This is your daily reminder that the only power people have over their employers is the one they exercise collectively, as a union. That power is the reason we have safety regulations to make our workplaces safe to work in. It’s why we have 40-hour work weeks and (used to be) unconditional overtime pay. It’s why…

Conservatives did it in the past! They’re bravely fighting to make America “Great” again!

She’s a criminally underrated actress.

Because the Republican leadership is so desperate to get its voters to pivot away from Donald “Belongs in Gitmo” Trump — who they know will be an unmitigated disaster — that they’ll throw money and a microphone to literally anyone who can engage the deranged and depraved people who make up the Republican voting base…

Yes, because leaving business interests to ‘do their own thing’ has such a long and wonderful tradition of causing no problems for society. That’s why societies have no laws or regulations for businesses, after all. None whatsoever.

The whole reason streaming became popular was that people could choose what they wanted, when they wanted, where they wanted. Streaming services, being run by morons who have no clue what they fuck they’re doing, seem bound and determined to eliminate all of that.

Yup. The average woman is biologically capable of producing roughly 1.25 children per year. The average cost of raising a child to adulthood is roughly $230k in the US (I don’t know if that includes prenatal care and the cost of the childbirth itself and under what insurance coverage), and that doesn’t include…

Relevant to every article about another tone deaf and ignorant CEO:

Upton Sinclair — ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’

Hypocrisy is a fundamental tenant of conservatism. After all, “Do as I say, not as I do!” is one of their commandments.

What’s more unsettling is that the ‘no AI’ request from the WGA was kind of an afterthought that many writers thought wasn’t going to be a big deal, since these tools are obviously pretty bad at writing creatively. They expected it to be an easy concession from the studios. But the studios flat out refused to talk…

Who do you think many of the mass shooters have been, who radicalized them? What do you think is the reason why black people are targeted by police at least twice as often as other people? Or perhaps you are unaware that one of the leading causes of death for black men in America is being killed by cops? Why they’re…

That’s a damn shame. I was honestly holding out hope for and looking forward to seeing what future seasons would hold. Willow is one of the few roles where Warwick Davis got to show his fantastic acting skills as himself on screen, and not as a ‘small person in a suit.’ And, of course, the rest of the cast formed a…

“As long as there’s someone step on beneath me, I will accept being stepped on by those above me.” The White Supremacist’s Prayer.

That whole ‘stopped clock’ thing I guess. I mean, on a technicality, they are both hateful derogatory terms. But that’s where any similarity ends. One of them comes from over three centuries of slavery, violence, murder, intolerance, abuse, oppression, etc, etc, and deserves all the animosity it receives. The other…

An above-ground network is more accessible to bad actors. A below-ground system is only vulnerable at the point where it exists the ground — in this example the pickup kiosk. Of course, below-ground systems have their own challenges stemming from that same difficulty of access, like proper inspections and maintenance.…

I’m pretty sure those two forces are diametrically opposed. Things that are ‘good’ for businesses are almost universally bad for society and vice versa.

That belief in a ‘never happening’ scenario is exactly how Trump won...too many people believed he didn’t stand a chance, that there weren’t enough stupid Americans who would vote for him, handed the ‘president’ ball over to the Republican party, and let them run with it. And run they did...the country, straight into…

Or they forgot to grab one before getting out of their vehicles. It’s a lot harder to plant your drop gun if you forgot it back in the squad car.

I have this ‘crazy’ idea that union dues should be 100% tax deductible, in addition to standard deductions. I mean, part of what we’re supposedly paying our taxes to do is to fund the representation our collective interests. If unions are the only groups reliably doing that, then those tax dollars should be correctly…