Year-round school was fucking amazing....then the fucking parents starting crying about it.
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None of my olds are. None of the olds I know are either. In fact, there has been a lot of travelling, visiting estranged kin, playing with grandbabies, and other fun stuff that they are turning to to fill the habit gap.
Yeah...maybe remind the guy what happened to old Trotsky...as well as by whom and why.
Libertarian!? I thought i smelled cabbage.
This is just painful to read.
IT was really good on a lot of different levels.
Saw Ad-astra in an almost empty theatre opening night.
None of the shareholders want to spend the money to automate. The initial outlays and loss of capacity during transition would be astronomical.
No jobs = no demand for products.
The COST of automation has always been its achilles heel.
They are jealous and feel powerless. This becomes resentment. Add some casual racism and class-warfare BS, stir twice and BOOM!
God forbid you demand better.
Everyone os a one-issue voter deep down.
I have to wonder how many of these staunch union workers shop at Wal Mart, or Dollar Tree, or any of the discount chains that mostly stock items made in foreign factories and shipped here, all to offer them at a slightly lower cost over domestics? Do they drive an extra few miles to shop at a “Mom and Pop” local…
You are wrong across the board.
They cannot continue to offer these extremely generous benefits to a largely uneducated, unskilled labor force and hope the status quo stays static.
“Semi-skilled labor” Dude, you’ve never been inside a modern plant - have you? You’ve obviously never worked CNC or on a line either.
Rural gangs. Usually nationally-affiliated. Mostly white-boys in bandannas with some token LatinX or african immigrants for a veneer of respectability.
Please god don’t let me die in a nuclear fireball just because the Dunce-in-chief wants to show off his rocket collection.