You may be missing the point. In this case, the union is better because everyone with experience is part of the union. They aren’t inherently better at building things, sure, but people with experience building things are generally better at building things than people who don’t have experience.

The on-ramp of any group will contain bits of truth. They always will try to take you part way, get you to concede some half way point.

I’d go at it with a floor jack and a mig welder.

OK, so here’s what you do. Get the shorter headset. Don’t want to shell out for Chris King? Get a Ritchey Logic for $14. Been around for AGES.

No more articles in the slideshow format please. It’s garbage. 

When the choice is between lost sales or a loss on every sale, I’ll take lost sales my friend.

As a 67 year old, fuck you too.

Idk how to do what you did with my phone, but “phone booth” not “phone book.”

The driver must be from Florida

Yes, because bosses always have your best interests in mind.  Does your boss provide the boots to kiss, or do you have to buy them, then put them on your boss’s feet, then lick them?

All big cities everywhere in the world are like that. It’s in no way a NYC issue. NYC is actually far better than most, simply because you really don’t need a car to live here.

There’s a corrupt, small-minded, racist, all-powerful sheriff department in every Bumfuck county in the US of A, raking in money from speeding tickets on the nearest interstate and confiscating money and property from low-income folks who don’t have access to legal aid and a powerful hometown press who’ll go to bat…

 ... or some weirdo in a perambulating police box ...

Yes sir, I would be a little pissed off and bitter about my family being intimidated,strafed,bombed,and nuked. Goddamn right I would demand top-dollar.