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Ken Starr is dead, gently caress him. https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1569788727576371200?s=46&t=YvCuauKJoVfG4E52_AVFvQ Edit: Don’t forget all the sexual assaults he ignored while president and chancellor at Baylor. Solkanar512 fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1569697406215950340 putting aside whether or not Biden is or is not undermining labor with these plans (i believe he is), this has some real starting-your-term-paper-the-night-before-it's-due energy. It seems ridiculous that he is only now starting to form these plans. Also, considering that coal and gas are transported by rail, exactly how many days into the strike will rolling brownouts or even blackouts start? to say nothing of wastewater management.
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e: wrong forum, don't know how I got into D&D
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Bellmaker posted:e: wrong forum, don't know how I got into D&D It was that left turn at Albuquerque
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A big flaming stink posted:putting aside whether or not Biden is or is not undermining labor with these plans (i believe he is), this has some real starting-your-term-paper-the-night-before-it's-due energy. It seems ridiculous that he is only now starting to form these plans. I had already posted this earlier, but as a reminder, Biden and his administration has been working on this for months: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/politics/rail-strike-joe-biden/index.html quote:Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who delayed a scheduled departure for Ireland over the matter, has played a central role in urging an agreement between labor unions and freight rail operators, and administration officials have made clear that a strike represents an unacceptable outcome for the US economy.
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Bellmaker posted:e: wrong forum, don't know how I got into D&D No one knows how they got to D&D, unfortunately there's no exit so now, like the rest of us, you're here forever.
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1569697406215950340 Uh, he hasn't "just started" doing anything. quote:Biden appointed an emergency board in July to mediate the dispute, following two years of negotiations between six of the largest freight carriers and 12 unions that represent railroad workers. Nine unions have reached tentative agreements with the carriers based on the board’s recommendations, leaving the two largest unions without a deal in place. A smaller union, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, struck down a tentative deal with the carriers on Monday night and has returned to the bargaining table. Did you even read the article?
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1569697406215950340 I love how people thought that for all the politicization of government, at some level there were competent boring people who came up with contingencies like this. But starting with Covid, we've discovered that's not remotely the case.
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Solkanar512 posted:Uh, he hasn't "just started" doing anything. thats the union heads, mind you. the agreement still needs to be ratified by the membership, and from what my friends in the unions say, if the engineers strike the rest will follow im referring to the contingencies, to be precise. I should have specified that in the post, so mea culpa Jaxyon posted:I love how people thought that for all the politicization of government, at some level there were competent boring people who came up with contingencies like this. to be fair, there really can be no contingency for "replacing all of rail traffic in the united states" its basically the single most critical piece of infrastructure in the country. Kind of makes you wonder why we allow it to reside in private hands! A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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Is the Iran deal officially dead yet? Or just effectively dead?
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Jaxyon posted:Is the Iran deal officially dead yet? It's only mostly dead
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Jaxyon posted:Is the Iran deal officially dead yet? The tl;dr version is: Iran had 3 red lines that they thought would be impossible to resolve. The U.S. and E.U. negotiators solved one, agreed to sidestep another, and Iran increased their demands on the third one. So, they had a huge breakthrough a month ago, but have been at a stalemate for the last few weeks with no major updates.
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1569697406215950340 Where in this article does it say they are only just now starting to form these plans?
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Jarmak posted:Where in this article does it say they are only just now starting to form these plans? It doesn't. It indicates the plans already existed and that aides were reviewing them. It also states outright that the administration had appointed an emergency board as part of the negotiations in July.
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Bellmaker posted:e: wrong forum, don't know how I got into D&D Nobody goes to D&D, you end up in D&D.
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That water treatment chlorine is pretty serious haz. A lot of the steamship lines won’t carry it because it has caused vessel fires.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That water treatment chlorine is pretty serious haz. A lot of the steamship lines won’t carry it because it has caused vessel fires. i know youre big on logistics, how many days into a railway strike does it take for poo poo to get extremely hosed?
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Does anyone know what the causes of the staffing shortage are and if it's feasible to scale up hires in a timely basis given the skilled labor pool?
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Does anyone know what the causes of the staffing shortage are and if it's feasible to scale up hires in a timely basis given the skilled labor pool? Infinite, because no one wants to be a scab.
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[Rant about public transportation, environmentalism, the responsibilities of the state, labor justice] I thought Biden liked trains...?
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Velocity Raptor posted:Nobody goes to D&D, you end up in D&D. This Shadowlands update sucks!
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Tayter Swift posted:Infinite, because no one wants to be a scab. Is passenger rail gonna strike in solidary with freight?
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BRJurgis posted:[Rant about public transportation, environmentalism, the responsibilities of the state, labor justice] Did you already forget about the infrastructure bill that Biden passed? If you did, here’s a refresher: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/04/06/public-transit-investment-infrastructure-biden
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I mean Biden does like trains. That's why he's trying to make this deal happen. Other option is the Full Reagan.
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Jaxyon posted:Is passenger rail gonna strike in solidary with freight? A lot of passenger rail runs on tracks operated by freight rail
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Jaxyon posted:Is passenger rail gonna strike in solidary with freight? Passenger rail is already canceling trips in the Midwest/west cuz those lines will be unusable.
