I was shocked.
Tampa Bay thumped the Eagles. And that was after Buffalo killed Pittsburgh. The NFL sucked the life out of MLK day, that’s for sure. Maybe the games this week will be competitive. We only got one decent game all weekend. Jose Mourinho is out at Roma after a dismal start to the season. I got nothing else. Didn’t even see any tennis news worth talking about. So moving on…
This isn’t a serious war. It never has been. But they’re not even pretending anymore.
OK or not?
“Industry markets its product. They must be stopped.” Sadly this is not about the plethora of Pharma ads that come at every commercial break for every show on every network.
Vivek is out. I assume he’s angling for the VP nod now.
Such classy people. I’m sure this will get them to see what you perceive as the error of their ways. Scumbags.
This is definitely not what the world needs right now. But I’m sure the war hawks are beating their dicks raw thinking about it.
Nothing to see here (literally).
“Oops. My bad.” Fucking scumbags. And I bet nothing will happen to him at all.
Killdozer cosplay sucks. He didn’t even paint it yellow!
“Don’t start the manipulation the other way just yet.” There’s not even a pretext of legitimacy in how our currency works anymore.
Getting back to my roots. Such a dark, fun song. And here’s one that gets less airplay than it should. Which is a shame. Anyway, enjoy them both.
And enjoy this bitter cold day, dear friends!
Had skyline yesterday, Slopp
whaddup doh’
Yeah, when I went to Cinci I tried it. Completely unimpressed.
It’s not for everybody.
Also, you’re wrong.
Spaghetti red or chili mac can be awesome. What I was served was not that.
What I *really* don’t understand is people that get it to go. Pasta that’s been overcooking in a styrofoam container for however long it takes you to get home? People that are willing to voluntarily eat that pretty conclusively have no taste.
Cheese* coney is the only acceptable way to eat skyline.
I don’t know why people keep doing it wrong by ordering the pasta.
*The spicy cheese coney when available.
errr…..Sloop
Thought you were calling him a name there brah…
No, you had it right.
Man, I’d sure love a five way and a couple of coneys right now.
While I won’t be doing their spaghetti dishes…I have heard the chili is fantastic on a hot dog. That I might be willing to try.
Yes. Im a purist, so I only get the cheese coneys.
Their hot sauce is good stuff to.
Chili spaghetti isnt my thing.
See my comment above, cheese coney is the proper way to eat skyline. I think the spaghetti is on the menu as a joke or something.
These euphemisms are getting more culinary, adding many players. Very cheesy.
Nope..never..will not do it.
Gross.
It is slop-p-p-p-p-p. Pasta in “chili” is an abomination.
The proper name is goulash.
LeBron? He is nothing but a prima donna…
I bet he’s read only the first page of more books than you ever will!
UNFAIR!
I never stopped at just the first page of anything!
Well, anything other than the book I am writing named “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and all the other genders are from Uranus”. Then again, it only has one page….
That sounds like a Bro’ challenge.
I’m finally on page two of The Silmarillion. The boys’ rabbit ate the first page. But still. Progress.
Woof. You enjoy. I couldn’t get into it, the narrative style reminded me of all the “begats” in the Bible.
I’ve read The Silmarillion several times. I liked it, though not Tolkien’s best.
I was working my way through the History of Middle Earth series. I finished the fourth book and decided to take a break. I will get back to it.
I strongly recommend the Tolkein Professor original lectures to accompany your read through. He does a good job of pointing out the important bits. He has many other much longer lectures that would take years to get through, but for first time readers the original flavor is a huge help.
“This isn’t a serious war. It never has been. But they’re not even pretending anymore.”
This war was about trying to salvage the place the corrupt global cabal taking us into the rest were laundering the tax payer money they stole and wanted to route into either their own pockets or into their campaign coffers. We paid for them to try to keep robbing us blind.
Don’t forget those mysterious bio labs we just happened to have in Ukraine for no good reason. I’m assuming they’ve moved by now in case Russia wins, but paying off a country so you can run all your little black ops in them seems like part of the original plan.
Appealing to his natural allies – the corrupt oligarchs of the West.
A Bobcat isn’t a tractor!
it is in fact a lynx
Who among us HASN’T want to go “killdozer” in a shopping mall parking lot?
The last time I went to a mall was in 2014…
Restraining order?
Nothing worth doing there…
They stay the same age.
*rimshot*
“Such classy people. I’m sure this will get them to see what you perceive as the error of their ways. Scumbags.”
I am baffled at how so many people that never paid close attention thought DEI was a good thing (or at least not a bad thing) and now that we see it in action, are surprised its adherents are hubristic evil fucks that feel the bad guys are those that are successful and that they should be punished to make life’s losers feel less stupid/loserish. And it doesn’t matter how barbaric and evil the losers are, these DIE fucks will cheer for them. That’s how you get people justifying camps and violence. The parallel with the Maoist cultural revolution is not accidental…
I was reading a Marxist argument (The Bureaucratization of the World, 1939) and the author went on about the privileges of the bourgeoisie. Yep, that is your heritage DEI people – pure Marxist cant. I would bet more than half of them don’t even know that, or would understand why that might poison the well.
Why would they read when they can just get their opinions for 17 year olds on social media?
It won’t be easy to enjoy the bitter cold day. Schools are closed so the house is full.
Send them to the mines…
“You see, my dear children, this is what happens to orphans.”
““Oops. My bad.” Fucking scumbags. And I bet nothing will happen to him at all.”
He did it to save OUR DEMOCRACY!
And by “our” they mean their new order aligned with the global reset, and fuck the republic and those they label enemies for not bending the knee…
Yeah, barring the DC court system getting the Aegean Stables treatment (which would have to include the jury pools, which isn’t happening) — “And nothing else happened” is the safe bet here.
Sea horses? [giggle] Augean.
That’d be hippopotami, wouldn’t it? 😉
(And… well, fuck. Sorry I don’t get my ancient Greek myths right first thing in the morning. Sigh.)
No worries, I got a playful pedantry and a pun, all in one comment.
And they wonder why we think about the Roman Empire all the time. Modern day Praetorian Guard in action.
Corruption in The Senate was plentiful during the Republic.
