Today on my favourite sports website, Deadspin:

- Rent politics of Brooklyn.
- Something about pizza.
- Something about birds.
- Something about women shitting.
- uhhh Twitter?
- Old man drives RV.
- Cosplay MMA.
- “How to measure your kid’s dick”
- Union politics.

........sweet content doodz.

There are a lot of reasonable explanations for low union membership and for the declining increases in pay for traditionally union work (e.g., factory work, manual labor, etc.). For one, while the US has a booming manufacturing sector, it’s booming because low skill manufacturing is automated in a way that wasn’t true…

You’re leaving out something huge. American wages were artificially high from 1945 to about 1970 as the rest of the world was rebuilding. All of our factories were intact, while Europe and Asia were decimated.

It’s not the lack of unions. It’s the arrival of competition.

Unions didn’t suddenly go away 30 years ago. True, we’ve had expansion in sectors that traditionally haven’t been unionized and contractions in industries that are, but if people truly thought they were getting their value per dollar from unions there would be no reason not to join one. Instead, you have people…

I’m in a union. Everything about it is terrible.

We have baby showers for all babies, because it’s about celebrating the baby. BUT, we don’t necessarily give big-ticket gifts for second babies (like car seats or strollers and stuff) since there will likely be re-use. We ask mom if there’s anything she needs (i.e., we usually do consumable stuff such as bum balm and…