner chud to say I HAD TO PAY FOR MY LYFT TO GET MY VACCINATION ARE THEY GONNA GIVE ME A REFUND?!???
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whoopsie doopsie cancel culture got cancelled https://twitter.com/HayesGardner/status/1392133516847206402
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May 11, 2021 16:08
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He already planted the cancel culture seed which got way more coverage than his admission probably will and once again the world falls for the exact same trick the GOP loves to play.
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May 11, 2021 16:10
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A Bad Poster posted:Well, soon enough there's won't be any trucks for drivers to drive. Gotta automate everything. Why spend on automation when you can offload the capital and maintenance cost to an owner operator and pay them by the mile?
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May 11, 2021 16:17
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industries with labor shortages should improve wages and other compensation instead of crying about how nobody wants their lovely job death to suits
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I can't even deal with this poo poo. Mentioned to a family member that the local shortages were most likely due to panic buying, hoarding, inbred fucks and the response was well the real reason is that 45% of gas is getting taken from elsewhere to go up to the north to take care of joe's yankee friends. we're playing right into his hands An actual thing that was said and believed wholeheartedly. I hate the loving south so god drat much
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Thank god we replaced the Volvo with a TDI, we're both good on fuel and the diesels don't consume much.
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I can see three gas stations from my backyard and I'm just gonna be sitting out there with a bag of popcorn and a smug aura all afternoon watching the meltdowns
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Milo and POTUS posted:I can't even deal with this poo poo. The Army sending me to WA was the best thing that ever happened to me and opened my eyes to how much better life in blue states is. The South is a cesspit of regressive hicks, I'd recommend to anyone that they escape as soon as they can. I helped friends and family move during the pandemic and got to see how the majority of the South handled it and it was loving shameful.
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boop the snoot posted:If you have a “labor” shortage it’s probably because you actually have a “wage” shortage and a “capitalism” surplus. Yay the market when the hand is good; must be anything but the market when things are bad.
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Mustang posted:The Army sending me to WA was the best thing that ever happened to me and opened my eyes to how much better life in blue states is. Oh yeah I have an uncle who was in the Air Force in the 60s. One of his fellow officers was black and from Alabama and they met while stationed somewhere up north. The officer was informed he was being transferred to a base in the Deep South, and his reply after growing up in that culture was "no I'm not." Fortunately he was able to get it figured out so he was able to remain at a preferable location.
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Mustang posted:The Army sending me to WA was the best thing that ever happened to me and opened my eyes to how much better life in blue states is. I grew up in Texas and for all its faults it feels like home to me. I moved up to a blue state for work, and now there's just no way I'd raise my kids back south - the difference between a functioning government and a non-functioning government is like night and day, and even though I don't feel much connected to the culture up here I can't justify the cruelty and neglect that I always thought was normal in Texas govenrment. And poo poo, that's before you consider that one of my kids has got developmental delays and even though my state's not great on special ed it's a thousand times better than the poo poo system in TX
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I particularly like how texas traps teachers, making sure they give no fucks because its a poo poo system but they can't leave. They pay into a special teachers retirement plan instead of social security. this retirement is non-transferable and you can't collect from both it and social security without violating double dipping laws. A decent retirement is about all teaching has going for it, and TEA does their best to hold that hostage to keep the teachers compliant
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:If that was the case, every trucking company would be lining their rigs with cameras to prove it. It's because they pay their drivers poo poo and run them ragged on hosed up scheduling, so they might have 10-14 hours a day "off" but it'll be broken into weird blocks to fit your pick up and delivery windows. Most decent sized trucking lines do have cameras, qualcom connectivity, and Lytx to monitor speed, braking, follow distance, etc. A bog standard OTR vans driver can pull in 80k a year right now and have every other weekend home. Driver pay has gone up something like 27% over the last 18 months and there are no signs of it decreasing. I’d say there is a 10-15 year window where labor has the market by the balls. After that automation and self driving trucks will probably take over.
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Still not tired of these, bonus points that it was Baked Alaska's livestream that tipped off the Feds. https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1392167496849965059?s=19
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In response to the rocket strike, IDF blew up an apartment block.....its bad... https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1392172687624126468?s=20
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CommieGIR posted:In response to the rocket strike, IDF blew up an apartment block.....its bad... Jesus Christ
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Here's my current event: I just got a letter from President Biden, touting the $1400 stimulus and the American Rescue Plan while it noted that the 1400 plus the $600 in December equals promise kept, $2000 check. I am irrationally angry that Biden has copied Trump and sent his own letter to say "look we're helping." Ingrained propaganda to sell policy to Americans is just the sort of dumbing down of civic discourse. I can't stand that this is what's used to justify half assed aid during some of the worst crisis in my lifetime.
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CommieGIR posted:In response to the rocket strike, IDF blew up an apartment block.....its bad... This video allowed me to explain to a friend that Israel is not good.
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stackofflapjacks posted:I am irrationally angry that Biden has copied Trump and sent his own letter to say "look we're helping." Ingrained propaganda to sell policy to Americans is just the sort of dumbing down of civic discourse. I can't stand that this is what's used to justify half assed aid during some of the worst crisis in my lifetime. The alternative is the Obama people not sending *anything* out during the ARRA days, because apparently people magically would discover the tax cuts / aid came from Democrats. Which then caused the massive Democratic wipeout of 2010 because centlib brain assumes when you do good things and not sell them, you get reelected. The Trump letters are arguably why Republicans held onto so many of the state/local governments and Congressional seats. You're completely right about the whole thing, but not sending the letters would be unilateral disarmament. Politics is stupid. Pipeline update: https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1392181850592976915?s=19
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Also, it appears that the Secret Service was horny for Trumps.  https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1392174178183286794?s=19 quote:“I want these fat guys off my detail,” Trump is reported to have said, possibly confusing office-based personnel with active agents. “How are they going to protect me and my family if they can’t run down the street?”