On several occasions, when Roman Generals were raised to Emporer with the backing of the Legions, the Praetorians were dismissed or liquidated because of their corruption.
I won’t be voting for any candidate who has not committed to a complete pardon of all non-police J6 suspects and convicts.
I thought that was going to be about the Iowa caucuses. 😉 (Not that I want a Trump v. Biden rematch… but 30 points is pretty definitive. Ah well.)
Morning, Sloopy. Morning, all!
It’s hard to take caucases seriously when they’re more easily manipulated than closed primaries.
I’d love to see Iowa and New Hampshire moved back. In fact, I’d prefer to see all primaries/caucuses held on the same day. It probably would have resulted in some different outcomes over the years.
If we’re just throwing out wishes — I’d rather see the party selection processes decoupled from state wide election processes. Let the parties pick them how they wish — smoke filled rooms, online polls, “The Biggest Donor Check Wins!”… don’t care. Just figure out who you’re endorsing and fill out the paperwork for the real election.
Primaries let states / localities sneak in way too much crap that only appeals to the rabid subset of voters who show up for primaries.
THIS.
Why the fuck is the state paying for private organizations?
Because they are organs of the state?
THIS.
It is exactly why ever blue city has a council full of commies. Only true believers vote in primaries.
What made up shit would what passes for news in the legacy media then fill up all tat dead space?
Primaries should be closed. Having non-members vote on what an org does is like having the Jezebel interns program Glibs content.
Might be fun as a known guest feature just for the heckling. 😉
I would be all for that, if, after publishing their rant, the Jezebel intern had the same treatment as in the Bible: tossed by eunuchs out of a multistage building, then her corpse eaten by dogs.
As a stand-in for a eunuch, we could enlist a RINO Republican Speaker of the House.
Multi-story, not multistage. FN autocorrect.
I picture jezebel interns as male feminists, ie eunuchs, so they could just throw themselves out?
Primaries should be closed – also no chicks
There is a reason you have to buy into a party in England, it keeps that type to shit to a minimum.
No cover charge!
– All the big names that are the only players the media gives a shit about won.
– ESPN couldn’t be bothered to show any action while football was playing on three of their channels.
Who am I supposed to root for in the football since I do not listen to Taylor Swift?
The Lions.
Nah. It’s Texans Time, baby!
And all Browns fans should be rooting for them. Then they can at least say they got bounced by the eventual champs.
Lol, as if the Browns would otherwise root for the Ravens.
I have never understood that argument.
If someone beats me, I want them humiliated in the next round.
Right?
I would think Browns fans would rather the Texans didn’t exist, after losing so badly on the Watson trade. And then to watch Mayfield winning playoff games… ouch.
One last time.
Say wut?
Hasta la vista, baby.
I’ll be back!
I was thinking this
At least it was not the “Funky Cold Medina” throwback to Sheena…
Neph just is looking for the next hit of disappointment.
Go ask Katy Perry for her picks? I’m not your supervisor, Pie.
which of the remaining NFL cities has the best steak? Or whisky?
We ship things (including prime beef) by airplane in the U.S., so getting a good steak is easy in any decent-sized city. That said, Kansas City and Houston would’ve been your choices a century ago. Nowadays, I’m partial to Bern’s Steak House in Tampa, with great beef and seafood, as well as the world’s largest restaurant wine collection.
As far as whiskey, Indianapolis is the closest NFL city to Louisville, but they’re not in it, so YMMV.
Hmmm I guess the weather should also be bearable this month in Florida. Tampa sounds good.
Nashville is closer to KY, although further from Louisville/Bardstown, but also not in the playoffs.
Also, also, Cincinnati is closer to Louisville than Indy. But, also not in playoffs.
If you want surf and turf, Baltimore for your steak and crab cake. Sagamore Spirits is solid as well.
i was under the impression Baltimore was dangerous to be in.
Only if you don’t want to be robbed/shot…
Only parts of it. Most parts, but still.
Whenever I skip a week of gym I get absolutely insane DOMS and it is very annoying
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“Feeling the burn” involves candle wax.
“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.”
-Manolo De Los Santos speaking at The People’s Forum in NYC.
https://twitter.com/JCAndersonNYC/status/1746908368021725630
“Here’s a ticket for a helicopter ride over the Hudson, commies…”
The CRT/DIE shit is about hating success and normalizing mediocrity and rewarding people that are just takers with more of the spoils created by others…
Shouting the quiet part out loud, through a bullhorn …
I walked by one of these protests last week. There were multiple anti-capitalism signs in a not-big crowd.
So we won’t need to rent a Chinook to give them a ride?
I like when the truth comes out. These are same people larping scarf fashion and shouting at cancer kids.
I had to look up that outfit. Guys, they’re calling for Artists Against Apartheid!! Where do I sign up?
Well at least not everyone is hiding their anti-semitism. .
A balmy 16F right now. Mrs. Prole, in what I’m gonna characterize as an act of temporary insanity, went for a 4 mile walk, and at the turnaround point, contemplated calling me to drive down and pick her up to prevent possible hypothermia. Then finished the walk. Because she didn’t want to wake me up.
I’m torn between feeling the love, and reminding her that her oft-asserted ‘You Owe Me 30 Years, Prolefeed”, only applies if SHE survives, too.
yemeni pirates positing casual tiktok’s while the entire western imperial core are having a meltdown about their blockade on their ships is the funniest shit of 2024, surely.
https://twitter.com/comrademika/status/1746958702207259042
Rolling Stone will have him on the cover next week.
Re: Blue Eye Samurai being woke and why it isn’t and you’re just wrong.
Initial disclaimer — the first half of the first episode was in fact boring and lame and just a recitation of every samurai trope we’ve seen before.
However — “wypipo bad” is a completely legit attitude for sakoku-era Japan to have. They really did think foreigners were absolutely inferior and (literally) stinky. Hell, even today the Japanese are notoriously racist (though I’ve been told it’s gotten a lot better since the 1970s.) If that (vary real) attitude is tripping your woke detectors, you need to back the gain off a bit.
