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Should be a wild four years.

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What's interesting is if you watch old Sesame Street videos, there actually is a clear difference in tone. Also not wrong about the agenda in it, tbqh.

Also as someone working in IT I understand the need to streamline things but it gives me PTSD flashbacks to bosses getting rid of backups because they cost money but when things are down they get upset at the backups being gone. I can do nothing but pray that they are keeping this in mind and only getting rid of the unneeded redundancy.
 
There's already a decent amount of Japanese auto manufacturing in the US, and as far I know they're mostly non-union. They usually avoid unionization by building plants in rural areas where the cost of living is lower, so they can pay decent but not exorbitant wages, while just not treating employees like shit
I have first hand experience. Those Japanese auto manufacturers do in fact treat their workers like shit. Mandatory 70 hour work weeks at $17 an hour.

@he who has thus come/gone
White collar workers can be abused. When I talk about a nationalized union, I mean workers in private businesses and the public sector are apart of an organization that represents their interests.
 
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this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
I avoided that chat function because it killed my phone's battery life and I was so grateful when it was finally removed from being on and active on every single fucking page. I never noticed the politisperging chat got removed, but it wasn't really a good way to find useful information or relevant opinions. We still get bullshit here, but there's better discussion.
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I have first hand experience. Those Japanese auto manufacturers do in fact treat their workers like shit. Mandatory 70 hour work weeks at $17.
is that better or worse then Japanese employees at any other company, considering that in rural environments the cost of living is cheaper and there's elderly neighbours to help with matchmaking and rasising children?
 
this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
All chatniggers are godless homosexual communists. Good Americans like those in this thread know that God intended posts to be etched forever upon digital marble so that we can be judged for their content upon death.
 
Protesters now being exclusively boomers over 60
I've come to the realization that the boomers are just being the hippie menace again. Now that pot is legal in most states (after decades of boomers throwing people in prison for smoking it) they can relive their early 20s by smoking pot and annoying the fuck out of normal people. Normally I'm not one to torment and harass the elderly but we might have to make an exception.
 
this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
in live chats if something was said more than a few seconds ago I feel like a retard for scrolling up and responding to it, harder to follow conversations.
 
this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
You can actually spend time to read a thread instead of having chat zip by.

Its like asking while Kiwifarms users like having a forum compared to having a discord. Chat sucks, forum post at least have a bit of a level of thought (with the rules at least) and can be read at leisure.
 
is that better or worse then Japanese employees at any other company
Why should Americans have to live like bugmen?
considering that in rural environments the cost of living is cheaper
Affordable housing in Middleton Ohio. Just $216,000.
and there's elderly neighbours to help with matchmaking and rasising children?
You think boomers are going to help you get pussy? Or help you watch your kids? For free? They're either: on drugs, working at walmart, or so rich they're on a cruse half the year. Not to mention how are you supposed to find a woman when you're working 70 hours a week.
 
The challenge is if the incremental cost of producing in the US is higher than the tariff rate, they won't do it. Foreign governments may also subsidize their increased costs through retaliatory tariffs on US exports so that the impact of the tariff is neutralized. There are a lot of risks with this approach as it backfired badly when the US used to do this up until the 1970s.

You also have the problem that domestic automakers can now raise prices themselves and generate free profit. There's no incentive not to.
This is correct. I'm in favor of tariffs as a pressure tactic for getting countries like Mexico to do more about drug cartels (as an example), but it doesn't work out economically in the long-term or with a country that goes "yeah well fuck you, too."

EU countries are encouraged to comply because there's a huge market in the US for their advanced products. China won't buy AstraZeneca's new drugs when they can buy Aurobindo's version made in India. China won't buy the EU's lithium ion batteries because they have a giant domestic industry for it. However, if ze Germans are willing to dig in and wait for Trump to leave, tariffs are a problem.

Trump is fucked if the economy slumps.
 
Why should Americans have to live like bugmen?

Affordable housing in Middleton Ohio. Just $216,000.

You think boomers are going to help you get pussy? Or help you watch your kids? For free? They're either: on drugs, working at walmart, or so rich they're on a cruse half the year. Not to mention how are you supposed to find a woman when you're working 70 hours a week.
I misunderstood I thought you were referring to Japanese automotive factories in Japan. There it's par for the course but yeah in America that would suck hairy transgender donkey balls.
 

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this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
Cause chats are gay and for niggers with no attention span, and forum threads are superior in every way. Specially if you are retarded and take a while to collect your thoughts, and write them out.
 
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this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
Chat is dominated by users who tend to only use chat and post on people's profiles. It's cursed. People in Chat spend more time mocking people for their forum post count then having meaningful discussion.
 
Back in the day there was this network called a "contact chain" or "accountability chain," which was basically a failsafe for organizing members of government agencies and private companies working with the government. It was stupid simple, you were given a person to contact. It was your job to, in the event of a national emergency, to contact your designated person and relay pertinent information to them. You would be required to contact them at all costs, even if it means physically driving or walking to their home and banging on the door. That person would then contact the next person in the chain, so on and so forth, until the entire organization was informed of the nature of the emergency and the action plan.
The private sector had something similar in adopting a disaster plan where the worker discovering the situation would notify an immediate supervisor and the news would then be communicated up the ladder person by person until all the administrative staff were made aware and they would then discuss and address the situation as appropriate.

What is the equivalent today? We're divesting ourselves of landlines, physical media, and deep storage. We're making ourselves more vulnerable to a failure cascade in the event of a real shooting war, or even limited first strike.
Too many people are so entrenched and all-in on digital technology that they have: (1) no concept to do when that technology fails or goes obsolete, and (2) no knowledge or ability to perform the manual operations/activities.

The UAW head praising Trump after calling him a scab wasn't on my bingo card.
Fain probably still thinks Trump is an undesirable Republican asshole. Still, the fact he praised Trump's tariffs as a good thin was definitely unexpected when Fain made it clear he'd rather an hero than say anything nice about Trump before during and after the UAW contract negotiations.
 
this is the single busiest thread on the site, but the chat we had for politisperging was never used. why is that?
This thread is the chat. I'm not joking or anything, it's just that if there's anything worth talking about it's said here.
 
I have first hand experience. Those Japanese auto manufacturers do in fact treat their workers like shit. Mandatory 70 hour work weeks at $17.
That isn't legal. FLSA - which applies - requires 1.5x for non-salaried/exempt workers for OT (over 40 worked hours). Was $17 the blended rate of regular and OT? Or how did they get around Federal law doing that on such a broad and overt scale?
 
I recall the chat being useful for Deagle Nation livestreams but there's rarely a "this is the only thing and it's live" like that for politics
When I was watching some old Wuxia tv shows, I thought the characters that were servants of a dead dyansty and trying to bring it back was a fantasy. Oh no it's not, talking to my boomer parents feels like that.
now I want flying sword but boomers on scooters
 
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