(Except there are rubber-tire subways)

Not all grocery stores have unions for simple reasons of tactics. Some are overt: Whole Foods, both before and after the Amazon acquisition, staunchly opposed unionization efforts and made efforts to suppress them. Others are subtle: This grocery store I go to primarily hires high-school age kids, who are unlikely to…

Well, that’s because American unions tend to be bad (or have really bad leadership) due to ‘Murica being ‘Murica. Good unions tend to get suppressed very very quickly in this country, or get spoiled by outside forces.

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Why do they call it Ovaltine? Why don’t they call it Roundtine?

You’d think Deadspin would learn the lesson of their parent in that sometimes, a sex tape isn’t actually newsworthy.

What about Scoop?

...Epic Games Store? Ugh. Ruined a perfectly good trailer.

Yeah, this needs to be continued. I mean, they kept investigating Jimmy Savile after he died...

Where’s your union badge?

Where’s your union badge?

Let’s remember some trucks

Undecided. Axiom Verge or Moonlighter?

You forget the pointless drama we just had over an NBA player not wanting to play for his team anymore.

What probably helped was a combination of continually fostered xenophobia and a cultural deferment to collective stability and traditional mores (complete deferment to one’s elders, for example) as opposed to making progress. That this ultimately didn’t help them when the asset bubble occurred is beside the point.

It’s long-winded, and there’s probably a link about it somewhere. But the short of it is: Up until about the late 1990s/2000s, the typical Japanese person’s career would be committed for life to a single company upon graduation from college until retirement. The salaryman was an ideal in postwar Japan, and it showed…

which should be concerning for those who grew up appreciating liberty, rule of law, and self-determination by representation.

Anyone else feel like the demo was, “What if Mechwarrior*, but anime?”

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