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PhazonLink posted:well i guess I'll take the tinyiest crumbe of good news on the amazon thing. Well Amazon hired dem political consultants Global Strategy Group to help with their anti-union effort, so that probably helped the union 
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PhazonLink posted:well i guess I'll take the tinyiest crumbe of good news on the amazon thing. I don't think people who work low-paid jobs in Staten Island can afford to live there for the most part quote:These four women all work second jobs—in hospice care, at nursing homes, and in housekeeping. At Amazon, they work overnight shifts three times a week for the bump in pay ($20 an hour, compared to $18 on days) but the commute to Staten Island is hard on their bodies. https://labornotes.org/2022/03/staten-island-amazon-workers-vote-union
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Tom Cotton says that the Democrats' goal is to make everyone live in Manhattan... which is apparently where poor people live? Americans love getting stuck in traffic.
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Amazon says the Biden administration and National Labor Relations Board unfairly supported the union and are suing to decertify the union based on the undue influence of government organizations that are supposed to be neutral. The NLRB is also making Amazon redo the union vote in Bessemer, Alabama that they overwhelmingly won and Amazon is citing that in conjunction with other evidence as a pattern of bias by the government. The second Bessemer vote is still being counted and the "No" vote is winning again, but by a much smaller margin than the huge blowout last time. https://twitter.com/jenn_elias/status/1509951735657381895 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Tom Cotton says that the Democrats' goal is to make everyone live in Manhattan... which is apparently where poor people live? that is literally the dream of every wanna-be rural suburban fundie chud in a bro truck and matching suv.
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Keyser_Soze posted:that is literally the dream of every wanna-be rural suburban fundie chud in a bro truck and matching suv. I feel like even the audience that pandering is targeted at have to know that Manhattan is not where they force poor people to live, though.
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Maggie Hassan looking surprisingly good in NH Senate, but the Democratic nominee for Governor is getting absolutely obliterated. The two House seats are also close, but leaning Republican. Looks like New England continues it's trend of electing Republican Governors in landslides, but sending Democrats to federal office. https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1509732434539163654 https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1509737988225437696 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:I think the last extension was also announced at the last minute (due to Omicron forcing them to abandon their plan to resume payments), so it's not out of the question but ridiculous that they're allowing the uncertainty to go on. Yeah, given that it was last minute last time I'm not going to hold my breathe or count on the admins statements until I see something substantial.
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Keyser_Soze posted:that is literally the dream of every wanna-be rural suburban fundie chud in a bro truck and matching suv. There is appeal in having enough land around your house to where you never have to see or hear your neighbors, and nobody calls the cops if you decide to turn your music loud. Its not a chud-only wishlist.
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Bishyaler posted:There is appeal in having enough land around your house to where you never have to see or hear your neighbors, and nobody calls the cops if you decide to turn your music loud. Its not a chud-only wishlist. I mean, yeah, though, I get it. There are a lot of circumstances wherein I wish I lived in a detached house. Getting deliveries. Leaving stuff in the car. Noisy neighbors. Nosy neighbors. Probably don't need 20 acres, though. People should be able to live however they want as long as the externalities are priced in. I also don't think people realize just how dense and transit-friendly an area of single family homes can be with small lots and good design. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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the music thing could be fix if construction didnt cheap out on insulation.
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Bishyaler posted:There is appeal in having enough land around your house to where you never have to see or hear your neighbors, and nobody calls the cops if you decide to turn your music loud. Its not a chud-only wishlist. I'm sure Tom loving Cotton is "pandering" to left leaning urban wannabe beekeepers.
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Mellow Seas posted:There's appeal in a lot of things that are terrible for society and the environment! I'm not convinced it needs to be bad for either. I get the argument about density and walking cities, I also get the argument of having your own garden, solar on your roof, hopefully more electric vehicles, and a neighborhood full of green, trees, and living things instead of a filthy concrete nightmare with skyscrapers packed with pointless office jobs and billboards to sell people poo poo that they don't need. Keyser_Soze posted:I'm sure Tom loving Cotton is "pandering" to left leaning urban wannabe beekeepers. He isn't, but a stopped clock and all that.