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facialimpediment posted:Also, it appears that the Secret Service was horny for Trumps. Would you say she gave one of the SS agents... .... .... a raise?
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Mr. Nice! posted:This video allowed me to explain to a friend that Israel is not good. The gently caress is Israel up to now? The bits I've picked up from the news cycle are 1) ultraOrthodox shitheels tried to hold a rally in Palestinian east Jerusalem during Ramadan, 2) Israel decided to blow up some residential buildings because gently caress you, 3) Israel and Hamas are trading ordinance.
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gently caress yeah! Live them Leon Kennedy dreams and bang the president's daughter (failson spouse whatever).
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Soylent Pudding posted:The gently caress is Israel up to now? The bits I've picked up from the news cycle are 1) ultraOrthodox shitheels tried to hold a rally in Palestinian east Jerusalem during Ramadan, 2) Israel decided to blow up some residential buildings because gently caress you, 3) Israel and Hamas are trading ordinance. The kickoff event before what you listed was Jewish settler poo poo, again: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/middleeast/evictions-jerusalem-israeli-palestinian-conflict-protest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protests-aqsa-palestinians.html Arab families moved to the area in the 1950s, the Jewish authorities decided "lol, settlers own your land now", and that set up the tinderbox. Throw in Jewish police near the Aqsa Mosque to provide the light. Kushner/Trump's strategy on the Jerusalem issue was to just ignore the whole thing.
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^^^^^^ Exactly right. Basically almost all of the violence that has occurred in the last two decades can be blamed squarely on Israel's far right and their settlers moving further and further into Palestinian territory. Other people are going to disagree with this and call me an rear end in a top hat, but in my opinion Israel used to have at least a leg to stand on regarding being attacked and under terrorist threat. I used to be a big defender of Israel. I'm not anymore. The last 20 years they've turned into an apartheid state, and they really have no leg to stand on anymore. Netanyahu, hid party, and the far right, and the settlers, are causing all of this. Soylent Pudding posted:The gently caress is Israel up to now? The bits I've picked up from the news cycle are 1) ultraOrthodox shitheels tried to hold a rally in Palestinian east Jerusalem during Ramadan, 2) Israel decided to blow up some residential buildings because gently caress you, 3) Israel and Hamas are trading ordinance. Bad poo poo going on, both sides bombing one another, Israelis inciting the violence by being shitheels then using the Hamas rockets to justify further escalation. https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2021-may-11/ From the Soufan Center: quote:Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Not good stuff. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 19:45 on May 11, 2021 |
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Rumors are that Secret Service hosed some Trumps and cucked Trump Jr.quote:In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”. between these rumors and Trump trying to get overweight Secret Service guys kicked off his detail, these people are like a reality show come to life.
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Bored As gently caress posted:^^^^^^ Exactly right. Basically almost all of the violence that has occurred in the last two decades can be blamed squarely on Israel's far right and their settlers moving further and further into Palestinian territory. Other people are going to disagree with this and call me an rear end in a top hat, but in my opinion Israel used to have at least a leg to stand on regarding being attacked and under terrorist threat. I used to be a big defender of Israel. I'm not anymore. The last 20 years they've turned into an apartheid state, and they really have no leg to stand on anymore. Netanyahu, hid party, and the far right, and the settlers, are causing all of this. That's a good article thanks. And yeah Israels hard sprint to the far right has undermined any shreds of the moral legitimacy they may once have had the ability to claim. Chillul Hashem all around.
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https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/1391870564575420416?s=20 Jesus, this is  but with Apartheid and Genocide
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Bored As gently caress posted:^^^^^^ Exactly right. Basically almost all of the violence that has occurred in the last two decades can be blamed squarely on Israel's far right and their settlers moving further and further into Palestinian territory. Other people are going to disagree with this and call me an rear end in a top hat, but in my opinion Israel used to have at least a leg to stand on regarding being attacked and under terrorist threat. I used to be a big defender of Israel. I'm not anymore. The last 20 years they've turned into an apartheid state, and they really have no leg to stand on anymore. Netanyahu, hid party, and the far right, and the settlers, are causing all of this. Israel hasn’t had a moral leg to stand on since the Nakba in 1948, and definitely not since since they illegally seized even more land in 1967 that they still haven’t returned. The settlements, occupation of Lebanon, and murdering protestors has just been the final nail in the coffin of their respectability as a nation state. Everything else is just Israel genociding a community and using the actions taken by that community out of self preservation as further excuses to accelerate the genocide process.
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Israel's basically pulling an ex-British-colony speedrun. They're a settler state that exists at the behest of the UK and shares the crown's taste for colonialism and genocide of the locals.
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What the gently caress room does the overweight front half of a centaur desperate to hide his gunt have to criticise anyone else on their weight? The "fattest" person on a secret service detail can probably still outrun me when I was at my best and this was almost certainly one more part of Donnie being obsessed with images and demanding everything look like it's out of central casting so he can be king poo poo of tinpot dictator mountain.
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bird food bathtub posted:What the gently caress room does the overweight front half of a centaur desperate to hide his gunt have to criticise anyone else on their weight? Some poor SOB out there has to live with being called a fat gently caress by Donald Trump and publicly reassigned for it. It's like the origin story for some Olympic weight lifter or something.
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The NRA's One Weird Trick To Stop New York State's Lawsuit didn't work out. https://twitter.com/bethreinhard/status/1392210048416366600 https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1392204142467223553
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