“it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not.”

Pack in that pork. 🐷

At this point, any bumps in the road to unfettered misogynist, bigoted, surveillance christofacist power would be helpful while the left gets a real party together.

Article yesterday said Chicago had just confirmed a lead pipe project expected to finish in 2077.

TF is wrong with administration around the lakes? How can they be allowed to have so little progress and so slowly as a normal course of business? Insulated career politicians? Bribes?

Change your luggage combo too.

When an article about VC-owned private car hailing apps not being convenient is considered failed “public transit”. Imagine how hard the lobby will be by VC owned Uber and the rest of its ill against developing transit near stadiums. Their dynamically priced margins depend on busses, rail and subways not existing.

I generally think of it as the combination of poor project management dependent on 3rd party consultants, mix in the larger infrastructure of state being aligned with corps on not wanting it to work “too” well, and large governments being unfortunately comprised of people and structures inexperienced in change–which exacerbates #1 on my list.

And by infuriated trump, they mean infuriated his election box funder attendees Bezos, Cool, Pichai. Of course I could be way off and it may be an innocent coincidence…🤑

I don’t know what’s so hard to grasp;

• immigrants are bad because they steal American jobs
• immigrants are good because exploitative industries can’t run without desperate, no-option workers
• immigrants are bad because they’re free loaders
• immigrants are good because they pay far more tax than they collect in benefits, illegal or legal
• immigrants are bad because they keep American wages down
• immigrants are good because they keep tech wages down so we should expand the visa programs tech companies lobbied for

As long as you know to which audience he’s speaking, corporate funders or everyone else, he’s been completely consistent.

What about states? Ever had to call unemployment? Lucky enough to be in a US state with paid leave? They are websites that make 1998 1.0 look decent. Their phone trees just dump you when you call them and say they are overloaded. No email, no ticket support online. So no web, phone or email support for those you are beholden to.

States aren’t trying to turn a profit, what is the incentive to have unemployment and paid leave broken in states that have passed them as law?odt of the states with paid leave tout them and promote how great they are but make the process a gauntlet of cirizen-hating obstacles.

Looking at you CA, OR and WA.

The efficiency must flow. The poison must flow. The money must flow. The power must flow.

Install the latest update and hope for the best.

The addiction is also the cure.

Duct tape? Toilet paper? Which industry will strike it richest this time? Oh just watch more of the fear box and find out!

the banks are going to have to get involved soon…figure out a way to load up working-age people with long-term debt

Why the hell do the banks need to step in? System for an indentured workforce is already in full effect:

• no safety net, unemployment difficult to get and punishing poverty if it’s all you have
• require a car (e.g. initial capital and ongoing cost) to participate in many jobs
• have oligopolies rent out housing that is so expensive even those with full-time work can’t save any money
• have oligopolies own groceries, they maximize profits (consumer cost)
• have oligopolies own medical facilities, they maximize profits (consumer cost)
• stuff people full of consumer desires and give them easy access to credit

How many cats does the vacuum hold?

Cholera bacteria wouldn’t survive in plasma, yo.

Be quiet!

I know it’s “any good news to celebrate” at this point for many of us so hate to knock it but People? Format and content 🤮

As it should be. They will lock you up, deport you, tread on your rights unless you’re rich or powerful or pose a threat.

Politeness should have gone out the window long ago.

Even worse; they filled the top of the funnel and the cost of 15 years of loose, legal opioid addicts is still funneling through and down to heroin, meth, homelessness…all costs beyond the immediate ones that this settlement can’t even begin to touch the cost of, to say nothing of the lives lost directly to addiction and drug abuse.