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Bishyaler posted:I'm not convinced it needs to be bad for either. I get the argument about density and walking cities, I also get the argument of having your own garden, solar on your roof, hopefully more electric vehicles, and a neighborhood full of green, trees, and living things instead of a filthy concrete nightmare with skyscrapers packed with pointless office jobs and billboards to sell people poo poo that they don't need. What I think Mayor Pete and other Complete Streets nerds like me want is a country where it's not more expensive, often prohibitively expensive to live in a walkable neighborhood. There are a lot of people who live in burbs or the countryside because they like to, but way more who do just because it's the cheapest or most readily available way to live for them.
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Mellow Seas posted:Yeah, when people say "I don't understand why anybody would want to live in a rural area!" - they need to start using their imaginations and empathy more. But on a macro level, it is a benefit for society, in terms of sustainability and effective public investment, for people to live closer together. Aye. New York City is its own beast and real estate there is treated as place to stash money/investment/wealth preservation, which has some very negative effects. I think the conflict is more about "urban" (which is code word in USA) vs Rual living. I ve lived over seas in Urban centers, and had apartments in huge loving building blocks. The people living there seemed to get along fine, and having light rail, bus, and big selection of services near by was nice. In terms of urban planning its the conflict of population density high density makes mass transit doable, and you dont need a car. or low density everyone has a car but its workable. Then you get what I call hell when you have loving high density in a city ment for low density.
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Urban living is incredible. The issue is that the United States city planning and infrastructure is pure donkey poo poo. The fact that you need a car while living in a city is insanely stupid. I'll never forget while in Japan a lightrail was less than ten minutes walking distance within anywhere, with a train stopping by every five minutes, and it taking you anywhere in the city in like fifteen minutes all for the same price you'd pay in gas for the trip in America. Not to mention how cities are designed for citizens and not cars. In like a five minute walking distance you are never far away from any type of essentials. Meanwhile in America I have to spend fifteen minute finding parkin in a city. Walk five minutes to the destination. Walk five minutes back. Drive eight minutes to the next destination. Spend fifteen minutes trying to find parking. Etc. Oh and traffic! Bishyaler posted:There is appeal in having enough land around your house to where you never have to see or hear your neighbors, and nobody calls the cops if you decide to turn your music loud. Its not a chud-only wishlist. There was some new polling on this: :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/pew-larger-cc1c312e9d954ebc946d60b53094e013.jpg) https://www.treehugger.com/more-americans-want-suburban-dream-5201732 The big jump is speculated to be due to the pandemic: quote:The shift is significant given it is just a two-year spread. Pew attributes the change in attitudes to the pandemic, noting the shift occurred in a period of working and schooling from home, and when so many businesses were closed or restricted. Why live close to everything if it's all either closed or you can die from a virus? This was a world-wide shift by the way, just not America. To bring up Japan again, the rural areas went from having pieces about them dying out completely as places like Tokyo further resembled MegaCityOne to them being THE places that citizens were moving to while major cities were suffering from a "mass exodus". punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:This was a world-wide shift by the way, just not America. To bring up Japan again, the rural areas went from having pieces about them dying out completely as places like Tokyo further resembled MegaCityOne to them being THE places that citizens were moving to while major cities were suffering from a "mass exodus". Welp, so much for those dirt-cheap japanese country houses.
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The cocaine was a metaphor for corruption, actually https://twitter.com/repcawthorn/status/1510017162190241796?s=21&t=CBIIJY9al1DLxGQEdpbWxQ
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My nitwit comments insinuating republican involvement in illicit activities have been used by the LEFT and the MEDIA to disparage republicans by insinuating republican involvement in illicit activities. I will not back down to truth, I will continue making moron takes until the end of time. I will never stop fighting. Yes my spongebrained head is finally being kicked below the dirtline through my own actions but i will always be here, fighting
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You'd think the news story about that anti-abortion person having fetuses in her apartment was weird enough, but it gets weirder... https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1509965166204669962?s=20&t=1li9UYD_-VMHXktcVy1nBQ
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A few years ago I would have said that saying "so what" would have not been a smart idea, but I honestly don't think it will impact his base much if anything. https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1509954195146911762
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Bugsy posted:A few years ago I would have said that saying "so what" would have not been a smart idea, but I honestly don't think it will impact his base much if anything. I mean, are they wrong?