If you go by what the series actually shows, then you notice exactly the opposite — one’s badassery is directly proportionate to the amount of whiteness you possess. The happu rotflstomps all the purebloods, and the gaijin rotflstomps her and the entire Yamato governments/society. Right up until the protagonist plot armor kicks in. The white guy masters literally every sacred art the Japanese have — swordsmanship, poetry, calligraphy, painting, unarmed combat, flower arranging and whorebanging.
I didn’t take the racism as a general statement of “whitey is bad”, meant to apply as a message to the viewer.
My disappointments were 1) the protagonist is way too powerful and durable. The suspension snapped and dropped my disbelief into a chasm about 2/3 the way through; and 2) keeping the Scotsman alive at the end was a giant mistake that can only have been written that way for a “how will he inevitably stab her in the back” story arc in the second series.
Yeah, the MC was way too durable, but that’s unfortunately an anime trope (along with the complete mastery of all secret sword techniques having seen them onece). I think you’re supposed to accept it once the teeth thing in episode one takes place.
Since MC’s entire schtick is “kill people to get what you want” I’m very uncertain as to how a S2 (which has been confirmed to exist) is going to take place in the location that the end of S1 indicates it will.
One thing I did like about the show was how when a chick takes off her glasses, she’s still fugly. And I completely believe her response to her husband riding off on her.
One thing I did like about the show was how when a chick takes off her glasses, she’s still fugly. And I completely believe her response to her husband riding off on her.
Hee hee yes I did like her solution to that conundrum. Who is lying? Don’t care.
Few interesting villains are mediocrities.
Mediocrities also have a very short half-life as heroes. Mizu doesn’t push my Mary Sue buttons, either – she’s obviously a very flawed, if not quite downright broken, person.
what the West calls slavery in the Islamic world isn’t really even slavery.
it’s more like a paternalistic relationship between two distinct social classes. It’s kind, humane, agency respecting and ‘slaves’ have even created proper royal dynasties in many Islamic realms.
https://twitter.com/hassanmazlumfr/status/1746666197209239873
nuance is important and islamic slavery is good aktchually
These people get three squares and all the buttfucking they can get, so they are not slaves!
Much the same was being written about slavery in the US before the Civil War.
There were also a lot of newspaper editorials arguing in favor of wrap around porches, grits, banjo music, debutante balls, and extending the southern border so as to add additional states to preserve these peculiar institutions.
Didn’t work out so well for the Zanj. More black slaves were shipped to the middle east than the americas – and there’s a reason there are no black people left in the middle east.
The Circassians who got dragged into the Harem were a very distinct and special case. All of the Jannissaries came from southeastern Europe.
Nuance escapes this poster.
“But that’s different……..”
It’s a nice start… so far. I’m guardedly optimistic.
The same thing will never happen here, unfortunately.
You miss the deep state already making it clear that if the voters elect Trump they plan to not only make America ungovernable, but to use the systems to go after him and claim he is a dictator while they are the ones running another coup against the voters’ choice they do not want.
The Peronists had one Hell of a deep state. If he can do it, we can do it. Baby steps. He is getting blocked in court and having to jump through hoops, but will succeed eventually.
Trump wouldn’t cut the deep state. I really wish he would, but he will not cut it in any meaningful way. In going after his political enemies he will inadvertently do us a favor, but that doesn’t cut the shambling mass of employees by a significant amount.
He’s also not nearly as smart as Milei and would have trouble getting it done even if he went balls out on the bureaucratic apparatus and the deep state. At least he’s not in active cahoots with them though unlike all the others who are left.
It would take courage, and that just isn’t a component of the Trump character.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a powered citrus juicer? I’m looking for one that’s very easy to clean and doesn’t take up much space.
juice is bad for you.
Do you mean Goo Gone? Or is this a new fitness thing?
Tang?
If you mix it with prune juice you get…..”prunetang”
Oh…I read that as “powdered citrus juice”
Carry on.
At Costco the other day I found out that Tang still exists.
Back in the late 60s and 70s, Tang counted as the healthy drink.
It’s what the astronauts drink!
I saw it as “power cleansing citrus juice”
I have one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KQ47HL0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
Put it into the kitchen sink and use the sprayer to hose it off with hot water. It is trivial to clean.
Nutribullet, man.
I’ve been using a Black & Decker similar to this for more than a decade. Very robust and works great for everything from key limes to grapefruit.
You do need to take a little care in separating the plates that control pulp size prior to washing. It’s a bit tricky at first but becomes trivial after you’ve done it a few times.
Got down to the wopping 10* Americanheit last night, western Oregon is not even remotely prepared for this, and, frankly, neither am I. I drove to the store to get some rations, saw kids doing snow day right; sledding down what passes for hills on my side of town, and playing “hit him with a stick and see if he can stand up on the ice.” Pure awesome, and not a cell phone in sight! My dog is pissed, as I cannot take her to the park, but I am putting on the YakTraks today and changing that.
More snow tonight, and it might get above freezing tomorrow with some rain.
🙂
Concur. I used to have some. Then I moved to Tucson.
Spikes are better imo.
These are cheap enough to lose and remarkable effective. They do come off when playing soccer though.
https://www.amazon.com/STABILicers-Walk-Traction-Cleat-Tread/dp/B000GUEAUK/ref=asc_df_B000GUEAUK
I have those.
Yeah, wish listed. Seems easier to just throw them on my regular shoes than to hassle into boots.
easier to just throw them on my regular shoes
I found them very hard to put on and take off. So, I put them on one pair of shoes and left them on forever. I put the shoes on when I left the house. Switched to other shoes at work. And left the shoes by the door when I got home. Repeat the next day.
But they are awesome for icy conditions.
They are much grippier than the chain/cable ones. I’ve also tried the more aggressive spikes, but the sub-$100 ones I’ve tried have the cleats attached to a substrate that can’t stand the stress of my bulk coming to a sudden stop. Any time there was an arrested slip, there’d be at least one of the cleats torn loose. Also those brands didn’t self-adjust to my boots during walking like the STABIL ones did.
That particular brand I can put on/take off when I get out of/into the car. However, if you leave them on, they WILL gouge out your nice aluminum STI-branded pedals.