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As a reminder, the simplest way to resolve the rail companies refusal to negotiate in good faith on the presumption of intervention is to seize control of them and negotiate on their behalf. Not just nod and say look at what the workers made us do, unanimously siding with the owners on every issue. Its not the governments problem the rail companies refused to come to a better deal on their own, as they are the ones with the majority of the power. Or they could nationalize this critical infrastructure and services outright at its depreciated and assessed value in exchange for 30 year bonds. otherwise its just giving them a reward for not playing the game. MixMasterMalaria posted:Does anyone know what the causes of the staffing shortage are and if it's feasible to scale up hires in a timely basis given the skilled labor pool? Their is no contingency, you cannot run a train without a trained engineer (or destroying a lot of value when your idiot fucks up and sends 30 cars of hazmat flying off the rails/ into a different 30 car train at 100mph), and they are already so cut to the bone they cant take proper vacations. Your options are literally forcing them all to work at gunpoint or forcing the RR execs to capitulate.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Does anyone know what the causes of the staffing shortage are and if it's feasible to scale up hires in a timely basis given the skilled labor pool? If it’s anything like stationary/operating engineers, and to some extent maritime engineers (tho foreign flag stuff kinda affects that I think?) they’re in the middle of a giant retirement wave and don’t have anywhere near enough people entering the trade to replace them, or even have the training capacity if they did. Good operating engineers of any stripe need a decent amount of both practical and theoretical expertise, and these days need some programming experience as well, and it’s not too easy to find people who can do all that. Also blue-collar work culture is loving toxic, so just slapping college engineering grads into spots doesn’t really work idiotsavant fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Sep 14, 2022 |
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The FBI seized Mike Lindell's phone at a Hardees and he let the world know. edit how did I forget the tweet. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1569847934849634306?s=20&t=2f4raUmkkU0jqgsIJGEQGg skylined! fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 14, 2022 |
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The maritime engineers have the five state schools and the federal academy. So they have a stream of new folks. We just get hovered up by other related fields like stationary/operating. If one has a marine systems degree passed the USCG unlimited horsepower license exams and passed the FE you kindof can do whatever you want.
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Liquid Communism posted:When, exactly, would have been a good time to do that? Only ones I can think of are during the interwar New Deal era or the 70's, and the right wing was not about to let Roosevelt have that; nor did literally anyone trust Nixon or the governments after him. The early 20th century had several amendments that passed and several others came close. That would seem to have been the most likely time for greater changes to have been made.
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idiotsavant posted:If it’s anything like stationary/operating engineers, and to some extent maritime engineers (tho foreign flag stuff kinda affects that I think?) they’re in the middle of a giant retirement wave and don’t have anywhere near enough people entering the trade to replace them, or even have the training capacity if they did. Like so much of critical industry where wages have been cut to the bone and training requires years of study and learning in an increasingly toxic culture, and Boomers refuse to effectively train what would be their eventual replacements, to the point where owners cry to the government to provide literal slave labour for them rather than share a cent of their million-dollar executive salaries.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:The maritime engineers have the five state schools and the federal academy. So they have a stream of new folks. We just get hovered up by other related fields like stationary/operating. If one has a marine systems degree passed the USCG unlimited horsepower license exams and passed the FE you kindof can do whatever you want. Six state schools op
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Barrel Cactaur posted:As a reminder, the simplest way to resolve the rail companies refusal to negotiate in good faith on the presumption of intervention is to seize control of them and negotiate on their behalf. Not just nod and say look at what the workers made us do, unanimously siding with the owners on every issue. Its not the governments problem the rail companies refused to come to a better deal on their own, as they are the ones with the majority of the power. Believe it or not, it's been tried, and as a result there is specific legal precedent saying the government can't just invoke emergency powers to do that unilaterally. He needs to be explicitly granted the authority by Congress. Though (as those articles mention) the Selective Service Act has a nationalization provision, it applies specifically to manufacturing. Specifically, "any person operating a plant, mine, or other facility capable of producing such articles or materials...as the President deems appropriate". It can't be used against railway companies.
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Barrel Cactaur posted:Their is no contingency, you cannot run a train without a trained engineer (or destroying a lot of value when your idiot fucks up and sends 30 cars of hazmat flying off the rails/ into a different 30 car train at 100mph), and they are already so cut to the bone they cant take proper vacations. I didn't mean in terms or replacing the current workers (which would take an extremely long time to train and certify a whole new work force, even setting aside the obvious issues with labor rights), I meant in terms of the feasibility of increasing staffing to relive the scheduling pressure. idiotsavant posted:If it’s anything like stationary/operating engineers, and to some extent maritime engineers (tho foreign flag stuff kinda affects that I think?) they’re in the middle of a giant retirement wave and don’t have anywhere near enough people entering the trade to replace them, or even have the training capacity if they did. That's how it's been with the airline industry too. A lot of incentivized early retirements during covid and now there's not enough pilots even with airlines panicking and offering improved pay.
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Someone planted bombs at Northeastern University in Boston and at least one of them went off and caused injuries https://twitter.com/davidwade/status/1569887700261519360?s=20&t=FFulT004JUof44ojHEixRg
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slurm posted:Six state schools op I’m glad you’re back. I’ll rot in hell before I recognize Texas A&M as a maritime academy.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:I didn't mean in terms or replacing the current workers (which would take an extremely long time to train and certify a whole new work force, even setting aside the obvious issues with labor rights), I meant in terms of the feasibility of increasing staffing to relive the scheduling pressure. Usually when we see this with state workers they retire once they qualify for pension/benefits then come back as contractors for twice the salary.
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Main Paineframe posted:Believe it or not, it's been tried, and as a result there is specific legal precedent saying the government can't just invoke emergency powers to do that unilaterally. He needs to be explicitly granted the authority by Congress. Truman tried to nationalize the steel industry and the Supreme Court said no, didnt it? Wouldn't the current court do the same to any such attempt as well?
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Is there a good rundown of how all this infrastructure works and what issues it's facing? Besides the oooming strike, I've gotten an impression that all this logistics infrastructure is about to have all of its human capital retire at once with no one to replace any of it, and by the sound of it this all has to do with god awful pay.
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