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Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. https://twitter.com/jwpetersnyt/status/1510044599393427461?s=21&t=1cfBNzkcrRNuOpNbeou5qA
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some plague rats posted:I mean, are they wrong? "It was a speech!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMYlJqsDcg
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FizFashizzle posted:Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. money's running dry, got to get money some how. though given how lazy she is, I wonder how long she'll actually try. Dick Trauma posted:You'd think the news story about that anti-abortion person having fetuses in her apartment was weird enough, but it gets weirder... the Law of Projection says that there's timelines where regressives are the ones doing evil magic/evil science with those fetuses PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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FizFashizzle posted:Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. I mean...she has a chance.
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Apparently there are 40 other primary candidates, so we'll see if she's still got gas in the tank. It's probably a safe House seat for life for whomever cinches it.
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Yeah that's not a congressional seat it's the most reliable sinecure in the state.
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BRJurgis posted:I don't have diabetes, but what a slap in the face to anybody without insurance. Its good that insulin will be more available to some, but as somebody who'd rather die than pay money to a health insurance company their power and control make me want to kick a hole in FWIW, and probably not much, there IS very inexpensive (~20 dollars a vial) insulin available EXCLUSIVELY through Wal-Mart  that you can buy without insurance. I've had to do this at points in my life. It sucks because it's like the oldest and shittiest possible versions of insulin, and if you, like me, have been used to modern fast acting/long acting insulins like Humalog and Lantus, it's harder to control your BGLs and makes your meal times relatively inflexible.While it probably saved my life, it sucks that this is where we're at as a developed country. I have an up close and personal view wrt diabetes-related issues, but the issues with insulin pricing and availability seem to be repeated anywhere in the health care industry that some loving parasitic company can find their niche and squeeze out the competition. I used to be in favor of more moderate solutions but I've kind of come around to realizing that I don't think anything can meaningfully solve health care woes in this country without full nationalization of the health care industry and pretty much anything adjacent.
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GoutPatrol posted:I mean...she has a chance. "Hey, Bart, remember Sarah Palin? She's back! In
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FizFashizzle posted:Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. I seriously thought that was an April Fools joke when I first saw it yesterday.
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Imo diabetics have had it too good for far too long and we should institute a significant 'Insulin Luxury Tax' and use that to finally balance the budget. Frankly we've been sleeping on the diabetic as a tax base
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FizFashizzle posted:Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. I have an aunt in law who just ditzes through life as a human wine cooler and she gives off the same exact sand-for-brains energy as Late Palin
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FizFashizzle posted:Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point. tbf that hasn't stopped most of congress
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Yinlock posted:tbf that hasn't stopped most of congress Nor a few presidents, past & present.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Imo diabetics have had it too good for far too long and we should institute a significant 'Insulin Luxury Tax' and use that to finally balance the budget. Frankly we've been sleeping on the diabetic as a tax base The funny thing about this is that I actually get a tax deduction for being a diabetic in my socialist hellscape dystopia
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DarkCrawler posted:The funny thing about this is that I actually get a tax deduction for being a diabetic in my socialist hellscape dystopia drat, I'm struggling to imagine what it might be like to live in a place where having a chronic incurable disease isn't just an albatross around my neck.
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Dick Trauma posted:You'd think the news story about that anti-abortion person having fetuses in her apartment was weird enough, but it gets weirder... I miss Qanon, We would learn all about the sex demon fetus cult's connection to THE HALLS OF POWER
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Professor Beetus posted:drat, I'm struggling to imagine what it might be like to live in a place where having a chronic incurable disease isn't just an albatross around my neck. Any developed country in the world and a few considered underdeveloped.
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