9C and sunny. We had a dusting of snow a few days ago but now gone. There was a week or so of -7C which is good because it was warm in December and the plants were starting to think its spring.
-11 C here for a few days now. The dusting of ice we got was humidity freezing out of the air. All my tropical Texas plants which live in the ground may snuff it.
-9C nights in SC this week. Not supposed to be this cold.
-7 F now. Wind chil is -28 Fahrenheit
Boy that is annoyingly cold. You have to pee inside now?
I just awakened. Yes, I know. I’m a lie-about.
1F here with a -13F heat index. My therapy appointment is by phone today so I will take that in the car, as everybody is home and I don’t want them to hear me trash them all.
The global free trade network is the most sophisticated, most valuable thing humanity has ever produced. It needs to be defended – and not just by the Americans.
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1746447348182483275
The problem is that several rising entities do not want global trade unless they are the only ones profiting from it.
It is a big free rider problem.
Is it wrong that shit like this this gives me a chubby?
Rachel Maddow gives you a chubby?
Yeah, that is wrong.
When she cries and acts the victim beatch, she gives me a chubby
I guess I’ve never really understood the hate-fuck mentality.
Just cause I got a chubby don’t mean I want to put it into that level of crazy…
Hilarious that the people who are pushing propaganda, illegally changing voting procedures, blocking dissenting speech, prosecuting political rivals and overtly rigging their own primary are worried about “people wanting fascism” in the form of free speech, verifiable election procedures, and not having political prosecutions.
I would love to see someone go on that show and ask her to define “fascism”.
*sigh*
I’m going to miss better vocabulary Indian Trump…
Free speech is a threat to our new world order!
The people who have lied to you the most want to be in charge of what you can say. It’s that simple.
Seen a girl having a seizure in the gym.
And you wanna know the first thing this other girl tells me while I get closer to help…
“Give her space, don’t touch her”
She was lying a pool of her own saliva with full body convulsions.
And you’re telling me to leave her alone?
This is why the west is a failed society.
A person can be dying in front of them and they’d be too scared to “touch” someone.
Rats.
I held her face up so she could breathe and not lay in spit.
I rubbed that girl’s back till she stopped convulsing.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Do not move someone having a seizure unless they are in imminent danger from their environment.
“Only move them if they’re in danger, such as near a busy road or hot cooker”
https://twitter.com/hamnaw77/status/1746328237704102064
what is the Official Glibertarian position on people having a seizure ?
Jam a wooden rod in their mouth so they don’t bite off their tongue.
Erm. But then wouldn’t your “wooden rod” get bitten off? No thanks.
The Glibertarian mind in all its glory.
Ask Hayeksplosives.
Let the seizure pass, monitor and place into recovery position when complete.
FYI, the recovery position is lying on the left side with left arm positioned underneath the head. Among other things it’s supposed to allow any vomit or drool to drain out of the oral cavity and not be inhaled.
…I know?
We all know. Standard Glib drinking recovery position.
I thought that was: head tilted back, mouth agape, in a chair on zoom.
You can’t really dust for vomit.
This…and reduces the chance of them swallowing their tongue.
Tonio gets it. I remember that from first aid classes
Only post the video of it only if it’s really entertaining.
Speaking of females in gyms and videos….
Tell them Trump will not be a dictator and is not going to put you into an extermination camp.
Have them sue for a Fourth Amendment violation if there is no warrant and/or no proper due process or compensation?
(/sarc)
Lying to the FBI?! That’s treason, right?
Joining the FBI is treason.
“You see those cops that committed ‘suicide’? They didn’t change their stories either.”
Guess I missed the invite. Dereliction of duty but its for the ‘right’ reasons, so like always, nothing will happen.
US federal employees across nearly two dozen agencies plan to walk off the job Tuesday
Nearly every DC metro fed failed to show up for work today.
So you are saying the effect of this walk-out is just lost in the background noise?
Speaking of cold:
Tesla supercharging station packed in Oak Brook, dead cars line parking lot due to frigid temps
As if public charging isn’t enough of a pain.
I’ll stick with the Mega-Jeep. Starts when I want it to. If I had to charge or replace the battery it’s easy.
All of those overseas wars are fake as hell. Pretenses for looting the taxpayers here in America…where the real war is.
I smoke, what of it? Nunya damned business.
Of course he is angling for VP and will probably get it. The VP is a life insurance policy for the POTUS and no one fits the bill better.
Hamas has said for years their goal is genocide against the Jews but now the Jews are propagating genocide by defending themselves? Sounds legit.
At least Jimmy Carter wasn’t a traitor that sold his country out. He is a terrible person and awful president but not a traitor. More than can be said of Obama, Clinton and Biden.
The Jan6 charade was coordinated by the FBI and I am fairly sure on behalf of Pelosi, Schumer and company.
Piker. I liked the guy a few years back that armored his bulldozer and went on a rampage against the cops. Now that’s how you do it.
Ah, the joys of fiat currency. Getting off of the gold standard opened the door for this kind of shit. The price of gold today is on par with the price of gold going all the way back to the Middle Ages. That doesnt leave a lot of room for shenanigans.
Vivek would be the perfect VP pick. As you said, he’d be great life insurance, but he has detailed plans on how to cut government so in a perfect world Trump would win and just stand back and cut Vivek loose.
In 1915, a US dollar was worth 1/600 of an ounce of gold.
In 1973, it was 1/700 of an ounce of gold. In 2004 it was about the same.
Then Obama and Trump happened.
Yes, dates have been cherrypicked, but the point is the value of the dollar vs gold should have been a continuous hockey stick if fiat was the only issue.
Where are you getting those numbers?
Through most of US history a 1-dollar silver coin was nominally one ounce of silver and a 20-dollar gold coin was nominally one ounce of gold, giving the historic ratio of 1/20 for silver to gold. The ratio is now in the vicinity of 1/100.
“In 1915, a US dollar was worth 1/600 of an ounce of gold.”
What I see is that in 1915 gold was about $20/oz or a US dollar was worth about 1/20 of an ounce of gold. In 1973 it was about $97/oz or a US dollar was worth about 1/100 of an ounce of gold. The dollar became a full, formalized fiat currency only in the ‘70s, although arguably it was a sort of crypto-fiat currency since the ‘30s.
https://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/historic_gold_prices_1833_pres.pdf
Not sure where you are getting your numbers.
