The hard working warehouse employees will be receiving unemployment. They just got several weeks of PTO.

The demolition and reconstruction is new work that will be going on for the next few years.

If I understand you correctly, you’re saying that the insurance industry is the underlying problem?

That was a late-stage enshittification; it’s only been that way for a few years, and it was primarily used to suppress dissent.

It is absolutely not something we should be porting over to the fediverse.

Where do you get this idea?

Where do you get the idea that it is at all possible to stand up on your soapbox in the town square, addressing every Tom, Dick, and Harry, yet keeping certain members of the public from hearing your speech?

When I logout of my instance, you can’t distinguish me from any other anonymous user. I’m part of the anonymous masses. If you want to keep me from seeing your content, you can’t post it for the anonymous masses to see.

Facebook (and other proprietary, centralized services) give the impression that this can be done, but the way they are doing it is by refusing to show content to anonymous users. You can’t do that with federated services.

Flavor causes cancer.

Term limits in SCOTUS would increase the current president’s power to exert influence in the court. That sounds great, until we realize that about half the time, the president is a complete asshole who shouldn’t be in charge of a McDonald’s franchise, let alone the country.

To reduce a president’s undue influence on the court, we need to strictly limit the number of justices they can add per term. If three justices reach their term limits, and two others die or retire, the president is flipping five justices. That’s a terrible idea.

What we could do is eliminate the fixed size of the court. Eliminate the requirement that the court must consist of 9 people. Instead, the president appoints two justices per term, shortly after their first and third years in office. The court’s size will likely fluctuate between 10 and 15 justices.

To further remove political influence, we could introduce a means of replenishing the court without political grandstanding. Should the court membership fall below 5 members due to some kind of disaster or tragedy, (or should the president fail to appoint or the Senate confirm a presidential appointment, or should too many members of the current court have a conflict of interest and not be eligible to hear a case) appellate court justices are elevated to the supreme court in order of seniority.

The meme isn’t about committing genocide with nuclear weapons. The meme is about having made a ridiculous and obscene ultimatum. It’s about his intimidation tactics. He tries to bluff his way through negotiations with outlandish threats, and looks like an idiot when anyone calls his bluffs.

Vance is going to need that new, impeachment-ready Congress in place before his coup, or his coup will fail.

Bingo.

Vance is going to want to be seen as leading the coup, not being handed the job. But it’s not happening for another 10 months. First, he needs a new Congress, one who is already itching for impeachment. And if he’s waiting for Congress, he’s going to wait another three weeks: so long as he only takes half of Trump’s term, he remains eligible for two full terms himself.

Vance will exercise Section 4 of the 25th after January 20th, 2027.

The F-35 was designed from the start to be a revenue stream. Everything you hear about it is pure, unadulterated marketing wank.

As an initial theory, it’s solid.

But then we start asking if this is the best way to do it. Are there alternative ways of achieving the same - or better - safety margins? Could we reduce the risk of deep-water ditching by avoiding flight over deepwater? Could we restrict the distance from shore that aircraft are allowed to fly? Could we require additional redundancy (third, fourth engines, larger fuel reserves) for aircraft flying beyond glide distance to land? (We do both of these. Single engine planes require passengers and crew to be prepared to ditch before leaving glide range to land. Twin engine planes are restricted by ETOPS. Both are strictly limited on how far they can fly from shore.)

Adding a third engine and 30 additional minutes of reserve fuel would achieve at least the same degree of safety against ditching, and vastly improve safety in all sorts of situation where a detachable cabin would not be beneficial. Do we improve a wide variety of safety measures, or do we have a reason to focus on this one particular type of incident?

In theory, if something goes catastrophically wrong, it’s going to be with the “flying parts” of the airplane. Flight controls locked up or ripped off.

In practice, safely jettisoning the passenger compartment would require a degree of flight stability far in excess of that required to land safely.

Who the fuck knows? I mean, she was hired by an incompetent, senile idiot. She was fired by an incompetent, senile nitwit. She herself is an incompetent nitwit. There isn’t a whole lot of “reasoning” going on.

She wasn’t sufficiently Trumpist.

Trump is worried about the 25th Amendment. He needs to keep a tight rein on his cabinet, or he won’t finish out his term.

What the fuck are you expecting from me?

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Just make sure you get that gaudy nightmare currently in progress on the east lawn.

A “silky mom” is one whose kids have all the sleek, modern gadgets, fancy clothes, etc. They hate dirt, and just want to watch their screens. They eat nothing but processed foods. They use fabric softener and dryer sheets. They are primarily concerned with keeping up appearances.

A “crunchy mom” is one whose kids have mostly wooden toys, hand-me-down clothes. You’ll find them jumping in mud puddles and eating wild raspberries. They line-dry their clothes. They are primarily concerned with the happiness of everyone around them.

“Crunchy” is (usually) not a pejorative, and even if it were, a “crunchy mom” wouldn’t concern themselves with such meaningless criticism.

https://www.youtube.com/@ReallyVeryCrunchy

They blew up a Starlink satellite a couple days ago; the debris will be reentering the atmosphere over the next couple days.

The term “locust” refers to “insect plagues” in general rather than mutated grasshoppers in particular. There is a new, mutated COVID variant circulating in 25 states that was nicknamed “Cicada”.

Nobody earns “wages” of 1M/yr. When you get to that point, you’re paid in shares.

What we need is a securities tax, on all registered securities (stocks, bonds, financial instruments). That tax must be paid in shares of the security, not cash. An IRS liquidator will sell off those shares over time, such that the liquidated shares are never more than 1% of total traded volume.

Natural persons may exempt up to $10 million of their portfolio from this tax, making capital more valuable to the working class than the Problem Class.

“Bare minimum service” deserves “bare minimum wage”. Bare minimum wage is $7.25/hr.

Tipped workers earn as little as $2.13 per hour. So long as there are separate pay scales for tipped and non-tipped employees, tips are not for “beyond bare minimum” service. Legally, tips cover a large portion of the tipped worker’s minimum wage.

Until we eliminate the different pay scales, the bare minimum acceptable tip for bare minimum acceptable work is $5.12 per hour of the tipped worker’s time. Until we eliminate the tipped pay scale, you have two acceptable options: 1. Pay the tip; 2. Boycott businesses that use the tipped pay scale.

You do not have to pay a tip every time you are asked, but if you are not tipping, you must ensure that the workers serving are paid at least regular minimum wage. It is not acceptable to refuse a tip to someone paid as a tipped worker.