combined with a lot of Mormons having a relatively small number of surnames, this means if you want to have a unique name on that list (so be the first one to have it on the master list) you have to get kinda creative with the spellings
Interesting explanation I heard is that it has to do with the Mormon Church's official register. The church maintains a list of all Mormons that's just First Name + Last Name and if you're a duplicate you get a number after to distinguish. so like Bob Smith IV if there are already 3 other Bob Smiths
DOGE turbocharged the deficit.
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A plot to overthrow democracy and enslave us
This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
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Trump wants US taxpayers to bail out UAE, a middle-eastern petro-autocracy, because he & his family have a lot of private deals going on in UAE & they need to make their money back.
ya seeing a lot of "lets hand it to wonderful HR people" in the replies and let's not go overboard. HR is bad — an agent of the employer's interests over the employees (which is fine, whatever) who often falsely poses as an ally or advocate of employees (bad) bsky.app/profile/croc...
Happy 80th to John Waters and his poppers birthday cake
actually looking through Stoller's resume now, and he worked for Alan Grayson and Russell Brand in succession maybe he really did get some quality time with HR
also funny how many guys with hangups about "HR managers" have never once worked anything like an actual job in their life.
Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.
less good than like an auto factory - fulfillment centers are much cheaper to set up and are built with more redundancy factored in (if you close one with a strike, the others in the region can pick up the slack).
Anyway, I guess my point is that "oh people are just stupidly nostalgic for these obsolete manufacturing jobs because of sexism. duh don't they realize our economy is now all service sector jobs" like there's some of that but also maybe workers are nostalgic for having some power over their bosses?
It's mostly about how capital intensive each business is, but skills are a factor and why I frequently tire of "there's no such thing as unskilled work" discourse. It's true there are many highly skilled people in "unskilled" jobs, but the point is that they can still be replaced relatively easily
That's just a reality of the economics at play and asserting that it would be simple to unionize service sector workers if we just tried a lot harder to organize without taking this into account is not helpful.
It's harder to unionize service jobs than manufacturing jobs in a big factory.
This has nothing to do with the type of people who work these jobs, but with the economics of how these sectors work. A strike at a factory causes acute economic pain to the owners in a way few service sector jobs can.
Lol yes
though from the perspective of Repbulicans, this seems like it would be *worse* for their midterm chances so idk
i think a key difference between second-term W and second-term Trump is that a big chunk of W's disapproval was *from other conservatives* after he attempted to do immigration reform that included a pathway to citizenship ("amnesty"). trump's disapproval is all coming out of the left and center
Meanwhile, Tesla's new lithium refinery in Corpus Christi just got a cease and desist letter for dumping toxic waste into the sewer system.
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no no no you misunderstood. I said YOUR voters live in a Republic, not a Democracy. OUR voters are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird
I suspect that this is the energy that Dem primary voters are looking for right now:
Trump take egg
One of the few guys during MeToo who got no-joke actually Cancelled
Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗70 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to Republican-leaning.
what is this thing
I know some Maryland Republicans who complain about how they're denied representation by Maryland's map over the years because Maryland has always been dominated by Democrats, but like, "Virginia's maps were rigged by Republicans" was true as recently as like... 6 years ago?
The whole thing about the Virginia gerrymander would be less annoying had the Republicans not egregiously gerrymandered Virginia themselves after the 2010 census, only to lose control anyway because the state shifted so hard to Ds
good post, thanks