Today was pretty easy — if I didn’t go for accuracy, kind of wondering where I’d fall on the speed side (it flowed that well) — didn’t get bonus words, mainly because the non-bonus ones were so obvious, I think:
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 01/16:
*20/20 words
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 01/16:
*33/33 words (+2 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 187
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 01/16:
*20/20 words (+2 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 25% by speed
I played https://squaredle.com 01/16:
*33/33 words (+12 bonus words)
📖 In the top 12% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 114
I don’t the war in Ukraine is deadly serious. The Russians and Ukrainians are killing each other in job lots, and taking Ukrainian civilians and the Ukrainian (and to a lesser extent, the Russian) economy with them. They seem very serious about it. Although both sides are also engaging in the traditional graft and corruption of their respective peoples.
don’t/think
Three tickets out of Iowa. Vivek didn’t get one. Our work is complete.
Interesting that CNN and Nikki Haley both said there are two tickets out of Iowa, and it is Trump and Haley.
Somehow they both missed that she finished third, largely on the strength of a fairly expensive campaign to get Democrat support for her to turn out.
Three. It’s always been three. If you don’t finish in the top three in Iowa, your campaign is dead meat.
Interesting to note that Biden came in fourth in 2020. That’s when the DNC put its thumb on the scale to change the outcome.
It looks like Haley squeaked out a 1/2 point margin over Trump in the People’s Republic of Johnson County (Iowa City). Trump won handily in the other 98 counties.
Do all the government employees live in Johnson county?
University of Iowa is there. Iowa City is the vast majority of the population of the county. It is overwhelmingly liberal.
Just assuming that the establishment will eliminate Trump for her – and then Republicans would obediently agree to vote for her.
Why would Democrats run out to support the candidate who polls suggest would beat Biden most in a head to head?
I can think of several reasons:
(1) They hate Trump that much.
(2) Haley is so completely a uniparty creature that it really makes no difference.
(3) They want Biden gone, can’t stand Harris, there’s nobody else who could possibly run with any credibility who isn’t a white male, so Haley’s the best female POC on offer. See also (2).
Been thinking about this and… I guess this is similar to 2
4) I think they genuinely are moderate statists and elitists. They are not as partisan, don’t care about the supreme court as much, and actually… like her and the “veneer” of leadership.
Of course Haley is not actually bright but she’s able to pretend to be bright, which is a big sell for these types. Biden is not.
She’s really been exposed as yet another mediocrity during these primaries. When she gets bumped off script, it triggers her soundbitebot and she’s starts babbling inanities.
Which is hard to jive with the type of people who vote for her.
But I think they are people who believe in the system and just want the system to be the system.
The world isn’t ready for a gold and blue dark elf.
Now I’m always going to see Vivek as Zaboo from The Guild.
Oh shit… A show I now might have to watch?
The Iron Triangle of Family Policy
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/the-iron-triangle-of-family-policy/
Governments are thus boxed in by three different considerations: fiscal, political, and demographic. Together, these form an “iron triangle” of family policy that effectively limits governments’ scope of action. On the fiscal side, governments tempted to throw money at families are confronted with the realities of basic tax accounting. The average cost of a child appears to be quite high: a 2017 U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate for the lifetime cost of raising a child born in 2015 put the figure at $233,610 ($295,357 in 2023 dollars).5 By contrast, as of 2021, the federal government can expect to collect $339,173 in federal income taxes over the lifetime of the average citizen. Additionally, the federal government collects $272,000 in FICA taxes from the average person, for a combined sum of $611,173. This means that the U.S. government would have to spend approximately half of its expected lifetime tax receipts if it wanted to fully offset families’ costs of having a child.
In their 2013 book, Why Nations Fail,8 Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson relate the story of the Englishman William Lee, who invented an early mechanized knitter that would allow people to make clothes in a fraction of the normal time. In 1589, he finally secured an audience with Queen Elizabeth I with the hopes of being issued a royal patent. Sadly, his hopes were crushed, because Elizabeth feared that the machine would destabilize the realm by throwing too many people out of work. Attempts to acquire a patent in France and from Elizabeth’s successor James I were also refused on the same grounds. Acemoglu and Robinson draw on these examples and many others to argue that growth and change can only occur when elites open their political systems to upwardly mobile elite aspirants, reward innovation, and allow for broad‑based economic participation. While their argument that “inclusive” economic institutions are at the center of economic growth is not entirely convincing, they do establish a strong case that states and societies thrive when elites are convinced that permitting change is more advantageous than holding on to a stagnant status quo.
The globalist solution to “too many people will lose their job” is to kill of half or more of them, then to control the others by making sure they can not survive without government largesse, so they remain compliant and shut the fuck up….
if the government can afford largesse
Sort of but they’re in it for the long game so not so much kill them off as encourage them to reproduce at below replacement rate except for selected groups which they’ll encourage for various reasons. They definitely want fewer people though.
Yeah, suicide/decline just doesn’t promise much for the elite. The elite depends on prosperity, and when they kill that, they kill themselves.
Today’s elite are far more worried about retribution against the evil shit they have been doing to us all for a long time now at this time than they are about prosperity. They would be quite content if we went back to a lower standard of living as long as they still remained the more prosperous and the elite..
“governments tempted to throw money at families are confronted with the realities of basic tax accounting”
I tapped out at the notion that governments feel constrained by accounting at all.
I hope to see Vivek run again for 2028. Trump’s 2024 agenda is essentially “I’m the victim of a political witch hunt” and while he’s not wrong, I frankly don’t give a shit. He didn’t do anything about it when he actually had power and he expects people to think he’ll get it right this time? He’s known goods by now, I won’t be voting for him this year.
Texas is not going to be close, so I am with you there. Only way I would vote for him is if Texas looked like it was going to swing Biden.
I’m in Massachusetts so it doesn’t matter what I do lol
It is a luxury not having to worry about “throwing your vote away.”
Yet I still manage to get lectured every 4 years for doing so here
Same for me here in Indiana.
And me in Arizona.
