While Netflix had the authority to fire here, I fundamentally disagree with the reason — income levels should be 100% transparent, public information. Keeping this information hidden from the public has been a  weapon businesses have used all along to keep people in the dark about just how much they’re being…

This from the same group of people who are more than happy to completely overwrite the chapters of American history where the “Great White Saviors” butchered millions of Native Americans and black slaves. So, really, is the fact that they’re trying to rewrite the Holocaust out of existence any surprise? Historical…

I can’t help but wonder how much of the erosion of America’s political system can be traced back to big oil and big tobacco screwing with it and the public to protect their cash cows. One can certainly say that these two industries combined have done an incalculable amount of damage to society and the world. Because…

It would certainly be a total 180 from the current corporate/national response of “Meh” to the improper handling of private/sensitive personal information of citizens.

Unless, of course, the black man was shot seven times in the back by a cop who ‘felt’ ‘threatened.’ Then it’s totally justified, and no charges will filed.

And the teachers should rightly sue the state for failing to securely store private data.

That’s why the ‘real’ bosses have insulated themselves from the operations of the businesses and corporations they own. See: Boeing moving the entirety of its upper management half-way across the country from its operations.

And how much of that is coming out of Police Unions coffers? Oh, right. None. It’ll be paid by the public who had no say in the hiring, training, and retention of a bad officer. This is a bit like suing for damages in a car accident, and having the whole neighborhood where it happened foot the bill...and the…

Good. Corporations have been running roughshod over society for so long that they have forgotten who they answer to first and foremost: the people. Until their practices, procedures, and principles reflect that, they need to be hammered into submission by the people — ie unions, because collective bargaining is the…

Yeah, not even the election was ‘fair.’ The Republicans cheated as hard as they possibly could and still didn’t win. We still don’t know how many votes didn’t get counted or disappeared via the postal service (ie votes most likely to be democrats) thanks to Donald Trump’s request to the Post Master General, who was a…

I’m still not optimistic about any real consequences for this officer attempting to kill or severely injure a handcuffed and prone individual. You know, like when an officer shot an unarmed man in the back seven times and AG declined to file charges.

Odds the charges will stick? Minimal. Odds that this asshole will get fired for being a piece of shit? Almost none. Odds that even if he does get fired, he’ll just move one county over and resume being a piece of shit with a badge and gun? Approximately 100%.

It’s a self-serving circle-jerk. The people making the decisions about pay raises for CEOs are often CEOs or comparable *somewhere else* where they get the same treatment from their peers, ie the rubberstamped pay raises on demand.

Definitely. Both parties can see the writing on the wall — streaming is the future of media. Better for the union to do the work now, before that future is firmly cemented in everything, everywhere, than spend half a century trying to claw their way back to where they were before.

My attitude is they have to prove it to me first. I am under no obligation to give them ANY benefit of a doubt. Ever.

While mostly true, there are *some* companies that have tried to operate more ethically, but it’s usually as a result of large-scale social pressures on their competition, so it’s more of a marketing/PR push, to stand out from the crowd, than a general desire to operate more ethically. So it’s more performative than…

Psshhh...it’s ‘only’ ~300,000km of 20 sea walls....that will actually need to be built up to at least 100ft to stop superstorm storm surge waters. And to withstand those superstorms flood waters, which also need to drain back into the ocean somehow.

It is indeed hilarious how many of those ‘anti-socialism’ states are utterly dependent on socialism to stay afloat. Who do they think pays for the multi-hundred-million dollar paychecks that McNoChin brags about getting for his petty state of Kentucky? Yeah, exactly. Predominantly California and New York. Without…

The current system is set up to punish employees for the abuses of management, while rewarding that management. That has to change.

And even then we often still keep making the wrong choices. Or resume making the wrong choices shortly thereafter.