The fact that you think $100k salaries is a lot of money in California is adorable.

Dock workers do not require an abundance of skill. But they do require being honest and hard working. And since this is in some of the most expensive regions in the country, with one of the worst housing markets for people looking to put a roof over their heads, *SHIT WAGES* aren’t going to cut it.

Truthing — convincing others that your lies are the truth, and that all other truths are a lie.

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

Yup. That could have easily gotten someone killed, and anyone who has been paying attention to law enforcement ‘priorities’ over the last decade (at least) knows exactly which ‘someone’ it would have been — the innocent black man.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…

“What if there’s a problem?”

So ‘black’ being the only thing he had in common with the description given to the officers was is totally good enough to arrest and detain someone for nearly a month.

There are two things that are a good gage to just how screwed up the government of a country (or state or city) is — the scope of its homeless and impoverished populations. If they can’t address issues that simple, then there’s an iceberg of other issues going unaddressed as well, because the focus is not on serving…

It’s not just Big Oil that’s failing. It’s governments, world-wide, refusing to take the problem seriously, if they even acknowledge it at all. And of those governments who are ‘acting’ on it, their efforts are little more than a few raindrops in a hurricane. In short, we’re fucked.

I mean, I suppose that *IS* an improvement over the previous GOP message: “Fire? What fire?” But that is an awfully low bar...that most Republicans *STILL* fail to clear.

The whole damn cast was absolutely fantastic. Even though I know why the show never got its chance to shine as part of the MCU like it could have, I still lament all that unrealized potential and missed opportunities.

Having worked in exactly that kind of situation, I can confirm it routinely goes haywire when people in critical roles go on vacation for more than a day or two (ie long weekends). And whenever I went on vacation, nobody else could do what I did, so all the work that came in while I was away was waiting for me when I…

With what the American people have paid for that rocket, “beast” is probably not the right word...

Because the people ‘at the top’ almost never got there by being good, smart, ethical people. They got there by being selfish, self-centered assholes. And since they’re still getting their fat paychecks, the ‘problem’ is somebody else’s.

An attitude that is becoming increasingly more prevalent at the decision-makers level of government and business. Which is why our climate-change problems are getting worse, faster. Not better.

Well, capitalists ‘streamlined’ industries to the point that there was zero redundancy anywhere in it. Guess what happens to a system with no redundancies when it fails? Yeah, this. This is what happens to those systems. Maybe maximizing profits at any cost isn’t really such a great business approach in the long-term.…

Poking fun at a social issue respectfully? Okay, sure. Making fun of a social issue after it’s been resolved? Sure, whatever. Being foul and crass about a social issue that’s killing people on a daily basis? Not. Okay. Not ever. Just like it’s not ‘okay’ or ‘funny’ to point and laugh as cops beat and kill an unarmed…

Pathological liar, thief, and serial-grifter continues his spate of grifting, stealing, and lying...and will continue to get away with it because America ‘loves’ and protects its pseudo-wealthy, repulsive, doughy, old white men. They’re the ones who wrote the laws allowing them to do whatever they want, after all.

“Those who do not learn from history...” and all that.