I watched a Megan Kelly short about this Georgia prosecutor scandal. They talked about the conflict of interest of her keeping the cases going because she is getting flown around the world on the dime of the guy she hired with taxpayer money (more than a half million so far)…. But the focus was on that and the fact that she is having an affair with him. (and her specious speech at a local black church service claiming racism)
What nobody mentioned was anything about his meetings at the white house right before the indictments.
I saw what was purported to be copies of bills from his divorce trial that had line items for travel for meetings at the white house posted on X.
Were these fakes? Nobody seems to be talking about it. Or is this like the Hunter Biden laptop, where the story is the corroboration of the Biden bribery scheme, but all anyone wants to talk about is Hunter doing drugs and banging an underage relative? (although they usually leave that last part out)
Anybody following this? Was that a fake? Or are they hiding the real story, that the White House is coordinating these prosecutions?
I think it is so damning that the media is trying to avoid it.
^^^
the White House is coordinating these prosecutions
The people “hiding the story” are in on the conspiracy.
Just following the predictable pattern of modern media.
Does the story help or hurt our preferred narrative? Help, send out the talking points so the same thing is echoed from national news down to local news. If it hurts, maybe run a story, bury what you can, then never touch it again.
“Apparently the White House called Wills, the first African American woman DA in Fulton County history and a regular target of Donald Trump, and the special prosecutor assigned by her, also an African American that Trump has made veiled threats about on social media and through surrogates trying to delay the court proceedings, in order to let them know the federal government will not be helping in the prosecution as it would give ammunition to Trump, who routinely attacks the integrity of the FBI and special prosecutor Jack Smith, who now requires around the clock security. The meeting was completely above board and anybody who questions it is either racially motivated and/or is an election-denier.”
-CNN (probably)
I was thinking they’d go with the old “yoga and recipes” schtick.
So it looks like every escort service in Davos and the area around it has a “No Vacancy” sign during this WEF meeting. Including the ones that cater to the weirdest shit and illegal things. Also note the amount of illegal drugs flown in to help these people during their “How to build back trust with the skeptics” agenda for this year…
Someone should contact the spouses of these people and tell them they need to send private eyes to collect blackmail/divorce court material and end this fucking shitshow…
God only knows what those freak fucks are into, got to be the worst that can be imagined and then some.
I gotta ask, who is your source and how do I know they’re an expert on CH prostution?
I’ve gotten away from “conspiracy theories coming true” and I’m now into “things are exactly the way they look.”
“things are exactly the way they look.” <— This. Been saying it for years.
If I had toddlers, I wouldn’t let them out of my sight with that lot in town.
As if said spouses weren’t fully aware.
Probably relieved that their pervert spouse is pestering them, so they can concentrate on spending his/her money and one-upping other mega-rich spouses.
Jeebus. “Isn’t” pestering them.
According to my AI bot
The voices that deny climate change have settled on a new refrain.
Instead of rejecting the fact that the Earth is warming, they’re now focusing on skepticism of climate solutions, as well as scientists and activists and altogether the idea that climate change will cause harm, according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit organization that researches digital hate speech and misinformation.
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a nonprofit organization whose stated goal is to “protect human rights and civil liberties” by holding social media companies accountable. Ahmed said the organization has been “tightly integrated with the climate movement.”
For its analysis, the organization used an artificial intelligence model to evaluate the arguments used in more than 12,000 YouTube videos from 96 channels it said featured climate change denial content, including videos from Blaze TV, a conservative media channel, and the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank. The videos were published from January 2018 through September 2023.
The “deep learning model” processed YouTube transcripts and sought to identify whether particular climate denial themes were present, the report says. Independent evaluators checked part of the text transcripts and graded the model’s accuracy. The independent evaluators said it accurately found denial claims about 78% of the time.
“We feel very confident that, at scale, this analysis gives us … very strong data indicating the trends,” Ahmed said.
Digital haters are changing their tactics and arguments to pull the wool over your eyes. It couldn’t have anything to do with observed reality and the facts on the ground.
Any nonprofit/charity that claims to counter hate is a quasigovernmental censorship organization and is full of shit, period.
CCDH – aspiring to be the English SPLC.
CCDH?
That’s the Center for Communist Dick Heads, right?
Columbia County Dairy Herders.
“Instead of rejecting the fact that the Earth is warming”
Nice stolen base. I, for one, am rejecting the idea that it is warming as fast/as recently as they say based on their corrupted data. And the idea that it is human activity causing whatever the weather is doing these days.
The report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate takes aim at YouTube’s policies on climate misinformation, saying it is failing to prevent monetization of denial narratives; the report includes screenshots of advertisements on videos it categorizes as “old denial,” which outright denies climate change is happening.
The nonprofit group argues YouTube and Google should broaden the kind of content that can’t be monetized to include content it categorizes as “new denial,” which rejects scientific consensus about the “causes, impacts and solutions” to climate change.
New denial is just old obstructionism aimed at thwarting our inevitable march toward a glorious global socialist dictatorship.
In a very encouraging turn of events, it seems that Trump is now on full offense. He’s sent The Hair to attack members of the MSM, staring with Joy Reid.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-accuses-white-christian-iowans-wanting-people-color-bow
In an encouraging turn of events, it seems Trump has gone on full offense and sent The Hair to attack members of the MSM starting with Joy Reid.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-accuses-white-christian-iowans-wanting-people-color-bow
Welcome to the Hotel California…
California Invents a Crazy New Tort
Businesses are often sued for selling allegedly faulty products that aren’t actually defective. Last week a California appeals court ruled that businesses can also be sued for failing to develop a product. Behold California’s new tort standard: You should have built that.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-gilead-hiv-drug-lawsuit-tort-law-2143597c?st=axj0kjy1j8i5yka&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Is this following up on Italy’s jailing scientists for failing to predict an earthquake?
Testing 1, 2, 3. Just had two comments disappear.
I see it.
Trying to post a link and it’s disappearing.
Could be a bad link. Those things sometimes fall to manual review for no reason. Not just the “3 links it’s out” rule.
Trump goes on the offense, sends The Hair to attack members of the MSM.
