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Jesus III posted:They get paid more than teachers, fight less than one fire a month and have outstanding benefits, I'm not crying for them. Only a limited number of "run into the burning building and spray water" calls, sure, but there is approximately 1.8 metric poo poo-tons of other calls they go on and other stuff they end up doing. It's really quite common to throw out your back as a truckie because they get called in all the time when you need more hands to lift the 300 pound patient off of a couch and get them down three flights of stairs that two guys on an ambulance have no hope of doing on their own. And again, the outstanding benefits are just brain-meltingly dependent on location and context.
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It was incredible how fast "unskilled" became "essential" and then went right back to "unskilled".
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bird food bathtub posted:Only a limited number of "run into the burning building and spray water" calls, sure, but there is approximately 1.8 metric poo poo-tons of other calls they go on and other stuff they end up doing. It's really quite common to throw out your back as a truckie because they get called in all the time when you need more hands to lift the 300 pound patient off of a couch and get them down three flights of stairs that two guys on an ambulance have no hope of doing on their own. Yep. Worth remembering too that outside the big metros a lot of departments only have a couple full timers and the rest are volunteers.
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The "right to strike" does not mean "the right to withhold your work", it means "the right to not get fired for withholding your work". The railroad workers could have refused to show up to work anyway, they just would have lost legal protection against being fired, facing disciplinary measures, or facing other such consequences for failing to show up to work. But putting all that aside, striking is a threat, a nuclear option meant to break a stalemate by forcing a conflict. A government intervention to avert or end a strike does not necessarily mean that the strike failed. It depends on exactly how the government intervenes, and what the actual result is. And the results can vary widely! On one end of the spectrum, there was the steelworkers' strike that led Truman to attempt to nationalize the steel mills. On the other side of the spectrum, there was Reagan replacing all the air traffic controllers with military scabs, banning the striking air traffic controllers from federal employment for life, and dissolving the air traffic controllers' union. Of course, that's not necessarily as far right as it goes; there's numerous historical incidents where governments sent in troops to intimidate and brutalize strikers into breaking.
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mawarannahr posted:There's a fascinating article I read a couple years ago about fluorine foam and the culture around using it It’s basically the way to fight fires of oil on-top of water. One will see that one and flouroprotean foams. Basically the goal is to have a foam that doesn’t break down with interaction with oil. The secondary characteristic of breaking the reaction, which the flouro part does is also extremely desirable. Some of the European high mist systems used in buildings used similar PFAS chemicals for b the same characteristics and I think those also are banned now. It’s going to be really hard to replace. They might continue to use it on ships for a long time even after it goes away on shore. The argument there is that yes it can be collected on a ship engine room fire.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Sounds like there's a pretty high market demand for firefighters in the West! Maybe if there were some sort of organized body of firefighters which could recruit and train new firefighters and help them negotiate a wage . . . what would we call that. . . There's Firefighter unions in the west. They're pretty good at getting what they want from negotiations.
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World Famous W posted:i dont trust americans thread title imo
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Kith posted:thread title imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qozwEjRoUbg
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Looks like they’re giving parts of the Student Aid forgiveness another run. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/us/politics/biden-student-loan-debt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Apparently new rules will be published in the next few weeks. Mostly aimed at folks having problems.
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Main Paineframe posted:The "right to strike" does not mean "the right to withhold your work", it means "the right to not get fired for withholding your work". The railroad workers could have refused to show up to work anyway, they just would have lost legal protection against being fired, facing disciplinary measures, or facing other such consequences for failing to show up to work. Notably, in the case of the railroads "other such consequences" includes fines up to $1000-$20,000 a day and zero days to six months of jail time per day of striking. There is also an interesting legal argument, that if you are a railway employee, you cannot be enslaved to work on the railroad as part of your sentence. From the full text "Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without his consent nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of his labor by an individual employee an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual employee of such labor or service, without his consent."