Fuck! Sounds like the Ukes finally killed Gonzalo Lira. He was an American citizen and at any time a phone call from Biden or his State Department would have set him free.
https://news.yahoo.com/pro-russian-blogger-gonzalo-lira-170300542.html
Killing journalists is only bad when arabs do it.
That’s what gets me-all it would have taken to get him deported would have been a polite request from the US gov and they didn’t even bother doing that. We were without a doubt complicit.
Yes – this is what our establishment wanted and wants for all of “us”.
That squishy sound in the corner is Nuland flicking her bean to the thought.
“Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, known for his openly pro-Russian sentiments”
I don’t recall Carlson cheering for the conquest of Ukraine. He’s been skeptical, if not an opponent of, US involvement/funding. I’ve seen “pro-Russian” thrown at a lot of people who are no such thing, but not a fan of the US sticking its dick into that war. It’s a pretty good sign that whatever you’re reading is propaganda, IMO.
Still, dude’s probably dead. It does raise a question about how much the US should get involved when one of its citizens gets banged up in a foreign country. I seem to recall a lot of scoffing and sneering here when the US spent a lot of political capital to get Griner released from Russian jail.
If you don’t think Putin is literally worse than that mustachioed fellow from WWII you’re proRussian. It’s just a smear that means next to nothing.
Comrade Stalin was BELOVED I tell you!
The WWII honchos were disproportionally heavy on the sweet facial hair weren’t they?
He wasn’t a reporter for the Biden administration would be my bet. Unless you suck democratic dick, you can go die.
Yep. Majority of stories report him as a pro-Russian blogger. I could guess that is slander without reading any further.
I could guess that is slander – I am not sure it is… though it should not change the situation
1. That justified jailing and killing a journalist?
2. Anyone who ever listened to him for 5 minutes knows that wasn’t the case. Anti-Zelensky / anti-war would be accurate. He didn’t seem to care much about the Russians.
Yelling fire in a crowded theater and all that
The New Voice of Ukraine
And this is reported as straight news. The irony of calling The Grayzone a propaganda outlet! Fucking hell Yahoo.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1747261739102859747
Me: Hey wife there’s a job posted at this national lab I could be qualified for.
Wife: We have talked about moving to .
Me: Yeah, hm, you know I’d probably have to get a security clearance.
Wife: I’m sure you’d have no problem with that, you’ve never done anything they would care about.
Me: Um, yeah …. ::thinks about posting on Glibs:: …. maybe
bah that should be “moving to [ state in which national lab is located ]”.
Miss Adriatico – Finale Regionale – Tour 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XUijOaG-fU
Is that a traditional Illyrian dance? I like it.
Speaking at a CNBC-moderated panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friedman said Tuesday that while “there are a lot of signals that would say that there should be rate [cuts] as we go through the year, the question is when they would start. And if I were the Fed, I would be a little concerned about starting too early.”
Huh. So who would rate cuts hurt that the WEF cares about?
All the prostitutes at the Davos Bunga-Bunga fuck fest?
I heard all the escorts are booked in Davos right now. Complete prostitute sell out.
Paging OMWC…
Description: Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry. Diverse historical and contemporary scientists, intellectuals, and chemical discoveries will inform personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education. This course will be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds including STEM and non-STEM disciplines. No prior knowledge of chemistry or African American studies is required for engagement in this course.
https://courses.rice.edu/courses/courses/!SWKSCAT.cat?p_action=COURSE&p_term=202420&p_crn=25669
In fact such knowledge may impede your accepting of the information that we are about to teach you.
WTF are “ inequities in chemistry”, anyway?
Unbalanced chemical equations?
I’ve decided to be part of the precipitate.
The long title is fantastic: AFROCHEMISTRY: THE STUDY OF BLACK-LIFE MATTER
Class will be taught by a fat white dude wearing a tutu and sporting a pink beard.
Close
Dafuq is a “Preceptor?”
Fancy name schools use for headmaster to confuse students and parents that they are something special and to sound important on resumes.
I thought “headmaster” was a fancy name schools use for principal.
Reserved especially for first-year professors?
So this is a clever hack?
It’s only a semester but surely they’ll cover Gibb’s Free At Last Energy.
Muh workers’ paradise
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote the foreword for the organization’s latest report.
“Billionaires become richer, the working class struggles, and the poor live in desperation. That is the unfortunate state of the world economy,” he wrote.
“That is the bad news. But here is the good news. Thanks to organizations like Oxfam, more and more people throughout the world are making the connections between the harsh economic reality of their lives and the destructive nature of our uber-capitalist system which rewards greed and profiteering above any other human value,” he added.
Have a nice time in Davos, you pantomime dragon slayer.
“The rich keep getting richer. Why, I’m almost ready to buy my fifth house!”
Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry.
Learn how to test heroin for purity.
“African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry”
Is it racist to say “Yikes!”?
who are you axing?
Thank you, Brooks, for making that comment before I did.
I have no idea what that means. I have some suspicions and they are not good, but since that sentence….ugh. Nevermind.
Evidently I was not seeing things when I said AdBlock was choking on YouTube
https://youtu.be/KUrRGDt40i8?si=bTKpBmXhm4LnA8lw
Brave seems to block the ads on YT with no issues from what I’ve seen, at least on Apple products.
I just started trying to use Firefox without an ad blocker and realized just how effective Brave is at blocking nonsense.
This just in: Asa Hutchinson has ended his quest for the GOP presidential nomination. Apparently Asa Hutchinson was running for president.
The problem the conservative Repubs are up against is that they (and I’m thinking about Burges and De Santis here, don’t know about Hutchinson) is that they are reformers. On the wrong side of the question: “Is the system broken and needs to be reformed, or is it working exactly as intended and needs to be overthrown”. Trump’s advantage is that he is at least a rhetorical bomb-thrower, and plenty of people are getting an inkling that the system is, in fact, working exactly as intended.
“Wait, you actually expect us to make government smaller?”
And Trump, to his credit, doesn’t play that game.
I think I like Desantis better because he’s both a rhetorical bomb thrower and an actual bomb thrower but it’s obvious he won’t win. I think Trump is more a blowhard who secretly doesn’t plan to do all that much.