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https://twitter.com/HassanElTayyab/status/1776379119082565793 This feels like a major shift. Pelosi is on board with this. Feels like Biden was way out on a limb on his own, and everybody else was waiting for him to wise up, and are now done waiting? It's too little/too late for me, but amazing to see the shift that seven dead westerners makes when we're over 30,000 dead Palestinians. Disgusting, but unsurprising. I saw a glib take on Twitter that said the only reason we're seeing movement is every gerontocrat in DC is terrified of being 86'd from the only Michelin-starred restaurant in town.
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selec posted:I saw a glib take on Twitter that said the only reason we're seeing movement is every gerontocrat in DC is terrified of being 86'd from the only Michelin-starred restaurant in town. fact check: there are 25 michelin star restaurants in DC
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ive recently learn that michelin is the same michelin as in the tire.
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PhazonLink posted:ive recently learn that michelin is the same michelin as in the tire. I thought I heard they started rating restaurants to get people to go out and drive more to them.
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kdrudy posted:I thought I heard they started rating restaurants to get people to go out and drive more to them. Essentially, yes. The guides also initially had car maintenance info, maps, etc.
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to promote travel, michelin puts out travel guides. they also do bars, hotels, local attractions. you gotta get people to use those tires.
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It is funny that it became this super prestigious snobby thing though. I mean look at this fuckin guy baby godzilla marshmellow motherfucker
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lobster shirt posted:to promote travel, michelin puts out travel guides. they also do bars, hotels, local attractions. you gotta get people to use those tires. I always use public transit to get to Michelin star restaurants. Checkmate tire company.
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the michelin star has become a profoundly cursed thing over the years, and these days it mostly tells you "this place drives its staff like slaves to create deranged visual food displays that cannot violate various rich people's taboos of Sufficiently Bourgeois Food" and the more stars you have the more likely you're paying 500 or more dollars for a dish that isn't actually better than what you can get at a decent waffle house, but overworked staff spend hours using magnifying glasses and tweezers to ensure no pith discoloration remains on orange slices or whatever and then occasionally a restaurant will lose a star because one of their perpetually exhausted secret food reviewers with a personal memorized library of Food Sins will show up and go "MY MERCIFUL STARS, THIS ISN'T A SAVOYARD CHEESE IN THIS SOUFFLE! IT HAS CHEDDAR CHEESE IN IT! THIS ESTABLISH-MENT USES GARBAGE PEASANT CHEESES, YOUR THIRD STAR IS F O R F E I T" and the chef goes into a depression for six months about it because it permanently harmed their reputation even though what actually happened is that it wasn't cheddar, it was Proper Rich French People Cheese with a different color because the dish had saffron in it, and this created a legal case called "cheddar-gate" and i'm not actually making this up this was basically what happened
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Professor Beetus posted:It is funny that it became this super prestigious snobby thing though. I mean look at this fuckin guy
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HisMajestyBOB posted:I always use public transit to get to Michelin star restaurants. Checkmate tire company. the bus, also has tires
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Staluigi posted:and the chef goes into a depression for six months about it because it permanently harmed their reputation even though what actually happened is that it wasn't cheddar, it was Proper Rich French People Cheese with a different color because the dish had saffron in it, and this created a legal case called "cheddar-gate" and i'm not actually making this up this was basically what happened quote:Veyrat, 69, said he learned of the downgrade only when he read the guide and it left his kitchen staff in tears and threw him into a profound depression lasting several months. He told France 2 television it was the most terrible thing to have happened to him. “It’s worse than the loss of my parents, worse than anything,” he said. "Worse than my parents dying" is a bit much.
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oh also Guinness_World_Records is the beer. drunks arguing poo poo or attempting to break (dumb) records has an official book. also I guess bartenders have a nice hard cover to smack drunks with. (though the pages aret particularly tough or water proof.) any way those are my two examples of a unique company name being the same company, there's probably several other glaringly obvious examples.