Still I’ll probably vote for Desantis in the primary to signal the type of candidate I prefer.
It looks like most of the younger Republicans went for Desantis and are looking for exactly that type.
My take on DeSantis is that, when the USS America hits the iceberg, he will have the lifeboats somewhat better organized.
But it’s still going to hit the iceberg.
My take is that he will steer us to the iceberg quicker so that we can get the iceberg over with. And I’m all for it.
At least I don’t see him proclaiming “I’m King of the World.” Then again…..
Yes. DeSantis actually does things. He will be back next cycle.
“Quality Escape” aka “Outsourced Cost Reduction Failure”
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said preliminary findings of loose exit door-plug assembly hardware at Alaska and United Airlines are linked to a “quality escape” at Spirit.
https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/safety-ops-regulation/new-quality-problems-rock-boeing-trigger-faa-probe
“Hey, as far as we know it was bolted on when we sold it to you.”
The door or the “quality”?
I thought Ford discontinued that model some time back.
A “quality escape” sounds like what they’d promise you at one of those “escape room” attractions.
Isn’t a “quality escape” what Epstein promised his clients on the island?
Trump goes on the offense, sends The Hair to attack the MSM.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12969467/joy-reid-trump-victory-iowa-white-christians-racism.html
Democracy has limits
President Joe Biden will veto an attempt to repeal a U.S. labor board rule requiring companies to bargain with unions representing some franchise and contract workers if it passes Congress, the White House said on Monday.
The resolution, which is slated for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives later this week, would interfere with workers’ rights to bargain for better working conditions, the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a statement.
President Joe Biden will veto an attempt to repeal a U.S. labor board rule requiring companies to bargain with unions representing some franchise and contract workers if it passes Congress, the White House said on Monday.
The resolution, which is slated for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives later this week, would interfere with workers’ rights to bargain for better working conditions, the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a statement.
“Reversing this rulemaking will prevent workers from exercising their right to bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions,” the OMB said on Monday. “Too often, companies deny workers this right by hiding behind subcontractors, staffing agencies, and temporary agencies.”
It’s interesting to see this NLRB rule directly and specifically characterized as an attempt to force subcontractors into the loving embrace of the unions.
I don’t see why the President needs to sign off on a Congressional resolution limiting how the authority delegated by Congress to the executive branch is exercised.
My NSF proposal was rejected on the grounds that my idea was not innovative enough. Bummer, but what I expected. At least I got a response. I’m tempted to go ahead and spend a few hundred dollars just to prove I can smash the world record for overclocking by using mineral oil instead of liquid nitrogen for cooling.
I can’t bring myself to fill out that Wal-Mart job application quite yet.
You did remember to enclose a headshot of yourself with digitally darkened skin and wearing a trans bandana, right? RIGHT?!?!?
No, just a pic of my oil-cooled computer. If I was more cynical, perhaps I would have touted it with some politically correct mumbo jumbo. The other day I also received a rejection from Peace Corps for a write-up I sent them. They have a contest where amusing Peace Corps stories are dramatized. My submission was about how I learned of msukule, the zombie of East African folklore.
An msukule is a person who is put under the spell of an mchawi (witch doctor). The magic temporarily sends the victim’s soul to the afterlife while leaving the body behind to do the mchawi’s nocturnal bidding, which is usual arduous labor. When the victim wakes, they have no memory but are mysteriously tired.
A teacher I worked with said I looked very tired once and pondered if perhaps I had been turned into an msukule. This led me to asking what the word meant.
On a side note, the film “The Serpent and the Rainbow” is oddly popular over there.
This should be interesting this afternoon. The PD has painted itself into a very specific corner with their FB post.
Question is if the mayor’s office can get all the video to see if it matches the PD version of events. My bet is the video is either selective or will suffer from multiple malfunctions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-mayor-orders-probe-woman-alleges-police-raided-wrong-house-injure-rcna134062
Im still interested in what possibly did this teenager do that warranted a small army force to storm a house. A house they could have you know..cased for some time to see if the teen even was there.
Threw them outside to cause a diversion? Okay.
I watched the video it was something like 4 seconds between yelling police and warrant to smashing the door. If the mayor was serious, he’d review those tactics.
I wondered where it came from…
https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/01/16/elyria-mayor-says-police-body-camera-video-will-be-released-tuesday-possible-wrong-house-raid/
“Their Ring camera captured the Elyria Police Special Response Team breaking down their front door.”
That’s going to keep things more interesting.
The search warrant was for Price’s address, but was issued in pursuit of a teenager who hasn’t lived there in over a year, NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland reported.
That’s some damn fine police work there, Lou.
Unfettered ubercapitalism
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Monday sued to block the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, two of the nation’s largest grocery chains.
In the suit filed in King County Superior Court, Ferguson argued that the $25-billion deal would harm consumers and raise prices, The Seattle Times reported. Kroger and Albertsons have more than 300 locations in the state and account for more than half of its grocery sales, according to the suit.
“This merger is bad for Washington shoppers and workers,” Ferguson said in a news release Monday. “Shoppers will have fewer choices and less competition, and, without a competitive marketplace, they will pay higher prices at the grocery store.”
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Ferguson’s lawsuit was endorsed by United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 3000, which represents Kroger and Albertsons employees in Washington, northeast Oregon and northern Idaho, The Seattle Times reported.
“Workers, shoppers and our communities need to prevent this proposed mega-merger from taking place,” Yasmin Ashur, a union member who works in an Albertsons grocery store, said in a union statement Monday.
I’m not convinced it’s a great idea, but if the union hates it…
Odd. These kind of mergers usually make it easier for unions to organize new stores. At one time, my hospital was looking at acquiring a unionized hospital. One of the negatives, in our mind, was that once the union was inside the wire we would have a really hard time keeping them out of our non-union hospital.
Odd. These kind of mergers usually make it easier for unions to organize new stores. At one time, my hospital was looking at acquiring a unionized hospital. One of the negatives, in our mind, was that once the union was inside the wire we would have a really hard time keeping them out of our non-union hospital.
I suspect they are anticipating “consolidation” and consequent job losses.
Yep. The stores concerned are already UFCW.