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Boris Galerkin posted:"Worse than my parents dying" is a bit much. not if you have an anxious all-or-nothing mindset, those types end up spiraling into horrifying depression cycles over anything that caused them to slip from their present validations of self worth it can be worse for your mental health than deaths in the family because the deaths were not your fault. and who better to fit the perfectionist anxiety template than a hyperobsessive triple michelin star chef
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I'm gonna be honest I got to eat at a Michelin starred restaurant once, for a work thing with my client, and I get it. I didn't get it before. But those restaurants are legitimately incredible. Probably helped that I didn't have to pay at the end.
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PhazonLink posted:oh also Guinness_World_Records is the beer. To be clear : they use about the level of intellectual rigor you’d expect out of a beer company. It’s pretty much just a racket.
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Staluigi posted:not if you have an anxious all-or-nothing mindset, those types end up spiraling into horrifying depression cycles over anything that caused them to slip from their present validations of self worth Alternatively, one obvious psychological recourse there can, if verbalized, probably undermine your claim for damages in your legal case: quote:Veyrat, 69, had sought a symbolic one euro in damages, not least over his claimed depression after losing the star, but the court said he had not provided any documented proof of his losses. Maybe wait till after the ruling before you do the dril tweet at the press.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I'm gonna be honest I got to eat at a Michelin starred restaurant once, for a work thing with my client, and I get it. I didn't get it before. But those restaurants are legitimately incredible. Probably helped that I didn't have to pay at the end. Same. The one I ate at was in France and it was beyond incredible. In a million years I wouldn’t have paid what it cost though.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I'm gonna be honest I got to eat at a Michelin starred restaurant once, for a work thing with my client, and I get it. I didn't get it before. But those restaurants are legitimately incredible. Probably helped that I didn't have to pay at the end. Interestingly, I ate at a Michelin-starred Sichuan restaurant in Manhattan once and I thought that my local Brooklyn Sichuan spot was better. It was one star if I recall correctly and not particularly fancy. I also ate at this other very unique and fancy Sichuan place in Manhattan and the food was just very interesting with combinations I've never had before. Not Michelin-starred.
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If you go off their Bib Gourmand(named after said michelin man) lists, you can find good places to eat that are affordable but also impressive.
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Jaxyon posted:If you go off their Bib Gourmand(named after said michelin man) lists, you can find good places to eat that are affordable but also impressive. i mean it was pretty obvious bib had been eating well before the events of BOBF
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Are there any environmental lawyers here that I can talk to? I'd like to bounce an idea off someone, but it's kinda specific.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Are there any environmental lawyers here that I can talk to? I'd like to bounce an idea off someone, but it's kinda specific. Jeff Clark has a lot of time on his hands.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Are there any environmental lawyers here that I can talk to? I'd like to bounce an idea off someone, but it's kinda specific. I'm quite well versed in bird law, would that help?
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Can anyone explain to me what's going on with Mexico and Ecuador? Like the article feels like its missing some key context?quote:Mexico is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raided its embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.
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small butter posted:Interestingly, I ate at a Michelin-starred Sichuan restaurant in Manhattan once and I thought that my local Brooklyn Sichuan spot was better. It was one star if I recall correctly and not particularly fancy. Sichuan food is by far my favorite food after spending time in China, and I've found the more fancy Sichuan places can be good but it just really isn't the same as the authentic sichuan dishes you'd find in a regular mom and pop place in China or the equivalent over here. Like they are using similar ingredients and flavor profiles, but it's basically a whole new thing at that point if you try and make it fancy.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Can anyone explain to me what's going on with Mexico and Ecuador? Like the article feels like its missing some key context? Raiding an embassy is a huge no-no in international politics, that's why you get absurd stuff like Assange living in the (checks notes) Ecuadorian(!) embassy for years. Mexico is run by a firebrand populist who has strong ideological ties to the Ecuadorian left that lost the 2023 election. Ecuador's new president is the youngest ever and also might be super wealthy (or just normal wealthy and kinda shady). He came out of nowhere in 2023. It is overall a lot of weird and fast escalations by both sides.
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